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July 29, 2015
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Using Words 'Husband' And 'Wife' Considered Discrimination
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
Have you ever seen those funny Internet memes with pictures of people throwing their computers out of a window in obvious frustration or disgust, and captioned with, ���That���s enough Internet for today?��� Typically, a blog or thread commenter will post such a thing in response to a news article or opinion piece that strikes him as completely ludicrous.
Well, I ran across something on the Internet (it���s not just on the Internet, but from where else do we get info these days?) today that basically drove me to such a moment. It seems that over a couple of dozen Democrat congresspeople have come together in a clearly-worthwhile effort to scratch the words ���husband��� and ���wife��� from federal law.
The bill behind which they���re all assembling is called ���The Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act,��� and its architect is Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA). According to Capps, the Act ���recognizes that the words in our laws have meaning and can continue to reflect prejudice and discrimination even when rendered by our highest courts.��� In other words, the very terms ���husband��� and ���wife��� are inherently discriminatory, and the faster we can make them vanish, the better served we���ll all be.
What?
And so it continues���the inmates vigorously seeking to take over the asylum. Make no mistake���this once-great nation is, in fact, fast becoming a looney bin, and while we can bemoan that reality, we should be even angrier at ourselves for letting the unhinged progressives co-opt the social narrative as they have.
Six Weeks To The Financial Meltdown?
There are a whole host of reasons to be concerned about the financial world this coming fall. Whether you are someone following the cycles of the Shemitah, the blood moons, or simple economic and stock market baselines, the agreed flashpoint for a meltdown to begin is the last part of September (most believe to be sparked by a market reaction to the FOMC meeting on Sept 17). To make the air even heavier with prophecy, Pope Francis is scheduled to visit the White House on September 23.
I am not one to quickly jump on these bandwagons, but in this case I am convinced that there is a very significant risk here for the financial markets. This is why I have moved our family's investments 100% to cash and have no money in the stock market at this time.
Federal Reserve: Janet Yellen will raise interest rates in September - Fortune
Critics of the Fed���s optimistic views of the U.S. economy are overlooking one critical element in the central bank���s thinking. Even as China���s stock market continues to reel, and Europe still searches for a way to keep its monetary union intact, central bankers remain confident that the American economy is on the upswing. Policy makers on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) have made it clear in recent speeches and in minutes from previous meetings that the board is ready to raise interest rates as soon as its next meeting, which will take place on September 17.
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Hillary's Secret $600 Haircut
Another example why the Clintons are not just average folks like the rest of us. My haircuts cost $15, and with a tip it comes out to around $18. I know some will immediately jump in and point out that Trump isn't living like an average guy either. The big difference here between Hillary and Donald Trump is that Trump makes no bones about the fact that he is rich. He also earned his money the old fashioned way, by building businesses. What we have with Hillary is the worst of both worlds - someone that wants us to view her as 'the people's champion' (and someone we might bump into on a trip to Wal-Mart), and the reality that her family wealth in recent years has come mostly from the operation of a suspicious charity.
We also know from the news reports on this that she had a retail location closed and used a back elevator to conceal her salon visit from public view. The recent trip by van to Iowa, carrying her own luggage in the airport, etc.. Is anyone still buying this?
Hillary Clinton���s $600 haircut | Page Six
Hillary Clinton put part of Bergdorf Goodman on lockdown on Friday to get a $600 haircut at the swanky John Barrett Salon. Clinton, with a huge entourage in tow, was spotted being ushered through a side entrance of the Fifth Avenue store on Friday. A source said, ���Staff closed off one side of Bergdorf���s so Hillary could come in privately to get her hair done. An elevator bank was shut down so she could ride up alone, and then she was styled in a private area of the salon. Other customers didn���t get a glimpse. Hillary was later seen with a new feathered hairdo.���
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Trump Rape Allegations Fizzle
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
Well, no surprise here ��� the mudslinging at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has officially commenced.
Unfortunately for Trump, a ham-fisted response by one of his top attorneys to a question about a controversial issue from the Donald���s past have made things a little more interesting, to say the least, for the entrepreneur-turned-presidential candidate.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Michael Cohen, an executive vice president at The Trump Organization and special counsel to Trump, was asked about a rape allegation made by Trump���s ex-wife Ivana during their divorce proceedings in the early 1990���s, and brought to public light in the book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. Apparently thrown by the line of questioning, Cohen, in an effort to defend his boss, said, ���You���re talking about the frontrunner for the GOP, presidential candidate, as well as private individual who never raped anybody. And, of course, understand that by the very definition, you can���t rape your spouse.��� If Cohen had stopped after the first sentence, all would likely be well���or, at least, OK. However, by declaring that it���s not possible for wives to be raped by their husbands, the attorney put an extra spotlight back on a moment in Trump���s past that had long been forgotten by just about everyone.
For her part, ex-wife Ivana Trump said the decades-old story is not how it has been portrayed, that she never meant to suggest that Trump literally raped her, and that she is still very fond of Trump and wishes him the best in his campaign for president.
One thing���s for sure: If Donald Trump didn���t feel like a real presidential candidate before, he surely does now.
July 28, 2015
Gay Men Camping With Young Boys?
ChristianMoney.com Staff Writers
While exempting church-sponsored Scout units from its decision for the time being, the Boy Scouts of America decided on Monday, by a vote of 45-12 vote, to formally lift the organization-wide prohibition on those who are openly gay from serving as Scoutmasters and volunteers. While a sort of ���don���t ask, don���t tell��� policy has been in place at the BSA since the early 1990���s, this latest declaration goes a giant step further, in that it officially sanctions the inclusion of those who are openly gay���as Scout leaders. The charge historically leveled (well, in recent history, that is) at the BSA has been that they���ve discriminated against homosexuals by virtue of their official exclusion of openly gay leaders, but given the very nature of males, females, and sexual orientation, are we to make any allowances for differences of any kind any longer���or do we let everything fly, come what may?
If one says that gays should not serve as Scout leaders, is that because he thinks that, as a group, gays and lesbians cannot ���control themselves,��� or anything like that? No. The truth is that statistics might even show that heterosexuals have more difficulty ���controlling themselves��� than the gay community; who really knows? However, gay or straight, there���s a concept that used to be considered pretty reasonable by all when evaluating the manner in which men and women should relate to each other in public settings, but that has fallen out of favor in this bizarre era of hyper-progressiveness: something called appropriateness. Appropriate, in this case, is used to recognize the reality of the inherent sexual dynamic, and to help protect all involved by invoking a certain degree of separation���based on our general awareness of sexual dynamics���between groups of people. Separation is not all bad, despite what progressives would have you believe these days. Sexual orientation is simply another way of terming to whom you are sexually attracted, and any adult knows how powerful sexual desire can be. Why is it so difficult for us, as a society, to maintain some semblance of appropriateness and common sense���and some reasonable attempt at safeguards in a most uncertain world���even as we try mightily to navigate the waters in being more respectful of those who may have long-stood outside the mainstream?
As a matter of fact, ���appropriate��� is a term used by Girl Scout chapters with some frequency in dividing lines between male supervisors and the Girl Scouts themselves. According to the online handbook of the Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Council: ���There may be trips when fathers or male leaders are part of the group. It is not appropriate for males to sleep in the same space with girl members. They may participate only if separate sleeping quarters and bathrooms are available for their use.��� The online handbook also says, ���It is not mandatory that an adult sleep in the tent or cabin with the girls. If an adult female does share the sleeping area, there should always be two unrelated adult females present.��� So, men can participate as supervisors on camping trips, but only if there are entirely separate sleeping and bathroom facilities for them to use? And no male may be one of the adults sleeping in the same quarters with the Girl Scouts themselves, even if there is another adult female present? Surely these groups aren���t saying that all men are predators who cannot control themselves in the same sleeping and bathing facilities used by the girls, are they?
Appropriate is by no means a bad word or a flawed concept, but gay militancy won���t have any of it, and that serves the rest of us, of every orientation, more poorly. How many more steps need we go before anything and everything in this realm is supposedly OK? And when that happens, how will we persist as a society in the social anarchy that ensues? We won���t...at least not as the highly-functional society we���ve largely been for as long as any of us can remember.
Video Blows Lid Off Government Lies On Economy
Well, finally someone said it, and they did so in a much more articulate manner than I ever could. I have been so frustrated over the last several years as more and more people are being deceived about how bad the economy really is. We are being told that there is virtually no inflation, that unemployment is at the lowest level in years, and that the government is making progress on the national debt. THESE ARE ALL LIES... FYI, whether you buy this guy's book (like I did) or not, there is some really great information here. Take a few minutes and watch this video - you will be very glad you did.
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Why You Don't Need Lifelock (Sorry Rush)
Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
Credit monitoring and identity theft services are very popular, but the significant amount of marketing that goes into promoting them tends to give customers a false sense of security. Experts in the field roundly dismiss the utility of credit monitoring as a means by which to protect oneself from identity thieves with any real vigor, but the services remain exceedingly popular. This is not to say they are devoid of any value, but the problem is that because they lack the aforementioned vigor in protecting someone from having his credit breached by an identity thief, you���re spending a certain amount of money���sometimes a lot���for an uncertain amount of protection. Most people don't know that they can join a service like Credit Karma for free and gain access to their credit report and monitor two of the three bureaus activity. If you are so inclined, you can add Credit Sesame (also free) and you will be able to monitor activity at all three bureaus.
Services like LifeLock will also implement a credit freeze. With a credit freeze, your credit file cannot be accessed without your direct approval, and in order to unfreeze, or thaw, your credit, your say-so must be given via a PIN number that you are given for that purpose. Again, what most people don't know is that they can freeze their credit without going through a third party service that charges a monthly fee. In order to initiate a freeze of your credit, you must contact each of the three credit bureaus���Equifax, Experian, and Trans Union���directly.
The PIN feature is particularly important, because it is the key to protecting your credit even if your identity is somehow compromised. On that note, remember that a credit freeze protects only your credit file���it is not identity protection, per se. However, given that identity thieves are largely interested in stealing one���s identity for the purpose of nefariously utilizing his credit, the manual, PIN protection of your files at each of the three credit bureaus means that a compromise of your identity, should that happen, will mean that your credit files still remain safe.
It���s important to note, however, that credit freezes come with some degree of inconvenience, in addition to the modest costs associated with freezing and thawing the file each time you do so; every time you enter into an arrangement, agreement, or transaction where it is necessary for a person or entity to review your credit, you will have to go to the trouble of manually unlocking, or thawing, your credit files, and one of the annoying aspects of that is that thawing typically takes longer than does freezing.
The cost of freezing and thawing credit varies by state (the mechanism is presently governed by state law, although there are calls to ���federalize��� the matter of credit freezing), but it can run from zero (for victims of identity theft, as well as seniors) to $10. Remember, though, that you���re freezing with each bureau, and thaws, which can run up to $12, typically have to be done at each bureau, as well.
The best candidates for the credit freeze approach to safeguarding credit are generally older folks and others for whom regular access to new lines of credit is not a priority. They can be practically arduous options for younger adults who may need to open new lines of credit on fairly constant bases, like each time they rent an apartment, open a utilities account, apply for insurance, or even apply for a job that requires a credit check. Nevertheless, to the extent that there is a sure thing in credit protection, the credit freeze is the only real choice.
July 27, 2015
Bullying In The Workplace - Author Glory Borgeson Joins Jim Paris Live
Author, business consultant, and speaker, Glory Borgeson joins Jim Paris Live to discuss her new book, Not All Bulliles Yell And Throw Things - How To Survive A Subtle Workplace Bully. How to recognize a bully, how to react to a bully, deciding whether or not to confront a bully, and knowing when it makes sense to report a bully to management. Glory also shared some tips on health and nutrition from her book How I Changed My Diet, Lost Weight, & Gained Health: and You Can, Too!
80% Discounts For Writing Amazon Reviews
Jim discusses a new website that 'pays' individuals to write reviews on Amazon by giving them discounts of 80% and more on popular products. Also discussed - former NBA star Antoine Walker going bankrupt after earning $108 million in career, Trump leading in the polls followed by Jeb Bush, and why the drop shipping business is hot again.
