(article via DougRoss)  International Franchise Association held a convention in Washington this week where most of the Radio Shack, Dunkin Donuts, Curves and other franchisers were grumbling about new federal regulations, especially the impact of Obamacare.

…he pulled out his powerpoint showing how funding Obamacare will cut his–and likely their–profits in half overnight. With simple math the small business folks understood, he spelled out that their only choice is to slash employee hours so they aren’t eligible for company-paid health care or stop offering insurance and pay the $2,000 per employee fine.

Barr has 23 stores with 421 employees, 109 of whom are full-time. Of those, he provides 30 with health insurance. Barr said he pays 81 percent of their Blue Cross Blue Shield policy, or $4,073 of $5,028 for individuals, more for families, for a total bill of $129,000 a year. Employees pay $995. (more…)

Hiding The Sun With Two Fingers

Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama are joined in ideological failure, both foreign and domestic, and the Dem’s are panicked about the current optics in the Middle East, al-Qaeda flags above US embassies, and flag draped coffins with a dead US ambassador.

All this Romney-hidden-tape nonsense is a strategic distraction.  P.E.R.I.O.D.

If you were to ask a random room of people to name one thing complimentary about Jimmy Carter’s term as President from 1976-1980 I can guar-an-damn-tee you the only thing they could come up with is the “Camp David Peace Accords”.

So with the exploding anti-Americanism visible ALL OVER the Middle East (Deja-vu), and with the President Obama doctrine essentially mirroring the Carter Doctrine,  who do you think stands to look the worst currently and historically?

Consequently, does it come as a “surprise” the legacy media-hyped video tapes showing Mitt Romney in a progressively defined “negative light” stemmed from, as in -originated from- wait for it, Jimmy Carter’s 35-year-old grandson, Jimmy Carter IV.    Hello?

(Via The Hill)  The grandson of former president Jimmy Carter told NBC News that he was motivated by Republican attacks on his grandfather’s foreign policy record to help leak a secretly recorded video that has become Mitt Romney’s latest headache.

James Carter IV, who is 35 and unemployed, said he helped persuade the person who filmed the May 17 fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., to leak the video to the press. Carter described himself as a “partisan Democrat” devoted to getting president Obama reelected, but he also told NBC that he had a personal stake in going after Romney.  (more)

Would it further be a “surprise” to find out the video as claimed in the current release to be in the full form is not, actually, the full video?      Yeah, that’s right….. contrary to what the Mother Jones journalist, David Corn, originally stated, the video during the Q&A session is “inadvertently” cut… (more…)

“The message we have to send to the Muslim world is we expect you to work with us to keep our people safe”.   “We expect their full cooperation because that’s the only way the world works.”

President Obama – David Letterman Show Appearance Sept. 18th, 2012

Oooooh, “Gutsy Call”…. well that’s that then….. just ask them to please stop killing Americans, try to keep our people safe and stuff, and all’s better.  I mean, hey, we expect it.  

Johnny Brando delivers his version –  Excellent !  *but the unauthorized disclaimer at the end might spell trouble:

Previously, Diawataman delivered his.

These are based on current Middle East events contrasted against the recent President Obama speech to the VFW in Nevada.   The original Obama speech video and concept is outlined HERE.

I think we have all the makings of a contest.   Anyone who wants to submit their entries create your u-tube video using the prior linked presidential soundbite, drop the link in the comments, and we will spotlight in a discussion post.   If we get enough entries we’ll pick the best for a reader/viewer poll and the winner will earn a “Major Treehouse Award” along with a Breitbart Deputy Badge of recognition.

Today’s morale booster edition brought to you via Professor Jacobson:

Every 3-4 days for the past several weeks there has been a mass media pronouncement that Romney has lost:  When Paul Ryan was nominated and false “fact-checks” purported to declare him a proven liar.  When Clint Eastwood took the stage and presented the perfect metaphor for the Obama presidency, an empty chair.  When Mitt Romney did not get enough of a post-convention bounce.  When Obama got a post-convention bounce.  When Mitt Romney spoke the truth about Obama’s collapsing Middle East policy and proclivity to sympathize with the hurt religious sensibilities of anti-American Islamists, and the media lost its mind.

And now that a tape has been released that shows Romney stating an obvious truth about the dependency state, although as Romney said, not very elegantly.  The media is giddy with delight. (more…)

Oh the humanity…..   Shock and AWE – g.a.s.p….

Mitt Romney SUPER-SECRET expose’ video reveals he said that Palestinians are “committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel” and that the prospects for a two-state solution to Mideast peace were dim.

If you can’t find a potted plant big enough to hide the optics of burning embassies, coffins of dead ambassadors, lying Secretaries of State and misleading United Nations Ambassadors being laughed off the Sunday news shows,  you’d better distract the crowd of onlookers.

What do you do when the ENTIRE FOREIGN POLICY construct of the United States Global Presidential term is exploding in front of your face on every network around the globe?  Hello….

The flippin flag of al-Qaeda is flying over American Embassies

Better find a bigger potted plant to hide him behind while you dispatch someone into the media room to flash a new shiny thing.   Look, quick, over here… “new shiny thing” Mitt Romney controversy…. lookie, over here…. secret tapes n stuff….. move along folks,..

…….pay no attention to our illustrious Dear Leader / Nobel Peace Prize winner deciding between Jay-Z fundraiser or Benjamin Netanyahu conversation while the Middle East is burning and Nuclear bombs are set to fire soon…..

Quick, look – SUPER SECRET VIDEO – Mitt Romney said “some 47% of people don’t pay taxes, and always vote Democrat”.   Oh… My… God !

THE HORROR !

The predicted timeline we presented six months ago was for a strike against Iran between Mid August and Early October (specifically August 20th and Sept 28th) 2012.  However, at that time we were unaware that on or around Sept. 28th Egypt’s President Morsi would be travelling to the White House to visit President Obama.   Not sure how/if that might change the strategy.

However, it should be noted the current explosion of “emboldened” Middle East hatred to the United States could, repeat, “could” change the dynamic considerably.

But what EVERYONE should understand (it’s machavellian), and try to grasp the disinfecting sunlight to see, is how manipulative the fibbers are within the US policy administration regarding Israel. (more…)

In the morning President Obama found out US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was raped, tortured and murdered….. and while Embassies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia were under atttack…. what did our president do?

Read HERE 

Then imagine, just imagine, and ask yourself what the media would do if this was George Bush?

Instant classic and numerous editions to the best of Miller series.   If you missed it, you really should watch.   Highly enjoyable.   The Sandra Fluke parts are hilarious…. brilliant.