Category: Politics

politics: workings of government

Firenze Sage: We’re broke but it’s ok…[Detroit]

The city of Detroit may be facing a deepening financial crisis but that hasn’t stopped four trustees of its public pension funds from spending $22,000 of retirement system funds to attend a conference in Hawaii this week.

John Riehl, a senior sewage plant operator and 34-year Detroit employee, is one of the four. The cost fell within continuing education guidelines set by the legislature, he said.

“It’s one of these things we trustees must do to stay on top of the field,” Riehl said. “It’s important that we participate in these conferences. The stakes are too high.”  More information. 

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Firenze Sage:  This is definitely it: A class in how to spend other people’s money. [taxpayer tab is  22K]  jaj48@aol.com

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Another happy immigrant [Boston bombing suspect]

F_ _ _ America scratched into boat

As police searched for him, and as he lay bleeding in his boat hideout, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote “F*** America” on the side panel of the boat, police in Massachusetts told ABC News.

Officers said they also discovered the phrase “Praise Allah” on the boat’s side panels and several anti-American screeds, including references to Iraq, Afghanistan and “the infidels.”

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Firenze Sage:  Row  this dude to paradise.   

book by Firenze Sage aka  attorney James A. Jackson,  Shoveling Smoke: Laws and Regulations Smother Jobs and Economy

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Firenze Sage: She lies for the President [ U.N. Rice]

Rice lies for Obama

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice was honored Tuesday night with the 2013 Louis E. Martin Great American Award.

Specifically, the organization is honoring Rice for ”her work in advancing U.S. interests, strengthening the world’s common security and prosperity, and promoting respect for human rights,” another press release states.

Rice has “the absolute, total, complete confidence of the president,” Biden said at a gala for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, according to press reports. “When she speaks… no one wonders whether or not she is speaking for the president.”

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Firenze Sage:  It’s always encouraging to hear that the liars have control of the awards.     Four More Obama Years

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Firenze Sage: Along came a spider – splat! [Chris Christie]

Chris Christie kills spider and ethical treatment for spiders goes viral
On Friday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie posted a video showing him smashing a spider on his desk in front of a group of visiting school children. In a statement provided to TPM, Ingrid Newkirk, president of People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals, described Christie’s killing of the spider as a thoughtless act.
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Firenze Sage:  Another endangered species(man) attacked.

 Four More Obama

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Firenze Sage: idiots in charge [Benghazi coverup]

incompetent cover-up by Clinton’s chief of staff Cheryl Mills who sent an attorney lacking security clearance
Secy Clinton’s chief of staff  Cheryl Mills,  insisted that a state dept lawyer be present when a Republican congressman interviewed the deputy chief of the Tripoli embassy. Unfortunately the mouthpiece didn’t’ have sufficient clearance and was denied admission.
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Firenze Sage:  They cannot even competently cover up their cover up.  

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Firenze Sage: Senator of the people [Kerry & Fenway Park]

“Sweet Caroline” sung again at Fenway Park, Boston
Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” is an iconic part of Boston Red Sox tradition.
The song is played and sung at Fenway Park during the eighth inning of every Red Sox game. Secretary of State John Kerry, who served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013, could not properly name the song. Instead Kerry called the song “Sweet Adeline” while thanking the New York Yankees fans rendition as a tribute to the victims of the Boston bombing.
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How can this guy [Kerry]  have gone so long w/o being exposed as a phoney? Oh,  wait he was and nobody cared.  
 jaj48@aol.com   Four More Obama Years

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Aptos Psychologist: Obama’s laughable immigration policy

undocumented persons cross open borders in USA

Obama’s immigration policy shows about as much skill level as Obama  recently demonstrated in basket ball (2 out of 22 shots made the basket). Laughable.

Everybody knows that you don’t put the cart before the horse. But  Obama does so with immigration.

A sensible Immigration Policy:

1) Close the border with Mexico.

2) Require E-verify to ensure  that employees are legally in the U.S.A.

3)  Create a flexible  Guest Worker program based on supply and demand for agriculture, restaurants and tourist industries. See Wall Street Journal, Green-Card Path Seen for Farm Help, April 6-7, 2013.

4) Fine adults & require community service hours for adults who break the existing immigration laws.

5) Do these steps and then put in place a legal pathway to citizenship such as Rubio  suggests. CNN Politics, Jan 12, 2013

The first step is Close the Border.

  Can Obama get behind sensible Immigration Reform?   Nope.  No way can we close the  border with Mexico  says Obama.  Janet Napolitano, in charge of Homeland Security, agrees with her boss.

In my view, Obama’s goal is to turn the 11 million illegals into Democrats who can vote in 2014.  Obama is forever the campaigner and never the national leader of sensible reform.

Other  countries successfully do close their borders.  For example, Israel successfully closed its border with Egypt and just about nobody gets through.

Israel closed its borders with Egypt successfully

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Firenze Sage: our new mouth piece [Secretary of State Kerry]

Our new mouth piece Secretary of State Kerry
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, during a joint press briefing with Secretary of State John Kerry, reiterated his accusation that U.S. special forces have been committing atrocities in Wardak province. Kerry did not contradict Karzai, though U.S. officials have denied the charges.
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Oh, well, what’s a lie and an insult or two for the old swift boater. 
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Firenze Sage: Time to write these folks off [Obama’s priorities]

No money for self guided White House tours arranged 30+ days ago & no one answering the phone. In contrast, no cut in pay for White House staff who make hand written invitations. Obama’s priority is that people feel pain?

Despite the closing the doors to public tours because of the automatic budget  sequester cuts, the White House continues to employ three calligraphers, with the “chief calligrapher” making $96,725.

Patricia Blair, the chief calligrapher, has two deputies — Debra Brown, earning $85,953 and Richard Muffler, earning $94,372, The Weekly Standard reported.

The White House has made no announcement to scale back on calligraphers, despite sequester cuts.

Calligraphers are needed for the preparation of invitations, placards, citations and White House awards, created by hand, according to the White House.

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Ok,  now lay off the cops and firemen so we can have pretty invitations.

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For more Firenze Sage, read Shoveling Smoke: Laws & Regulations Smother Jobs & Economy

 

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Firenze Sage: politically incorrect [pot belly & short police]

pot belly and short gets Vietnam police moved from job as traffic police.

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Pot belly & short Vietnam traffic police are removed
Pot belly & short Vietnam traffic police are moved to office jobs

 

Short, pot-bellied policemen will be banned from traffic duty in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi and given office jobs in a bid to improve the force’s public image, police said Wednesday. See complete story:    politically incorrect police

Police with pot-bellies, or who are too small, will be moved to office work to avoid their coming into contact with the public.
Vietnam’s traffic police — which were voted the “most corrupt” institution in the communist country according to a recent World Bank-funded survey — have long been dogged by a poor public image.
In 2011, authorities banned traffic police from wearing sunglasses on duty and warned them not to hide behind trees in order to  ambush motorists and  extract fines.
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The worker’s paradise is corrupt and insensitive to the   weight challenged.
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