tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post3457717583890436688..comments2024-03-19T05:29:47.524-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Syria - SAA ( Syrian Army) and Hezbollah advance in Southern AleppoDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88347145934108390042015-11-30T13:19:50.106-05:002015-11-30T13:19:50.106-05:00$$$ Loan apply now with 3% interest rate for more ...$$$ Loan apply now with 3% interest rate for more details $$$<br />Are you looking for a Loan to enlarge your business? Do you need loan to pay off your debt and start a new life? You have come to the right place were we offer Loans at a very low interest rate of 3%. Interested people/company should please contact us via email for more details and get funded.<br />Email: shadiraaliuloancompany1@gmail.com<br /><br />Application For loan.<br />First Name:<br />Last Name:<br />Date Of Birth:<br />Address:<br />Sex:<br />Phone No:<br />City:<br />Zip Code:<br />State:<br />Country:<br />Nationality:<br />Occupation:<br />Monthly Income:<br />Amount Needed:<br />Duration:<br />Purpose of the loan:<br />E-mail address:<br /><br />Email: shadiraaliuloancompany1@gmail.comMohamed Alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13110714870720006179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63641973576349413942015-11-11T22:51:21.224-05:002015-11-11T22:51:21.224-05:00.
Or if nothing else, to the bottom of the White ....<br /><br />Or if nothing else, to the bottom of the White House.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52057408377301302792015-11-11T22:23:59.354-05:002015-11-11T22:23:59.354-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13810222585060052932015-11-11T22:05:56.320-05:002015-11-11T22:05:56.320-05:00Confirmed: Ben Carson would not abort baby Hitler
...Confirmed: Ben Carson would not abort baby Hitler<br />posted at 9:21 pm on November 11, 2015 by Allahpundit<br /><br />To cleanse the palate, a bit of trolling by lefty sports-media satirist PFT Commenter that’s been made oddly topical by Jeb Bush. Sean Trende tweeted a few days ago that the chaos in this year’s primary can be laid mostly at Jeb’s feet — if he hadn’t spooked Bush-weary Republicans by jumping in, if he hadn’t irritated everyone by raising a ton of money off of family connections at the very beginning, the craving for outsiders that’s propelling Trump and Carson might not have been as strong this year as it is. Now you can thank Jeb for something else, making “would you kill baby Hitler?” a semi-serious topic for Republican candidates. Every candidate must be put on the record. What say you, Donald Trump? Will you smother the infant Fuhrer in his crib?<br /><br />Imagine it. One stage, one night only, one-on-one: Rubio versus Cruz. Topic: Baby Hitler.<br /><br /> "would you abort baby Hitler" > "so how are you feeling about your Iowa numbers?"<br /><br /> — Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) November 11, 2015<br /><br />Carson’s answer here is, of course, correct. The book on this subject will not be closed, though, until one of the candidates is forced to riff on what baby Europe might have looked like circa 1960 if baby Hitler was snuffed but baby Stalin wasn’t. Cruz is the egghead of the field. I’ll bet he could do 20 minutes of “a world without Hitler” counterfactuals cold.<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/11/confirmed-ben-carson-would-not-abort-baby-hitler/Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66583328793551828322015-11-11T21:54:27.358-05:002015-11-11T21:54:27.358-05:00U.S. Arrests Two Relatives of Venezuelan President...U.S. Arrests Two Relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Drug-Trafficking Charges<br /><br />U.S. agents arrest two on charges they conspired to transport 800 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S., according to two people familiar with the matter<br /><br />Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, left, waved next to his wife Cilia Flores during a meeting with supporters last month in Caracas. <br />By José de Córdoba<br />Updated Nov. 11, 2015 7:28 p.m. ET<br /><br /><br />U.S. agents have arrested two relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on charges they conspired to transport 800 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S., according to two people familiar with the matter.<br /><br />The arrests come amid U.S. accusations that the top echelon of the government in Caracas is involved in the narcotics trade.<br /><br />The two men, Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas, were first arrested in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday by local police, turned over to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and flown the same day to New York in a DEA jet, these people said. The two were scheduled to go before a federal judge in New York on Thursday, they said. A spokesman for the federal district court declined to comment.<br />Related<br /><br /> U.S. Charges Top Former Venezuelan Officials With Drug Trafficking (Oct. 2)<br /> Venezuelan Officials Suspected of Turning Country into Global Cocaine Hub (May 18)<br /> Top Venezuelan Bodyguard Defects to U.S. (Jan. 27)<br /><br />Mr. Campo Flores, 29 years old, identified himself on the DEA plane as a stepson of the president, according to the people familiar with the matter, having been raised by his aunt, Cilia Flores, who is Mr. Maduro’s wife. A U.S. document said the other man identified himself as a nephew of Ms. Flores.<br /><br />Ms. Flores, 62 years old, is one of the most powerful figures in Venezuela’s government. The longtime partner of Mr. Maduro, she married him in July 2013 after his election as president.<br /><br />Before becoming first lady—or “first combatant,” as she is known in Venezuela—Ms. Flores was president of the National Assembly. Ms. Flores has put many of her relatives in important government positions, including another nephew, Carlos Erick Malpica Flores, who is the chief financial officer of state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela and the country’s treasurer.<br /><br />The arrests of the two men come as prosecutors in New York, Washington and Miami are pursuing numerous investigations into alleged drug-trafficking and money-laundering activities of top Venezuelan military, police and government officials, according to U.S. officials.<br /><br />U.S. officials have long said Venezuela is the main transit point for cocaine from neighboring Colombia. Caracas routinely denies allegations that it is involved in drug trafficking, characterizing them as efforts to destabilize Venezuela’s leftist government.<br /><br />But military officers and officials who have fled Venezuela for the U.S. describe a government unable to mend a broken economy and allegedly involved in drug trafficking.................<br /><br />http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-it-arrests-two-relatives-of-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-on-drug-trafficking-charges-1447276449Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25342309954327620512015-11-11T21:45:04.158-05:002015-11-11T21:45:04.158-05:00$15.00.hour ?
We'll all be eating $12.00 Big ...$15.00.hour ?<br /><br />We'll all be eating $12.00 Big Macs.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18003226719924444972015-11-11T20:54:52.673-05:002015-11-11T20:54:52.673-05:00When the wage hike was implemented, in January 195...<b>When the wage hike was implemented, in January 1950, the unemployment rate was 6.5 percent.<br /><br />One year later, in January 1951, the unemployment rate was 3.7 percent.</b><br /><br />“We shall not relax in our efforts to provide a better life for all our people.”—Harry Truman on wage hikes<br />Truman counseled at the time of the minimum-wage increase that it would undoubtedly be necessary to raise wages again as part on a long-term strategy for bettering the circumstance of the nation and its people. He urged his successors to recognize that “Our progress in this field points the way for our future action. We shall not relax in our efforts to provide a better life for all our people.”<br /><br />Dwight Eisenhower listened. He signed a measure that in the spring of 1956 increased the minimum wage from 75 cents an hour to $1 an hour. <b>The unemployment rate was at 4.2 percent when he signed it. A year later, it had fallen to 3.7 percent.</b><br /><br />Eisenhower and his allies referred to themselves as “modern Republicans.”<br /><br />Unfortunately, that is not the term that can be used for Dr. Carson, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and the other Republicans who mangle the facts in attempting to make the case against what Franklin Roosevelt taught us was necessary and possible: “the change from starvation wages and starvation employment to living wages and sustained employment.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/ben-carson-is-as-wrong-about-wage-hikes-as-he-was-about-the-pyramids/" rel="nofollow">The Nation</a>galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80184345637069092272015-11-11T20:51:24.807-05:002015-11-11T20:51:24.807-05:00Truman recognized a mandate when he saw one. And h...Truman recognized a mandate when he saw one. And he moved quickly to implement a “Fair Deal” program that sought to extend on the progress made by FDR’s “New Deal.” One of the 33rd president’s boldest proposals was a major minimum-wage increase; he sought to raise the base wage from 40 cents an hour to 75 cents an hour.<br /><br />Corporate interests howled, as did Republicans in Congress—and even some conservative Democrats.<br /><br />But Truman pressed forward, declaring, “It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.”<br /><br />Congress approved the increase. Truman signed the legislation and on January 24, 1950, he announced: “At midnight tonight the lot of a great many American workers will be substantially improved. Today the minimum wage is 40 cents an hour. Tomorrow the new 75-cent minimum rate goes into effect for the 22 million workers who are protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act, our Federal wage-hour law. Another amendment to that law will provide greatly increased protection for our young boys and girls against dangerous industrial work.”<br /><br />The president framed the decision to almost double wages in moral and historic terms, explaining, “For many generations we have recognized that there are legitimate roles for the Government to play in protecting our people from economic injustice and hardship. Our Founding Fathers explicitly stated this. In the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, it is declared that this Government was established, among other reasons, to ‘promote the general welfare.’”<br /><br />But Truman had economics on his side as well.galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48398509613409573862015-11-11T20:49:08.644-05:002015-11-11T20:49:08.644-05:00Ben Carson Is as Wrong About Wage Hikes as He Was ...<b>Ben Carson Is as Wrong About Wage Hikes as He Was About the Pyramids</b><br /><br />Truman almost doubled the minimum wage. A year later, the unemployment rate was dramatically lower.<br /><br />By John Nichols<br /><br />Of course Dr. Ben Carson was wrong when he claimed in the fourth Republican presidential debate that “Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases.”<br /><br /><br />The Pulitzer Prize–winning analysts at PolitiFact rated that statement “false”—with no qualifiers or wiggle words like “mostly.”<br /><br />Minimum-wage hikes are not always associated with immediate spikes in employment; especially in recessionary moments. But PolitiFact notes that <b>“[of the] five minimum wage hikes that occurred when a recovery was under way, joblessness declined four of those times.”</b><br /><br />The PolitiFact rebuke was even more stark than the response from Egypt’s antiquities minister to Carson’s claim that the pyramids were built as grain silos—“Does he even deserve a response? He doesn’t.”<br /><br />So Carson got the economics of minimum-wage increases wrong, as did the other Republican contenders who said “no” to living-wage proposals during Tuesday’s debate. Billionaire Donald Trump was really wrong when he suggested that the problem facing America is “high wages,” and Florida Senator Marco Rubio was really, really wrong when he argued for permanent wage stagnation as a check against job losses to automation.<br /><br />Carson: “Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases.” PolitiFact: “False.” <br />But if all the Republican front-runners are wrong, it does not necessarily follow that all Democrats are right. There are plenty of cautious Democrats who favor far smaller increases than those proposed by advocates for a living wage.<br /><br />Doubling the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour, as activists demand, and as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley propose, may seem like an audacious move to those who are unaware of the history of wage hikes.<br /><br />But it would not be unprecedented.<br /><br />History tells us that doubling the minimum wage would not pose the threat to employment imagined by Carson and his partisan compatriots.<br /><br />President Harry Truman ran for a full term in 1948 on an economic-populist program that called for increasing what was then a 40-cents-an-hour minimum wage. He made it part of an appeal not merely for his own election but for the election of a Democratic Congress—reminding the electorate that the Republican-controlled House and Senate had thwarted his efforts to improve circumstances for working Americans.” I recommended an increase in the minimum wage,” the president told the Democratic National Convention. “What did I get? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.”<br /><br />The voters got the message. Despite polls that claimed the Republicans would prevail, Truman was easily reelected and Democrats picked up 75 seats in the House—their largest gain since the Franklin Roosevelt landslide of 1932. Democrats also picked up nine US Senate seats. So sweeping was the victory that Democrats took control of both chambers.galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35200896282112759482015-11-11T20:13:46.022-05:002015-11-11T20:13:46.022-05:00Fire alarm going off ?
Maybe your house is on fir...Fire alarm going off ?<br /><br />Maybe your house is on fire, Quirk.<br /><br />I recommend you call the Fire Department.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12927339557564735862015-11-11T19:51:16.089-05:002015-11-11T19:51:16.089-05:00granted I am slow but I can worship your feetgranted I am slow but I can worship your feetAshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52045787825627691802015-11-11T19:44:18.993-05:002015-11-11T19:44:18.993-05:00.
Finally, you get it.
..<br /><br />Finally, you get it.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75762556934600061042015-11-11T19:13:26.595-05:002015-11-11T19:13:26.595-05:00oh, well, guaranteed, just ask them to send you a ...oh, well, guaranteed, just ask them to send you a new one and if they hesitate you can use your gun...Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43860520298337701312015-11-11T18:35:17.450-05:002015-11-11T18:35:17.450-05:00Because if everyone else starts asking the same qu...<i>Because if everyone else starts asking the same questions I'm asking it's hard to come to any conclusion other than this one: this entire University of Missouri protest is a manufactured sham. <br /><br />...<br /><br />If you want more discussion, check your privilege, bro and also check out last night's Periscope session on Mizzou, the first amendment and politics. And just to blow your minds, I've worked in Democratic politics my entire life -- on Presidential, congressional and Senate races -- and am a white dude from the South who voted for Obama twice.</i><br /><br /><br />We need to search the White House basement to get to the bottom of this.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16133135952501219142015-11-11T18:27:03.003-05:002015-11-11T18:27:03.003-05:00poopswastika - immaculate defecationpoopswastika - immaculate defecationCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90655519308158003762015-11-11T18:23:58.264-05:002015-11-11T18:23:58.264-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85398113799093786252015-11-11T18:20:40.338-05:002015-11-11T18:20:40.338-05:00Outkick The Coverage
Is the Entire Mizzou Protest...<br />Outkick The Coverage<br /><br />Is the Entire Mizzou Protest Based On Lies?<br /><br />Michael B. Thomas<br />By Clay Travis<br />Nov 11, 2015 at 1:09p ET<br /><br />The first column I wrote on the Mizzou controversy analyzed the allegations and pointed out that firing a president had zero connection to any of the allegations or the demands for the protesters. In that column I accepted the protester's allegations as true. But as the week has gone on and the protesters have been exposed as anti-first amendment, selectively racist, and, last night, willing to perpetrate actual lies to get more attention, isn't it time to examine whether these incidents are actually real?<br /><br />That is, what if there's actually zero basis for the strike in the first place? What if these alleged incidents never happened and the media just accepted them without asking any questions at all? The entire protest is based on three things, none of which have been independently verified, a poopswastika, an off-campus racial slur, and an on campus racial slur.<br /><br />So let's examine each of them in order. <br /><br />1. There is no evidence of the poopswastika..........<br /><br /><br />http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/is-the-entire-mizzou-protest-based-on-lies-111115<br /><br /><br />Our lexicon grows. This is the first use of the word <i><b>'poopswastika'</b></i> of which I am aware.<br /><br />Is Michael Savage right? Has the whole affair been run out of the White House basement ?<br /><br />The mystery grows.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53066911686069646162015-11-11T17:47:06.986-05:002015-11-11T17:47:06.986-05:00.
I said good points but I should have said good ....<br /><br />I said good points but I should have said good point.<br /><br />These new 10-year-life-guaranteed alarms don't have replacement batteries.<br /><br />But getting a gun is always a god idea.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56690103667288263552015-11-11T17:44:42.762-05:002015-11-11T17:44:42.762-05:00.
Good points.
I guess I should have said smoke ....<br /><br />Good points.<br /><br />I guess I should have said smoke alarm. Fire alarm didn't sound right when I said it. But heck, it's been 3 or 4 years since I had to worry about it.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40078580340654373982015-11-11T17:20:43.252-05:002015-11-11T17:20:43.252-05:00and a gun of course.and a gun of course.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39320061412298576902015-11-11T17:20:20.606-05:002015-11-11T17:20:20.606-05:00protect your rights! get a battery :-*protect your rights! get a battery :-*Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39638002960880671312015-11-11T17:08:03.657-05:002015-11-11T17:08:03.657-05:00Lordy WiO you are a fool. Quirk takes the time to...Lordy WiO you are a fool. Quirk takes the time to read what you write and then follow the support you have to offer. He then rips your arguments to shreds and you prance on as if you made sense.<br /><br />The rest of us rarely entertain your thoughts with any semblance of respect. Good for a laugh every once in a while as you LOL with self satisfying gloating over the misery and deaths of thousands.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13929168653143800602015-11-11T16:08:52.245-05:002015-11-11T16:08:52.245-05:00.
Wait just a dern minute here. The other day you....<br /><br /><i>Wait just a dern minute here. The other day you said, and no one disagreed, they were 'all dicks', and no cared how many died.<br />(I think that's what said anyway)</i><br /><br /><br />I have on many occasions claimed they were all dicks. So are you. But that doesn't mean I want to see you come to harm.<br /><br /><i>Clarify please ?</i><br /><br />From the online slang dictionary,<br /><br /><i>noun<br /><br /> a mean person; "jerk"; "asshole".</i><br /><br />.<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12892430120131816322015-11-11T15:51:16.777-05:002015-11-11T15:51:16.777-05:00.
Yeh, well I have just suffered a significant (o....<br /><br />Yeh, well I have just suffered a significant (oxymoron or relative observation?) microaggression myself.<br /><br />After a nice walk in the park, I came home to the beeping of my fire alarm (guaranteed 10-year-life and beeping after only 3 or 4 at the most). I feel my rights have been violated.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66080368639907092272015-11-11T14:59:06.967-05:002015-11-11T14:59:06.967-05:00On Veterans Day, a Look Back -- and Westward
By Ca...<br />On Veterans Day, a Look Back -- and Westward<br />By Carl M. Cannon<br />November 11, 2015<br /><br />Tuesday night, Republicans held another presidential debate, two of them actually. Yet because we worship at the altar of public opinion polls, the sponsoring network couldn’t find room on either stage for Sen. Lindsey Graham, the only military veteran in the field, which seems jarring today especially.<br /><br />Veterans Day commemorations date back to 1919 when it was called Armistice Day in honor of the truce that ended World War I the year before.<br /><br />“To us in America,” proclaimed President Woodrow Wilson, “the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.”<br /><br />http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/11/11/on_veterans_day_a_look_back_--_and_westward_128700.html<br /><br />A good Vet's Day to all Veterans.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.com