08.03.06
A bitch to tie…
…but it will catch you some trout.
Democrats don’t understand history
And this is kinda sad, but it is a major reason for why they can’t win anything anymore. First of all, the email was titled “Conduct Unbecoming”. What the hell is that ? That is a military term, and the text of the mail makes no sense. This is an email, so it’s not linkable, but…. the latest Dean ridiculousness:
Here’s the question that the right-wing extremists who control the Republican Congress will put before the Senate:
“Over seven million Americans can have a raise of $2.15 an hour by raising the minimum wage, but only if we give a tax cut to 7,500 ultra-rich people at a cost of $753 billion dollars.”
Do these people not understand economics ? It’s really simple. When labor costs go up, the cost for everything else goes up. The price for food, for gas, for consumer products… it all goes up. Why ? Because when the government increases prices by dictate, the people who own business raise their prices. This is Econ 101.
It’s despicable, it’s wrong, and we need to stop it.
Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist has said that this will be the only vote he will allow on a minimum wage increase this year.
Enough is enough. Contact your Senators and tell them to reject this shameful bill by signing this petition:
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Democrats have been fighting for a minimum wage increase, but Republicans won’t allow a straight up-or-down vote on it.Now Frist and his right-wing allies say they will allow a vote on the minimum wage — but only in the form of a bill that includes a huge giveaway to ultra-wealthy Republican donors.
Which sucks because now, with all these wealthy people making 7 bucks an hour, they can’t….. wait… this makes no sense.
Do people making minimum wage own businesses ? I’ve owned a business, and trust me, I made a LOT less than minimum wage. I worked my ass off. I wasn’t successful. I’ll try again another time.
I’ve also worked for corporations. I will be first in line to say that 50 a mil, or a 500 mil severence payout is ridiculous. But the people with the money are the people that employ other people. This isn’t some metaphysical realm… it’s just the way the world works.
We want folks to do well, but America shouldn’t have to sacrifice billions of dollars to give only a small group of millionaires a tax break while millions of hard working Americans - some with two or more jobs - are barely able to make ends meet.
That’s called life, Dr. Dean. Sometimes you have to work hard, not rely on daddy’s money, and go to med school so you can practice in Vermont and then save up enough to make a ridiculous run for president.
What’s more, the Republicans’ so-called minimum wage increase contains provisions that would actually strip wages from over a million people in seven states where they earn that state’s minimum wage in addition to their tips.
That last part is just a flat out lie. State minimum wages take precedence over federal wage laws, if they are higher. At this point the good Dr. Dean is just lying like a madman.
It’s called federalism, and while it’s a strange concept for Democrats, it’s really quite simple. The Feds set a minimum. States must meet that, but can increase it if they so choose. Minimum wage is a bad idea in the first place, but as long as it seems to be eternal, we may as well do it right.
Going to the subject of the post…. the Democrats don’t understand history… that’s part of the reason why they ARE history. They can have Berkley and the Bronx. The upper-west-side and south-side Chicago…. Boulder CO and the 38103 area code.
The rest of the country fights and struggles and doesn’t want the government to kiss our boo-boo and make it all better.
Don Rumsfeld…
I know a lot of people don’t like him…. even JEG, my buddy, isn’t a huge fan. But he speaks truth and does it intelligently.
After Hillary went through a huge list of slams and barbs, finishing with (paraphrasing) “With your history, Secretary Rumsfeld, why should we trust you.”
His first line and actions, in response, was to calm himself down by shuffling a few papers, and saying “My goodness….”
He then proceeded to refute every idiotic charge that Hillary read from some DNC paper. And on the war, I actually LIKE Hillary. She wants us to win, unlike McKinney, Murtha, Dean, et al. Hillary was reading her entire statement, and that is a sign of weakness. She is usually strong on the war against Islamic jihadism. But someone on her staff is a subscriber of the DNC newsletter, and needs too get a job at the local Starbucks.
Round up the posse- part two
Whoever assaulted this soldier and his wife needs killin’ too:
An Iraq war veteran who lost an arm and leg in a roadside bombing was mugged during a night out from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, according to an Associated Press report.
Lance Cpl. Mark Beyers, 27, and his wife were attacked and robbed as they left a restaurant in Bethesda, Md. on July 22.
The young family lives in Buffalo, NY. I hope my buddies over at bfloblog.com are ALL OVER this.
Round up the posse. Get a rope.
Some people just need killing.
A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment was a religious sanctuary where smoking marijuana and having sex with children are sacred rituals protected by civil rights laws.
The admitted pedophile offered a surprising defense Wednesday to 74 charges of rape, drugs and pandering obscenity to minors.
This dude’s “sanctuary” needs a steeple, tall and large. Then he needs it slammed up against his crazy, sick head.
Stupid…. Ridiculous…. Slut.
How else to describe this “celebrity” ?
Celebrity rich girl Paris Hilton has demonstrated her grasp of world affairs by asking: “Who’s Tony Blair?”…… Hilton also compared herself to Diana, Princess of Wales. “I loved her. She was amazing. Her death affected me so much, such a strong and beautiful woman. I just cried for two hours non-stop when I heard she had been killed.
“I’ve been in cars trying to get away from speeding paparazzi before and it’s horrible, so I can relate to Diana and the problems she had,” she explained.
Asked who she would most like to be compared to, she replied: “Marilyn Monroe mixed with Diana.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the 25-year-old socialite revealed how much money she rakes in.
Her empire includes perfume and cosmetics lines, shoes and hotels, and she is paid millions to make personal appearances.
“I’ve made, like, 200 million dollars (£107 million) in the last year, while J-Lo’s only made 150 million dollars,” she explained.
I rarely advocate violence, but Ms. Lopez, you have my permission to go gheto-gangsta on this rich-white-trash.
I am SO ready for the point when this country stops making people famous just because they are famous. Paris Hilton is just one example. “Miss Hilton, what are you famous for ?” “I’m famous.” “But what have you done to make you that way ?” “I’ve been famous.” A pox on the rich parents who give their children PR reps for their 15th birthday.
The only thing Paris Hilton is really famous for is a grainy sex-tape where she whores herself out to someone who was undoubtedly a simple strand in a long string of nameless idiots.
Just read the whole article. This idiotic diva is the epitome of vapid.
Apartheid or global warming
This will put the lib’s in a quandry… apartheid was a terrible thing, and global warming is a myth. Thanks to new proof in South Africa, neither one actually exist anymore:
Snow fell on South Africa’s biggest city Johannesburg for the first time in 25 years as icy temperatures gripped vast swathes of the country, the weather office said.
Some Qana Qausi-sense….
Maybe the Lebonese government is getting a bit of a backbone:
A Tyre hospital on Thursday revised the number of casualties resulting from Israel’s air strike on the south Lebanese village of Qana from 52 down to 28.
But I bet that dude is still carrying that dusty baby around for anyone with a camera to see.
Buckle in for…..
today’s “religion of peace” update:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis was to destroy Israel, Iranian state media reported.
In a speech during an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders in Malaysia, Ahmadinejad also called for an immediate cease-fire to end the fighting between Israel and the Iranian-back group Hezbollah.
“Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented,” Ahmadinejad said, according to state-run television in a report posted on its Web site.
Gotta wonder…. why the immediate cease-fire if the goal is to destroy Israel ? My only guess is that crazy-Iran needs some time to finish their nukes, and Israel is making militant Islam look stupid. “Stop beating us, cause we can’t beat you yet.”
But at least this nut-job can think linearly… along the same lines of “the solution to the Middle East crisis is to destroy Israel“, I have some other suggestions:
- The solution to the termite problem is to burn down all wood frame construction
- The solution to persistent in-grown toe nails is to chop off your lower leg
- The solution to fleas and ticks is to kill all domestic cats and dogs and burn all foliage within 100 yards of your home
- The solution to bad entertainment on TV and movies it to exterminate everyone who holds a SAG card
Sounds reasonable, no ? Or maybe the real solution to the middle east conflict is to let Israel beat the radical-Islamic snot out of every backwards dictatorship in the area until they stop lobbing unaimed missiles or sending teenaged girls into Tel Aviv to blow themselves up along with the other 75 people in the pizza parlor.
Just an idea.
Creepy Commercial Alert
And if ya ask me, Geico Insurance can’t be that cheap, cause they advertise CONSTANTLY !!
But this commercial, with Burt Bacharach…. there is just something creepy (and to borrow JEG’s phrase- “prison-bitch-y”) about him singing about being “hit in the rear”…. Is it just me ?
Come to think of it….
The “baby milk plant” sign outside the weapons factory reminds me a little of….
Did you guys and girls see the first Kevin Smith movie “Clerks” ? Very funny. Very profane. Clerks II comes out this weekend. Anyway….
All during the movie people keep asking Dante why he smells like shoe-polish. The reason is because he got called into work (I’m not even supposed to BE HERE TODAY) and someone had put gum in the locks of the garage door at the Kwik-E-Mart (fucking savages) so Dante had to paint a message on a sheet, at the last minute, to relay the message “I assure you, we’re open”. Doesn’t this sign, from Sadaam’s Iraq, smell like shoe-polish ?
AP = All “Palestinian”
This may be the most warped article I’ve ever read. Therefore, in old-school-blogging style, it needs a good Fisking:
Hezbollah fired its biggest and deepest volley of rockets into Israel on Wednesday as Israel pursued the guerrillas with 8,000 soldiers on the ground and heavy bombing. With fighting in its fourth week and diplomatic efforts stalled, the region braced for a bitter and long war.
Good. About time these folks had a good war. But which method gives the best assurance that innocents won’t be harmed ? A terrorist volley of rockets that can’t be aimed, or a determined ground infusion and tactical bombing ?
In eastern Lebanon, villagers wept as heavy machinery carried off the bodies of those killed in an overnight raid against a Hezbollah stronghold. Across northern Israel, forests and fields lay scorched from rocket fire that killed a Massachusetts native fleeing on his bicycle after a warning siren went off.
Well YEAH. That’s what happens when your goal is to kill innocent people and maybe a soldier or two. This is an attack on the Israeli people. Israel’s reponse is against the people attacking them.
Hopes for a cease-fire dimmed despite a plea from Pope Benedict XVI for a quick solution. U.N. diplomats debated a draft resolution that would lay down the conditions for an international force to go in; they claimed they were making progress but acknowledged no immediate deal was in sight.
The UN-able wants to get involved. Oh Joy !
The prospect of a longer war has raised tensions across the Mideast, where anti-Israeli and anti-American hostility is now sharp. Arab leaders have warned repeatedly in recent days that the fighting has hampered, or killed outright, any hope for a long-term Israeli peace deal.
Here’s how you get an “Israeli peace deal”. You let them beat the snot out of the people attacking them, you let the Israeli’s decimate the attacking forces, and those supporting them, and then sit back and watch the peace ensue.
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