Comments on: Obama Poll Watch -- June, 2015 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/ Reality-based political commentary Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:11:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-61016 Michale Fri, 03 Jul 2015 09:36:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-61016 <I> he is about to formally announce a change in the way employers must pay overtime rates which could favorably affect up to five million workers' families. Either people will be getting more money for the same amount of work, or they will be getting more free time to spend with their families.</I> Yea... And the employees who have to be fired so as to pay for this largess will be able to spend a LOT more time with their families as well.. Somehow, I don't think they are going to be as happy about Obama's policy as ya'all think they will.. Michale he is about to formally announce a change in the way employers must pay overtime rates which could favorably affect up to five million workers' families. Either people will be getting more money for the same amount of work, or they will be getting more free time to spend with their families.

Yea... And the employees who have to be fired so as to pay for this largess will be able to spend a LOT more time with their families as well..

Somehow, I don't think they are going to be as happy about Obama's policy as ya'all think they will..

Michale

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-61015 Michale Fri, 03 Jul 2015 09:28:42 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-61015 I have to admit I was (pleasantly) surprised at this commentary.. I thought, what with the two SCOTUS victories, the OPW would be positively gushing... But noooooo..... You had to be all logical and rational and keep the recent rulings in context... :D Well done... <B>"I'll get you a steak for that eye..." "Make it really really rare.." "No. Make it well done..." "Well done??" "Well done..."</B> -My Favorite Martian :D Michale I have to admit I was (pleasantly) surprised at this commentary..

I thought, what with the two SCOTUS victories, the OPW would be positively gushing...

But noooooo..... You had to be all logical and rational and keep the recent rulings in context... :D

Well done...

"I'll get you a steak for that eye..."
"Make it really really rare.."
"No. Make it well done..."
"Well done??"
"Well done..."
-My Favorite Martian

:D

Michale

]]> By: dsws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-61005 dsws Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:55:48 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-61005 <i>There's a clue to what I was doing over the weekend (why there were no Friday and Monday columns, in other words) in the last two words of this column.</i> Apparently people are <i>still interested</i> in a certain band, 50 years later. There's a clue to what I was doing over the weekend (why there were no Friday and Monday columns, in other words) in the last two words of this column.

Apparently people are still interested in a certain band, 50 years later.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-61000 Michale Thu, 02 Jul 2015 12:55:03 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-61000 <I>I knew that you were a Pat fan because you mimic him so well.</I> Yea... Cuz EVERYONE around here knows how ultra-religious I am.. :^/ heh Michale I knew that you were a Pat fan because you mimic him so well.

Yea... Cuz EVERYONE around here knows how ultra-religious I am.. :^/

heh

Michale

]]> By: John From Censornati http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-60999 John From Censornati Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:45:35 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-60999 "Never knew you were such a fan of Pat Robertson, JFC" I knew that you were a Pat fan because you mimic him so well. "Never knew you were such a fan of Pat Robertson, JFC"

I knew that you were a Pat fan because you mimic him so well.

]]> By: John From Censornati http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-60998 John From Censornati Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:35:34 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-60998 <i>“Isn't it chilling to think that a practice that was abhorrent and stigmatized for so many years has now become the dominant weapon of the Left to hurt those who share traditional values?”</i> -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, June 8, 2015 <i>"The whole weight of the federal government will come down upon them and suddenly there will be a vendetta against those who merely say we believe the Bible says this."</i> -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, June 8, 2015 More persecution fantasies projected by an actual persecutor. Oddly enough, Pat has been allowed to continue to broadcast his infantile, illogical, apocalyptic hate speech from a state that already had SCOTUS marriage prior to 6/26 and the full weight of that Big Liberal Government hasn't come down upon him yet. The history of conservative christianists suggests that a number of creeps in his organization probably touch children "inappropriately". He should be investigated even if Jesus forgives predators. “Isn't it chilling to think that a practice that was abhorrent and stigmatized for so many years has now become the dominant weapon of the Left to hurt those who share traditional values?” -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, June 8, 2015

"The whole weight of the federal government will come down upon them and suddenly there will be a vendetta against those who merely say we believe the Bible says this." -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, June 8, 2015

More persecution fantasies projected by an actual persecutor. Oddly enough, Pat has been allowed to continue to broadcast his infantile, illogical, apocalyptic hate speech from a state that already had SCOTUS marriage prior to 6/26 and the full weight of that Big Liberal Government hasn't come down upon him yet. The history of conservative christianists suggests that a number of creeps in his organization probably touch children "inappropriately". He should be investigated even if Jesus forgives predators.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-60995 Michale Thu, 02 Jul 2015 09:48:04 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-60995 <I>There's a clue to what I was doing over the weekend (why there were no Friday and Monday columns, in other words) in the last two words of this column.</I> Aha!!! :D Michale There's a clue to what I was doing over the weekend (why there were no Friday and Monday columns, in other words) in the last two words of this column.

Aha!!! :D

Michale

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-60993 Michale Thu, 02 Jul 2015 09:46:01 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-60993 Never knew you were such a fan of Pat Robertson, JFC... :D Michale Never knew you were such a fan of Pat Robertson, JFC... :D

Michale

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-60990 Chris Weigant Thu, 02 Jul 2015 05:54:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-60990 John From Censornati - <em>I thought I heard a baby cry this mornin' I thought I heard a baby cry today.</em> Heh. -CW John From Censornati -

I thought I heard a baby cry this mornin'
I thought I heard a baby cry today.

Heh.

-CW

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-60989 Chris Weigant Thu, 02 Jul 2015 05:50:36 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-60989 General Note: There's a clue to what I was doing over the weekend (why there were no Friday and Monday columns, in other words) in the last two words of this column. I'd suggest doing a web search on those two words, and the date 6/27/15. Heh. We are everywhere. -CW General Note:

There's a clue to what I was doing over the weekend (why there were no Friday and Monday columns, in other words) in the last two words of this column.

I'd suggest doing a web search on those two words, and the date 6/27/15.

Heh.

We are everywhere.

-CW

]]> By: John From Censornati http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/07/01/opw1506/#comment-60987 John From Censornati Thu, 02 Jul 2015 05:20:26 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=10882#comment-60987 God has always behaved rationally, so thanks to BHO mocking him with all that “like a thunderbolt” and Rainbow House blaspheming, God is going to have to bring some sort of randomly-chosen calamity somewhere sometime. How popular is an Obama tornado going to be? <i>The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening. -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, December 30, 1981</i> <i>Look what happened to Sodom. After a while, there wasn’t any other way, and God did something pretty drastic. -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, June 29, 2013</i> The End is near . . . again. God has always behaved rationally, so thanks to BHO mocking him with all that “like a thunderbolt” and Rainbow House blaspheming, God is going to have to bring some sort of randomly-chosen calamity somewhere sometime. How popular is an Obama tornado going to be?

The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening.
-- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, December 30, 1981

Look what happened to Sodom. After a while, there wasn’t any other way, and God did something pretty drastic. -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, June 29, 2013

The End is near . . . again.

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