Archive for July, 2010

Michael Ramirez Cartoon – Investors.com

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

No wonder why ;)

via Michael Ramirez Cartoon – Investors.com.

Doing Jobs Americans Will Not

Monday, July 5th, 2010

What is going on here?  A Brewster Washington farmer is flying in 300 Jamaican farm workers to pick crops. The issue started during an INS paper check forcing the farmer to let go hundreds of Mexican workers. Conservative statist commentators were dancing in the street that now the farmer forced against his property rights, has to hire real American workers at around $11.00 dollars an hour plus room and board and transportation, not a bad deal for an unemployed native worker.  The farmer tired and the result was no takers. Needing to find workers, he had to look elsewhere.  I do not blame the farmer, he played by the rules.

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Happy Birthday America

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival,” he supposedly said. “It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.

“It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore,”
Attributed to John Addams after the adoption of the Decoration of Independence in July 1776.