Delta Air Lines announced that Obamacare will cost it $100 million in 2014. Any guesses where that will come from? You think ticket prices are steep now, just wait. But Delta isn't alone. Here is a list of some of the companies or governmental organizations who are either curtailing hours or benefits, or just laying people off:
UPS (benefits)
University of Virginia (benefits)
State of Virginia (hours)
Youngstown State University (hours)
Wendy's (hours)
Subway (hours)
Forever 21 (hours)
Community College of Allegheny County (hours)
You can bet there will be more. Some unions are even saying that it's the end of the 40-hour work week. Yessir, the deft touch with the economy shown by this Administration and the Democratic Congress just keeps paying off!
www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/24/Delta-Obamacare-Will-Cost-100-Million
Al Gore, patriot that he is, sold Current TV to Al Jazeera, which is bootlegging this into a stealth U.S. operation. Now it appears to be actually showing up on network screens including Comcast, Dish, and DirecTV. On Dish, Current TV appears on channel 215. Check your local listings to see what is on Current and contact your network if you are not happy with the answer.
www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Comcast-keeping-Current-TV-for-now-after-4166031.php
Well, here they come. The Big Government Lefties at the Washington Post say it's time to tax churches. No more deductible charitable contributions, no more property tax exemption - no, the Government gets it all. Never mind the force multiplier that churches generate - that $1 in contributions is actually multiplied because of volunteers using it to deliver services and goods. No, Government is the way to go where $.90 or more of every dollar is used for "administration" and recipients are lucky to get $.10 on the dollar. Apparently the First Amendment means nothing to these guys. That shouldn't be a surprise because Karl Marx is their Chosen One and Che Guevara their patron saint.
www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/08/23/Yglesias-Wapo-non-profit-churches
King John has spoken - There shalt be no Native-American team mascots in Oregon! Thus saith King Kitzhaber while vetoing a bill passed by the Legislature. To which a spokeswoman for the for the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe replied that the tribe questioned the need for solutions to problems that don't exist. What!!! The Great and All Powerful has spoken! Sorry, but I am with the tribes on this one. Incidentally, all the tribes in Oregon unanimously supported this bill.
www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20130817/NEWS/308160003/Kitzhaber-vetoes-mascot-bill
Well, at least Mr. Second Base. One of my favorite baseball players ever, Ryne Sandberg, Hall of Fame second baseman for the Cubs, was named today as the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. I hope your managerial career is as good as your playing career. Good luck!
news.yahoo.com/phillies-fire-manager-manuel-promote-sandberg-184126516.html
The Sphinx is mysterious. The current situation in Egypt is not. I wrote a blog piece on January 29, 2011 that events in Egypt have pretty much since mirrored. It said that al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood were going to slug it out and the military was on the sidelines but a counterweight to both of them. The Muslim Brotherhood via Morsi ran the show for awhile, but a massive revolt by the Egyptian people made it clear that they were not going to go back to the 5th century as planned by the Brotherhood without a fight. The Egyptian military agreed and it looks like a fight to the finish is now joined.
It helps to be clear about the situation. In any war, someone wins and someone loses - to the victor goes the spoils. There will not be a negotiated peace in Egypt. In our own Civil War, the South surrendered and the North ran the show for 100 years after. Japan and Germany lost and the Allies, primarily the U.S. and U.S.S.R., called the shots for decades. That is the nature of what is happening here. There will be no quarter given, it's winner-take-all, and that is why we must back the military.
Henry Kissinger once said that no great power has friends, only interests. He is right and the Western-trained Egyptian military has a worldview much closer to our own than the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood which sees life through a feudal lens. The military just wants to run its own country; the Brotherhood wants to establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate. Which will be easier to work with in the long term? This is not a tough call. Which is why, of course, President Obama has come out for the Brotherhood.
It is quite amazing, really, that the President can get virtually every call wrong in such a wide variety of important areas. He has sent Secretary of State off to try and re-start the "Peace Process" between the Israelis and Palestinians for the umpteenth time and which isn't going to happen. It is only a sideshow at the moment to the main act in Egypt.
The leading Arab country in the Middle East intellectually and politically is Egypt and some semblance of peace only came to the Middle East when Egypt laid down its sword against Israel at Camp David. Some say that this happened because the Israelis told them on the QT that if there was another war like 1956, 1967, or 1973, they would nuke the Aswan Dam and flood Cairo. Leaving that aside, though, they did make peace and it has held and Egypt gradually began to orient at least little bit to a Western-way of thinking, which has been a stabilizing influence in a very unstable region. If the MB gains permanent power, this would all be lost and Egypt would begin its march back to the 5th century and probably take the rest of the Arab world with it.
I hope that somebody comes up with a way to make supporting the Egyptian military seem trendy or cool, or whatever other basis the President uses for making decisions. If the U.S. is serious about stabilizing this part of the world in a manner consistent with U.S. interests, it needs to take strong steps now to support the Egyptian military and the millions of Egyptians depending on it to keep the would-be Islamic feudal lords at bay.
Mitt Romney had a minor dustup during last year's Presidential campaign for putting the family pooch in a kennel on top of their station wagon to take it on vacation. Apparently learning from Romney's mistakes, President Obama had the First Pooch flown in an Air Force jet to Bar Harbor, Maine. Military funding? Sorry, the Sequester. Government offices open? Sorry, the Sequester. First Pooch? No problem!
michellemalkin.com/2010/07/17/obamas-dog/
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