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National Safe Boating Week events in Sausalito

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:19:55 PDT

The 2012 National Safe Boating Week (NSBW) campaign officially begins this Saturday, May 19 and runs through Friday, May 25 � the start of Memorial Day Weekend and traditional start to the summer boating season. In recognition of the continuing need for promotion of safety on the water, Marin�s Coast Guard Auxiliary is co-sponsoring various events on Saturday, May 19th: West Marine of Sausalito will have an inflatable life jacket with three free cartridges, and a marine radio demonstration from 10 a.m. �noon; the Marin Discovery Museum in Fort Baker will have safe boating puppet shows, and an interactive life jacket display, from 10:30 a.m. � noon; and Coast Guard Station Golden Gate, at 435 Murray Circle, in Fort Baker, will have tours of their 47� �surf� rescue vessels alongside an Auxiliary patrol facility vessel,� Sunrise.� Fifty free life jackets from California Boating and Waterways will be distributed to the first participants at Station Golden Gate! For more information, please visit http://www.flotilla14.d11nr.info, Facebookflotilla14, and http://www.flotilla12.d11nr.info., or call 415-897-2790, Gail Giacomini.

National Safe Boating Week Celebrations in Sausalito

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:13:20 PDT

The 2012 National Safe Boating Week (NSBW) campaign officially begins this Saturday, May 19 and runs through Friday, May 25 � the start of Memorial Day Weekend and traditional start to the summer boating season. In recognition of the continuing need for promotion of safety on the water, Marin�s Coast Guard Auxiliary is co-sponsoring various events on Saturday, May 19th. West Marine of Sausalito will have an inflatable life jacket with three free cartridges, and a marine radio demonstration from 10 a.m. �noon. The Marin Discovery Museum in Fort Baker will have safe boating puppet shows, and an interactive life jacket display, from 10:30 a.m. � noon. Coast Guard Station Golden Gate, at 435 Murray Circle, in Fort Baker, will have tours of their 47� �surf� rescue vessels alongside an Auxiliary patrol facility vessel,� Sunrise.� Fifty free life jackets from California Boating and Waterways will be distributed to the first participants at Station Golden Gate! Please visit http://www.safeboatingcampaign.com/ and the USCG Auxiliary at: http://flotilla 12.d11nr.info., Facebookflotilla14, or http://flotilla14.d11nr.info, or call 415-897-2790, Gail Giacomini. /////////

Marin Music Chest presents annual �Young Artists Concert�

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:32:03 PDT

Selected Marin Music Chest scholarship award winners perform free concert Sunday, May 20 in Mill Valley Marin Music Chest presents Marin Music Chest �Young Artists Concert� Co-sponsored by the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society The Marin Music Chest presents its annual �Young Artists Concert� featuring selected classical student musicians honored with its 2012 scholarships awards.The concert, co-sponsored by the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society, features solo performances by Laura Arthur (soprano) and Caitlin Gowdy (violin), both of Novato; Kenji Bellavigna (clarinet) and RJ Pearce (piano), both of Corte Madera; and Colin Wells (flute) of San Anselmo. The Marin Music Chest is a non-profit, all volunteer organization established in 1933. After more than forty years of presenting concerts, the Marin Music Chest made the annual scholarship program its primary mission, providing financial support to promising Marin County students of classical music. WHEN: 5 p.m. Sunday ~ May 20, 2012 WHERE: Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church 410 Sycamore Avenue, Mill Valley (Located at Sycamore and Camino Alto avenues) COST: Free. Donations appreciated. Mill Valley Chamber Music Society members are free with season subscription. PHONE: 415-381-4453 Mill Valley Chamber Music Society WEBSITE: http://www.marinmusicchest.org PROMO VIDEO: http://animoto.com/play/ovTUbV0sx7npbZKxSOaLNQ PHOTO: The annual Marin Music Chest �Young Artists Concert� features select 2012 scholarship award winners (pictured L to R) Caitlin Gowdy and Laura Arthur, both of Novato, Kenji Bellavigna of Corte Madera, Colin Wells of San Anselmo and (not pictured) RJ Pearce of Corte Madera. The free concert is 5 p.m. Sunday, May 20 in Mill Valley. Photo by Eric Chazankin

obama, The Ultimate President??

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:13:43 PDT

This article is a cut and paste from Commentary Magazine. Many of President Obama�s fervent devotees are young enough not to have much memory of the political world before the arrival of The One. Coincidentally, Obama himself feels the same way�and the White House�s official website reflects that. The Heritage Foundation�s Rory Cooper tweeted that Obama had casually dropped his own name into Ronald Reagan�s official biography on www.whitehouse.gov, claiming credit for taking up the mantle of Reagan�s tax reform advocacy with his �Buffett Rule� gimmick. My first thought was, he must be joking. But he wasn�t�it turns out Obama has added bullet points bragging about his own accomplishments to the biographical sketches of every single U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge (except, for some reason, Gerald Ford). Here are a few examples: * On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc. * In a 1946 letter to the National Urban League, President Truman wrote that the government has �an obligation to see that the civil rights of every citizen are fully and equally protected.� He ended racial segregation in civil service and the armed forces in 1948. Today the Obama administration continues to strive toward upholding the civil rights of its citizens, repealing Don�t Ask Don�t Tell, allowing people of all sexual orientations to serve openly in our armed forces. * President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare signed (sic) into law in 1965�providing millions of elderly healthcare stability. President Obama�s historic health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, strengthens Medicare, offers eligible seniors a range of preventive services with no cost-sharing, and provides discounts on drugs when in the coverage gap known as the �donut hole.� * On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today the Obama administration continues to protect seniors and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations. * In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule. I imagine Bill Clinton will be especially receptive to Obama�s habit of shoehorning himself into the limelight previously occupied by others. As you can see, the bullet points make clear that while each president has done something historic or notable, Obama is carrying forward every one of those accomplishments since Coolidge. No wonder he always seems so proud of himself.

President Mitt Romney, Get Used To It.

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:09:12 PDT

He is definitely the light at end of the tunnel. Our four years of the obama misery tour will soon be over.

The City of Mill Valley will Host Information Session about Marin Clean Energy.

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:58:34 PDT

MCE is offering an information session to Southern Marin residents: MCE Information Session Date: Tuesday, May 22 Time: 6:30 pm Location: Mill Valley City Hall, 26 Corte Madera Avenue in Mill Valley The information session will provide residents the opportunity to learn more about Marin Clean Energy (MCE), a program to collectively buy renewable power on behalf of Marin County residents, cities and towns. Under the program, all Marin County residents will be automatically enrolled in the program, or they can choose to opt out and remain with PG&E. The program presents residents with two options � a �Light Green� option, with 50 percent renewable power, or a �Dark Green� option, with 100 percent renewable power. MCE will offer electric service to all Marin County customers this July. Every electric customer in Marin will be enrolled in MCE�s Light Green 50 percent renewable energy option unless the customer chooses to opt out. Customers will receive three notices from MCE prior to their enrollment and these will be delivered in early April, mid-April, and mid-May. Customers who do not opt out will also receive two notices after their enrollment with Marin Clean Energy in late July and late August. The first two notices will be in the form of a letter and the final three will be in the form of a post card. To learn more about Marin Clean Energy in general or to opt out of the program, visit www.marincleanenergy.com or call (888) 632-3674.

Marin officials 'elated' by Obama gay-marriage support

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:52:21 PDT

State senator calls president's announcement a 'historic moment for our country' Read the full story here http://www.pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=4329 posted Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 2:24 PM

"Mitt Romney, American Parasite"

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:17:29 PDT

"Mitt Romney, American Parasite" (the below is just a snip from this excellent article from the Seattle Weekly, showing how Romney destroyed companies and lives) "...It would take a few more years of bleeding, but GSI eventually fell to bankruptcy. The Kansas City mill closed for good; 750 people lost their jobs. Worse, Romney had shorted their pension fund by $44 million. The feds were forced to cover the difference, while workers saw their benefits slashed in bankruptcy court. The battered Georgetown plant and the foundries in Arizona and Minnesota ultimately were bought out of bankruptcy by new companies. Their workforces were halved. Still, Romney walked away unbruised. All that debt was technically GSI's, not Bain's. Because he'd repaid himself and his investors just months after the purchase, Romney pocketed millions for running the company into the ground. "They were clever and ruthless enough to pay their own investors back at a really high return rate," says Foster. see rest of article: http://www.seattleweekly.com/2012-04-18/news/mitt-romney-american-parasite/ This was the beauty of Romney's racket. Even if he killed a company�and he tended to kill them fairly often�he still made out, leaving others to take the hit."

Romney is a Vulture Capitalist and the Destroyer of Lives!

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:03:46 PDT

Make Money the Mitt Romney Way and you too can destroy lives!! Step 1: Borrow millions of dollars to purchase a company using the company itself as collateral. Step 2: Work your financial magic so the company is responsible for the debt, not you. Smooth move! Step 3: Borrow even MORE money against the company, taking a significant chunk of that windfall and put it in your pocket. Cha-ching! Step 4: Squeeze as much profit out of the company as possible - lay off workers, abolish pension plans, close factories - whatever it takes! Step 5: If the company succeeds, you win! If the company goes bankrupt, you ALREADY won! Step 6: Stash dough in Cayman Islands bank account. Buy yourself a car elevator and don't give a thought to the people you just caused to be unemployed and whose mouths you are taking food out of.

Pacific Sun Endorsements: Supervisor, Districts 2 and 4

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:45:16 PDT

The toughest call on the ballot for a board in transition... Read the full story here http://www.pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=4345&e=y posted Monday, May 14, 2012, 1:47 PM

Feature: Pacific Sun endorsements!

Mon, 14 May 2012 02:17:21 PDT

"One got pushed overboard�and then there were two"�Agatha Christie Read the full story here http://www.pacificsun.com/story.php?story_id=5335 posted Friday, May 11, 2012, 12:00 AM

Golden Opprortunity

Sun, 13 May 2012 19:25:03 PDT

Went to the Golden Gate bridge presentation at Marin Symphony. Very disappointed. Not very interesting, very average music with little accentuation. The rich history and tradition of the bridge touched on by the happy chaps in the prologue...all but forgotten in the average score. The solution? Visuals! Historic slides to keep our interest. A subsequent visit, days later, to Davies Hall for a 100 year celebration of the SF Symphony and...voila! Slides and MTT's coordination for an astonishing program. The theme was music and SF. During the days of the Barbary coast. Very interesting, beautiful classical and folk music and wonderful visuals. Not quick moving fast cut stupid stuff...just nice slow pans of the old city with fabulous sopranos and classical/popular orchestration. Having retired from 45 years of film and video production, my heart ached! What is wrong with Marin? Where's the creativity? You guys have a better subject to work with.Go back to the project and forget about your giggles and laughs and get a visual person to team with you and vary your score to please the audience, Most of the folks that helped MTT put on his show probably live here. It's a damn shame Marin looked so poor by comparison. AND, make a dvd of the program so you can recover costs and enable our citizenry to regale in our very own Golden Gate Bridge legacy. Get Lucas to help you. Or me...or somebody! You had us expecting a great deal in your giggly intro then... poof!

Tooting Your Horn...At Public Expense !

Sun, 13 May 2012 13:27:58 PDT

It is always interesting around election time to see who has the guts to take over public property and post signs crying out for our votes. The proliferation of such posters and signs in the public right of way was so visually poluting that the San Anselmo Town Council some years ago banned signs in the public right of way. Drake High School posted a sign in their parking lot banning the selling of goods and signs. Somehow San Anselmo has recently given up on enforcing its' own rules and the unsightly signs are cropping up on the Sir Frances Drake median from The Hub all the way down to Highway 101. Specifically, there posters for Wiensoff, Johnson, and Scylla just opposite the Post Office. Johnson also has a trailer with her name plastered all over it parked at the Drake Hi parking lot. What if every candidate decided to stick their signs everywhere on public space? Our streets and neighborhoods would look like there was a perpetual "garage sale". Why is it fair to stick your name in front of drivers who have their own reasons for driving on any public street. Additionally such signs are traffic and possibly pedestrian hazzards. Is it really a big deal if someone takes over a public space to get in the face of voters? If somebody disrespects the "public space" what does that say about how they see their role in maintaining an attractive community? Would you want to vote for someone who does not seem to care, as long as you see THEIR name? Maybe then it is not a big deal and some campaign worker did not know the rules, saw a space and started hanging signs. Then another worker or candidate noted the first signs and stuck one of theirs next to the first one. And so the ugly parade grows. For a good example of this, take a look at the island on Sir Frances Drake in Greenbrae. Let's take the signs down as there are plenty of private spaces to post your signs. The only problem is that you have to ASK the owner. Will you take a campaign sign on your personal parkway space??????

Single in the Suburbs: Gone in 600 seconds

Sun, 13 May 2012 12:26:39 PDT

I may be a slow driver, but I'm very quick to avoid hitting people... Read the full story here http://www.pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=4318&e=y posted Friday, May 4, 2012, 2:19 PM

DEFICIT STORY

Sat, 12 May 2012 08:40:45 PDT

This Deficit Story Can't Be Repeated Often Enough! Atrios says it: Eschaton: Planning For 10 Years From Now: The last time the an administration did the supposedly responsible thing, the fiscal "hawks" suddenly decided that the worst possible thing was no longer a deficit, but a surplus, and that therefore it was necessary to have massive tax cuts for rich people. And they will, of course, do it again. Any time any DC elite complains about "the deficit" remind them that when CLINTON left office we had a HUGE SURPLUS, so big that at the rate it was being paid down the entire US debt was going to be paid off in 10 years. Bush demanded that we give back the people's money and Greenspan warned of the danger of paying off the debt. Etc. Etc. Etc. Then BUSH DOUBLED MILITARY SPENDING -- and started two wars on top of that! (None of the whiners on this board have ever admitted that the wars cost money. They say Obama is responsible for the war debt from the beginning of the war! Yes, they hold Obama responsible for the cost of the ENTIRE WAR. Seriously...that is what stupid bye says....) So we went from big surplus to huge, huge deficits. Bush said it was "incredibly positive news" when we went back into deficit spending. He said it was good news because it continued the plan to use debt to force the government to cut back. He said that. It was the plan. (Don't take my word for it, click the links. ...Sorry...not working). (BUSH PLANNED TO WASTE THE SURPLUS AND DRIVE US INTO DEBT.) The Reagan people said it too, back when they started the massive deficit spending. It was the plan: force the country into massive debt, "starve the beast," and use that to force the government out of business, or at least to be "small enough to drown in a bathtub." They forced the tax cuts and Reagan said this was "cutting the government's allowance." The point was to use revenue cutbacks to force government to shrink, to get out of the way of the 1%. Now that government is very much out of the way of the 1% we are seeing how things work out when the 1% dominate everything. They called it "strategic deficits." They said it was the plan to force the country into debt, and then they would DEMAND THT WE CUT THE THINGS THAT GOVERNMENT DOES FOR THE 99% IN ORDER TO FURTHER ENRICH THE 1%. They would scare everyone by saying that the debt will destroy us so we have to cut back. That was the plan. They said that was the plan. And now that the plan is being executed, we should understand that it was the plan and not fall for it! They said it was the plan. So as the plan unfolds, don't be so surprised. By Dave Johnson May 8, 2012 - 7:56pm ET HOW IS THE PLAN WORKING? Well, the budget passed by the house is bombs order bread. This plan is working very well for conservatives. Look at every city that has conservatives in charge and you will see this exactly. Under Ryans budget we can't afford to help people...we can only afford to help the military. NOT the vets, mind you...but the military. Cut Medicare to build more bombs. Cut Medicade so Halliburton can make more profits. This has been the plan for 30 years. This is the goal of "trickle down". This is what they want for America...after they have just about go it. The Ryan budget takes from the poor and gives to the military and the rich who don't support them.

Divorce Rates Are Highest Among Evangelicals

Sat, 12 May 2012 08:22:42 PDT

Hey Fox, What About This "War on Marriage?" Divorce Rates Are Highest Among Evangelicals Fox News is loudly proclaiming that President Obama has declared War on Traditional Marriage!. Really Fox? Then why were divorce rates among Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians the highest in the country since before someone even imagined that Gays and Lesbians should be allowed the same right to marry as other people? Those statistics came, by the way from a Evangelical Christian research institute, the Barna Group, in the year 2000: Denomination (in order of decreasing divorce rate) Non-denominational** 34% Baptists 29% Mainline Protestants 25% Mormons 24% Catholics 21% Lutherans 21% Barna's results verified findings of earlier polls: that CONSERVATIVE PROTESTANT CHRISTIANS, ON AVERAGE, HAVE THE HIGHEST DIVORCE RATE, while mainline Christians have a much lower rate. They found some new information as well: that ATHIESTS AND AGNOSTICS HAVE THE LOWEST DIVORCE RATES OF ALL. George Barna commented that the results raise "questions regarding the effectiveness of how churches minister to families." The data challenge "the idea that churches provide truly practical and life-changing support for marriage." [...] The data showed that the HIGHEST DIVORCE RATES WERE FOUND IN THE BIBLE BELT.* "Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Oklahoma round out the Top Five in frequency of divorce...the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average" of 4.2/1000 people. * Note: Divorce rates were still higher in the Bible Belt as of 2009 according to a US Census report. I don't remember much discussion of marriage rights for same sex couples back in 2000, do you? Perhaps among gay activists but not in the national news. Maybe, just maybe, the people who fired the first shot in any so-called war on marriage were conservative Christians, and they were shooting themselves in the foot at that! After all, the divorce rate is lower among (drum roll please) atheists and agnostics than among Christians -- yes, lower even then Catholics! The Barna Research Group, an evangelical Christian organization that does surveys and research to better understand what Christians believe and how they behave, studied divorce rates in America in 1999 and found surprising evidence that divorce is far lower among atheists than among conservative Christians - exactly the opposite of what they were probably expecting.[...] Barna should, however, acknowledge that the divorce rates for conservative Christians are higher than for liberal Christians. He also doesn't take the further step of acknowledging that perhaps conservative Christianity and conservative religion in general are unable to provide a sound basis for marriage - that perhaps there are other, more secular foundations for marriage that conservative Christians are missing. What might they be? Well, an obvious possibility is treating women like fully autonomous equals in the relationship, something which conservative Christianity frequently denies. The difference in divorce rates is particularly interesting given the fact that the CHRISTIANS GETTING DIVORCED IN THE HIGHEST NUMBERS WERE AMONG THE SAME CHRISTIANS WHO ARE MOST LIKELY TO RAISE AN ALARM ABOUT THE STATE OF MARRIAGE IN SOCIETY. They also tend to be the same Christians who want to deny gays the right to marry on the assumption that gay marriage is a "threat" to the institution of marriage. IF MARRIAGE IS IN ANY DANGER IN AMERICA, PERHAPS THE THREAT COMES FROM THE UNSTABLE MARRIAGES OF CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS, not the relationships of gays or the marriages of godless atheists. Yet I don't see Fox or other right wing news/disinformation outlets claiming atheists pose a "fundamental threat" to marriage, do you? "Gay Marriage" is the supposedly the only danger to marriage among all the "Real Christians" (i.e., the ones who aren't liberal, who by the way also have lower divorce rates than fundamentalists). You know what? If the Fundies want to save traditional marriage maybe they should all convert to Hinduism. According to a Pew survey in 2008, AMERICAN HINDUS HAVE THE LOWEST DIVORCE RATE IN THE COUNTRY at 5%. Obviously gay marriage doesn't seem to have affected them much. Just a thought my fundamentalist Christian friends, just a thought. By Steven D | Sourced from Booman Tribune Posted at May 10, 2012, 6:06 am

Single in the Suburbs: Gone in 600 seconds

Fri, 11 May 2012 20:57:23 PDT

The biggest benefit to being single is that I'm usually alone in my car while I putter around Marin. It's probably why I have a stellar safety record behind the wheel. No tickets. No accidents. Some people (specifically my boyfriend Rick, my best friend Kate and my older Jewish friend Jerry) contest my claim that I'm accident-free. Why would I count backing into the concrete pillar in my garage or barely tapping cars that stop too suddenly in front of me as driving offenses? Everyone knows victimless mishaps are not akin to moving violations. Read the full story here http://www.pacificsun.com/story.php?story_id=5322 posted Friday, May 4, 2012, 12:00 AM

Pacific Sun Endorsements: State Assembly, District 10

Fri, 11 May 2012 16:32:07 PDT

Going with someone who doesn't seem "smarmy"... Read the full story here http://www.pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=4341&e=y posted Friday, May 11, 2012, 3:35 PM

Trivia cafe

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:10:16 PDT

May 11-17 edition, page 8, Q.9 Hatshepsut was the first woman to... A. on page 28, not pg 17 as written. Thutmosis III was Pharaoh of Egypt and lived from 1479 to 1426 BME. Hatshepsut (1479 to 1458 BME)"shared the throne" with Thutmosis. She was "co-regent", an Egyptian 'first lady', and not a pharoah because, "women weren't usually accepted as pharoahs". National Geographic, January 1999, 20th unnumbered page. With apologies to "winners" prior to 1950, I must paraphrase,'The politically correct re-write history'. However, she was credited as being more of a Nancy Regan first lady, rather than a Michelle Obama first lady, substance not fashion.

Endorsements: Congressional Representative, District 2

Thu, 10 May 2012 16:48:26 PDT

Our take on which Mr. or Mrs. Smith should go to Washington Read the full story here http://www.pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=4335&e=y posted Thursday, May 10, 2012, 2:44 PM

Upfront: Media Center SOS

Thu, 10 May 2012 16:40:26 PDT

Settlement of a franchise-fee dispute with Comcast means the fledgling Community Media Center of Marin will survive the next few years, but it will be on a subsistence diet. Backers of open media in the county want a more enthusiastic approach to long-term sustainability. Read the full story here http://www.pacificsun.com/story.php?story_id=5337 posted Friday, May 11, 2012, 12:00 AM

Back in black

Thu, 10 May 2012 16:40:00 PDT

Bonnie Raitt is back. After a seven-year absence from the recording scene, the Marin blues woman's new CD, Slipstream, has re-ignited the career of the multi-Grammy-winning artist, who is in top form throughout the 12 tracks. Read the full story here http://www.pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=4331 posted Thursday, May 10, 2012, 12:13 PM

The obama regime's WAR ON WOMEN!

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:34:56 PDT

In a prior post about the obama regime "cooking the books" to get the unemployment rate to drop I pointed out that it would take every person in Albuquerque, New Mexico, walking off their jobs to equate to the number of people who were so DISCOURAGED THEY QUIT LOOKING FOR WORK. Well when you examine the numbers it is AWFUL FOR WOMEN in particular. In the months of March and April the number of women who became so DISCOURAGED THAT THEY QUIT LOOKING FOR WORK was 324,000. The number of women not in the workforce is 53,321,000 and the female labor participation rate the lowest in 40 years. If the overall labor participation rate that existed when obama took office the REAL unemployment rate would be 11.1%. Ladies and gentlemen keep your "eyes on the ball." Don't blame me I voted for the REAL American!

Baby, 18 months old, ordered off plane at Fort Lauderdale airport

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:18:20 PDT

Hello again. Thank God we don't have too much TSA around here. They are a scourge on America. http://www.wpbf.com/news/south-florida/Baby-18-months-old-ordered-off-plane-at-Fort-Lauderdale-airport/-/8788880/13038550/-/fhxhp7/-/index.html In fact, according to Alex Jones, after the TSA went about their usual grope-down activities at SFO, the S.F. Sheriff's office (they have jurisdiction there) told them to stop. They are the only sheriff's office in the country I have heard of to do so. You see, it is a misdemeanor to fondle a person's genitals on the outside of clothing and a felony to do so inside. It is illegal for sworn and bonded police officers to go inside your clothing or frisk you without probable cause. The TSA is not exempt. The only way they get away with it is by claiming, after 9/11, we are in a state of emergency and therefore people must sacrifice their rights. We are under a soft martial law. Unless we stand up and say no, they're going to keep coming. If action is not taken, it's only a matter of time until they arrive here in Marin County. The TSA wants to grope you at bus stations, train stations, the mall, music concerts, high school football games and on and on. This is the construction of the domestic police state snitch society with a chivato on every corner.

Own a home, NEW Sales TAX 3.8% that YOU will pay

Thu, 10 May 2012 09:04:31 PDT

This 3.8% new sales tax is in the ObamaCare program that Congress ramrodded through "so we could see what's in it". I remember the Luddites that opposed ObamaCare mentioning it, but there were just so many things to not like about ObamaCare, that this was just another in a large pile of subjects that supporters glossed over in overload mode. I haven't researched this - but from memory, it seems correct. Any comments? .............. If you own a home, Please read this. Also please Forward. PLEASE, PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ THIS ONE. NO MATTER YOUR POLITICAL LEANINGS, MAKE SURE YOU READ ALL THE WAY TO THE END. Very interesting information below.... The National Association of REALTORS is all over this and working to get it repealed, before it takes effect. But, I am very pleased we aren't the only ones who know about this ploy to steal billions from unsuspecting homeowners. How many REALTORS do you think will vote Democratic in 2012? Did you know that if you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8% sales tax on it? That's $3,800 on a $100,000 home, etc. When did this happen? It's in the health care bill and goes into effect in 2013. Why 2013? Could it be to come to light AFTER the 2012 elections? So, this is "change you can believe in"? Under the new health care bill all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax. If you sell a $500,000 home, there will be almost a $20,000 new tax. This bill is set to screw the retiring generation who often downsize their homes. Does this make your November and 2012 vote more important? Oh, you weren't aware this was in the Obamacare bill? Guess what, you aren't alone. There are more than a few members of Congress that aren't aware of it either. http://www.gop.gov/blog/10/04/08/obamacare-flatlines-obamacare-taxes-home I hope you forward this to every single person in your address book. VOTERS NEED TO KNOW EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW, NOT ONLY SENIORS. Look carefully at the 2014 rate compared to the 2013 rate . For those of you who are on Medicare, read the following. It's short, but important, and you probably haven't heard about it in the media. "The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will increase from the present Monthly Fee of $96.40, rising to: $104.20 in 2012 $120.20 in 2013 And $247.00 in 2014.