Thursday Afternoon Thread: Dear MSM, Emoprogs and “Feminists” – Check Yo Self

Jerry Brown predicts California budget surplus by end of next year

January 10, 2013 | 10:27am

After years of red ink, Gov. Jerry Brown said on Thursday that California’s $96.7-billion general fund is now poised to end next year with a surplus, thanks to years of deep budget cuts and billions in new taxes approved by voters last year.

“We achieved the position we’re in because of tough cuts … and then the people voted for taxes,” he said. “We broke the logjam by going to the people.”

Schools will be the big winner in the governor’s new spending plan, receiving $56.2 billion in state funds, an increase by $2.7 billion over the last year. That funding is set to jump to more than $66 billion by 2016.

The budget also dedicated an additional $350 million to the state’s public insurance program, Medi-Cal, to help implement President Obama’s healthcare law.

Brown’s budget predicts only the second budget surplus in the last decade, with an $851-million surplus projected at the end of the 2013-14 fiscal year — if all his proposals are approved by lawmakers.

With Democrats firmly in control of both legislative houses and the governor’s office, and without what had become familiar multibillion-dollar deficits, this year’s announcement lacked the anxiety and urgency that had surrounded past budget unveilings.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2013/01/california-budget-jerry-brown-surplus.html

For Americans Under 50, Stark Findings on Health
By Sabrina Tavernise, Published: January 9, 2013, NYT

Younger Americans die earlier and live in poorer health than their counterparts in other developed countries, with far higher rates of death from guns, car accidents and drug addiction, according to a new analysis of health and longevity in the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/health/americans-under-50-fare-poorly-on-health-measures-new-report-says.html?_r=0

There’s so much galling about all this fake outrage and manufactured controversy about the lack of diversity in President Obama’s “inner circle” of “trusted advisers”.

Not the least of which is that most of the same noisemakers including the women amongst them, were the the most vicious attackers of Susan Rice who in my opinion was exceedingly qualified and more than capable to be Sec. of State.

We all remember Dana Milbank’s well-timed hit job amongst others commissioned by the PUMA’s that accused Susan Rice of being everything under the sun especally “brash and undiplomatic”. Notice that her qualifications were never questioned, just her “attitude”.

Chris Matthews and Jonathan Alter even had the temerity to publicly declare that it was “time for a man again” in that position because there had been “three women in a row”. According to them Kerry their white guy brought “gravitas” to the position and as the lead Cabinet secretary, the white guys were not going to “look up to” that black woman.

But even more important in all of this latest incarnation of the insanity that has beset the little insecure white men in America and the media?

The fact that these are the very same assholes who in concert with some of their “friends of convenience” that work for President Obama, have for the past 4 years done everything in their power to destroy and topple Valerie Jarrett from her place as the President’s closest and most trusted adviser.

His and Michelle’s professional conscience and the trusted keeper and minder of their moral compass and north star and why they committed to this entirely very difficult and heavy toll taking mission in the first place.

Valerie Jarrett has been unendingly viciously attacked, maligned, slandered and her life threatened because the white men within and outside the White House simply can’t stand that she not only has the President and Mrs Obama’s implicit trust and ear, but is unyieldingly protective and loyal and will give her life for them.

Valerie Jarrett is that rare gift God gives a deserving President and First Lady especially ones who have been subjected to the most hostile and malicious attacks and sabotage from not just the ignorant racists, but from the media, the republican opposition and sadly from Democrats and the various strains of “liberal” leaning voices and leadership.

Every time I look and see Valerie Jarrett, I feel so much better. I know that she always looks out not just for the President, but Mrs Obama.

For Valerie Jarrett, it has ALWAYS been about the Obamas – both of them: their professional successes, but even more importantly, the health and protection of their very beings and their relationship as a couple – and their marriage. She has NEVER made it about herself – a rarity in the mad, mad, pea-cocking world of politics and power.

Cannot say the same for others. For no matter how reasonable, committed and well-intentioned they might seem at first, most if not all, just want that access and closeness to the President and his ear so that they can exploit and leverage that for their own purposes.

Which is why most of them will leak things to the media to try to get their way with and strong arm the President – and many of them are gathering materials for their many tell all books when this is all over.

The measure of who should be ones most trusted and closest adviser is entirely epitomized by the brilliant, dignified and amazing Valerie Jarrett.

She has such integrity and loyalty, does no self-promotion, takes no credit for accomplishments, honors, prioritizes and fiercely guards the President AND First Lady, and does not and will never leak stuff.

And one thing’s for sure, Valerie Jarrett unlike so many who now or once surrounded the President and Mrs Obama, will NEVER write or collaborate on a tell-all book or leverage information and years of access to the President and First Lady for personal gain, elevation, money or relevance. She will NEVER hurt or compromise the integrity and being of the President and First Lady. Never.

President Obama would be a fool to ever let Valerie Jarrett out of his professional sight. She is and remains the singularly most selflessly devoted person he has on his staff. And that is guaranteed never to change.

POU FAM♥ – – -Annnd — -I’m OK with this — 4 all the TROUBLE that MR. PRESIDENT has experienced. – - -

– –Obama signs law giving himself, Bush lifetime Secret Service guard — -

– - –<iFormer presidents have to give up rides on Air Force One. But now they don’t have to give up being shadowed by the armed-and-earpieced bodyguards of the Secret Service.

President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into a law a measure giving him, George W. Bush and future former presidents and their spouses lifetime Secret Service protection, the White House announced.

– -The legislation, crafted by Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, rolls back a mid-1990s law that imposed a 10-year limit on Secret Service protection for former presidents. Bush would have been the first former commander in chief affected.
THERE Is MORE.- – –

– - – -GO IN SAFETY – - –MR. PRESIDENT/FIRST FAMILY!. — –

I didn’t think we would need her again so soon after the election, but I see we are going to have to bust out Millie Jackson’s in answer to the latest faux outrage against President Obama.