File under "Need You Ask?"; Will the Democrats become ‘Obstructionists’ in a GOP majority Congress?

Hot Air ... "Would-be Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his team are already telling the president to get ready with his veto pen. “In a Republican Senate, the difference would be the president would actually have to make the decision whether to sign or veto bills that would be presented to him — because more would actually be sent his way,” a McConnell spokesman told Politico.

"That would put to death a favored lie propagated by this White House and disseminated by a credulous press regarding the “obstructionist Republicans.” It is now a nearly involuntary tick among some members of the political media to refer to the GOP’s governing strategy as “obstructionism” and to rend garments in anguish over the historic inactivity of this Congress. Only in conservative media outlets was it reported that, as of August, 356 bills passed by the House sat languishing in the Senate. Some 200 of those bills were passed with bipartisan majorities and 100 with the support of 75 percent of the House Democratic conference.

"The “obstructionist Republicans” plotline was always ever a myth. The GOP did what all political parties in the minority do: they formed voting blocs aimed at frustrating the will of the majority they opposed. It was this temerity that led the Senate Democrats to rewrite the rules of the upper chamber in order to limit minority filibuster rights, a shortsighted tantrum that they will soon regret. "

All About Obama

 

Bokbluster   "President Obama and Republicans have finally found common ground. They agree that the midterm elections should be about him.

"The president has been staying away from the campaign trail – at the request of his fellow Democrats. They fear his low poll numbers are bringing down the rest of the party. But that hasn’t kept him quiet. During a speech at Northwestern University he announced “I may not be on the ballot, but my policies are – every last one of them”. “That”, said former advisor David Axelrod, “was a mistake”. Republicans agreed and immediately produced ads to spread the president’s message.

"Just in case his base missed the message, Obama went on Al Sharpton‘s radio show to say that Democrats may be running from him but they are really with him and they support his agenda.

Still About Obama

"There may be a method to Obama’s Messiah Madness. While his approval numbers among women and latinos have fallen, over 85% of blacks still support him. The NYT reports that a huge black turnout is the only way Democrats can hold the Senate. Obama has said many of those voters may not even be aware there’s an election going on. So this could be about drumming up turnout, and transferring a little love to Democratic Senate candidates to keep that agenda alive."

Black pastor target of death threats for supporting Republican candidate

The tolerant left.

Examiner.com

Pastor Corey Brooks of New Beginnings Church Chicago accepts an award from Steve Harvey

on stage at the 2014 Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation Gala presented by Coca-Cola

 at the Hilton Chicago on May 3, 2014.

"Corey Brooks pastors a church in Chicago's South Side. He also happens to be black. Recently, ABC News reported Sunday, he joined a group of black pastors who support GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner over Democrat Pat Quinn. As a result, he has received death threats, hateful voicemails and has had to move his family to a safe house. Additionally, his church has been vandalized and large amounts of money earmarked for charities has been stolen.

"Brooks said that he received five threatening messages on Friday that he turned over to police. The messages, ABC added, were homophobic and contained racial slurs.

" 'We own you and you ain't got nobody that can stop us," one message said. "Nobody!' "

How Much Would A Big Mac Cost If McDonald's Workers Were Paid $15 Per Hour?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

Forbes   ... "(Update, 2: Forbes contributor Tim Worstall argues that the answer to the question is simple: The cost of a Big Mac–at least to consumers–probably wouldn’t go up at all. Why? In order to remain competitive with rivals on price, the company, as economist Adam Ozimek pointed out earlier this week, would probably find a way to keep overall labor costs in check, most likely by reducing the number of workers and introducing more automation–think ATMs in the banking industry.)" ... (typo automatically corrected in the above. TD)

Dr. Bittlingmayer described discussions on fast food wages as a symptom of a larger problem: the U.S. school system. “Low wages for adults are a sign that something didn’t go right in terms of education and work experience,” he said. “We’re not addressing the cause.”

Reading list about what's going on around us

Here's ISIS' Plan To Destroy American Apache Helicopters  ... "A US-led coalition of western and regional players has been bombing ISIS targets for weeks in an effort to check the militant group's lightning expansion. The American-led campaign has been almost entirely waged from the air, and the ISIS guide goes into fairly technical detail on how to shoot down enemy aircraft with a shoulder-fired man-portable air-defense system, or MANPADS*." ...   Read more:
* MANPADS were taken from the defeated Iraqi military

Six years later: the clear connection between Barack Obama and the Weathermen    "Just before the election of Barack Obama in 2008, it was quite shocking to see that a forty-year old, seemingly forgotten radical group called the "Weathermen" was getting so much attention. Of course, Obama denied any connection to old Weathermen. Here's a quick history of the "Weathermen" and why it's relevant to a president whose entire campaign relied on a call for an undefined "change." Now, six years later, the change is coming much clearer into view. And it seems we now know which way the wind blows."
...
"Still, what is the Obama connection to these dedicated revolutionaries? It's perhaps ironic that all four former Weathermen terrorists today worked through an organization called "Movement for a Democratic Society." That organization was the parent to another one called "Progressives for Obama." They raised funds for Obama, promoted his candidacy, and helped to recruit activists to support him."  Now we see what the country is like when they are in charge.

CNN poll: Voters are angry

  "Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama's job performance, two troubling signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows."

 The Volokh Conspiracy:  Gross incompetence at the State Department?
Someone left State Department spokesman Jen Psaki grossly unprepared for a press briefing today ..., and she wound up disagreeing with the notion that a teenage Palestinian Hamas supporter with American citizenship throwing molotov cocktails at cars on an Israeli highway was “essentially a terrorist” whom the State Department was a bit too quick too mourn.

 

Victor Davis Hanson asks, Crimes of Exactly What?

PJ Media  ... "If we were to embrace the abjectly racist worldview of Eric Holder or Al Sharpton, where would the racialization of crime end? Who would decide which interracial crimes illustrated premeditated racial hatred — or criminal laxity on the part of the state — and deserved national attention? Which adjudicator could or would declare that one interracial incident was idiosyncratic without transcendent significance, but the other typical and thus representative of collective pathology?

"What exactly has this country stooped to, when our officials and public figures traffic in politicizing the end of human lives? We are becoming not just a sick country, but an amoral one as well. What Ferguson wrought will not end well."   Via Lucianne

Canada gunman prepared video confirming it was planned jihad attack

Canadian Parliament Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers got a five minute standing ovation from the House after he killed the Islamic terrorist who tried to shoot up the Chamber. He killed the guy with one shot. It'll be years before he has to shout twice for the House to come to order.   (Argus Hamilton)

Jihad Watch  ... "A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that reveals his ideological and political motives, police claim.

"The footage of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, which is yet to be released, is said to confirm investigators’ fears that this was a meticulously planned terrorist attack.

"Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson said in a statement they have ‘persuasive evidence that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s attack was driven by ideological and political motives.’

"A detailed analysis of the video was being conducted and Paulson said they cannot release the video at this time."


ISIS 'See You In New York' Warning Fulfilled  ... "The Islamic State is perhaps the world's largest collection of nut jobs*. How sane can someone be, taking joy in sawing off the heads of infidels like Steven Sotloff and James Foley, or delighting in kidnapping and gang-raping the Yazidi women of Iraq because they worship a different god? How sane can young women be who leave the West to journey to Syria in the hopes of being incubators for future jihadis?"   Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

 

* Nut jobs who will torture and behead you, that is.

So where DO jobs come from?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

The presumptive Democrat nominee for 2016.   ... "She went on to state that businesses and corporations are not the job creators of America. “Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs,” the former Secretary of State said."

 

So Who Does Create Jobs?  ... "Well, maybe she should look to Texas.  Where, as this AEI report shows:

 1.32 million new jobs [have been] added since the start of the Great Recession, compared to a net deficit of almost one million jobs for the other 49 states combined … The country, the president, and all of us individually owe a huge debt of gratitude to the state of Texas and to the oil and gas industry for helping support the US economy during and after the Great Recession. Without the energy-driven economic stimulus from the fracking revolution, and without the gusher of jobs in the state of Texas, there’s no question that the Great Recession would have been much worse and lasted much longer, and the jobs picture today would be much bleaker

The Tunnel Wall covered this last week, using this video:

Honey, You Didn't Build That  

Ferguson Protesters Assault White Motorist, Threaten To Rape Cop’s Wife. Where is Al Sharpton?

The Stubborn Facts in Ferguson:  The perpetual protesters are outraged that grand-jury leaks appear to back Officer Wilson’s account. ..."Ferguson has become the latest nesting zone for America’s itinerant protesters. Unburdened by jobs or other responsibilities, these people are free to drift from city to city and cause to cause, occupying Wall Street and decrying capitalism in New York City one day, lamenting global warming in Chicago on another day, and now marching against police brutality in St. Louis today. These people’s raison d’être is to march and express their outrage; the target of that outrage is whatever is most convenient at the time."

Protesters in Ferguson block traffic; Video shows assault of white motorist

 

 

 

Downtrend   ... "I mean you got an entire city of no-values-having animals running around, blocking traffic, threatening cops and beating up motorists. Yet the liberal mainstream media refuses to bat an eyelash. Meanwhile, all the evidence backs Officer Darren Wilson’s side of the story.
...
"The only good news out of this whole fiasco is the renewed push for arming every single police officer in the nation with a body camera – something I vehemently support! Other than that, it appears that the whole Ferguson fiasco – as perpetrated by the liberal mainstream media – did nothing but divide Americans even further, all while pushing the actual truth deeper and deeper into the abyss."

From 2013:  Al Sharpton: A Lucrative Career Built on Hate and Racial Conflagration Speaking about the Tawana Brawley incident:

Sharpton acknowledged to me early on that “The Brawley story do (sic) sound like bull****, but it don’t matter. We’re building a movement. This is the perfect issue. Because you’ve got whites on blacks. That’s an easy way to stir up all the deprived people, who would want to believe and who would believe — and all [you’ve] got to do is convince them — that all white people are bad. Then you’ve got a movement.... It don’t matter whether any whites did it or not. Something happened to her ... even if Tawana don’t (sic) it to herself." 

 

 

Mychal Massie asks why society should pay for acts of the 'ungodly, stiff-necked'

... "Even more egregious is the fact that they are encouraged and given emotional sanctuary for their condemnable actions by those who benefit from their animus. These blacks, those like them and those who sympathize with them, are equivalent to toxic allergens making blacks allergic to civilized behavior."

The Ferguson Collapse

Source: Darren Wilson says Michael Brown kept charging at him  ... "Wilson said he had yelled for Brown to stop, then fired, the source said. Brown flinched as if he was hit, and Wilson said he had stopped shooting. Brown continued running toward him, and Wilson said he had fired several more shots. The source said that Wilson had recalled that Brown’s head was down when the last shot hit him there." ...

Evidence discredits the progressive narrative.   Will Al Sharpton continue to be employed by MSNBC?

 

... "But that story has all but collapsed. Darren Wilson, the police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Brown in early August, recently told investigators that he was pinned in his vehicle and feared for his life when Brown reached for his gun. FBI forensic analysis has confirmed that, as Wilson claims, two shots were fired in the car, and Brown’s blood was found in the vehicle, on Wilson’s clothing, and on the gun. The Washington Post reports that “seven or eight African American eyewitnesses have provided testimony consistent with Wilson’s account” that he fatally shot Brown when the young man moved toward him in the street. And, according to the official court autopsy report, Brown probably did not have his hands raised in the “Hands up, don’t shoot” position that has become the defining meme of the protests in Ferguson, Mo. An eyewitness who claims to have seen the shooting from beginning to end further corroborated Wilson’s account in an anonymous interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

...

"Unfortunately, racial demagoguery, too, is pretty normal in America."

 

Is ACORN behind violent unrest in Ferguson?  ... "Activists are blackmailing the grand jury that is now hearing evidence against police officer Darren Wilson, who shot Brown in August reportedly in self-defense.  If the grand jurors refuse to indict Wilson, radical activists are promising even more mayhem.
"The message is unmistakable: indict the cop, and there will be peace.  Don't, and Ferguson will burn." ...

Race Hoaxes: Demoralizing For Blacks And A Calumny On Whites

 

... "But the reports were not accurate, and we had reason to doubt them as soon as the video of the convenience store robbery emerged. The theft and rough shoving of the owner didn’t look very gentle. The small cigars Brown stole are often filled with pot."

...

"So it’s heartbreaking to watch the kabuki theater play out yet again and to know that thousands, maybe millions, of American blacks are being deceived into believing that an 18-year-old who showed really bad judgment in attacking a police officer is a civil rights hero, and that young black males minding their own business on city streets are in danger of being shot by police for fun. It’s demoralizing for blacks and a calumny on whites."

 

Where are the angry demonstrations in support of the businesses that were looted and burned?

 

 

Predictable Consequences: ‘Fight For $15″ May Lead McDonald’s To Automation

 Rick Moran; As 'fight for 15' campaign goes on, McDonald's looks to automate   "Unions and proressives "don't care about how many people lose their jobs. All they're concerned about are those who will be working and paying for the privilege of belonging to a union.

"Fast food workers better wake up before the leftists and unions send most of them to the unemployment line."

Weasel Zippers

 

"And when thousands lose their jobs as a natural result, we will hear about the ‘evil, heartless corporations’."

Unions and progressives, on the other hand, swore fast food chains could easily afford the inflated labor cost without much of a price increase.

http://www.rightsidesd.com/?p=17409

 

Here's The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job
"A company called Momentum Machines has built a robot that could radically change the fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs.

"The company's robot can "slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible." The robot is "more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour." That's one burger every 10 seconds.

"The next generation of the device will offer "custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground to order? No problem."
...

It is said that "device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely obviate them."

Alan Caruba; Obama's War on U.S. Energy

Warning Signs

 

... "In contrast, in March 2013 the then-Interior Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, boasted “In just over four years, we have advanced 17 wind, solar, and geothermal projects on our public lands.”  It is not these projects that Americans depend upon for energy. The opposite is a stark explanation why coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy remain the heart blood of the economy.

"The Daily Caller reported in July that the “U.S. Bureau of Land Management is currently sitting on a backlog of 3,500 applications that need approval to move forward on drilling for oil and natural gas on federal land,” just part of Obama’s war on U.S. energy."