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     Reindog |
An homage to Tricky Dick. No matter how YOU might like either of them, I hope your parents raised you to recognize that both men were and are unacceptable leaders. Period.  | ||
| Reindog |
Is this scientific, engineering, and inspirational inequality? When are YOU going to wake up to the failure of Liberalism and the fundamental necessity of Conservatism?  | ||
| Reindog |
Although this cartoon makes a valid point, Paul Ryan has executed an astute political move that will ultimately repair the bursting dyke after the neck of Liberalism is snapped in 2014 and 2016.  | ||
| Reindog |
And one last visit to the Human Wrecking Ball for today.  | ||
| Sifo |
I have no words. | ||
| Elsinore74 |
Cult of personality the current President has is nothing short of disheartening. Hillary in 2016, here we come. | ||
| Reindog |
Hillary = Obama. | ||
| Elsinore74 |
Don't get the wrong idea; I wasn't endorsing her (We really need a sarcasm emoticon here). | ||
| Sifo |
   If only we could find one to use. | ||
| Reindog |
I guessed that you were being sarcastic but the equation still stands.  | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525447/Ob ama-hijacks-tech-executive-meeting-changes-subject -NSA-surveillance-healthcare-gov-fixes.html In short. the biggest ego in any room. The White House lied about the purpose of the meeting, both to the people at the meeting and to the public. Which it seems was to use these people as props for the President, while they wanted to talk about how they are being asked to break the law. By His Administration and the NSA. The White House Lied about the results of the meeting. Which it seems was to tell the tech folk to go F themselves. While then telling the public how these really pissed off folk came to help Obama. There may be some difficulty in the future having folk that meet with Obama for HIS photo op NOT telling the rest of us what a total tool he is. We'll see. http://swampland.time.com/2013/12/17/obama-wishes- washington-was-really-like-house-of-cards/ Ok, I'm just picking on him here. After telling us repeatedly that he's not a dictator and America's not a banana republic, ( which, oddly enough, even Bill Clinton never had to say ) his joking about wishing he had the same dictatorial powers as the murderous Chinese Communist Leaders, his joking about a tv show that's not even really on tv is just, well, picking on Obama. Not that he doesn't deserve it. All wannabe Gods should be ridiculed. I'm really becoming convinced one of Barry's biggest problems is that no one will tell him he's mortal, except perhaps Michelle. During the glory days of the Roman Republic, when a General won a campaign, he would get a parade through Rome, with captured enemies, and the spoils of war displayed for all to see. He would ride in a chariot with cheering crowds to enjoy the public joy at his greatness. And behind him in the chariot was a slave that would repeat, over and over, quietly, in the General's ear, "you are mortal". This was a warning, and a promise. Further weirdness on the NSA court case. I suspect the Politico folk don't like this guy. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/larry-klayma n-national-security-agency-101233.html http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/stunning-revelation-fro m-man-who-sued-nsa/ If I understand the Judges ruling, it's that you can't collect all the data on all the people unless you can prove it actually stops terrorists. Since even if it DID the NSA would be idiots to make that public, they have a quandary. The NSA program IS very good at catching people after a terrorist attack, or catching people after they complain about the NSA. Currently the latter use seems the dominant purpose. | ||
| Sifo |
Sometimes I'm just amazed at liberal stupidity. The idea of paying people for not being in prison seems like one of those... http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/17/msnbc-h osts-radical-idea-every-non-incarcerated-adult-cit izen-gets-a-monthly-check-from-the-government/ Here's an idea... Just let me keep my money in the first place! No need to take it from me to give it back. Unless of course, you are talking about giving me back less than you took from me in the first place. But then they tell us... "She then argued that the idea “has found support on the right,” citing Reason’s Matthew Freeney who suggested giving the poor “cash.”" Well, if it's got support from the right, then alrighty then... Who's this Matthew Freeney guy? It took a little bit of searching, but found him here... I know nothing about reason.com, but here's part of his bio there...
With right wing support like that, what's to question? With reporting like this, I can see why MSNBC is in the toilet. Just thought it was worth sharing some levity. Of course there's a serious side to this. These folks take themselves seriously. That has me crapping my undies! | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/12/17/Oppo sition-says-Syrian-forces-dropped-barrel-bombs-on- Aleppo--kill-83 Meanwhile there's a war on. Can we send the MSNBC guys there? Perhaps as embeds? | ||
| Aesquire |
http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-nsa-is-out-of-control- legislative-momentum-expected-after-ruling-against -data-collection/ | ||
| Reindog |
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| Cityxslicker |
I am still waiting for a RickRoll for this whole thing.... you know like a bad SNL skit or a bad trip down a ladder.... but cheer up - it gets worse. All that state power for surveillance and firepower has been fairly benign so far.... it ramps up here pretty quickly - I smell Martial Law just over the horizon.... say - spring. (whiny government pukes like to fight a warm war) | ||
| Cataract2 |
I smell Martial Law just over the horizon.... say - spring. I see your prediction on this to be as likely as you actually doing what you said you would. Moving to the Ukraine. | ||
| Sifo |
   And if you don't believe that last one, I've got a friend who was working on that project for a certain fast food giant headquartered in my area. That was over 10 years ago. The pulled the plug on it back then simply because they didn't want to change things in that way... yet. | ||
| Reindog |
Sifo's cartoon of automation reminded me of this recent George Will piece. Raise Minimum Wage? It's Iffy By George Will · Dec. 15, 2013 “It's not true that life is one damn thing after another – it's one damn thing over and over.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay Liberals' love of recycling extends to their ideas, one of which illustrates the miniaturization of Barack Obama's presidency. He fervently favors a minor measure that would have mostly small, mostly injurious effects on a small number of people. Nevertheless, raising the minimum hourly wage for the 23rd time since 1938, from today's $7.25 to $10.10, is a nifty idea, if: If government is good at setting prices. Government – subsidizer of Solyndra, operator of the ethanol program, creator of HealthCare.gov – uses minimum wage laws to set the price for the labor of workers who are apt to add only small value to the economy. If you think government should prevent two consenting parties – an employer and a worker – from agreeing to an hourly wage that government disapproves. If you think today's 7 percent unemployment rate is too low. (It would be 10.9 percent if the workforce participation rate were as high as it was when Obama was first inaugurated; since then, millions of discouraged workers have stopped searching for jobs.) Because less than 3 percent of the workforce earns the minimum wage, increasing it will not greatly increase unemployment. Still, raising the price of low-productivity workers will somewhat reduce demand for them. If you reject that last sentence. If you do, name other goods or services for which you think demand is inelastic when their prices increase. If you think teenage (16-19) unemployment (20.8 percent), and especially African-American teenage unemployment (35.8 percent), is too low. Approximately 24 percent of minimum wage workers are teenagers. If you think government policy should encourage automation of the ordering and preparation of food to replace workers in the restaurant industry, which employs 43.8 percent of minimum wage workers. If you think it is irrelevant that most minimum wage earners are not poor. Most minimum wage workers are not heads of households. More than half are students or other young, usually part-time workers in families whose average income is $53,000 a year, which is $2,000 more than the average household income. If you do not care that there are more poor people whose poverty derives from being unemployed than from poor wages. True, some of the working poor earn so little they are eligible for welfare. But an increase in the minimum wage will cause some of these to become unemployed and on welfare. If you do not mind a minimum wage increase having a regressive cost-benefit distribution. It would jeopardize marginal workers to benefit organized labor, which supports a higher minimum in the hope that this will raise the general wage floor, thereby strengthening unions' negotiating positions. If you think it is irrelevant that nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers get a raise in their first year. If you think a higher minimum wage, rather than a strengthened Earned Income Tax Credit, is the most efficient way to give money to the working poor. If you think tweaking the minimum wage is a serious promotion of equality by an administration during which 95 percent of real income growth has accrued to the top 1 percent. If you think forcing employers to spend X dollars more than necessary to employ labor for entry-level jobs will stimulate the economy. If you believe this, you must think the workers receiving the extra dollars will put the money to more stimulative uses than their employers would have. If so, why not a minimum wage of $50.50 rather than the $10.10? Because this might discourage hiring? What makes you sure you know the threshold where job destruction begins? If you think the high school dropout rate is too low. In 1994, Congress decreed that by 2000 the graduation rate would be “at least” 90 percent. In 2010 it was 78.2 percent. Increasing the minimum wage would increase the incentive to leave school early. One scholarly study concluded that in states where students may leave school before 18, increases in the minimum wage caused teenage school enrollment to decline. If the milk of human kindness flows by the quart in your veins, so you should also want to raise the minimum street charity: Take moral grandstanding oblivious of consequences to a new level by requiring anyone who gives money to panhandlers to give a minimum of $10. Beggars may not benefit, but you will admire yourself. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
sailing east by moving west. Korea in the spring. Hon yon seaio and if you want to run down the other stuff I said would happen vs what has actually happened with the health care bill and this government - you are welcome to show me what I missed. From my count; the three I still have outstanding. Fail of the US Dollar / Removal as currency End of Presidential Election Process Martial Law imposed on Domestic Territory watch and learn wait and see and for the other ones I did hit - right on the head FIFTYS | ||
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| Sifo |
I don't think this was the result that our "government" was expecting from spending $400K on a study of Tea Party members. (Message edited by SIFO on December 19, 2013) | ||
| Pwnzor |
I see your prediction on this to be as likely as you actually doing what you said you would. Moving to the Ukraine. The timing may be off, but if you don't smell it coming then you should get your nose checked out. City's been pretty spot on, much to the chagrin of the naysayers such as yourself. | ||
| Cataract2 |
City is a loon. I'm still waiting for him to actually follow through with the nonsense about going to the Ukraine. Something he was parroting for the last 5-7 years now back when Obama was running for office the first time around. Overall this site has lost it's usefulness it once had. I would say the name should be changed. It has as much to do with motorcycles now as a site dedicated to football does. Anyone who doesn't parrot half the nonsense that gets thrown around this site gets dog piled. I have an idea though. Why don't those that go crazy with the postings on this site go to, say, advrider's politics section and have at it on there with them. You would get the other side of the spectrum there and could actually debate. Rather than posting on here just to have someone nodding their head to make you feel like you are always right?} | ||
| Aesquire |
Why not try expressing your view with facts? Do you have a good argument for Obama being above the law? Lets hear it. | ||
| Hootowl |
If all you visit is the quickboard, your perception of badweb will be skewed. That's like popping your head in the bathroom window, looking around, and declaring that the entire house is comprised of people with their britches around their ankles. Try the other sections, which are all about bikes. | ||
| Cataract2 |
I never stated my opinion of Obama one way or the other. Quite frankly you and others on here do not deserve, nor will be given my opinion. As for the other sections. They aren't exactly hopping. I do visit them and the amount of information in them has dropped significantly. | ||
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