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They are blaming Obama for the lunar eclipse. No, I'm not joking.

If it’s a coincidence, it’s an astounding one. An ominous “Blood Moon” appearing at the same time the Obama administration is boasting of a nuclear agreement with Iran that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says endangers the very survival of the Jewish state.

And experts warn that Barack Obama’s actions could herald disastrous consequences not just for Israel, but for the world.

Pastor Mark Biltz, the discoverer of the Blood Moons phenomenon, says current events in the Middle East are “totally tied to these Blood Moons.”

“A number of rabbis have said this, that Obama comes across as a kind of Haman figure. Haman we recall was a Persian official who wanted to kill the Jews living within that empire. Of course, the modern heir of the Persian Empire is Iran, now the Islamic Republic. And we have Iranian generals openly saying that they want to destroy Israel. God is clearly sending us a sign reminding us of these parallels.”



http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/experts-passover-blood-moon-arrives-at-dark-moment/#XrygFmDxkVrZmGej.99

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Justice for the 96 (VIDEO)

What It Means To Have To Work ‘Anytime Of The Day, Any Day Of The Week’

These irregular hours are particularly common in certain jobs and industries, often ones that look like Thornswood’s job at target. About 15 percent of people who hold sales jobs have changing schedules, and they’re also common in retail, where it impacts 27 percent of employees. One survey focused just on retail workers in New York City found that 40 percent didn’t have a set minimum of hours they worked week to week and a quarter was scheduled for on-call shifts.

It is also poor workers who suffer the most. “By income level, the lowest income workers face the most irregular work schedules,” the report notes. Those who make less than $22,500 a year are more likely to have erratic schedules than any of those in the income brackets above them.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, erratic and unpredictable scheduling leads to work/family conflict. Less than 11 percent of those who have regular schedules say they often experience work/family balance issues, but more than a quarter of those with irregular or on-call shifts and about 20 percent of people with rotating or split shifts do. On the other hand, more than a quarter of people with regular schedules say they’ve never experienced a conflict.

Thornswood’s previous schedule made it difficult for her just to get sleep, having to wake up 5 a.m. one morning and at noon the next. “I feel like because I was so exhausted, I just wasn’t functioning as well,” she said. “I wasn’t getting as much work done, I was confused, I would mess things up a lot.”


http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/04/09/3644590/unpredictable-scheduling/

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Ex-GOP Official Accused Of Threatening Wife Arrested For Domestic Violence

he former South Carolina Republican Party official accused last month of refusing to let his wife out of his car was arrested on suspicion of criminal domestic violence on Monday, according to WIS-TV.

Todd Kincannon, an attorney who served as the executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party in 2010, allegedly got into an argument with his wife after a work function on March 26, after which he allegedly would not allow his wife to leave his car, according to a police report.

Ashely Suzanne Griffith, Kincannon's wife, told police that when her husband grabbed her to keep her from leaving the car, she hit him in the arm multiple times. Griffith told police that Kincannon also threatened to kill himself if she left the car. Kincannon denied that he grabbed his wife or that he threatened to kill himself, according to police.

Kincannon was not charged at the time, and later told the Charleston City Paper that he had taken the wrong dosage of Benzonatate, a cough medicine.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/goper-kincannon-arrested-domestic-violence

Kansas Welfare Bill Would Cut Into Benefits With ATM Fees

But the benefits are intended to subsidize basic living expenses. State Senator Oletha Faust-Goudeau, a Democrat who represents the Wichita area, told the Wichita Eagle that some of her constituents rely on welfare benefits to help cover rent, a large, lump-sum cost that — for people without bank accounts — usually needs to be made in cash.

Under the new rules, if someone receiving benefits plans to use her money to make a $600 rent payment, she’ll need to start withdrawing money and setting it aside 24 days in advance.

Actually, she’ll need to start even earlier than that.

That’s because Kansas’s debit cards come with a $1 fee for every ATM withdrawal. So over 24 days, this hypothetical woman would lose $24 dollars in fees; she’d need to start one day earlier to make her rent payment.

And even that precaution would leave her coming up short. The Kansas cards charge $1, and the bank ATM usually adds on another surcharge fee. According to the GAO, the average ATM withdrawal surcharge was $2.10 in 2012. That lowers the real maximum withdrawal to $21.90 per day. At that rate, a person receiving benefits will need to make a withdrawal on 28 days per month (no margin of error in February) to set aside enough to cover rent.


http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/kansas-welfare-bill-would-cut-into-benefits-with-atm-fees/

Kids now spend hundreds of dollars on "prom proposals".

Hard to believe it, but prom season is sneaking up on us. That means millions of high school students will soon be fretting about dresses, tuxedos, hair, nails -- and the all-important "promposal." According to the Washington Post, the promposal is a relatively new phenomenon, mimicking a marriage proposal, "wherein students go to elaborate, terribly public lengths to ask each other to prom."

And according to a new national survey by Visa (V), promposals and the rest of the prom rituals are adding up to a pretty penny for a lot of American households.

The phone survey of over 3,000 people, aged 18 or older, found that promposals are, on average, costing $324 this year -- and now represent one-third of the nearly $1,000 prom-going teens (or, actually, their parents) are expected to shell out on attire, limousine rentals, tickets, flowers, pictures, after-party festivities and the like.




http://www.cbsnews.com/news/promposal-where-one-third-of-prom-costs-go-today/

Dad creates elaborate beeping Easter eggs so his blind daughter can join candy hunts.

A bomb technician has used his expertise to create an Easter egg hunt for blind children - using beeping eggs.

David Hyche, now a special agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), developed the technology nine years ago when his four-month-old daughter turned blind.

A transmitter is placed inside plastic eggs that let off a high-pitched beeping sound.

Now Hyche has passed on the idea to the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind in Birmingham.

'With my daughter, one of her first phrases was, 'I do it myself.' She wants to do it by herself and most of these kids want to do that too,' he told WBRC.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3023479/Bomb-expert-father-creates-beeping-Easter-eggs-blind-daughter-join-candy-hunts.html#ixzz3WTS5NAPi