Here’s a copy of the asinine ad that PETA plans to put on billboards near Nevada schools:
They’ve apparently already placed similar billboard ads near schools in Canada, and plan to do the same near schools in California.
I hope they ask some kid and he or she tells them, “Because turkey tastes great!”
Idiots.
. . . well, it looks like it’s already started. Here they are – job cuts announced or planned to date by businesses specifically due to AHCA mandates. Numbers are full-time positions to be cut:
That’s over 6,700 full-time jobs getting the axe so far – plus however many jobs $24 million in payroll equates to at Dana Holding. Assuming an average salary of $90k and allowing +1/3 for benefits, that comes to another 200.
Above and beyond those reductions, many other companies are actively looking for ways to reduce current or future workers’ hours. Seems as if the AHCA penalty calculation formula doesn’t count part-time workers – so replacing a full-time worker with two part-timers is now really a net plus for the company. Companies that are looking at doing exactly this (e.g., reducing many workers to 28 hours weekly or less) include the following:
The reductions identified above are, of course, only the beginning. So if you’re hoping to find a full-time job some time in the foreseeable future – well, your search likely just got a whole lot harder.
Each of these reductions will also have a ripple effect due to forced reductions in spending by those who lose jobs or who saw their hours reduced. The overall net effect will be to reduce business activity overall – leading to more cutbacks and layoffs in other industries affected by that reduced spending.
And this doesn’t include pending cuts due to sequestration, targeted Federal budget cuts, and the like.
Yeah, looks it looks like we’re in for really good times. Laissez les bon temps rouler!
(For the perception-challenged, yes – the last two sentences were indeed sarcasm.)
There’s a way to express your displeasure with the election results, but this isn’t the way to do it. Several of you sent this picture to us yesterday of a MacDonald’s manager who was upset with the fact that Obama won the election so this is what he did. Yes, I know it’s supposed to be a distress signal, but it makes me think of the filthy hippies who I’ve encountered over the years. Like these;
Those folks did it because they hate this country, and they claimed at the time that it was a distress signal, but we know what they really meant. So get loud, but don’t be disrespectful to the rest of us who don’t want to be associated with hippies and other derelicts.
And now we know where at least one of them lives: Henderson, NV.
Nevada, like many states, allows early voting. Seems as if one lady in Henderson – Roxanne Reuben – decided she’d take advantage and vote early. She did.
She apparently liked the experience. In fact, apparently she liked it so much she tried to do it again the same day – at a different early voting location.
There was just one small problem. She tried vote both times using her own name.
Oops.
I guess she didn’t realize that some systems do near-real-time updates. And the one used by NV for early voting apparently does that.
She wasn’t allowed to vote the second time. And authorities weren’t too amused by her attempt, either.
Ms. Rubin is now facing felony charges related to her little escapade. Full details can be found in this article.
What a dumbass.
Unfortunately, it appears she’s not the only idiot out there. At least one other similar incident is under investigation.
. . . to commemorate a large number of fish killed in a traffic accident.
Yes, you read that correctly. PETA has asked for a roadside sign to be erected as a memorial for a large number of live fish that died as the result of a traffic accident while on their way to market to be sold as food. About 1,600 pounds of sea bass to be precise.
And before you ask: yes, this indeed happened in the Granola State (“get rid of the fruits and nuts and all you have left is the flakes”) – AKA California.
Idiots.
I wasn’t going to post this because it was on Drudge, but so many of you sent it to us that I figured you wanted to talk about it. Ted Turner says that it’s good that returning veterans are committing suicide;
I see what he’s trying so clumsily to say – that we’re showing humanity by having difficulty dealing with what we’ve seen and done. But he still should have kept his stupid mouth shut on the subject. At least he stopped himself from saying “It’s terrific” like he started to say.
And, I think the dumbass should ought to stop all of his bullshit donations to the UN and instead donate to the clinics that are helping the troops recover from their injuries rather than pronouncing that that it’s good that they’re killing themselves. And, oh, by the way, I think it’s terrible that so many decent humans are killing themselves and yet Turner and Jane Fonda are still alive.
Old Trooper sends us a link to a story about the dumbest dumbass, Samuel Cutrufelli who broke into the home of 90-year-old Jay Leone, shot Leone who returned fire and struck Cutrufelli who then wrestled the gun from the 90-year-old, put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger on an empty chamber.
Now, Cutrufelli, the burgler, is trying to sue Leone for shooting him;
Samuel Cutrufelli…claims Jay Leone “negligently shot” him during the confrontation inside Leone’s home.
Cutrufelli, 31, claims Leone caused him “great bodily injury, and other financial damage, including loss of Mr. Cutrufelli’s home, and also the dissolution of Mr. Cutrufelli’s marriage.”
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The negligence lawsuit was filed on his behalf by his father and his criminal defense attorney.
I’m guessing that Cutrufelli’s problems were the result of being a born dumbass-to-the-bone and getting shot was just a symptom. But, then I’m not a professional counselor. Just making an observation.
A court in Italy has convicted six Italian scientists and a government official of manslaughter in conjunction with the 2009 L’Acquila earthquake that killed 300.
Their crime? Failing to predict the earthquake.
I wish I was joking.