Obama’s Gaffe Hall of Fame

By David Arnett

BarackObamaGaffesOpinion:  Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Thursday said President Barack Obama “makes more gaffes than George Bush and Sarah Palin combined.” However, the host complained, he is “never called on it.”

But Limbaugh did call him on it — and the Daily Rushbo also provides a video compilation that the site is calling the “Obama Gaffe Hall of Fame.”  This is beyond funny, but please as a direct safety warning from Tulsa Today – please do not show these videos to Liberal and Leftist friends – they might well explode.

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Coburn on ObamaCare threat

CoburnPushThe Hill is reporting that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Thursday lashed out at outside groups who are pressuring lawmakers to tie any proposal to fund the government to the defunding of ObamaCare, saying their lobbying has only made him more opposed to the plan.

“My attitude … you start pushing, you just get me to push back harder,” Coburn said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
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Mullet Over #573

By James White

possumsThe opossums (pronounced “uh-possums” or, in Oklahoma, simply “possums”) are often considered to be unattractive animals. They resemble large rats, have toothy “grins,” generate repulsive odors and can hiss loudly. Traits we might list in the plus column: Opossums usually do not carry diseases and they devour pests such as roaches, mice, scorpions and spiders in large quantities. Contrary to popular myth – opossums do not have the most teeth (usually 50) of any land animal – that would be certain species of snails which typically have more than 25,000. Most of any mammal: Spinner dolphins with 252. Most of any land mammal would be the giant armadillos which can possess 100 pointy dental things.

The official dance of Mexico is The Mexican Hat Dance. Official dance of Hawaii: Hula. Official dance of Kentucky: Clogging (which also happens to be a significant problem for some sewer lines).
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The riddle of the ‘angel priest’ – solved

AngelPriestUpdated:  Pinned inside her mangled Mercedes, seriously injured and fading fast, Katie Lentz turned to her rescuers on the lonely open stretch of Missouri highway and asked them to pray.

Struck head-on by a drunk driver on Sunday morning, emergency workers had been battling for an hour and a half to free Lentz, but to no avail.

But as they joined hands a Catholic priest appeared, even though there were no bystanders and the road was blocked, who offered a prayer and an instruction to the rescuers that they would now be able to free her.

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Walmart slaps back

WalMartTired of being a poster child for stingy salaries, Walmart is taking a left-wing critic to task according to the Daily Beast.  Good to know Walmart has a bit of brass and backbone.

With about 1.4 million associates, Walmart is the nation’s largest private-sector employer. The wages it pays set the benchmark for the rest of the retail sector. In most states, associates earn an average of $12 or $13. (In Alabama, for example, associates earn an average of $12.53). Annualized, that comes out to about $25,000, which is barely above the poverty level for a family of four (PDF). Walmart critics dispute these numbers. A report by IBISWorld—an independent market-research group—states that the average Walmart’s associate makes $8.81 per hour. That translates to only $15,576 a year for full-time workers.

So it’s not surprising that Walmart has become a target for critics of low wages. In July, for example, the Washington, D.C., City Council passed a measure that seemed aimed at keeping Walmart out—unless it agreed to raise wages sharply.
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