While the cops and the media sort out the details, I am hoping:
(1) -- That this isn't the work of some sick Cletus who thinks Sikhs are Muslims.
(2) -- CNN fires the so-called reporter who asked a hospital emergency room spokesperson: "What's the staff vibe?"
Aug 5, 2012
Aug 3, 2012
The Other Welfare Queens
From the cute financial writers at "Motley Fool" (We Make Losing Amusing):
"After stimulus-hungry investors were disappointed by this week's Federal Reserve and ECB announcements, they'll turn to today's nonfarm payroll report in hopes it will fuel action from the U.S. central bank. In particular, they'll be hoping payroll additions fall well below the 100,000 person consensus estimate."
(Related quotations, courtesy of Mr. Orwell: "War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. " And the ever-popular "2 + 2 = 5.")
Simply stated, and not too drastically oversimplified, the sleek-groomed MBA set is praying for higher unemployment to force Ben to run the national money mimeograph a little faster.
I think we need to lay off the literal welfare mothers for a while. They're pikers compared to the spawn of graduate schools of business.
"After stimulus-hungry investors were disappointed by this week's Federal Reserve and ECB announcements, they'll turn to today's nonfarm payroll report in hopes it will fuel action from the U.S. central bank. In particular, they'll be hoping payroll additions fall well below the 100,000 person consensus estimate."
(Related quotations, courtesy of Mr. Orwell: "War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. " And the ever-popular "2 + 2 = 5.")
Simply stated, and not too drastically oversimplified, the sleek-groomed MBA set is praying for higher unemployment to force Ben to run the national money mimeograph a little faster.
I think we need to lay off the literal welfare mothers for a while. They're pikers compared to the spawn of graduate schools of business.
MSNBC tells the truth, sort of
Mika has been absent. So has Joe. They're probably in London advising Her Majesty and the Lord Mayor on event security and offering helpful hints on foreign and economic policy. But I don't know for sure.
Meanwhile, "Morning Joe" continues with the JV. Which led to something that had me nodding in approval a half-hour ago. Some of the early rising chatterers almost agreed that it doesn't make a whole Hell of a lot of difference* which statist we send to the White House in November. Because. like, we have a "structural problem" due to too few people working and too many scrambling for free tit. (No kidding? Well I will be damned. Why didn't I think of that?)
Then Chuck Schumer came on and ruined it by explaining that it's all the Tea Party's fault for retiring Richard Lugar.
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*Usual weasel-out about Supreme Court appointments and the importance of down-ticket races.
Meanwhile, "Morning Joe" continues with the JV. Which led to something that had me nodding in approval a half-hour ago. Some of the early rising chatterers almost agreed that it doesn't make a whole Hell of a lot of difference* which statist we send to the White House in November. Because. like, we have a "structural problem" due to too few people working and too many scrambling for free tit. (No kidding? Well I will be damned. Why didn't I think of that?)
Then Chuck Schumer came on and ruined it by explaining that it's all the Tea Party's fault for retiring Richard Lugar.
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*Usual weasel-out about Supreme Court appointments and the importance of down-ticket races.
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