Complaint: Obama Regime Retaliating Against Whistleblower Catholic Priest Anyone who challenges the dictates of the Imperial President will be squashed be they whistleblower priests or Little Sisters of the Poor… Via WFB: A Catholic Navy chaplain barred from practicing his religion during the recent government shutdown is now the target of retaliation by the federal government, according to an amended complaint filed by his attorneys. Rev. Ray Leonard filed a lawsuit in October against the Department of Defense and the Navy after he was threatened with arrest if he performed mass, administered the sacraments, or entered the chapel at the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia during the shutdown. Three DOJ attorneys contacted Erin Mersino, his attorney at the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), which is handling the case, a day after the suit was filed and indicated Leonard could resume all religious duties and the chapel would be reopened for Catholic services. A week later, on Oct. 21, he was told his DOD contract would no longer be considered valid. The government has withheld the priest’s pay ever since and it is also asking Leonard to sign another contract with additional pages that include “onerous terms,” according to the TMLC. http://freebeacon.com/catholic-priest-target-of-retaliation-by-feds-complaint-claims/
If he was a Mullah the President would probably invite him to his State of the Union address. I wonder how many decades it will take to recover from Obama's carnage.
This is the America celebrated by the media and Hollywood. There's a lot in common with the way the regime treats religion and the way the Third Reich treated Jews.
What Happens When the Right Has the Balls To Cut Off the Left’s Voter Bribery Apparatus? http://townhall.com/columnists/charlottehays/2014/01/17/what-happened-when-north-carolina-slashed-unemployment-benefits-people-got-jobsweird-n1780439
Various factors can come into play in situations like that. Here in our area, IP just shut down and it is flooding the market with highly skilled workers who are looking to take anything as their entire world has been shaken up. I know some who scheme the system take side jobs while collecting unemployment. They go back on the books when they lose benefits. These people piss me off as well. What really sickens me is all of these programs designed to help people (of all races) who are basically professionally unemployed obtain jobs. They stay there the minimum and find a way to get fired without 'cause' therefor qualifying for unemployment benefits.
Gaffe-Tastic: Obama Says Blacks Will “Approach” Formal Equality In 2015… Yes, still the smartest man to ever walk the face of the Earth. Via Daily Caller: President Obama made a boo-boo. At the end of an extensive profile in the New Yorker magazine, Obama explained that even after Abraham Lincoln left the stage, “it took another hundred and fifty years before African-Americans had anything approaching formal equality, much less real equality.” “I think our decisions matter,” Obama told New Yorker editor David Remnick. “And I think America was very lucky that Abraham Lincoln was President when he was President. If he hadn’t been, the course of history would be very different. But I also think that, despite being the greatest President, in my mind, in our history, it took another hundred and fifty years before African-Americans had anything approaching formal equality, much less real equality. I think that doesn’t diminish Lincoln’s achievements, but it acknowledges that at the end of the day we’re part of a long-running story. We just try to get our paragraph right.” Hmm — 150 years? Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, so it seems that President Obama is suggesting that African-Americans are set to “approach” formal equality in 2015, the seventh year of his presidency. Congratulations, Mr. President! That’s certainly a legacy achievement that will be celebrated in all 57 states you visited during your 2008 presidential campaign. http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/20/obama-african-americans-will-approach-formal-equality-in-2015/
S&P Chairman: Obama Regime Threatened Us After We Downgraded America’s Credit Rating In 2011… And they apparently made good on that threat, the DOJ then filed a fraud lawsuit against the company. Jan 21 (Reuters) – Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner angrily warned the chairman of Standard & Poor’s parent that the rating agency would be held accountable for its 2011 decision to strip the United States of its coveted “triple-A” rating, a new court filing shows. Harold McGraw, the chairman of McGraw-Hill Financial Inc, made the statement in a declaration filed by S&P on Monday, as it defends against the government’s $5 billion fraud lawsuit over its rating practices prior to the 2008 financial crisis. McGraw said he returned a call from Geithner on Aug. 8, 2011, three days after S&P cut the U.S. credit rating to “AA-plus,” and that Geithner told him “you are accountable” for an alleged “huge error” in S&P’s work. “He said that ‘you have done an enormous disservice to yourselves and to your country,’” and that S&P’s conduct would be “looked at very carefully,” McGraw said. “Such behavior could not occur, he said, without a response from the government.” McGraw said he learned of Geithner’s concerns from a message left by a former subordinate at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where Geithner had been president in 2008. The U.S. Department of Justice, which brought the civil fraud lawsuit, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. New York Fed spokesman Jack Gutt declined to comment. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8937653/A-short-history-of-Standard-and-Poors-QandA.html
Justice Bars Lawyer From Testifying Before House Panel In IRS Probe Bulls**t Day Two. Via Washington Times The Justice Department said Thursday it is refusing to let a key lawyer testify to the House oversight committee on the criminal investigation into the IRS, saying that to let her brief Congress could potentially skew its probe. But oversight committee Republicans said blocking lawyer Barbara Bosserman from testifying only makes the Justice’s investigation look more partisan. After an internal audit last year revealed the IRS was unfairly targeting tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny and blocking their applications for tax-exempt status, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. called for a criminal probe into the tax agency. Eight months later, the probe has shown few public signs of progress, and many of the tea party victims say they still haven’t heard from the FBI or Justice Department lawyers. House Republicans said they were concerned about the direction of the probe, and Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican and a subcommittee chairman on the House oversight committee, asked Ms. Bosserman to testify at a hearing next week. The GOP has identified her as the lead lawyer on the investigation, and they have questioned her role, given her history as a significant political donor to President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Mr. Holder has denied Ms. Bosserman is the leader of the investigation and in a new letter to Mr. Jordan on Tuesday Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole, Mr. Holder’s deputy, said Ms. Bosserman won’t be testifying, nor will the department let anyone else appear.
White House: Employers Can Prevent Job Losses After Minimum Wage Hike By Making Less Money, “Accepting Lower Profit Margins”… Odds the person who wrote this for the Obama administration ever worked in the real world is somewhere between slim and none. Via PJM: The White House lauded a Congressional Budget Office report on the proposed minimum wage hike to $10.10 per hour while brushing off one key finding: that such a bill could cost half a million jobs, and maybe more. [...] “Overall the logic for the finding that raising the minimum wage does not result in large adverse impacts on employment is that paying workers a better wage can improve productivity and thereby reduce unit labor costs. These adjustments, along with others that firms can make, help explain why the increase in the minimum wage need not lead to a reduction in employment. Higher wages lead to lower turnover, reducing the amount employers must spend recruiting and training new employees. Paying workers more can also improve motivation, morale, focus, and health, all of which can make workers more productive. In addition, by reducing absenteeism, higher wages can increase the productivity of coworkers who depend on each other or work in teams. In addition, businesses can adjust in other ways rather than reducing employment (for example, by accepting lower profit margins). CBO’s estimates do not appear to fully reflect the increased emphasis on all of these factors from the recent economics literature.” http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/02/18/white-house-employers-can-prevent-job-losses-after-minimum-wage-hike-by-accepting-lower-profit-margins/
Even if he or she has never worked in the real world, business 101 never taught that as an example....
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2014/03/01/the-ten-most-abusive-obama-executive-actions-n1802149 The Ten Most Abusive Obama Executive Actions 1. Amending Obamacare’s employer mandate, providing an unauthorized subsidy to congressional staff, and encouraging state insurance commissioners not to enforce certain requirements. 2 Inventing labor law “exemptions” in violation of the WARN Act so that workers would not receive notice of impending layoffs days before the 2012 election. 3. Waiving the mandatory work requirement under the 1996 comprehensive welfare reform law, which required able-bodied adults to work, prepare for work, or look for work in order to receive benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. 4. Ignoring a statutory deadline and refusing to consider an application related to nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain, which activists sought to block for years. 5. Circumventing the Senate’s duty to provide advice and consent on appointments and instead making “recess” appointments in violation of Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution when the Senate was actually in session. 6. Deciding not to defend the constitutionality of the federal definition of marriage in court. 7. Implementing Common Core national standards through strings-attached waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act. 8. Intimidating Florida to stop its voter roll cleanup, which included removing ineligible voters such as noncitizens, before the 2012 election. 9. Imposing the DREAM Act by executive fiat under the guise of “prosecutorial discretion.” 10. Refusing to enforce federal drug laws in states that have legalized marijuana.