12/31/2012
12/05/2012
Where is my free stuff?!?!
It figures. Detroit. I city that has been driven into the ground being run by Democrats for 51 years...
Detroit councilwoman to Obama: We voted for you, now bail us out
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/20264712/detroit-councilwoman-to-obama-we-supported-you-now-support-us11/16/2012
Public Outrage Turns Against Businesses Struggling to Cope with High Obamacare Costs
By Jillian Kay Melchior
November 12, 2012 4:06 P.M.
It didn’t take long to kill the messenger.
After the election, the private sector has begun its struggle to cope with hefty health-care fees written into the Obama health law. For many businesses, the fines tip the cost-benefit balance against full-time employees. And employers — for their own sake, and for the sake of their remaining employees — have to cut back on employment, hours, or both. These painful cutbacks are the only way to ensure the long-term health of their businesses; it’s simple, if regrettable, math.
That doesn’t stop the economically (and grammatically) ignorant from calling for boycotts.:
[The CEO of Papa John’s is] also a greedy jerk who, to get around paying for Obama’s Affordable Care Act, plans on cutting all his employee’s hours to below the mandated threshold so he doesn’t have to pay for it — because it would cost him too much money.
… And, unfortunately, Papa John’s is not alone. Applebee’s, Olive Garden, and Red Lobster have all jumped on this bus. Threatening to freeze full hirings and/or reduce employees to skirt the ACA regulations.
Now, bear in mind, that Papa John’s, Applebee’s, Olive Garden, and Red Lobster are not small businesses. Each of these companies make millions in profits each year and its workforce is amongst the lowest paid and hardest working in the country. And they care so little about the health and welfare of their employees that they would rather cut their already few low-paying hours than make sure that they are taken care of.
Now, this is America and they have the right to do with their businesses what they want, no matter how scummy it is.
But these businesses need to bear in mind that they are not the only pizza joints, seafood places, and Iitalian [sic] restaurants in the country. … It’s time for the people of America to stand up against these corporate misers who think that their workforce is nothing.
I for one will not be eating at any of these places from this moment forward. And I would ask the same of you also until they state that they will not reduce thier [sic] workforce and hours.
This is America and as Americans it’s time that we start standing up for our fellow countrymen and begin to teach BIG BUSINESS that they are nothing without us.
Granted, indignation is warranted: As one Twitter follower noted to me late last week, it’s truly disgusting that businesses have had to make these employment cuts. But the Obama administration has put the private sector in an untenable position. It’s a rare policy indeed that makes scapegoats out of victims.
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/333234
November 12, 2012 4:06 P.M.
It didn’t take long to kill the messenger.
After the election, the private sector has begun its struggle to cope with hefty health-care fees written into the Obama health law. For many businesses, the fines tip the cost-benefit balance against full-time employees. And employers — for their own sake, and for the sake of their remaining employees — have to cut back on employment, hours, or both. These painful cutbacks are the only way to ensure the long-term health of their businesses; it’s simple, if regrettable, math.
That doesn’t stop the economically (and grammatically) ignorant from calling for boycotts.:
[The CEO of Papa John’s is] also a greedy jerk who, to get around paying for Obama’s Affordable Care Act, plans on cutting all his employee’s hours to below the mandated threshold so he doesn’t have to pay for it — because it would cost him too much money.
… And, unfortunately, Papa John’s is not alone. Applebee’s, Olive Garden, and Red Lobster have all jumped on this bus. Threatening to freeze full hirings and/or reduce employees to skirt the ACA regulations.
Now, bear in mind, that Papa John’s, Applebee’s, Olive Garden, and Red Lobster are not small businesses. Each of these companies make millions in profits each year and its workforce is amongst the lowest paid and hardest working in the country. And they care so little about the health and welfare of their employees that they would rather cut their already few low-paying hours than make sure that they are taken care of.
Now, this is America and they have the right to do with their businesses what they want, no matter how scummy it is.
But these businesses need to bear in mind that they are not the only pizza joints, seafood places, and Iitalian [sic] restaurants in the country. … It’s time for the people of America to stand up against these corporate misers who think that their workforce is nothing.
I for one will not be eating at any of these places from this moment forward. And I would ask the same of you also until they state that they will not reduce thier [sic] workforce and hours.
This is America and as Americans it’s time that we start standing up for our fellow countrymen and begin to teach BIG BUSINESS that they are nothing without us.
Granted, indignation is warranted: As one Twitter follower noted to me late last week, it’s truly disgusting that businesses have had to make these employment cuts. But the Obama administration has put the private sector in an untenable position. It’s a rare policy indeed that makes scapegoats out of victims.
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/333234
10/31/2012
Stating the obvious
Interesting analysis on how liberal college professors are.
With the exception of the hard sciences and core subjects, the worst thing that
you can do is make people waste time taking these courses. I walked away from
taking classes with liberal professors are that they dislike America,
dislike our culture, and blame America
for every negative in the world. In addition, these liberal professors have no
concept of the real world. They did not teach me anything. Conservative radio
did.
Moving Further to the Left
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/24/survey-finds-professors-already-liberal-have-moved-further-left10/23/2012
Amatuer DNC bootlicker Chris Matthews using the race card again
Obama fluffer (A fluffer is a person employed to keep an adult film star aroused on the set. These duties, which do not necessarily involve touching the actors, are considered part of the makeup department. After setting up the desired angle, the director asks the actors to hold position and calls for the fluffer to "fluff" the actors for the shot. Fluffing could also entail sexual acts such as fellatio or non-penetrative sex.) Chris Matthews is at it again. Since things do not look good for his Messiah he uses the tired liberal race card.
Chris Matthews: 'Racial hatred' drives support for Romney on right
Chris Matthews: 'Racial hatred' drives support for Romney on right
10/09/2012
9/27/2012
9/24/2012
Obama ad in 2008...
Interesting to see his promises, and the actual result of his "efforts" are things like Libya.
Obama’s Mentors, Appointees, Defenders, and Supporters all Support Redistribution of Wealth
I love the fools the fool in chief surrounds himself with...
OWS Protester: 'I Give Respect' To Terrorists Who Killed US Ambassador
Ah, a fine point of view from the losers who make up Occupy Wall Street!
OWS Protester: 'I Give Respect' To Terrorists Who Killed US Ambassador
OWS Protester: 'I Give Respect' To Terrorists Who Killed US Ambassador
9/21/2012
Pelosi: Bush Left Us an Economy in ‘The Depths of Hell'
Since it's getting close to Halloween I might as well post something about that senile old hag Nancy Pelosi. She blames Bush about his spending, but this stupid insipid piece of shyte was speaker of the house in 2007 and 2008.
During this time frame she was "comptroller" of the unit of government responsible for:
To borrow money on the credit of the United States.
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states and with Indian tribes.
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures.
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the Unites States.
In addition, if she was so concerned about what Bush did, it was her constitutional duty to investigate the executive branch, and have impeachment powers. This vapid hag has no idea what she is talking about.
Pelosi: Bush Left Us an Economy in ‘The Depths of Hell'
During this time frame she was "comptroller" of the unit of government responsible for:
To borrow money on the credit of the United States.
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states and with Indian tribes.
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures.
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the Unites States.
In addition, if she was so concerned about what Bush did, it was her constitutional duty to investigate the executive branch, and have impeachment powers. This vapid hag has no idea what she is talking about.
Pelosi: Bush Left Us an Economy in ‘The Depths of Hell'
9/20/2012
9/18/2012
Newspaper Ad Revenues Collapse to 1950 Levels
Not surprising when you have a media that is complicit and in lockstep in supporting the Obama administration and the DNC. More people now see the MSM for what it is, and chose not to consume their product and message.
Newspaper Ad Revenues Collapse to 1950 Levels
Newspaper Ad Revenues Collapse to 1950 Levels
9/10/2012
9/07/2012
Collection of idiocy from the DNC
Exclusive: Democrats Drop 'God' From Party Platform
DNC Video: "The Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To"
Kansas delegates head to N.C. for Democratic convention Dean of Democratic delegation makes Hitler reference when speaking about Republicans' agenda
Red Carpet for Solyndra Figure at Democratic Convention
20,000 Democrats cheer attacks on Romney’s patriotism
Anti-Christian Hate Speech Spews From The Palm Beach Dem Chair
Ark. lawmaker pleads guilty to election charge
Obama advisers don't expect big bounce in polls
Secret Service looking into DNC delegate who wants to ‘kill’ Romney
Dems give illegal alien speaking slot at convention...
PRIORITIES: FOOTBALL DOMINATES IN TV RATINGS...
Steelworker Featured at DNC Didn’t Work for Bain
Obama the demigod comes down to Earth
9/04/2012
Great article from the UK
We should tune in to the Romney and Ryan show
The myth of a democratic socialist society funded by capitalism is finished
Whatever the outcome of the American presidential election, one thing is certain: the fighting of it will be the most significant political event of the decade. Last week’s Republican national convention sharpened what had been until then only a vague, inchoate theme: this campaign is going to consist of the debate that all Western democratic countries should be engaging in, but which only the United States has the nerve to undertake. The question that will demand an answer lies at the heart of the economic crisis from which the West seems unable to recover. It is so profoundly threatening to the governing consensus of Britain and Europe as to be virtually unutterable here, so we shall have to rely on the robustness of the US political class to make the running.
What is being challenged is nothing less than the most basic premise of the politics of the centre ground: that you can have free market economics and a democratic socialist welfare system at the same time. The magic formula in which the wealth produced by the market economy is redistributed by the state – from those who produce it to those whom the government believes deserve it – has gone bust. The crash of 2008 exposed a devastating truth that went much deeper than the discovery of a generation of delinquent bankers, or a transitory property bubble. It has become apparent to anyone with a grip on economic reality that free markets simply cannot produce enough wealth to support the sort of universal entitlement programmes which the populations of democratic countries have been led to expect. The fantasy may be sustained for a while by the relentless production of phoney money to fund benefits and job-creation projects, until the economy is turned into a meaningless internal recycling mechanism in the style of the old Soviet Union.
Or else democratically elected governments can be replaced by puppet austerity regimes which are free to ignore the protests of the populace when they are deprived of their promised entitlements. You can, in other words, decide to debauch the currency which underwrites the market economy, or you can dispense with democracy. Both of these possible solutions are currently being tried in the European Union, whose leaders are reduced to talking sinister gibberish in order to evade the obvious conclusion: the myth of a democratic socialist society funded by capitalism is finished. This is the defining political problem of the early 21st century.
Mitt Romney had been hinting, in an oblique, undeveloped way, at this line of argument as he moved tentatively toward finding a real message. Then he took the startling step of appointing Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate, and the earth moved. If Romney was the embodiment of the spirit of a free market, Ryan was its prophet. His speech at the convention was so dangerous to the Obama Democrats, with their aspirations toward European-style democratic socialism, that they unleashed their “fact checkers” to find mistakes (“lies”) in it. (Remember the old Yes Minister joke: “You can always accuse them of errors of detail, sir. There are always some errors of detail”.) When Romney and Ryan offer their arguments to the American people, they are, of course, at an advantage over almost any British or European politician. Contrary to what many know-nothing British observers seem to think, the message coming out of Tampa was not Tea Party extremism. It was just a reassertion of the basic values of American political culture: self-determination, individual aspiration and genuine community, as opposed to belief in the state as the fount of all social virtue. Romney caught this rather nicely in his acceptance speech, with the comment that the US was built on the idea of “a system that is dedicated to creating tomorrow’s prosperity rather than trying to redistribute today’s.” Or as Marco Rubio put it in his speech, Obama is “trying ideas that people came to America to get away from”.
So it would be deeply misleading to imply that this campaign will be a contest between what Britain likes to call “progressive” politics and some atavistic longing for a return to frontier America where everybody made a success of his own life with no help from anybody but his kith and kin. In the midst of the impassioned and often nasty debate about the future of health care, in which Ryan was depicted as a granny-killer, there has been some serious Republican thinking about the universal provision of medical care for pensioners (or “seniors” as they are called in the US). Because, you see, the debate over there has gone way beyond welfare reform: the need to restrict benefit dependency among the underclass is an argument that has been won. What is at issue now is much more politically contentious: universal entitlements such as comprehensive Medicare and social security are known to be unaffordable in their present form. Ryan, the radical economic thinker, suggests a solution for Medicare in the form of a voucher system. Patients could choose from competing health providers, with a ceiling on the cost of procedures and treatments, instead of simply being given blanket no-choice care. Thus, the government would get better value for money, and individuals would have more say in their own treatment. Now why doesn’t anybody here think of applying that mechanism to the NHS? Oh, yes, some people have – but nobody in power will listen to them.
So how effective will all this turn out to be? Can Romney and Ryan reawaken the self-belief in American independence and real community solidarity? Quite possibly, but the odds are always in favour of the incumbent in US presidential elections. There is, however, a wild card in this game. I suspect that in 2008 a great many voters of good conscience would have felt the moral force of voting for the first black president, in order to exorcise the nation’s hideous racial history. But having proved that America is no longer a land of bigots, they will not feel it necessary to make that point again. Now they will be able to judge Mr Obama as they would any other political leader, and the US will truly have arrived at post-racial politics.
But in the course of this campaign, however it concludes, we are all going to get an education in what it might be possible to say if economic reality was actually confronted. Mr Ryan wound up his acceptance speech for the vice-presidential nomination with the chorus, “Our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.” Some of us would like to have that debate here. We even think we might have a chance of winning it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/9513687/We-should-tune-in-to-the-Romney-and-Ryan-show.html
Interesting story on the "fact checkers"
The Dem pundits seem to love to reference their fact checkers when covering points brought up by their opposition. Here is an interesting story on the bias of those fact checkers.
The Media's 'Fact Check' Smokescreen
PolitiFact bias: Does the GOP tell nine times more lies than left? Really?
The Media's 'Fact Check' Smokescreen
PolitiFact bias: Does the GOP tell nine times more lies than left? Really?
Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: Here‘s a Break Down of the Claims Bashing Paul Ryan’s Speech
8/28/2012
The 15 Richest Members Of Congress
I like how 9/15 are Democrats, and California is represented. This is a case of socialism is for the people, and not the socialist. Their do as I say, and not as I do mentality makes them think that they are omitted from being that disliked 1%...when they are the 1%. I have faith in the 6 others to fix things.
The 15 Richest Members Of Congress
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