She Probably Meant “47 Percent”

Bill's Wife If Women Ran The World 59 Comments

“To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables,'” Clinton said, according to a recording of her remarks obtained by Variety. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.”

It’s the 8 Mile Rule coming to fruition.

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

Animal Rights Extremism 16 Comments

Because it’s 2016

The ‘Modernizing Animal Protections Act” was introduced last week by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith of Toronto. It is being promoted as legislation to ban of the importation of shark fins and outlaw the practice of shark finning in Canadian waters. But that is only the tip of the fin.
An activist coalition of Canadian and U.S. animal rights organizations with a decades-long history of sustained attacks on anglers and farmers quickly supported the private member’s bill. Led by the International Fund for Animal Welfare of Yarmouth, Massachusetts and the Toronto-based Animal Alliance of Canada, these groups have once again come out in strong support of federal legislation which threatens a criminal charge, up to a $10,000 fine and five years jail time for anglers who harvest a few fish for dinner.
Provisions in Bill C-246 clearly make it possible for someone who catches a fish to face criminal prosecution for cruelty to animals. Even the act of baiting a hook with a worm would be considered an act of cruelty according to the Bill.

Or shooting a deer. Contact your MP here.

Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees

More Money Than Brains 19 Comments

And they did it all on their own.

On Thursday, federal regulators said Wells Fargo employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts — without their customers knowing it — since 2011.
The phony accounts earned the bank unwarranted fees and allowed Wells Fargo employees to boost their sales figures and make more money.
“Wells Fargo employees secretly opened unauthorized accounts to hit sales targets and receive bonuses,” Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said in a statement.

Inflation Punishes the Stupid and the Entitled

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“In other words say the government didn’t spend/lend $1 trillion annually on education and left it up to people to pay for it privately? What if Obama wasn’t taking another $700 billion of working people’s money to pay for the health care of the parasitic classes? What if you didn’t have every government guarantee backing up the housing industry? That would damn well take away 75-80% of the money flooding these markets and prices would drop by the same. People fret saying, “Well how can we pay for college/healthcare/housing/retirement/etc. without government help!?” but they fail to realize it’s government money that is precisely driving these costs up. If you simply took away this money (be it college, the stock market, healthcare, etc. etc.) prices would drop dramatically because there’s be TRILLIONS less in money chasing those same fixed amount of degrees, doctors, houses, and stocks.”

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Media 8 Comments

Armstrong considered Huffington “a critical element to HuffPost . . . and her name is a key [intellectual property] asset,” he wrote at the time. But his memo to the board also, in retrospect, reveals that Huffington had overshot in the performance projections that she presented to AOL. In 2010, the site generated nearly $31 million in revenue but made a profit of less than $1 million. In 2011, Huffington expected to double revenues, to $60 million, and profit was expected to balloon to $10 million–no doubt helping to justify the purchase price, which was still more than 30 times Huffington Post’s projected profits. Armstrong seemed convinced by Huffington’s prediction that her business would explode in the coming years. She projected the company’s revenue and profit would surge to $115 million and $36 million, respectively, in 2012, and increase to $203 million and $73 million, respectively, in 2015.
That did not happen…

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