Minimum wage, maximum sorrow for San Francisco bookstores

Minimum wage, maximum sorrow for San Francisco bookstores » AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas
Proponents of the minimum wage law government-mandated wage floor that guarantees reduced employment opportunities for America’s teenagers and low-skilled workers can’t possibly anticipate in advance all of the adverse and unintended consequences of artificially raising wages for unskilled and low-skilled workers. 

As an example of an adverse and unintended consequences that the citizenry of San Francisco didn’t anticipate last November when they overwhelmingly voted to increase the city’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2018, a San Francisco book store is closing. 

Reason? 

There’s a limit to how much a bookstore can increase book prices to offset higher labor costs because the publisher sets the list price of the book and it’s printed on the book cover.

From the website of Borderlands Books:

Borderlands is closing.

In 18 years of business, Borderlands has faced a number of challenges. The first and clearest was in 2000, when our landlord increased our rent by 100% and we had to move to our current location on Valencia Street. The steady movement towards online shopping, mostly with Amazon, has taken a steady toll on bookstores throughout the world and Borderlands was no exception. After that and related to it, has been the shift towards ebooks and electronic reading devices. And finally the Great Recession of 2009 hit us very hard, especially since we had just opened a new aspect to the business in the form of our cafe.

But, through all those challenges, we’ve managed to find a way forward and 2014 was the best year we’ve ever had. Overall, Borderlands has managed to defeat every problem that has come our way. At the beginning of 2014, the future of the business looked, if not rosy, at least stable and very positive. We were not in debt, sales were meeting expenses and even allowing a small profit, and, perhaps most importantly, the staff and procedures at both the bookstore and the cafe were well established and working smoothly.

So it fills us with sorrow and horror to say that we will be closing very soon.

In November, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly passed a measure that will increase the minimum wage within the city to $15 per hour by 2018. Although all of us at Borderlands support the concept of a living wage in principal and we believe that it’s possible that the new law will be good for San Francisco — Borderlands Books as it exists is not a financially viable business if subject to that minimum wage. Consequently we will be closing our doors no later than March 31st.

Obama Spokesperson Forced to Admit President LIED - Eagle Rising

Obama Spokesperson Forced to Admit President LIED - Eagle Rising:

"For Obama, lying is no big deal because the liberal mainstream media hardly ever calls him on any of his little stories. However, the same does not go for Press Secretary Josh Earnest, who does have to deal with the fall out from the President’s ridiculous claims. What I really love though, is when even the guys Obama pays to make his lies sound reasonable can’t come up with any way to defend him!

Which is exactly what happened to Josh Earnest after Obama’s Philly Flub."

Now The Feds Want To Regulate Your Fireplace

Now The Feds Want To Regulate Your Fireplace | The Daily Caller
Better go out and buy a gas fireplace and stove soon before federal regulations make them more expensive. 
Federal officials are looking to regulate the energy usage of fake fireplaces as part of the Obama administration’s effort to fight global warming.

The Energy Department has proposed new regulations that would mandate that “gas-fired hearth products” like decorative fireplaces and stoves be more energy efficient and produce fewer carbon dioxide emissions. 

DOE says its rule would save $165 over the lifespan of the average hearth and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 11.1 million metric tons through 2030.

Sen. Rand Paul Gets So Frustrated With ‘Slanted’ Interview That He Literally Shushes Host on the Air | Video | TheBlaze.com

Sen. Rand Paul Gets So Frustrated With ‘Slanted’ Interview That He Literally Shushes Host on the Air | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) clashed with CNBC host Kelly Evans over a number of topics on Monday, including vaccines, a corporate tax holiday proposal and the basic idea of freedom. At one point, Paul grew so frustrated with the interview that he literally shushed the host, putting his finger over his mouth and telling her to quiet down."

The Base Likes Scott Walker Because He Fights Back - The Rush Limbaugh Show

The Base Likes Scott Walker Because He Fights Back - The Rush Limbaugh Show:

"RUSH:  I'm telling you, this is why Scott Walker is running away with every Republican poll right now.  The consultant class doesn't get it. The Republican establishment doesn't understand it. They're scratching their heads, what's Walker done?  They do not get it.  They don't understand.  For two years I have been ballyhooing Scott Walker, not personally, but here's a guy not only has he drawn the blueprints for beating the left -- what are blueprints?  They are designs for building something.  Well, he's built the house. He wrote the blueprints and he built the building.  He built the machine that defeats the left.  He has shown how to do it, and he did it.  He is a walking gold mine."

Cruz Calls for Investigation Into State Dept.-Funded Nonprofit

Cruz Calls for Investigation Into State Dept.-Funded Nonprofit | Washington Free Beacon:
"Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R., Texas) office called for an investigation on Thursday into the State Department’s funding of a nonprofit group that is assisting a campaign aimed at defeating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Nick Muzin, deputy chief of staff for Cruz, said the senator was “very disturbed by the reports that the State Department has funded an organization that’s playing a direct role in trying to defeat Benjamin Netanyahu.”

Report: Chris Kyle’s Murderer NEVER Saw Combat, May Have Been a Muslim Convert

Report: Chris Kyle’s Murderer NEVER Saw Combat, May Have Been a Muslim Convert:

"Few know the intimate details surrounding Kyle’s death and out of respect, few wish to dwell on them, but choose to simply remember the unyielding patriotism and dedication for which Kyle will forever be known.
 However, as we near the trial of Kyle’s accused murderer, Eddie Routh, Americans can’t help but wonder, “Why?”

According to a recent report on Allen West’s website, authored by Editor-in-Chief Michele Hickford, Routh not only never saw a day of combat, but worked in close connection with Muslim inmates and expressed sympathies for how they were treated.

Hickford writes,"

Obama Tax Plan: President Goes All In on Confiscation - Breitbart

Obama Tax Plan: President Goes All In on Confiscation - Breitbart:

"Obama’s new plan would simply confiscate 14% of these foreign earnings, regardless of whether or not the money was brought back into the country. In future years, Obama would impose a 19% tax on all foreign earnings as they are earned. Worries about such tax proposals are a large reason why iconic US companies like Burger King, for example, are now foreign corporations.

Obama would use this one-time confiscation to plug a hole in the federal Highway Trust Fund. This idea is similar to the now-discarded White House plan to confiscate money from “529” education savings plans to fund a new entitlement to education at community colleges."

Despite All The Snow, Barack Obama’s Sick Obsession With Climate Change Rages On

Despite All The Snow, Barack Obama’s Sick Obsession With Climate Change Rages On | The Daily Sheeple:
"For Obama, what was once a political goal is now being transformed into something akin to a religious crusade. 
But could it be possible that “the leader of the free world” is completely wrong about all of this?
No scientist denies that the climate of this planet has always been changing and that it always will be changing.
The level to which human activity influences this change is where there is disagreement.
Yes, certain human activities produce carbon dioxide.  
But the amount of carbon dioxide produced by human activity is an extremely small fraction of the overall total.  
Even if all human activity on the entire planet could be suddenly eliminated, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would still be about the same.
And scientists tell us that there were times in the past when levels of carbon dioxide on our planet were far, far higher than they are today. 
So much, much higher levels of carbon dioxide would not destroy our world. 
In fact, scientists tell us that life on Earth greatly thrived when there was much more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
...But in public schools in America today, our children are being taught that carbon dioxide is evil.  They are being told that it is a dangerous pollutant and that it is bad for the environment and that we must eliminate as much of it as possible.
Sadly, our children are never taught that the number one driver of “climate change” by far is actually the giant ball of fire that our planet revolves around.  
It is called “the Sun”, and the impact that changes in the Sun have on our climate absolutely dwarfs anything that humanity is doing.
And in recent years our Sun has started to behave very erratically. 
This is the real “climate change” crisis that people should be talking about. 
Personally, I believe that tremendous changes to our climate are coming because of what is happening to the Sun.
But because this reality does not fit with the narrative that our politicians are pushing, it is ignored.  Instead, they want to blame “climate change” on human activity so that they can regulate and manage that activity.
It is all about convincing all of us to give them even more control over our lives.
Since virtually everything that we do could potentially “affect the climate” in some way, it gives control freak politicians the perfect excuse to micromanage society.
So that is why politicians like Obama are constantly hyping the “catastrophic” threats posed by climate change....."

This Is How Iranians Plan to Protest Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad Cartoon

This Is How Iranians Plan to Protest Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad Cartoon | TheBlaze.com:
"Iranians have come up with a new way to protest the latest Charlie Hebdo cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad: a Holocaust denial cartoon contest.
The Tehran Times reported that Iran’s House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex are sponsoring “The Second International Holocaust Cartoons Contest.”
Cartoonists have until April 1 to submit their entries; the first-place winner will receive a cash prize of $12,000, the second-place winner will get $8,000 and the third-place winner will get $5,000."

Feel-good story of the day!-----Woman Gives Body Part Of Would-Be Rapist To Police After INCREDIBLE Escape

Mad World NewsWoman Gives Body Part Of Would-Be Rapist To Police After INCREDIBLE Escape
"A would-be victim is the talk of England today after making an incredible escape from an attempted rapist.
According to reports, Adele Barber, 29, bit off her attackers tongue and ran back home with it in her mouth in order to later give it to police.
The incredible story was released on England’s This Morning.
Making the story even more incredible, Barber explains that she’d been raped 10 years ago and vowed to never allow it to happen again."

$158 million of pork to build "The People's Car"?---- Budget proposal eyes more cyber weapons, tech tools

Remember, waaaay back, when car companies paid for their own research?
OVERNIGHT TECH: Budget proposal eyes more cyber weapons, tech tools | TheHill:
"Feds peg $158 million for smart cars:
The administration's budget proposal includes $158 million in fiscal 2016 to speed up research for automated vehicle technology and cars that communicate with each other. 
"As cars exchange safety data on speed, direction, and relative position to surrounding vehicles and infrastructure, research estimates that [vehicle-to-vehicle] technology has the potential to reduce 70 to 80 percent of vehicle crashes," the Department of Transportation said in a statement.
"Such innovative technology will help American workers and goods travel faster and safer on our roads.""

History for February 3

History for February 3 - On-This-Day.com
Horace Greeley 1811, Norman Rockwell 1894, Pretty Boy Floyd (Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd) 1904 - Bank robber 


James A. Michener 1907, Art Arfons 1926, Shelley Berman 1926 


1690 - The first paper money in America was issued by the Massachusetts colony. The currency was used to pay soldiers that were fighting in the war against Quebec. 


1815 - The world's first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland. 


1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized the power to impose and collect income tax. 


1941 - In Vichy, France, the Nazis used force to restore Pierre Laval to office. 


1972 - The first Winter Olympics in Asia were held at Sapporo, Japan. 


1998 - In Italy, a U.S. Military plane hit a cable causing the death of 20 skiers on a lift. 


2009 - Eric Holder was sworn in as attorney general. He was the first African-American to hold the post.

I bet she regrets asking her question...

http://ozziesaffa.blogspot.com/2014/06/i-bet-she-regrets-asking-her-question.html



Panelist at the Heritage Foundation received a question from a Muslim woman.  

Political correctness went right out the window.  It was inspiring to watch. 


Take a moment to watch.  You will find yourself applauding.  

Obama is Helping Illegal Aliens in a Way That an Aide Says Could be One of His Biggest Scandals | TheBlaze.com

Obama is Helping Illegal Aliens in a Way That an Aide Says Could be One of His Biggest Scandals | TheBlaze.com:

According to CIS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has issued 5,461,568 new work permits to aliens. That’s in addition to the roughly 1.1 million legal immigrants and 700,000 guest workers that the U.S. admits legally each year.

Of that 5.5 million, 1.8 million were issued to aliens with temporary visas, but 1.2 million of that group had a visa status that does not authorize employment.
Another 982,000 work permits were given to illegal immigrants or immigrants who weren’t qualified for admission. Almost all of this group were made up of aliens who crossed the border illegally, according to CIS.

Another group of 1.7 million is made up of aliens with unknown legal status."

Watch how Scott Walker handles a hostile interviewer — and who came out on top - BizPac Review

Watch how Scott Walker handles a hostile interviewer — and who came out on top - BizPac Review:

"The likely Republican presidential contender is riding high after coming out on top of an Iowa GOP poll released Saturday and made for a ripe target for host Martha Raddatz, who was filling in for George Stephanopoulos.

Whether she was in search of her “Katie Couric moment,” or just trying to take advantage of the opportunity to shore up her liberal bona fides, Raddatz was gunning for Walker from the start."

Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State-Owned Russian Oil Company | Washington Free Beacon

Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State-Owned Russian Oil Company | Washington Free Beacon:

"A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle."

The war against children------School Can't Fire WAY Overpaid Teacher With History Of Failure, Here's Why

Mad World NewsSchool Can't Fire WAY Overpaid Teacher With History Of Failure, Here's Why
It’s six strikes and still not out for one New York state first-grade school teacher, despite six consecutive years of receiving “unsatisfactory” ratings and earning an annual income that is twice that of the national average for an elementary educator.
Her bosses want to fire her, but they can’t.
So now she’s falling back on claims of discrimination alleging it’s about her race, gender, national origin, and medical disability, rather than her repeatedly poor performance.
Ann Legra, 44, a first-grade teacher at PS 173 in Washington Heights, has repeatedly been given the worst rating she can receive, but the New York City school system is barred from firing her despite what city lawyers called her “six years of failing her students,” according to the New York Post.
“Six U-ratings is an outrage,” said Michael Mazzariello, a former chief prosecutor for the Department of Education.
“It’s a black eye on the system.”
Hearing officer Eugene Ginsberg upheld charges of Legra’s “inability to supervise students,” excessive lateness and absence, and poor lesson planning in the 2012-2013 school year.
She gets to keep her salary of $84,500-a-year, except for 45 days of earnings in which Ginsberg imposed as a suspension as punishment for her ongoing job failure...

VIDEO: Krauthammer: ‘Embarrassing’ and ‘Preposterous’ That Obama Won’t Label Taliban as Terrorists

VIDEO: Krauthammer: ‘Embarrassing’ and ‘Preposterous’ That Obama Won’t Label Taliban as Terrorists:

"This same administration has recently refused to call the Taliban a “terrorist organization” in an effort t justify their having traded top-ranking Taliban terrorists to obtain one American deserter.
 This recent bout of insanity has simply been too much for syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer.
 The astute analysts claimed that it was “embarrassing” to witness the Obama Administration refuse to label the Taliban a terrorist organization.

Speaking about the Taliban, Krauthammer said,"

How Penn State Beat The Sandusky Rap

How Penn State Beat The Sandusky Rap - The Daily Beast:
"NCAA emails revealed executives used a shortcut and a false threat to strong-arm the university into accepting harsh sanctions.
Once it was busted, the NCAA revoked them.
On January 16, 2015, lawyers from the NCAA reached an agreement to remove all sanctions it placed on Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky child-sex abuse scandal, which implicated prominent university officials in a cover-up of Sandusky’s crimes.
 The complete termination of sanctions came as a surprise.
The NCAA had in September 2014 agreed to reduce some of the penalties, like lifting the football program’s postseason ban, but kept in place a financial fine and the deletion of more than 100 wins under coach Joe Paterno."

VIDEO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Releases New Ad that is Pretty Funny and Clever

VIDEO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Releases New Ad that is Pretty Funny and Clever:

"This recent campaign ad highlights in a lighthearted way the serious issue facing Israelis as they go to the ballot box: who can protect their country and help provide a future for their nation’s children?

As Hezbollah resumes their continued campaigns of terrorism, Netanyahu’s party, the Likud, has soared in the polls against the Zionist Union Party, a party that serves as a combination of the Labor and Hatnua Parties."

Bjorn Lomborg: The Alarming Thing About Climate Alarmism

Bjorn Lomborg: The Alarming Thing About Climate Alarmism - WSJ
It is an indisputable fact that carbon emissions are rising—and faster than most scientists predicted. But many climate-change alarmists seem to claim that all climate change is worse than expected. This ignores that much of the data are actually encouraging.
The latest study from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that in the previous 15 years temperatures had risen 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit.
The average of all models expected 0.8 degrees.
So we’re seeing about 90% less temperature rise than expected.

Facts like this are important because a one-sided focus on worst-case stories is a poor foundation for sound policies. 
Yes, Arctic sea ice is melting faster than the models expected.
But models also predicted that Antarctic sea ice would decrease, yet it is increasing.
...In short, climate change is not worse than we thought. 

Some indicators are worse, but some are better.
That doesn’t mean global warming is not a reality or not a problem.
It definitely is.
But the narrative that the world’s climate is changing from bad to worse is unhelpful alarmism, which prevents us from focusing on smart solutions.

...Alarmism has encouraged the pursuit of a one-sided climate policy of trying to cut carbon emissions by subsidizing wind farms and solar panels. 

...In other words, for at least the next two decades, solar and wind energy are simply expensive, feel-good measures that will have an imperceptible climate impact. 
Instead, we should focus on investing in research and development of green energy, including new battery technology to better store and discharge solar and wind energy and lower its costs. 
We also need to invest in and promote growth in the world’s poorest nations, which suffer the most from natural disasters.

Climate-change doomsayers notwithstanding, we urgently need balance if we are to make sensible choices and pick the right climate policy that can help humanity slow, and inevitably adapt to, climate change.

Obama Proposing $478 Billion Public Works Program in $4 Trillion Budget | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama Proposing $478 Billion Public Works Program in $4 Trillion Budget | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The grab-bag of proposals, many recycled from past Obama budgets, already is generating fierce objections from Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress for the first time in his presidency. They will move ahead on their own, mindful they eventually must strike a deal with Obama, whose signature is needed for the budget to become law.

The spending blueprint for the 2016 budget year that begins Oct. 1 emphasizes the same themes as Obama’s State of the Union address last month, when he challenged Congress to work with him on narrowing the income gap between the very wealthy and everyone else."

Intercepted Russian bomber was carrying a nuclear missile over the Channel

Intercepted Russian bomber was carrying a nuclear missile over the Channel | UK | News | Daily Express:
A RUSSIAN bomber intercepted over the Channel last week was carrying a nuclear missile designed to destroy Trident submarines, it emerged last night.
The incident was last night described as “yet another in a series of deliberately provocative” measures by President Vladimir Putin which confirmed that Nato’s status had moved firmly from “rival to adversary”.
Sources within the Ministry of Defence last night revealed that one of the two long-range bombers was carrying at least one air-dropped “seek and find"d nuclear warhead-carrtying missile, designed to seek and destroy a Vanguard submarine.
Both Prime Minister David Cameron and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon were alerted after cockpit conservations confirming the bomber’s nuclear payload were intercepted by a Norwegian military listening post, and shared with the Ministry of Defence.

It was the shirt!!! The shirt won the game!!!----Patriots Coach Belichick Wears 'Don't Tread on Me' Shirt to Super Bowl 2015

Patriots Coach Belichick Wears 'Don't Tread on Me' Shirt to Super Bowl 2015 - Breitbart:

Falklands on HIGH ALERT: Hundreds of UK troops sent to boost security at Argentina threat

Falklands on HIGH ALERT: Hundreds of UK troops sent to boost security at Argentina threat | World | News | Daily Express:
THREE hundred extra troops are to be sent to the Falklands as the islands reach their highest state of alert in almost 20 years.Y/WIKIPEDIA

They are part of a force of more than 1,000 soldiers being prepared for duty in the south Atlantic and will be sent out in five tranches of 150 to 300. 

They will include members of the Royal Artillery and 3 Commando, Royal Marines, with each group staying on the islands for three to six weeks. 

Military chiefs are mounting a series of “high readiness reinforcement” exercises to plug a strategic gap until the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier is operational in 2020. 

Related articles

•  Royal Navy opens fire off Falkland Islands as South America summit debates sovereignty
•  Britain slaps down Argentina after blast at Royal Navy for opening fire off Falklands
•  EXCLUSIVE: Falklands defence review after military deal between Russia and Argentina
•  UK sends warship to Falklands as Argentina lease supersonic bombers from Russia

Senior military sources say the war games will be “low profile” as part of a commitment to ensure the UK can secure its overseas garrisons. 

Currently the islands have a core military presence of 1,200 troops, four Typhoon fighter jets and a missile battery. 

A senior source said: “The aim is to put more than 1,000 troops from five different cap badges into the islands by November but they will deploy in small groups from 150 to 300, for short tours.”

This Is How Iranians Plan to Protest Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad Cartoon | TheBlaze.com

This Is How Iranians Plan to Protest Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad Cartoon | TheBlaze.com:

"Iranians have come up with a new way to protest the latest Charlie Hebdo cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad: a Holocaust denial cartoon contest.

The Tehran Times reported that Iran’s House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex are sponsoring “The Second International Holocaust Cartoons Contest.”

Cartoonists have until April 1 to submit their entries; the first-place winner will receive a cash prize of $12,000, the second-place winner will get $8,000 and the third-place winner will get $5,000."

Public housing officials won't verify whether residents are the truly needy | WashingtonExaminer.com

Public housing officials won't verify whether residents are the truly needy | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"In Alexandria, Va., more than 90 percent of public housing units observed by the Washington Examiner have satellite TV dishes. 
New luxury cars, including Mercedes Benzes and Cadillac Escalades, with price tags starting at $73,000 can be spotted at any time.
At one housing project lot in a prime location steps from a subway station, a pair of high performance Ford Mustangs were seen parked side-by-side.
One with custom wheels and vanity plates was a sporty red and emblazoned with the number 69. A new Dodge Charger with a luxury package and a custom paint job depicting human skulls was also observed."

EPIC: If this isn't the most American Craigslist ad I have ever seen I don't know what is -

EPIC: If this isn't the most American Craigslist ad I have ever seen I don't know what is -:

I should start by saying that if you are looking for a “Pajama party Barbie Jeep” you my friend, should keep looking. If you are looking for a short description of to the beast before you, I can offer you two words “MEAT & POTATOES”. This is the All American chariot of the free world.

You are not dealing with any ordinary, cookie cutter Jeep son. This thing was forged from a single block of all American Tungsten Steel. Real sturdy! From that day forward my life has never been the same. Winch yourself off that couch and see if you can handle this Jeep Wrangler Sahara.

So if you are looking for a rice burning hatch back, a solar powered liberal mobile, or even a Hyundai crossover keep on looking my friend this thing is a piece of red white and blue Americana Machinery.

This baby’s pulse is pumping 4.0 liters of uncensored raw fuel through her straight six nuclear power plant. And rest assured this is no metro feminine automatic. . .you command her to obey, with your calloused hand planted firmly on the shifter. And she will obey, the first time, every time. If you can’t handle your stick shifter, or reach the clutch pedal, you better not ferry skip over here wanting to test drive her. If you stall her out, you can count on getting hit in the face with a piece of re-bar and sent back where you came from.

It has A/C but are you kidding me….Really! If you want to blow the sweat off your brow, you do it the old fashioned way: doors off, top down. “What if it rains?”. . .You whiney bitch! I told you to stop reading. . . Any man who drives this beast doesn’t give a damn about rain. Not even skin melting acid rain, Cause he’s already dripping wet in blood, sweat, dip spit, and fish guts.

If you are looking for the kind of jeep that has to be pansy parked in the garage, so the “carpet doesn’t get wet and soggy” Then you should plant your Obama sticker on some Japanese piece of s***. Cause this thing has drain holes in the floor and rhino lined to let the blood drain out from the buffalo you just killed, with your bare hands. Because you are William Wallace from Braveheart and when you get home you can leave your “sissy sponge glove car wash kit” in the pink bucket it came in. Go ahead and spark up your 6000 psi heated pressure washer on the dually trailer in your man cave, cause you are Tim Gillespie and you can pressure wash your truck on the inside. She’s got rhino lined floors with a full roll cage in case that buffalo comes back to life while you’re doing 80 over some mountain pass or flooded river.

If you’re thinking about Mexican chrome bumpers for her, think again. The bumper bashers come hand forged in a blacksmith shop in Franklin County over a wood burnin fire, out of 4 inch well casing, and railroad tracks and then I welded em to the damn chassis. That way if you get deployed you can piggy back this war wagon on a deuce and a half and chain her down tight from the four corners, so you don’t lose her when your convoy gets hit by a taliband roadside suicide bomber.

And forget about putting one of those “It’s a Jeep Thing. . .You wouldn’t understand” stickers on this machine cause when you’re spotted in this American Classic there will be no questions, no further explanation required, people will understand and get out of your way. . …real quick.

If you think you’re ready to park this panty hauler on your tract of land. If you buy this jeep you better go get your old lady ready for some damn changes around your lair, cause this s** will be happening. What will be Happening? Glad you asked….

1. More chest hair.
2. You’re growing a beard.
3. Meat Only Diet.
4. T-Rex for a pet.
5. You’re taking a job at the lumber mill.
6. Your car carries five kegs.
7. [Expletive Deleted]
8. Catch more fish.
9. Wire bristled toothbrush.
10. Sex in the yard.
11. Sex in the garage.
12. All male offspring.
13. Chiseled jaw line.
14. Not giving a damn.
15. Flesh turning to steel.
16. Higher salary
17. Promotions.
18. Better looking wives.
19. Better looking mistresses.
20. More golfing
21. More killing stuff.
22. More dead animals in the KITCHEN freezer.
23. More tools in your garage.
24. Bigger TV
25. Wife takes out the trash
26. Four Wheel Drive
27. Wife brings trash can in from road.
28. Wife stops bitching about clothes on floor.
29. Wife stocks fridge with beer.
30. Chuck Norris.
31. John McCain
32. Steaks for dinner.
33. Winning the Lottery.
34. Women on the side.
35. Wrestling with bea
36. Building sh** out of stone.
37. Riding Lawn Mower.
38. Bon Fires in cul-de-sac.
39. Bar Fights.
40. Wife picks you up from Thee Gentlemen’s Club.
41. Craftsman Tools.
42. Jay Bisset.
43. Welding stuff.
44. Digging holes.
45. Huge Piece of meat.

Put your GPS back in your purse.

Sounds good doesn’t it?

This jeep has carried me through 155,000 miles of battlefield twice as gruesome as the second half of the movie “300″. . ..And just like a trusty steed this juggernaut has never left me stranded. If you think you’ve worn her out you drag this beast back to me in any condition. And Ill handle the rest.

But if you think you’re going to get to whip this mule you better pony up Sixty Five Hundred Dollars. . .American Cash. I’m not selling you this car unless you are clearly a pure blooded American Species, so don’t even think about it.

Yes. They breed......