Bette Midler blames low minimum wage for Black Friday violence

Most people don't know this about Bette Midler, but she has a MS in economics and a PhD in psychology.

Just kidding.

According to her Wikipedia page, she attended Radford High School in Honolulu and voted the "Most Talkative" in the 1961 school Hoss Election and "Most Dramatic" as a senior in 1963. It isn't clear if she ever read about or taken classes in human behavior or psychology, nor if she actually knows much about economics, but she has a lot to say on the subject and we should listen because she is Bette Midler and we are not.

Midler went on Twitter again to talk about politics. She blamed a low minimum wage for the shopper scuffles that occurred on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving with a racist name, according to PC magazine.

Midler and a team of her researchers questioned the scufflers involved in the confrontations. Each one of the single parents involved in the kerfuffles admitted that if they made a fifteen dollar minimum wage they wouldn't have to fight over a smart TV or video games for their seven kids.

Her findings indicated that dangerous shopping conditions should not be blamed on the people involved who actually cause the danger, but on the low salaries they make as unskilled, uneducated, low-incentive individuals. The fight for the low cost items more out of necessity than as a benefit.

The millionaire Midler tweeted:

"And how was YOUR Black Friday? No injuries, I hope! It's incredible that we have to fight over STUFF. It there were a DECENT minimum wage, of if workers were treated fairly, and got a tiny portion of the kinds of salaries and bonuses CEOS pay themselves, we wouldn't."

People were split over the high school grad's words. Some felt she has no idea what she's talking about, others called her a hypocrite. And still others just see her as a low-information rich lady who has basically become irrelevant and is doing all she can to flip that around.

In early October she had to apologize for called women "the n-word of the world."

Then in November, the economics maven caught hell for alleging that President Trump's words caused the dip in the stock market and also posted a photo of Melania Trump with an inappropriate caption.

Over time, the 72-year-old Midler's feed has become a garbage-load of anti-Trump thoughts and articles.

And despite the fact that her words have gotten her into some hot water in the past, she is too invested in trying to regain the way she was, to quit the nonsense she spouts.


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Black Eye Friday

Black Friday is not without a number of black eyes across this great nation of ours as fights broke out in shopping malls across the country. Check out this video from Fox.

President Obama blames the brawling on the drastic changes in climate as temperatures soared into the high 30s and even the low 40s leaving no doubt that we are in for big trouble in the very near future unless we recycle and use paper in lieu of plastic.

At one mall in Florence, KY, two groups of teens went at it and a big kerfuffle broke out in front of a Forever 21 store, which coincidentally, matched the super high night time low-temperature. Video was taken of this incident which, for a change, had nothing to do with radical folks who have nothing to do with Islam. That's two "nothing to do's" in one sentence, so it must be a liberal factoid.

Elsewhere in the Bluegrass State, fists flew between two unidentified men at the St. Matthews Mall on Thanksgiving night as a crowd of fight-lovin' folks looked on. A woman who was simply looking to get a good deal of a flat-screen TV was knocked to the floor as the men fought, then finally a mall cop broke up the fracas. One of the brawlers was led away by people in the crowd and it is currently unknown if anyone will face charges.

At a Springfield, VA Best Buy, a woman was arrested the day before Thanksgiving after she attacked another shopper who was waiting in line for the store to open, police said. Apparently, the other shopper, had grabbed the last copy of "Hard Choices."

One man, a guy named Ahmad, was attacked by a woman with a chair after she tried to jump the line trying to get her hands on "Divorced Barbie." The doll normally sells for $350 but was going for $155. (The reason for the high cost is because it comes with Ken's house, car, and bank account.) The woman was later arrested after knocking Ahmad to the floor shouting "I'll Allahu Akbar your a$$, you terrorist bas#@rd!" 

So there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that as global temperatures soar, so do tempers. This is one reason Bernie Sanders and Barack Hussein Obama see climate change as the cause of terrorism and the world's biggest threat. The other reason is they happen to be idiots.

So don't forget to recycle, go green, and always remember: "if it's yellow let it mellow, but if it's brown, flush it down."

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

Hey! Give me that! I saw it first--it's mine.


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Weekend Brain Flushings: OLA, Weiner's Hair, Small Pox

"Boss, you want I should break a leg or two?"

Occupy LA protesters were told that they had to pull up stakes with their 485 tents by Monday. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made the announcement Friday when he, and police Chief, Charles Beck, kissed up to the stinkathon sociology and women's studies majors, known as Occupy LA. 

 Villaraigosa claimed, "The movement has awakened the country's conscience, it has given voice to those who have not heard."

Oh, the humanity. Oy, the smell.

I say, the movement has awakened the country's sense of smell and has given voice to those amongst us whose voices cry into the night, "Yo, man, like don't lip that joint, and pass it over here." This seems to be the extent to which these anarchists are making a point. They hate everything about capitalism, hard work, and personal achievement, and are used to being given everything they want by some form of nanny-parent, which makes it impossible for them to tolerate someone telling them "no, you can't have that." They play their video games, ipads, iphones, computers, notebooks and smartphones, but want to topple the companies that produced those items--just another indication of their short-sightedness and lack of insight. They want respect for their simplistic demands but they defecate on police cars and in the streets, and honest taxpayers have to foot the bill for the cleanup.

The Occupy Anything But a Real Job Mob are angry, but have so little focus about where this anger should be directed--they don't even see how the present administration is responsible for any of the cronyism, because Obama is "cool" somehow, perhaps because they are so easy to trick into believing that he cares about them. Solyndra belongs to him completely. Fast and Furious belongs to his administration and the cronies he put in place to run it, Chicago-style.

Nostrils flared and belly bared, the Weiners set out

And then we have the latest Weiner news. Anthony Weiner, the disgraced U.S. Representative from the 9th District in Queens, NY, was recently spotted doing his "holiday" shopping on Black Friday. But Tony has changed--he's sporting sparse facial hair in the form of a moustache that closely resembles a caterpillar whose furry hair had been brutalized by a bratty bully. Note how the Weiner is wearing a New York Mets cap--a team that hasn't won a World Series Championship since 1986, and only won one other in 1969. Don't get me wrong, I love the Mets as much as Weiner loves his, well, bodypart of the same nomenclature. His pregnant wife, Huma My-Family-Funds-Muslim Brotherhood-Hoedowns Abedin, accompanied him.They had no comment but the marriage still seems like it's going as planned.

Sen. McCaskill: "Oh what a tangled web we weave"

Senator Claire McCaskill, D-Mo, chairs a subcommittee on the Homeland Security Senate Committee and is calling for an investigation into a $433 million government contract for a smallpox drug from Siga Technologies, a company that appears to have gained political favor.  Democratic donor, Ronald Perelman, has the controlling share of Siga and emails revealing the Obama administration replaced the lead negotiator on the project after Siga complained about them, when they showed concern about how much money Siga would make from the deal. In fact, small pox doses would cost $255 a pop, and this is an extraordinary amount of money for something that is already in supply with the government. There will be more on this, and morons involved, in the future. For now, let us give kudos to McCaskill in her pursuit of ethics in spite of her party affiliation.
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