Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Unions and liberal groups blast Reid’s $15 billion jobs bill as ‘puny’
Unions and liberal groups have dismissed Sen. Harry Reid’s $15 billion jobs bill as “puny” while calling for larger stimulus measures.
More than two dozen organizations, including the AFL-CIO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) and National Council of La Raza, warned Democratic leaders in Congress to avoid tackling the troubled economy through incremental action.
They urged the Senate to pass the $15 billion jobs measure, which features a hiring tax cut for small businesses, but called for much more legislation to bring down an unemployment rate the White House projects to average 10 percent this year, more than 9 percent next year and over 8 percent in 2012.
“If this $15 billion was the only thing [that passed], that would be like having an amputated arm and sticking a Band-Aid on the end of it,” said Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, on a conference call Friday.
You tax the money away from the businesses that created it, and “stimulate the economy” by siphoning it off onto the special-interest lefty groups. It doesn’t do a damn thing for the economy or for the employment rate, the public gets wise to it, but the liberal special-interest groups say you have to keep right on doing it and make it bigger bigger BIGGER!
It reminds me of that scene in Sideways where Miles insists that the bartender in the wine tasting room should pour him a bigger glass…something that simply isn’t done in wine tasting rooms. Then he insists that the guy leave the bottle, and then when all else fails he gulps out of the spit bucket.
Except Miles got thrown out. And, if memory serves, in his rage he offered to pay for the bottle…I think.
Republicans, if your brain-gears aren’t just spinning away coming up with campaign commercials to make out of this one…you really need a whole different line of work. Obama campaigned against the influence of “special interests,” and here he’s got a whole bar with drunks lined up at it, each one with the same demand: “Stimulus, single-malt, leave the damn bottle.”
The rest of us have to live within our means, and Obama’s pals just yammer away and complain until they get what they want, like spoiled little kids or rancorous drunks.
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On the
second stimulusjobs bill ….I say you can’t have a second helping until you finish your first one.
Who were these people raised by, anyway? People whose top priority was to keep their self esteem pegged at 112%?
If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat??????
- philmon | 02/22/2010 @ 09:14I wonder what the AFL-CIO, as well as it’s constitute unions and locals, could do with their OWN weekly dues and “retirement” funds, to ameliorate their standing amongs’t it’s contributors that suddenly find themselves un, and under, employable.
I’d be willing to give up my ENTIRE (unsolicited) union annuity fund if AFL-CIO
“leaders” would actually risk dirt under their manicured fingernails, and noticeably drop 50-75 pounds of extra baggage (figurative) apiece as a direct result of “personal sacrifices”.
I wonder what the “snacks, drinks, transportation, awards, bestowals, investments” line is on their annual “operations” audit. That’s all public domain innit it? .
- CaptDMO | 02/22/2010 @ 12:59Yeah, since it didn’t work when Bush tried it, Obama trying it ten times harder will.
Has anyone noticed this seems to be a pattern with liberal politicians? Take what didn’t work in the past and convince yourself it will work this time if you just do it harder, bigger, with more money?
- cylarz | 02/24/2010 @ 03:54