On the bright side, this would be the wake up call for Senator Diane Feinstein massive apathy to the Obama regime’s whole disregard for privacy. On the factual side Feinstein is just not all that bright, from the Washington Post:
Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) accused the CIA of secretly removing documents, searching committee-used computers and attempting to intimidate congressional investigators by requesting an FBI inquiry of their conduct — charges that CIA Director John Brennan disputed within hours of her appearance on the Senate floor.
Look Di, the regime doesn’t give fig about my privacy and it sure doesn’t care about yours either. About the only secret the regime want to protect is Obama’s college transcripts.
Shark of the Day from David Burge:
How many friends and/or business associates do you have in federal prison? Compare your answer to the president of the United States.
Dim Won, b/k/a President Barack Obama like the true liberal he is, proposes to give away what he does not own, from Investors Business Daily:
Hi, everybody. This week, I traveled to New England, where I was joined by four governors who are working to raise the minimum wage in each of their states. And they’ve also joined me in calling on Congress to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. Because it would give nearly 800,000 Americans in their states a raise — and lift wages for about 28 million across the country.Hi, everybody. This week, I traveled to New England, where I was joined by four governors who are working to raise the minimum wage in each of their states. And they’ve also joined me in calling on Congress to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. Because it would give nearly 800,000 Americans in their states a raise — and lift wages for about 28 million across the country.
Who we Paleface? You talk about giving 800,000 Americans a raise, but unless and until you are willing to pay these Americans out of your pocket, you will not be tho one doing the giving. Rather you propose to take $2.85 per hour per employee from the employer and give to the employee. Your proposal creates no wealth. It only transfer money, a transfer payment founded by employers and consumer.
So these governors aren’t waiting for Congress to make up its mind.And in my State of the Union Address, I asked America’s business leaders to go ahead and do what they could to raise their employees’ wages, too. And increasingly, it’s not just large companies like Costco or the Gap that choose to pay their employees higher starting wages.
It’s smaller businesses like Jaxson’s, a family-owned ice cream parlor in South Florida. They answered the call and raised their wages so that more than 70 employees would earn at least $10.10 an hour, without cutting back on hiring.
And two weeks ago, an Atlanta small business owner named Darien Southerland [SUTH-er-lind] wrote me to share a lesson his grandmother taught him — that if you treat your employees right, they’ll treat you right. And Vice President Biden paid him a visit this week.
I agree with these business owners, which is why I issued an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay their employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour. It’s good for our bottom line. And working Americans have struggled through stagnant wages for far too long.
If paying $10.10 per hour makes good business sense, then good a business will do it. I figure as a business owner knows more about running a business than say a community organizer, in fact a higher minimum wage does not make economic sense.
A clear majority of Americans support raising the minimum wage, because we believe that nobody who works full-time should have to live in poverty. About half of all Republicans support raising the minimum wage, too. It’s just too bad they don’t serve in Congress. Because the Republicans who do serve in Congress don’t want to vote on the minimum wage at all. Some even want to get rid of it completely. Seriously.
If does not matter what a clear majority of Americans think here. It not your money to give away and it is not theirs either. Remember Robin Hood and his gang a merry men were in a clear majority when they lifted the King’s tax collector’s coin purse.
That’s why what business leaders and everyday Americans are doing to raise wages is so important. Because change doesn’t come from Washington — change comes to Washington. I’ve always believed that, and it’s true in this case, too.
Outside Washington, Americans are ready to put aside old political arguments and move this country forward. The American people are way ahead of Congress on this issue, and we’ve just got to let Congress know that. It’s time for “ten-ten.” It’s time to give America a raise. And it’s time to restore opportunity for all. Thanks, and have a great weekend.
If you want to create economic opportunity, approve the Keystone Pipeline.
It’s smaller businesses like Jaxson’s, a family-owned ice cream parlor in South Florida. They answered the call and raised their wages so that more than 70 employees would earn at least $10.10 an hour, without cutting back on hiring.
And two weeks ago, an Atlanta small business owner named Darien Southerland [SUTH-er-lind] wrote me to share a lesson his grandmother taught him — that if you treat your employees right, they’ll treat you right. And Vice President Biden paid him a visit this week.
I agree with these business owners, which is why I issued an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay their employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour. It’s good for our bottom line. And working Americans have struggled through stagnant wages for far too long.
A clear majority of Americans support raising the minimum wage, because we believe that nobody who works full-time should have to live in poverty. About half of all Republicans support raising the minimum wage, too. It’s just too bad they don’t serve in Congress. Because the Republicans who do serve in Congress don’t want to vote on the minimum wage at all. Some even want to get rid of it completely. Seriously.
That’s why what business leaders and everyday Americans are doing to raise wages is so important. Because change doesn’t come from Washington — change comes to Washington. I’ve always believed that, and it’s true in this case, too.
Outside Washington, Americans are ready to put aside old political arguments and move this country forward. The American people are way ahead of Congress on this issue, and we’ve just got to let Congress know that. It’s time for “ten-ten.” It’s time to give America a raise. And it’s time to restore opportunity for all. Thanks, and have a great weekend.
If a $10.10 minimum wage is so great why not $50.00?
The Shark of the Day from Maureen Dowd, New York Times:
IF you can’t spell it, you can’t get it.
President Obama pulled a Quayle Thursday night at a White House performance by the women of soul and muffed the title of Aretha Franklin’s anthem. “R-S-P-E-C-T.”
Let us hear it for Dumbo
An Malaysian Airlines plane is missing. It looks like terror, from Daily Mail (UK):
Malaysian Airlines plane that vanished off the coast of Vietnam as new information concerning stolen passports has raised fears that it may have been an act of terror.
[…]Luigi Maraldi, 27, was listed as the sole Italian national on the missing flight, but according to his father, was not on the plane.
‘Luigi called us early this morning to reassure us he was fine, but we didn’t know about the accident,’ Walter Maraldi told NBC News. ‘Thank God he heard about it before us.’
The name of Austrian citizen Christian Kozel, 30, also appeared on the passenger manifest, but the European nation’s foreign ministry stated that the man was safe back home, and that his passport had been stolen.
I might chalk up one stolen passport to coincidence Not two. And you?
President Fifty Seven States doe not know his geography and the President who put the Obama in Obama Care. does not understand his signature program, via Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit:
ObamaCare isn’t achieving its primary goal of extending coverage to the uninsured, according to a new study.
The survey released Thursday by the McKinsey & Co. consulting firm found that only 27 percent of people who have selected a plan on the new exchanges didn’t previously have coverage.
Reax,
But what about the fierce moral urgency of covering 47 million Uninsurred-Americans who were dying of lethal conservatism?
I know, I know — I’ve asked that question before, and you already know the answer: ?bamaCare!!! was never about them; it was about centralizing money and power in Washington. The uninsured will do what they’ve always done, and as it turns out, mostly chosen to have done. They’ll pay cash for their minor needs and go to the E/R for their major needs, if any.
Meanwhile back on the golf course, President Delusional is happy as a clam, from Right Scoop:
OBAMA: At this point, actually, I think it [Obama Care] is working the way it should. What we need to do after the first year is evaluate what the pool looks like. Can we make sure we are keeping the premiums low? Are there more people that we could eventually cover through other mechanisms, reaching those who are still uninsured.
Video:
Bobby Jindal alleges that Dumbo b/k/a President Barack Obama may not be as smart as advertised, from Karen, Lonely Conservative:
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal addressed CPAC Thursday afternoon and said that it “may be time to revisit” the assumption that President Obama is a smart man, “at least to make the distinction between being book smart and being truly wise.” He went on to offer former President Carter a sincere apology for having called him the worst president ever since “President Obama has proven me wrong.” He was just getting started. You can watch the complete speech in the video below.
Actually Governor Jindal is long past time.
The aura that once was Barack Obama no longer appears to glow in Canada. Rex Murphy takes Obama to task, video:
Hat tip: Kate, Small Dead Animals
Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters, USA (retired):
Putin establishes facts on the ground. Look, the vote in the Crimean parliament today, begging to be allowed to join Russia — it’s a done deal. The plebiscite coming up in less than two weeks is a done deal. Crimea now belongs to Russia. As I’ve said on FOX before, the only remaining question is how much more of Ukraine Putin will take and when he will take it.
But the weakness, the lack of unity between the EU and the United States — the greed, the financial cowardice — is absolutely stunning, and Putin isn’t going to stop, and he’s going to do worse.
This administration lives in a dream world that negotiations solve everything. This administration, look, they still indulge in this fantasy that you can talk Putin out of Crimea. It is absolutely insane. Putin is not crazy, he’s not delusional; our president and this administration are delusional.
Video:
Source: Real Clear Politics.
The Shark of the Day, Mrs. Clinton compares Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, from the Los Angeles Times:
“Now if this sounds familiar, it’s what Hitler did back in the ’30s.”
I would have thought that the reset button would have taken care of Putin’s Hitler like tendencies
The liberals are still playing the Willie Horton Card. You know the issue first raised by Al Gore, from Jamelle Bouie, Daily Beast:
[S]even Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to reject Debo Adegbile, Obama’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division.
There’s no dispute over Adegbile’s qualifications. In addition to working as acting head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, he twice defended the Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court. What’s more, his nomination was endorsed by the American Bar Association. His problems have little to do with his abilities, and everything to do with the politics of his work.
Well actually there were disputes over Adegbile qualification, or lack thereof same. from Byron York, Washington Examiner:
In written questions, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley asked Adegbile whether he would, if confirmed, “take action to abridge or eliminate an employer’s ability to perform criminal background checks on potential employees.” Adegbile embraced the EEOC position and suggested it would guide his own actions in the Justice Department. “If employers do perform background checks, the EEOC has released guidance on the subject,” he told Grassley.
As the Adegbile nomination nears a vote, the Civil Rights Commission’s Kirsanow has written a letter to the Senate opposing Adegbile not just for his activities on behalf of Abu-Jamal — still the hottest issue in the Adegbile debate — but also for his support of the EEOC on background checks. “Mr. Adegbile’s support for the guidance demonstrates his commitment to an ideological agenda at odds with the law and common sense,” Kirsanow wrote.
I support the right of an employer to hire or not hire a felon, as he alone sees fit. I do not think of it the proper role of the state to strong arm an employer into hiring a convicted felon. Do you?
Trouble in liberal land, Medea Benjamin is in jail cell in Cairo and Representative Alan Grayson may soon be
First, from Benjamin (Code Pink) (photo at the link):
This is my cell in Cairo airport
Hat tip and reax, Jammie Wearing Fool:
Now where did I leave my world’s smallest violin? This pig was heading to Gaza to show her solidarity with the Palestinian psychopaths and found herself jailed at the Cairo airport. Oh well
Aside to Bit, should we schedule a robust debate to see ifs the blog could sponsor a debate to form an exploratory committee to looking the feasibility of establishing a PayPal link for Benjamin’s bail, or just knit her a sweater?
Second, Alan Grayson is presumed not to be guilty of beating his wife, from Orlando Sentinel:
A judge has granted a temporary protective injunction against U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson after his wife filed paperwork accusing the Orlando congressman of shoving and injuring her during an incident this past weekend.
Hat tip: BenK @ Ace:
It is too early to declare Representative Grayson of being a soldier in the democrat party’s war on women. Grayson however is a jerk.
In the Nineteen Thirties, Joseph Stalin was starving people to death and a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter was lying about it. To wit, one Walter Duranity:
Walter Duranty (1884 – October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born, Anglo-American journalist who served as the Moscow Bureau Chief of The New York Times (1922-36). Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a series of laudatory stories on the Soviet Union. He was a highly respected journalist until his denial of widespread famine in the USSR, the Ukraine mass starvation (1932-33) in particular.
Now the regime’s scheme to destroy what was the best health care system in the world and yet another Pulitzer winner is lying about it, from Scott Johnson, Power Line:
Michael Hiltzik is the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times, but he seems to have undertaken the position of research assistant to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Hiltzik essentially purports to provide the documentation proving up Reid’s assertion that reports of the human damage done so far by the implementation of Obamacare are all lies. The cancellation of millions of citizens’ preferred health insurance policies we’ve been hearing so much about since this past fall — Hiltzik’s not buying it, and he doesn’t want you to buy it either. So far, he’s persuaded Harry Reid.
Is Dirty Harry Reid another Joseph Stalin? No! Stalin was smart. His plans worked.
I suppose given enough time, Barack Obama’s vanity trip,Obama Care could kill as many people as Uncle Joe Stalin. I don’t suggest we give Obama’s ego enough time to find out.
Has Barack Obama five years of Alice in Wonderland foreign policy finally cost him the support of the Washington Post:
FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how he thinks the world should operate than on reality.
It was a world in which “the tide of war is receding” and the United States could, without much risk, radically reduce the size of its armed forces. Other leaders, in this vision, would behave rationally and in the interest of their people and the world. Invasions, brute force, great-power games and shifting alliances — these were things of the past. Secretary of State John F. Kerry displayed this mindset on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday when he said, of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, “It’s a 19th century act in the 21st century.”
I really doubt that the WaPo will abandon President Fifty Seven States However if Obama had ever bothered to study history me might be aware that nations operate in their perceived self-interest and the the historic Russian urge has been for blue water seaports. Forbes Kerry is right, Russian foreign policy motivation is the same as it was in the Nineteenth Century, access to warm water sea ports.
The Snark of the Day by Mike Rogers:
“Putin is playing chess and we’re playing marbles.”
Hat tip: Rick Moran, American Thinker.
The Snark of the Day from the democrats:
“It’s time to raise a minimum wage that’s worth less than it was when Ronald Reagan was in Congress”
Hat top: Jammie Wearing Fool
Would help to explain why democrats believe the Sun revolves around the Earth and anthropogenic global warming.
