Was just channel surfing and stopped at Fox news. Big story-Hillary Clinton stopped for burgers and shakes with her backers. The bill was $157 and what did she tip-- not the customary 18%, but 64% !!!! SHE LEFT A $100 TIP!!! Then went on to explain this is another case of out of touch Liberals, even brought in another "expert" to talk about this. I know CNN and FOX both have their own sides but this is a big story? I guess that shows that if we want to keep spending in check we should vote for the Republicans lol
Fox News exposes the Liberals again...
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Better than getting a picture or an autograph.
"It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping! That's my philosophy!"
Finally took a stance, that broad.
"It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping! That's my philosophy!"
Finally took a stance, that broad.
I thought Fox gaves both sides as usual--fair and balanced---
Thursday, November 08, 2007
By Brit Hume
Hillary Clinton has been telling audiences the story of a single mom she met in Iowa who works several jobs to support her two sons. Clinton says waitress Anita Esterday is the kind of person who will be better off if she is elected.
But National Public Radio reports Esterday is not complaining about her lifestyle ?saying Clinton did not understand what she was saying ? and adding ? "I've been doing it all my life. Why should it change now that I'm old?"
Esterday is complaining that Clinton is telling her story ? without her permission. And says flatly of her newfound fame ? "It's made things worse."
In fact ? she has been forced to look for a new second job ? because after the local paper ran a picture of her with Clinton ? her boss at her other job cut her hours to almost zero ? apparently because he dislikes the senator.
Meet the Panel NPR is also reporting that when the Clinton team came into the restaurant where Esterday works ? no one left a tip ? even Senator Clinton ? whose meal was on the house.
The Clinton campaign denies this ? insisting it paid $157 for food and left a $100 tip. The manager confirms someone paid, though it remains unclear why the waitress apparently got nothing.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
By Brit Hume
Hillary Clinton has been telling audiences the story of a single mom she met in Iowa who works several jobs to support her two sons. Clinton says waitress Anita Esterday is the kind of person who will be better off if she is elected.
But National Public Radio reports Esterday is not complaining about her lifestyle ?saying Clinton did not understand what she was saying ? and adding ? "I've been doing it all my life. Why should it change now that I'm old?"
Esterday is complaining that Clinton is telling her story ? without her permission. And says flatly of her newfound fame ? "It's made things worse."
In fact ? she has been forced to look for a new second job ? because after the local paper ran a picture of her with Clinton ? her boss at her other job cut her hours to almost zero ? apparently because he dislikes the senator.
Meet the Panel NPR is also reporting that when the Clinton team came into the restaurant where Esterday works ? no one left a tip ? even Senator Clinton ? whose meal was on the house.
The Clinton campaign denies this ? insisting it paid $157 for food and left a $100 tip. The manager confirms someone paid, though it remains unclear why the waitress apparently got nothing.
---wouldn't have been the 1st time she stiffed one
February 11, 2000
Hillary stiffs a single mom
By Barbara J. Saffir
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
ALBION, N.Y. Maybe it's no big deal elsewhere, but it's all the buzz in Albion.
Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped into the Village House, a favorite diner in this upstate farming town, and ordered two orders of scrambled eggs, home fries and rye toast. So far, so good. The locals appreciate a hearty appetite.
Her breakfast was on the house, and when she left the waitress, a single mom, found not a penny at her plate.
The locals have been talking about little else since Tuesday, when she stopped for breakfast after making a speech about how New York's farmers "are really hurting these days."
Says Linda Ellis, a regular who voted for President Clinton and says she might vote for the first lady: "It's the little things you have to look at in a political campaign.
"She is the first lady, but it doesn't feed her son," she said. The waitress, who makes less than the minimum wage and pays for her own health insurance, deserved a tip, she said.
Mrs. Clinton, who once declared a 15-cent income-tax deduction for a pair of her husband's undershorts that she had donated to charity, had dropped into the diner, halfway between Buffalo and Rochester, along with a dozen reporters in her motorcade.
It was her first public event since beginning her "official" candidacy Sunday at Purchase, N.Y., near her new $1.7 million Westchester County home. Mrs. Clinton, the beneficiary of extensive contributions from unions, is pushing to raise the minimum wage and make health insurance affordable.
"She had two servings of eggs," said restaurant owner Alex Mitrousis. At first, she just ordered oatmeal to go but then she ordered scrambled eggs, home fries and rye toast. After she ate that, she ordered "two scrambled eggs with cheese," he said. "We're going to call it the first lady's special," he said.
One order of "two large fresh eggs" with toast and ham, bacon or sausage costs $2.75.
Mr. Mitrousis, who emigrated to the United States from Greece decades ago, says the first lady's failure to leave a tip does not bother him and that it was "an honor" to have the first lady stop there.
He also noted that he enjoyed the publicity because many customers now ask for the table where Mrs. Clinton sat. He said he lost money during her visit, however, because regular patrons could not get in to the packed parking lot near the intersection of routes 31 and 98.
Mr. Mitrousis said he did not charge Mrs. Clinton for the food she ordered herself during her visit with more than a dozen reporters and photographers in tow.
Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson had no comment.
February 11, 2000
Hillary stiffs a single mom
By Barbara J. Saffir
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
ALBION, N.Y. Maybe it's no big deal elsewhere, but it's all the buzz in Albion.
Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped into the Village House, a favorite diner in this upstate farming town, and ordered two orders of scrambled eggs, home fries and rye toast. So far, so good. The locals appreciate a hearty appetite.
Her breakfast was on the house, and when she left the waitress, a single mom, found not a penny at her plate.
The locals have been talking about little else since Tuesday, when she stopped for breakfast after making a speech about how New York's farmers "are really hurting these days."
Says Linda Ellis, a regular who voted for President Clinton and says she might vote for the first lady: "It's the little things you have to look at in a political campaign.
"She is the first lady, but it doesn't feed her son," she said. The waitress, who makes less than the minimum wage and pays for her own health insurance, deserved a tip, she said.
Mrs. Clinton, who once declared a 15-cent income-tax deduction for a pair of her husband's undershorts that she had donated to charity, had dropped into the diner, halfway between Buffalo and Rochester, along with a dozen reporters in her motorcade.
It was her first public event since beginning her "official" candidacy Sunday at Purchase, N.Y., near her new $1.7 million Westchester County home. Mrs. Clinton, the beneficiary of extensive contributions from unions, is pushing to raise the minimum wage and make health insurance affordable.
"She had two servings of eggs," said restaurant owner Alex Mitrousis. At first, she just ordered oatmeal to go but then she ordered scrambled eggs, home fries and rye toast. After she ate that, she ordered "two scrambled eggs with cheese," he said. "We're going to call it the first lady's special," he said.
One order of "two large fresh eggs" with toast and ham, bacon or sausage costs $2.75.
Mr. Mitrousis, who emigrated to the United States from Greece decades ago, says the first lady's failure to leave a tip does not bother him and that it was "an honor" to have the first lady stop there.
He also noted that he enjoyed the publicity because many customers now ask for the table where Mrs. Clinton sat. He said he lost money during her visit, however, because regular patrons could not get in to the packed parking lot near the intersection of routes 31 and 98.
Mr. Mitrousis said he did not charge Mrs. Clinton for the food she ordered herself during her visit with more than a dozen reporters and photographers in tow.
Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson had no comment.
Just rebutting your opinion--with the facts--AGAIN
Figured you'd be getting tired of being exposed by now--but evidently not.
Figured you'd be getting tired of being exposed by now--but evidently not.
Just rebutting your opinion--with the facts--AGAIN
Figured you'd be getting tired of being exposed by now--but evidently not.
Well, if you are propping up Britt Hume "reporting" on a Clinton story as being factual ? let alone fair and balanced ? then you got that going for you, I guess. I see that since I've been gone for a few days you are leaping to promote Fox News as being the factual balanced source and continue ripping the other usual suspects as being one-sided and leaning. I thought most of us had agreed that most of the usual posts here from blogs and from Fox were steeped in supporting one side more than the other, but I guess being stubbornly defensive in certain cases is more important than being realistic - or fair.
The more things change, the more they remain the same here, looks like. Cheers.
If you get your info from Fox News, you are not a very informed person.....cant say it any more plain than that.
Dogs,
who TRULY cares if Hillary eats hamburgers and Tips waitresses. Did anyone but farmers truly care that Bush41 hated Broccoli.Did not liking broccoli make him more or less presidential?Does eating hamburgers in a hamburger joint make Hillary more or less presidential- I say NO
Just more ofthe same useless dribble from FOX.At least they are consistent
This generation in school now will never get unfiltered news and reporting(thats worth a damn) because the FCC allowed the law to be changed so that People like Rupert Murdoch /clear channel and other corporations can own multiple media outlets .How is this a good thing?Someone tell me please. I would love to hear this argument
Those laws were in place for a reason. I AM CERTAIN the FOUNDING FATHERS of this country are rolling over in their graves over stuff like this. Once a country starts down the slippery slope of removing individual freedoms (think the patriot act!- condoning torture, etc.)that were istituted,to protect us it becomes a dangerous scenario
Just one man's opinion
Roc
who TRULY cares if Hillary eats hamburgers and Tips waitresses. Did anyone but farmers truly care that Bush41 hated Broccoli.Did not liking broccoli make him more or less presidential?Does eating hamburgers in a hamburger joint make Hillary more or less presidential- I say NO
Just more ofthe same useless dribble from FOX.At least they are consistent
This generation in school now will never get unfiltered news and reporting(thats worth a damn) because the FCC allowed the law to be changed so that People like Rupert Murdoch /clear channel and other corporations can own multiple media outlets .How is this a good thing?Someone tell me please. I would love to hear this argument
Those laws were in place for a reason. I AM CERTAIN the FOUNDING FATHERS of this country are rolling over in their graves over stuff like this. Once a country starts down the slippery slope of removing individual freedoms (think the patriot act!- condoning torture, etc.)that were istituted,to protect us it becomes a dangerous scenario
Just one man's opinion
Roc
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Its odd that all we "misinformed" people seem to take our misguided info and still have the nads to trust our sources in handicapping-stocks-election wagers ect and do reasonably well--
--while you "informed" can only chirp!
as you say--cant say it any more plain than that
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I do very well with gambling and my stocks. I'll leave it at that. I must have missed all those Fox News sports reports in between Billo and Hannity, so i'm not sure how your comment has anything to do with the quality of that news channel.
Fox News remains a misinformation pipeline. Any objecitve media critism of that channel would reveal that. Really, all TV news is woeful and fails from a fundamental standpoint to really inform the viewer. Fox News just happens to do it worse than most. But, I'd have a better shot a convincing a brick wall of that than you, judging from the tenor and one-sideness of your posts.
Good luck on your plays today. And, by all means please keep up the knee jerk responses to anything the rivals an opposite take of yours. They can be quite comical at times.
Now, back to my regularly scheduled college football sautrday.
chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp
Its gonna get worse too......
(AP) For the second time in four years, the government is rewriting media ownership rules, a process that probably will allow big companies to get even bigger.
While the stakes this time are smaller, the furor surrounding the process has, if anything, grown.
Democratic members of the Federal Communications Commission have accused the chairman, Republican Kevin Martin, of calling public hearings without adequate notice and rushing the review process. Martin wants a vote by year's end.
Well-organized opponents have staged protests, attacked the FCC's economic studies as biased in favor of liberalizing the rules and complained that the agency is not doing enough to promote minority ownership.
Congress is getting involved, too. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee planned to hear testimony on the issues Thursday. A House panel has scheduled a hearing for Dec. 6.
The FCC's final public hearing on media ownership is set for Friday in Seattle.
Thanks to Congress, the debate this time does not include the issue that galvanized opposition to media consolidation in 2003: a national audience cap on television broadcasters.
"The national ownership cap was really a big, big fight last time," said Dennis Wharton, spokesman for the National Association of Broadcasters. "You had the far right and the far left coalescing around this sort of perfect storm."
The FCC voted to raise the cap from 35 percent to 45 percent. It followed intense lobbying from Viacom Inc., then-owner of CBS, which was at 38 percent, and News Corp., owner of Fox Broadcasting Inc. which was at 39 percent.
Following the vote, Congress set the cap at 39 percent.
The priority for broadcasters now has shifted to two other rules: A prohibition against a radio or television broadcaster from owning a daily newspaper in the same community, and a ban on a single company owning two television stations in the same market, except in certain circumstances.
The newspaper-broadcast ban is important for the National Newspaper Association and broadcasters such as Tribune Co. and Media General Inc., which say the rule is an anachronism. They contend that if it were lifted, it would lead to more news on local broadcast stations.
Gene Kimmelman, who has followed media ownership issues for Consumers Union, the nonprofit owner of Consumer Reports magazine, said the newspaper ban is pivotal.
"The issue at stake is even more important than the previous debate because most citizens turn to their local newspaper and local broadcasters for news about their community," he said. "Allowing them to combine could enable one company to dominate the presentation of local news."
Broadcasters also want the FCC to eliminate the rule that prevents them from owning more than one television station in a single market.
Martin wants to schedule a vote on the rules Dec. 18. His position is no mystery; he was part of the 3-2 Republican majority that voted to loosen the rules in 2003.
Martin wrote at the time wrote that he was "particularly pleased" the commission eased the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule. He noted that it was "based on a market structure that bears almost no resemblance to the current environment."
Most of the rules the commissioners passed in 2003 were later tossed out by a federal appeals court.
Based on his public statements, Martin appears likely to propose allowing broadcasters to own newspapers in the largest markets, but with limits in smaller markets.
He probably will be joined by Republicans Robert McDowell, who has displayed a deregulatory agenda in his short tenure, and Deborah Taylor Tate, who generally votes with the chairman.
The two Democratic commissioners, Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, voted against the media rules in 2003, and have been vocal this time, too. Most recently, they criticized Martin for schedulingthe Seattle hearing with only five days' notice.
"Clearly, the rush is on to push media consolidation to a quick and ill-considered vote," they wrote in a joint statement. "This is outrageous and not how important media policy should be made."
The problem with Hillary is that she will raise taxes causing the upper-middle class to support the poor. Furthermore, she will try to establish socialzed medicine. Imagine that, the federal government running our healthcare system. Its laughable. I guess all the Canadians who come down here for treatment due to their failed system of socialized medicine, will have to go to Mexico
BTW, I couldn't care less whether she tips a lot or a little.
BTW, I couldn't care less whether she tips a lot or a little.
1) $200,000+ per year is rich, not "middle" anything.
2) She (and many other candidates) simply want a RETURN to tax levels for the wealthy bracket to what it was prior to Bush's tax cut. It's funny how this becomes interpreted as "raising taxes". Has a lot to do with the source of what you are reading or hearing.
3) Whatever amount of socialized medicine that we ever incorporate, those making good money will ALWAYS have great options. Whatever scare reports you are hearing are absurd. And the majority of Canadians do not feel their system is "failed", I can assure of that. Once again, I guess it comes down to source of information.
Regardless of any of this or who becomes president, our economy is entering a rather difficult phase. 8 years of quick fixes and irresponsible budgets are catching up to us. The real estate bubble is gone, energy costs skyrocketing, and the dollar is being sacrificed in order to keep the markets happy. ....Outlook is a bit sketchy. But it's very important to know the tips that presidential candidates leave.
2) She (and many other candidates) simply want a RETURN to tax levels for the wealthy bracket to what it was prior to Bush's tax cut. It's funny how this becomes interpreted as "raising taxes". Has a lot to do with the source of what you are reading or hearing.
3) Whatever amount of socialized medicine that we ever incorporate, those making good money will ALWAYS have great options. Whatever scare reports you are hearing are absurd. And the majority of Canadians do not feel their system is "failed", I can assure of that. Once again, I guess it comes down to source of information.
Regardless of any of this or who becomes president, our economy is entering a rather difficult phase. 8 years of quick fixes and irresponsible budgets are catching up to us. The real estate bubble is gone, energy costs skyrocketing, and the dollar is being sacrificed in order to keep the markets happy. ....Outlook is a bit sketchy. But it's very important to know the tips that presidential candidates leave.
I know you feel you know it all, but Hillary is mainly attacking self-employed incomes of 100-200k.
From what I understand, a multi income family, with a husband earning 105K at a corporate gig, and the wife earning 75K thru self-employment, will currently pay social security tax of $7500. I hear that next year they'll pay $18,700. I guess it depends on where you get your information:shrug:
Hopefully, someone who knows for sure will verify.
That is absolutely not the case. Even if that were true, how would that be Hillary's fault. Bush is still President next year.:shrug: Please show where you are getting that info...
