August 28, 2009
"If one considers the people who would like a job but have stopped looking -- so-called discouraged workers -- and those who are working fewer hours than they want, the unemployment rate would move from the official 9.4 percent to 16 percent", said Atlanta Fed chief Dennis Lockhart.
Look, I hate Obama as much as the next guy, and I love stuff that makes him look bad MORE than the next guy, but this statement is just stupid.
The unemployment rate is what it is, and it's measured the way it's measured. Your little made-up fudge-factors don't change that.
I'd like it to be higher to make Obama look worse, too, but it's already Jimmy-Carter crappy, and that's good enough.
Take the gift horse, skip the dentistry.
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August 26, 2009
Thank God for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
If you have a lust for vengeance against this bloated, gin-soaked, murderous sack of socialistic crap, this is for you.
Enjoy.
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August 20, 2009
And when you're done with that, there's POWERTHIRST ROCKET EDITION!.
[Caution: videos may contain language not suitable for pussies too weak to handle POWERTHIRST!]
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August 09, 2009
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Was it because he used an incorrect racial slur against Prof. Henry Gates, or was it because this former English teacher embarrassed the force by displaying zero mastery of the rules of English grammar and basic sentence structure?
Full text below, taken from the Boston Globe site:
Article writer, That was, by far, the worst article I've ever read. I am a former English teacher, writer, current police officer. father, husband and military veteran. You need to be corrected and I certainly hope others have attempted, for your written messages and material is so 4th grade level. I am embarassed I paid the 1.50 for the paper [rest assured, it is my aim to tell as many readers The Boston Globe and your biased reporting is both sub standard and strictly one sided]. For you are not professional and basically, your writing is ridiculous. A reader may assume, per your article, that criminals are never well-dressed with a tucked in polo [2nd paragraph] . Your defense [4th paragraph] of Gates while he is on the phone while being confronted [INDEED] with a police officer is assuming he has rights when considered a suspect. He is a suspect and will always be a suspect. His first priority of effort should be to get off the phone and comply with police, for if I was the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC deserving of his belligerent non-compliance. Further [5th paragraph], a reader may assume that crimes only happen in back alleys at 0300?! You're kidding me, right? Are you still in the 5th grade, Catholic School? That paragraph was as pathetic as jungle monkey gibberish - I might as well ax you the question. "Is this your first test at reporting?" You do not understand roles, tactics and dangers police officers face, as apparently you think no one wearing a polo might possess a firearm or knife on his/her person. Might you fathom a woman could be a criminal? Or are criminals all hairy, dirty, stinky, mean looking ugly men? You are a hot little bird with minimal experiences in a harsh field. You are a fool. An infidel. You have no business writing for a US newspaper nevermind detailing and analyzing half truths. You should serve me coffee and donuts on Sunday morning. My last point counters your final 2 paragraphs, in which you state Gates is "this immensely famous expert on race" - you really have to be kidding me? Famous for what? Expert why and says who? What has he done for me and my family? What has he done for the law enforcement community or military veterans or to secure freedoms and our borders in this country? What has he done to help limit and reduce my income tax? He has proven to work to get himself attention and become a wealthy lecturer. He lectures students on the subject of racial ethics and profiling. Jee whiz. I must attend that lecture lest I lose my identity and right to free speech and the right to celebrate God and beliefs as I see fit. I am not a racist. but I am prejudice towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they claim is freedom when it is merely attention because you do not receive enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers. You mention Gates' charges were dropped but that it was too late to stop the damage? Damage? Still kidding? You need to serve a day with the infantry and get swarmed by black gnats while manning your sector. Or you just need to get slapped, look in the mirror and admit, "Wow. I am a failure. I am a follower. Who am I kidding?" Again, I like a warm cruller and hot Panamanian, black. No sugar. Your final statement reads, "Gates, whose great success has allowed him to transcend the racial divide-" to which I ask, when did he transcend? He indeed has transcended back to a bumbling jungle monkey, thus he forever tremains amid this nation's great social/racial divide that makes it a free and great nation mixed with crazy and awkward differences. Go ahead, ax me what I think? Gates is a goddamned fool and you the article writer simply a poor follower and maybe worse, a poor writer. Your article title should read CONDUCT UNBECOMING A JUNGLE MONKEY - BACK TO ONE'S ROOTS. JB
I'm sure he's a fine cop, he's just a lousy writer.
On the bright side, his spelling is fine except for a couple typos.
And having carefully parsed his use of the term "jungle monkey", I suspect that this may actually have no racial connotations from him, since he also applies the term to the poor writing skills of Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham, who doesn't appear to have had a single African ancestor in the last 10,000 generations of her family. It may be just his personal metaphor for "an ignorant and oafish person".
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Senator Max Baucus (D-MT):
"It's just so wonderful to hear him speak, it's like a symphony"
Yeah... that's ONE analogy. Let's try some more.
Listening to Obama speak is like...
... that eternally long half-second between when you realize you're going to hit the car in front of you, and the first musical tinklings of glass & metal.
... accidentally hitting "delete", then accidentally hitting "yes" on the "are you sure?" dialog box.
... pouring milk on your cereal and watching earwigs float to the top.
... passing an exit, rounding a curve, and joining a 12-mile traffic jam.
... fumbling for a light switch and finding a wall socket
... hearing that creaking, ripping sound a tree branch makes as it separates from the trunk prior to coming through your roof.
... a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced..
... noticing the empty toilet paper roll before standing up instead of before sitting down.
... dropping a butcher knife, but keeping it from hitting the floor with a deftly-executed blade-first catch.
... hearing that awful tearing sound that inevitably accompanies stuffing 10 pounds of arrogant into a 5 pound bag.
... watching the First Lady serve soup to homeless people while wearing $540 shoes.
... listening to something with angry German facial hair... not sure what, exactly...
What's it like for you?
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August 08, 2009
It occurs to me that an endorsement from the President is good for sales, so I pulled a few strings and got The One to endorse this beleaguered establishment:
"I love Psycho Donuts!"
UPDATE:
Blogless Brother Tom found another pic of Obama grabbing a box of his favorite deep-fried, dough-based dessert products:
I guess Barry is a bigger fan than I thought.
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I assume the number is so low because most men don't have a line of sight to my wife.
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August 07, 2009
The answer is yes:
Not saying it's great. Just saying it exists.
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August 04, 2009
I have a set of sheets exactly like that.
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July 31, 2009
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
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July 25, 2009
The lights of the sprawling Chicago metroplex are the most beautiful thing I've ever seen and not married.
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July 07, 2009
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June 24, 2009
Does that mean I'm cool now?
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June 19, 2009
This will, I'm sure, lead to calls for a ban on morning-after donations.
Ludicrous.
The problem isn't on the demand side. As long as politicians have favors to sell, lobbyists will line up to buy them in either the white, black, or gray markets of influence-peddling.
The answer is to hit the supply side. Cut back the number of favors politicians have to sell. Take away as many regulatory powers as possible.
Once upon a time, information travelled so slowly that companies could get away with screwing people over because no one would find out.
Communication technology has changed that. If a company screws someone over in Boston, the news will be tweeted to LA in 30 seconds, their reputation will be in shambles by the end of the week, and they'll be out of business by the end of the month.
We don't need government watchdogs when everyone owns their own pitbull.
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June 16, 2009
It's a GOOD thing.
Yes, it's a VERY good thing.
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June 15, 2009
Bullshit all the way.
It's not a militia training camp, it's just a shooting range.
The reason it's being investigated is that one guy who goes there regularly was a convicted felon who owned guns that were stored in a locker there - which is against the law.
However, shooting ranges are not required to perform background checks on people who use the range.
Why its being referred to as a "militia training camp" is a little fuzzy from the story, but it sounds like the FBI's informant heard other users refer to it as such.
According to the story, the owner "claims the word 'militia' is just a part of an inside joke. He says his group is a local chapter of Project Appleseed, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching marksmanship and preserving gun rights."
The idiot who wrote the story didn't figure out something I Googled up in 10 seconds.
Project Appleseed is a bunch of liberal busybodies who want to infect schools.
The Appleseed Project is the organization dedicated to marksmanship & gun rights.
Take this story for what it's worth. Which is nothing.
But reading between the lines, the REAL story is that the FBI is trying to use the word "militia" as an excuse to go after your guns.
Quite troubling, that.
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Only problem is, they need to wear beards & turbans for religious reasons.
I'm torn. I believe that part of military discipline is holding to somewhat arbitrary standards of personal appearance so as to provide a uniform image by all members at all times. Civilians should be able to look at you and say "he's obviously military. God bless him".
On the other hand, I know for a fact that there are very few things the military doesn't have a waiver for. Shaving is high on that list. Fact is, due to the fact that black people have curly hair, they are very susceptible to ingrown facial hair, which causes bumps on their faces, making daily shaving difficult and painful. A lot of black guys weren't required to shave for medical reasons. Didn't make them any less capable of serving.
What it DOES do, though, is cause a little resentment among their co-workers. NOBODY wants to shave every day, and it's a pain in the ass, even if you like the clean-shaven look. So it's a small cut to morale and unit cohesiveness. Then again, when you serve in the military, EVERYTHING is a pain in the ass, and adding one more item to the list is just a tiny drop in the ocean of things that military folk bitch about, yet still accept as "part of the job".
So in balance, I say Sikhs should be allowed to serve with beards & turbans, but in exchange, they have to realize that we're fighting a war that involves killing Arabs. So if they want to serve, they can't bitch about being offended when someone makes a comment about wanting to kill "hairy-faced rag-heads".
Fair enough?
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June 06, 2009
She hates it. Can't find a single way to make it pleasant. I had to show her the groin-shaving video just to scare her out of the house today.
Anyone got some ideas to make it less godawful? She already takes her mp3 player with, so I'm looking for more.
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