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Kudlow: Without Deep Spending Cuts, GOP Will Lose the House in 2014

from Money News:

OK, it’s official. According to the Treasury Department, the U.S. debt jumped to $16.1 trillion in 2012 from $14.8 trillion in 2011. That’s a $1.3 trillion deficit for the last year. Remarkable. During President Barack Obama’s first term, the federal debt rose by roughly $6 trillion.

Now, if they are bold, House Republicans will take advantage of these dismal numbers. Bold means bold spending cuts, as in cut spending [...]

Airplane Casinos Could be The Next In-Flight Trend?

Could in-flight gambling be the next new trend. The founders of Air Jet Designs and Designescence, Jean Pierre Alfano and Frederique Houssard certainly think so.

CNN reports that the team has created a Casino Jet Lounge which is a bar and casino that they hope to become the standard on flights. CNN reports that the ounge has a bar, lounge seating and a black jack table for gamblers.

Houssard said to CNN, [...]

APRIL IN JANUARY: East, Midwest: Wealth of Warmth, Then Arctic Outbreaks

As forecast, warmth will expand and peak into this weekend in the East. Waves of cold air with the potential of major arctic outbreaks may follow beginning during the third week of January and continuing beyond.

Warmth

After a storm bringing mostly rain swings through the Northeast Friday/Friday night, temperatures will surge to likely their warmest levels of the month.

Record-challenging highs are forecast with temperatures reaching the 60s over a broad area [...]

Modern wheat a “perfect, chronic poison…created by genetic research” contains NEW protein which works as an opiate!

(CBS News) Modern wheat is a “perfect, chronic poison,” according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world’s most popular grain.

Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn’t the wheat your grandma had: “It’s an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the ’60s and ’70s,” he said on “CBS This Morning.” “This thing has many new features nobody told you about, such [...]

Doctor Claims All Wheat – Even Whole-Grain and Organic – Now Contains An Opiate Which Causes Obesity

by WashingtonsBlog

Doctor Advises We Avoid All Food Which Has Been Changed by Agribusiness

Cardiologist William Davis tells CBS News that modern wheat is nothing like our grandparents ate.

“It’s an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the ’60s and ’70s.

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This thing has many new features nobody told you about, such as there’s a new protein in this thing called gliadin. It’s not gluten. I’m not addressing people with gluten sensitivities and celiac disease. [...]

Modern wheat a “perfect, chronic poison”

DISCLOSURE FROM THE MAINSTREAM, and it’s not even subtle!

I feel the following to be true, my body became sensitive to wheat a few months ago, I would fall asleep after consuming it. If you are feeling lethargy and you don’t know why, I’d consider this strongly.

Modern wheat a “perfect, chronic poison,” doctor says

(CBS News) Modern wheat is a “perfect, chronic poison,” according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has [...]

One popular “health food” could be causing you to gain weight

From Natural News:

William Davis, a cardiologist, calls modern-day wheat a “chronic, perfect poison” in a new book all about the world’s most popular grain.

What gives?

Davis says the wheat we are currently eating isn’t the same thing your grandparents used back in the day.

Modern wheat is “an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the ’60s and ’70s,” he told CBS’ “This Morning” program in a recent interview.

“This thing has [...]

Modern wheat a “perfect, chronic poison,” doctor says

(CBS News) Modern wheat is a “perfect, chronic poison,” according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world’s most popular grain.

Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn’t the wheat your grandma had: “It’s an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the ’60s and ’70s,” he said on “CBS This Morning.” “This thing has many new features nobody told [...]

MICHAEL PHELPS – THE GREATEST IN HISTORY!

Michael Phelps stands alone.

Less than an hour after tying the record for most career medals, Phelps became the most-decorated Olympian of all-time by anchoring the U.S. 4×200-meter freestyle relay to a resounding victory today and winning his first gold medal of the London Olympics.

The Baltimore swimmer now has 19 medals (15 gold, two silver and two bronze), surpassing gymnast Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union. She won 18 medals during the 1950s [...]

BOGDANOVICH: MOVIES PARTLY TO BLAME

The director of “Targets” says: “People go to a movie to have a good time, and they get killed. … It makes me sick that I made a movie about it.”

This story first appeared in the August 3 issue of The Hollywood Reportermagazine.

 

Peter Bogdanovich is no stranger to violence — either onscreen or off. In an eerie foreshadowing of the Colorado tragedy, his very first film, 1968′s Targets, starring Boris Karloff, ends with a sniper, [...]

OBAMA goes full bore COMMIE! Campaign adopts historically SOCIALIST typeface

The Obama Campaign rolled out some new fonts on the campaign last week.  The typeface chosen for the word ‘America’ was starkly different that anything we had seen before.Buzzfeed’s Zeke Miller reported that the font was named “Revolution Gothic” and that according to myfonts.com the typeface origin is seeded in Cuban Communist propaganda.

“The original font is inspired by retro propaganda posters and wallpaintings in Cuba from the 60s to 80s.”

We did some research here [...]

Dramatic rescue of Manhattan window washers stranded outside skyscraper’s 42nd floor after their scaffold BROKE

Two window washers who were stuck outside of the 42nd floor of a midtown Manhattan building were rescued after an hour of hanging out at the terrifying height.

Firefighters were able to bring the two men to safety by cutting open a window, throwing the men a rope and pulling them to safety.

One of the window washers, who is believed to be in his 60s, had to be hospitalized after the [...]

Pelosi ‘very proud’ of health law, ‘politics be damned’

Despite polls showing that the majority of Americans support repealing Obamacare, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told an audience that “the politics be damned,” Democrats are “very proud” of the legislation.

The former speaker of the House also predicted that the legislation will become more popular with the American people over time.

“From our standpoint, we came here to get a job done for the American people. We saw an opportunity to stand [...]

Why The Debt-Dependent Status Quo Is Doomed in One Chart

The global economy is now addicted to debt. Once debt stops expanding, the economy shrivels. But expanding debt forever is unsustainable. Welcome to the endgame.

Regardless of whether you call it debt saturation or diminishing return on new debt, the notion that taking on more debt will magically enable us to “grow our way out of debt” is not supported by data. Correspondent David P. recently shared this chart of Total Credit [...]

LIZ SMITH: NORA EPHRON NEAR DEATH

 

I am sitting here with an open box of mail from and to Nora Ephron between the years of the early 60s and a month ago.  It should be crammed but I realize from reading my own answers to Nora that there is a plethora of her witty responses. So, I must have passed Nora’s mail on to others who appreciated her from the beginning, as I did.

She and I became [...]

Ian Bremmer: Expect a feeble future for the G20

From FT:

The issue is not simply the number of negotiators. It is the wide range of political values and interests represented around the G20 table. It is not the “rise of the rest” that has shifted the terms of debate but the “rise of the different”. In the 1950s and 60s, the world saw the emergence (really the re-emergence) of West Germany and Japan. Though Japan’s surge created genuine anxiety [...]

POLICE SEARCH FOR BLOW DART SNIPER IN BROOKLYN

Police are looking for an attacker firing darts at people in Brooklyn, after three men were struck Sunday evening in Bath Beach.

Police say one man in his 60s was struck in the back and leg, another man around the same age was hit in the stomach and another man in his 40s was also hit, although it was not clear where.

The darts appeared to come from a blow [...]

17 Scary Charts About America’s Coming Retirement Crisis

by Mandi Woodruff

The Great Recession has rattled retirement plans for just about every consumer in the country, regardless of age.

Stymied by a lack of knowledge, depleted savings and the increasing likelihood they’ll work through their golden years, Americans have a long road ahead of them.

After checking out Transamerica’s 13th annual Retirement Survey, we know exactly where we’re falling short.

DOUBT: Since the recession, more than 60 percent of 3,600 workers surveyed say they’ve lost [...]

Is this the most boring experiment ever? Scientists watch drops of pitch form – and there have been eight in 75 years

Experiment began in 1927 to prove pitch is a liquid
In 75 years, just EIGHT drops have fallen
The rate is slowing, and last drop fell 12 years ago
Current custodian has watched since 60s – but has missed all five drops that have fallen
Drop ‘could’ fall this year, but 2013 ‘is a better bet’

It’s the world’s longest-running experiment – and the very, very patient scientists in charge are waiting for a single [...]

Vidal Sassoon dead

 

By Vidya Rao

Noted hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, known for creating the modern “bob,” has died at age 84.

At 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, police were dispatched to Sassoon’s Los Angeles home on Mulholland Drive, where he had died of apparent natural causes, LAPD spokesman Kevin Mailberger confirmed to NBC News.

The British style icon opened his first eponymous hair salon in 1954, and it grew into a worldwide chain with locations in New York and [...]

Delaying retirement: 80 is the new 65

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A quarter of middle-class Americans are now so pessimistic about their savings that they are planning to delay retirement until they are at least 80 years old — two years longer than the average person is even expected to live.

It sounds depressing, but for many it’s a necessity. On average, Americans have only saved a mere 7% of the retirement nest egg they were hoping to [...]

Why being 70 now is the perfect age to be

‘Hope I die before I get old’, wrote Pete Townshend, when he and The Who talked about their generation.

But he should re-consider because, at 68, he is just two years shy of being ‘the perfect’ age.

Research by Financial advisors Hargreaves Lansdown found that the best age to be in 2012 is 70.

For that generation escaped the horrors of World War II, enjoyed the liberation of the 60s and 70, purchased [...]

Medical examiner ‘lost woman’s brain and told grieving sister a DAY before funeral that organ was removed’

A grieving sister was told on the eve of her sister’s funeral that her brain had been removed, giving her little choice but to bury her sister without the organ.

The Medical Examiner’s Office in Brooklyn allegedly lost the brain of a woman in her 60s while performing an autopsy on her.

The woman died unexpectedly in January.

Brainless: The Brooklyn Medical Examiner’s office allegedly lost a woman’s brain during an autopsy

The New [...]

We shall NOT be moved! Chinese couple’s home left on dust ‘island’ for FOUR years after skyscraper developers move in around them

Couple refused small compensation from developers to move
Home cut off from water and electricity for almost four years

Steadfast Niu Chuangen and Zhang Zhongyun now facing threats from gangsters

Encircled by a growing forest of high-rise tower blocks, a couple’s home has become an isolated island of dirt – cut off from water and electricity for almost four years.

Niu Chuangen and Zhang Zhongyun dared to stand in the way of a local [...]

Charles Hugh Smith: What Rising Gasoline Prices Do to the Economy

Charting gasoline prices against income and GDP provides some interesting results.

Since rapidly rising gasoline prices are in the news, let’s look at some charts of gasoline and the economy, courtesy of frequent contributor B.C. These depict income and GDP in a ratio with the price of gasoline, and so they reveal information that is not contained in charts showing only the price of gasoline or GDP.

Here is disposable personal income and [...]

By The Time You Hit 50, You’ll Blow Nearly $2 Million On Living Expenses

by Noelia de la Cruz

Living to 100 will cost you a shocking $3.5 million over your lifetime, reportsSmartMoney’s Jonnelle Marte.

Using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Marte revealed that nearly half of that $3.5 million will be spent by your 50th birthday.

Boomers in their 60s will spend the most as they transition into retirement, mostly on housing.

Nearly $155,50 will go to their mortgage, utilities and home decor.

But while 60-somethings will spend [...]

’60s Drug, Sex Columnist ‘Dr. Hip’ Expecting Child At 77

Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld (eugeneschoenfeld.com)

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A Bay Area man best known for his hippie era advice columns is making news by becoming a dad at 77-years-old.

Eugene Schoenfeld wrote the Hip Pocrates column in the 60s and 70s. ‘Dr. Hip’ doled out advice on sex and drugs in hundreds of newspapers around the country. He’s also credited by some with having the first ever call-in medical show on [...]

OBAMA HAS HEATED ARGUMENT WITH AZ GOV…. DEVELOPING…

OBAMA HAS HEATED ARGUMENT WITH AZ GOV
Wed Jan 25 2012 18:33:56 ET

POOL REPORT

(Drudge) President Obama arrived in Phoenix at 3:15 pm local time, finding the chilly weather of Iowa giving way to sunny skies and temperatures in the high 60s.

He stepped off Air Force One at 3:28 pm and was greeted by Gov. Jan Brewer. She handed him a handwritten letter in an envelope and they spoke intensely for a [...]

‘HOLY GRAIL’ OF FLU VACCINES SET FOR NEXT YEAR

By JASON KOEBLER

January 13, 2012

Annual flu shots might soon become a thing of the past, and threats such as avian and swine flu might disappear with them as a vaccine touted as the “holy grail” of flu treatment could be ready for human trials next year.

That’s earlier than the National Institutes of Health estimated in 2010, when they said a universal vaccine could be five years off. By targeting the parts of [...]

US Marine declares a state of emergency

That being said, beware of agent provocateurs.  They were around during demonstrations in the 60s.  I just talked to someone today about that very issue.  They are surely around now as well.  I wouldn’t even be surprised to find one on this site.