You say “Hillary Diehard” like it’s a bad thing

Ok, I am going to take the contrary opinion to Sandress’ last post about Hillary. First, let me establish where I’m coming from.  My concern is for the economy and the direction America is heading in general.  Now that we’ve let a complete and utter, self absorbed novice set us back TWO additional years on [...]

FFS, guys…

Do you know what sucks? When people are on your side, and they insist on making your points BADLY. Case in point: A dentist from Chicago has taken out a Hillary for President ad using his own money. Any guesses how this will play out/is Already playing out? A) Make things more difficult for Hillary, [...]

Friday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! TGIF!!!! Hurricane Earl has weakened to Category 2 Hurricane and isn’t expected to do as much damage on the East Coast as was originally predicted. From the Houston Chronicle: A weakened Hurricane Earl howled past North Carolina’s Outer Banks before daybreak Friday on its way up the East Coast, flooding parts of [...]

A Deeply Ironic Post in Honor of Hopelessly Irony-Challenged Alan Simpson

Situational irony: an incongruity between expected or intended results and what actually happens From The Boston Globe: The system that automatically awards disability benefits to some veterans because of concerns about Agent Orange seems contrary to efforts to control federal spending, the Republican co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s deficit commission said Tuesday. The article quotes [...]

Not liberal, not even progressive

So says Jay Ackroyd at Atrios regarding Christina Romer’s farewell note, which recognizes the severity of the crisis we’re in but recommends very, very weak tea as a remedy: The pressing question, then, is what can be done to increase demand and bring unemployment down more quickly. Failing to do so would cause millions of [...]

Wednesday News

Good Morning Conflucians!!! The big news we’re watching closely is hurricane Earl. Right now it has been downgraded to a category 3 and it seems to be sticking to a more outside path with no landfall in the US projected. Definitely good news. But we need to keep a close watch as it can still [...]