After The Ball Is Over
“Like an aging rock star, President Obama, in a downsized venue, with downsized proposal and spewing downsized rhetoric only reminded us how far he has fallen from the heady days of 2008. ” — Jennifer Rubin.
“10:17: The speech ends, and there’s a flurry of confetti. No balloons, because an indoor presentation hadn’t been planned. Obama steps forward and waves. There’s a closeup of his face and I think I see his lip curl with a bit of disgust, and I call rewind and ask Meade to interpret the face and he says: resignation. Subjectively, we think we see in his face that he knows he’s going to lose. Michelle and Malia and Sasha come out, looking perfectly glossy and pretty, and then there’s Biden and Jill and Mrs. Robinson and various other relatives, milling around, waving a bit, and then the long view of the stage shows they’ve clumped toward the rear wall. Why are they huddling there? The shots of the crowd show some ecstatic delegates — all women — and many stolid/dispirited faces — male and female. At one point there’s a hitch in the Bruce Springsteen music — a silent gap — but then it plays again. And now they’re gone.” — Ann Althouse
Rahm Emanuel in June: When President Obama arrives the rain stops. — Washington Examiner.
“The president arrives, the rain stops, the sun comes out.” Emanuel said. “Coincidence? I think not.”
“He arrives, the sun comes out, and things are beautiful again.” Emanuel concluded.
Pelosi: Obama can’t control the weather — The Hill.
Rain concerns forcing the Democrats to move President Obama’s convention speech to a smaller venue Thursday night won’t dampen spirits or dilute the president’s message, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday.
The Democratic leader said the weather is “a higher power” that the president can’t control.
For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph – a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.
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My God that Jennifer Granholm video was amazing. She’s certifiable, a stark raving lunatic. I don’t remember being that crazy and wild eyed on dope. Hard to even sort through the lies with that demonic dance at the podium.
After Jennifer Granholm, who couldn’t provide an answer to “why” there was “so many new Democrat created jobs” in her speech above (because they never count jobs lost before or after 2010 and only count jobs gained after 2010) I was left with one rather fleeting and innocuous memory.
Elizabeth Warren sounds exactly like Peggy Noonan.
And while Pocahontas might beat Brown and become the Golden Girl of the left, Peggy Noonan has squandered any place she ever had on the right. She fell in love with Barack, but like so many jilted ex-lovers, she will never see the height of respect she had before the Spring and Summer of 2008. She truely found her elitist roots and fell into the “ain’t it awful”, cluck, cluck, cluck crowd.
Down in flames with Chris Matthews “shiver” up her leg.
After the ball, Archbishop Dolan walked on stage and delivered the closing prayer. He prayed for respect for life, for founding liberties (religious ) for natural law, prayed for Romney and Ryan by name, and took his time about it.
Talk about pulling the rug out from under them. Fox stayed on air for the entire prayer but noone has commented on it yet.
Interesting how many commentators thought that Sheriff Joe upstaged Teh Won: a sample postmortem from Commentary: “Those who are devoted to [Obama's] cause applauded what they heard. But while the president is still an impressive political actor, this was a pedestrian speech that fell far short of the mark he needed to hit to have an impact on voters.
Oddly enough, the great orator seemed to be outstripped by Vice President Joe Biden’s rambling, overlong speech that preceded his moment in the spotlight. Biden’s exaggerations and fibs will have the fact checkers working overtime tonight and he flubbed some lines, but his was a passionately partisan rant that probably did more to shore up the Democratic base than Obama’s often lukewarm effort. . . . Hanging over Obama’s speech is the monthly jobs report that will be issued tomorrow. No matter how well Obama’s speech was received nothing he said on Thursday night was going to affect the race as much as news about the economy. But there’s no question that his address was a missed opportunity to try to get back the magic. If he loses in November, we may look back on this evening as the moment when that outcome became inevitable.”
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/09/07/the-2008-messiah-has-left-the-building-barack-obama-democratic-conventio/#more-804711
Re Ms Granholm’s jive — good thing that Saturday Night Live never mocks Democrats!
Strange to see her do that shtick about jobs “saved” in the US auto industry in front of an audience of hard-core Democrats who would rather walk than drive a car made by a US auto union worker. Then the acolytes chanted “USA” — in that crowd, what does the acronym USA stand for? Union of Socialist Academics? United Socialsecurity Acceptors?
This is what happens when we elect Canadians!
Longer version of Krauthammer’s takedown here; toward the end, he speculates that the speech will actually move the O’s needle backward in the polls: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/09/06/analysis-krauthammer-calls-obamas-dnc-speech-one-of-the-emptiest-ive-ever-heard-on-a-national-stage/
5. Kinuachdrach
Sorry about the Granholm person. The video had me wishing that someone would say “you distract her while I call the ambulance”. Sadly she’s not the only cull we have exported to the U.S. However I’ll see your Granholm and raise you a Ted Cruz (born in Calgary).
I mentioned a few years ago how prescient are the lyrics of Coldplay’s 2008 hit “Viva La Vida” as it concerns Obama’s political fortunes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FltTXtt0Beg
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing
“Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!”
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can’t explain
Once you go there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world
It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn’t believe what I’d become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can’t explain
I know Saint Peter won’t call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
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Hard to watch a once good frontman lose his edge. You want to hang on to the excitement of 4 years ago, but it is gone – replaced by the cold dirt of reality. Watching Obama’s wild-eyed groupies now is like watching mental patients in their delusions – kind of sad.
4 years ago Obama was an unknown. The media refused to look under the covers. He had no baggage obvious to anyone – besides he was Black and cool. 4 years later we know that he’s been in over his head and we’re suffering for it.
Obama’s not the man we need. He isn’t doing the job. We have to let him go. We own this country and we’ve got to get it back in shape.
Too many ridiculous dreams and broken promises – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4nvhAZ0vr0
3. Erico
Actually there has been a fair amount of happily surprised commentary about the archbishop’s prayer over at Ace’s and a couple other blogs.
Apropos of the DNC and people of faith: The Anchoress reported on the following news item:
The Democratic National Committee banned dozens of Charlotte churches from distributing gift baskets to delegates because the congregations hold values that are contrary to the party platform, according to local religious leaders.
“They told us our views on women’s rights are contrary to the Democratic party platform,” said David Benham, the lead organizer of the Charlotte714 religious movement.
Charlotte714 is a group of more than 100 churches across the region that mobilized to pray for the Democratic National Convention. More than 9,000 people gathered last Sunday for a time of worship and prayer in advance of the convention.
A gathering of some 200 Muslims praying in Charlotte was given extensive national coverage. The massive Christian [words missing: Ed.] received scant coverage.
Benham said the name references an Old Testament passage in 2 Chronicles 7:14 – calling the nation to prayer.
He said 56 churches wanted to “Adopt-a-Delegation.” They put together gift baskets featuring Carolina Pralines and a letter welcoming them to the city and offering assistance in transportation, childcare or spiritual matters.
“We were just trying to display Southern hospitality,” he said. “We wanted them to know we were happy to serve them.”
However, DNC officials conveyed to city leaders that the Christians would not be allowed to present their gift baskets.
“I got a call from the mayor’s office speaking on behalf of the convention and they asked us not to participate,” he said. “They told us our views on women’s rights are contrary to the platform.”
Benham said he was shocked because all the churches involved are mainline denominations ranging from Baptists and Methodists to Assembly of God.[...]
So instead of gift baskets, Benham asked if they could send welcome letters to the delegates. Again, he said the DNC refused – because the churches hold pro-life values.
As the Anchoress notes: “When you are secure in what you believe, you’re not threatened by someone handing you a praline and a prayer card. You’re able to be gracious about it, and treat people like … you know … fellow human beings.
When you are secure in what you believe you can ‘be not afraid,’ of a welcome basket. . . . Wusses and basketcases. We cannot tolerate your hospitality, because you don’t think as we do. Incredible.”
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theanchoress/2012/09/06/we-will-not-be-welcomed-by-the-likes-of-you/
Granholm:”He organized the rescue, he made the tough calls, and he saved the American Auto Industry!”
Translation: He took a titanic wad of everyone else’s money and used it to bail out the over-paid unions who drove these dysfunctional companies into the ground in the first place.
Question: What is a union, but a group of our fellow citizens who’ve colluded to artificially inflate the value of their own labor?
W…
So you’re saying 0bama’s ship has come in?
Perhaps Joe Biden is to cerebral for the Democratic Party? Could Clint Eastwood be wrong? Maybe they need to replace Joe with Jennifer Granholm. It is instructive that she comes from Michigan and represents the fusion of so many of the core Democratic Party special interest groups. Michigan is the ground zero of many of our pathologies. It has been colonized by the Ummah and leached out from within by the UAW. Romney’s father tried to hold it together but the son found Massachusetts of all places to be more promising ground. Michigan may now be a zombie state. Saying that it is like a once noble horse rendered by wolves is to dignified. Hyenas is closer to the mark.
Is this what it was like in some outpost of the empire, like in North Africa, with the citizenry enervated by vice and waves of barbarians riding in? Did demagogues rant as St. Augustine looked forward to the City of God?
The Dem message is simple.
“Work ethic challenged? Not very bright? Lack a skill set people would pay for voluntarily? Worried about your status vs your peers? Can’t handle anxiety about income?
Then vote for us, and we’ll take money from your wealthier neighbors and give it to you.”
That. Is. It.
One of the things that I keep reading about Biden is that when he was in the Senate he was able to “get things done.” By this I mean he was apparently able to work behind the scenes with republicans to compromise and pass legislation. He knew what other congressmen wanted and needed. It strikes me that this is a skill set that Obama never learned. Simply because he has never had to work for compromise. I think the reason that he has no scholarly papers on constitutional law is simply because he was too busy running for political office and writing his two autobiographies. Unfortunately, because of the turnover in both the house and senate, I think we have a lot of lawmakers that fit into that category. I also believe that when the democrats lost the house in 1994 for the first time in 40 years they simply did not want to accept the fact that they could not drive the legislative agenda any more. I think it’s much easier to “compromise” when you have the committees and votes in your back pocket. It’s like letting the dog come in the house to eat dinner with the family only to send him back outside to sleep.
Charles said that Joe Biden’s speech was literally better than Obama’s speech. OK. Charles didn’t use the word literally. He used word infinitely, but not literally. Biden used the word literally, but not infinitely — though he came close, metaphorically.
@ No Mo Uro (14): That’s the message for the rank-and-file of the party, the masses. There’s another one for the players and the aspiring players, i.e. the party bosses. And there’s another still for the true believers–the ones who truly believe the Democratic party looks out for the little guy.
He never had any glory in the first place.
The slave whispered “Memento Mori”, Memento Mori”. Remember you will die!
Biden/Granholm 2016. Yeah! Might be a save time to go for that third party option. The GOP elites don’t want the Tea Party, the Marxist Democrats don’t want God. Let the two dried husks split the vote. Four years for Mitt! Yeah!
PA Cat (#10) wrote “As the Anchoress notes: “When you are secure in what you believe, you’re not threatened by someone handing you a praline and a prayer card. You’re able to be gracious about it, and treat people like … you know … fellow human beings.” I think PA Cat is misunderstanding the response to the gesture and also revealing what Christians have lost in their faith, the DNC looked upon the “praline and Prayer Card” as a sanctified sacrificial offering and an the Card as an “ungodly” idol from a cult the DNC (Progressive/Liberal) Despise and Hate, truth be told the DNC (Progressive/Liberals) would round up every Christian follower and have them imprisoned or executed for the hatred the Progressive/Liberal perceive (feel) Christians stand for. This is also where if the tables were turned and it was a Christian being handed a piece of “Praline” that had been blessed on the altar of a Idol and then a card with a pagan gods saying on it the Devout Christian would not accept it ether… But the Devout Christian does not “Hate” the Pagan, would not want them marched off to a prison nor would a Devout Christian want the pagan murdered, Big differences between the Progressive/Liberal (today’s Demoncrat) and a Christian.
Yesterday I went into the depths of Hell – downtown Detroit – to obtain a copy of a deed. I just moved from Hollywood to Michigan to manage the rental properties I’ve been buying (my attempt to innoculate myself against banks, Obama, Democrats, Great Depression2, etc – we’ll see how it works out…). Anyway, Detroit is an apt metaphor for where we are today. The jewel in Granholm’s crown, the rotten heart of any and all Leftist power in Michigan stems from radical and minority control of Detroit. The rest of the State of Michigan is Red – but the center of political and economic gravity in Michigan is the gangrene of Detroit. Several things struck me, in no particular order.
1. In searching the necessary deed, I found my name mis-spelled on FIVE out of EIGHT deeds on the properties I have within Wayne County. It took three hours to get through something I should have been able to handle electronically. (going back a step, none of the BS I went through even makes any sense).
2. The County Office appears to be run primarily by blacks. No surprise here, Detroit proper is overwhelmingly black, but the County at large is not at all accuartely reflected in the demographics of the people it administers. Usually, when the Left sees “too many white faces” it has a melt down and the accusations fly. It doesnt matter if the thing being observed is a well functioning thing – what trumps all is the composition, UNLESS the imbalance is all on the Left side of the scale. A nearly all black, utterly incompetent government causes not a peep as long as it is peopled with the “right people”, and dutifully pays its union money and canvasses for the Master. The lack of “diversity” in Wayne County administration, coupled with its florid incompetence, is not a source of shame to the Left, but a thing they tout as something they’re proud of. Detroit was Granholm’s power base.
3. After getting the deed I was then required by new guvmint regulation, to go to one of four walk-in offices for the local gas utility (utilities are quasi-governmental in most states, you are actually dealing with the government ) to prove my ownership. This was in order to get a gas main re-connected to one of my rentals… The nice woman at the utility (who is also black ) had four and only four locations in the entirety of southern Michigan which I could go into, all located in Detroit. The next nearest walk-in office is about 300 miles away. (One locale was so bad that she said “I won’t give you that address, you shouldn’t go here”). She gave the other three, and I, not being familiar with the neighborhoods, set out to complete this preposterous busywork to satisfy this absurd requirement. I. Was. Appalled. These neighborhoods were third world shit holes. At one, people were huddled in a clump in the entrance alcove and appeared to be injecting drugs. It wasn’t safe to even be driving in his neighborhoods, let alone getting out to transact business.
Anyay, apologies for the long post, but Granholm should be in jail. Every leftist hack who exploits this festering sewer for their political power is a profound criminal. This is not a “both sides have their point” thing any longer. Democrat/radicals draw their power from captive slave camps, and derive their money from hideous and cancerous automated sytems where they have little or no accountability. (unions, taxes, etc) Worse, they use their policy failures to perpetuate more failures, all with the goal of enhancing their political power. Failed schools? We need to double down on the policies that put us here. Joblessness? We need more government jobs for more Union money to make more government jobs. I know we’ve all heard it before, but these people have got to go. I don’t want to accommodate them – I don’t want to compromise with them – I believe they are evil and are creating a powder keg which can only lead to civil war. Perhaps that’s what I’m talking about here. Because there is no way the sheeple they use – i.e. the Democratic base in the cities, overflowing with squalor and rage and a complete incapacity for self-reflections — all of these evil forces are arrayed by the Left to destroy any vestige of opposition. They are not there to help women, the poor, blacks, or any of their stated constituencies.
Well, it looks like I’ll have to put in a word for my home state, if no one else will.
@ 13. BFTP, I think you’re wrong about Michigan being such a pathological, diseased place in general. Much of what goes bad stems from Detroit and the cities which are union-dominated. But you should consider more carefully before you condemn the rest of the place. I’m from West Michigan, where life is still quite reasonable when I last checked. People there don’t escape the general trend, of course; lots of jobs have been lost there in the last couple of decades, and I’m sure the schools have their share of craziness. But life continues, and when I was last back there for my HS reunion, it didn’t strike me as shabby. I did see a couple of changes I didn’t particularly like, but some others that I thought were good. One of the first signs I saw when crossing the state line on that trip was a handmade one that said “Repent”–I’ve never seen that where I live now. I found it a little refreshing. Michigan is a big place and most of it is hardly reflected in the image of Detroit. I think more of places like Holland or Charlevoix, or even East Lansing, as more representative.
In short, if folks feel the need to talk about the craziness in Detroit in the terms appropriate to it, well and good. But when it comes to applying that to the rest of the state, have a care.
How’s that job’s report!
I don’t know exactly why, but the Democratic convention made me think of this: “Well begun is half done.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62P6Gm9jpE
@23
I think, doodslag only mentioned Detroit.
The Dems loving bringing up the jobs “saved” by the auto bailout. But we never hear about all the car dealerships — most of them profitable — that were forced to shut their doors. I assume the media will call them on that in three, two….
If Obama were to ever tell the truth it might go something like this:
(sung to the tune of Busted by the late, great Ray Charles)
The conservatives say that my moral compass is busted,
A man who is mentored by Reverend Wright can’t be trusted,
For twenty-four years I sat in that pew,
But I never listened to his point of view,
When it was exposed then I suddenly too was disgusted.
The peace of the world by Pulitzer to me was entrusted,
But killing by drone those who would flee left them flustered,
Answers to calls for reform I have few,
And as for Iran, I just haven’t a clue,
Hell, everyone knows the problem is Jooos, let’s bust ‘em!
With windmills and solar our energy needs are adjusted,
Drilling and mining and fracking will be filibustered,
The cost of your gas will inflate that is true,
And production costs will go through the roof too,
But wind could solve all of your problems for you, if it gusted.
We set up a scam where we could seize guns but got busted,
Mexican druglords were getting cheap guns but we mussed it,
A border patrolman was killed in cold blood,
The stonewalling tactic went off like a dud,
Now our scheme of disarming has turned into crud, it’s busted.
The national debt was tripled by me and we’re busted,
Jobs are too scarce as businesses flee and we’re busted,
The stimulus money that I took from you,
Was wasted on unions and friends who are blue,
Let’s face it, Chicago style graft isn’t new, don’t be flustered.
With just one more term in the White House I should be entrusted,
And I’ll have it too if just enough votes are adjusted,
When it comes to the job, I haven’t a clue,
But we will get by when the bills all come due,
‘Cause I am just planning to take it from you, ‘cause we’re busted.
We’re broke. No bread. I mean like, nothing.
Granholm says Obama (or the Tooth Fairy, it wasn’t clear) “created” 211,000 jobs in Michigan. Since the auto bailout was over $80 billion, that works out to $40,000 a job that we taxpayers forked over. Wow, what economic brilliance! And Obama is threatening to use the same formula for other industries? Oh, and when can we be expected to be paid back the missing $23-25 billion from Government Motors? Never, you say?
Incidentally, I bring this up from time-to-time: Ford never got the full bailout treatment. Ford got several billion in loans, well shy of what GM and Chrysler got. Ford was not bailed out, and not nationalized like the other two. Yet Ford is doing no worse, and perhaps better, than the other two. I really wish that the GOP would point that out, and repeatedly.
27. peterike
But we never hear about all the car dealerships — most of them profitable — that were forced to shut their doors.
And 97% of those dealers shut down were GOP donors. I did the math a long time ago: 75% of dealers who made political donations made them to the GOP, so about 2/3 of all auto dealers were GOP donors. If the choice of closing dealerships had been “random,” the range of GOP donors forced out would have been between 50-85%, so 97% is well out of that range. The action of closing dealerships was almost entirely intended to cripple a source of Republican campaign funding.
The scandals and corruption of Obama and the Democrats is so vast and pervasive that it is very difficult to keep score.
The polls over at Real Clear Politics have gone positive again for Obama after being a dead tie, refer to:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
Obviously this is a post-convention bounce and will revert back to a tie after it washes through the system.
The recent jobs report was dismal and indicates that we are heading back into recession (never really left). The vampire squid says that Bernanke will almost certainly launch QE3 (another trillion dollars printed up and tossed onto the bonfire). If Bernanke invokes QE3 that will probably prop up the stock market past November and we’ll be stuck with the messiah for four more years. The ultimate disaster scenario is now staring us in the face:
1) The messiah gets reelected.
2) The economy implodes due to all of the money printing and/or Europe.
3) The Israelis time out and party with the Iranians.
4) ….
For me, right now today, life is good (cup is 3/4 full). My children, wife and I are healthy. We’re both employed, have money in the bank, no debt except the mortgage and a good credit rating. Unfortunately, it ain’t going to last. There are huge storm clouds on the horizon and there’s nothing that I can do about it (no place to hide).
I liked Jennifer Granholm. It’s a political convention, not a CPA continuing education seminar. Maybe the Republicans could borrow her for a gig.
I think that Obambus’ boring and empty speech was intentional. This is their counter to Romney’s boring and empty campaign. Axelroid and Pouffte have realized that they were being trapped into a rope-a-dope, and they’re dialing it back.
Obambus’ campaign is now nothing but, “Four More Years!” Not content to be the new Jimmah Carter, Obambus is now channelling Richard Nixon 1972.
Their big challenge will be to keep Obambus big mouth shut … though it looks like they may let Joebiden play attack dog. OTOH, now that he’s officially nominated, they may just have Joebiden scheduled to slip on the soap, break his hip and his head, and replace him with Granholm or Strickland, Roseanne Barr having previous commitments.
Let’s see how the public reacts over the weekend. The bad employment numbers today really take the air out of the Democratic convention, wau. But the ECB action has the Dow boosted, we know we’ll hear how it’s all recovered under Obambus, when the Dow numbers are much more bogus than even the employment numbers.
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Regarding MD @ 22 and the hopelessness of Detroit bureaucracies and such, I’ve had a couple of those out here in Los Angeles in just the last few days. Was late to an appointment when trapped in traffic by an idiot road crew blocking a major boulevard, trapping hundreds of cars, apparently repainting some stripes and arrows, though of course no visible work was taking place when I slogged past. Couple of guys in city crew uniforms, sort of staring into space. But I also went to the Dodger game on Labor Day, with the $1 hot dog special … only you had to stand in line for 30 minutes to get one (or a dozen). No prep. No systems. Probably cost the stadium 50% potential sales, hundreds of $K, and the day’s profitability (they still sell plenty of overpriced beer and drinks with the loss-leader wieners), not to mention ticked-off fans. Don’t even ASK me about the parking system, that worked well enough if awkwardly for forty years before they started improving it a few years back.
I think this is one of Hari Seldon’s laws of psychohistory, a tendency to build complex systems that work (perhaps) at first because of the immense attention they get, or because they only grow when they are successful, and then an inevitable entropy sets in, people trust the system yet starve it of critical resources, the *critical* resource being not money which it can burn any amount of, but such things as political credits and competent rather than patronage management. Then you wait around for the creative destruction to happen, I guess.
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So is the federal government, the US/world economy, or maybe American culture in one of those collapse modes? Or maybe it’s all cyclic, and all three happen to be on down cycles? Just how many balls are over, or are they scheduled to bounce back anyhow? Stay tuned until next week/month/year/century, same bat-time, same bat-channel.
Don Rodrigo… You’re gonna need a bigger calculator… $80,000,000,000 divided by 211,000 workers comes to $379,146.92 per job. One shot deal. Not employed for life. Money’s gone.
The political filth and traitors on both sides of the aisle squander and burn and loot our billions and our trillions while relying on the fact that average folks have no way of comprehending the magnitude of their treason.
Dear Wretchard – I have a bone to pick with PJM. Some time ago the brittle and sensitive war-correspondent-poseur Michael J. Totten “permanently banned” me from his comments section because he didn’t like my frequent criticism of his weak uninformed writing. Ever since, and for well over a year, my posts to other threads, (which I really spend a lot of time composing), will simply disappear down the memory hole. This happens frequently in your threads too. Does PJM have some kind of filter which may be removed? It never happened once prior to the little fascist’s outburst, and I’ve never been banned from or by any other writer here to my knowledge… Do you know anything about their policies or methods or remedies for this dilemma? I’m increasingly forced to post under ” Yabba_Dabba” or “Morton D.”, but recently I’m finding those posts too are now being “dis-appeared”, or will fail to ever post in comments. I may be wrong, and Totten’s prissy act of banning may not be related whatsoever. If it’s simply something wrong with the comment section, then PJM should know about that too. Others are probably having the same problem.
My “favorite” President Obama speech dates from March 14, 2009, where the President outlines the national food poisoning crisis.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/14/Food-Safety/
I guess I don’t see it as funny now, but when I first saw it on the late TV news, it gave me a giggles fit. Maybe it was the lateness of the hour. Maybe it was too much like a late-night comedian’s spoof of a presidential speech. Maybe it is that expression of earnestness on the President’s face. Mr. President, for the good of yourself and the good of the American people, you need to eat more fiber.
But with at the time our soldiers fighting terrorists and insurgents in two wars, with a global economic crash and over one out of every 10 Americans wanting a job not being able to work, seeking to see that “diseased cows don’t make it into the food supply” didn’t seem to be high on the list of national priorities.
I mean really, I don’t want to eat a steak for a diseased cow anymore than the next person, it is just that I didn’t think that those rapacious capitalists were sneaking that much meat from diseased cows to the supermarket shelves to make a difference.
And then there is the opening of the speech, launching into an attack on capitalism, that meat packers would be all to eager to foist contaminated food on unsuspecting consumers were it not for FDA and USDA governmental vigilance don’t you know it. I mean alright already, none of us wanted to put poison medicine and spoiled food into our bodies, so just appoint your new FDA secretary and cut down on the Upton Sinclair “The Jungle” polemic on the necessity of Socialism.
And the speech closes with “the personal note” of wanting to protect “Sasha and Malia” from eating bad peanut butter. Alright already with the family connection, do your daughters a la Amy Carter also weigh in on nuclear weapon targeting options?
Don’t know of anyone here agrees, but the March 14, 2009 video of Mr. Obama naming his new FDA director is my exemplar of a video representing the Obama Administration.
You are giving hostages to fortune in not remembering it ain’t over til the fat lady sings.
Even after the fat lady sings, there’s always the land.
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Related to the topic I’ve had this little earworm going the last couple of days, even though I’m not sure exactly what it’s supposed to mean:
Don’t let it bring you down
It’s only castles burning,
Find someone who’s turning
And you will come around.
No worries Stevesmith. If I let women’s maternalistic, nanny state, liberal views get in the way I’d never have any company. Jennifer Granholm is a good lookin’ lady… and women wonder why we don’t listen well. A tyranny of feminine belief is no salvation. Stay cute babe!
The welcome basket thingy was a perfect example of liberal fascism.
Saw something on the NGC the other day about a company that was on its last leg. The union threatened to strike so they shut it down and it remained shuttered to this day. That was 50 some odd years ago. Is that the lefts idea of collectivism? Gimme what I want or I will destroy your industry. No wonder we have no manufacturing base left and cannot automate, but must import cheap labor.
…and furthermore, Obama is a figure head of government dysfunction. He is an excuse for an army of bureaucrat’s to flout the rule of law and to do what they see fit in the own undemocratic vision.
Well, the Bureau of Labor Propaganda has released the latest job numbers. The official unemployment rate went down to 8.1%. The media, of course, isn’t looking “under the hood”, though a few outlets are mentioning the fact that rate went down because once again the Labor Participation Rate went down. 63.5%, the lowest since June 1979. Looking at the LBS’ new numbers a couple of thing stand out.
1) In the past two months (June to August 2012) the US Labor Force shrunk by 368,000 workers. Where did 368,000 warm bodies go? The plague hit or did I miss the news that a small American city was nuked?
2) Total US Employment has shrunk by 314,000 since June. So if 314,000 fewer people were working in August than in June, how are we adding jobs? Maybe in an alternative universe, but not the one we inhabit.
Both the Labor Force and Total Employment numbers are going in the wrong direction. And yet the ‘news’ is that the unemployment rate went down. The reality is that Mr. Obama inherited a Labor Participation Rate (LPR) of 65.7% from Mr. Bush (who averaged a LPR of 66.2% over his two terms). It now stands at 63.5% and continues to head south. While some in the workforce may have decided to opt out and retire it is doubtful that this nation suddenly has 5.6 million new retirees (the difference between a LPR of 65.7 and one of 63.5) since Mr. Obama sat down in the Oval Office. The reality is the unemployment number should be 11%, not 8.1% just based on the LPR that Obama took office with. 17.6 million out of work. And that is only based on the LPR that Obama inherited. It is 18.9 million based on Bush’s average. 20.1 million based on Clinton’s LPR average (66.8%) or 12.4% unemployment.
But the really troubling thing for me is where in Hades is the Romney campaign on this? I just did a simple query over at the LBS website to come up with these numbers. Why aren’t they using them to drive home the point that this Administration is cooking the books and the media is covering for them? That the American people are being lied to about the true state of the economy. I starting to have a very bad feeling about November.
33. Morton D
Don Rodrigo… You’re gonna need a bigger calculator… $80,000,000,000 divided by 211,000 workers comes to $379,146.92 per job.
Ouchees! What an innumerate I am! I must have been using Democrat math
Thank you for the correction and pointing out that it was/is even worse than I had made it out to be.
re the above J,Granholm video. Mute the performance to see a preacher extolling the 2nd Coming..Obama is her Jesus…The excellent techique of a Pentacostal preacher,shame she missed her calling..
Slightly off topic:
Apparently Clint Eastwood was shooting from the hip, refer to:
http://www.pineconearchive.com/120907-1.html
Key quote:
“It was only after a quick nap in his hotel room a few blocks from the convention site, Eastwood said, that he mapped out his remarks — starting with his observation about politics in Hollywood, then challenging the president about the failure of his economic policies, and wrapping up by telling the public “they don’t have to worship politicians, like they were royalty or something.” But even then, with just an hour before he appeared on stage, it still hadn’t occurred to Eastwood to use an empty chair as a stand-in for the president.”
It was a deliberately impromptu speech and not skilled acting made to look like an impromptu speech. Eastwood’s strategy was wise (the anti-teleprompter speech) but it showed remarkable daring on the part of Romney’s campaign organizers to allow Eastwood to do this. I suspect Obama’s acceptance speech was “less slick” mainly as a reaction to Eastwood’s speech. The politics shown here is getting subtle.
Tarnsman@ 38 asked:
“In the past two months (June to August 2012) the US Labor Force shrunk by 368,000 workers. Where did 368,000 warm bodies go? The plague hit or did I miss the news that a small American city was nuked?”
Last week, my little brother retired after working over 25 years for Hewlett Packard.
He’s 57 years old and permanently unemployed.
Hewlett Packard was a great company but for years has been rotting away from within. My brother could see the writing on the walls and opted to jump ship with a golden handshake rather than get booted out in a mass layoff. Repeat his story 368,000 times and you’ll know where all the lost jobs went.
Tarnsman, the labor statistics are cooked for a variety of reasons, one being that the state of California de-certified 100k extended benefits recipients because the state could prove that the employment outlook for California had improved over the last year. They save money and do not embarrass the figurehead of government corruption that is Obama. Obama is more of an idea and a political cover for hubris as anything else. Lies, in this case, are the glue of propaganda and hold together the edifice of government corruption.
@26 ashen,
True. My irritation wasn’t directed at his comment, which was well worth reading, but rather at #13, as I mentioned in my lead-off. I’m glad Morton mentioned his story; it’s a side of life that’s worth being warned about, and I’m sad that anything back home or anywhere near it should have reached such a condition. Not that I ever had anything to do with the southeast corner–the closest I ever really got was taking the overnight train to Toledo and beyond.
Like I was saying at #29:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/convention-irony-ford-signs-raised-during-granholms-bailout-rant/article/2507337#.UEoUeo1lREN
I’m glad Drudge dug this up and publicized it.
I love this image of Obama. It goes back to 2008. You can almost see the skittles flying out of his butt. It so sums up the false promise of Obama.
I also love this explanation of Clint Eastwood on his improve performance last week: Mission Accomplished!
Granholm can’t run on any presidential ticket. She is born Canadian of Canadian parents in Vancouver BC. They moved to CA when she was 4. Cheers -
It was only after a quick nap in his hotel room a few blocks from the convention site, Eastwood said, that he mapped out his remarks — starting with his observation about politics in Hollywood, then challenging the president about the failure of his economic policies, and wrapping up by telling the public “they don’t have to worship politicians, like they were royalty or something.”
But even then, with just an hour before he appeared on stage, it still hadn’t occurred to Eastwood to use an empty chair as a stand-in for the president.
“I got to the convention site just 15 or 20 minutes before I was scheduled to go on,” he said. “That was fine, because everything was very well organized.”
After a quick trip through airport-style security, he was taken to a Green Room, where Archbishop Dolan of New York sought him out to say hello. Then he was taken backstage to wait for his cue. And that was when inspiration struck.
“There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down,” Eastwood said. “When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.”
He asked a stagehand to take it out to the lectern while he was being announced.
“The guy said, ‘You mean you want it at the podium?’ and I said, ‘No, just put it right there next to it.’”
Then, with the theme song from “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” as a musical introduction, and a huge picture of him as Josey Wales as the backdrop, Eastwood walked out to tremendous applause.
http://www.pineconearchive.com/120907-1.html
a @ 46: Granholm can’t run on any presidential ticket. She is born Canadian of Canadian parents in Vancouver BC. They moved to CA when she was 4.
That can be cured, we have the technology.
Granholm feeds the stereotype-white people can’t dance. It reminded me of Elaine’s dance on Seinfeld.
Morton @ 33 ”Others are probably having the same problem.’
I did about a week ago
SF
And to top off the week the BLS jobs reports came out Friday, or as it is being called “Black Friday” by a number of MSM outlets.
Morton @ 33
I’ve had the same problem three times over the past couple of months. Another problem that I had once during the same period was after my comment had displayed on the thread I edited it and out of left field the editor declared that my comment was spam. I was immediately canned.
The first time I was callously rejected I felt about as comfortable as a sword-swallower with the hiccups. Now, each time it happens I just shrug and ascribe the oddball stuff to California. Eventually they correlate their karma with their glutagen free brains, or something, then stuff starts working again.
Morton & stevesmith-
PJM writers and editors are just frightened of the coming purges. Be of good cheer.
“Dear Wretchard – I have a bone to pick with PJM. Some time ago the brittle and sensitive war-correspondent-poseur Michael J. Totten “permanently banned” me from his comments section because he didn’t like my frequent criticism of his weak uninformed writing. Ever since, and for well over a year, my posts to other threads, (which I really spend a lot of time composing), will simply disappear down the memory hole. This happens frequently in your threads too. Does PJM have some kind of filter which may be removed?”
Morton D @ 33 I know the feeling. There was a PJM-wide purge of ‘Paulbots’ as Stocheon calls them beginning in January 2012. I DO NOT believe it was the result of Wretchard or Spengler’s actions (I don’t bother leaving comments anywhere else at PJM anymore including with a particular Texan who used to break bread with Paul’s people back when he worked for the TX GOP and then denounced those same people as closeted racists/anti-Semite/isolationists for PJM — better known as Bryan Preston).
None of the memory holing is being done by our esteemed Aussie host who is very open minded, even when he gets requests from a handful of old-timers here to drive out un-PC thoughts about American foreign and defense policy (i.e. quoting Ike’s farewell speech or suggesting that the U.S. was not obligated to start WWIII with Russia to bail out a certain tie-eating Soros protege in the Caucuases).
Even Spengler, who dismissed Ron Paul as Lindbergh without the plane, nonetheless tolerates my mildly Ronulan ravings and pointing out Israel’s gradual absorption into the Russosphere or Ru-sphere. But over there it’s not 10 back to back to back comments all denouncing the 76-year-old demon from Galveston and praising the Federal Reserve or whatnot that are surely either paid or entirely ‘AI’ generated.
An excellent example is how the Ulsterman Report (thanks to Horowitz’ FrontPageMag) got duped into thinking the Obamanoids were rooting for Paul to win the Iowa caucuses in Jan. 2012 when in fact White House Insider corrected him to affirm that it was SANTORUM the Obama people wanted to win so they could pillory him as a buffoon who wanted to seize every SWPF’s ovaries for Holy Mother Church. In other words, congrats Ulsterman, you got ‘Sunstein’d’ whereby the Leftoids/Gov Worshippers get the Right at each other’s throats and get the GOP to literally beat and lock out the only young people that give it a fighting chance against the Government Cheese/Amnestie’d hoardes going forward. ‘Wall Street Insider’ also told Ulsterman that he strongly disagrees with Paul’s foreign policy views especially on Israel but congratulated Paul for being one of the few in D.C. willing to point out that the Fed is destroying the dollar.
Whatever memory is being done by PJM’s techs or whomever they answer to. I am sorry to say but I cannot view the swarms of certain mindlessly pro-Establishment types creeping into threads as coincidental. The Cass Sunstein machine is in full blast mode trying to infiltrate the Right and make us all think anyone who eats organic food is a poseur, we should all drink our fluoridated water, accept the NDAA and 10 drones for every county, and otherwise shut up and worship Big Brother so long as Romney gets into the White House, and that the Syrian rebels are model democrats not Muslim Brotherhood fanatics dreaming of linking up with their Egyptian brothers to destroy the Zionist entity. Sorry, not me!
Again, I can forgive a lot, but I cannot forget how PJM became the Daily Two Minutes Hate against All Things Paul back in January — even though they knew darn well Paul would never win the nomination and was already taking it easy on Romney in the debates. And if Romney loses, I will be reminding every Establishment Man who justified all of the primary shenanigans hurled at the hated Ronulans that their cheating and even resorting to physical intimidation was for nought.