Cognitive dissonance, or the suspension of disbelief?
Gee, the "official" and media-reported numbers do not match your personal and business experience?
- Unemployment? Inflation? GDP? All the statistics today are 'cooked.'
Manipulated government numbers and biased/slanted reporting is the reason collars and cuffs obviously do not match.
- Perception IS reality today, so cooking the books....baldly LYING to the public...."looking good" is clearly more important to these con-artists than actually "doing" any good. It's a helluva lot easier, too.
Shadow Stat's tells us why. Look at the following...
Monday, 21 December 2009
Cognitive dissonence, or............from Rico
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Santa's Pickup Lines
10. Hey Babe, when was the last time you did it in a sleigh?
9. Wanna see my 12-inch elf?
8. I`ve got something special in the sack for you!
7. Ever make it with a fat guy with a whip?
6. I know when you`ve been bad or good--so let`s skip the small talk, sister!
5. Some of my best toys run on batteries...
4. Interested in seeing the "North Pole"? (Well, that`s what the Mrs. calls it.)
3. I see you when you`re sleeping--and you don`t wear any underwear, do you?
2. Screw the "nice" list--I`ve got you on my "naughty" list!
1. Wanna join the "Mile High" club?
H/T DML
The Sunday Best..........
Can Brussels cope with a Hobbesian world?
North Korean hackers may have stolen US war plans
Everything You Need to Know About Eggnog
Iraq accuses Iran of seizing oil well near border
Old mother hubbards bare old dilapidated cupboard, an allegory ... the perils of doing business with the rich ...
Global Challenges in 2010
Was Your Democrat Senator Too Stupid To Get a Bribe?
Thousands of gardens 'stolen' by developers
British Army to get new uniforms – turned down by the US and made in China
Imposter takes baby from police station
Shooters complain of 'hysterical' police response to legal field sports
Terry Wogan: My final fond farewell
Police expect Mumbai-style terror attack on City of London
Deep South calls in Iran to cure its health blues
the Clarkypoos Bit......
The BA strike is off – so that’s many a Christmas ruined
Saab 9-3X 2.0 Turbo XWD
and little Jimmy May
Heart of Darkness..............from Rico
CRE. Commercial Real Estate has fallen 37% in value this year. Not such a big deal...until you understand that $3 trillion in commercial real estate loans are outstanding, and defaults are at a 16-year high now BEFORE many of these loans reach their refinance dates!
The CRE implosion will take down many hundreds of banks in the next few years, and are ticking financial bombs on the balance sheets of thousands of banks.
- As an aside: We ALL know Rahm Emmanuel is a bare-knuckles politician of the Chicago political machine. What I did NOT know before today is that he was a 'bagman' (euphamistically called a 'fundraiser') for then Mayor Richard Daly.
............Talk about the Heart of Darkness in a 'reform' administration!!!!!!!!!!
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Saturday, 19 December 2009
Yes, We're Doomed
I consider myself an American first, a pragmatist second and, third, a conservative. I am also a pessimist. Not because I hate sugar and spice, but because of my pragmatism and my conservatism. This is how I see things: All organizational structures reach a point where they can no longer sustain themselves. Great men go mad, beautiful actresses mutter to themselves about George Bush and Hitler, old courtroom titans become a source of pity and frustration.
I am an American. I believe in what my country was. I don't mean the constitution. I mean its people. I no longer believe in my people. Any human group that digs Barack Obama and thinks Michael Moore "has something to say" is doomed. I don't know how to make it any plainer. Why do our children kill? We have gone insane, that's why.
Do I hate Obama? Nope. I just know he's a phony, self-centered boy who has imposed his masturbatory Dreams on the rest of us.
With our full consent.
When I really want to feel reality I read John Derbyshire's A Day That Will Live in Infamy. This is history folks. Saluting the flag and praising Wal-Mart won't stave off the inevitable, will it? (Derbyshire's little piece was written 4 months before 911, prophetically enough. It's always good to follow up with his Crusading They Went. Talk about 'Bush is Hitler!")
Matt Patterson reviews a new Derbyshire Book: We Are Doomed.
Yes, I'm going to read it!
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Almost "half"............from Rico
Nearly half of detroit's workers are unemployed. Despie an "official" unemployment rate of 27%, half the working-age population either cannot find a job or are working fewer hours than they want to.
Mayor david Bing said that the city's official unemployment rate was about as believable as Santa Claus, and in Washington, DC earlier this month said the actual rate "was closer to 50 percent."
Gee whiz, sure looks like those 'fiddy-two' percenters that voted for "change" really got it after all. Awwwwwwwww.
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Friday, 18 December 2009
Running for selectman...
Today I got the nomination forms to run for Harpswell, ME selectman. The reason I am going to run is that the current batch (three) are clearly anti-business and seem to want to make sure there are no businesses left in Harpswell at all. As someone who frequents Harpswell business as often as I can, I find this sort of attitude incompatible with having a vibrant local community.
As the Maine state co-ordinator for the tea party patriots I am very keen on the core values of fiscal responsibility, limited government and the free market.
I look forward to meeting more citizens of Harpswell in my quest to give a business friendly voice to the governance of the town of Harpswell.
For any information on me please head to Elect the Dodge.
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