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The Minimum Wage:
At a local fast food drive-thru last year, the conversation went something like this:
Driver: A cheeseburger, fries and a Diet Coke.
Clerk: Do you want cheese with that?
Driver: You're asking me if I want cheese on a cheeseburger?
Clerk (without a trace of irony): Yes.
Driver: Right. Yes, that's what I'm asking for. Cheese on a cheeseburger
Last week after ordering a plain hamburger with lettuce and tomato and no onion, the hamburger came with cheese. When the hamburger was returned--(the customer doesn't eat cheese)--the clerk patiently explained that unless the customer specifically requests no cheese on his plain hamburger, the plain hamburger comes with cheese.
These are the folks the President and Unions believe are underpaid.
A Matter of Degree:
"More than 3,000 students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received credit for fake classes over an 18-year period as part of a program that allowed many of them to remain eligible to play sports, according to a report released on Wednesday." (Source: Reuters).
Wouldn't it be simpler to just say "Take This Job and Shove It"?
In 2009, Major Nadal Hassan fatally shot 13 people and injured 30 more. The fact that he is a Muslim and called out
Allahu Akbar
before opening fire is immaterial to the Obama Administration who pronounced the crime
workplace violence
. In another example of the Administration's designation of w
orkplace violence
, a recent convert to Islam beheaded a woman in Oklahoma. Following this same logic, the beheading of two Americans in Syria or Iraq (exact location is unknown at this time) must likewise be construed
workplace violence,
since the victims were working journalists.
Meanwhile, up in Canada, a recent convert to Islam fatally shot a soldier at Canada's National War Memorial before being shot and killed inside the country's Parliament building. President Obama warned Americans not to jump to conclusions, but the Canadians apparently weren't watching television at the time and went on and called it a terror attack anyway. Perhaps they were just being hypersensitive because two days before that, another Islam convert had run over two Canadian soldiers in Quebec.
Say What?
Unlike Georgian Democrat Michelle Nunn and Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, Alaska's Democrat Senator, Mark Begich, admits he voted for President Obama but claims that's not relevant because the President will be gone in two years. What Begich didn't say is whether he'd vote for Senator Harry Reid for majority leader should the Democrats hold the Senate.
Take the Bullying by the Horns
:
Monica Lewinsky is back in the news, the former twenty-something hottie blaming Matt Drudge for "bullying her" by disclosing that she and then president, Bill Clinton were having an affair, a story
Newsweek
was sitting on like a Rhode Island Red trying to hatch a petrified T-Rex egg. No word on whether former president Clinton's family feels bullied by Ms. Lewinsky's dredging up what had to be a humiliating experience that happened over twenty years ago.
President Obama claimed Ebola would not come to America's shores, and even if it did, the nation's health care system would be able to handle it. He was wrong. Liberian Thomas Duncan arrived in America harboring the nasty little virus and subsequently died in a Dallas hospital, apparently because his virus load was too great by the time he was diagnosed. But President Obama was correct on the second point. The American health care system successfully treated a doctor, nurse and a cameraman who caught the disease in Africa and seems to be successfully treating the two nurses who caught the virus from Mr. Duncan.
Yo Heave Ho:
President Obama, a lawyer, cannot be expected to be an infectious disease expert any more than an infectious disease expert can expect to become the Ebola Czar. That's a job for a lawyer and political operative.
A Vote in Time Saves Nine:
Apparently Republican state representative candidate in Illinois, Jim Moynihan, was surprised when he looked at the touch screen of his voting machine and saw he had cast a vote for his Democratic opponent. The explanation was a "calibration error". Growltiger encountered a similar calibration error in VA last November when she voted for the Republican candidate only to see the check mark appear next to the Democrat candidate's name. Assuming, she'd touched the touch screen incorrectly--those babies are famously sensitive as any victim of Kindle's autocorrect can tell you--she backed up and re-voted. Same thing happened. After three tries, she began squawking at the top of her voice that her machine seemed to have been rigged. This brought the poll workers on the fly with instructions on how to fix the problem. When she left, she refused the "I Voted" sticker because she wasn't sure she had. Not the way she wanted to anyway.
For those who want to read the story of the Republican candidate who didn't vote for himself, cut and paste the following into your browser. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/22/calibration-error-changes-gop-votes-to-dem-in-illinois-county/
According to the horror movie genre, the only way to do in a vampire is to drive a stake through his heart. It looks to the Tiger as though America is in the same fix as Count Dracula...End
