The misguided attempt to increase the minimum wage can almost be passed off as institutionalized economic illiteracy. Many people, however, have argued that it’s more than simple ignorance that drives the Left to ignore fiscal sanity and push for a $15 per hour burger-flipping wage. Well, if the latest attempt to institute mandated-minimum-pay illustrates anything, it shows that the Left isn’t that fond of the effort/reward relationship of hard work. Labor groups are now aiming to snuff out the system of tipping servers because… well… because it’s “unfair”.
TownHall another fair and balanced publication. The actual proposal is for $10.10 hr not $15. $10hr is what the min wage was in 1968 if adjusted for inflation. Sure there are people protesting for $15 but we all know thats going no where.
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/michaelschaus/2014/06/25/the-progressive-war-on-hard-work-continues-n1855517?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Oh sweet Jesus, someone actually counted.

Two independent nonprofit journalism groups apparently took enough laudanum and beat down wh**ever healthy sense of human decency they had in order to plunge straight into that quivering mountain of incompetence that is the official record of the Bush administration, all the false quotes and all the lie-strewn press conferences and all the squinty-eyed fabrications from Dubya, Colin Powell, Condi and Cheney and Rummy et al, that took place in the two years after September 11, 2001, and added them all up.
"read my lips," Ronald Reagan lied like a nasty old rug about Iran and aiding the Contras, Lyndon Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin to gain support for the Vietnam war, Harry Truman probably lied about Hiroshima and John F. Kennedy probably lied about the Bay of Pigs and, well, all presidents lie, really, to some degree or another and with varying degrees of success and historic consequence. Is it not sort of pointless to whine about it?
Fair enough. But there is something truly special about Bush 43. Something so unique, so poisonous and strange that historians are busy right this minute rewriting not only their books, but their entire way of thinking about how we measure and interpret political malfeasance.
It has to do with matters of scale. It has to do with audacity, with sheer recklessness, with BushCo's stunning contempt for all national and international law and historic precedent and human decency. It is the sense that, at bare minimum, the most significant lies told by previous administrations were, by and large, not massive, calculated stabs to the very heart and infrastructure of the entire nation. They were not designed, as Bush's clearly were, specifically to pervert the entire American experiment, to violently shift us from peace-promoting and defense-oriented protector to an arrogant, insular, pre-emptive attacker, widely loathed and mistrusted worldwide.
See, BushCo rewrote the formulas. From WMD to tax cuts, AmeriCorp to Iraq, this administration has officially reset the bar to an all-time low as to what's possible for a truly dreadful, inept president to get away with without some sort of significant repercussion, impeachment, numerous lightning bolts raining down on his soft little monkey skull. Sure, it took leveraging America's most brutal and heartbreaking tragedy in a generation to pull it off, but does the fact the administration exploited 9/11 like a p*******e exploits a child take anything away from the astonishing depth of the abuse?
But maybe you still argue that, even at a whopping 935 calculated lies told specifically to lead us into a bogus war, it makes no difference. Maybe you argue that a lie is a lie and Bush is no better or worse than Clinton or Reagan and here is a giant cocktail of jaded, raging apathy. Let's all chug it together, shall we?
Fine. If it's a fact that all presidents lie anyway, if there's little we can do to stop them, then let us put forth a new hope. Let us now wish for the next president to lie just as passionately, as powerfully, as strategically as BushCo, and get away with it just as extraordinarily.

24 Things the Media Claim Were Caused by ‘G****l W*****g


Katie Tubb


Katie Tubb is a research assistant for the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

It seems like with g****l w*****g embedded in our politics (for now), anything we don’t fully understand can now be ‘legitimately’ blamed on the weather. Forget the trusty old excuse about the dog eating your homework: A sampling of news stories tells us instead that g****l w*****g might really be the cause of all our problems. Allegedly, thanks to g****l w*****g:

Your breakfast got even less exciting. Your morning coffee is going to be more expensive. Also, the cost of cereal could climb by as much as 30 percent because of g****l w*****g according to an Oxfam report(their recommendation to General Mills and Kellogg’s: “intensify” effort to cut greenhouse gases, which ironically would also likely increase the cost of cereal and beverages). Thankfully, populations of feral cats and dogs are liable to increase, and these could suffice as possible “bridge food” for c*****e c****e refugees.

History and culture have been redefined. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack Dawson didn’t make it off the Titanic in 1912 thanks to g****l w*****g. Two years later the world engaged in WWI, followed by the Great Depression, and WWII, all of which apparently slowed the pace of g****l w*****g. In current cultural events, the arts world has been subjected to c*****e c****e…the musical. And a horror movie. Some congregations have been subjected to a new topic for bad sermons. And employees are less productive at work.

America’s adversaries have been aided. C*****e c****e has boosted Russian rice, corn and sunflower seed crops and promises to unlock some of the natural resources trapped in Siberian permafrost. And rather than failed diplomacy, c*****e c****e was the catalyst for Boko Haram. Meanwhile, North Korea has emerged as an example of combating c*****e c****e.

Nature got a little bit wilder. Salamanders are shrinking in size, but the return of bus-sized snakes is more likely. Meanwhile the coquis frog in Puerto Rico croaks a little higher, butterflies in Ohio are showing up a bit earlier, and there is an abundance of rock snot in West Virginia streams and not enough tissues to deal with it. It also has been discovered that g****l w*****g k**led a 16-year-old polar bear (even though the average lifespan of a polar bear is 15-18 years).

Vacation plans are being ruined. Airline passengers might want to use those seatbelts on their next flight because of greater turbulence. Thanks to g****l w*****g, life in Asia is generally miserable and England will be too wet, and too dry…and too cold…and too hot. That hike you may have been planning to the peak of Mt. Everest will be harder, in case it wasn’t hard enough already, and out of good eco-conscience you probably shouldn’t run another marathon because of all the unnecessary CO2 emissions. And the migration of the Baird’s sparrow away from North Dakota to Canada is threatening to cut into the hordes of tourists coming to bird watch.

What has been called the dangerous, more expensive, more uncertain future of c*****e c****e may in fact just be climate, which always changes. Nevertheless, the Obama administration wants to implement costly g****l w*****g regulations that not only will have almost zero impact on global average temperatures, but also will drastically change for the worse how Americans access and use energy, an important building block of the American economy and quality of living

Now that’s a real problem—one Congress actually can do something about.
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just chris,

The terrorists which are disposed to be so bad, Alqaida is afraid of them have taken control of a chemical biological weapons plant and weapons storage area in Iraq. The weapons can still k**l!
I never said anything about taking a side! I said, go in and take control
only of the WMD's and the weapons compound (we never destroyed the chemical and biological weapons, he did have).then to make sure when we walk away, they can never be used against us!

These weapons are still leathal!!!!! If we let the terrorists have them, they will use them against us or our allies. Do you want terrorists to put this mustard gas in a bucket, bring it over here and blow one up in your city or town?

Do you want them to blow up one in Washington DC? How about, if they blow it up on the street or by your house, do you want that? Would it be OK to blow up a bomb with mustard gas where you work, or your family or friends live, work or play, is that OK?

If not let's destroy or burry it over there, so they cannot get it over here!

We make no distinction to sides, we k**l anyone that has control of the weapons plants and bunkers. We warn everybody, just stay away and anyone that comes within 50 miles, we k**l them, no matter what side they are from.

It makes no sense at all, to go over there to prevent WMD's from being taken from there to use against us here, then leave without finishing the job went over for!

There was mustard gas there when we attact under George W Bush! They were old and rusted so bad no one wanted to move them. They are just as deadly, just the shell casings are rusted through.

The press does not want to admit it lied about the weapons, but we cannot leave them. The terrorists "Will" use them, they are willing to die to k**l us.

I see our liberal changed defunded to defended when I pointed out a Democratic Congress defunded the Vietnam War. Democrats started it, and Democrats defunded the War they started and pumped it up to over half a million men were there fighting.

President Lindon Bains Johnson, whose wife owned the three largest corporations making money from the War. He built it up by putting enough men there to win it, then tied our hands behind our back so we could not win.

The Democrats did not want the War to end until President Richard M Nixon took office. The Democrats defunded the War to make Nixon look bad. America gasped and we all had a bad taste in our mouths as we heard of more than a million people died in Cambodia, we never heard about all those k**led in Laos and God only knows how many in South Vietnam, and every liberal squeeled with glee, because the C*******ts won and millions died.

All the so called anti War i***ts who said, if we left the k*****g would stop. If Democrats would have let us win the War, we could have done it in months. The problem sat on their butts in offices in Washington DC and again they sit on their duffs.

If you think we can just walk away without millions of innocents being k**led, you are wrong. For one more time in my life, I am ashamed of cowardly Americans. If you say just walk away, you to me seem to be gutless cowards!

To leave these nerve gas and mustard gas, sarin and the like in the hands of men with no brains and no morals, is just flat wrong. Even if we just take them away so people of any race are not k**led, it is the right thing to do.

Doing nothing, is the liberal thing to do. That is exactly what we did in Somalia, remember how good that worked. Turning chicken in front of Muslim extremists, sends the wrong message.

This may seem a bone to the right wings nut on the forum, but read to the end and see Wheelers comment. Not much in the article but gives an idea of how foolish the demands for impeachment can become..



The South Dakota Republican Party has passed a resolution at its state convention that calls for the impeachment of President Barack Obama.

The Argus Leader reports the resolution says Obama has "violated his oath of office."

The resolution cites the release of five Taliban combatants in a trade for captive U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl and the president's statement that people could keep their health insurance companies. It also cites recent Environmental Protection Agency regulations on power plants.

It calls on the state's U.S. Representatives to start impeachment proceedings against the president.

Allen Unruh of Sioux Falls sponsored the resolution.

Delegate David Wheeler of Beadle County disagreed.

Wheeler said before the v**e that the delegates would look petty if they passed it.

Delegates v**ed 191-176 in favor of the resolution.