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• MSNBC Anchor’s ‘Easy’ Solution to Ending Poverty: ‘Giving People Money’

  May 13, 2013 at 5:40am

  It’s already been said, but I’ll add my own. When G. Bush released the stimulus checks, it was based on household numbers. At that time I had only one child and received my amount. My brother and his shockingly liberal wife had two kids then (now three) and like today, lived at near poverty levels due to compounding bad financial choices. They received that much more in stimulus. It may have been $600?

  I used mine to pay off some debt and to pay for hotels as we traveled home to Maine that summer. My brother? Par-tay! He took his wife out, paid for babysitting, and spent the entire amount in one night of drinking, drinking, oh and food. Meanwhile his kids ate Wonder bread and peanut butter (and still do).

  So even in his situation of not having two nickels to rub together, at the first blush of receiving “free money”, he and his wife spent every penny on useless BS, that the next morning all they had were hangovers to show for it. And you know what? She continued to bash G. Bush and complained it wasn’t enough. I was in tears I was so frustrated from hearing her stupid voice that summer while on vacation visiting them and my parents.

• Dumb, Desperate or Good Idea? Calif. Councilman Proposes Email Tax to Keep Postal Service Funded

  March 10, 2013 at 6:43am

  Before people start giving up on Saturday deliveries or hanging their heads low and waiting for the cost of stamps to rise, as the article states, the largest problem the USPS has is not the mail service or sale of stamps, it’s the forced $11B+ a year into a pension fund for people who don’t even work for the USPS yet. As a person with friends and relatives who work for the USPS throughout the country, I hear it all the time. They are aghast their jobs are at jeopardy, yet the USPS is required by law to continue funding a ‘kitty’ for people’s retirement… who aren’t even hired yet.

  This is want happens when government controls a “business”. It can’t do it.

• ‘The Ultimate Outrage’: Mitch McConnell Fires Back After Group Mounts Racist Attack on His Wife

  March 4, 2013 at 4:58am

  In reply to kennycannon.

  The Left is only tolerate of ideas/beliefs even more left than their own.

• New York Army Vet Facing 7 Years in Prison Over Empty Ammo Magazines

  February 24, 2013 at 5:27am

  In reply to Look4DBigPicture.

  This is where coming after law abiding citizens comes so easy. We realize what we thought was right, may be now wrong, due to our misunderstanding of the law. He willing gives up what is in his possession and goes with the officers. It sounds like he then will be or was charged, and will spend time in jail.

  Those officers get to chock up a “win” and a law-abiding citizen and veteran, goes to jail. At worst, they should have just confiscated. He probably would have admitted to having other magazines as well.

  What this article doesn’t spell out for me, was it a sting operation? He was waiting for someone to buy the magazines, and the police just happened to be interested in what he was doing?

  With so many illegals, drugs, drunken escapades, and other lowlifes to go after, officers going after those who willingly comply is just so much easier.

• Is Starbucks Gun-Friendly? Advocates Launch ‘Support Starbucks’ Day (Here’s Why)

  February 23, 2013 at 5:21am

  In reply to oneshiner.

  You can’t even buy free packets of sugar at Starbucks for $2. I prefer a Dunkin Turbo any day.

• The Way This Man Was Reunited With His Impounded Dog Because of a Touching Photo Will Tug at Your Heart

  February 21, 2013 at 5:19am

  In reply to teddyc73.

  Myth, you are correct. This dog was rightfully the gentleman’s and he was arrested, wrongfully mind you, meaning the dog needed someplace to stay until the gent was cleared. I do not understand the $400 charge nor the demand for neutering. The state is acting as if the dog was found wandering the road without his owner, hence perhaps a penalty is necessary. But in this case? Absurd.

• Which Cable News Host Asked Guests If They Thought There Was ‘Anything Offensive’ in Ben Carson’s Speech?

  February 11, 2013 at 5:28am

  In reply to RestoreCapitalism.

  My neighbor, directly across the street, is a USMC veteran and now a successful contractor working for DoD. He is also black. He is also very conservative. Before the November elections he saw my Mitt sticker on my vehicle and commented how he wished he could put a Mitt sticker on his vehicle. I asked why he wouldn’t. His reply surprised me.

  He said he wouldn’t be able to take his vehicle home to visit family. He said as a Conservative black man, he can not express his conservatism where he grew up. He said “it must be nice” to be white and put whatever Conservative in my car. He didn’t say it with a smile. He was dead serious. He couldn’t put any Mitt signs in his yard. No Mitt stickers on his vehicle. His entire house was devoid of anything political.

  He didn’t do this because of what whites would think. He did this because of what blacks would think.

  It was eye opening to me.

• CNN Anchor Asks With a Straight Face If Global Warming Is to Blame for Asteroid

  February 10, 2013 at 4:47pm

  In reply to UNALIEN.

  I have often believed without a shred of doubt that if the media/Hollywood say something enough times and with enough emotion, the vast majority of Americans will believe it without doing independent research for themselves. It must be true because it is on all the television channels. It must be true because People magazine is covering it. It must be true because [big name actor] says it is.

  What makes me laugh the most about all the Hollywood types coming out for Global Warming or Gun Control? They are paid actors. They ACT for a living. How can you take them seriously for even the briefest of moments?

• Restaurant Employee on ‘Undercover Boss’ Show Admits He Hates Customers, Gets Immediately Fired

  February 6, 2013 at 5:55am

  I worked at a Sizzler as a cook for many years I’d rather forget. But it paid well as I moved up from dishwasher to head line cook, plus you’d get free meals.

  We’d say similar things. It was never ALL customers, but you’d say ALL customers as a broad paint stroke. It just went with the territory. You have a job to do and you do it well, but there’d always be a handful of customers every night who’d demand the world of the staff and when things didn’t go their exacting way, they’d demand free meals. They’d always be “comp’ed” by the manager and the staff would hang their heads. It became a game that the customer invariably always won.

  I remember this well. I can recall cooking a steak for an order, as requested. Let’s say it was medium-rare. With 20 or 30 of steaks cooking in from of me and sweat poring off my brow, a waitress approaches the window with that same steak, now 75% eaten and she says that the customer says it’s too well done. I stared at her. She shrugs and says they want a new one. I refused.

  The manager gets involved and visits the customer. He comes back and authorizes the new steak. He claims he will dock my pay tonight if I do not comply. So I comply. The new steak goes out and comes back now 50% eaten. Too rare. This time the customer claims we’re doing it on purpose to annoy her.

  In the end she gets her entire meal “comp’ed” and a free meal in the future. It’s THAT person people refer to when they say the h

• Woman Arrested While Refusing Smart Meter Installation on Her Property Tells Us Her Story

  January 25, 2013 at 3:46pm

  In reply to orionreplay6607.

  Negative. It was the same device. It was also promoted as providing two way communication with the electric co-op as a means of monitoring my usage as well. It was also touted as being a way to report outages without me being in the loop. This gentleman was pushing this other feature where the co-op could regulate usage during peak times. Don’t ask me how they’d get to the HVAC system, but it was a smart meter as introduced in early 2011 in the vicinity of NAS Patuxent River.