Friday, July 03, 2009
Banana Republic II

Then something messy comes along that doesn't fit the neat paradigm like the purple-finger elections in Iraq, Tiananmen Square, or the most recent democracy demonstrations in Iran that confound that easy calculus.
- Victor Davis Hanson
Labels: obama
Banana Republic
"The emperor needed the wealthier classes to help him run the empire. Senators in particular were the class he lived amongst and their attitude towards him tended to dictate how he would be portrayed in later histories."Related
- How Rome Fell, Adrian Goldsworthy
Amid Criticism, Post Drops "Appalling" Plan to Sell Access (ABC)
Barack Obama Seeks to Turn America into a Third World Country
Again, Why the Diffidence?
National Security & the Cult of Personality
Congress's Travel Tab Swells: Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos (WSJ)
Labels: dodd, history, left-wing media, obama, pelosi, quotes, reid
The Obama Economy: Post $800 BILLION Stimulus
The Job Market's Grim Picture: Unemployment flirts with an ugly truth--the possibility of hitting a new post-Depression high. (Forbes)
Stocks Skid on Payrolls Data (Wall Street Journal)
Unemployment in America: A rising tide (Economist)
America lost a further 467,000 non-farming jobs in June, pushing up the unemployment rate to 9.5%, a 26-year high.Related
How Politicians Bankrupted California
Obama’s jobless ‘recovery’ - unemployment at 9.5%
A Miserable Failure
Forget Green Shoots: They’re Just Weeds
Labels: economics, obama, pelosi, reid
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Limpets and Hyenas (Dodd, Obey and Waters)
The Roman Empire did not fall quickly, but as part of a very slow process, and this should warn us against magnifying current events and their likely consequences on the long-term fortune of countries. Britain has been a fairly depressing place in the last decade or so. Ministers caught out in incompetence, corruption or blatant deceitfulness cling on to power like limpets, first denying everything, before finally apologising and expecting this to be enough. Bureaucracy and regulation continue to grow apace, while the basic efficiency of institutions declines, rendering them incapable of even the apparently simple tasks. Yet while the number of civil servants rises, the size of the armed forces shrinks at the very time they are more committed to serious campaigns. It would be easy to draw parallels with the Roman Empire in the fourth century. The self-righteous tone of so much government legislation certainly chimes with late Late Roman imperial decrees, as does the apparent failure of so much of this to achieve its aim. Such comparisons are unlikely to assist our analysis of the Roman Empire, and would be no more than the author indulging himself. Understanding the history must come first.And as soon as I read the word limpets I thought about this post at Instapundit (and hyenas).
Our elected officials are like a pack of hyenas (Dodd and his sweetheart loan from Countrywide). I can just see Obey and Waters standing over the carcasses of hard-working taxpayers, forcibly extracting money as payoffs to special interest groups and to engorge their own private coffers. These are filthy people.
en·gorge
- verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -gorged, -gorg·ing.
1. to swallow greedily; glut or gorge.
Labels: books, dodd, history, quotes
Noteworthy Cartoons, Comic Books and Posters
A cartoon on RedState featuring John Mayer/ABC/Obama.Limestone Roof John Mayer Flashbacks
The blogger with many visions returns...
Hillvez and Generation Y
Comic Books
IF ONLY IT WERE THIS EASY (Poor and Stupid)
Poster Art
† Death, taxes & Obamacare: Poster contest, Round Two
† Obamacare poster contest: Coming to a hospital near you!; Updated with new entries
† Bad medicine: Obamacare poster art, Round 3
Cartoons
This cartoon by Michael Ramirez is a little more poignant.

Labels: iran, left-wing media, obama
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Soccer Upset!
Labels: soccer
Monday, June 22, 2009
Barack being Barack (in Bermuda now)
Great ire has been directed at the premier, Ewart Brown, the hard-Left race-baiter and former Black Panther sympathizer in whom the Obama administration (surprise!) managed to find a willing partner for its jihadist relocation quest — willing, that is, blatantly to violate his country's constitution (which leaves decisions about foreign affairs and national security to imperialist, colonialist Great Britain); to negotiate in secret in a manner that cut out said imperialist, colonialist Britain (i.e., America's most important ally); to negotiate so secretively he cut out his own cabinet (which was not made aware of the Uighurs' coming until they'd already arrived); to lie about the security risk posed by the Uighurs (Brown told the Parliament Bermuda's security forces had vetted the detainees and found no risk, but the following day the head of the security forces said that was not true and that there was significant security risk); and, finally, to impose this fait accompli on Bermudians (who, like the cabinet, were left totally in the dark until they started seeing pictures of the Island's new residents strolling around their new digs and swimming in the Atlantic).

In Bermuda, where the public regards their premier as a snake, no one believes that. But no one among the public, parliament, or the office of the British governor really knows. There were protests all week, which is highly unusual for the laid back populace. They are worried not only about the potential jihadist threat but what the relocation means for tourism, the island's most important industry. The local newspapers featured stories about cancellations due to the Uighurs and safety concerns — very bad news in already bad economic times.
Related
Re: Back from Stormy Bermuda
Protest rally swells to around 1,500-strong
Premier's job approval rating down to 24% – public survey
Obama approval index turns negative
In short, he's a typical lefty...
Obama is clearly to the left of Europe. He sees himself more as multicultural prophet born out of the Third World, foe of colonialism, angry at past imperialism, skeptical of capitalism, eager to showcase his non-traditional ancestry and tripartite nomenclature. By coming from the West, but separating himself from the history of his own country, Obama has become a citizen of the world, who polls far higher, as intended, in the Middle East, than does his own country.
Source
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Weekend 102.2
U.S. 3-0 Egypt: U.S. headed to semis
USA secure unlikely Confed Cup progress
Weekend 102.1

I saw this poster on the subway and did a little research. It was commissioned by the MTA (Arts for Transit) and created by Chris Gall. His work reminds me of something by William Joyce.
Related
Chris Gall: Just Another Day on the MTA
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Weekend 102.0
(2) U.S. far from ready for World Cup
(3) Beasley apologizes to teammates for his mistake
(4) Revs raising game for title defense
Friday, June 19, 2009
The NOT SO wonder-working power of Obamanomics
Obama wagered that the deluge of money coming from the Federal Reserve would do the heavy lifting as far as stabilizing the financial sector and keeping the already apparent recession from turning into a real disaster. Voters would, thus, continue to support his policies to assert more government control over healthcare, heavily regulate energy through a costly cap-and-trade program and further intervene into the financial industry.
The gamble appears to have failed miserably, both economically and politically. The terrible tale of the tape: a) the current downturn is arguably the worse since the Great Depression; b) household wealth has fallen by $14 trillion during the past two years, including the first quarter of 2009; c) while the economy may not shrink as much this quarter as it did in the previous three months (-5.7 percent) or the final quarter of 2008 (-6.3 percent), unemployment is soaring; d) Obama himself said the jobless rate will hit 10 percent this year; d) even worse, the Federal Reserve sees it approaching 11 percent next year.
"Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"Rich Gov, Poor Gov: Why Obama can't Fix the Economy
Obamaworld: Logic in the Age of Obama.
Labels: economics, obama, pelosi, reid
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Weekend 101.0

(1) The FIFA Confederations Cup begins tomorrow in South Africa. The US MNT is one of eight teams competing in this WC warm-up.
(2) Jones turns back on Germany to play for USA
(3) Will you marry me at the airport?
"Yes, airports. For many travelers, an airport may be the least romantic spot on earth. But airports have played an important role in plenty of love stories. Many couples first meet while working at an airport. Others meet while flying on an airplane or while hanging around at an airport."
(4) Notable Quotes: "Oh I'm sorry, that's off limits. Now if you'll excuse me for a second, I have to go to the bathroom for about 30 minutes as I eat a lot of meat."
Labels: airports, soccer, weekend
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Merry Olde England
Battered and bruised: A mauling for the left across much of Europe, and especially in Britain
Update
Andorra hit for six
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Weekend 100.0
Monday, June 01, 2009
The Oil Tax
Culprits in last year's energy spike reappear (AP via Forbes.com)Oil prices pushed to new highs for the year Monday on a weak dollar and new data suggesting manufacturing in China has strengthened.
Yet the pace at which energy prices rose in May has also raised questions about what is causing the surge.
One reason may be found in the number of large speculative positions taken on Nymex. The net increase in bets that benchmark crude will prices will increase rose by more than 14 percent last week, according to a report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
A lot of that money is being driven by inflation fears as the dollar falls against other major currencies.
Hope and anxiety (The Economist)
The price of a barrel oil went past $68 during the day on Monday June 1st, the highest level in seven months. Although this remains less than half the peak of last July, prices are likely to remain above the norm of the past few decades, lifted with every bit of cheery economic news and as the dollar weakens. Some economists are now again talking of the approach of “three-digit oil prices”, in part as large emerging economies, such as China, India and Brazil, which are energy-intensive, appear to emerge from the worst of the downturn. In the longer term, prices could be pushed upwards thanks to demand from the emerging world and because of difficulties increasing global supply.
Labels: economics
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Weekend 99.0
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Pitch Bits (Football News)
Labels: soccer
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Economic Apocalypse
(1) Exploding Debt Threatens America
(2) Chi-Comms and Times Get It, Obama Doesn't(3) More Treasury Bond Worries
The Federal Reserve is printing money from thin air, and the government is issuing trillions of dollars in new debt as it tries to spend its way out of the recession with a huge stimulus package, new lending programs, health care overhauls and automotive rescues.
(4) And It Gets Worse: The Coming 100% Inflation (Ace)
(5) Ouch: Federal Tax Revenues Fall By Over One Third (Ace)
Obama/Reid/Pelosi will need a VAT, Cap & Trade and a slew of other taxes (beer, tomatoes, lamb) to narrow (not close) the gap. The DEM penchant for spending (printing) has set the stage for slower growth and rising instability in commodity markets (Oil at $63 bbl). Will you be better off 6 months from now? Doubtful. And so much for Obama's pledge not to tax 95% of us (Obama's 95% Illusion). These not-so-hidden taxes will increase the burden all Americans endure to keep politicos and bureaucrats in their posh Washington DC offices.
The good news for the GOP is that current economic woes have nothing to do with what Obama inherited but what his (and his cohorts) have prescribed (spend, spend, spend and spend).
Related
Geithner To Travel To China For Economic Talks (Fox)
Get Ready For a VAT
Obama’s “Saved Or Created Jobs” Does Not Match Reality
‡Yield Curve Steepens to Record as Debt Sales Surge (Bloomberg)
Labels: economics, obama, pelosi, reid
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sotomayor is just another Socialist
Judge Sotomayor has managed to take already liberal, redistributionist areas of the law and push them even further down the road in the direction of redistributing wealth to constituencies favored by government officials. The Supreme Court ruled in the Kelo case that governments can take private property and give it to developers as part of a general redevelopment plan that they rationally believe will benefit the public good.The White House is obviously proud of her socialist creds since they feature her yearbook page on their website, complete with a quote from former Socialist-party presidential candidate Norman Thomas†.
But Judge Sotomayor went well beyond that, to hold that property owners have no legal redress even in the face of what legal commentators have called extortion, in Didden v. City of Port Chester. In that case, a developer told a property owner to either give him $800,000 or half his property, or he would seize it by having the Village of Port Chester condemn it. When the property owner refused, the developer promptly had the town condemn it and transfer it to him. Judge Sotomayor and two of her colleagues upheld this seizure against a constitutional challenge in an unpublished opinion.
†NRO via Beliefnet.com
Labels: obama
What moves Mr. Obama?
Labels: obama
Surging Oil Prices
RISING oil prices, believes Ali al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, may soon “take the wheels off an already derailed world economy”. His Iranian counterpart agrees: “When the global economic crisis comes to an end, and the demand for oil picks up, the oil market could experience another price shock,” he says. The boss of Chevron, America’s second-biggest oil firm, also worries that “another period of tight supply” is at hand. Britain’s energy minister is fearful too. Indeed, at a recent summit of oil grandees convened by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) it was hard to find anyone who did not expect a price rise to rival the giddy leap to $147 a barrel last year.Despite this growing glut, however, the price of oil has been rising steadily in recent weeks (see chart 2). On May 20th it closed above $60 a barrel for the first time in more than six months. That marks an increase of more than 75% since February 12th, when it sank below $34—the fourth-biggest three-month rise on record, according to Mr Currie. The price of futures contracts suggests that energy traders see the price rising higher still in the coming months and years.
Source: The Economist
Related
Don't Believe The Optimists
The Price of Recovery: Are You Inflation Ready?
Democrats Vote for $5/Gallon Gas
Limestone Prediction
The recovery will be choked by rising energy prices because the FED is playing fast and loose with the money supply. Obama's soaring rhetoric can't pacify economic realities.
Labels: economics
Obama: We are out of money.
The quote is from "Our Confused Age" by Thomas Sowell.
This weekend, in an interview on C-SPAN, Obama told Americans: "We are out of money." But the cause is not his spending binge. The real cause, as he would have us believe, is the lack of socialized/nationalized health care! As Glenn Reynolds writes:
That [Obama's claim] goes beyond chutzpah to the edge of pathological dishonesty. Except, I guess, that it’s not pathological if you get away with it. And so far, he has.
Have you ever read two better quotes to describe Obama?
Related
Obama and the South Park Gnomes (Ace)
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Weekend 98.0
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Pork barrel, pump priming...
...projects of influential politicians.>> Inside South Korea's 'ghost' airport
It's eerily similar to Murtha's!
Murtha's Earmarks Keep Airport Aloft (The Washington Post)
Labels: airports
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A Niebuhrian Renaissance
...because, for a good postmodern liberal like President Obama, that progressive “consensus” is so self-evidently true that one can afford to be generous in acknowledging that others, less enlightened but arguably sincere, have different views.
I was also re-reading the chapter (22) on Reinhold Niebuhr in Mead's God and Gold and was reminded of how slimy E.J. Dionne and David Brooks are. I'll write more in the coming days but God and Gold is an opposition research must read. Needless to say, Dionne is positively giddy that "Obama has strengthened moderate and liberal forces inside the [Catholic] church." I surmise his feelings are similar to those the writers and editors have at the Connecticut Post when they exhaustively cover church scandals.
Source: Speaking of Dionne by Ramesh Ponnuru
Labels: books, connecticut post, obama
More Democratic meddling...
Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going after those people with sterling credit.Obama's age of responsibility is such an utter farce.
Banks are expected to look at reviving annual fees, curtailing cash-back and other rewards programs and charging interest immediately on a purchase instead of allowing a grace period of weeks, according to bank officials and trade groups.
“It will be a different business,” said Edward L. Yingling, the chief executive of the American Bankers Association, which has been lobbying Congress for more lenient legislation on behalf of the nation’s biggest banks. “Those that manage their credit well will in some degree subsidize those that have credit problems.”
Related
Good news: Responsible credit-card users to “subsidize” deadbeats now (Hot Air)
Labels: democrats, obama, pelosi, reid
MP Expense Scandal = Dodd, Rangel, Murtha...
Every day one sees yet another shop being abandoned and boarded up; in London some local authorities are allowing charities and small groups to move into abandoned shop premises rather than let them become damp-ridden dumps. As this unfolds, members of Parliament are reported to have been claiming £18,000 for a bookcase and £6,000 for a wooden floor, while engaging in complicated “flipping” arrangements in which they received payments for switching homes every so often.These politicos live fabulously (Chris Dodd's Irish 'Cottage') while pick pocketing us poor rubes. Where is the outrage as Gore stands to make millions from Cap-And-Trade (Con-And-Transfer)? How about tax cheat Geithner's auto industry adviser who is building a $15 MILLION DOLLAR summer home in Martha's Vineyard! Meanwhile all these schemes, while populist in tone, increase the every man(s) living expenses! The new CAFE standards will IMPOSE a $1,300 car tax on the working/middle class!
Related
British expense scandal ousts lower house speaker
Doing Penance
Labels: democrats, dodd, obama, pelosi, rangel, reid
Monday, May 18, 2009
Lights of hope
Teachers and administrators, whether in universities or schools, have the duty and privilege to ensure that students receive instruction in Catholic doctrine and practice. This requires that public witness to the way of Christ, as found in the Gospel and upheld by the Church’s Magisterium, shapes all aspects of an institution’s life, both inside and outside the classroom. Divergence from this vision weakens Catholic identity and, far from advancing freedom, inevitably leads to confusion, whether moral, intellectual, or spiritual.While it's easy to focus on the apostasy of the church, Kathryn encourages us to focus on lights of hope like Archbishop Burke, Mary Ann Glendon, Bishop John M. D’Arcy, and Brad Birzer. She also looks beyond the news cycle and offers some advice about taking action:
This incident in the life of the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic Church, and the United States will not end with the passage of the weekend, or even when the talking heads stop chattering about it. In an interview with National Review Online last week, Archbishop Burke urged those who are concerned about what has happened at Notre Dame to let their views be known. (Some did just this on campus, with varying degrees of effectiveness and prudence.) Write Fr. Jenkins. Write Bishop D’Arcy, who did not attend the commencement exercises but did attend an on-campus protest. Write the Vatican.Until the church is willing to give a more public (and throaty) defense of doctrine/practice we must all be witnesses to the true light.
Related
Obama and the ‘Real’ Catholics
Speaking of Dionne
As I was drafting this post I found this quote from Pope Benedict's homily at a mass for priests, deacons, and members of religious orders on April 19, 2008 very timely:
You, who have devoted your lives to bearing witness to the love of Christ and the building up of his Body, know from your daily contact with the world around us how tempting it is at times to give way to frustration, disappointment and even pessimism about the future. In a word, it is not always easy to see the light of the Spirit all about us, the splendor of the Risen Lord illuminating our lives and instilling renewed hope in his victory over the world (cf. Jn 16:33).
Yet the word of God reminds us that, in faith, we see the heavens opened, and the grace of the Holy Spirit lighting up the Church and bringing sure hope to our world.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
SEIU (and ACORN)
Big Labor’s investment in Obama pays offRelated
Obama champions the SEIU’s top legislative priorities: expansive government health care (paid for with regressive sin taxes) and the Orwellian-titled “Employee Free Choice Act” to do away with private-ballot union elections in the workplace. (The initiative is “alive and well,” Stern said this week.) Obama has SEIU-blessed bureaucrats installed in every corner of his administration to carry out the agenda.
Source
Trying to Unravel the ACORN String
More Acorn Voter Fraud Comes to Light: Congressional Democrats still want the group to be eligible for federal money.
The money quote (literally):
"People always come forward to our defense. We're just community organizers, just like the president used to be."
Barney Frank removed an amendment that would have blocked groups indicted for fraud from receiving tax payer money.
Labels: democrats
Friday, May 15, 2009
Weekend 97.0
It's not supposed to make any sense.China's National Space Program Copies Star Trek Logo
Some—But Not All—of the Horrible Motherboard Box Art We Found
Baseball/Books
A League of His Own: Late in a storied baseball career, Branch Rickey threw the sport a curve
Labels: baseball, bermuda, books, weekend
Märklin
Into a deep hole
The figures confirmed that the euro zone has been hit far harder by the global downturn than its rich-world peers (and largest export markets) in America and Britain. When spending in these countries dried up, because of scarce credit, they exported some of the pain to their suppliers. For that reason Germany has so far paid a higher price for its reliance on exports than the Anglo-Saxon countries have borne for their dependence on credit and rising house prices. Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September, export-led manufacturers have been hit hardest.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Utopia — On Paper
You admit, in your writings, that socialism in Germany, Italy and Russia resulted in nazism, fascism, and communism, but you say these were perversions of true socialism — and you abhor them. That's fine, I do too. But show me where socialism has avoided these pitfalls and led to freedom and prosperity for everyone, as your blueprint says it will.
— Betty Knowles Hunt
At the time she wrote "Show Me Any Other Country...," Betty Knowles Hunt was a hard-working housewife in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She wrote it in response to a statement she had earlier read by a leading American socialist. Mrs. Hunt's piece first appeared in the February 25, 1947 issue of The Bridgeport Post.
Quoted from When We Are Free
We're out of coffee
And another day of hope and change...
America’s triple A rating is at risk
Obama’s ‘Public’ Health Plan Will Bankrupt the Nation
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Hope and...
Hyper Inflation Is Coming
Inflation or Deflation?
Don't Be Fooled - Inflation is Coming
Weak Treasury auction sends stocks lower
Gov't runs April deficit for first time since '83
The $1.8 Trillion Deficit
Credit Crisis Continues
CBO: Whoops, We Need to Revise Our Deficit Projections Up by a Tad* (Ace)
Labels: economics
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Printing & Patents
Friday, May 08, 2009
Weekend 96.0
(2) Design Tutorial: Creating a Propaganda Poster
(3) 1984
(4) 30 Worth Seeing Stencil Graffiti Artworks
(5) Good vs. Evil Foosball
Labels: books, railroads, soccer, weekend
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
AIG is one great BIG toilet!
Obama: Fear & Loathing America
Source: Wausau Daily Herald
Why is anyone surprised? How could anyone listen to that bile from Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. not loathe America and her allies?
I cribbed this from Ace:
...the Obama people might think there's some sort of moral equivalence between Israel and Iran.
They don't think that at all. In their minds Israel is the colonial power oppressing the peaceful Muslims who just want to blow the infidel up in peace. Hussein Obama and the leftists know in their hearts that Israel and the U.S. need to be destroyed because they are the root of all evil.
Labels: obama
Goldman Sachs/USA Today/Fiat
"We believe that combining Fiat, Chrysler and GM Europe would forge a global small car-car champion, " Goldman Sachs said in a note to clients Monday, when Fiat's bid for GM Europe was confirmed. In our view, Marchionne's vision is not only transformational for Fiat Auto but potentially transformational for the entire auto industry."
How can the USA Today even print that quote? Look at what Sachs has wrought via Bernanke, Paulson, Geithner and Himes. And what is with the word transformational?
Related
JournoList: Inside the echo chamber
Sir Churchill on Socialism
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent trait is the equal sharing of misery."
- Sir Winston Churchill
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Obama & Churchill & the President's Sources
Obama Throws Churchill Out of Oval Office
Barack Obama sends bust of Winston Churchill on its way back to Britain
The Obama/Pelosi/Reid Checklist
No. 1. Abolition of property in land application of all rents of land to public purposes.
No. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
No. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
No. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
No. 5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and exclusive monopoly.
No. 6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of State.
No. 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil in accordance with a common plan.
No. 8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies; especially for agriculture.
No. 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
No. 10. Free education for all children in public schools.
Source: Getting Rid of Communism by Leonard E. Read
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Weekend 95.0
Horse RacingI'm still handicapping before I drive over to the dog track. Weather will be a factor.
Baseball
Zack Greinke is in Total Control (Sports Illustrated)
"Off the field it was worse. The simplest tasks overwhelmed him. He dreaded coming to the ballpark. Greinke talked with friends and family about becoming a full-time position player so that he could get to hit or, perhaps, taking up professional golf. He often talked with his family about it being another gray day."
Red Sox pondering Smoltz's next step (mlb.com)
‘Less emotional,’ Glavine not hanging it up yet (ajc.com)
Soccer
Sleeper In Seattle: With a winning record and big, boisterous crowds, the Sounders don't look anything like an expansion franchise
Sports Related Ads
Now my job is way less soul crushing. (ESPN 360)
His reputation is expanding faster than the universe. (Dos Equis) - These ads remind me of The Venture Bros. on [adult swim].
Labels: weekend
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Breathtaking in its scope
Most recently Himes has been busy teaching nonprofits how to waddle up to the trough for some of that; (a) newly printed money, (b) Chinese held debt, (c) stolen from the most productive, and (d) soon to be raised from a bevy of new taxes levied against 95% of all Americans.
trough (noun) - a long, narrow, open receptacle, usually boxlike in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals.
Good Old Fashioned American Welfare! Get you some!
The Obama administration has committed $75 billion in stimulus money in 10 weeks. So far $14.5 billion has been spent, mostly for Medicaid.
Many would-be recipients are still wading through all the recovery program's requirements or waiting for guidance from federal agencies before they put in requests.
Lastly, a significant amount of funding won't be made available until recipients either sign contracts or file grant applications. And in some cases, new programs must be created before the money can flow.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Obama in his own words (and the one surge he can wholeheartedly support)
- Barack Obama, February 23, 2009
Related
Obama defends budget as deficit forecast surges
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecast Friday the deficit could hit 1.845 trillion dollars this year under the Obama proposal, quadrupling the 2008 record shortfall.
The CBO said its latest budget deficit estimate for fiscal 2009, which ends on September 30, would amount to 13.1 percent of the country's total economic output.
China buying boosts gold to 3-week high
"China is protecting its huge currency risk by diversifying with gold as well as other currencies like the euro. This is prudent," said Frank Holmes, chief executive officer of U.S. Global Investors, which manages more than $2 billion in fund assets.
Labels: obama
The Obama Economic Blueprint
Source: America's Most Dangerous Cities (Forbes)
Related
‘Going Galt’ Got Going Last Summer: How Pelosi, Obama, and Reid began the recession — and then worsened it.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Weekend 94.1
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