Taliban spokesman Zabihollah Mojahed released a statement saying the terror group will send two of its representatives to a peace conference in Paris.
Iranian Press TV reported:

Taliban Spokesman Zabihollah Mojahed says the representatives of the political branch of the group have been invited to attend an international conference in the French capital, Paris, Press TV reports.

In a new statement, Mojahed said that the Taliban will send two of its representatives to the conference.

The group says the Paris meeting is a research event and the Taliban representatives have no plans to hold talks with the Afghan officials and international envoys.

Taliban has hailed the invitation as the sign of the group’s kudos and pointed out that they will use the event as an opportunity to convey their views to the international community.

This is reportedly the first time that Taliban is invited to attend an international conference in Europe.

No formal negotiations have been held with the Taliban so far, but several informal contacts have been established.

They ought to love the indoor plumbing.

Christina Aguilera talked about her special moment with Hillary Clinton recently. The Secretary of State was caught staring down the singer’s dress.

Rush Limbaugh posted the transcript:

RUSH: Last Friday on the Ellen DeGeneres show, she interviewed the singer Christina Aguilera, and they were having a discussion about her October meeting with the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton. This is Ellen DeGeneres and Christina Aguilera discussing it…

DEGENERES: Let’s talk about this next picture of Hillary checking you out.

AUDIENCE: (laughter and applause)

AGUILERA: It kind of looks Photoshopped or something.

DEGENERES: It does.

AGUILERA: It’s not. It was a real moment.

DEGENERES: Could you feel her gazing down on your…

AUDIENCE: (wild laughter)

AGUILERA: Ha! Ha! Ha!

DEGENERES: Breasteses?

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

AGUILERA: Um, she’s such, like, a force in a room. She’s just got that, you know, star charisma and everything about her, I just… (breathlessly) I couldn’t take my eyes off her, either.

DEGENERES: Yeah.

AGUILERA: So it was mutual.

DEGENERES: Wow.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

AGUILERA: Is that bad?

DEGENERES: No, it’s — it’s — it’s –

AGUILERA: (giggling) I don’t know. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that…

Federal Workers Make Twice As Much As the Private Sector

USA Today

Since Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office in January 2009 he has created on average 101 new federal employees each day.
Andrew Malcolm at Investor’s Business Daily reported:

You may have noticed some economic difficulties across the country in recent years among family, friends, neighbors, colleagues. One sector is doing quite nicely, however, under Barack Hussein Obama.

In the 1,420 days since he took the oath of office, the federal government has daily hired on average 101 new employees. Every day. Seven days a week. All 202 weeks. That makes 143,000 more federal workers than when Obama talked forever on that cold day in January of 2009.

Under Obama the total federal workforce has surpassed two million for the first time since the first Clinton term, now sitting about the 2.2 ,million level.

Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.

Now comes a new poll revealing that Americans know what’s going on. A majority of Americans believes government workers make more money than private sector workers, according to the new Rasmussen Reports poll. Sixty-one percent of private sector workers believe that.

Surprisingly, Republicans, independents and Democrats are united in agreement that government employees have it better than private sector workers although, predictably, Dems are slightly less sure.

“The federal workforce has become an elite island of secure and high-paid workers, separated from the ocean of average American workers competing in the global economy,” according to a report this year by the Cato Institute.

Related… Data Reveals: Private Sector Works Harder Than Public Employees

832F was an immense wolf and agile hunter. She was a good mother and loved by environmentalists around the world.

Last week she wandered outside of Yellowstone and was shot dead by hunters.
She ought to make a nice trophy for the fireplace.

KSL.com reported, via Free Republic:

She was an alpha female known as 832F to scientists, but lovingly called ” ’06″ by local tourists, after the year of her birth. She was the most famous wolf in all of Yellowstone National Park, and led the Lamar Canyon wolf pack.

832F wandered outside of the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park Thursday, where she was shot and killed — legally — by hunters in Wyoming. That was made possible by recently-passed federal and state regulations that allow the killing of wolves as game.

The changes have made headlines and caused controversy, with hunters and ranchers treating wolves as a threat to be eliminated, while conservationists and scientists are alarmed by the hunts that come so soon after wolvers were re-introduced into the area in 1995.

832F is so named because she was a research wolf. Scientists had fastened a $4,000 collar to her neck with GPS tracking technology that allowed them to track her movements and better understand both her habits and the life of the pack.

832F was also popular with tourists because of her immense size and ability as a hunter. Park wildlife experts said that she could take down animals on her own, according to the New York Times. Wolf advocates said that she was a devoted mother to her cubs as well as being leader of a relatively large pack.

She’s the latest in a series of collared research wolves shot by hunters, with four being killed in the last few weeks.

Sorry Barack… You’re a little late.
Both legislative houses in Michigan passed right to work bills last week. Republicans are set to bring up right to work bills for final consideration as soon as tomorrow making Michigan the 24th right to work state.

Today Barack Obama flew into Detroit to slam right to work states at his so-called fiscal cliff event.

Studies confirm that right to work states benefit from faster growth and better pay.
So it makes sense then that Obama is against it.

Season’s Greetings!

TIN EARS: Cablevision’s James Dolan performs at the Times Square Hard Rock Cafe yesterday at a benefit to fight pancreatic cancer, as union members protest outside.

Members of Communication Workers of America Local 1109 protested outside a cancer survivor tribute and fundraiser this past weekend.
Politicker reported:

Last night, members of the Communications Workers of America Union distributed flyers calling Cablevision CEO James Dolan an “Ebenezer Scrooge” outside the annual holiday fundraiser for the Lustgarten Foundation, a pancreatic cancer charity supported by the company. Cablevision released a statement about the situation this afternoon calling the union’s activities at the event “shameful” and accusing CWA of numerous other misdeeds.

“This benefit was about curing pancreatic cancer. For the CWA union to interfere with this important effort is a new low for a union that has already tried to exploit Hurricane Sandy, intimidate employees and mislead other unions,” the statement said. “It is deeply offensive to not only Cablevision employees and customers, but also to cancer sufferers and their families.”

CWA and Cablevision have been locked into an ongoing dispute for the past year as the union attempts to organize workers at the television company. Cablevision accused the union of exploiting the hurricane because it has loudly criticized the company for not automatically refunding customers who lost television service during the storm.

Local 1109 defended its despicable actions today following the NY Post’s article on their rally.

Two suspected robbers were shot dead at the home-based marijuana growing operation in Washington state today.
Police are still trying to identify the masked intruders.

FOX 13 has more on the shooting.

The Washington Times reported:

Two suspected robbers believed to be targeting an alleged home-based marijuana growing operation were killed in a shootout on the first day of legal marijuana in Washington state, authorities said.

The 35-year-old homeowner told detectives he shot the masked intruders Thursday after they broke into his home near Puyallup, Pierce County Sheriff spokesman Ed Troyer said, according Komonews.com. Troyer told the news outlet that the masked men most likely sought to grab the pot and maybe cash.

The Associated Press reported the secluded, luxury home had a security system, a private driveway and that the homeowner had motorcycles, boats and nice cars.

The homeowner and his 9-year-old son were not hurt. The homeowner, whose name was not released, was detained, at least pertaining to an illegal growing operation, Troyer told the wire service. He has since been released.

The marijuana at the home was of large quantity, much more than one would need for medicinal use, Troyer said.

Well, clearly this was a failure.

Only 37 of 194 countries signed on to extend the Old Kyoto Treaty at the Doha Climate Change Conference. And it still remains open to how high their planned reductions will be.
No Trick Zone reported:

The German media report that only a totally lame climate treaty compromise was reached in Doha: Kyoto I will be extended until 2020.

For those calling for rapid reductions in CO2 emissions, the result in Doha can only be described as an utter disaster. The Doha agreement will do absolutely nothing to curb CO2 growth, let alone cut net CO2 emissions.

One reason is that few countries are left taking part. Online FOCUS magazine reports only a few countries have signed on to extending Kyoto I, which FOCUS calls a “minimal compromise”. Only 37 of 194 countries signed on. That means the treaty is internationally non-binding.

The only thing that is certain is that there are going to be many more climate junkets in the future, wasting more taxpayer money.

The left wing TAZ reports that these 37 countries are “responsible for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. And it still remains open how high the planned reductions will be.” Those that signed on to make reductions couldn’t even tell us how much.

In a 2008 debate with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama said America shouldn’t pretend it is special.

He meant it.
And his policies since then have brought decline and poverty for America.

A new report suggests the United States will no longer be the sole world superpower by 2030.
Isn’t this what the left always wanted?
The Politico reported:

A new report by the intelligence community projects that the United States will no longer be the world’s only superpower by 2030.

“In terms of the indices of overall power – GDP, population size, military spending and technological investment – Asia will surpass North America and Europe combined,” the report concludes.

“Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds” — prepared by the office of the National Intelligence Council of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — projects that the “unipolar” world that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union will not continue.

“With the rapid rise of other countries, the ‘unipolar moment’ is over and no country – whether the U.S., China, or any other country – will be a hegemonic power,” the report argues.

“The United States’ relative economic decline vis-a-vis the rising states is inevitable and already occurring,but its future role in the international system is much harder to assess,” it argues.

“Global Trends” projects that the United States will retain a unique role in the international system — in part because of its history and past leadership.

Despite repeated warnings from the Pentagon, Barack Obama rejected three plans to recover or destroy the US drone that was intercepted over Iranian territory.
FOX News reported on this earlier this year.

Today a senior Iranian commander announced that the regime has extracted all the information from the downed drone.
Fars News reported:

A senior Iranian commander announced that the country has extracted all the data and information existing in the intelligence gathering systems of the United States’ highly advanced RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft which was captured by Iran last year.

“All the intelligence existing in this drone has been completely decoded and extracted and we know each and every step it has taken (during its missions),” Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told reporters here in Tehran on Monday.

The stealth drone was downed by Iran last December through a sophisticated cyber attack.

The commander further revealed some of the data taken from the aircraft’s intelligence system, and added, “The US President (Barack Obama) had told the Israeli officials that the drone was tasked with spying on Iran’s nuclear program, but our experts found after decoding the drone that it had not performed even a single nuclear mission over Iran.”

“And this reveals that Americans are treating the nuclear issue (of Iran) as an excuse” to conduct hostile moves, including spying operations, against Iran.

The unmanned surveillance plane lost by the United States in Iran was a stealth aircraft being used for secret missions by the CIA.