Month: February 2015

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Politics

Walmart Will Raise Its Minimum Wage to $10 an Hour

Well, it’s a start!

On Thursday, Walmart announced that it will raise all of its full-time and part-time employees’ pay to at least $9 an hour starting in April. The lowest wage will rise to $10 an hour by February of next year.

In a press release, it said it is also raising pay for the compensation range for each position, and all told says that about 500,000 employees will see a raise from the changes. It also says the raises will mean its average hourly wage for full-time workers will increase from $12.85 to $13 an hour and the average for part-time workers will increase from $9.48 to $10 an hour.

It also promised that workers “will have more control over their schedules.” The wage increases will cost more than $1 billion this fiscal year.

In announcing the changes, CEO Doug McMillion acknowledged some of the criticism that the company has sacrificed customer loyalty because of its pay practices. “We have work to do to grow the business. We know what customers want from a shopping experience, and we’re investing strategically to exceed their expectations and better position Walmart for the future,” he said. “We’re strengthening investments in our people to engage and inspire them to deliver superior customer experiences.”

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Celebrities Featured

Lawsuit Claims Jay Z Has a 21 Year Old Son – Video

TMZ is reporting that a lawsuit has been filed by the 21-year old’s mother, naming Jay Z as the daddy!

According to the suit, Jay hooked up with the boy’s mother before he was famous and way before Beyoncé came into the picture. The claim also say that Jay Z has previously submitted fraudulent information to the court. No information was provided on what this fraudulent information was, but there are reports that Jay is refusing to take a paternity test.

The alleged son’s name is Rymir Satterthwaite. He is an aspiring rapper.

The lawsuit claims that Jay’s actions have caused Rymir financial hardship and emotional stress.

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Featured

Rudy Giuliani – We Didn’t Take Over Iraq, So Obama Does Not “Love America”

What did Rudy Giuliani say this time that got his name plastered all over the internet? Based on absolutely nothing, the former mayor of New York and current September 11th fame-seeker said, that the president of the United States does not love America.

Yea, he said that.

This of course, is based on Giuliani’s expert expertise on all things Islam and his uncanny ability to associate Islam with terrorism. As far as Giuliani and the rest of the Republican party are concerned, Islam and terrorism are the same, and with this association made and the fact that President Obama fails to see the connection, well, Giuliani figures that the president just don’t love America.

He was addressing a group of supporters at a private event when he came to the conclusion that the president hates this country. And present at this private gathering was none other than Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 Republican candidate.

“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani said during the dinner at the 21 Club, a former Prohibition-era speakeasy in midtown Manhattan. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”

With Walker sitting just a few seats away, Giuliani continued by saying that “with all our flaws we’re the most exceptional country in the world. I’m looking for a presidential candidate who can express that, do that and carry it out.”

“And if it’s you Scott, I’ll endorse you,” he added. “And if it’s somebody else, I’ll support somebody else.”

After the event, Giuliani then explained and doubled down on why he made the remark. Apparently, when George Bush invaded Iraq on false pretense and sanctioned thousands of troops to die needlessly, Giuliani now thinks their deaths should have been justified with America “taking land.” Who knows? Maybe we were supposed to take over Iraq or something.

“What country has left so many young men and women dead abroad to save other countries without taking land? This is not the colonial empire that somehow he has in his hand. I’ve never felt that from him. I felt that from [George] W. [Bush]. I felt that from [Bill] Clinton. I felt that from every American president, including ones I disagreed with, including [Jimmy] Carter. I don’t feel that from President Obama.”

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Featured Politics Rev AL Sharpton

Fox News Calls Rev. Al Sharpton a “Sleazy Assclown” on Air – Video

Yea, yea, I know. This is Fox News, so we should expect name calling to pass as news.

On his broadcast on Wednesday, Sean Hannity showed a clip of Obama’s former Senior Adviser David Axelrod, correctly saying that in the past six years of President Obama’s presidency, there have not been any “major scandals.” Yes, that is a correct statement but this is Fox News and like expected, on cue, Sean Hannity began naming all the man-made hysteria Fox News pushed as “scandals.” These include “scandals” like Benghazi, Healthcare.gov, the IRS so-called scandal, Fast and Furious, etc., etc., etc.

Among the panelists was Geraldo Riveria, who timidly began saying the things Hannity named were not real scandals, but it was another panelist named Bernard McGuirk who stole the show with his personal attack on the Rev. Al Sharpton, criticizing the amount of times he visited the White House as “the real scandal.”

“You know, they didn’t go anywhere so they weren’t ‘scandals’ per say, they were scandalous,” Bernard said, dismissing Hannity’s list. He went on to name a few more so-call “scandals” that Fox News harped on in the past, like the apparent “flirting” by Obama in South Africa when he attended Nelson Mandela’s funeral and another apparent “flirting” edition by the president in California.

Then Bernard said this: “But I would say this. Speaking of scandalous, the biggest scandal of the whole administration is the fact that he has Geraldo’s – to borrow from Joe Biden – Geraldo’s butt-buddy Al Sharpton, that sleazy assclown Al Sharpton to the White House…,” to which Sean Hannity is heard saying, “that’s true, 85 times.”

This is news! This is Fox News!

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Barack Obama ISIS Politics

President Obama Explains – ISIL is NOT Islam, ISIL Leaders are “Terrorists” – Video

Once again, because of the small mentality of so many in the media, President Obama found himself today explaining the obvious, that ISIS or ISIL and Islam are different and that America is not fighting Islam. “We are not at war with Islam,” the president said.

Calling it a “recruiting tool” used by ISIS when they falsely say that America is at war with Islam, the president stated that “we must never accept the premise that they put forward, because it is a lie!”

He continued: “Nor should we grant these terrorists the religious legitimacy that they seek! They are not religious leaders, they’re terrorists!”

Yes, there are many people out there working in the media who needed to hear this distinction, and instead of spending their time covering the important stories and the terrorist activities of groups like ISIS, these so-called journalists and pundits spend a sickening amount of time confused and wondering if America is at war with Islam!

But now that the president has clarified this distinction, are these people going to move on and cover the real news? I strongly doubt that!

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Healthcare ObamaCare

Obamacare in Florida – Almost 2 Million Floridians Enrolled by February 15th

Florida. Another state with a Republican governor who, if he had his way, would repeal Obamacare and leave his constituents without healthcare in a jiffy! Yes, that same Florida registered almost 2 million Americans to receive health insurance benefits from The Affordable Care Act.

Erollment in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans topped 1.6 million in Florida and totaled about 11.4 million nationwide through the Feb. 15 deadline, according to data released Wednesday by the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

The figures reflect the number of people who selected a plan during the just-completed three-month open enrollment period or who enrolled during the previous year and were automatically re-enrolled.

Officials said the deadline for people who were unable to complete their enrollments by Feb. 15 would be extended by a week, so the enrollment totals will be revised once those enrollees are counted.

Enrollment totals for metropolitan areas included in Wednesday’s release were:

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach — 756,137

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford — 192,881

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater — 174,675

Jacksonville — 80,256

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton — 44,072

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Featured Healthcare Politics

Convicted Republican Felon Calls Obama “Vulgar” and “Boy From the Ghetto” – PIC

Again, this is a convicted felon talking. His name is Dinesh D’Souza and yes, he is a convicted felon and pleaded guilty for illegal campaign contributions.

D’Souza posted this on his twitter feed apparently complaining that the President is a “vulgar man” and a “boy from the ghetto,” because the president took a selfie for Buzzfeed to promote the Affordable Health Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

My question is this: Since when is taking a selfie a vulgar act done by ghetto people? And while I’m at it, lemme also ask this: why is a convicted Republican felon the moral authority on selfie taking etiquette?

Republicans. Their stupidity never cease to amaze me!

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marco rubio Politics

Potential Presidential Candidate Marco Rubio is Missing In Action in Congress

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Republican Presidential wannabe Marco Rubio cannot even master his job in Congress. According to an analysis, Rubio has already missed over 8% of the 1100 votes he should have cast since joining the Senate. But Rubio is not allowing that dubious distinction to stop him from aspiring to a higher office – being president of the United States.

Politico reports: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) have been absent from the most votes in their respective chambers, according to a new analysis by Vocativ in partnership with GovTrack.us.

Of 1,198 total votes, Rubio has missed 99, or 8.3 percent, since taking office in January 2011.

“He is one of the only senators with young children who has not moved his family to D.C., and tries to spend as much time in Florida with them as possible,” Rubio spokesman Alex Conant told POLITICO. “In addition to his parental responsibilities, in recent years he’s also had to return to Florida and miss votes due to his mother’s health and civic responsibilities like jury duty.”

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Barack Obama Immigration Politics

Paranoia – Obama will Take Conservatives’ Homes and “Give them to Immigrants!” – Audio

Jeeze! Then brains feeding the Republican base is in dying need of some ginkgo biloba! Is this the best these conservative minds can come up with?

This piece of Republican paranoia comes from Rick Wiles.

On Friday’s edition of “Trunews,” host Rick Wiles spoke with guest Brett Creamer about a “series of dreams and visions” Creamer had “in which he saw a tsunami wave strike the southeastern United States, and the aftermath of an economic collapse in which private property is seized from middle-class homeowners and given to illegal immigrants.”

Wiles said that Creamer’s dreams confirmed his suspicions that Obama may one day seize all private property, especially the homes of conservatives, and hand over the land to undocumented immigrants.

“There’s a real possibility that all private property could be confiscated in the United States of America,” Wiles said. “Could it be hard for you to imagine Barack Obama taking homes from middle class, conservative people and giving them to illegal immigrants who just came into the country? That’s a no-brainer for me, that is a redistribution of wealth.”

Well then he better get on it already. He only have a little over a year left in office.

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Racism

They Shout, “We’re Racists, And That’s The Way We Like It” at Black Man – Video

The incident happened in France on Tuesday, right before a championship game between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain. The footage, obtained by The Guardian, shows a black man trying to board a train and being denied access by self admitted “racists.”

“We’re racist, we’re racist, and that’s the way we like it!”

Chelsea released a statement calling the incident “abhorrent” and had “no place in football or society”. And pledged to “support any criminal action against those involved, and should evidence point to involvement of Chelsea season-ticket holders or members, the club will take the strongest possible action against them, including banning orders.”

French prosecutors are investigating.

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Politics

Poll: Hillary Clinton Destroys Chris Christie… in New Jersey

But then this is not real news. Chris Christie is so damaged in the state he governs that the governor in the Walking Dead would be more popular in New Jersey than Christie is.

A new Rutgers-Eagleton poll in New Jersey finds Hillary Clinton has a commanding 23 points lead on Gov. Chris Christie in a possible presidential match up, 58% to 35%.

Chris Christie’s presidential ambitions may have already ended. He’s probably the only one still thinking he has a shot in 2016.

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Television

Walking Dead Introduces a Gay Character

His name is ‘Aaron’ and he made his appearance when Maggie and Sasha were having some quiet time after an extremely hectic night. He slowly approached the two women describing himself as a “friend.”

According to the comic books (spoiler alert), Aaron actually is friendly. He’s a recruiter for the Alexandria Safe-Zone trying to bring in Rick and his group. In the comic books, Aaron also has a boyfriend named Eric.

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