There you have it from the HEAD of all the US Intelligence Agencies...

Russians did NOT "hack" the election..

Can we end this whiny charade???

US drops more bombs in Obama’s final year of office than in 2015
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article124842824.html#storylink=cpy

Obama has dropped more bombs than ANY other Nobel Peace Prize winner in the history of the award...

And the outcry from the Left Wingery Anti-War crowd???

{{chirrrpppp}} {{{chiiirrrrrrrppppp}}}

Apparently, the LWAW crowd are ONLY "anti-war" when the POTUS has a '-R' after their name.... :^/

Am I wrong??

"Yer not wrong"
-God, AKA Chuck

Thank the gods for the CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW ACT... A 1996 measure that passed with unequivocal bi-partisan support..

What does it do??

It not only allows Congress to rescind every Executive Order issued, it mandates that no agency can replace the rescinded order with a similar order..

In short, the CRA will completely gut Obama's PHONE AND PEN overreach....

And the beauty of it all is that the GOP will be able to do it ALL on their own without ANY help from the Democrats in Congress... :D

The dawn of a new era....

It's morning in America :D

http://ritholtz.com/2016/12/seattle-min-wage-update/

That's the spin...

The reality is far different as I have aptly proven..

Try to do some real research on reality instead of relying on politically motivated

You mean, like the research I did that PROVED Trump would win the election??

Or do you mean the research that YA'ALL did where you ignored ALL the data that didn't fit the agenda and only looked at the data that DID fit the agenda..

What might seen like common sense to you is just a lack of willingness to investigate the data.

Sorry, my friend..

Recent history CLEARLY shows who was the one who investigated ALL the data and who were the ones who "investigated" "Party Approved" data only....

What might seen like common sense to you is just a lack of willingness to investigate the data. The real data from the BLS (not the chart you posted which was a lie, but you probably didn't know because Forbes and Warstall in particular have been lying about this since before it was even passed) show a strengthening economy. In fact Seatle is basically overheating.

Try to do some real research on reality instead of relying on politically motivated

http://ritholtz.com/2016/12/seattle-min-wage-update/

Probably... I might send a hail-hearty HIYO!! from Belize or Honduras or Cozumel... :D

But I definitely won't have time to keep up with the day-to-day LET'S OBSTRUCT EVERYTHING TRUMP DOES BECAUSE WE HATE HIM meme.... :D

So, you'll have a week where you can get out all the hysterical BS without any fear of it being countered with... yunno... FACTS.... :D

Don't worry.. I am leaving tomorrow for a week and I won't have NET access... So ya'all will be able to retreat and regroup....

"I don't think this is indicative of race relations in this country..

For the record, those quotes were from CNN'S Don Lemon, the Obama White House, the Chicago Police Superintendent and Mr Obama himself, respectively....

One thing in common??

They are all Democrats...

One can only imagine what those quotes would be if it was a black special needs male and 4 redneck scumbags that tortured him...

This is the kind of hypocrisy that just pisses me off to no end...

This is the EXACT hypocrisy that the Left Wingery is all about...

This is the EXACT reason why Democrats have lost so many elections..

The American people are sick and tired of the Left's blatant, unremitting and unapologetic hypocrisy and double-standards..

If this had been a black special needs male who was tortured and attacked and vilified and humiliated with a bunch of "FUCK OBAMA!!!"s and FUCK BLACK PEOPLE!!!s, the Left Wingery (including everyone here) would hysterically lose their frakin' minds!!

AND RIGHTLY SO!!

But, because it's an Anti-Trump message, it barely warrants *ANY* mention from the Left Wingery...

Now, I dunno about anyone else, but if *I* were a Democrat, I would be EVERYWHERE, saying how sick I am of this and how utterly pathetic my Party can be and how ashamed I would be to have these animals representing my Party...

But what do we hear from the Left Wingery??

"Oh, I don't think it's evil."

"I don't think this is indicative of race relations in this country..

My gods!! It makes me sick and ashamed to think that these animals *AND* the people who defend and mitigate and excuse these animals are (allegedly.. jury is still out on that) human beings, the same as me...

I would think that SOME things transcend Party politics and should be resoundingly and completely condemned, REGARDLESS of Party affiliation...

I guess I was wrong...

Waaaaa Waaaaaaaa Waaaaaaaa

"My candidate didn't win so I am going to take my balls (what few I have left) and go home!!! Waaaaaa Waaaaaaa"

If nothing else, that PROVES beyond any doubt the bullet we dodged when we elected Trump and the GOP to take over the government from these whiney children..

You mean, beyond logic and common sense???

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/timworstall/files/2016/02/seattle15minimumwage.jpg?width=960

A picture is worth a thousand words....

You can't get something from nothing, Neil... First law of thermodynamics..

If an employer pays workers more, that money has to come from somewhere... So an employer has to raise prices... Customers will not like the price hike so they will go elsewhere.. Employer will lose business and lose money. Employer can't afford to keep the employees he has, especially at the higher wage. Employees are fired and replaced by automation or Employer goes under and ALL employees are now jobless...

"Simple logic"
-Admiral James T. Kirk

This is all photo-op snake oil for the gullible. The CEOs of major corporations are playing Trump like a 2-bit fiddle so they can get the corporate tax rate cut in half (or more if Trump gets his way) and to get rid of inconvenient restrictions on their businesses (usually stopping them from creating external costs they want you and me to pay for instead).

Ahhhhhh I get it now...

So, when OBAMA creates jobs, it's awesome, it's stupendous, it proves what an awesome POTUS Obama is..

But when TRUMP creates jobs, it's that he is being played by CEOs.... :D

"The {Party Slavery} is strong in this one."
-Darth Vader

:D

We create 7,000,000 jobs per quarter and destroy almost as many at the same time.

This is all photo-op snake oil for the gullible. The CEOs of major corporations are playing Trump like a 2-bit fiddle so they can get the corporate tax rate cut in half (or more if Trump gets his way) and to get rid of inconvenient restrictions on their businesses (usually stopping them from creating external costs they want you and me to pay for instead).

Really? A proven fact. Any chance of some supporting evidence?

In fact the data from California and Seattle has supported demand-side economics.

If you give a 20,000 multi-millionaires $1 million more in tax breaks per year they might buy a new yacht, or maybe a new plane. If you give 20,000,000 regular people $1,000 per year, they will spend it on things that other regular people make or services they provide.

I can never figure out why anybody who earns less than $250K/year votes for tax breaks for the rich and the elimination of estate taxes.

And Trump is bringing MORE jobs to America.....

Making America great... One company at a time... :D

That's the results of Obama "helping" the Democratic Party..

Does the Party REALLY want *MORE* of Obama's "help"??

Over a thousands Democratic Party political seats have gone to the GOP thanx to Obama's "help" putting the Democratic Party in the worst shape it's been in almost a century....

I am sure the GOP is thinking, "Yea Obama!!! Help the Democratic Party!!! PLEASE help the Democratic Party all you can!!!!!"

heh :D

Get that??

Obama is going to "help" the Democratic Party rebuild..

Even though EVERYTHING Obama touches goes the OPPOSITE way of what's desired...

The Chicago Olympics... Martha Coakley... Brexit... Trump....

Whatever or whoever Obama supports is thrown onto the trash heap of history..

If the Democratic Party had ANY sense, they would say to Obama, "Thanx, but no thanx... You've done enough..."

I would have thought ya would have been wary about Trump predictions, eh?? :D

On the other hand, I still make SCOTUS predictions, so I guess I see where yer coming from... :D

Nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that...

Just curious, you ever seen the sticom "An American In Canada"? About an exiled news anchor, and absolutely hilarious!

No, actually, I have not. It sounds like I may have to find it, store it and refer back to it ... often throughout the next couple or four years ... still don't think it's very likely that Trump survives past the first half of his first and only term ... I'm stubborn that way.

Oh, I'll keep my subscription to BBC News but Katty Kay thinks Joe Biden is a buffoon so, guess what I think about her!?

CW
Want to bet a few quatloos on how Obama's job creation record will stack up with Trump's?

Trump has already saved/created thousands of jobs and he ain't even PRESIDENT yet!!! :D

Anyone else want A Piece Of The Action?? :D

Heh.

How many of those who promised to leave the US if Trump won have actually left??

Answer: ZERO

And the Left Wingery wonders why it has no credibility... :^/

There is no doubt that Obama is likable enough...

But if he had been doing the kind of job that would warrant such a good approval rating, then Hillary would be President Elect right now...

The American people have totally and completely refuted the Obama policies in no uncertain terms...

I mean, honestly...

How bad do those policies and agenda have to be that they lost to DONALD TRUMP!???

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1W7K60WQAMW-o6.jpg

Moving van at the White House..

The eight year nightmare is coming to a close...

:D

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/03/minimum-wage-goes-up-and-so-does-business-thats-what-this-fast-food-ceo-says-happened/

Yea, for specialty niche shops, maybe...

But for the every day world???

It's a proven fact that hire wages lead to fired workers....

Obama and the Democrats had 8 years to put their worker's paradise in play..

There is a reason why they didn't..

Because it doesn't work....

I understand..

It's going to be hard to see a President that ya'all swore up and down would make this country a third world hell hole....

It's going to be hard to see him have better approval ratings than Reagan... :D

Who wants to see that every month... heh :D

Excellent article. Key paragraph:

“My overall sales were something like 15 percent ahead after the first minimum wage bump, and now they’re about 12 percent ahead this year,” Jacobs said. “It isn’t because I’m such a great manager or smart guy, but the buying public has more money in their pocket.”

Henry Ford figured this out, like a century ago. Supply-side economics is crap. It's demand-side economics that work. Give the workers more money, they will buy more stuff. Pretty elemetary stuff, really.

Thanks for the link!

-CW

Just curious, you ever seen the sticom "An American In Canada"? About an exiled news anchor, and absolutely hilarious!

:-)

-CW

"Greyhound Lines from Buffalo to Toronto... boarding now!"

Heh.

:-)

-CW

I recently sat in my driveway to hear the end of the "12 Days Of Christmas" as performed by Bob and Doug McKenzie. So all I have to say is: "Hoser!"

Four pounds of back-bacon,
Three French toasts,
Two turtlenecks,
And a be-ee-ee-eer in a tree!

Heh. Take off, eh?

:-)

-CW

https://g.co/kgs/uZp1zh

I record and watch BBC News every day - 30 minutes of valuable information and often a sublime moment or two.

Today's sublime moment was the response a young kid gave when asked about the dinosaur in the entry hall of the Natural History Museum in London. Needs to be seen :)

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/03/minimum-wage-goes-up-and-so-does-business-thats-what-this-fast-food-ceo-says-happened/

Cheers!

The Internet works in Canada?

You might want to give it a week or two after the inauguration ... if you know what I mean and I'm sure that you do!

Wise decision and, mercifully so.