Morning Must Reads: Casting Call

The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s “hicky” West Virginians were actors in Philly
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It’s not just that they were actors. The really hilarious part is how clueless the Republican ad makers were and how condescending they could be:

The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s advertising people sought out just the right kind of actors for a recent ad in the West Virginia Senate race — the “hicky” kind.
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The ad featured three blue-collar guys at a diner, talking about how the only way to stop President Obama was to vote against Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin in the race for Senate. It appears that the ad was shot in Philadelphia, not in West Virginia, and sought out that key “hicky” actor type, in the GOP’s efforts to show West Virginia voters that the party is on their side.
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“We are going for a ‘Hicky’ Blue Collar look,” a casting call for the ad said. “These characters are from West Virginia so think coal miner/trucker looks.”
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And just to further damage their street cred, the casting call misspelled a key down-home brand name, asking for actors with “John Deer [sic] hats (not brand new, preferably beat up).”

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/gop-ad-men-sought-hicky-actors-for-west-virginia-senate-race-spo-video.php?ref=fpblg

I just watched the ad. Those guys sound nothing like West Virginians — the Sopranos extra sitting in the middle might as well have been eating gabagool.

Also, too:
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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/06/vitter-angle-immigration/
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“This month, Angle’s latest racially-tinged ad goes after Reid and his support of undocumented students. The ad includes offensive footage of menacing men with flashlights walking along a fence that was featured in her first ad in addition to a new image featuring three scowling Latino men…[...]
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However, Angle isn’t the only Republican lawmaker to invoke negative anti-Latino stereotypes. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) used the same exact photo in one of his own attack ads…”
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(picture at the link)

“–Weekly unemployment claims are at the lowest level since July 10, but tomorrow’s monthly report, the last big economic metric before Election Day, isn’t expected to bring much good news.”

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If this isn’t a pure example of the liberal bias in the media and how they SPIN things for everything liberal or for the DemoRATS in Washington, please God tell me what is.

The next thing we shall see is Adam Sorenson clicking together his pair of ruby slippers. Is Glenda the Good Witch really Joe Klein in drag?
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It’s Thursday, folks. Be strong…

Not to mention:
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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2010/10/06/john_kasich_and_hollywood_steelworker
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“Now comes a new commercial revealing that a Kasich ad that seems to feature a ‘blue-collar’ voter, a steelworker, trashing Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, actually features actor Chip Redden playing the angry steelworker. ‘When we saw Congressman Kasich’s ad, we wondered why any Ohio steelworker, whose job has been threatened by the unfair trade deals Kasich supported in Congress, would be willing to appear in his commercials,’ said USW Local 1238′s John Saunders. ‘As it turns out, when Congressman Kasich couldn’t get a real steelworker to do his dirty work, he did what any congressman from Wall Street would do – he paid someone.’”

“PRESIDENT OBAMA TOWN HALL, MTV
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MTV, BET and CMT are casting the audience for town hall meeting with President Obama. Shooting Oct. 14, 4 p.m. in Washington, D.C.
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Seeking—Audience Members: males & females, 18+.
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To apply, email townhallaudience@mtvnmix.com and put “Town Hall” in the subject line. To ensure that the audience represents diverse interests and political views, include your name, phone number, hometown, school attending, your job and what issues, if any, you are interested in or passionate about. Also, provide a recent photo and short description of your political views. Submission deadline: Oct. 14. No pay.

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Is this what it has all come down to? Unbelievable.
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Casting call………the video………
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What did I miss?

Weekly initial unemployment claims decrease, but trendline has reached a plateau.

“This graph shows the 4-week moving average of weekly claims since January 2000.

The dashed line on the graph is the current 4-week average. The four-week average of weekly unemployment claims decreased this week by 3,000 to 455,750.

The 4-week moving average has been moving sideways at an elevated level since last December – and that suggests a weak job market. ”

(graph at link)

Adam

This is not the first wake-up call! See:

http://ikejakson.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/the-day-the-students-laughed-in-china/

The President needs Fareed to rewire his Teleprompter.

Just so you can stay strong………
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“Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there’s nothing like them!”

“The fear mongers are back in full force in the Wall Street Journal today. Arthur Brooks, Ed Feulner, and Bill Kristol attempted a preemptive strike against anyone who would touch the sacred defense budget or dare to suggest that it might be included in efforts to reduce the federal deficit. And as usual, they are trotting out old half-facts and fear words to try to make their case. [..]

First, the old facts. In dealing with the deficit, it is irrelevant to argue, as they do, that the defense share of GDP is lower today than the Cold War average. That only tells us the economic burden of defense spending, but it tells us nothing about the budgetary burden of that spending. And that has clearly risen. Although they would like to argue that defense spending has nothing to do with our deficits, it clearly does, just as all federal spending that exceeds revenues does.

In fact, in contrast to their argument, defense spending has risen faster than non-defense discretionary spending, the comparable, congressionally-controllable part of domestic spending since 2001. But, of course, in contrast to their funny numbers, you have to add all of defense spending, including the costs of the wars. It’s all defense, it’s all spending, it all contributes to the deficit, and, as insiders will tell you, the war spending at DOD has been highly interchangeable with the rest of the DOD budget.”

A preview of next year’s budget debate.

“The results of this witch’s brew of bad budget ingredients are not hard to see. The fiscal 2012 budget debate will likely start next year with a quick rejection of the president’s budget (expect the retro phrase “dead on arrival” to make a comeback) by Congressional Republicans, but Congress will be limited in its ability to come up with a workable plan, let alone compromise with the White House. Indeed, it’s not clear that Republicans, if they are in the majority, will be able to agree among themselves on a plan. Lawmakers will then try to raise the stakes by attracting voters’ attention to the normally inside-the-Beltway budget process. That will require extreme tactics, like threatened or actual government shutdowns and angry bashing of the Federal Reserve.

It also means that, rather than legislative initiatives, the only changes in the federal budget outlook in 2011 will be the result of new estimates of previous actions, such as still-lower Troubled Asset Relief Program costs, and revised economic forecasts. That will mean that the projected deficit will be close to the baseline level of about $1 trillion and that a deal on the federal budget will be no closer than it is now.”

Despite all of the fairytales our liberal friends want to tell. Despite all of the spin from the liberal lame stream media.
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Gold reaches another new HIGH.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6960OM20101007
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Oil hits $85 dollars per barrel.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69541420101007
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And the United States under the leadership of Barack HUSSEIN Obama continues to slide even further and further apart.
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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/october_2010/voters_are_much_less_optimistic_about_black_white_relations
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But, hope is eternal. Life can get better. “Remember in November” is only 25 days away my friends. Just 25 DAYS and we get to throw all the BUMS out of Washington!!

It’s nice to know that some legislation can pass through Congress without a lot of fuss. Then again, consider the legislation...

“The bill, passed without public debate in a way that even surprised its main sponsor, Republican Representative Robert Aderholt, requires courts to accept as valid document notarizations made out of state, making it harder to challenge the authenticity of foreclosure and other legal documents.

The timing raised eyebrows, coming during a rising furor over improper affidavits and other filings in foreclosure actions by large mortgage processors such as GMAC, JPMorgan and Bank of America.

Questions about improper notarizations have figured prominently in challenges to the validity of these court documents, and led to widespread halts of foreclosure proceedings.

The legislation could protect bank and mortgage processors from liability for false or improperly prepared documents.[...]

The full Senate…immediately passed the bill without debate, by unanimous consent.[...]

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner told Reuters in an interview that the law would weaken protection of homeowners by requiring many states to accept lower standards for notarizations.

She said it was ‘suspicious’ that the law unexpectedly passed just as the mortgage industry is facing possible big costs from having filed false or improperly notarized documents.”

“They are very, very serious about finding a way out”

“Taliban representatives and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai have begun secret, high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war, according to Afghan and Arab sources.

The talks follow inconclusive meetings, hosted by Saudi Arabia, that ended more than a year ago. While emphasizing the preliminary nature of the current discussions, the sources said that for the first time they believe that Taliban representatives are fully authorized to speak for the Quetta Shura, the Afghan Taliban organization based in Pakistan, and its leader, Mohammad Omar.”

Dana Milbank accepts a challenge from a far-right wing critic.

“What I found was astonishing — although not in the way he had supposed. Comparing the ACU ratings of Murkowski and Bennett with those of other Republicans in the House and Senate going back to 1971 (the first year in the ACU online ratings archive), I discovered that if conservatives were to employ the purity standards they applied to Murkowski and Bennett, they would have rejected many, if not most, of the leading Republican lawmakers of the past 40 years.

Murkowski, according to the ACU, has a lifetime conservative rating of 70.2 percent. Bennett’s rating is 83.6 percent. To see who would fail the Murkowski purity standard and the more stringent Bennett purity standard, I used lifetime ratings for those who served after 1995 (when lifetime ratings first appear in the ACU archive) and the last year in office for the rest. (Requests for assistance from the ACU went unanswered.)

President Gerald Ford, Republican leader in the House from 1965 to 1973? You’re outta here! He rated 67 percent in 1973 — failing both the Murkowski and the Bennett tests.

Bob Dole, the 1996 GOP nominee and longtime Senate Republican leader? Gone! He rated only 82 percent, flunking the Bennett test.

Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee, Senate Republican leader from 1977 to 1985, would also be excommunicated with a score identical to Dole’s. And check out Baker’s predecessor as Senate Republican leader, Pennsylvania’s Hugh Scott. ACU rating in 1976: 29 percent, failing both the Murkowski and Bennett standards by a mile.”

First comes this.

“The largest attack campaign against Democrats this fall is being waged by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a trade association organized as a 501(c)(6) that can raise and spend unlimited funds without ever disclosing any of its donors.[...]

The Chamber’s spending has dwarfed every other issue group and most political party candidate committee spending. A ThinkProgress investigation has found that the Chamber funds its political attack campaign out of its general account, which solicits foreign funding. And while the Chamber will likely assert it has internal controls, foreign money is fungible, permitting the Chamber to run its unprecedented attack campaign. According to legal experts consulted by ThinkProgress, the Chamber is likely skirting longstanding campaign finance law that bans the involvement of foreign corporations in American elections.”

[Then comes the response.]
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“When I asked Ms. Freeman whether the dues from AmChams go into the same general fund that bankrolls the Chamber’s ads, she declined to answer. “We don’t feel obligated to answer that question because we follow all applicable law, and no foreign money funds our voter education activities,” Freeman told me.
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Ms. Freeman, providing more of a glimpse into the Chamber’s books than it had previously, says that only a total of roughly $100,000 in dues come in from the AmChams annually — which is dwarfed by the millions and millions the Chamber is spending on ads:

These accusations by a George Soros-funded, anti-business blog (not a “report,” as some in the media are saying) are unfounded, deceitful, and completely erroneous. They are a desperate attempt to silence those who support free enterprise, and a diversion by people upset about their grim prospects in the upcoming election [...]
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The real motivation behind Think Progress’ blog is clearly to take business and its representative organizations out of the advocacy process (whether it be legislative or commenting on a member of Congress’ record) — a playing field that is not exactly level when you consider that labor unions and their allies far outspend business on election efforts.

As for the Chamber’s new claims about AmChams, the original Think Progress post argued that the Chamber also raises money separately from foreign companies that goes into its general fund. With regard to the Chamber’s comparison to labor union spending, the political activities of unions are monitored by the Labor Department and union political spending is bankrolled by membership dues.”

“Companies are scooping up stock rather than hiring”
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They understand the concept of investing versus spending. One that escapes the vast wilderness called the liberal intellect.

New(t) talking point for the GOP, aka The Republican War on the Poor, part Whatever.

“So what’s [Newt Gingrinch] advising they do?

Vilify food stamps.[...]

It’s a bit out of left field. Most of the election cycle has centered on rich people and their tax cuts rather than poor people and their food-assistance programs. But there’s a very obvious reason why Gingrich wants to frame the issue this way: food stamp usage has historically gone up with Democrats in office, and down when Republicans were in charge. Frame it like that, and it looks as though Dems are the welfare-state-loving socialists and Republicans are the patriotic capitalists.

Never mind that targeting food stamps is a tad insensitive. It’s no real surprise that with the recession, food stamp usage has spiked since 2008. The program now feeds one in eight Americans, and one in four children. In about 800 counties, even more children receive government assistance. [...] But turning the issue into a political point at the height of election season seems to demean the seriousness and complexity of the problem. And, since lower-income Americans are the ones who rely upon the program, pitting paychecks against food stamps is not all that different from pitting rich against poor.

Republicans have long struggled to shake the image of the party of wealthy white folks, but belittling food stamps seems a curious strategy to regain the GOP’s identity.”

“However, Angle isn’t the only Republican lawmaker to invoke negative anti-Latino stereotype”
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You mean they are using images that actaiully look like the illegals that are crossing the border from Mexico. Horrors- Truth in advertising.
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Maybe they should use a blonde, blue eyed Swedish grandmother because we have so many of them crossing illegally from Mexico.

See how much coverage this gets on the labor market

The economy likely shed more jobs last year than previously thought, but analysts say the undercount by the government should prove less severe than it did during depths of the recession.

The Labor Department on Friday will give an initial estimate of how far off its count of employment may have been in the 12 months through March. The government admitted earlier this year that its count through March 2009 had overstated employment by 902,000 jobs.

Analysts expect a much smaller miscount this time, given the economy’s growth spurt in the second half of last year.

The department blamed its 902,000 miss on faulty estimates of how many companies were created or destroyed, and it has not yet made any changes to the so-called birth-death model that produces this projection.

They’re apparently willing to attack Republicans who don’t go along with their twisted ideology, too.

Are these the same companies, most notably McDonald’s, that the administration denied was complaining about the ill-conceived ObamCare? The trend seems to be is to have the politically connected and large companies get waivers and just have the smaller poor unsuspecting public to pay. 30 companies and this hasn’t even officially become live.

And in the category of everybody else but me. Unions were the biggest supporters of this nightmare but really don’t want it to affect them.
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The biggest single waiver, for 351,000 people, was for the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund, a New York union providing coverage for city teachers. The waivers are effective for a year and were granted to insurance plans and companies that showed that employee premiums would rise or that workers would lose coverage without them, Santillo says.”

Thirty companies and organizations, including McDonald’s (MCD) and Jack in the Box (JACK), won’t be required to raise the minimum annual benefit included in low-cost health plans, which are often used to cover part-time or low-wage employees.

The Department of Health and Human Services, which provided a list of exemptions, said it granted waivers in late September so workers with such plans wouldn’t lose coverage from employers who might choose instead to drop health insurance altogether

But, as Rick Stengel likes to say, what happens when we leave?
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If there’s a deal for peace with the Taliban, and our forces aren’t necessary to “fight insurgents”, won’t there still be girls mutilated by the now cooperative Taliban once we depart?
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Don’t we have to stay there until there’s no chance that women and girls will be oppressed and tormented by religious fanatics, spending as many MIA* as are necessary in our moral quest?
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*MIA = “Months in Afghanistan,” US$6 billion per month.

Don’t we have to stay there until there’s no chance that women and girls will be oppressed and tormented by religious fanatics..
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Hell, we can’t even stop that in our own country, much less Afghanistan.

The folks in the state of New York don’t have enough problems with high unemployment and falling income. Now the government nannies want to dictate how they spend food stamp money. Liberals who always want conservatives to stay out of their bedrooms but have no problem meddling in every other part part of our lives and controlling freedoms

New Yorkers on food stamps would not be allowed to spend them on sugar-sweetened drinks under an obesity-fighting proposal being floated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. David Paterson.

If approved, it would be the first time an item would be banned from the federal program based solely on nutritional value.

“The trend seems to be is to have the politically connected and large companies get waivers”
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This seems to be the case.

Even if Obam’s lies were true that you could keep your doctor and insurance, they may have no place to treat you. The carnage keeps piling from this liberal debacle. Any more health and this country will be Zimbabwe.

It looks like it’s not just insurers that suddenly want to get out of the health care business. Three Catholic hospitals in Pennsylvania are now on the market, and the hospital management is telling the local media that Obamacare is a major reason why the facilities are being unloaded:

Mercy Hospital in Scranton is up for sale.

“Actually we’re doing well. We’re ahead of budget for the year. It’s more that when we look out over the landscape of health care over the next five years and the needs of these facilities, the needs of this community, we understand a different level of investment will be needed than what we can do on our own,” [Mercy Health Partners CEO Kevin] Cook said.

They said much of that required investment is the result of the health care reform bill passed in Washington.

The CEO said it means the need for more spending and less federal reimbursements

The private sector, and it’s bought and paid for hand maidens, have abdicated responsibility for job creation, but before handing the entire responsibility over to government, insist that government first put itself in a straight jacket and wrap itself in chains.

I wonder how much play this graph will get in the MSM? Zero, I predict since it is another liberal myth blown to bits by reality. Married couples and household headed by men, combined have a lower rate of poverty (25%) than households headed by females (32.5%).

So much for Gloria Steinham and “her fish and bicycle” theory

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/graph_for_the_day_october_7_20.html

Just unbelievable. I supported Jennifer Bruner in the primary against Lee Fisher. I’m still on her mailing list, and she sent an email a few days ago urging her supporters to contact their Senators and Representatives about this bill (which I did). Gonna be kind of hard for Dems to argue that they have the backs of working folks, when they pass crap like this.
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OT, Jennifer Bruner has been a great Secretary of State. The previous @@!!$$, Blackwell, became famous for purging the Ohio voting rolls prior to the 2004 election. The summer before the election I submitted a change of address form to the county voting agency. Got a letter in return telling me I had never been registered to vote….I’d been voting in the county since 1978. I was able to register in time and vote, but a bunch of folks got a very bad surprise at the polling places, finding that they’d been purged. In 2006, Jennifer Bruner sent a mailer that basically said, “support me, and you’ll never be disenfranchised again.” First time I ever contributed to the campaign of a Secretary of State. She has been a tireless advocate, and we’ll miss her.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%E2%80%93female_income_disparity_in_the_United_States

“The 4-week moving average has been moving sideways at an elevated level since last December – and that suggests a weak job market. ”
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Suugests a weak job market? Thanks for that blinding glimpse of the obvious!

“food stamp usage has historically gone up with Democrats in office, and down when Republicans were in charge. Frame it like that, and it looks as though Dems are the welfare-state-loving socialists and Republicans are the patriotic capitalists.”
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It’s especially effective when its true. Conservatives believe people would rather an opportunity to be gainfully employed while liberals would rather say there there we will help you become dependent on us.

Job openings per applicant. (chart)
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http://www.economytrack.org/jobopening.php

Still wavering that old canard that has been dis proven time and time again. Just because liberals say it doesn’t make it so.

“But that wage gap isn’t necessarily the result of discrimination. On the contrary, there are lots of other reasons men might earn more than women, including differences in education, experience and job tenure.

When these factors are taken into account the gap narrows considerably — in some studies, to the point of vanishing. A recent survey found that young, childless, single urban women earn 8 percent more than their male counterparts, mostly because more of them earn college degrees.

Moreover, a 2009 analysis of wage-gap studies commissioned by the Labor Department evaluated more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and concluded that the aggregate wage gap “may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers.”

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

Wow. I didn’t know that freeinpa is actually for the food stamp program, provided it is completely unregulated.
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Maybe freeinpa is actually a closet food stamp consumer who needs to cash out his excess but can’t because those darned reggelationses keeps gettin in the way.
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Go for it, freeinpa.
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BTW, you didn’t notice how pointy those pickets are? You should take note that trying to straddle the fence is just a tweensy bit hard on the knards when you straddle that particular fence.
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That is, if you actually have knards…

“Married couples and household headed by men, combined have a lower rate of poverty (25%) than households headed by females (32.5%).”
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Seems to me to be as good an argument as any for equal pay regulations…

Life sucks Rusty, doesn’t it? If it isn’t those danged pesky minorities, it’s reality that isn’t conforming to your “ideology” like it should.
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Especially when the report did have some good news.
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Yeah, I know, Rusty. You’d just say:
“Fock reality! I’m right anyway!”

Sorry, kbanger. I did it again!
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Every time I return for a visit, it’s always Thursday…

Now if pesky reality would only cooperate with those infallible global warming models.
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Scientists found that a decline in the Sun’s activity did not lead as expected to a cooling of the Earth, a surprise finding that could have repercussions for computer models on climate change.

The Sun’s activity is known to wax and wane over 11-year cycles, which means that in theory the amount of radiation reaching Earth declines during the “waning” phase.

The new study was carried out between 2004 and 2007 during a solar waning phase.

The amount of energy in the ultraviolet part of the energy spectrum fell, the researchers found.

But, contrary to expectation, radiation in the visible part of the energy spectrum increased, rather than declined, which caused a warming effect.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6f90940f6d9bb44d73f1c586d3a44fbb.8c1&show_article=1

“Especially when the report did have some good news”
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To those not on medication its called grasping at straws!

“Job openings per applicant”
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And the reasons ther are not more job openings?

Survey says;
1) concern over higher taxes

2) Concern over health care reform costs

3) COncern over more costly regulation

IQ5 I see your time in the “home” did little for your ability to think.

No fence no straddle– same concept. Keep the meddling government out.

IQ5 still arguing for equal outcome instead of equal opportunity. Studies show that decisions made have consequences on life, on pay, on wealth.

It’s called responsibility something the liberal aren’t fond of requiring

And trumping by far every “concern” that Freeinpa cites:

a+++) Concern that no ordinary consumers are walking through the door with money to spend.

“And trumping by far every “concern” that Freeinpa cites:”

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And that won’t happen either until 1-2 & 3 are resolved.

This must be the “good news” IQ5 was referring. The good news is it is unlikely to be picked up by the government’s report

Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, increased to 10.1% in September — up sharply from 9.3% in August and 8.9% in July. Much of this increase came during the second half of the month — the unemployment rate was 9.4% in mid-September — and therefore is unlikely to be picked up in the government’s unemployment report on Friday.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/143426/Gallup-Finds-Unemployment-September.aspx

Glad to hear that you’re a librul now, freeinpa…

No, freeinpa, read here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11480916
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breitbart is no better at science than he is at sorting people.
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What is not in dispute, in the middle of the short report on this are these choice words:
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“But, they add, the research does not challenge the role of humanity’s production of greenhouse gases as the dominant long-term driver of modern-day climate change.”
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Read it. Fifth paragraph down.
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You looze, freeinpa…

I love it when you walk into walls, freeinpa…

“Maybe they should use a blonde, blue eyed Swedish grandmother because we have so many of them crossing illegally from Mexico.”
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How about pictures like this:
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http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w311/Siouxperman_MN/Salma_Hayek.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.myspace.com/mexicanwita_bike&usg=__qxG9LqFiDQupOsLMYWKxEtT1gqM=&h=1023&w=759&sz=183&hl=en&start=58&zoom=1&tbnid=1kG3jwTuSM0s7M:&tbnh=187&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsalma%2Bhayek%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D749%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C1411&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=143&vpy=161&dur=661&hovh=261&hovw=193&tx=112&ty=175&ei=FiSuTMXsLMGqlAfj2MnmDw&oei=CSSuTNqIEMX_lgeK6JT2BA&esq=3&page=3&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:58&biw=1440&bih=749
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Hey, she’s by the gulf of Mexico.
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Or maybe:
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http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BOTY2NjEwNTM4Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTcwOTcyMQ%40%40._V1._SX91_SY140_.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0379722/&usg=__u6-zdpqQ5RphQhArwicZSI2BOyA=&h=139&w=91&sz=4&hl=en&start=0&zoom=0&tbnid=uIm34NgmzskYhM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=61&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Valeria%2BHernandez%2522%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DlyH%26sa%3DG%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D749%26as_st%3Dy%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=476&vpy=468&dur=399&hovh=93&hovw=61&tx=72&ty=56&ei=GCauTPH-GcOqlAf09J3lDw&oei=_CWuTMXYIITGlQfqnPj2BA&esq=4&page=1&ndsp=31&ved=1t:429,r:17,s:0
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Of course if you showed pictures like these, people would be opening the boarder as broadly as possible.

It’s a dirty trick he learned Bush.
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“Even without a guaranteed audience of backers, the administration does have the right to try and prevent threats and disruptions from protesters, which is why people are often barred from Bush events, according to White House officials. The removal of individuals can occur before and after a disruption.

“There is an active campaign underway to try and disrupt and disturb his events in hopes of undermining his objective of fixing Social Security,” White House spokesman Trent Duffy told FOXNews.com. “If there is evidence there are people planning to disrupt the president at an event, then they have the right to exclude those people from those events.””
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153720,00.html
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But, if Fox says stacking your audience for town hall meetings is good, then it must be good for this president as well, right Rusty and Freak?

“Suugests [sic] a weak job market? Thanks for that blinding glimpse of the obvious!”
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Click the graph and get a close look at the dates.
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That upswing was during the last month of the Bush regime.
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After that the rate of unemployment claims decreased.
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It is like hearing from an ER doctor, “well, your daughter is bleeding less than she was when she came in here” but, it is far better than “she is bleeding even more and we can’t do anything.”
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So, this is further evidence that Bush and the Republic party caused all of the bleeding of jobs and Obama has been too middle of the road to do enough to reverse it.
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It also means, if you like paychecks, you do not like Republicans in office (at least not the Republicans of the past twenty years).

Sometimes hiring is a good investment.
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My son is a claims adjuster. His very large corporation, home office Switzerland, has made huge cuts in their personnel and consolidated many offices. Yet, they expect they same quality and output from their remaining employees.
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My son works 10 hours a day and at least 8 hours on weekends. As a salaried worker, he gets no overtime. He is fortunate not to have a family.
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What suffers is customer satisfaction and employee loyalty. It has become a regular occurrence for people to stand up at their desks, pack their personal belongs and quit. And this is during a time when other employment opportunities are scarce.
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Stress is taking its toll on customers and workers.

Gingrich used to promote the use of orphanages for homeless children. No need for food stamps there. Little Oliver can ask for more gruel…”Please sir, I want some more.”
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Actually, Gingrich looks alot like Mr. Bumble the beadle as charicatured in Dickens books and the movies.

Click the graph and get a close look at the dates.
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That graph does do a nice bit of reminding everyone of who was in office (and what policies were in place) when the job market went bust, doesn’t it?

“Although they would like to argue that defense spending has nothing to do with our deficits, it clearly does, just as all federal spending that exceeds revenues does.”
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This. This. This.
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There is really no reason to spend as much as the rest of the world combined annually on defense. Let’s start weening the welfare wh0res in the military-industrial complex off the federal teat before crushing Social Security, ok?

Sorry, Rusty.
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Nobody said that Gold was a bad or good investment, but, a 300% markup on gold coins is a rip off.
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That was the Wiener- Beck issue.
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New York City real estate is making a comeback. That does not mean that you would make money if I try to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

Just appalling. The Senate can’t get together to pass anything, and then *bang* out of nowhere comes this abomination.
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This really may be the final straw for me. This is going to do untold damage to the already devastated housing market as the clarity of title continues to be clouded by these bogus foreclosures and the acquiesance of the courts. Benefits no one but the CRIMINALS who are foreclosing on properties they do not hold clear title to.
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In my opinion, Congressional Democrats have now crossed the line from the lesser of two evils to cartoonish supervillainy just short of the lunatic Republicans.
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This atrocity, coupled with the failure to force Republicans to vote against a middle class tax cut extension, is not only terrible policy, its laughably bad politics.
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Maybe they actually don’t know there is a real world out there beyond their Beltway bubbles. Or perhaps they would simply prefer to work as lobbyists for big money when they get voted out of office?

“They understand the concept of investing versus spending.”
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Buying capital goods to be used by additional employees is investing.
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Buying shares of stock is savings.
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“investment
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2. In business, the purchase by a producer of a physical good, such as durable equipment or inventory, in the hope of improving future business.”

Read more: http://www.investorwords.com/2599/investment.html#ixzz11iHNEsb8
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In other words, Freakinpa, companies are refusing to invest. They are simply saving so that they can sell off stock to invest later.
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It’s too bad that you are a total moron who keeps on tossing around words you do not know the meaning of.

So, according to Freakinpa when an individual wishes to buy a car, the first thing he wants to know are:
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“1) concern over higher taxes

2) Concern over health care reform costs

3) COncern over more costly regulation”
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Then he will decide to go to a car dealership or not.
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According to Freakinpa, before a couple decided to go off on vacation with their children, the first things they want to figure out are:
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1) concern over higher taxes

2) Concern over health care reform costs

3) COncern over more costly regulation”
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How about refrigerators?
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How about computers?
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When wishing to buy a refrigerator, among other things, the concerns are:
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How much does the refrigerator cost?
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Can they get the same one cheaper elsewhere.
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What is the quality of this refrigerator compared to others.
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Does this refrigerator use more or less energy than others so that they may pay less in utility bills than the other brand.
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MOST IMPORTANTLY: WILL THE PRIMARY WAGE EARNER OF THE HOUSE HAVE A JOB TO PAY FOR THE REFRIGERATOR.

To my very pleasant surprise, President Obama did not sign the bill. (Yet)
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/07/why-president-obama-not-signing-hr-3808

“It’s called responsibility something the liberal aren’t fond of requiring.”
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Then why was it the last all Democratic congress who passed the the Child Support Recovery Act (CSRA) garnishing the wages of men too irresponsible to pay child support?
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It was Clinton who, also, signed the follow up in 1998.
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Sorry, Freakinpa, requiring fathers to be responsible is something Democrats have always stood for.
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Gloria Steinem is a grandmother now and not exactly significant today.

It has always been the Republican stance that, after a divorce or a child born out of wedlock, instead of allowing “big government” a man should cut and run, keeping all of his income to himself.
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BTW: The men in my own family have too habits. Never marry young and never divorce. So, since my father was home with his one and only wife, my mother, I would not have gained from this. Since I have been wise enough not to have children when I didn’t have a good income and the right woman,I am not liable to pay due to this law.
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Responsible men is what Democrats support, even if that means the government has to take the money from a man’s check if does not care about his own children.

500 Words:

Tired of Time running his picture in 1,000 words, the president is taking pictures of Adam Sorensen so that he, Michelle and the kids can make up funny captions.

Wouldn’t it be nice if they considered a raise for their employees?
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I know that’s just not done any more. No one in my company who isn’t management has had a raise in nine years. I work two jobs to keep abreast of rising health costs and inflation. But I understand my sacrifice is necessary so the guys at the top can get those nice bonuses and stimulate the economy by paying off their vacation homes.
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Still, it would be nice to have a raise once in a while, to have an incentive besides the terror of being unemployed.

250 words:
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Watching a film of freeinpa trying to pronounce the word ‘ultraviolet’…