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• The Amazing Golf Shot from This Weekend That Made a Commentator Swear on Live TV

  May 14, 2012 at 7:47pm

  In reply to dnha14.

  A “stroke’’ is the forward movement of the club made with the intention of striking at and moving the ball, but if a player checks his downswing voluntarily before the clubhead reaches the ball he has not made a stroke.

• This Group Didn’t Want to Pay an Automatic Gratuity, Restaurant Responds by Locking Them Inside & Calling Police

  May 4, 2012 at 8:27pm

  In reply to MadNewYorker.

  @ johnny
  I know, the tips are counted toward, minimum wage. The server gets at least minimum wage. Are you slow or something? Their mandatory “gratuity” goes to the restaurant and like I said the restaurant can if they so choose disperse the money to the servers or they can choose not to. The restaurant has to make sure the server gets minimum wage. If the restaurant keeps whatever is extra from the mandatory “gratuity,” it’s their right.

  BTW I could care less what is customary to tip. Tipping is not part of the bill. That you feel the need to give your money away is your prerogative, but there is no reason why you should have any say in where my money goes.

  And as you said, “By the FLSA, so long as the end wage in $7.25 an hour, the restaurant can hold a walkout against the employee, and regularly does.” I guess it’s good they have their minimum wage.

  I didn’t realize there were this many liberals on The Blaze.

  It’s funny how you feel the need to quote movies as your source of inspiration, perhaps you should get a better job than serving tables at the local Applebee’s.

  @fftyranny
  Of course the manager would cut the staff if it’s slow; they aren’t making any money to pay you.

  The FLSA applies to all establishments across the United States, unfortunately. The stupid commerce clause keeps getting in the way. So, if you guys are so moronic as to say Minimum wage isn’t enough, You should advocate for raising it, like good li

• This Group Didn’t Want to Pay an Automatic Gratuity, Restaurant Responds by Locking Them Inside & Calling Police

  May 4, 2012 at 10:04am

  In reply to MadNewYorker.

  You guys are hilarious. All of you people who keep saying they only make $2.13 an hour are either really ignorant or are deliberately lying. The FLSA doesn’t allow for any employer in the United States to pay less than minimum wage. If a server goes to work and doesn’t have any customers all night, they still are entitled to minimum wage. So if you have problem with someone not having a living wage it’s because Minimum wage is too low, which it isn’t.

  If you were a server and you weren’t paid minimum wage when you were supposed to be, you should bring a complaint

  Now, let’s go so far as to look at the Federal Statute. 29 CFR 531.55
  “A compulsory charge for service, such as 15 percent of the amount of the bill, imposed on a customer by an employer’s establishment, is not a tip and, even if distributed by the employer to its employees, cannot be counted as a tip received in applying the provisions of section 3(m) and 3(t).” [3(m) distinguishes “wages” received by providing lodging or room and board, and 3(t) defines a “Tipped Employee”]

  So, when you guys actually pay the “gratuity,” you aren’t paying it to the employee who waited on you, you are paying it to the establishment who “even if” they want to distribute the gratuity they can, but are not obligated. You are all fools.

  The restaurant has to pay minimum wage and they and they are charging you more on the chance they don’t meet their minimum wage requirements.

• Okla. Supreme Court Rules Personhood Effort ‘Is Clearly Unconstitutional’

  May 2, 2012 at 11:16am

  In reply to From Virginia.

  Yeah, the Constitution says, “nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

  Then we have Section 5 of the Amendment stating, “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”

  Of course, The Supreme Court States in Roe v. Wade, 410, U.S. 113, 158, “All this, together with our observation, supra, that throughout the major portion of the 19th century prevailing legal abortion practices were far freer than they are today, persuades us that the word ‘person,’ as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn”

  That being said, “person” cannot be defined by the Supreme Court. It’s Congresses job, per the 5th Section of the 14th Amendment.

  Congress doesn’t want the job though, because the political parties use Abortion as their main dividing point and if they didn’t have abortion to fight over they might have to be elected on some kind of actual policy, as opposed to trying to figure out how pro-life or pro-choice they are.

  I personally agree with SGTB, implantation should be the defining factor. It would be the simplest law to write, and would still allow for all the contraception you want.

• Okla. Supreme Court Rules Personhood Effort ‘Is Clearly Unconstitutional’

  May 2, 2012 at 2:06am

  In reply to Teabunny.

  First of all, the local school board should make up their rules about whether it wants to allow prayer of whatever kind in the classroom. It is a local issue and the Federal government, and even the state government need to stay out of it. If the teachers of the kids in my school want to pray before class, then they can go right ahead. If I have a problem with it, I will bring it up with my school, I don’t need some bureaucrat to deal with a simple issue.

  BTW, an embryo is a human being and has nothing to do with “belief.” It is a scientific fact, life begins at conception. You can call a human a zygote, an embryo, a baby, an infant, a toddler, a teenager, or an adult. The stage the human being is in doesn’t matter.

  Just because someone is a human being doesn’t mean they are a citizen. And just because you aren’t a citizen doesn’t mean you don’t have the right to your life. The human being who isn’t born, is not a citizen, but still should be given the chance to live.

  Finally, are you really so retarded as to suggest unfertilized eggs and sperm are somehow human as well? And if you mean to bring up Arizona’s HB 2036 bill about not being able to get an abortion after 20 weeks, you are even more moronic than I already suspect. Almost all doctors count the “gestational age” from the first day of the last menstrual cycle. It doesn’t mean they are saying an egg is a human being. You can’t be that stupid. Can you?

• Study Finds Conservatives’ Trust in Science at Record Low: Do You Agree With Its Reasoning?

  March 29, 2012 at 7:36pm

  In reply to yokel32.

  Maybe we should do a study with Liberals and ask them if they believe the science that says life begins at conception? The results would show liberals not believing a whole lot in science either.

• ‘Clusterf**k’ & ‘Mass Cult’: See the Epic Compilation of Atheist Interviews from the Reason Rally

  March 26, 2012 at 1:23pm

  In reply to SpankDaMonkey.

  I think it’s funny how pretty much every word they used to describe Christianity, is a word we use to describe Atheism. They are very irrational at times.

  I was reading a comment thread on Crossexamined.org the other day discussing cosmic fine-tuning. An atheist on their continually said, when looking at cosmic fine-tuning it is reasonable to believe that there is an intelligence outside of the universe powerful enough to create and keep the universe in balance. You can’t call this entity “God;” just because it is an intelligent being and powerful enough to create everything doesn’t mean it’s “God,” it’s just very powerful.

  Which is a fair point, using semantics would give you the ability to not call a being powerful enough to create everything God. Maybe the being would just refer to itself as “I AM.” Perhaps, because the being “was,” “is,” and always “will be.”

• ‘Hunger Games’ Scores $155 Million Opening Weekend

  March 25, 2012 at 9:43pm

  “The film is based on the first novel in the best-selling trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Lionsgate plans to release part two, ‘Catching Fire,’ in November 2013″

  “Catching Fire” is the third one. “Mockingjay” is the Second one. I hope they aren’t releasing “Catching Fire” Second. The audience would be really confused.

• Which Reality TV Show and War Inspired ‘Hunger Games’?

  March 22, 2012 at 9:03pm

  In reply to DasAmerican.

  Are you retarded, or just stupid? “The Hunger Games is a 100% ripoff of Battle Royale.”

  Battle Royale takes place in Japan for one. Battle Royale involves 42 kids not 24. The kids are gassed and transported to an island. Battle Royale takes place in the present. Battle Royale follows many different perspectives. Not to mention the protagonist in Battle Royale is a guy. Far from 100%.

  I haven’t seen nor care to see Battle Royale, because it sounds pretty much like the movie “No Escape”, with a splash of “Running man.” I guess you could throw in Stephen King’s “The Long Walk” and have yourself a Battle Royale. Of course, the author of Battle Royale must have gotten the idea for the collars from “wedlock.” What a thief.

  The most likely truth is Koushun Takami watched a couple seasons of “Survivor” and thought it would be a good idea for a book, with a Japanese twist. Why can’t he be honest about it? At least Suzie Collins admits she took her ideas from “Survivor.” Is Koushun that much of a coward he can’t admit to stealing an idea from American television and movies?

• Why Does Jay Carney Think Paul Ryan‘s Budget Supporters Are ’Deliberately Ignorant’?

  March 22, 2012 at 2:34pm

  In reply to TRILO.

  @happ77 Most people don’t seem to read an entire post, they read a piece and then project what they perceive onto the non-read statement and then feel the need to berate an opinion that wasn’t there.

  @Trilo, Thanks for contacting your congressman, I doubt the others who didn’t read your post even took that step. We really need to get that “one Crazy Republican” into the White House so he can start educating Washington and the American people on how to move this country in the right direction.

  For those in our nescient audience, the “one Crazy Republican” (who seems to be the only sane man in Washington) is Ron Paul.