[TOWNHALL] Back during Barack Obama's first year in office, he kept repeating, with great apparent earnestness, that there were "shovel-ready" projects that would quickly provide many much-needed jobs, if only his spending plans were approved by Congress.
He seemed very convincing -- if you didn't know how long it can take for any construction project to get started, after going through a bureaucratic maze of environmental impact studies, zoning commission rulings and other procedures that can delay even the smallest and simplest project for years.
Only about a year or so after his big spending programs were approved by Congress, Barack Obama himself laughed at how slowly everything was going on his supposedly "shovel-ready" projects.
One wonders how he will laugh when all his golden promises about ObamaCare turn out to be false and a medical disaster. Or when his foreign policy fiascoes in the Middle East are climaxed by a nuclear Iran.
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The beauty part is, the gummint is a victim of its own success. The only thing not choking on red tape is the SWAT team send to the wrong address to shoot your dog...
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Deleted my comment. Gave myself an administrative 'time out'.
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A talented con man, or a slick politician, does not waste his time trying to convince knowledgeable skeptics. His job is to keep the true believers believing. He is not going to convince the others anyway.
There are many unquestioning Kool-Aid guzzlers. Fortunately, most Rantburgers are the others.
I heard it was donations from abroad, from the wrong countries. His wife really was more influential than you might think, "I have a dream",for whats its worth. Dustbin of history.
[Ynet] Given situation in Syria and Egypt, why does Obama believe Israeli withdrawal from West Bank will bring peace?
As Israel releases Paleostinian prisoners with blood on their hands just so that the Paleostinian Authority (which doesn't even represent Gazooks) agrees to talk peace, the Israeli public is left to wonder what these painful concessions will produce. The current grinding of the peace processor is predicated on the conventional wisdom that if Israel just relinquishes enough territory to its enemies, peace will arrive. But on most of Israel's borders, history has revealed the naïve folly behind an idea that could just as aptly be called "land for war."
Consider Syria. From 1948 to 1967, the Syrians regularly fired artillery shells from their dominant positions on the Golan Heights down at Israeli border communities and Fatah used the territory to launch terrorist raids into Israel, until Israel captured it in 1967. But since the US-brokered talks between Israel and Syria began in 1999, peaceniks have posited that a full withdrawal by Israel from the strategic plateau in exchange for peace with Syria involved a risk worth taking. Their rationale was that -- in an era dominated more by aerial threats (jets and missiles) than terrestrial ones (soldiers and tanks) -- the territory was no longer vital to Israeli security and could be traded for a double boon: Peace with Syria and elimination of Iran's greatest strategic ally.
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Along the same lines, why is INDIA claiming or alleging that rival CHINA is clearing out forest cover in Arunuchal-Pradesh in a bid to sneakily steal more of India's proclaimed sovereign territory???
[Ynet] Why would anyone truly interested in peace demand early release of radical terrorists?
For years, political scientists and anthropologists have contemplated, analyzed and debated whether there is a 'clash of civilizations' between the 'developed world' and the fundamentalist 'Islamic world' or whether the clash is 'within the civilizations' of Islamic states that suffer from an internal dissonance between those that want peace with the West and those that want war with the West.
The recent footage shown in Ramallah and Gazoo of politicians and their mobs, rejoicing the release of 26 convicted murderers, leads to the conclusion that it is neither the case of a 'clash of civilizations', nor a 'clash within civilizations', but rather a horrific case of lack in civilization.
Beyond being legally and morally despicable, the release of these murderers and Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ' demand to release additional child slayers, illustrates more than anything else that we are dealing with crude and uncivilized people. Surely, not partners for peace.
Abbas, who laid a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave immediately after the release of the terrorists, gave us an indication of who he truly is and what he really represents as he said he vowed to release all the incarcerated terrorists. What a shame that a generation of talks has been wasted with the PLO, instead of finding grassroots genuine representatives that do not have innocent blood on their hands. Those that think Paleostinians cannot generate such leadership, or that it won't be worth the wait, are wrong.
The early release of remorseless bully boyz has proven time and again that it invites more terror. The Jibril bully boyz released in 1985 formed the foundation for the first intifada in 1987, the PLO bully boyz released after the ill-fated Oslo Accords of 1993 became the backbone of the bloody 2000 intifada and even some of those released in the recent Shalit Swap have returned to their old ways. It is only a matter of time, some signs show it to be a very short time, before some of the 26 bully boyz released last week, will also return to terrorist activities.
Why would anyone truly interested in peace demand the early release of radical terrorists?
Abbas is not alone in his lack of civilization. State authorized slaying of citizens on the streets of Cairo is not a clash within civilizations -- it's a lack of civilization - even if the demise of Morsi and the Moslem Brüderbund is in the short-term interest of peace seekers.
The use of chemical agents by the Syrian army against its own citizens, and the killing of nearly 100,000 civilians, is not a clash within civilizations -- it's a lack of civilization - even if Syria's preoccupation with al-Qaeda affiliates and Hezbollah's involvement in the chaos leaves Israel's Northern front relatively quiet.
Cynics will say that violence, persecution and terror are in the region's DNA. That is nonsense at best or bigotry at worst. The Middle East needs civilized leaders. Until that happens, true peace will remain a forged dream.
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The pathetic thing is terrorists are compulsive murderers who have figured out that mumbling a few leftist buzzwords while they kill people will get them sympathy from the ignorant.
The ignorant do not realize these monsters are killers, and if they can't kill a jew or infidel, they'll kill whoever is handy.
This is something the Iraqi sunis learned the hard way.
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Abbas, who laid a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave immediately after the release of the terrorists,...
Our elected politicians (No, I shall NOT call them "leaders".) look upon the laying of the wreath as political theater, much like they themselves would engage in (see Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, etal re: Dr. King, etc.) not wanting to acknowledge that the Paleos are very sincere (There's a word not bandied about sincerely in DC.) in their internalizing the policies of Arafat.
The Paleos (and Pakis) as a whole are not civilized. They have been steeped too deeply and it would take generations (Centuries?) to housetrain 'em. In the meantime, I'm good with never-ending civil wars....
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President Obama must attack or lose what credibility he has now.
Can't really disagree with that. He's in a spot where he has to walk on the paint or wait till it dries. Politically. He's not going to risk death driving an Eagle from Sicily for some CAS on some ridge where the My Heros could shoot back too.
Its going to be an awesome failure when the first strikes end up hitting Iranian or Russian advisors stray kitten rescue workers. Independent of if it really happened.
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I didn't know the U.S. EVER had any good options in Syria.
The US had a less-bad option:
At the outset of the Syrian civil war two-and-a-half years ago... [a] consortium of Syrian Kurds, moderate Sunnis, Christians and others came to Washington and begged for US assistance. But they were ignored.
Not a perfect option, but reality rarely provides those.
Amazing that, for an administration that's was supposed to be so smart, talented, and laden with 'thousands' of foreign policy experts during its presidential campaign, it has consistently dropped the ball.
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But, as Glick notes, the ascent of the radicals leaves the U.S. with no good options in Syria and with egg on its face for proclaiming a red line that turned out to be meaningless.
No, no and Hell No! President Obama has no good options and it is he who has egg on his face - not the U.S. The US will be just fine by letting the Syrian savages kill each other. On the other hand, regardless of Obamas decision, he will be glaringly exposed as the small predictable man who is primarily motivated by his own selfish interest.
[CNSNEWS] This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University's distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity and Diversity Services notifying me that I was required to "complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures training."
This is a leftist agenda for indoctrination, thought control and free speech suppression to which I shall refuse to submit. Let's look at it.
Ideas such as equity and equal opportunity, while having high emotional value, are vacuous analytical concepts. For example, I've asked students whether they plan to give every employer an equal opportunity to hire them when they graduate. To a person, they always answer no. If they aren't going to give every employer an equal opportunity to hire them, what's fair about forcing employers to give them an equal opportunity to be hired?
I'm guilty of gross violation of equality of opportunity, racism and possibly sexism. Back in 1960, when interviewing people to establish a marital contract, every woman wasn't given an equal opportunity. I discriminated against not only white, Indian, Asian, Mexican and handicapped women but men of any race. My choices were confined to good-looking black women. You say, "Williams, that kind of discrimination doesn't harm anyone!" Nonsense! When I married Mrs. Williams, other women were harmed by having a reduced opportunity set.
George Mason's Office of Equity and Diversity Services has far more challenging equity and diversity work than worrying about the re-education of Professor Williams. They must know that courts have long held that gross racial disparities are probative of a pattern and practice of discrimination. The most notable gross racial disparity on campus, and hence probative of discrimination, can be found on GMU's fabulous men's basketball team. Blacks are less than 9 percent of student enrollment but are 85 percent of our varsity basketball team and dominate its starting five.
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The post is all buzzwords, not worth my reading.
I got halfway, that's enough.
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RJ, the writings of Dr. Williams are almost always worth reading. If you read it and found that it seemed a waste of time you most likely read it wrong.
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Maybe Comrade RJ needs some diversity training. If he's smart he'll catch on to the fact that if you want to pass the test you have to give all the wrong answers.
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RedNeck Jim. Have you noticed he was speaking about "marital contacts"? In other words he found Black women more attractive and defintely didn't want to have sex with men.
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Oh I comprehend just fine.
Bullshit is Bullshit regardless of the people who loudly declare that it's Equine Manure and it's GOOD to losten to.
I'm told "You might learn something", Yup I learned.
NOT to listen to other people.
KEEP my own council.
DON'T listen to all the "Other" People.
Oh I learned.
I'll decide what's shit myself, don't need your help.
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It's not Redneck Jim's style of joke. We don't all have the same sense of humour, which is no doubt just as well. After all, I think it's hilarious that fish knives are sterling silver; this seems to puzzle most people, including Mr. Wife.
It is a subtle joke if you are not familiar with the nonsense coming out of our universities and corporate HR departments these days. Unlike the people producing it, he knows bullshit when he sees it..
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RJ- Just curious, how familiar are you with Walter Williams and his other writings, which include several books and countless essays and columns? If not very, you may find his stuff worth your while (or not as the case may be).
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Western values are under ruthless attack by the academic elite on college campuses across America. They want to replace personal liberty with government control and replace equality before the law with entitlement. The multiculturalism and diversity agenda is a cancer on our society, and our tax dollars and charitable donations are supporting it.
Perhaps you need to read the entire article to understand that Walter Williams is citing examples of the hypocrisy of the political agenda enforced at George Mason University.
The article is Walter Williams push back and explanation why after 34 years of service he is refusing to submit to the requirement that he "complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures training."
Which he calls a leftist agenda for indoctrination, thought control and free speech suppression.
It is generally a good idea to read the entire article before attempting to criticize the author.
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Junkiron, you have not been to the re-education camp yet, Walter Williams has been summoned to this loathsome affair and he knows it is odious to his senses.
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other women were harmed by having a reduced opportunity set
The B.O. regime continues to discount the huge impact its health overhaul law is having in turning America into a part-time nation, calling reports anecdotal and not based on complete data.
To paraphrase Groucho Marx: Who are you going to believe? Me, or your own eyes?
An avalanche of "anecdotes" continues to pile up as workers across the country are having their hours cut and their health benefits slashed across a broad range of industries.
Loren Goodridge, the owner of 21 Subway franchises, says he has no choice but to cut the hours of his employees to 29 a week to avoid the law's penalties.
The negative effects of the law reach the education industry as well. St. Petersburg College, a public university in Florida, is reducing the hours of 250 faculty members because the college says it cannot afford to provide them with health insurance.
Joseph Hansen, the president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union that originally supported the law, says the health law will have a "tremendous impact as workers have their hours reduced and their incomes reduced."
Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that the ratio of part-time to full-time jobs has completely flipped this year from historical trends. Last year, six full-time jobs were created for every one part time job. This year, only one full-time job is being created for every four new part-time jobs.
The shift to part-time has accelerated over the past several months because of the "look back" provision in ObamaCare that sets the baseline this year for the number of full-time workers a company employs to determine their compliance with the employer pay-or-play mandate.
The administration may have been trying to stop the damage when it announced in July it would delay for a year the reporting requirements for the health law's employer mandate -- the requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees provide health coverage that is acceptable to the government or pay a fine of $2,000 to $3,000 per employee per year.
The statute is very clear that the employer mandate is to take effect on January 1, 2014, not a year later as the White House now has directed. The House of Representatives was more than happy to give the administration legal authority to delay the employer mandate and passed legislation in July to make the delay legal. But, astonishingly, the president vowed to veto the legislation if it were to reach his desk -- which it will not because Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... will not bring it up for a vote. The president would rather rewrite the law by administrative edict instead of following the Constitutional route of asking Congress to change it.
The damage is real, and the one-year delay is unlikely to have a significant impact on hiring. Businesses are not going to hire full-time workers for year or less only to have to fire them next year.
According to a survey by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 71% of small businesses say the health care law makes it harder to grow. One-half of small businesses that must comply with the employer mandate say they will either cut hours of full-time employees or replace them with part-time workers. Twenty four percent say they will reduce hiring to stay under 50 employees.
Not only is the law taking a toll on part-time workers, but it also is increasing costs for families. ObamaCare's new health insurance tax alone will raise premiums by $8 billion next year, increasing an average family's premium by more than $350.
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I have been telling you people for the last two months under various psuedos... CHAOS ..... He and Pelosi are going to kill you one way or the other.../ the economy, jobs, you or your mother thst has alzhiemers with his death panels, the F-kin guy and his democrat party should be made to eat their own S-it. If you vote for a Dem in 2012, you are the enemy, I have already cut off my daughter ... F-U and that Pr-ck you voted for you are out of the will = You just pissed off 2 Million.
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If you vote for a Dem in 2012 in 1932 or any year thereafter, you are the enemy
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Home Depot is also rumored to be dumping the full time staff and hiring part timers. The full time staff they are keeping will only get employee benefits, nothing for families. I can hear the middle class being flushed away. Obama will be successful at destroying the very heart and soul of our national economy, the middle class.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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It is OK. Besoeker I was too connect to the present to consider the L-O-N-G term, only because most of those voters are long term dead .... by natural causes and time... not the Obama Death panels....Defund these programs or Die America !!!! Do it now before it is too late.
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Unfortunately Double-AA, Cruz probably will not get enuf French Republicans to vote down the funding of Obamacare. It is beginning to appear that the old guard in both parties are aware that without the influx of the Obamacaretaxes, the federal Ponzi scheme is up on their collective watch.
With the obvious cock-up that it has become, why would anyone fund it....for any other reason than an increase in tax revenues. The insurance industry is big business, and now the gummit owns it.
Ultimately Obama or Hillary will issue and executive order calling a thirty hour week "full time".
That is the goal towards which he and his union supporters are working. That is why the union objections to Obamacare have been so tepid. They are playing the long game towards working less for the same total amount of money plus benefits. That give them all a de facto
pay raise of 33%.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
08/28/2013 4:56 Comments ||
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And, an under-the-table nation. Suckahs...
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08/28/2013 6:47 Comments ||
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Glad you decided to resume your old nym, Au Auric. I was getting dizzy.
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Go thirty and business will go 25 hours. That is what they are doing now. They don't want anything close to full time people. 25 is now the figure they limit hours to. On call. As needed. Like standing on the corner waiting for someone to have you work for the day. That was done for years in DC. I understand it still is being done. Don't ask don't tell who is even legal, if that matters anymore.
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If you vote for a Dem in 2012 in 1932 or any year thereafter, you are the enemy
I'm glad to report I didn't.
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Redneck the Democrat elites have abandoned the core of their party. The conservative Democrat is excluded. This will become more of an issue in times ahead. I realize this is not spoken of but that's our media. In my opinion that's why Regan won. Many crossed over. The special interest groups of the Democrats are in it for their own group. Not the country. One tell tale sign will be running out of money, takers not givers.
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Walmart loves obamacare. They have 2 million employees and soon our taxes will pay for their healthcare. Even the few big business' that will try to keep full time employees will eventually not be able to compete. Just like outsourcing, ver time low cost approach wins out.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Ynet] Given situation in Syria and Egypt, why does Obama believe Israeli withdrawal from West Bank will bring peace?
The 
Harry Reid
