There be racists, and their color be black, from Politico:
Black leaders are growing increasingly worried that a white candidate might seize the seat of former Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. in the upcoming Illinois special election.
With a host of black candidates announcing their intention to seek the seat, the concern is that they could split the African-American vote and provide a plurality to a white contender. The worries escalated this week after former Rep. Debbie Halvorson, a white Democrat and veteran of suburban Chicago politics, threw her hat into the ring
Who knows, if the ‘rats elected Halvorson, unlike Jackson, she might actually show up for work. Who knows. Can DWS please explain to me how the ‘rate or so pro-women?
Alas, it must be a very poor year. One Sandra Fluke is a thirty-one year old women, devoid of accomplishment. She is too stupid to find a local Wal-Mart to purchase cheap birth control, devoid of wit and about as popular on the campaign trail as a hernia, from WND:
Sandra Fluke nominated for Time Person of Year
‘Apparently unable to figure out how to purchase low-cost birth control’
(LIFENEWS) — She became the face for the pro-abortion movement during the 2012 elections and the laughingstock of pro-lifers for her relentless push to force Americans to pay for her birth control. College student Sandra Fluke has been nominated as a potential Person of the Year by Time Magazine.
Fluke is apparently unable to figure out how to purchase low-cost birth control from places like Target, Wal-Mart or her local pharmacy. Still, Time magazine felt she was qualified enough to include her with legitimate newsmakers and leaders who are significantly more deserving of the award and recognition.
The highly coveted Bitsblog’s end of year awards are fast coming. While I may spend many minutes debating the Snart of the Year, some awards are no brainers. Normally, Fluke would be s shoe-om for Sock Puppet of the Year, how ever Susan Rice has that award nailed downed. Still, I will confer with the editorial board, a/k/a founding blogger, b/k/a resident OTR driver, and will find some award which truly befits Fluke’s rather meager talents.
Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg|Nov argue the case that Larry Hagman helped save Rumania from communism, from Reason:
The death of actor Larry Hagman will no doubt bring many to write about his remarkable television career that included stints as Maj. Anthony Nelson on I Dream of Jeannie and J.R. Ewing onDallas. But as Reason TV reported earlier this year, Romanians will remember him for helping overthrow communism.
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If I had but known that Dallas would be so historically significant, I might have watched it. No.
One Jordan Weissmann thinks that Wal-Mart a/k/a Wallyworld, does not pay her employees, associates, enough to suit Weissmann’s particular sensibilities, from Atlantic:
It Would Be Cheap to Pay Retail Workers a Livable Wage
Ultimately, this all comes back to consumers. We are the ones who choose where to take our business. And for the most part, Americans have chosen cheap.
It’s hard to blame middle class families for making that decision — not a lot of people have the extra cash to make a political statement out of where they buy paper towels and diapers. But it’s led to cycle of impoverishment, where big box stores have brought down wages at smaller competitors desperate to compete, taking money out of the hands of workers, and sending back up the corporate food chain to shareholders. That’s put a burden back on tax payers: research has suggested that Wal-Mart workers are disproportionately reliant on safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same goes for Target and Best Buy employees.
The sad part of this is it wouldn’t cost us much to pay big box retail workers something closer to a livable wage. A study from UC-Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education suggested it would cost the average shopper an extra $12.49 a year if Wal-Mart paid its workers a full $12 an hour and passed most of the cost to consumers.
That works out to about $0.46 per trip to the store.
What Weissmann is demanding is corporate welfare. Weissmann wants Wallyworld and her customers, largely poor, to provide private welfare to satisfy Weissmann’s social conscience. If Weissmann wants to raise the income of Wallyworld’s some one million plus employees, let him cut a check, or urge yet higher taxes. Don’t saddle the working poor, to wit Wallyworld’s, customers with the burden of lifting Weissmann;s social conscience.
Hat tip and reax, Bruce McQuain, Questions and Observations:
if you don’t like the pay at Wal-Mart, seek a job at another employer. I doubt that most “big box” companies look at their employees as permanent. Wal-Mart and others are, for many, a stop on the way (for experience) to higher paying jobs. If it’s not, if it is all someone is qualified to do, then that’s their problem, not Wal-Mart’s and not the shopping public’s. My suggestion is to seek out further training or schooling elsewhere. But it isn’t the job of the public to subsidize your wages just because you think you’re worth more than you really are.
Wal-Mart doesn’t exist to pay a “living wage”, whatever that is. It exists to serve it’s customers and turn a profit. It is that profit that allows them to provide what is demanded by their customers and to pay their employees. If wages are too low, workers will likely look to an alternative for employment. Yet, somehow, Wal-Mart remains fairly consistently fully staffed.
Which brings me to economic truth that liberals are too stupid to understand. Labor is a commodity. Employers buy it Employees sell it. No business can long survive buying a commodity and sell it at a loss.
Addendum:(Eric) As I said over at Q&O: The one major issue I have with all of this…. does the flop of the Union protests,… being essentially overwhelmed by a lack of support, mesh with the re-election of Obama?
I mean, in a loose way, it seems to me to fly in the face of that re-election. If Obama’s ideas and policies are so popular as to create a re-election, where, then was the same degree of support for the Unions? Are they not in each other’s pocket?
OK, let’s start with a memory:
Well, the meaning of a yellow light is changing, according to the National Journal:
The National Motorists Association has a warning for the millions of drivers hitting the road for the busy holiday travel season: Beware of the yellow lights.
The timing of yellow lights on traffic signals at many intersections is purposely set to a minimum so more drivers can be ticketed for running red lights, says the 30-year-old activist group based in Waunakee, Wis.
This past summer in New Jersey, the transportation department ordered 21 cities and towns to suspend the use of red-light cameras at 63 intersections because the timing of yellow lights at those locations was below the minimum established by state law.
Other cities—including Dallas; Chattanooga, Tenn.; and Union City, Calif.—have been caught shortening yellow lights in the past decade as red-light cameras have become sources of steady revenue. The cameras snap photos of license plates on any vehicles in an intersection while the light is red, and citations, often carrying fines of $100 or more, are mailed to the registration’s address.
As a professional driver I can attest to the idea that yellow lights have been getting somewhat shorter lately. It shouldn’t surprise anybody that the idea of traffic enforcement has long since left the realm of safety for the less constitutional realm of an additional income stream for cash strapped cities. As the article says ;
“Cities and for-profit camera companies maximize revenue by setting yellow-light times that are too short,” said National Motorists Association President Gary Biller. “It is a violation of the public trust, and it jeopardizes motorist, cyclist, and pedestrian safety.”
Ironically, slightly longer yellow lights can significantly increase safety by allowing more time for intersections to clear, the group says. Biller cited one study that found just one additional second of yellow time can reduce the number of collisions in an intersection by 40 percent.
Just one more abuse of governmental power to contend with.
Perhaps if we are spending less money on social programs and more on roads, this kind of nonsense wouldn’t be happening? At least, it wouldn’t be happening as often.
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Susan Rice went on five Sunday morning talk shows to give dumbed down talking points, from Associated Press:
U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said Wednesday that her early account of the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in Benghazi was based on the initial intelligence community assessments and was always subject to review and updates.
She said she respects Republican Sen. John McCain, who has been critical of her, but says “some of the statements he’s made about me have been unfounded, but I look forward to having the opportunity at the appropriate time to discuss all of this with him.”
Continue ReadingHer comments attributing the attacks to a mob enraged over an anti-Muslim video posted on YouTube were widely denounced by Republicans during the U.S. presidential campaign. The attack came on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States, and her critics said it was clearly a terrorist attack aimed at the anniversary.
The focus has fallen on Rice because she is a longtime White House insider and is believed to be President Barack Obama’s first choice to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is not expected to stay on during his second term.
Susan Rice’s talking points were scrubbed by James Clapper to fit to the Obama administration campaign theme that al Qaeda was dead. Apparently Rice was naive enough to accept what ever Clapper told her at face value.
Yeah, I am sure that Rachel Maddow and Chrissy Mathews consider blonde to be a racist code word.
Another Thanksgiving, and another Turkey Trot in Webster, from WHEC, Rochester, NY:
The 41st Annual Webster Turkey Trot will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Webster Park.
The event is organized by YellowJacket Racing and Fleet Feet Sports.
The Webster Turkey Trot started in 1972 as a workout for the Webster cross-country team. This year, the event over exceeded 5,000 registrants and capped at 5,272 participants.
The event has grown significantly and this year marks the first time race organizers have had to cap the number of participants.
IF form holds true, another one thousand of Eric’s neighbors were running in Greece.
Mrs. Clinton’s negotiated cease fire in Israel has fallen apart faster than her figure, from Jerusalem Post:
In the hours leading up the cease-fire, the Palestinians in Gaza continued to fire rockets at Israel as the air force responded by launching strikes on terrorist operatives in the Strip.
More than 20 Palestinian rockets hit Israel after the 9 p.m. truce deadline. The rockets struck in open areas, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. One rocket is believed to have been intercepted.
Is the Smartest Woman in the World too dumb to negotiate a real cease fire? Evidently so.
Breaking Politics (@breakingpol) tweeted at 1:43 PM on Wed, Nov 21, 2012:
Brother tells Chicago Tribune that US Rep Jesse Jackson Jr will announce resignation – @ChicagoBreaking http://t.co/68h3hOfx
(https://twitter.com/breakingpol/status/271322942468653057)
Addendum: (DavidL) RS McCain reminds us that on this Thanksgiving, we have much for which to be thankful, via Other McCain:
Rep. Jesse Jackson resigned from Congress Wednesday, saying in a letter that he is cooperating with a federal investigation “into my activities” but blaming his health problems for his decision to step down just two weeks after his re-election. . . .
Despite his admission of “my share of mistakes,” Jackson said his deteriorating health was the reason he was quitting. He has been on medical leave since June while receiving treatment for bipolar depression. . . .
Jackson, 47, won election this month while being treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. . . .
He has not appeared in the House since June 8. Nor did he stage a campaign event — or even run a TV ad. Jackson advanced to the general election after defeating a one-term member of Congress, Debbie Halvorson, in a March primary.
I for one, do not believe that Representive Jackson’s resignation has anything to do with his health. More over, it is likely that Jackson’s former Chicago constituents were better served with JJ Junior in the Mayo Clinic than the halls of Congress. Like I have said, anybody wishing to start a fund to send both Jesse Jackson’s, Senior and Junior, back to Africa, I am good for a buck.
News flash to the Obamatards, since the blood supply was cleaned up, normal people have not been at risk for AIDS, The disease inflicts those stupid people, for reason or reasons unknown, chose to adopt risky and stupid lifestyles, from Los Angelos Times:
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is calling for doctors to test most people ages 15 to 64, whether they fall in high-risk groups or not, for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. I see only one thing wrong with this proposal: We should have started doing it years ago. Decades ago.
[…]
For a long time, society’s distaste for the factors most commonly associated with infection — sex among gay males, sex with multiple partners and intravenous drug use — kept people from seeking out testing, fearing they would be seen as immoral. Doctors didn’t dare even suggest it in many cases.
Time to get over that.
Get over our aversion to perversion? AIDS is a very easy disease to prevent, which why normal people are not worried about a disease they do not have and will never get. Get over trying to scare healthy people into thinking they are sick and quit promoting behaviors that vector HIV. If you are not at risk for HIV, you have no need for HIV testing.
So what would happen if Dems got all they want?
California, of course:
It is the Snark of the Day form Bruce McQuain, Questions and Observations
Alternate title: Whore of the Day: Sheldon Stephens
WTF over! From New York Post:
The man who accused Elmo’s puppeteer of sexual misconduct reportedly wants to recant his recantation.
Sheldon Stephens, 24, last week withdrew sensational claims that, as an underage teen, he had a wild fling with Kevin Clash, the voice behind the beloved Muppet Elmo.
Now Stephens is interviewing lawyers in hopes of ripping up the $125,000 deal he reached with Clash, 52, to deny there was any illegal sex, according to TMZ.
Stephens’ Pennsylvania lawyers last week released a statement on his behalf, absolving Clash of any wrongdoing: “He [Stephens] wants it to be known that his sexual relationship with Mr. Clash was an adult consensual relationship.”
However, Stephens now wants to return to his previous position,
You tell me and we will both know.
I conclude that Sheldon Stephens is a liar. Which one of his statements is truthful is open to question.
However, I suspect that Kevin Clash to did not consent to pay one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars to cover-up a consensual adult relationship. That said, Stephens have shown himself to be a liar. Therefore he should not hold his breath waiting for a bigger paycheck.
Addendum: It keeps getting stranger, from WHEC-TV, Rochester, NY:
Sesame Workshop says Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash has resigned from “Sesame Street” in the wake of allegations that he had sex with an under-aged youth.
Last week a man accused Clash of having sex with him when he was a teenage boy, a charge Clash denied. A day later, the man recanted his charge. A lawsuit by a second accuser was filed Tuesday, according to attorney Cecil Singleton.
At least Sesame Street is not going the Penn State route. Clash paid cash. There had to be a reason.
Addendum: Eric
The question becomes, who did Elmo tickle and when did he tickle them?
Bitsblog’s sexist Pig of the day is Jenny McCarthy, from Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times:
Jenny McCarthy kissed[groped] Justin Bieber on Sunday night at the American Music Awards, grabbing him by the neck and then the butt after announcing him as the winner in the rock/pop album of the year category. All in good fun, right?
“Wow. I feel violated right now,” said Bieber, laughing off the slurp-stravaganza as he collected one of his three AMAs. “Wow.”
Afterward, McCarthy attempted to explain herself — which might have been about as icky as going full cougar in the first place.
Waiting for the outrage from the feminists, err nags, err cows in three, two, one …
