Morning Thread (8-25-2015)

Rather than leaving you with an original, pithy comment to start your day, I dropped back to AoSHQ Blog Mode 1: Swipe Content From HotAir

Donald Trump isn’t telling the whole truth on why jobs leave America

Lemme give you a big hint. It starts with a "G" and ends with a "T".

Too Hard? Ok: _overnmen_

Posted by: Andy at 06:41 AM

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1 Happy Tuesday all. There is a great article at The Conservative Treehouse blog. Link in my mic. I miss Vic!

Posted by: Chilling the most at August 25, 2015 06:42 AM (qoEvC)

2 Let's see...

Graft
Grunt
Groot

Oh.

Posted by: Agent J at August 25, 2015 06:42 AM (ueOgE)

3 So how much will the stock market tank on this fine Tuesday?

Posted by: Happy Days Are Here Again at August 25, 2015 06:43 AM (6eVVe)

4 Herro.

Posted by: blaster at August 25, 2015 06:43 AM (ZFt7y)

5 DAY 1,022

441 to go (514 to Inauguration Day 2017)

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, Mahdi megatons, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, mewling mattress myth manufacturers, marriage maimers, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Myrmidons, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microaggressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 06:45 AM (St6BJ)

6 Good Morning EMT!

Someone find Vic!

Posted by: Gmac - banned at home - #twoweeks at August 25, 2015 06:47 AM (4pjhs)

7 China is most definitely problematic, but the $210 trillion dollar gorilla in the room is the Federal Government.

Plus, in 10 years 36,877 regulations have been issued by the Executive Branch through the bureaucracy that absolutely strangle freedom and our economy.

No one is talking about this. Not even Trump. If we are to go down, it will be from within.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 06:48 AM (St6BJ)

8
Jeb Bush threw his support behind a Tennessee plan to give two years of community college to students tuition free on Monday, the same plan that helped inspire President Obamas similar proposal earlier this year.

Tennessee Promise is one of the programs that the White House said inspired President Obamas recent plan to offer two years of tuition-free community college to all students that meet certain qualifications.

"Governor Bush supports a states right to innovate and find solutions to our education challenges, whether it be in K12 or in the higher education community," Allie Brandenburger, a Bush spokeswoman told The Hill in a statement.

The Hill

Severely Conservative: Your government provided free sh1t at the state level.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 06:49 AM (kdS6q)

9 For some historical data in regards to whether a certain USAF airman should get the Airman's Medal or the Silver Star.

Here is Army General Order 70-1.
http://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/pdf/go7101.pdf

I have this one bookmarked because of all the Soldier Medals awarded to Mississippi Army National Guardsmen who ignored orders the night Camille came ashore. Their orders were to stay in their shelters. Instead they stayed out in the storm rescuing people at great risk to themselves.

This list also shows examples of Silver Stars, Bronze Stars with the V, and even an Army Commendation Medal earned during a fire fight in the Republic of Vietnam.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 06:50 AM (gPuuk)

10 Levin was going off on this yesterday.
Government regulations are in essence laws that are created by unelected bureaucrats to restrict commerce.

Posted by: Gmac - banned at home - #twoweeks at August 25, 2015 06:51 AM (4pjhs)

11 Test

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 25, 2015 06:52 AM (ph/F7)

12 10 Levin was going off on this yesterday.
Government regulations are in essence laws that are created by unelected bureaucrats to restrict commerce.
Posted by: Gmac - banned at home - #twoweeks at August 25, 2015 06:51 AM (4pjhs)

Well, I swipe content from him, truth be told.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 06:53 AM (St6BJ)

13 I captioned in a meme, the Obama family Marine One photo from Maet's ONT.

https://twitter.com/PeeteySDee/status/636108111456169984

Posted by: @PeeteySDee at August 25, 2015 06:53 AM (PAbDM)

14 ....I dropped back to AoSHQ Blog Mode 1: Swipe Content From HotAir

Funny, I noticed this article when I did a headline scan of Tepid Air yesterday. Saw it was "written" by some gink calling himself "Taylor Millard," who seems to be the site's Designated Fiction Author. He makes Jizz Shaw seem like Wm F Buckley, FFS.

For anyone expecting actual intelligent, reasoned commentary, Poppin' Fresh's Usual Gang of Idiots is sure to disappoint.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 25, 2015 06:53 AM (SNBrO)

15 ARCOMs with a V device isn't all that common nowadays.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 25, 2015 06:53 AM (zyIlW)

16 Well this photo-essay should make everyone's stomachs grumble in hunger. The meals of 007.

http://www.ufunk.net/en/food/james-bond-meals/

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 06:54 AM (gPuuk)

17 Black Lives Matter!

Chicago: 1 dead 9 shot rather ordinary night in Chicago
Baltimore: School starts, all back to school....

"He is a good boy. A very good boy. An aspiring rapper, who was turning his life around. "
repeated all around the country in the black areas, over and over.

Posted by: Colin at August 25, 2015 06:55 AM (5LuhY)

18
Former Gov. Rick Perrys Iowa chairman is stepping down, delivering another blow to the GOP contender's 2016 presidential bid.

Sam Clovis cited the campaigns financial struggles, noting that he left in part because he is no longer being paid. I feel bad for the campaign and I feel bad for Governor Perry because I think hes a marvelous human being, hes a great man and it was my honor to be a part of this, but it was just time to move on, Clovis later told the Washington Post.

One of Iowas most prominent conservatives, Clovis said he has been offered spots on several rival campaigns over the last two and a half weeks, and expects to sign on with one of them in the next few days.

The Hill

Rick Perry 2016: If not me, Who? If not now, When? What?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 06:55 AM (kdS6q)

19 SMFH, it is pretty rare. And I think the USAF is going to award the Airman's Medal because nothing really fits the situation.

Unless you call France a combat zone that is.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 06:57 AM (gPuuk)

20 I see Jeb? went to the Texas border to denounce Trumps immigration plan and did it in Spanish.

Yeah, but does anyone think Trump wouldn't realize the _overnment_ is one of the reasons companies leave and then develop a UGGGE and magnificent plan to fix it?

Posted by: WOPR at August 25, 2015 06:57 AM (nRvEn)

21 18 Rick Perry 2016: If not me, Who? If not now, When? What?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 06:55 AM (kdS6q)

One down. About 11 to go.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 06:57 AM (St6BJ)

22 Rick Perry 2016: If not me, Who? If not now, When? What? Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 06:55 AM

I think that should be, "If not me, When? If not now, Who?"

Perry, for whom I had such hopes, is looking more and more like the Conservative Joltin' Joe Biden. Every time I see a picture of him, I expect to see library paste on his chin.

Has he never seen or heard of a political campaign? Dude seems to have no clue what one is.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 25, 2015 06:58 AM (SNBrO)

23 J.J. Sefton

Agatha Christie never wrote about 12 Dwarves but should have?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 06:58 AM (gPuuk)

24 23 J.J. Sefton

Agatha Christie never wrote about 12 Dwarves but should have?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 06:58 AM (gPuuk)

Please to clarify, oh inscrutable one . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 07:00 AM (St6BJ)

25
10 Little Indians?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 07:00 AM (St6BJ)

26 Agatha Christie never wrote about 12 Dwarves but should have?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 06:58 AM (gPuuk)

Chris Christie ate 12 donuts.....does that count?

Posted by: BignJames at August 25, 2015 07:00 AM (qTNgi)

27 Sefton, yep that story.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:01 AM (gPuuk)

28 Well this photo-essay should make everyone's stomachs grumble in hunger. The meals of 007.

http://www.ufunk.net/en/food/james-bond-meals/

Thanks so much for the link, I can think of other meals served, but they aren't mentioned in the novels.

Posted by: Colin at August 25, 2015 07:02 AM (5LuhY)

29 10 Little Indians?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 07:00 AM

Jindal, Fauxcahontas, and who else?

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 25, 2015 07:02 AM (SNBrO)

30
Donald Trump isnt telling the whole truth on why jobs leave America

Saw it was "written" by some gink calling himself "Taylor Millard," who seems to be the site's Designated Fiction Author. He makes Jizz Shaw seem like Wm F Buckley, FFS.
Posted by: MrScribbler

http://tinyurl.com/og9by5f

A number of people refer to his as "the unfortunate looking Taylor Millard", because:

http://tinyurl.com/og9by5f

We all saw the picture and independently coined the same appellation. Kinda spooky.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 07:02 AM (kdS6q)

31 Colin, like the green figs in Dr. No?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:03 AM (gPuuk)

32
Quentin Tarantino looks like a midget Richard Kiel but with bad teeth.

And no brains, evidently.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 07:05 AM (St6BJ)

33 We all saw the picture and independently coined the same appellation. Kinda spooky. Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 07:02 AM

Yikes!

Or, as Lieawatha Warren would say, "ugh!"

Dude has a face made for blogging.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 25, 2015 07:05 AM (SNBrO)

34 *checks history*

Good gosh my intrepid heroes, Diana and Catherine, from Golden Isis just might make it back to NYC in time for the Long Island Express hurricane of 1938. May have to think on that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:06 AM (gPuuk)

35 Mallard Fillmore's lame stuff at Hot Gas? Well, its better than linking to another Kevin Williamson valentine to John Boehner--but not by much.

Posted by: anti-socialist at August 25, 2015 07:06 AM (o9lmn)

36 Colin, like the green figs in Dr. No? Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:03 AM

Or the Crunchy Figs in Choom Boy's epic poetry?

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 25, 2015 07:06 AM (SNBrO)

37 Colin, like the green figs in Dr. No?

Just watched Dr No...for the who knows how many times, trying to remember the green figs...at the meal with Dr No?

Posted by: Colin at August 25, 2015 07:07 AM (5LuhY)

38 What movie has Tarantino ripped off this time?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:07 AM (gPuuk)

39 I'm surprised to see the list of Commie/Democrat goals from 1963 doesn't include "Open Fun Camps". I thought for sure Hilldogger wouldn't have been able to come up with that idea herself.

Posted by: MTF at August 25, 2015 07:07 AM (TcePY)

40 Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 06:54 AM (gPuuk)

Anna, I bought your new book yesterday. Hope to start reading it this weekend while I shoot out resumes to get the hell out of this soul-destroying job of mine. Glad at least one of us is getting stuff out there!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2015 07:08 AM (zF6Iw)

41 MPPPP thank you so much for buying it. WeirdFlunky has already posted a 4 star review on Amazon about it. So I am floating.

Good luck with all your efforts. I know you will get that second novel out. Theda won't allow any other outcome.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:11 AM (gPuuk)

42 38 What movie has Tarantino ripped off this time?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:07 AM (gPuuk)

Fuck-o is on an "America is really white supremacist" kick. Over at Breitbart and Truth Revolt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 07:11 AM (St6BJ)

43 Trump is running a populist muscularly pro american campaign I love how all of the usual bed wetters are out there trying to correct the record lest anyone go voting based on wrong headed ideas.

If Trumps popularity survives the next debate look for team stupid to nuke it from space:

They would rather lose than let Trump win.

They weren't prepared for Reagan and have had to put up with him and his legacy for 35 years.

Team DOPE is saying not again, not on our watch!

Posted by: Kreplach at August 25, 2015 07:12 AM (eDW1j)

44 Then Tarantino really needs to move to the HK:SAR so the PRC can gobble him and his fortune up.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:12 AM (gPuuk)

45 It starts with a "G" and ends with a "T".

The problem is that this is not a problem.

No corporations are making a case before the American people that the corporate tax is too high and that jobs would return if it were reduced.

Why?

Because Uncle Sugar has the corporations hooked on a speedball of cheap labor heroin and Wall Street rigged market profits cocaine.

Take that off the table as an option and THEN you might hear the bean counters scream about taxes.

Ever try to take junk from a junkie?

Posted by: some random meathead at August 25, 2015 07:13 AM (gbIds)

46 I think the green figs were part of his breakfast order for room service.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:13 AM (gPuuk)

47 also mornin' ya'll

Posted by: some random meathead at August 25, 2015 07:13 AM (gbIds)

48 Can you imagine if HotGas posted a "Meet The Team!" page? Allah would post a picture of Grumpy Cat on his bio, or maybe an disgusted-looking version of Eeyore.

Posted by: MTF at August 25, 2015 07:15 AM (TcePY)

49
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) a black lawmaker from Milwaukee said Monday that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican presidential candidate, is "tightening the noose" around African-Americans.

Moore said Walker was "literally campaigning around the state, saying you dont want to be like Milwaukee, while at the same time really tightening the noose, literally, around African-Americans."

Moore mentioned Walkers opposition to raising the minimum wage, support for requiring photo IDs to vote and drug testing in order to receive public aid as hurting blacks, according to The AP.

The Hill

Team Walkers response was FOAD. Good on 'em.

Also, not personally much of a grammar bug on the literally figuratively thing because of a vernacular sort myself -- but jezz.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 07:15 AM (kdS6q)

50 G'mornin', Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 25, 2015 07:16 AM (go6ud)

51
I just heard the guys tell how they took down the Muzlim cancer. Totally fappable.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 07:17 AM (St6BJ)

52 45 No corporations are making a case before the American people that the corporate tax is too high and that jobs would return if it were reduced.

Posted by: some random meathead at August 25, 2015 07:13 AM (gbIds)
========================

Maybe you missed all the tax inversions being done in 2014-2015. Every public company who did one cited U.S. tax rates as the reason.

Posted by: MTF at August 25, 2015 07:17 AM (TcePY)

53 For some of us in Mississippi, we have run-off elections today. So yesterday the political weeds popped up, in all their synthetic glory, around the polling places.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:17 AM (gPuuk)

54 49 Also, not personally much of a grammar bug on the literally figuratively thing because of a vernacular sort myself -- but jezz.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 07:15 AM (kdS6q)

A product (or by-product) of the public school system, no doubt. Dumb slug. I wonder how she dodged Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 07:18 AM (St6BJ)

55 Allah would post a picture of Grumpy Cat on his bio, or maybe an disgusted-looking version of Eeyore.

Posted by: MTF at August 25, 2015 07:15 AM (TcePY)

Nah, I have a better picture for AllahPrissyPants:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7aqu9x4

Posted by: RickZ at August 25, 2015 07:18 AM (HEtQ3)

56 Fifty-one degrees this morning. Haven't seen 50s for many moons. I didn't just put on pants, I put on socks!

Morning, Glories!

Posted by: mindful webworker - a chill in the force at August 25, 2015 07:20 AM (urY6u)

57 J.J. Sefton, obviously she 'literally' dodged the forceps...

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:20 AM (gPuuk)

58 56 Fifty-one degrees this morning. Haven't seen 50s for many moons. I didn't just put on pants, I put on socks!

Morning, Glories!
Posted by: mindful webworker - a chill in the force at August 25, 2015 07:20 AM (urY6u)

The Eldridge Cleaver cock sock?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 07:20 AM (St6BJ)

59 Moore said Walker was "literally campaigning around
the state, saying you dont want to be like Milwaukee, while at the same
time really tightening the noose, literally, around African-Americans." Moore
mentioned Walkers opposition to raising the minimum wage, support for
requiring photo IDs to vote and drug testing in order to receive public
aid as hurting blacks, according to The AP. Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 07:15 AM

It's kinda interesting to note the source of damn near ALL modern-day "dog whistle" racist comments.

Moore, like others in her camp, portrays black people as "victims" when laws are enforced and giveaways are withheld, before going into the whole "lynch" rap as a kind of general condemnation. I guess there's no statute of limitations on stupidity.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 25, 2015 07:21 AM (SNBrO)

60 I think the green figs were part of his breakfast order for room service.

one of Bond's Jamaican breakfasts: Green figs and yogurt.
I had to look it up.....

Posted by: Colin at August 25, 2015 07:22 AM (5LuhY)

61 It's a corporation's duty to pay as little tax as possible and minimizes expenses - esp labor. They have no duty to increase employment, that is an unfortunate side effect of growth for them.

Posted by: Jean at August 25, 2015 07:22 AM (ztOda)

62 So how much will the stock market tank on this fine Tuesday?
______________

Dow futures are currently pointing to a 600 pt. gain. Of course, that is subject to change at any time, but the Chinese gov't cut interest rates yesterday in an attempt to stop the bleeding, and it bucked up some of the overseas markets overnight.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 25, 2015 07:24 AM (a31sM)

63 J.J. Sefton: The Eldridge Cleaver cock sock?

Um, what a first reply to encounter! Are you being oblique or am I still asleep?

Gonna go brew some coffee, have a cup, and come back and see if I can parse that. Is familiarity with Cleaver's oeuvre required?

Sheesh!

Posted by: mindful webworker - a chill in the force at August 25, 2015 07:25 AM (urY6u)

64 63 Posted by: mindful webworker - a chill in the force at August 25, 2015 07:25 AM (urY6u)

You need to be born in the 60's to get that reference.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 25, 2015 07:26 AM (St6BJ)

65 Well here is the AoS Amazon link to Golden Isis if anyone wants toss some $$$ my way to keep me in anime and shoes.

http://astore.amazon.com/aoshq-20/detail/B014BTSEYO

Already started the sequel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:26 AM (gPuuk)

66 Maybe you missed all the tax inversions being done
in 2014-2015. Every public company who did one cited U.S. tax rates as
the reason.

Posted by: MTF

My point stands.

It is about cause and effect. Taxes are a miniscule cost compared to labor. What the companies actually benefitted from was a reduced tax rate AND a reduced labor cost in the host country.

'Every public company' should have been honest about their labor costs instead of hiding behind taxes. Of course that would reveal the giant corporate/government-approved work-visa scam so they just point the finger to taxes which even LIVs sorta understand.

Posted by: some random meathead at August 25, 2015 07:26 AM (gbIds)

67 one of Bond's Jamaican breakfasts: Green figs and yogurt. I had to look it up.....

Posted by: Colin at August 25, 2015 07:22 AM (5LuhY)

There's a passage in Goldfinger where Bond orders Tilly Masterton to fetch them a meal of French sausage, a loaf of bread, some cheese and an open bottle of wine, but I forget the exact details. It sounded very nice, though.

I will say that the Casino Royale meal would taste awfully good right now.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2015 07:27 AM (zF6Iw)

68 Maybe you missed all the tax inversions being done in 2014-2015. Every public company who did one cited U.S. tax rates as the reason.
_____________

Yes, it's the high tax rate, the high labor costs, and the high costs of regulatory compliance (all of which are inter-related).

As someone pointed out up-thread, the common source of all the problems starts with a "G" and end with a "T" -- as in GOVERNMENT.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 25, 2015 07:28 AM (a31sM)

69 After dancing around the point for over a year, the IRS told Judicial Watch (via Drudge) yesterday that Lois Lerner, America's evil step-sister, used an email account under the name of "Toby Miles" to conduct IRS business. No word as to whether there are other alias' that will be dripped out in 2016 and beyond.

Posted by: MTF at August 25, 2015 07:28 AM (TcePY)

70
In military news, there's a kerfuffle over the Navy's new "Best of the Boot" ribbon:

http://tinyurl.com/nb8y7q5

Kinda a "now everybody in a valedictorian" thing.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 07:29 AM (kdS6q)

71 I am Grout.

Posted by: Grout at August 25, 2015 07:30 AM (bBzbt)

72 How is not a crime for a Government Official to use a fake name for the purposes of avoiding FOIA and discovery?

Posted by: Jean at August 25, 2015 07:30 AM (ztOda)

73 They have no duty to increase employment

But lying and committing fraud on applications for temporary , seasonal work visas in order to get cheap labor is okay?

Sometimes you have to question the conservative corporatist lockstep mindset. It has done nothing good for conservtism and as MTF pointed out , companies are still leaving the country.

A reduced tax rate will not bring them back.

Posted by: some random meathead at August 25, 2015 07:30 AM (gbIds)

74 MPPPP, I hope you have a great day and hope you enjoy my little Indiana Jones story. Thank you.

I am heading off to go write. Tschuss!

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:31 AM (gPuuk)

75 Well, since Anna's doing it, here's a link to my book, The Director's Cut:

http://goo.gl/blwDQn

I've been working on a sequel for the last five years, but I can't seem to get anywhere.

Off for tea now. BBL.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2015 07:31 AM (zF6Iw)

76 Of course, that is subject to change at any time,
but the Chinese gov't cut interest rates yesterday in an attempt to stop
the bleeding, and it bucked up some of the overseas markets overnight.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 25, 2015 07:24 AM

My uneducated gut instinct tells me the market will back to full health by the end of today, or at worst in a couple of days.

The factors that move the numbers up or down have no relation to anything real. Companies didn't make or sell substantially more or fewer products yesterday than they did last Wednesday, pay increased or decreased prices for raw materials, hire or lay off unusual masses of workers, declare out-of-ordinary profits or losses.

If the whole thing is affected by whether someone sitting in an office somewhere is losing confidence in China, there's something fundamentally wrong with the whole system.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 25, 2015 07:31 AM (SNBrO)

77 How is not a crime for a Government Official to use a fake name for the purposes of avoiding FOIA and discovery?
_______________

Because I say so.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 25, 2015 07:32 AM (a31sM)

78
North Korea and South Korea are on the brink. The world markets are in turmoil. Congress is running amok. The EPA is poisoning rivers. Meanwhile, obama is on vacay.

All is going as planned, in otger words.

Posted by: Soothie at August 25, 2015 07:34 AM (yhX3X)

79 >>>It's a corporation's duty to pay as little tax as possible and minimizes
expenses - esp labor. They have no duty to increase employment, that
is an unfortunate side effect of growth for them.
.
.
.That is correct and most people do not understand that at least in the United States a publicly held corporation can be held liable for not exercising good faith and candor along with sound fiduciary planning.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 25, 2015 07:34 AM (iONHu)

80 Vic wouldnt be MIA this long without something seriously wrong.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 25, 2015 07:35 AM (iQIUe)

81 But lying and committing fraud on applications for temporary , seasonal work visas in order to get cheap labor is okay?

No it isn't OK. But, when the Government doesn't enforce a law does it exist?

Posted by: Jean at August 25, 2015 07:35 AM (ztOda)

82 Posted by: some random meathead at August 25, 2015 07:26 AM (gbIds)
=======================

Not sure what your point was, but the statement you made was that public companies weren't complaining about the world's highest corporate taxes, and they are (to the point of leaving the U.S.). Small companies can't really leave the country the way a global corporation can, of course, and in any event aren't usually taxed the way public companies are taxed, small companies pay even higher tax rates.

Taxes are a fixed and ever-rising cost, about the only one a small business has. You can negotiate lower property costs, reduce electricity use, lower wages, but you cannot reduce taxes. All you can do is leave, and move your business to a different state. Of course, leaving a state means leaving unemployed people behind, and that's what happens.

Posted by: MTF at August 25, 2015 07:36 AM (TcePY)

83 J.J. Sefton: You need to be born in the 60's to get that reference.

So I was born a decade too early? I do remember the 60s. All in the Family replaced Leave it to Beaver, IIRC. And there was something about a jungle war somewhere. And some musical group called the Moths or something. I remember it all like it was yesteryear.

You know that saying about how if you remember the 60s you weren't there? For me, that was the 70s.

Hurry, coffeemaker, you are our only hope....

Posted by: mindful webworker - I'd like to teach the world to sing... at August 25, 2015 07:36 AM (urY6u)

84 >>>In military news, there's a kerfuffle over the Navy's new "Best of the Boot" ribbon:

http://tinyurl.com/nb8y7q5

Kinda a "now everybody in a valedictorian" thing.
.
.
.There was a short time in 1989 or so when I was assigned to RTC Great lakes when the CO had to award the top Recruit with a NAM. The CO was not a happy camper but he had to do it. After the ceremony he would take the Recruit aside and tell them to never wear it when they showed up to their first Duty Station. I am not sure how long that lasted but it was a horrible idea back then.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 25, 2015 07:38 AM (iONHu)

85
The "news" told me this morning that Juan Ellis Bush has criticized Trump's immigration plan as " unrealistic and too expensive."

Bush says his plan is better because he will put the "focus" on other things such as a 'virtual fence.'

Virtual, as in existant only to the imagination. Focus your peepers on that, you fools, in other words.

Posted by: Soothie at August 25, 2015 07:39 AM (yhX3X)

86 It's hard to take someone seriously who suggests Walker is"literally" trying to lynch blacks or whose son is named "Supreme Solar Allah". Obviously, she didn't give him this name, but still.......

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2015 07:39 AM (OSs/l)

87
Is YOUR baby racist? Scientists discover a way to reverse racial bias in young children

University of Delaware scientist, Paul Quinn, found that by getting children to respond to the faces as individuals, not as a category, their racial bias could be reversed in 15-30 minutes. "The scientists' wanted to see whether the children's unconscious racial biases could be disrupted."

http://tinyurl.com/pdvxq4e

Yeah, nothing too ominous in that baby "disruption" idea.

"OK kids, into the reprogramming box! Zzzzzzap!"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 07:39 AM (kdS6q)

88 Hope we do see a sequel to Director's Cut someday, that was a fun mystery. Hope to take a look at Golden Isis next week.

Having the highest corporate tax rate in the world and a regulatory leviathan at Fed and state levels is slowly killing business development here, slashing that would still take years to see improvement. H1B and foreign workers seem to be a booming business.

Posted by: waelse1 at August 25, 2015 07:40 AM (OsIfi)

89 'One supposes' that most already know this, but to belabour: Fleming was a feature writer for the Mercury Syndicate, and, more or less, a food and travel writer first with a novel hobby. You can correlate his locations and plot business with the writing trips he'd taken each year, in between his writing vacations at Goldeneye. It's safe to assume that he's describing meals he'd actually had.

There is a book of travel articles, "Thrilling Cities," which is charmingly dated and would definitely get you into trouble if you followed his advice today. Top of head, I have two strong memories of it: he was kind of sort of taken with the cafe run by the guy who did the solo zither soundtrack of The Third Man, but found the Austrian woodruff spring wine headachy; and, he said of Berlin (before The Wall) that the bread of German culture was heavy indeed without the "leavening" of its former Jewish element. Little unleavened-humour there, but remarkable coming from a guy who always had to nose into an upper crust that kind of, sort of, looked down on all things Hebraic.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 25, 2015 07:41 AM (xq1UY)

90 Dreary day. Everyone in the house but me has a cold.

::soooon...whispers the rhinovirus::

Might as well go to work.

You know what could brighten my day?

Uh, VIC.

Okay, as a pick-me-up, Anna P., I'm going to buy your book. :-) Literary hordelings haven't disappointed me yet.

Posted by: Gem at August 25, 2015 07:44 AM (sNlRb)

91 I thought the answer was Game of Thrones.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 25, 2015 07:44 AM (iQIUe)

92
Supreme Solar Allah -- the son of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore was one of four individuals who pleaded no contest to misdemeanor property damage for slashing tires on 25 vans rented by Republicans to take voters to polls for the 2004 presidential election. He was sentenced to four months in jail, with work-release privileges, and fined $1,000.

Also literally ran for the Milwaukee County Board. Because best and brightest.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 07:45 AM (kdS6q)

93 And I must heartily commend "naturalflake" who at the end of "Mark Meadows" thread joined in my game of combining types of energy sources with names of Gods-a la "Supreme Solar Alllah" and was fair more clever than I was. At around post # 189 and ff

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2015 07:46 AM (OSs/l)

94
Finally...

Venezuela has a major problem with Colombian immigrants, the govt says. Venezuela has closed a border crossing between the two countries. Venezuela claims, get this, the Colombian immigrant invaders are bringing crime and violence to the areas.

Posted by: Soothie at August 25, 2015 07:46 AM (yhX3X)

95 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 25, 2015 07:48 AM (kff5f)

96 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 25, 2015 07:48 AM (kff5f)

97
One last thing,

obama signed another executive order. This one is to push the solar panel scam.

Posted by: Soothie at August 25, 2015 07:49 AM (yhX3X)

98 I captioned in a meme, the Obama family Marine One photo from Maet's ONT.

So did me.

https://tinyurl.com/p46mbhs

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 07:50 AM (O7MnT)

99 Posted by: some random meathead at August 25, 2015 07:26 AM (gbIds)
======================

sorry to sound nasty, but I've been trying to figure out how to reduce taxes lately and concluded last week I might have to move, so I'm kind of maniacal right now. Business taxes just suck.

Posted by: MTF at August 25, 2015 07:50 AM (TcePY)

100 Another day of high humidity and in the 90s. But it will get worse - they are predicting a heat wave of 100 degree days. That's when our shitty power goes out.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 25, 2015 07:51 AM (iQIUe)

101 Silly question: Can you do Uber without a smartphone?

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at August 25, 2015 07:51 AM (yxw0r)

102 Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2015 07:17 AM (gPuuk)

Was it your state that in the last election had some moonbat leftist running who made a big deal about the fact that she was a Witch? If so, whatever happened to her?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2015 07:52 AM (OSs/l)

103 Why would a goat have anything to do with jobs?

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at August 25, 2015 07:52 AM (TYZLQ)

104 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 25, 2015 07:53 AM (ZQfW9)

105 Random thought: One of the things that has been obliterated by cable and the internet is quirky local TV.

MST3K originated as a quirky, low-budget, Minneapolis local TV show. Detroit had 'Count Scary.' I guess other cities had their own quirky TV personalities.

Alas...

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 07:54 AM (O7MnT)

106 Morning all.

Hope this will be a moo free day

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2015 07:54 AM (gf8BH)

107 Moore said Walker was "literally campaigning around the state, saying you dont want to be like Milwaukee, while at the same time really tightening the noose, literally, around African-Americans.".

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 07:15 AM (kdS6q)

Ah yes, my rep, the mother of Supreme Solar Allah, opens her fat yap once again. You don't want to be like Milwaukee - which has an ever-increasing number of neighborhoods where you would not want to find yourself after dark, or even at 3 in the afternoon. The city's population has fallen,taxes are high, whites have largely headed to the burbs - in other words, it's like all the other cities run into the ground by Democrats.

Forget the noose - I'd like to smack Moore upside her fool head. Literally.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (waving ampersands furiously) at August 25, 2015 07:54 AM (+XMAD)

108 T-6 Days until I get my "Rev Share" check from work and can *finally* complete my novel (editing, printing, etc.).

So one of the Ettes is my editor, and is doing (IMO) a fantastic job. But I need someone to do cover art. I've got a couple leads, but wanted to give a chance to the Horde if possible. I would either need two files (one for print, one for ebook) or I would need one file that could be used with equal facility for both.

Anyone in the Horde got the skill set, time, and inclination? Shoot me an email at dedicatedtenther at the gmail thingy with rates, etc.

And, yes, I will likely be spamming this periodically for the next couple days.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 25, 2015 07:55 AM (kff5f)

109
A pilot was killed after an air traffic controller directed him to land on a runway that no longer exists, a preliminary accident report has found. Joseph Milo, 59, died when his single-engine Hawker Beechcraft BE35 crashed onto a Long Island rail road crossing in Hicksville on August 16.

He was instructed to try to make it to 'Bethpage strip' which has been closed for decades. The report by the National Transportation Safety Board said the unidentified controller insisted there was still a usable runway there.

But Mr Milo could not find the landing strip, which had long been replaced by industrial buildings, and crashed into the railway crossing, just a quarter of a mile away.

Daily Mail

Well, I know an air traffic controller who going to be severely punished -- early retirement at full pay.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2015 07:55 AM (kdS6q)

110 Another day of high humidity and in the 90s. But it will get worse - they are predicting a heat wave of 100 degree days.

I've been trying to figure out how to reduce taxes lately and concluded last week I might have to move

Solved both my tax and weather problems by moving out of Maryland.

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 07:56 AM (O7MnT)

111 MST3K originated as a quirky, low-budget,
Minneapolis local TV show. Detroit had 'Count Scary.' I guess other
cities had their own quirky TV personalities.

Alas...

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 07:54 AM (O7MnT)

Son of Svengoolie FTW!

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at August 25, 2015 07:57 AM (yxw0r)

112 IRS finds yet another Lois Lerner email account
Toby Miles account linked to government business

Yet no corruption here. Does anyone in this Fredo Admin do anything by the law?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2015 07:57 AM (gf8BH)

113 Silly question: Can you do Uber without a smartphone?

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at August 25, 2015 07:51 AM (yxw0r)

Well, it's certainly harder. I've never tried, myself, but I would presume if you had an internet connection, they probably have a website. I think your biggest problem might be payment, though- I don't think the drivers take (are allowed to take) cash, and I don't know how hard it would be to pay w/o a smart phone.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 25, 2015 07:58 AM (kff5f)

114 Okay, as I'm pouring my 3rd cup of coffee, the Cleaver cock sock memory cell finally got activated.

As the raccoon in Over the Hedge once said when the turtle brought up Jar Jar Binks, "Nooo! I had blocked it out. All. Out!"

So I looked it up.
http://bit.ly/eld-clv-ck-sk

Posted by: mindful webworker - y'got me, JJ at August 25, 2015 07:59 AM (urY6u)

115 It's hard to take someone seriously who suggests Walker is"literally"
trying to lynch blacks or whose son is named "Supreme Solar Allah".
Obviously, she didn't give him this name, but still.....

Supreme Solar's sperm donor was a nasty piece of work, too, but I've forgotten the exact details.

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at August 25, 2015 08:01 AM (rHXGG)

116 The funny thing is that if ISIS, who beheads other Muslims for belonging to the wrong sect or eating during Ramadam or watching soccer games, came across a guy named Supreme Solar Allah, they wouldn't embrace Gwen's son as a coreligionist. They'd probably burn him in a cage for his blasphemy. (In fact, I think if SSA traveled around the Muslim world, he would find plenty of Muslims who might not want to burn him in a cage but who would be shocked and disgusted by a man who named himself Allah.)

And from what I've seen of him, as the flames arose around the cage, Supreme Solar Allah's last words would be "Duh? Wha the f*ck is this sh*t, bro? I ain't white!"

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (waving ampersands furiously) at August 25, 2015 08:03 AM (+XMAD)

117 It's hard to take someone seriously who suggests Walker is"literally" trying to lynch blacks or whose son is named "Supreme Solar Allah".

Not in an age where Al Sharpton is a presidential advisor and college policies are dictated by RadFems.

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 08:06 AM (O7MnT)

118 Well, it's certainly harder. I've never tried,
myself, but I would presume if you had an internet connection, they
probably have a website. I think your biggest problem might be payment,
though- I don't think the drivers take (are allowed to take) cash, and I
don't know how hard it would be to pay w/o a smart phone.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 25, 2015 07:58 AM (kff5f)

Crap. But thanks for the info.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at August 25, 2015 08:06 AM (yxw0r)

119 This is sort of cool; an aircraft company is looking to crowdsource development of a small business jet based on F-35 tech.

http://www.xtiaircraft.com/

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 08:07 AM (O7MnT)

120 Supreme Solar's sperm donor was a nasty piece of work, too, but I've forgotten the exact details.
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at August 25, 2015 08:01 AM (rHXGG)

Was it Hank "Guam's gonna tip over"Johnson? What a perfect meeting of bozos that would be.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (waving ampersands furiously) at August 25, 2015 08:08 AM (+XMAD)

121 I think stated he would like to eliminate or reduce corporate income taxes. So the premise of the Hot Air article is just wrong.

Companies have four costs to consider: labor, raw materials, energy and compliance. The USA has been busy jacking up all four.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at August 25, 2015 08:09 AM (LXJ1e)

122 It isn't just the monster-guy shows that were quirky on local TV. I miss the old morning grain reports, for instance. We're being ageist though. The real loss to American culture was the demise of the stand-alone rural radio station, which you can put down to LBJ's bundlers and the guilt-assuaging establishment of PBS/NPR, a sop to Bill Moyers and the excuse for killing off the old all-formats requirements.

The last reference to them I can recall is Hee Haw, and that itself is in a museum. Some of those stations were just one guy, and as you traveled across a state you got a crazy quilt of local news and commentary, and live music from local players.

It came up one night on a music-themed ONT, that one reason so many country stars from the 40's and 50's died in travel accidents is that there were essentially no radio networks, and they were always driving to do a 15-minute feature on some local station outside Itta Bena.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 25, 2015 08:11 AM (xq1UY)

123 Hmm I can't decide if at least one of the federalist birthright articles will be in the dump or none of it. I'm betting none of it.

Posted by: Draki at August 25, 2015 08:11 AM (0eidE)

124 Trump advisor claims Mittens is considering jumping into the race.

https://tinyurl.com/p738smk

Highly dubious.

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 08:12 AM (O7MnT)

125 Well, got back from Duke with a new, shiny, lime green cast. They removed the surgical cast, checked the incisions for infection and redressed them, applied new cast, and handed me a copy of an x-ray showing my heel bone with two 4" deck screws sticking in it. And instructions to come back in two weeks. I was surprised by the size of the incisions. The four visible to me were all 3" to 4" long. Initial pain was mostly gone but the new cast has made it hurt all night long. Hope all of this works!

Posted by: Agitator at August 25, 2015 08:12 AM (cKgwv)

126 87 - Yeah, right, 3-month-old babies show a bias towards women who are the same race as themselves. This is BS. Babies show bias towards women who are the same race as their mothers, and it shouldn't take a university scientist to understand why. They show an even greater bias towards women who are the same race and hair color as their mothers. Honestly, it took university research to figure this out and they still got it wrong?

Posted by: biancaneve at August 25, 2015 08:12 AM (kBiy2)

127 Joe Biden?

It wasn't that long ago that democrats were locking Joe in the attic to keep him out of sight. There was talk that he was just too stupid to be on the ticket with Obama for the second term.

His video reel of embarrassing moments would run a full feature length. Once put together, Biden's gaffs will have people questioning how he gets from one end of the room to another without hurting himself.

Posted by: jwest at August 25, 2015 08:14 AM (Zs4uk)

128 Ah,the 50's "Red Scare".What silly people.

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/213123/

Posted by: steevy at August 25, 2015 08:14 AM (sPO3u)

129 Someone named their kid Supreme Solar Allah?

Posted by: Draki at August 25, 2015 08:14 AM (0eidE)

130 What??? The Donald is wrong about something? According to the folks at Hot Gass?

That's it, I'm jumping on Team Jeb!

Save us, Gope, you're our only hope.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2015 08:14 AM (Dj0WE)

131 Morning. Not a good day/week. Pissed off as all get out, in fact. Absolutely hate contractors - they cut corners, they're lazy, they try to cover their mistakes and deny they made any like they're blind, and then give you lip. Last night I ran the fkrs off my property, in fact.

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 25, 2015 08:14 AM (3ZtZW)

132 Yet no corruption here. Does anyone in this Fredo Admin do anything by the law?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2015 07:57 AM (gf8BH)

No, because there are no consequences

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 25, 2015 08:15 AM (R8hU8)

133 Don't worry--Trump is going to put Carl Icahn in charge of negotiaitons with China.

Whatever the hell that means.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 25, 2015 08:15 AM (659DL)

134 Yeah, right, 3-month-old babies show a bias towards women who are the same race as themselves. This is BS. Babies show bias towards women who are the same race as their mothers, and it shouldn't take a university scientist to understand why. They show an even greater bias towards women who are the same race and hair color as their mothers. Honestly, it took university research to figure this out and they still got it wrong?
Posted by: biancaneve at August 25, 2015 08:12 AM (kBiy2)

Forget it, they're rolling.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2015 08:16 AM (Dj0WE)

135 Local radio is also dead.

Despite my strong libertarian streak, I sometimes wonder if the culture would be better off if there were a law limiting how many restaurants or retail outlets could exist in a chain. That way, there would be a lot more regional flavor in the country.

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 08:16 AM (O7MnT)

136 Trump is going to put Carl Icahn in charge of negotiaitons with China.
==========================

Kate Upton not available?

Posted by: MTF at August 25, 2015 08:18 AM (TcePY)

137 Highly dubious.
Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 08:12 AM (O7MnT)

Maybe so, but why not? When someone like Romney looks at the cast of characters on that stage, why WOULDN'T he be telling himself "well gosh, I could do better than that!"

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2015 08:18 AM (Dj0WE)

138 Easy why we lose jobs overseas:

1) Lazy fat ass Americans who vote for free shit
2) Corrupt overbearing overtaxing government
3) Welfare state/government handouts to everybody
4) Lazy fat ass Americans who love free shit

What me work? Why?

Posted by: Joe Shit the Rag Man at August 25, 2015 08:19 AM (D0NZx)

139 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 25, 2015 08:15 AM (659DL)

Self-made really rich dude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Icahn

I don't know his politics, and I don't really care. It might be interesting to have someone who knows how to apply negotiating leverage across the table from our geopolitical opponents for a change.

Dammit. There goes Trump, again.

Donald! You're supposed to be my Burn it Down candidate!

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 25, 2015 08:19 AM (kff5f)

140 Despite my strong libertarian streak, I sometimes wonder if the culture would be better off if there were a law limiting how many restaurants or retail outlets could exist in a chain. That way, there would be a lot more regional flavor in the country.
Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 08:16 AM (O7MnT)

This could probably be done without a limit, but instead fixing our business tax/healthcare laws to not heavily promote larger businesses over smaller ones.

Posted by: Draki at August 25, 2015 08:20 AM (0eidE)

141 Real headline from MSM:

Jeb: 'Anchor baby' an Asian Problem.

This fucking guy is going to make a maniac out me.

What a putz this guy is.

Posted by: Kreplach at August 25, 2015 08:21 AM (eDW1j)

142 I bet that Joe Biden knows about economics, or at least he probably knows as much as Hillary or Barack. I'm feeling better already.

Posted by: goon at August 25, 2015 08:22 AM (gy5kE)

143 Hey, baby.
http://t.co/kMfevw95VB

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at August 25, 2015 08:22 AM (rHXGG)

144 @140
Ding ding ding! Agreed!

Posted by: lurkingestlurker at August 25, 2015 08:23 AM (cWen1)

145 Posted by: Draki at August 25, 2015 08:14 AM (0eidE)

No, she didn't. He either took the name unofficially are changed it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2015 08:23 AM (OSs/l)

146 IRS finds yet another Lois Lerner email account Toby Miles account linked to government business

IMO, this is another thing Teh Donald needs to address. It's no good saying "I'll build a fence" or "I'll fix the tax code" when you have scores of unelected, untouchable FedGov scum spending every day advancing a Democrat agenda.

How are you going to bring people like Lerner to heel, Donald? That's what I want to know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2015 08:23 AM (zF6Iw)

147 This could probably be done without a limit, but instead fixing our business tax/healthcare laws to not heavily promote larger businesses over smaller ones.

Unfortunately, the cozy relationship between Big Business and Big Government makes our economy a lot more Chinese-like than most people admit.

It is not a coincidence that the effect of the Dodd-Frank law has been to make big banks even bigger while devastating community banks.

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 08:24 AM (O7MnT)

148 Let me give you a hint. Hotgas has gone so far in the tank anti-Trump it's embarrassing.

All this handwringing over a year out by the establishment class is hysterical and frightening. The amount of control they believe they are entitled to exert is astonishing.

They actually make Trump a sympathetic character. How hard is that!

Posted by: brainpimp at August 25, 2015 08:24 AM (zosQc)

149 Also, either something is missing from that quote, or Teh Donald is not saying what Hot Gas says he's saying.

Yes, he talks about corporations leaving the US, and he's ticked at Nabisco for so doing. But he goes on to the "why" companies are setting up shop in Mexico: to whit "there's no taxes, there's no anything." That is- they're moving to Mexico because Mexico has a more business friendly Government (minus some graft, which is probably easier and cheaper to navigate than the US system) than the US at current.

Which - again, I picked Trump because he was supposed to be a clown who would burn the DOPe to the ground. Apparently, he's *not* a clown (which is really, really weird to say). He is doing a fair job on the burning, though, so there's that.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 25, 2015 08:25 AM (kff5f)

150 Venezuela has a major problem with Colombian immigrants, the govt says. Venezuela has closed a border crossing between the two countries. Venezuela claims, get this, the Colombian immigrant invaders are bringing crime and violence to the areas.
__________________

Nah, all these "migrants" are bringing is love! Just ask Jebbie, whose own state of Florida saw 40% of its murders being committed by illegal aliens from 2009-2014, despite the fact that they make up less than 10% of Florida's total population.

Apparently all those "acts of love" involve a lot of murderous violence. Who knew?!?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 25, 2015 08:25 AM (a31sM)

151 Oooh.

Beginning in July, able-bodied Indiana SNAP recipients without children are
required to show they are working or participating in an approved
training program an average of 20 hours per week.

http://is.gd/QGjqiC

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at August 25, 2015 08:25 AM (rHXGG)

152 This is favorite of the made up energy/God names offered by natural flake in the Mark Meadows thread:

Glorious Nuclear Anubis

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2015 08:25 AM (OSs/l)

153 @143 A parable for our times, right there. "He chooses to be single."
There is a lot of that going around.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 25, 2015 08:26 AM (xq1UY)

154 Real headline from MSM:

Jeb: 'Anchor baby' an Asian Problem.

This fucking guy is going to make a maniac out me.

What a putz this guy is.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 25, 2015 08:21 AM (eDW1j)

He really is and also the rest of the Power People in the Republican party who don't yet realize that the base...ie US... are really pissed. We won the House and Senate and yet we are still getting fucked. And I really believe that this time we are going to decide who represents us and it is NOT going to be a RINO. Which is why Trump, with all his blemishes, is doing so well. My man is still Cruz for the record

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2015 08:26 AM (gf8BH)

155 Ian Fleming and his wife liked to beat each other with wet towels. They always left a mess and you wouldnt want them as house guests.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 25, 2015 08:27 AM (iQIUe)

156 IRS finds yet another Lois Lerner email account
'Toby Miles' account linked to government business

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 25, 2015 08:27 AM (H5dz3)

157 I must say I rather liked one my own contributions:

Grand Baseboard Radiator Ishtar

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2015 08:27 AM (OSs/l)

158 sorry to sound nasty, but I've been trying to figure out how to
reduce taxes lately and concluded last week I might have to move, so I'm
kind of maniacal right now. Business taxes just suck.

No , no. Taxes DO suck. Corporate taxes suck.

Don't misunderstand me. I simply was pointing that everything that corporations do to 'fix' their balance sheet problems is not necessarily on the up and up. So when I hear about poor corporations having no option but to cut labor costs and taxes by moving components out of the country while they simultaneously benefit from importing indentured servants and rake in massive profit from the government-rigged Wall Street casino (like in yesterday's market theater), I think that it is important to look at the whole picture.

I guess I am thinking about about where do we go from here? vs. where did we go wrong?

Sorry to hear things are rough. Hope it gets better for you.

Posted by: some random meathead at August 25, 2015 08:28 AM (gbIds)

159 No, she didn't. He either took the name unofficially are changed it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2015 08:23 AM (OSs/l)

Yeah, it looks like he picked it up. I just googled his name and all sorts of crazy crap popped up.

Posted by: Draki at August 25, 2015 08:28 AM (0eidE)

160 Jeb: 'Anchor baby' an Asian Problem.

Apparently, it's not an act of love when Asians do it.

His awkward scripted apology should be interesting.

Is this guy really the best the GOP-E can get?

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 08:28 AM (O7MnT)

161 Jean :

Is getting away with murder still illegal?

Is doing 100 miles an hour in a school zone okay if you don't get caught?

Posted by: some random meathead at August 25, 2015 08:29 AM (gbIds)

162 As I understand it , Mr. Solar Allah has a bunch of names.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2015 08:29 AM (OSs/l)

163 Is this guy really the best the GOP-E can get?
Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 08:28 AM (O7MnT)

OF course not, it's not even the best the Bush's could do.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2015 08:29 AM (gf8BH)

164 able-bodied Indiana SNAP recipients without children

I think I see an Unintended Consequence coming, in about nine months.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 25, 2015 08:29 AM (xq1UY)

165 Small dump today, probably a product of Supreme Allah

Posted by: Draki at August 25, 2015 08:30 AM (0eidE)

166 Anybody know what Sun Ra's middle name was?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 25, 2015 08:31 AM (xq1UY)

167 151 The courts will probably overturn that.

Posted by: steevy at August 25, 2015 08:31 AM (sPO3u)

168 this guy really the best the GOP-E can get?

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2015 08:28 AM (O7MnT)

We know what's best for you. And you will like it. The Democrats give you shit sandwiches. We give you shit sandwiches. It's just our shit sandwiches have better toppings.

Posted by: The eGOPs at August 25, 2015 08:31 AM (HEtQ3)

169 Posted by: some random meathead at August 25, 2015 08:28 AM (gbIds)

Yes. Due to some weird (IMO) incentive pressures, it is far better for a company to have it's office/administrative/IT workers in the US, but have any manufacturing done outside the country (in many cases).

And you can thank the big corporations just as much as the government for a lot of that. Big corps like big regulation - it limits competition.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 25, 2015 08:31 AM (kff5f)

170 There is a lot of that going around.

It's not always a choice.

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at August 25, 2015 08:32 AM (rHXGG)

171 Yes, he talks about corporations leaving the US, and he's ticked at Nabisco for so doing.

I'm ticked at Nabisco for not making Uneeda Biscuits and Pilot Crackers any more (you've got to be from New England to get that last reference).

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2015 08:32 AM (zF6Iw)

172 I think I see an Unintended Consequence coming, in about nine months.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 25, 2015 08:29 AM (xq1UY)

Planned Abortionhood hardest hit.

Posted by: RickZ at August 25, 2015 08:32 AM (HEtQ3)

173 Jeb: 'Anchor baby' an Asian Problem.

This fucking guy is going to make a maniac out me.

What a putz this guy is.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 25, 2015 08:21 AM (eDW1j)

Wow, Jeb sucks at this.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 25, 2015 08:33 AM (ph/F7)

174 But Jeb was supposed to be the "polished" Bush.Polished turd is more like it.

Posted by: steevy at August 25, 2015 08:34 AM (sPO3u)

175 Jeb: 'Anchor baby' an Asian Problem.

This fucking guy is going to make a maniac out me.

What a putz this guy is.
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It is an Asian problem. And a hispanic problem. And an Irish problem. And an Arab problem. Etc.

Birthright citizenship is being taken advantage of by many, many foreigners. The bulk of them are hispanic, but it's not just hispanics who are doing it. Chinese women routinely fly into California to give birth. Rich Arabs fly into Miami to do it. And of course Mexicans and Central Americans stroll across the Arizona and Texas border to do it. It's been going on for decades, and costs U.S. taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars every year. And it's not just the cost of birthing all the foreign babies in our hospitals for "free," it's also the enormous costs of paying for all the welfare they suck up. Over 70% of anchor babies are receiving some form of taxpayer-funded welfare. It's an insane policy, and should have been ended decades ago (when every other civilized country on the planet, except Canada, was putting a stop to birthright citizenship).

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 25, 2015 08:35 AM (a31sM)

176 While I agree that the corporate rates are way too high, it's pretty tough to argue on businesses behalf when CEO's are making 20-30 million a year.

Yes, I understand that for a lot of businesses that's a small percentage of profits, and you get what you pay for, but when you're trying to make the case to economically challenged folks, that really doesn't help.

Posted by: Chupacabras at August 25, 2015 08:37 AM (sPO/s)

177 174 But Jeb was supposed to be the "polished" Bush.Polished turd is more like it.

The punditry likes to make memes about candidates, like Mitt having organization.

Then ORCA happened and we realized it was all fake. Mitt had been paying people to tell him he was organized.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 25, 2015 08:38 AM (ph/F7)

178 Come take a dump with BenK.

Posted by: johnny yuma at August 25, 2015 08:38 AM (ahBY0)

179 Coalition of Democrats for Election Reforms ... Mark Toby Miles

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 25, 2015 08:41 AM (H5dz3)

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