Rejoice and celebrate!!!!!
Wotta guy! Only one month on the job and he's already helped the IRS collect over $150k in 'back' or 'unpaid' taxes...and that's only from his cabinet picks! I can only HOPE for more of this.
Meanwhile,
- jobless claims set a new record (the worst job losses in 50 years are still to come)
- the Dow closed at a six-year record LOW yesterday
- inflation is UP (big shocka there!)
- Ahnold's Kalifohnia is broke, causing them to raise taxes to record new levels and is considering a return to the muni bond market (I wouldn't touch them with bernie Madoff's money)
AND THE PUBLIC REACTS.....errrrr, ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
Let's ALL sing the praises of the HOPEy one now!!!
Hey, c'mon! What's the WORST that can happen when government "runs" things?
Friday, 20 February 2009
Economic News:..........................by Rico.
Brilliant: Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party.....
Trader Buzz & Rick's Rant. The trading floor buzz on whether the government's plan to save the economy will actually help the markets, with Jason Roney, Sharmac Capital; Wilbur Ross Jr., WL Ross & Co. and CNBC's Rick Santelli.
H/Ts Bill L & Mike W.
It's Gordon Brown's Birthday.........
.....so I needed an excuse to publish this pic. Any suggestions as to what the one stands for?
Aww, from the Daily Journal (LA's Leading Legal Newspaper)......
'Among those hit hard is the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, which is confronting the worst budget crisis in at least three decades. For the first time ever in January, it laid off two staff members - an organizer and a fund raiser - according to Ramona Ripston, its executive director since 1972.
Ripston said the group's senior management team of about seven people took salary cuts of five to 10 percent for the first time since 1979. Staff members, who previously received full health coverage at no cost, have also agreed to begin paying $50 per month for their insurance, she added.
"People come to me on a daily basis and say, 'Will I have a job next week?'" Ripston said. "I just don't know."'
News....
The Audacity of Irony. VDH on Obambi.
£2trillion - the terrifying total of our national debt... that's £33,000 for every man, woman and child in Britain. That's a lot of money we don't have.
Some Muslim schools 'make children despise the West': Ban on cricket and Harry Potter. Banning cricket. Deport the savages!!!
£62,500 payout for gay airport guard after woman colleague wobbled her breasts at him. Oh for f**ks sake.
Smears, lies and spin - how Labour reacted to my 100 ways to cut council tax. It how the left deals with anyone who dare speak the truth.
Under this rule, even Osama Bin Laden is British. And I am a chinaman!!
Pupils told to think like a suicide bomber. Whoever thought this up should be flogged.
Iran has enough uranium 'to build a nuclear bomb'. Mainly thanks to the UN's lack of testicles.
US demands for more troops in Afghanistan ignored. Time to weed out the wets and bring in those with balls. Who cares if Australia isn't anywhere near the North Atlantic NATO should become the worlds peacekeeper because the UN is a joke. How many millions have died whilst under 'UN Protection'
Zimbabwe stock exchange opens for business in dollars. It's a start.
Georgia Eurovision entry to poke fun at Vladimir Putin. Expect a power blackout during their performance, if they live that long.
Iranian builders win contracts in city that Shias helped to wreck. So we liberated Iraq just to give it over to Iran.
Robert Mugabe packs 61 people into Cabinet. Crooks and cronies the lot of them. Mugabe has to be killed to save a nation.
Commandos target drugs labs where Taleban and mafias reap $100m profits. There must be a GM way to covertly nobble the poppy crop.
The mystery of Ireland's worst driver. Priceless.
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Things 'stressed' women say........
....sound familiar?
You say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing.
Well, this day was a total waste of make-up.
Well aren't we a damn ray of sunshine?
Do I look like a people person?
Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble wrap is cheap. You choose.
I'm not your type. I'm not inflatable
Back off!! You're standing in my aura.
Don't worry. I forgot your name too.
Chaos, panic and disorder… my work here is done.
Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.
A hard-on doesn't count as personal growth.
Look in my eyes. Do you see one ounce of who gives-a-s**t?
H/T Old Dude
"The Farmer's Life".......
The farmer leads no E Z life;
The C D sows will rot;
And when at E V rests from strife
His bones all A K lot.
In D D has to struggle hard
To E K living out:
If I C frosts do not retard
His crops there'll B A drought.
The hired L P has to pay
Are awful A Z, too;
They C K rest when he's away,
Nor N E work will do.
Both N Z can not make to meet,
And then for A D takes
Some boarders who so R T eat
& E no money makes.
Of little U C finds this life;
Sick in old A G lies.
The debts he O Z leaves his wife.
And then in P C dies.
– Anonymous, The Indiana School Journal, August 1886
H/T DML
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Video: Kelsey Grammer on the 'Bad People' .....
...those who are going to be rewarded for their financial stupidity.
H/T Andrew Ian Dodge
Belmont Club on Europe.......
'The main aspects of Europeism, as I see them, can be summarized in the following way:
- the belief in social market economy, and the demonization of free markets;
- the reliance on civil society, on NGOs, on social partnership, on corporatism, instead of classical parliamentary democracy;
- the aiming at social constructivism as a result of the disbelief in spontaneous evolution of human society;
- indifference towards the nation state and blind faith in internationalism;
- the promotion of the supranationalist model of European integration, not its intergovernmental model.'
Read the whole thing here.
H/T
Flight 1549's final journey.....
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H/T Pete Hurrell
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Three little ducks go into a Bar..............................
"Say, what's your name?" the bartender asked the first duck.
"Huey," was the reply.
"How's your day been, Huey?"
"Great. Lovely day. Had a ball. Been in and out of puddles all day. What else could a duck want?" said Huey.
"Oh. That's nice," said the bartender. He turned to the second duck, "Hi, and what's your name?"
"Dewey," came the answer from duck number two.
"So how's your day been, Dewey! ?" he asked.
"Great. Lovely day. I've had a ball too. Been in and out of puddles all day myself. What else could a duck want?"
The bartender turned to the third duck and said, "So, you must be Louie?"
"No," she said, batting her eyelashes.
"My name is Puddles."
H/T M Kohl
News.....
Preacher of hate hits the jackpot: Bin Laden's man in UK set for huge human rights damages... and guess who pays. We need to quit the European Court.
Tessa Jowell's 'nights' with estranged husband convicted of taking Berlusconi bribes. Their 'separation' is a sham. She should be sacked from the government for 'consorting with a convicted criminal'.
Political correctness ensures Al Jolson musical is performed without 'blackface' make-up. Then I hope the audiences will stay away.
Drinking just one glass of wine a day can INCREASE risk of cancer by 168%, say the French! So drink the bloody bottle and die happy!
How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer. So what the hell does blogging do to you?
Tesco bars girl for carrying a balloon because 'it's a health and safety risk'. Less of a health risk that eating Tesco's own brand food!
Leading animal rights activist defects to Countryside Alliance - and now says hunting with dogs is 'beneficial'. Time for the hunting ban to go.
French city workers flee financial chaos in London and return home to '£70,000 unemployment benefits'. How much!!!
Treachery in high heels: Insiders claim Harriet Harman is plotting to topple Gordon Brown. She hasn't an honest bone in her body.
Syria 'rebuilding' chemical weapons capability. Of course they are. Especially as they are now on Obama's 'good guys' list.
New York newspaper accused of racism over 'Barack Obama chimpanzee' cartoon. Less of a chimp, more of a chump.
Jules has more.
Trees absorb a fifth of carbon emissions pumped out by humans. So plant more trees.
Buddhist temple built out of one million beer bottles. Heineken reaches the parts etc.......
Welcome to Brown's Billions: a farce remade as a tragedy. He has bankrupted Britain and must he held to account.
Nato backsliders must act like America's allies. Members who do not pull their weight should not be part of the Alliance. Allow membership to countries that will no matter what part of the world they are in.
Zimbabwe state employees to be paid in US dollars. Unless Mugabe steals them all.
Britain 'has no plans' to deploy more soldiers to Afghanistan. If Brown hadn't cut troop numbers we would have some to spare.
Surveillance will cost more than £34 billion say Convention on Modern Liberty. Big Brother is bloody expensive.
Adam Smith gets the last laugh By P.J. O’Rourke
Two professors theorize on bin Laden hideout. Personally I think he is shacked up in a villa in Saudi with the full knowledge of the Saudi authorities.
It's not exactly a Harley! Top Gear's James May tries life in the slow lane on a fold-up bicycle. Was he drunk?
Holder: US is nation of cowards on racial matters. Just looking for a headline.
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