Simple arm the carriers.

Can't, it's against the Hague conventions.

This is the worst campaign ever, because it will effectively destroy the USA and Israel if Obama is elected! Iran will nuke Israel and they will nuke Iran and the dominoes will start to fall all over the world.

What is it like to live with that sort of self-generated fear everyday?

What's going to be your bogeyman when this doesn't happen?

Police say bank surveillance footage doesn't show her at an ATM where she says she was attacked.

Todd, who is white, now says she was knocked unconscious and doesn't remember being cut. She now says she only discovered the wound later.

AP Story

My Bullshit meter just went off....

What about the black eye? If this just happened there shouldn't be purple bruising yet. It takes a couple days for the purple to come up. And where's the swelling?

Bob Newhart as Manfred Link, First Family.

Now that's funny.

Soylent Green is fuel!

So God chose Bush to lead the war and placed him in the White House.

Now, the next President will lead in a time of peace and economic recovery for the nation.

Sarah Palin stunted Obama's bounce after the DNC.

Sarah now stands in the way of Oprah showcasing Obama this late in the game.

Good strategy by McCain.

Help me understand, is it God who chooses the president or people?

God said that Bush will never be Impeached.

God said that Hillary will never be President months before the liberal media was talking about her INEVITABILITY.

I must have missed that press release...

God re-elected Bush to finish the job --- Iraq minus Saddam is doing much better now, but the liberal media cannot afford to credit Bush and so had to ignore the sunny side. We all know what selective coverage is --- and they are doing that to McCain now.

So since God's handling the elections, you won't need to vote, right?

Now that's funny!

No seriously, a basic employee package with social security 7.5%, unemployment 1.2%, workers comp 9-22%, liability(if they fuck up you still have to pay) PTO 8% and all the other crap a small business has to pay 1.25 - 1.7 times the base salary. Then add about $6,000 for insurance. It all adds up.

I have 5 employees which work for me, 2 full-time (>35 hrs/wk), 3 part-time (2 for ~32 hrs/wk, 1 for ~12 hrs/wk). The burden for them is about 36%, and that includes a $225-$250/month health reimbursement allotment. Without the allotment, the burden rate is about 19%. And I am paying on the low end of the wage scale, which means the employer's tax spreads even more with higher paying wages (ceilings on taxable wages) so I'm calling BS on your figures.

Even if I paid $6k for insurance (instead of the allotment), the burden rate would be about 52%, again if they were 40 hr/wk employees and making the average hourly wage in my home county, the burden rate would be about 31%.

If an employer is paying a 70% burden rate, you can bet either the employee is a part-time burger flipper or in a skilled position where that higher rate is being passed on the the customer.

And for the record, when I get to the point where I'm making $250,000 a year, I think I could cough up an extra 3%.

That's Hot!

I love Jack in the Box!

Shouldn't Russian military weapons "tanks" be transported by Russian navy?
An unarmed merchant ship is carrying military hardware?
Something is wrong with this story....

First, it's Ukrainian equipment (Russian design). Second, do you think the US Navy transports US Army tanks? No the Merchant Marine does.

Third, where were the tanks going? Were they being sold to a third party?

"I can't help thinking of 'Fargo' every time I hear her talk."

Exactly!

Wonder what Lieberman might have to say about this.

Just askin'.....

One of my sons tore his ACL playing football, and while I could care less for the Pats, but to see someone go out like this regardless of who they are or who they play for is terrible.

"Venezuela recently bought a squadron of fourth-generation Sukhoi-37 fighter planes from Russia after the U.S. refused to sell spare parts for its ageing F-14 jet fleets."

I'm pretty sure the Venezuela doesn't have f-14 Tomcats. Also, I'm pretty sure they are not "ageing", aging maybe, but not "ageing"...

Heh, heh, and not a word about the pillar parlor that obama used,trying to equate the token of the left to a Greek god. the clown is a worthless liberal, with no direction, or leadership skills.

So were they trying to equate McCain to a high school principal?

Not that you find columns like those in any buildings in DC.....