What the fuck? oBBama wins the Nobel Peace Prize? For what? To encourage nuclear disarmament? Since when has the prize been given away to encourage someone to do something. This is the most laughable thing I’ve ever seen. Is the Nobel committee really that starved of candidates that they have to resort to giving it to a second-rate president that has DONE NOTHING but increase the national debt by 2 trillion dollars?!? I can’t wrap my head around it. We’re still in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re still in Cuba. We still have nukes aimed at ever hole on earth with people breathing in it.
This image pretty much sums up what I’m sure a lot of Obama voters are feeling. They voted for change and what they got (no surprise here) was just more of the same old bullshit. Here’s my dedication to that triumph of status quo:
A lot of people are outraged by the “Joe the Heckler” outburst at Wednesday’s Joint Session sit down oBBama had. The president’s goal was to dispell all the lies about the health care bill drifting around out there. But what has gotten the most attention is Representative Joe Wilson’s dispelling of the president. When oBBama mentioned that the Dem’s health care bill would not cover illegal imigrants, Wilson yelled, “You Lie!”
Some say that the outburst was uncalled for, some say it was embarrassing, and others want Joe Wilson’s head.
But all the hubub is a joke. Why can others clap and he can’t heckle? Why can the president receive only positive reinforcement? Why the double standard about being vocal in the Joint session?
I’m all for the heckler. Heckle everyone. Of course, you need to let oBBama present his lies before you call him a liar, but Wilson did that. oBBama spoke for most of the presentation. He was aloud to present his lies quite thoroughly before Wilson heckled.
Hopefully this is a trend and more congressmen will become vocal critics during nationally televised propaganda. Then, maybe the US congress will morph into something much more substantive and entertaining, like the British Parliament:
This video blog from Peter Schiff reminds me of a post I made a while back:
It goes against every ounce of logic in my being to think that a minimum wage is good for people or an economy, yet people in Congress and even everyday folks on the street seem to think it’s a good idea. Well, let me explain in very clear terms MINIMUM WAGE IS BAD FOR THE ECONOMY.
The first thing that will happen when this new minimum wage bill goes through, if it does, is the people who aren’t worth $7.25 an hour will BE FIRED. Then, the real damage happens.
If you are a minimum wage proponent, I would like to ask what a fair wage should be. Is it $7.25 an hour? I don’t know anyone who makes that and everyone I know is complaining about how little they make- maybe it should be $10 an hour like it is at most Wal-Marts. Not good enough? Maybe it should be $20 an hour- that would make a lot of people happy- it’d be a pay raise for a lot of people reading this post (I like to dream that millions of people are reading).
I have an idea- let’s make the minimum wage $100 an hour- that would make 98% of the people in the US happy. What would happen with such a high minimum wage? Everyone would be fired- everyone except for the very necessary employees. Then, companies who couldn’t afford that would raise their prices, so the consumer gets to bite the big one. Inflation would skyrocket and there would eventually be 70% unemployment and nothing being produced in this country.
Well, if this progression is reasonable to see happening if the wage was upped to $100/hr., is it so far-fetched to see how raising it by a small percentage would move slightly closer to the doomsday scenario described above?
Artificial regulations on a free market ALWAYS hurt the market in the long run. I feel like most people need to go back to Economics 101 and get over this blind pseudo-altruism that helps them cope with the fact that they’re driving their Beemers over the raggedy blanket of some smelly-ass bum sticking out his hands for some spare change as long as it’s more than a five dollar bill or some food as long as it’s not Italian.
People complain that they can’t live on $5 an hour. Well, I have an idea- get another frickin job that pays more. Or, I got it, maybe pick up a skill, like smiling, and request more from your fat minimum-wage-paying boss. But I don’t buy that people can’t live on $5 an hour. People can live on much less than that- 3 BILLION humans live on less than $5 a DAY- they just eat less and have flies all over their faces. My point is that yes, people can live on $5 an hour- but they won’t be able to eat at Benihana’s every night or support their smoking habit while putting up three kids.
And, come to think of it, who are these people making minimum wage? They’re typically kids in high school (with no one to support), immigrants (I won’t get into the legality of these peeps), or lousy bums. In the case of the kids- they’re working for school or extra spending cash. In the case of the immigrants- they may need to work to support a family, but if they’re hard-working enough and can keep a job, they’re going to get a raise every year no matter what job you’re doing- eventually making a great deal more than minimum wage. Bums who can’t keep a job don’t deserve money for doing nothing.
I worked at plenty of jobs making minimum wage and I never complained about getting too little- I just acquired the skills and got a better job. It was a great learning experience. Entry level jobs aren’t meant for permanent employment- that’s why they’re called “Entry” level.
To sum up-the people making minimum wage can get by or make some sacrifices to move up in the world. Minimum wage hurts the economy by squeezing small business owners and pushing inflation, which just makes the new minimum wage outdated sooner. And a lot of people need to go back to economics class.
After reading a very interesting and compelling post bringing Obama’s citizenship into questions, I decided to look into this subject myself. After arduous research, I was able to uncover the REAL birth cirtificate of Barack Obama and it’s shocking!!!! Evidently, Obama is American, as it clearly states on the birth cirtificate, but he’s also a hermaphrodite. AND, it turns out that his parents were clairvoyant because they nicknamed him “the one” at birth! This is truly amazing stuff.See for yourself, this should dispell any rumors that Barack Obama was born outside the U.S.
After years of getting hot women to go naked to protest fur (below) with the threat that “I’d rather go naked than wear fur,” PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has finally come to its senses. You see, we want to see hot women going naked to protest fur, but if everyone stopped wearing fur, then we would have fewer hot women protesting it by going naked—something we don’t want. So, recently, PETA hired a bunch of ugly chicks to go naked with the same threat. Now, this makes sense—we don’t want to see these ugly chicks, so we’ll stop buying your precious little rat tail coats and we’ll leae your beloved marmet alone, but please stop don’t make me look at the ugly chicks going naked!!! For the love of God, keep your ugly-ass tattooed bodies covered up! Put a damn moo moo on, I don’t care, just put something on!
Barney Frank requests a dance from the Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner, who wore matching suits in order to confuse the Dancing With the Stars judges. While the financial dance between Frank and Geithner received high marks for technical difficulties, it also had the unwanted consequence of making everyone in attendance want to throw up their perfectly good foie gras. After the competition, Barney Frank shit himself and demanded the American taxpayer to pay for a new suit.
These people are in line at a soup�kitchen,� but he has a cell phone…….
First Lady�Michelle Obama�showed up Thursday as a surprise�and welcome volunteer at Miriam’s Kitchen, a soup�kitchen�for homeless poor people not far from the�White House. She brought�with her some food�donated by White�House staff. The first lady served up mushroom�risotto and broccoli to a�long line of homeless men and women�during part of her�lunch hour and in�these photos poses for a picture by one�homeless diner obviously excited to be�in the first� lady’s�presence. It doesn’t detract from the first lady’s�generous gesture or the real needs she seeks to�highlight to ask�two�bothersome journalistic questions about these news photos:�
If this unidentified�meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food,�
and get over this blind pseudo-altruism that helps them cope with the fact that they’re driving their Beemers over the raggedy blanket of some smelly-ass bum sticking out his hands for some spare change as long as it’s more than a five dollar bill or some food as long as it’s not Italian.
