Oh, Really?

Just picked up a link from Atrios about what is really important to voters.  It lead to a post by Greg Sargent at Plum Line and, well, just read the opening paragraphs about Obama’s meeting with Congressional Democrats recently: According to a number of media outlets, the primary message that President Obama delivered to Senate Democrats [...]

Original GOPAC memo on language

In case it gets scrubbed, from http://web.utk.edu/~glenn/GopacMemo.html  Language: A Key Mechanism of Control As you know, one of the key points in the GOPAC tapes is that “language matters.” In the video “We are a Majority,” Language is listed as a key mechanism of control used by a majority party, along with Agenda, Rules, Attitude [...]

Thursday: Stuff that makes you go, “Huh?”

Free association web surfing results today. 1.)First up, Newt Gingrich is running for president?  Hokay.  The former speaker is a history buff Republican with a petulant streak.  He’s also a movement conservative jerk who pursued Bill Clinton with a vengeance and succeeded in shutting down government, leaving government workers without a paycheck for several weeks. [...]

Wednesday: Their plans for us

I read Paul Krugman’s post VSP Economics with amusement the other day where he critiqued a Washington Post editorial on economic policy.  Paul thinks the editorialists are being inconsistent when they wring their hands over the unemployment issue but then propose economic remedies that do not help put people back to work. It’s worse than [...]

Run for the Unemployed

Washington wants to talk about deficit reduction, bond vigilantes and runaway inflation.  Yes, let’s just scare everyone into thinking that the money is all going to run out and interest rates are going to soar.  So far, no indication that that’s true. But what *is* true is that 9% of us are out of work [...]

Saturday: PSA- Vaccinations do not give you autism

But lack of them could result in a nasty case of whooping cough. At my recent physical, my doctor recommended an adult dose of the Diptheria, Pertussis, Tetanus (DPT) shot.  She told me that so many parents were not vaccinating their kids that adults were getting pertussis, otherwise known as whooping cough.  It turns out [...]

Friday: Day two of Osama dead, I am still unemployed

Just sayin’.  Atrios is tracking the numbers.  The BLS churns the stats today.  I would like to say that I feel privileged to be counted among the 474,000 losers lucky duckies who filed for unemployment in April.  But I can’t because it sucks.  There are a lot of good, hard working, extremely intelligent, well educated [...]

Jobs for no one here

I think a lot of pretty big news is hiding under the edges of The Big Story.  Fitting into Riverdaughter’s lead, this one just caught my eye: New York City picks Nissan minivan as next taxi cab Japan’s Nissan Motor has won a contract to provide the next generation of New York’s famous yellow taxis. [...]

Thursday: Osama is dead and I am still unemployed

Along with about 100,000 of my colleagues in the R&D industry. And about 9% of the employable US population who are still looking for work. Just sayin’. Discuss.

Wednesday: Does anyone on the left possess a sense of self-preservation??

Oh, My, GOD, sometimes I want to slap the shit out of the people in the left  blogosphere who let their ideology do their thinking and can’t help posting idiotic drivel.  Thank goodness the left is so good at expressing its total lack of self-preservation in hyperbolic parody or the right would have to do [...]