Congressional Reality Check: The Laws of Supply and Demand Are NOT Optional

Congressional Reality Check: The Laws of Supply and Demand Are NOT Optional
"As if the recession hasn’t been rough enough on those near the bottom of the economic food chain, fresh bad news is on the way.
Beginning July 24 (two weeks from today), the federal government will be making it more difficult for employers to hire low-skilled and unskilled American workers. Thanks to an ill-advised law enacted with bipartisan support in 2007, the cost of providing an entry-level job to individuals with few skills or minimal experience will be going up by more than 10 percent. Those who cannot find a job paying at least $7.25 an hour will not be permitted to work. Welcome to the latest chapter of America’s minimum-wage folly."

Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread

Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread: "Reply 1 - Posted by: PruneSpleen, 7/9/2009 11:10:09 PM (No. 5674325)

By definition, 'rogue states' do not abide by agreements.

Pre-emptive surrender -- total success since 1938.

We should be so proud that Zimbabwe and Paraguay have more sensible governments than the US or Britain."

Honor the Jackson 5 - Real Heroes

ARRA News Service: Honor the Jackson 5 - Real Heroes
The following brave people will NEVER get the media coverage they deserve or anything equal to the praise and coverage lavished on the Jackson 5 musical family.
This week at the passing of Michael Jackson the world weeps at the death of a recording artist and entertainer who made hundreds of millions of dollars from his music.

While most Americans are thinking about Michael Jackson, we hope you will join us and think about the Jacksons 5 - young men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice for America."

God bless those wonderful men and women who gave their last full measure.

Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread

Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread: "A woman is suing an Egyptian hotel claiming her daughter got pregnant - from using the swimming pool. Magdalena Kwiatkowska's 13-year-old returned to Poland from their holiday expecting a baby. Magdalena believes the teenager conceived from stray sperm after taking a dip in the hotel's mixed pool. She is now seeking compensation from the hotel. (Snip) ''The mother is adamant that her daughter didn't meet any boys while she was there.''

Comments:
In order to believe her story you have to have taken courses in Islamic science. Possibly graduate level. [end sarcasm]"

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Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread: "Reply 2 - Posted by: aintnojoke, 7/9/2009 5:07:52 PM (No. 5673523)

Tough guys don't dance."

Home burns while Obama fiddles in Rome

Home burns while Obama fiddles in Rome
"While Barack Obama continues his foreign tour in Italy, trouble is brewing on the home front.

His poll numbers are slipping, as Rasmussen reports here, and Gallup does here.

The source of the shift is independent voters, particularly in swing states. The numbers are nothing for the White House to fret about, but clearly the president’s shine is beginning to wear off.

The main reason for his slump was a depressing jobs report last week that saw unemployment rise to 9.5%. It is soon likely to hit the red letter figure of ten per cent."

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Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread: "Original Article
Posted By:Desperata, 7/9/2009 5:31:07 PM
Call it a case of mistaken identity. Italian luxury goods manufacturer VBH boasted yesterday that First Lady Michelle Obama had toted their $5,950 alligator manila clutch earlier this week while on a trip to Russia.

Comments:
Wow, the White House got to that VBH lady fast.


Reply 1 - Posted by: cap MarineTet68, 7/9/2009 5:35:37 PM (No. 5673588)

Even if we believe this (I don't) doesn't a gal with expensive sneakers need an expensive bag?"

Obama Takes Michelle Out For a Date and Us For a Ride part deux

Obama Takes Michelle Out For a Date and Us For a Ride
"Speaking of Obama, the White House is trying to convince us that the recent date night that took him and the missus to New York, along with his usual entourage, cost the taxpayers a mere $24,000. That’s supposed to be the total amount of the roundtrip flight, the two helicopter rides, the limo, dinner and the show.

Fat chance. My brother-in-law in Michigan had a heart attack last year. His heart must be working just fine now because it didn’t stop when he got the bill for the 50-mile helicopter ride to the hospital. It was $12,000, and that was one-way, and without a squad of Secret Service agents riding shotgun."

Obama Takes Michelle Out For a Date and Us For a Ride

Obama Takes Michelle Out For a Date and Us For a Ride
"’m not engaging in hyperbole when I say that I’d sooner send a youngster to Florida during hurricane season than to most colleges.
As I see it, he or she has a very good chance of surviving the hurricanes. Their hair might get mussed, but at least their brains wouldn’t be scrambled.

Frankly, I’m surprised that there are any young conservatives left in America.
They deserve to be on the list of endangered species.
Considering the amount of pressure they face from peers and professors, I am in awe of those with the gumption to stand their ground.
If the nation’s Founding Fathers came back to life, I believe they’d recognize them as the progeny of those Americans they last saw hurling tea into Boston Harbor, fighting at Lexington and freezing at Valley Forge.

However, I also believe that after taking a good look at America today, they’d shake their heads and wonder how, after such a glorious beginning, we’d wound up in this pitiful condition. How did we go from George Washington to Barack Obama in, historically speaking, the blink of an eye; from the man who refused to be king to the man who would be czar?"

Ensign paid $96,000 "gift" to Hamptons

Ensign paid $96,000 "gift" to Hamptons
"Sen. John Ensign paid out nearly $100,000 to the family of his mistress out of his private funds, his lawyer says in an e-mail.
The gifts, the statement says, are part of a pattern of 'generosity' on the part of the senator to the family he nearly destroyed."

Imagine the fool who talks "generosity" and expects anyone to believe his bullshit!

Out damned spot!

Women spend almost a year of their lives deciding what to wear

Women spend almost a year of their lives deciding what to wear
"WOMEN spend almost a year of their lives deciding what to wear, a new study has found."

Well....duh....

I wonder just who funded this "study"...

More spelling errors plague Obama releases

More spelling errors plague Obama releases
"Misspellings continued to plague the Obama administration on Thursday, after two more releases containing errors were sent to reporters in the last 24 hours.
After misspelling the president's name as 'Barak Obama' yesterday on an official document sent to reporters, the General Services Administration messed up another message when announcing it had awarded an $18 million contract to redesign the website keeping track of spent stimulus dollars."

WHAT!!!!
$18 million to set up a website to track porkulus dollars!!!!!

Obama positives at new low

Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere: "Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –8. The President’s Approval Index rating has fallen six points since release of a disappointing jobs report last week (see trends)."

Private sector can't afford public sector employees

Private sector can't afford public sector employees
"The federal government is the nation's largest single employer, even excluding the Postal Service. And state and local governments employ more people than any other sector of our economy.
It is no mystery the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports 74 percent of budget gaps are in blue states!"

Public Pensions Cook the Books

Public Pensions Cook the Books
"Here's a dilemma: You manage a public employee pension plan and your actuary tells you it is significantly underfunded. You don't want to raise contributions. Cutting benefits is out of the question. To be honest, you'd really rather not even admit there's a problem, lest taxpayers get upset.
What to do? For the administrators of two Montana pension plans, the answer is obvious: Get a new actuary."

TIGERHAWK: The 35% Solution

TIGERHAWK: The 35% Solution
“Because its efforts have been broken into separate initiatives with different justifications, few people other than news junkies have noticed how extraordinary Barack Obama’s agenda is.
Perhaps a number will help: 35%.
That is the aggregate percentage of United States GDP produced by the three industries that the Democrats hope to restructure from the top down: Health care (17% of GDP), energy (9.8% of GDP), and financial services (8% of GDP).
Think about that. Without even considering the transformational impact of proposed anti-business laws of general application, such as the Orwellian ‘employee free choice act,’ the Obama administration wants to redesign 35% of gross domestic product from the center. And he proposes to do it all in a rush this summer, lest the decline in his popularity and that of the Congressional Democrats erodes his power to do so.”"

How Ferris State's tuition increase stacks up to other Michigan schools

How Ferris State's tuition increase stacks up to other Michigan schools
"Students will pay the whole increase, but the university will cut rebate checks when it gets an expected $1.39 million in federal money."

Your "job stimulus" dollars at work?

People with employability issues or criminal records get training for construction trade in GRCC program

People with employability issues or criminal records get training for construction trade in GRCC program
Grants worth about $200,000 cover tuition, materials and other expenses.
"Perhaps the biggest benefit is that the guys can demonstrate to themselves that they can make a difference in the community, and demonstrate to the community that these people can make a difference," said Dan Buron, Goodwill's chief work force development officer.
Students, between the ages of 24 and 50, spend three weeks in a classroom brushing up on math skills, plus learning how to use small tools safely.
They will spend the rest of the summer building two scaled-down "green" model houses that can be set up at construction expos, as well as working in the field on Habitat for Humanity homes.

Fabulous!
$200,000 (mostly from us taxpayers) to teach "math" and how to use an electric drill without killing someone, so those schmoos will be able to find there are NO construction jobs and no one needs a new house cuz we got thousands of empty ones already.
Cuz we tax our businesses out of the state .... in order to have nice programs like that one.......

That makes sense...right?

The Big Public Pension Squeeze

The Big Public Pension Squeeze: "Vallejo, a working-class community of 120,000 northeast of San Francisco, has long been a strong union town. Like many cities, it gives its workers generous retirement benefits: Police and firefighters can retire as young as age 50 with a pension equal to 90 percent of their final salary, and they enjoy free health care for life. Salaries, which serve as the base for determining pension levels, have also been generous: Forty-four percent of the city’s 613 employees had gross wages in excess of $100,000 in 2008."

Corrections officers conducted "informational picketing" Tuesday outside the soon-to-close Muskegon Correctional Facility.

Corrections officers conducted "informational picketing" Tuesday outside the soon-to-close Muskegon Correctional Facility.
"The goal of the picketing, organized by the Michigan Corrections Organization, was to 'educate the public' about what that union calls a danger to public safety: the state's decision to parole up to 4,000 inmates after their minimum sentence is served -- sooner than would previously have been the case -- thus allowing it to close MCF and other prisons."

This is what state over-spending brings, folks.

The sentences are gonna be shorter, or non-existent, for the thugs.

And the thugs know it.

Buy a gun...NOW!

Officials: Arrests, hospital visits up at ROTHBURY

Officials: Arrests, hospital visits up at ROTHBURY
"Arrests and hospital visits stemming from the second ROTHBURY festival were up from last year's event, authorities say."

I wonder if all the concert cheerleaders factored this in.....

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Reminding the Russians about Alaska. UPDATE: Setting off the “Quayle-o-Meter…

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Reminding the Russians about Alaska. UPDATE: Setting off the “Quayle-o-Meter…:
July 8, 2009
“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Reminding the Russians about Alaska.

UPDATE: Setting off the “Quayle-o-Meter.” “That’s the way to ‘hit the Reset button’, Mr. President. Remind the Russians of perhaps the stupidest thing they ever did.”
Bottom line: The guy is a smooth-talking ignoramus: not all that smart, not well-read, with a wafer-thin resume.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Maybe Obama’s just covering for Joe Biden."

Lake Express -Big sale!

Lake Express - High Speed Car Ferry crossing Lake Michigan between Milwaukee, WI and Muskegon, MI
"Savings of more than 25% are possible when you take advantage of the Lake Express summer '91-19' return fare sale - Available for Phone and In-Terminal Bookings Only.

Convert your one-way trip to a roundtrip for as little as $19 per person when you use a 6:00 a.m. or 11:00 p.m. crossing"

Good idea!

Metrorail Operator Caught Texting on Job

Metrorail Operator Caught Texting on Job
"There's more bad publicity for Metro after a YouTube video surfaces of a Metro train operator apparently texting while on the job."

Government provided commuter care.
Great.........

Barack Obama holds a fire sale of America’s nuclear defences in Moscow

Barack Obama holds a fire sale of America’s nuclear defences in Moscow
"For Obama, success is not the delivery of watertight nuclear security for America; it is a feel-good news conference and photo opportunity that will create huge approval ratings on liberal campuses where the delusions of 1968 and the anti-Vietnam war movement still linger on in these isolated Jurassic Parks.
It seems certain Obama will sacrifice the anti-missile shield in Europe that would have been our defence against a nuclear Iran after the ayatollahs, with Russian help, emerge as potential vapourising agents of the infidel. The interceptor missiles do not even carry warheads: they rely on an impact at 14,900mph to destroy any incoming missile, so Russian hysteria about this “threat” is synthetic."

Obama may make Neville Chamberlain look Churchillesque in comparison.

Audit finds states using stimulus to stay afloat

Audit finds states using stimulus to stay afloat: "The Obama administration hoped spending $787 billion in stimulus would jump-start the economy, build new schools and usher in an era of education reform.
So far, government auditors say, many states are setting aside such grand plans and simply trying to stay afloat."

So the $trillion dollar porkulus bill that was supposed to create jobs has simply been sucked up by the same credit card spending on the state level that the feds have been doing on the national level?

No new jobs....?
And we still owe the $trillion?

Just great.......

TheHill.com - Republican report puts blame for housing on Fannie, Freddie

TheHill.com - Republican report puts blame for housing on Fannie, Freddie: "“The housing bubble that burst in 2007 and led to a financial crisis can be traced back to the federal government intervention in the U.S. housing market intended to help provide home ownership opportunities for more Americans,” declares the first sentence of the GOP Oversight and Government Reform report."

Obama: Social Justice in Catholic Church Has Had 'Profound Influence' on Me

Obama: Social Justice in Catholic Church Has Had 'Profound Influence' on Me
"President Obama said the Catholic Church's long tradition of social justice has had a 'profound influence' on him -- just days before he is to meet with Pope Benedict XVI on his first trip to Italy."

American Thinker Blog: Just how naïve is President Obama?

American Thinker Blog: Just how naïve is President Obama?
"'U.S. President Barack Obama said July 7 that if Iran stops its nuclear weapon development program, the U.S, has no reason to develop a missile defense system, Interfax reported. Obama was speaking at the Russian School of Economics in Moscow.'


Is the President unaware that North Korea is a nuclear power, and produces long range missiles that it tests and delivers to other countries?


Are there no other threats from terror groups or nations, other than Iran for which an American missile defense mightbe useful?"

EDITORIAL: Return of the Black Panther - Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Return of the Black Panther - Washington Times: "Rarely does the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights vote unanimously on anything.
A partisan divide has made the commission contentious in recent years. Yet the Department of Justice's decision to forfeit its voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and three individual defendants drew a 6-0 vote with one abstention by the commission. What unified the commission was outrage at the Justice Department for letting the Black Panthers off the hook."