Monday, March 22, 2010

Againistan


Ann Jones has an incisive look at Obamamericas experience in Afghanistan. Who didn't see this train wreck coming? More to the point, why are we still sharpening a broken sword? Paul B. Farrell has my back with his take on our most recent national debacles.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Drivin' Ms. Daisy,or The Economic Miracle of Failure


I'm off to Advance Auto Parts. Got to roll my pickup down a hill to start it and burn that foreign oil. I bought a starter for $60.00 and it was defective. The problem is I wasn't aware of its shortcomings until it was tested in real time. Twice the installation, three times the gas (replacement had to be ordered), now we have an underpants gnome situation. Where's my horse. Somebody give me my horse. Or a Toyota. Sometimes it is just difficult to be an optometrist.

TMI

I seem to be suffering from my annual corporeal (it's been winter too long) shutdown. This could be just bullshit, too. I may be suffering the same malady as most of my fellow denizens of the political putridity that is America today. TMI. I don't ask politicians how to wire a three way switch or weld a loader bucket. Please don't ask me how to fix healthcare, Haiti, wall Street,Toyotas or China. Just do it. That is what the fuck you were hired for. I long for the days of Dan Rather in body armor. John Wayne. LSD. That Carter feller. (Yes, Billy Carter...from Georgia, son). Instead we have Limbaugh, Beck, Krugman and Dowd. Steel cage shit there. We have Mike Lupica whining in Americas favorite supermarket daily. WaPo's circulation has evidently turned negative outside the beltway, the "Krauthammer (aka Bunning) Effect". Bill Gates has taken a back seat to a Mexican drug lawd. John Prine said it best. As my buddy, Carl Clanton, says: "Can't we all just get along?". I don't need to know everything, just when is dinner?

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Jobs Creation - Bunning Gregg Style

I don't know what to say about this.

"Senate Drops Funding For Summer Jobs Program And Enhanced Subsidies For Poor Families With Children".

The cost of these jobs for our children...they would probably rather have the money now and pay for it at a discount as their income rises in the future, if we give them a future. "Who's gonna give a job to old Slim Carter?".

Vampire Squid

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

This comes from Rolling Stones Tim Dickinson:

GOP to Unemployed: “Tough Shit”

3/1/10, 3:41 pm EST

The obstructionist Republican senate minority is blocking an extension of unemployment benefits, through the filibuster of one Jim Bunning of Kentucky, whose state is mired in 10.7 percent unemployment.

When Jeff Merkel of Oregon beseeched his colleague on the Senate floor to consider the impact on Americans hit hardest by this recession, Bunning blurted out:

Tough Shit.


***

This from MSN Money: (Published Feb. 23, 2009)


Weekly unemployment benefits by state



State Maximum State Maximum




Alabama

$255

Montana

$407






Alaska

$370

Nebraska

$308






Arizona

$240

Nevada

$362






Arkansas

$409

New Hampshire

$427






California

$450

New Jersey

$584






Colorado

$475

New Mexico

$455






Connecticut

$519

New York

$405






Delaware

$330

North Carolina

$494






District of Columbia

$359

North Dakota

$385






Florida

$275

Ohio

$372






Georgia

$330

Oklahoma

$392






Hawaii

$545

Oregon

$482






Idaho

$362

Pennsylvania

$539






Illinois

$385

Rhode Island

$528






Indiana

$390

South Carolina

$326






Iowa

$443

South Dakota

$285






Kansas

$423

Tennessee

$275






Kentucky

$415

Texas

$378






Louisiana

$284

Utah

$444






Maine

$496

Vermont

$409






Maryland

$380

Virginia

$378






Massachusetts

$628

Washington

$541*






Michigan

$365

West Virginia

$424






Minnesota

$566

Wisconsin

$363






Mississippi

$230

Wyoming

$387






Missouri

$320






*State has OK'd a temporary $45 increase beginning May 3. Sources: The Associated Press, state labor department Web sites.

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