Cracker Barrel Backtrack: Duck Back On Menu

Truth Revolt
"We made a mistake, we listened to you, and we apologize."

"Nationwide country restaurant Cracker Barrel has reversed its decision of Friday to stop selling some Duck Dynasty merchandise with Papa Phil's face prominently displayed. Thanks to fierce customer backlash and a strong anti-Cracker Barrel Twitter campaign, the restaurant tweeted on Sunday that Duck Dynasty products are back on the shelves."

Trouble is that Duck Dynasty money goes to A+E; Duck Commander income goes to the Robertsons. But A+E should get the message.

Alan Caruba: Obama Must Be Forced to Resign

Warning Signs

 

... "Not since the days of the Great Depression in the 1930s have Americans endured an economy that has failed to overcome slow growth despite Obama’s full first term in office and another year in his second term.

"Ignoring the central role of a free market prolongs bad economic conditions and high taxation to maintain an ever-expanding central government led to big problems for European nations and promises the same—or worse—for the U.S." ...

 

Remember Rodney King? Of the 50,000,000 or so voters who cast votes for Barack Obama, how many of them would you guess have shown they are capable of committing acts of violence, or at least defecating on American flags?

The Unintended Consequences of Raising the Minimum Wage

Economics 101: Minimum Wage  Simple supply and demand.
... "A decrease in the demand for workers (aka: more unemployment). For anyone who has taken an economics class, you know that when demand for something goes down, supply increases. In laymen’s terms: when businesses can’t afford to pay workers, the demand for them decreases, leaving a great number of people unemployed (greater supply). According to an article by Linda Gorman, a senior fellow at the Independence Institute, a “10 percent in crease in the minimum wage would decrease employment of low-skilled workers by 1 or 2 percent.” Pretty self explanatory."

The writer lists these consequences, which liberals do not seem to comprehend:

 

Decreased Numbers of Full-Time Jobs. For those who are lucky enough to keep their jobs, they can expect their number of hours to sink. Because employers can’t pay the increased hourly wage, employers will be relegated to giving employees less hours in an attempt to not pay as much, consequently creating more part-time employment.

Decreased Fringe Benefits. Because employers are now concerned with meeting minimum wage standards, they will be unable to afford fringe benefits on which many employers depend (Insurance, on-the-job training, vacations, etc.). Since many employers would have to transition to part-time employment, employees would not only get fewer hours but also not receive expensive insurance benefits.
Across-The-Board Increased Prices of Goods. Wages are considered an input price, or something that goes into the development/ manufacturing of the product. If wages are higher, the amount of money it costs to manufacture some good increases. In order to close the profit-loss gap, industry will be forced to raise the prices on goods in order to cover their costs. Or, of course, they can cut labor and mechanize which brings us back to the issue of further unemployment.

Hat tip to College Insurrection

The Kings College Student: Hyphenated Americanism Creates a Great Divide

From the article, Hyphenated Americanism – The Great Divide, published in The College Fix.

College Insurrection  ... "In an essay for The College Fix, Seaworth reviews the prescient words of President Theodore Roosevelt.

A century ago, hyphenated Americanism was a slur, an epithet, an insult – a means of denigrating immigrants.
President Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1915 speech to the Knights of Columbus (a Catholic fraternal organization founded by an Irish

priest to care for “Irish-Americans” during a stage in American history not far removed from the formation of an anti-Immigrant party, The Know-Nothing Party), stated: “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. … The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”
Teddy Roosevelt’s dire warning has unfortunately come to pass; the very embodiment of the mischief of factions, noted by President James Madison within Federalist No. 10, our government was meant to overcome, and yet so embraced and promoted by the Democrat Party.
Today Hyphenated Americanism is worn as a badge of honor by many, a distinction of sorts that separates Americans by skin pigmentation. Our sole identity as Americans has been divided into racial categories, creating a system in which White is American, and all other races are, and always will be, immigrants to this great nation.
…Like Teddy Roosevelt predicated, hyphenated Americanism is ruining this country.Being an American has nothing to do with what color your skin is, it has nothing to do with where your ancestors are from, it has nothing to do with where you were raised. You are either American, or you are not American.
Hyphens are a societal loophole that perpetuate the notion that America is run by old white men who are native to this country, but not its land. Hyphens feed into the notion that America is a country of racial divides, of racist undertones, and facades of acceptance.
If things have gone too far askew to correct, then perhaps we are looking at the wrong place to discover the roots of this acrimony and the way to equalize it. If the addition of the word American to forms is a fix, we have a duty to allow Americans of all races to declare themselves as race.
…Those who cling to their hyphenated status should join hand in hand with those who bare no hyphens and realize the dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr., putting behind the notions of a man or woman born in this country, or who were lawful immigrants, as anything other than simply American.

  

Walmart Selling Out of Duck Dynasty Merchandise After A&E Suspends Phil Robertson. Buy Duck Commander instead! (UPDATE)

Weasel Zippers

 

However, others pointed out that this support merely puts more money into A&E’s pockets as well, with one tweeting: ‘Loving that Tea People are rushing to Walmart to Duck Dynasty swag in protest of A&E who OWNS the merchandising.’Another added: ‘I better rush off to Walmart and buy up all the Phil Robertson merchandise ‘cuz it’s gonna be a collectors item one day.’ -

 

Be aware of this, however;

"BTW, another way to show your support is to purchase Duck Commander products and NOT the Duck Dynasty products. The Robertson family owns the rights to Duck Commander. A&E owns Duck Dynasty.   (Emphasis added)

 

 UPDATE: Oh, no! Say it ain't so! Cracker Barrel Bails On Phil's Products

 

2013, A Year MSNBC Would Like to Forget

Newsbusters  "During the past 12 months, NewsBusters has chronicled the downward fall of the liberal cable television network known as MSNBC. Not only has the channel dropped by double digits in prime-time and daily ratings, but the network also lost two of its most prominent hosts in very public, very embarrassing ways.

As a result, L. A. Ross of thewrap.com noted in an article that the people in the “Lean Forward” channel "might rather forget 2013," which he noted is when MSNBC will end the year in third place among the cable news networks in total day viewers, due to a loss of 20 percent from 2012

The forces of “tolerance” are intolerant of anything less than full-blown celebratory approval.

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2013/12/20/phil-robertson-p-c-crucified/

 

Mark Steyn: The Age of Intolerance   "Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson, in his career-detonating interview with GQ, gave a rather thoughtful vernacular exegesis of the Bible’s line on sin, while carefully insisting that he and other Christians are obligated to love all sinners and leave it to the Almighty to adjudicate the competing charms of drunkards, fornicators, and homosexuals. Nevertheless, GLAAD — “the gatekeepers of politically correct gayness” as the (gay) novelist Bret Easton Ellis sneered — saw their opportunity and seized it. By taking out TV’s leading cable star, they would teach an important lesson pour encourager les autres — that espousing conventional Christian morality, even off-air, is incompatible with American celebrity."

"If the state bans speech that is offensive to some, where does it stop?" 

Story of the year

Charles Krauthammer  "The lie of the year, according to Politifact, is “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” But the story of the year is a nation waking up to just how radical Obamacare is — which is why it required such outright deception to get it passed in the first place.
"Obamacare was sold as simply a refinement of the current system, retaining competition among independent insurers but making things more efficient, fair and generous. Free contraceptives for Sandra Fluke. Free mammograms and checkups for you and me. Free (or subsidized) insurance for some 30 million uninsured. And, mirabile dictu, not costing the government a dime." ...

This administration promised us: " Don’t worry. You’ll be left unmolested. For you, everything goes on as before.
"That was a fraud from the very beginning." ...

And we must ask Harry Reid and his Senate majority, who are the watchdogs of the Constitution:

On what authority does a Cabinet secretary tell private companies to pay for services not in their plans and cover people not on their rolls? Where in Obamacare’s 2,500 pages are such high-handed dictates authorized? Does anyone even ask? The bill itself is simply taken as a kind of blanket warrant for HHS to run, regulate and control the whole insurance system.

 

Full article here. 

There seems to be a theme in these 'toons:

 

Support for Phil Robertson tops Obamacare

Petition launched to reinstate 'Duck Dynasty' star  
... "The petition -- which also calls on A+E to formally apologize to Robertson, his family, and the show's millions of viewers -- says the reality star's comments "are simply reflective of a Biblical 

view of sexuality, marriage, and family – a view that has stood the test of time for thousands of years and continues to be held by the majority of Americans and today's world as a whole."
"The letter reads: "While the LGBT community may be offended by his opposing viewpoint, your rash, discriminatory, and unfair treatment toward Mr. Robertson -- a recognized symbol of the faith community -- is a slap in the face to Faith Driven Consumers and everyday Americans alike.' "

113K Sign Petition Demanding ‘Duck Dynasty’ Patriarch Return, Rabid Fans Threaten A+E, Robertson Clan Stands United
The petition:

Dear A&E Network,
I am writing to you regarding your network’s intolerant, discriminatory, and punitive treatment of Mr. Phil Robertson, star of A+E’s #1 hit show, Duck Dynasty.
Mr. Robertson’s comments in GQ Magazine are simply reflective of a Biblical view of sexuality, marriage, and family – a view that has stood the test of time for thousands of years and continues to be held by the majority of Americans and today’s world as a whole.
Many members of the LGBT community may not agree with this view, but the notion that a free-thinking American should be discriminated against simply for expressing a perspective that is in conflict with another is patently un-American and flies in the face of true tolerance and civility. A+E’s position, which in your own words is “championing” the gay and lesbian community — which I believe you have the freedom to do — excludes the views of Faith Driven Consumers and effectively censors a legitimate viewpoint held by the majority of Americans.
As a Faith Driven Consumer, I am signing this petition to demand that my views be treated with equality and respect in America’s rich rainbow of diversity.
I am asking your network to immediately reinstate Mr. Robertson to Duck Dynasty, and to formally apologize to him, his family, and the millions of viewers who tune in every week, stand by him, and share his worldview. While the LGBT community may be offended by his opposing viewpoint, your rash, discriminatory, and unfair treatment toward Mr. Robertson — a recognized symbol of the faith community — is a slap in the face to Faith Driven Consumers and everyday Americans alike.
There are 46 million Faith Driven Consumers in America today who spend 1.75 trillion dollars annually. Should you refuse to equally respect and welcome our legitimately held views, we will gladly stop watching this and all other A+E programming and turn to any reformulation of Duck Dynasty on another network – while simultaneously supporting brands that stand with the show and the Robertson family.

Facebook Likes for Robertson Support Page Top Total Obamacare Enrollments  The Facebook page: Boycott A+E Until Phil Robertson Is Put Back On Duck Dynasty

Rich Cutter Avallone at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Forget Obamacare! Look over there!

 

10 problems with Obama’s income inequality speech    "The president who was going to keep the focus on Obamacare yesterday digressed to give a base-pleasing, shopworn liberal ode to fighting income inequality. Don’t worry if you missed it. There was nothing new. Raise minimum wage! Extend unemployment benefits! More government spending! My goodness — it’s as if he has slept through the last 40 years of public policy research and economic experience." ... Jennifer Rubin

Obama, Income Inequality, and The Constitution  ... "Think about this: of all of the problems in our world, the President of the United States and his ideological ilk view the fact that some people earn more than others as the problem, the one next to which all others pale in comparison, “the defining challenge of our time.' ” 

The GovFather requests...

 

Obama Administration Asks North Dakota Insurance Company To Stop Reporting Enrollment Numbers   ... "Now BCBS of North Dakota – whose PR department, I think it bears repeating, is now being run by former Democrat candidate for US Congress Pam Gulleson* – is claiming the feds asked them not to release any more embarrassing enrollment numbers."

 

* "Update: BCBS is now walking back their comments, claiming that they weren’t told to hide the numbers."

Any connection of that to the new PR head mentioned above?

Obama dictates private insurance companies must provide “free” contraception instead of religious institution  ... "This is the tip of the iceberg, foreshadowing what the country can expect from Obamacare. Healthcare will be used to control behavior, the way tax code dictates the direction of our spending by allowing or disallowing deductions and giving tax credits for specified behaviors."

CNN: Obama Admin Intimidating and Threatening Insurance Companies To Keep Quiet  ... "It seems that the Obama administration is putting major league pressure on the executives of the largest insurers and trade groups to not speak out regarding the variety of problems with his health insurance rollover roll-out." ...

New Obamacare Rule Dictates Mental Illness Treated Equally as Physical Illness

 

Reading list; Duck hunters think they have bagged one

'Duck Dynasty' Family: 'We Cannot Imagine the Show' Without Phil Robertson  ... "We are disappointed that Phil has been placed on hiatus for expressing his faith, which is his constitutionally protected right. We have had a successful working relationship with A+E but, as a family, we cannot imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm." ...

 

A company called Skyjacker -- which builds truck suspensions -- tells us it stands solidly behind Phil and the show  Misquote: "Robertson opened up a can of worms when he said homosexuality and bestiality were the same sin ... his church seems to back Phil up on that."

He did NOT say that, but said it would be a natural progression of the trend which would include bigamy, child marriage- already practiced in many cultures.

 

Hunting Duck Dynasty ... "The PC crowd, including most media progressives and liberals, have hated Duck Dynasty from the start. In the same way they hated Sarah Palin when she arrived on the scene, unapologetically espousing her conservative Christian views all over the airwaves." ... Read more:
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"Supporters of the Duck Dynasty clan can rest assured that Phil Robertson isn't surprised or worried about what's happening to him and his family for openly espousing their Christian faith - because he truly believes the words of Christ Himself when He said:

"You will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved."

Mark 13:13

 By Keith Edwards in American Thinker.

Odd Duck at Gay Wedding

Chip Bok writes:  "Sometimes tolerance isn’t enough. Sometimes you have to bake a cake.
"That’s what a Denver judge told the owner of a bakery who declined to make a cake for a gay wedding. The baker’s argument that same sex marriage violates his religious beliefs wasn’t good enough for the judge.

"Odd Duck

"A+E didn’t order Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson to bake a cake when he professed similar religious beliefs. The network suspended him indefinitely." ...
....
"Camille Paglia calls “this is level of punitive PC, utterly fascist, utterly
Stalinist”.
"Which brings me back to Jonah Goldberg and his excellent book “Liberal Fascism“. "

Huge backlash mounts over suspension of ‘Duck Dynasty’ star Phil Robertson   "As of Thursday night, more than 1.1 million people “liked” the “Stand With Phil Robertson” Facebook page, while about the same number had clicked their support for another Facebook page called “Boycott A&E Until Phil Robertson Is Put Back On Duck Dynasty.” There was even flak on the Web page of the gay advocacy group that demanded his firing."

Phil Robertson, Diversity + Offensensitivity   ... "The problem is that those in cultural power love to talk loud and long about diversity, but what they really want is everyone to march in lock-step agreement, or else." ...

UPDATE: 'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson once a college quarterback
"Robertson didn't play his senior season, instead deciding to spend his time hunting and fishing. You may have heard of the guy who replaced him as the Bulldogs' starting quarterback: Pro Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw."
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