Open Thread Sunday

How about an article on the boycott of the Toronto International Film Festival over the film about Tel Aviv because Israel is an "apartheid state"? Jane Fonda and Danny Glover, among others, have signed on to the boycott.

As I learn more about the politics of many Hollywood stars, I find it more and more difficult to watch the movies they appear in. I've always liked Jane Fonda as an actress, but alas, I will not spend a penny on any more of her films. Ditto Danny Glover.

There has always been a mystique associated with Lombard!

Just read that teen unemployment is at its highest level, 25.5 percent, since 1948, when such statistics started being kept. I recall, the last time the minimum wage was arbitrarily raised, reading several articles knocking the move. Argument being, every time such populist, feel-good measures are enacted, teen employment is hit the hardest, as teens hold the majority of minimum-wage positions.

This happened here in Illinois last year, a year after our Democrat-controlled State Congress raised the state's minimum-wage requirement. Now it appears to have occurred on the national level, as well.

"Yayyy! I'm minimum-wage and it just got raised to over ten bucks an hour! Cool!…Wait, what do you mean, my hours are getting cut? And nobody else is hiring right now?…Downsizing? What? My job? But I'm supposed to get over ten bucks an hour now! What the hell's going on?"…

Ah, yes, the law of unintended consequences strikes again.

"That is a pity, because while the MW is the starting rate, it should also be a rate that people can subsist on without living at their parent's house, a rate they can begin to be independent on."

It can't be both. Almost no one starting a first-time job has any experience in what it takes to make themselves a valuable employee. My youngest teenager has neither the knowledge nor the skill to earn enough salary to live on his own. However, after a few years of employment at a series of jobs where he has developed the knowledge and skills, he should be ready to support himself. In the meantime, I don't expect an employer to pay my unskilled son the wage of a skilled employee — because it's called the "minimum" wage, not the "living" wage.

The current high teen unemployment rate (~25%) suggests that employers may at least partially agree with me. And if the minimum wage were currently $21.50, I reckon that number would be about 100%.

We've still got Geithner………even if nothing shows up that he's Anti-American………he's still a "TAX CHEAT."

For the statist we mustn’t look at results, but only intention. The minimum wage was never intended as a living wage, but a place to start for kids.

Your calculation are wrong spending power of $1.75 would only be $6.84 http://www.aier.org/research/worksheets-and-tools... If you are working any length of time and still earning minimum wage a company feels either your job skills are minimal or anyone can fill the job. All wages are not tied to minimum wages they are basic supply and demand when minimum wage was $5.15/hour and unemployment was low i had to hire incoming employees with no skills $8-$9 an hour. If you are old enough to move out and only have enough stills to earn minimum wage you have other issues.

Interesting point about Naomi Watts. I thought she was the perfect casting choice in KIng Kong for precisely that reason. She does have a sort of 1930s style look about her.

Carol Lombard named Errol Flynn's house "Cirrosis By The Sea" Good humor, classy lady, too young gone.

The bad apple, Van Jones is gone. But the truth is — the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Don't believe for a moment that Jones will not be in the WH at some level.
He'll just have to use the back door now so Obama can make us think he has implemented some more change.

Takes more than that to get mange off a dog.

Quit? Yeah. With a little help from his friends.

1) Afghanistan Czar: Richard Holbrooke
2) AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley
3) Auto recovery Czar: Ed Montgomery
4) Border Czar: Alan Bersin
5) California Water Czar: David J. Hayes
6) Car Czar: Ron Bloom
7) Central Region Czar: Dennis Ross Domestic Violence Czar: Lynn Rosenthal
9) Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske
10) Economic Czar: Paul Volcker

Jack Webb Schools Barack Obama on Healthcare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4r6YCUtxfs&eu...

Jane Fonda has been at the top of my list of “Wouldn’t walk across the street to see her movies – even if they paid me” for a long time, with Sean Penn a close second. Over the years I've added George Clooney; Barbara Streisand; Tim Robbins; Alex Baldwin; Susan Sarandon; Matt Damon & Anything by Michael Moore to the list. Danny Glover disappoints me. I really thought he was smarter than that.
FYI for all you Hollywood actors/producers – Knowing that these people are fighting for and supporting the destruction of our country ruins any movie and/or TV program they might be in for me. I keep thinking, He’s (She’s) a liberal (read Socialist/Communist), and can’t keep up with the plot, much less enjoy the show!

Boy are they in a fizz today! I love it!

Jane Fonda still makes movies???

I wouldnt' jump to this conclusion yet. There is still the Wag-the-dog play.

well parts for 70 year old asshats are rare but ya, ocassionaly, "Monster in Law" with J.Lo recently…Fonda is the Monster in question.

Glovers been a leftist psycho for years…he thinks ANY black man in prison is there because of some kind of conspiracy against our African American community. He's certifiable…

From Rasmussen–Rats on a sinking ship:
Leading liberals are already thinking the unthinkable: Challenging President Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2012.

According to a report on the left-leaning Huffington Post website, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and Eugene Robinson, an African-American national columnist for The Washington Post, discussed just such a possibility Thursday night. Robinson said Obama needs to be careful how he handles the health care reform issue and the continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Olbermann said the president has “compromised on everything so far and as self-defeating as it may be, the progressive caucus and progressives would abandon him if necessary, if this was to be the policy of this administration into 2012. If it’s necessary to find somebody to run against him, I think they’d do it, no matter how destructive that may seem.”

Ms. Joanne Woodward fills those shoes (RIP Mr. Paul Newman)

Keith Obermann via email to DailyKos was all the dirt real or made-up he can get on Glenn Beck over the Van Jones resignation. Olbermann's bread ticket is Barrack Obama.

Gable and Lombard. Lombard and Gable. Are there any married stars that even come close to the brilliance of their glow? Ben Affleck and….that one he's married to, Demi Less and Ashcan Koochie…don't make me laugh! Brangelina…they are not even married and besides, they aren't fit to wipe the dust off the Gables' Grauman's Theater footprints.
Carole Lombard had a potty mouth, but was a classy cusser. Actresses today don't come close to pulling it off. But the biggest difference is Lombard died after serving her country selling war bonds in Indiana. Name one actress today that could fill those shoes and I'll give you a million bucks.

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This is a chart from the Bureau of Labor. Use the CPI, translates the minimum wage for a given year into 1996 dollars.

True. But try as I might there I can't see any way he can spin his way out of his quagmire. He might go for a power play but it will never amount to anything other than a postponement of the inevitable and don't think the powers that be don't see it.

Do you trust Obama to do the right thing? Neither does most of his constituents even the ones who voted for him.

Who's the dame?

It's been a good week… heck, a good month for conservatives. Liberals are in retreat on all fronts. Who would have thought, after the drubbing we took in the last election, that we would have the libs scurrying for the dark places only a few months later.

The point, Mike, was not that I would still be earning that amount- I realize the MW is a base, but everyone's wage is calculated off of that base, whatever it is– and, 3.3% yearly inflationary rate is correct- the cost of goods rises by that amount, on average every year.
The MW should at least somewhat correspond- it doesn't even come close, so wages, even those NOT MW are beginning to lag behind, which is one reason we are where we are.

The point, which you all seem to miss, is that the goods and services were more in line with the 1.75 per hour I was making back then, and I was able to afford an apartment, pay bills, and save money- try that on MW these days. Also, the employers were able to make a profit when the MW was where it was. The prices of virtually everything have gone up an average of 1000% over thirty years, why not the MW? Because profit wins out over what should be right.

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Hey, it's Labor Day weekend…mail ain't runnin.' Uh…I'll gladly pay you…on Tuesday…that's the ticket…Tuesday.

Mmm…..meantime, 'til your check gets here, I'm sure you'll have no problem co-signing the note for my $50K new truck I can't afford?

8-passenger crew-cab pickup with a 12' bed and dualies; 20,000 lb tow pkg; diesel engine getting 2 mpg; a/c front and rear, and a carbon footprint big enough to give Algore hives.
What color you want?

Would that be 'candy apple red' prune?
or 'midnight metalic blue' prune? I can live with either.

married to William Powell and Clark Gable, Jack Benny was married to Martha, but was seen mostly with "Rosco"

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