Rheo Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Join us daily to chat about news, post snippets, video's, what you heard on tv or at the grocery store. Have a great day! Previous Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 (edited) When is a job not a job? posted at 11:01 am on May 6, 2012 by Jazz Shaw No, it’s not a riddle. (At least not a very funny one.) But it’s a question which many recent college graduates are likely now asking themselves, particularly given the fairly bleak jobs numbers for April. The Paper of Record reports that new job seekers, facing a market where a paycheck is hard to come by, are turning to unpaid internships in record numbers. And while such positions were traditionally common in media and charitable foundations, they are now spreading across all sectors of the private market. The idea is that such a position gets your foot in the door, teaches you valuable skills and gives you something to put down as the first entry on your resume. But for many who take on these positions, the reality is quite different. Confronting the worst job market in decades, many college graduates who expected to land paid jobs are turning to unpaid internships to try to get a foot in an employer’s door… Although many internships provide valuable experience, some unpaid interns complain that they do menial work and learn little, raising questions about whether these positions violate federal rules governing such programs… Edited May 6, 2012 by saveliberty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 (edited) The Lonely Guy posted at 12:31 pm on May 6, 2012 by Ed Morrissey The first rule of Campaign Club is to pick a venue that produces an overflow crowd. The second rule of Campaign Club is that the first rule is critically important for the kickoff event. Barack Obama and his team managed to violate both rules, and Breitbart’s Alexander Marlow noticed: Barack Obama launched his campaign in unspectacular fashion today at Ohio State University, the largest college in the crucial swing state. A photo posted to twitter by Mitt Romney’s campaign spokesman Ryan Williams reveals sparse attendance. The above image, according to Williams, was taken during the President’s first official campaign speech. Edited May 6, 2012 by saveliberty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Four Years of Obama Undoes Eight Years of Reagan Tommy De Seno · May 4 at 7:46am Wow this graph really says it all. The Labor Force Participation Rate shows what percentage of people are working, looking for a job and not looking for a job. It is a better yardstick to measure the workforce in America than is the usually cited "unemployment rate" which doesn't count people who are so frustrated they stopped looking for a job. ***** H/T Instapundit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnNFzPDM7hQ H/T Gateway Pundit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 (edited) The ‘Rubio Doctrine’: Sen. Marco Rubio Gets Serious About Russia His policy speech on how to handle the Putin regime is well-considered. by Kim Zigfeld Bio May 5, 2012 - 12:00 am Florida Senator Marco Rubio recently gave a speech at the left-leaning Brookings Institution, where he was introduced by his colleague Joe Lieberman. In the speech, Rubio announced a bold new policy towards Russia. Considering two frightening recent pronouncements from Putin supporters, this new Rubio Doctrine cannot be implemented soon enough. The five principles of the Rubio Doctrine: Recognition Leadership Circumvention Displacement Revolution Edited May 6, 2012 by saveliberty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Stephen Green @VodkaPundit Obama says Romney is to the right of Reagan. SoCons say he's as lefty as Obama. And you wonder why I drink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 (edited) David Burge @iowahawkblog Washington DC: The Arsenal of Stupidity. 2h David Burge @iowahawkblog I'm hoping to get quoted in the NY Times. Should I change my name to "Many Experts" or "Growing Consensus"? 2h David Burge @iowahawkblog Chicago May Day marchers have a fever and the only cure is MORE STALIN http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2012/05/occupy-chicago-may-day-march-pics-you.html #IhateIllinoisNazisandCommies 2h David Burge @iowahawkblog @VodkaPundit "Fortunately, I keep my hashtags numbered in the event of just such an occasion." #FoghornAxelrod 2h David Burge @iowahawkblog Mystery solved: Obama campaign buys its hashtags from ACME. #attackwatch #Julia Edited May 6, 2012 by saveliberty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 George F. Will Opinion Writer Taking a scythe to the Bill of Rights By George F. Will, Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal of Medical Ethics that “after-birth abortions” — killing newborn babies — are matters of moral indifference because newborns, like fetuses, “do not have the same moral status as actual persons” and “the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant.” So killing them “should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.” This helpfully validates the right-to-life contention that the pro-abortion argument, which already defends third-trimester abortions, contains no standard for why the killing should be stopped by arbitrarily assigning moral significance to the moment of birth. Now comes Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) with a comparable contribution to another debate, the one concerning government regulation of political speech. Joined by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 26 other Democrats and one Republican, he proposes a constitutional amendment to radically contract First Amendment protections. His purpose is to vastly expand government’s power — i.e., the power of incumbent legislators — to write laws regulating, rationing or even proscribing speech in elections that determine the composition of the legislature and the rest of the government. McGovern’s proposal vindicates those who say that most campaign-finance “reforms” are incompatible with the First Amendment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 (edited) Just so you know what the partisans in Massachusetts are focusing on as they are unaware that Elizabeth Warren's campaign bungles daily: editorial Health coverage: Helping Ayla Brown May 05, 2012 The 23-year-old professional singer Ayla Brown surely ran into the same issue many other workers her age face: If a young, self-employed worker needs health insurance, the most affordable way for her to get it is to stay on her parents’ policy, as allowed under Massachusetts law and President Obama’s 2010 health care law. The fact that her father, Scott Brown, opposed Obama’s health care overhaul doesn’t make him a hypocrite, as critics charge. Edited May 6, 2012 by saveliberty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Julia @JuliaDependent @LizSingZ4U Zachary and I are making French toast w/ govt issued eggs, bread, and milk. Emphasis on French, bc they do things better. #Julia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 May 6th, 2012 Once in a super moon Did you see the supermoon last night? I was driving my car right around the time the moon rose, and I saw it without having read anything about the phenomenon beforehand. So I didn’t know what I was seeing, but it was quite obviously spectacular. ****** click on the link to see beautiful pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 (edited) France chooses socialism over Sarkozy Posted by Anne Sorock Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 2:59pm Today challenger Francois Hollande unseated incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy with 52 percent of the vote, in doing so becoming the second Socialist president in France’s history. Edited May 6, 2012 by saveliberty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Yes, it's possible to make fun of Obama; liberals just don't want to do it Isn't this just special? SNL apparently wrote a skit making fun of Obama's spiking the football over killing Osama bin Laden for their opening last night, but they scrapped it for a skit to make fun of Fox and Friends.In the skit, President Obama addresses Americans soon after the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden — and he makes sure to remind viewers that all credit for the raid on the terrorist leader’s compound belongs to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 What Sarkozy Loss Really Means for America by Joel B. Pollak 4 hours ago 64 post a comment The mainstream media will attempt to spin French President Nicholas Sarkozy's loss today to Socialist challenger François Hollande as a rejection of "austerity" policies--and to urge American voters to reject the deficit-cutting politics of the Tea Party when we go to the polls in November. In fact, there are important lessons from France--and they are the precise opposite of what the media is telling us. First, to call Sarkozy's policies "austerity" is to insult both austerity and socialism. The French government--like other European governments--sought to close its budget gap primarily by raising taxes, not by cutting the size and cost of government. Neither Sarkozy nor Hollande had the courage to confront the basic, failed structure of France's welfare-state economy, which is the fundamental cause of its budget problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Video: CNN not exactly buying the War on Wimmenses meme From the comments: A pig just flew by my window and ted kennedy called to ask if I could loan him a sweater. VegasRick on May 6, 2012 at 6:43 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 I don't think that global warming means what the warmists think it means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 H/T The Right Scoop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 BASTILLE FALLS; WORLD STOCK MARKETS NEXT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 This link includes the SNL skit about Patricia Krentcil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Obama Knew OBL's Hideout Since Summer of 2010 - Refused to Act http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsT4Tmc_K4g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saveliberty Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 So Ulsterman was correct, wasn't he, @Geee? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestVirginiaRebel Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 Brokaw: White House Correspondents' dinner hurting the press "That’s another separation between what we’re supposed to be doing and what the people expect us to be doing, and I think that the Washington press corps has to look at that, and by the way I’m a charter member of the White House Correspondents Association, I was there early on and often enjoyed it, but it’s gone beyond what it needs to be.” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino67 Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 JLT @Jenfidel LOL @DanaPerino asked a Navy SEAL if had to learn any languages in countries he had visited? Reply:"No ma'am, we don't go there to talk." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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