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Hahahahaha!  Karma for replacing your IT staff with H1-B visa folks from India at lower costs?  The only thing that would make this better is if the WannaCry hackers say that they will give some of this ransom money to those who Bob Igor laid off workers to save money:

Send Bitcoin Or The Mouse Gets It: Disney Is Latest Victim Of Ransomware Attack

Great line, by the way.  Rest of it?  Emphasis mine:

Disney is apparently the victim of the latest round of ransomware attacks that have affected hospitals and businesses worldwide. CEO Bob Iger told a company town hall today that hackers have taken possession of a new Disney movie and are threatening to release it in pieces if their ransom demand isn’t met. Axios is reporting that the hacked movie is “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” which is slated to be released this Friday.

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Emphasis mine, reformatted:

Rep. Steve Pearce proposes ‘virtual’ Congress

Rep. Steve Pearce, after more than a decade in the House, thinks he knows why people are so unhappy with Congress. Once elected, lawmakers become creatures of Washington and lose touch with the people who sent them there. To fix it, the New Mexico Republican has proposed a resolution that would let lawmakers work the way millions of others do: remotely. His resolution, H.Res. 298, encourages the House Administration Committee to explore ways to let members work in a “virtual setting.” That would include letting members debate, vote, and even attend hearings while they’re home.

I am one of those millions that telecommute every day.  In fact, except for the first 2 years, I’ve done it almost all my career.  Now, being a software engineer / consultant, my line of work lends itself to being able to do just that.  But this has a few GREAT ramifications for We the People:

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Compare this:

@MichelleObama my school lunch while eating with my daughter. Only other choice was a scoop of salad. This is sad! pic.twitter.com/5iPvg2nsAa

— Megan Howell (@Howelady) March 14, 2014

with this as the Trump Administration is relaxing the overbearing rules set by Michelle’s “you will eat what I tell you to eat” school lunch program:

“We gotta make sure we don’t let anybody take us back, because the question is, where are we going back to? This is where you really have to look at motives. You really have to stop and think. Why don’t you want our kids to have good food at school? What is wrong with you?  “Think about why someone is okay with your kids eating crap? Why would you celebrate that? If somebody is doing that, they don’t care about your kid.”

“Because here’s the secret: If somebody is doing that, they don’t care about your kid, and we need to demand everyone to care deeply about our kids,”

-Michelle Obama

Yeah, more of the “All Republicans want you all to DIE!” talk.  For Progressives, this is their outlook – they can do no wrong.  They believe it and swear by it.  And we all know why – they refuse to revisit their programs and objectively review whether their programs actually hit their mark (well, they can ALWAYS hit the mark because they hardly ever have hard and fast measurements to determine that.  Look at Obamacare and look at the ruin it has brought to American healthcare for anyone that isn’t immensely rich or isn’t receiving huge subsidies to pay for their premiums (it’s always nice to get a free ride).  Once enacted, they should NEVER be inspected or analyzed.  Just look at the vitriol over removing Government control of said healthcare.

Same by Michelle over her pet project”; this was noted by Big Government:

Nowhere in the discussion did Obama note that it is the role of parents to guide their children’s eating habits, not that of the government.

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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: The fastest way to lose Congress is by not repealing ObamaCare.

The GOP has been promising this for 7 years.  The base put them in place for ONE and only ONE reason.  Complete repeal. Govt out of my decision making with my doctor.  No more mandates.  No more taxes. Heck, no more LOSING my doc or my plan.

But leave it to the Stupid Party to figure out how to stumble this to UTTER train wreck. They will bow to the media and Democrat onslaught, thinking that their narrative will be believed by “the electorate” and they will lose their seats.

They will lose their seats – but not for the reason they think.  

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Heh!  Reformatted, emphasis mine:

OPEC to U.S.: Please don’t pump so much oil!

OPEC has asked a favor of other major producers: Please stop pumping so much and help us balance the market. The unusual plea was issued Thursday in the cartel’s closely-watched monthly report, which found that global markets are still suffering from too much supply.
The report said that balancing the market would “require the collective efforts of all oil producers” and should be done “not only for the benefit of the individual countries, but also for the general prosperity of the world economy.”

Those “other major producers” would include US frackers.  My, my, how times have changed – it’s our fault:

OPEC said that one producer in particular is to blame: The U.S., where shale producers have continued to ramp up their drilling despite lower crude prices. The increased production has undermined OPEC’s efforts to keep prices between $50 and $60 per barrel.

I love it – the translation is that the cartel is pleading

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Minimum wage is a bugaboo of mine – I think that government should simply stay out of the wage marketplace, especially that of not allowing for private contract between producers (those providing the labor, skills, and motivation) and consumers (companies willing to pay for that labor).  We are now seeing a real life economic lab experiment in Seattle, Sea-Tac, San Francisco, and now NYC where finanical idiots have put a socialist ideology ahead of sound financial knowledge.  Thank a Progressive and their micromanagement of OTHERS property and procedures – they are costing people their livelihoods and businesses:

NYC Minimum Wage Law Forcing Higher Prices and Restaurant Closures

An increase in the New York City minimum wage is forcing some restauranteurs to either close up shop or raise their prices. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, New York City restaurants are suffering as a result of a two dollar increase in the minimum wage that took place at the end of 2016.

“It’s going up too fast,” said Jeremy Merrin, the owner of a chain of Cuban restaurants. Merrin said minimum wage increases forced him to close two of his New York City locations and raise prices at his others. “We can’t catch our breath,” he added. Angelica Kitchen, long a staple of the East Village, closed their doors after 40 years of operation in response to the increased cost of labor mandated by the new wage policy. “I felt like I was being regulated in a way that took certain choices away from me that I felt belonged to me, rightfully, as a business owner,” owner Leslie McEachern said.  “I’m not trying to undercut or underpay anybody, but I also don’t know what’s coming down the pike.”

Those are just two anecdotes – and the Progressives are fine with doubling down:

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UL (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Manchester lays off 14 teachers; union boss calls response to less enrollment ‘heartless’

Less than 24 hours after city school board members voted to authorize layoffs, 14 educators at schools across the district received word they won’t have jobs in the Queen City come next fall. Sue Hannan, president of the Manchester Education Association, described the district’s decision to hand out reduction in force notices — which happened to be National Teacher Appreciation Day — as “heartless.”

What – does she think that government is supposed to be just an employment agency?  That teachers are “entitled” to have their jobs?  In the private sector, when demand goes down, the company pares down.  Or goes out of business.  Public sector?

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and coming down hard on my heels and jarred my back after not playing for a long time. But maybe another reason for the herniated disks I had that forced me, years ago, to have to use a cane to walk?

Statin Use Increases Odds of Back Disorder: Cohort Study. “In a large observational study of insured individuals in the military and their family members, statin use was associated with increased odds of having a back disorder, including spondylosis, intervertebral disc disorders, herniated discs, and spinal stenosis.”

I’ve been on statins for over 20 years and have had a “sensitive” back for almost as long.  In fact, for about 3 years, I had to sit in a chair like that (in fact, further back with my back parallel to the floor) as I had difficulty walking and couldn’t sit because the weight on my spine was too much to take – it saved my career.  I put my monitors on a low desk and my keyboard and trackball velcro’d to a lap desk and used a 2 system KVM switch to move from system to system.

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Remorse after The Day of Reckoning (Nov 8, 2018)?

Unless things change, the GOP is going to look back on 2017-2019 as a wasted opportunity, which is exactly opposite of how Democrats remember 2009-2011.

Sure, there have been a bunch of GOP sponsored bills passed on eliminating

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