1 Gabe please... next it'll be "it's rum and coke Friday!!!"

2 Only 30k+ jobs lost? Who the christ makes upthese numbers?

3 ugh watching fnc...the kid movie critic is annoying

4

Does have a Girls Gone Wild vibe.

Gabe, try "Friday, fuck yeah!".

5 "Good" jobs report?  Told ya:  Obamao knows how to create diversions to waste our energy (the bad warning of earlier in the week)

6 This just in!

Sidney Crosby is still a bitch!

That is all.....

7 @JDC and Paris, They did a good job preparing the market for a jobs report. However, what is not seen in the data is the amount of people that have simply stopped looking. They don't have a category for despair. Eventually, the economic environment rebounds. Part of the cycle. Government really doesn't help it rebound, but it can get in the way. We will see how much government gets in the way in the coming weeks. Health care, cap and trade, higher taxes, more regulation all get in the way.

8 Only 30k+ jobs lost? Who the christ makes upthese numbers?

Posted by: JDC from Las Vegas at March 05, 2010 08:58 AM (3i4tF)

Biden. He's their math expert.

9 http://tinyurl.com/yzv4dvr

^ For fans of Rube Goldberg Machines

http://tinyurl.com/dh2x3n

^ A cool music video. Same band as the other video

10 How about 'beeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr'?

11 Speaker Pelosi Assures Reluctant Democrats a "Winky" Emoticon Will Appear at End of Government-Run Health Care Bill: tinyurl.com/y9dkgu4

12 http://tinyurl.com/28botq

For CanaDave

13

 How about 'beeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr'?

Still celebrating the Hocky game, eh?

14 @12: Mortis...excellent.

15

@13...hell ya...gonna be going on that for months

16

A few weeks back I posted a response to comments about BambiÂ’s faux support for nuclear power in which I said that crap like “guaranteeing loans” doesnÂ’t help a bit and what they really needed was to clean up the damn intervener legal process. 

 

Here is a damn fine example of that:

 

Nuclear plant opponents take case to high court

 

Opponents of a plan to build two nuclear power reactors in Fairfield County asked the S.C. Supreme Court on Thursday to require more study before the project moves forward.

 

They have been fighting and delaying this project every step of the way, adding tons of unnecessary costs. This is a project to add two new plants to an already existing site.

 

Note that they have drug this all the way out to the SC Supreme Court.  It will not be over after that either. When they lose, and they will, they will just shift their attack to the federal courts.  They do this linearly also.  Anything to cause delay because that adds expense and they figure if it gets too expensive the utility will abandon it.

 

This has to change before nuclear can move forward again. Hell, if they did nothing more than make these Gaia idiots pay all the legal costs when they lose it would help.

17

It is patriotic according to the Wash Post to defend Al Queda terrorist detainees so they can, from a position of freedom, plot against us. A Clinton appointee wrote the article. It is apparently the highest form of patriotism to defend the enemy in a time of war.

18 From the AP: Economists estimated before the report that the storms could inflate job losses by 100,000 or more. That would mean the economy generated a net gain in jobs last month, excluding the impact of the snow, for only the second time since the recession began in December 2007. What the fuck!?!? The time of chaos is near. I believe it was in things jefferson might have thought vol 3 that said when old man winter lifts the us out of the great recession the republic has drawn its last breath.

19

Just rambling around checking news and blogs.

Andy McCarthy has an excellent analysis about the administration backing off on trying the 9/11 crew in NYC over at NRO. I'm too lazy to make it tiny, but it's worth a read.

Best quote of the day came from shitmydadsays:

"Science and Mother Nature are in a marriage where Science is always surprised to come home and find Mother Nature blowing the neighbor."

Heh.

 

20 http://tinyurl.com/ybuffwl

funny how the story has no comments section - typical AOL crap...

21 I guess fraudologist phil jones has found a new job at the DOL. This is science people..you filthy job creation deniers.

22 You better hand over that booster seat if you know what is good for you.

23 Hey Evil Lib - how's it going? I'm off to tap class at Fineline on Railroad. Then off to Theo's for lunch. What up? If I don't respond, it's because I've already headed out the door. Hope all is well.

24 Math is hard.

25

I posted this in the last thread which died about the time I hit "post."  I figered I'd toss it out again since it's loosely related to Vic's (for the enviro angle) and evil libertarian's (for the job report/snowstorm one).

 

Job losses in the U.S. probably accelerated in February as severe weather forced some employers to temporarily close, economists said before a report today.

This is utter bullshit.  The job losses are fueled by the counterproductive policies of local, state and federal government.  Additionally, as Upscale Community Organizer notes, a day or two off isn't going to trigger benefits.

I'm working a small clean up job in Brooklyn right now.  In 22 years in the b usiness, I've never seen so many jobseekers and vendors walking on site looking to ply their respective wares.  We're pretty much locked in with contractors and vendors, so sadly I have to tell them to pound sand.

The next phase of the project is to be the construction of a nationally known supermarket.  I should say was to be, because just this week the EPA in what passes for its wisdom declared the entire Gowanus Canal a superfund site.  Since my project borders a small spur of the canal, the client representive indicated that the next phase of the project is in all likelihood, dead.

That's a $40 million project down the rabbit hole.  Multiply that by potential jobs up and down the Gowanus and pretty soon we're talking about billions in lost work. 

And the administration tells us about a snowstorm.

 

Addendum:  It's been my experience that a hell of a lot of jobs are actually created by large snow events.  There's a hell of a lot of driveways, parking lots and sidewalks to plow and shovel.

26 Only 30k+ jobs lost? Who the christ makes upthese numbers?

Social Justice Math!

"30k makes me feel good.  And it will piss off those teabaggers. So that must be the answer!"

27 And before I forget, Evil Lib - remember we're all (CT morons and some MA morons) meeting at the casino on the 20th. Hope you'll make it.

28 18 From the AP:
Economists estimated before the report that the storms could inflate job losses by 100,000 or more. That would mean the economy generated a net gain in jobs last month, excluding the impact of the snow, for only the second time since the recession began in December 2007.


What the fuck!?!? The time of chaos is near. I believe it was in things jefferson might have thought vol 3 that said when old man winter lifts the us out of the great recession the republic has drawn its last breath.

Posted by: evil libertarian at March 05, 2010 09:23 AM (Jx2kQ)

 

Just so I understand - these "economists" say that they pulled a number out of their ass. the actual number was "only" 36k and since we expected the results to be above 100k we got a net gain. Never mind the fact that the NUMBERS say we lost 36k, we actuall made more?!?!?

 

how the fuck do they come up with this shit and still expect to be taken serious? Isn't this akin to my ex saying that she went to the store, found a sale, and even though she spent $500, everything was discounted. So in "reality" she actually saved $200?

Nevermind the fact we didn't have the $500 to spend, she saved us 200.

FFS, I need a drink.

29 Of possible interest to morons who like airplanes: NY Air National Guard's 174th Fighter Wing waves goodbye to piloted flights

(In the comments, that's me pointing out the F-16 budget compared to the porkulus in response to the pinko who says national defense is bankrupting the country.  Heh.)

30 Which casino Sassypants?

31 Outlaw - are you in CT? It's one of the CT casinos. I'm heading out the door pretty soon. If you're in the area, contact LauraW and she'll put you on the CT Yahoo email list.

32 We (Elizabeth and I) will be there, Sassy

33

Yeah, Sassy.  I'm about 20 minutes from either one.

I'll follow up with the Hump.

34

The EPA in what passes for its wisdom declared the entire Gowanus Canal a superfund site.....

That Superfund BS has been the biggest scam to come out of the Government since the Teapot Dome mess during the corrupt Grant years.  It litterally cleans up NOTHING and only serves to funnel money from a hapless buissness that usually had NOTHING to do with the property in question to a damn lawyer or group of lawyers.

If we had a real court system in this country that whole mess would have been declared an ex-pot facto law a long time ago.  Every time I see some article about that abortion of a bill it makes my ass want to chew tobacco and spit. I thnk the Rs tried to get rid of it one time because it is such a massive failure but they were blocked by the commies and the RINOs.

arrrggggg.....

35 Cool, Outlaw. Gabe could probably give you the CT email list since he's on it too - he flew out to one of the meetups in the summer. Make sure you're on the list and that way, you'll know about all our famous meetups. Can't wait to see you Mortis! Say hi to Eliz for me! Can't wait to see her too. Gotta run...

36 Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (10.0 per-
cent), adult women (8.0 percent), whites (8.8 percent), blacks (15.8 percent),
Hispanics (12.4 percent), and teenagers (25.0 percent) showed little to no
change in February. The jobless rate for Asians was 8.4 percent, not season-
ally adjusted.

37 Hey sassy tap class? Huh.. I love theos I go there ever saturday after the roxbury races. Gotta check the calender for the 20th.

38

Vic, I am unable to find the roots of Teapot Dome any farther back than the Taft administration. How was Grant involved, when his Navy was still making the transition from sail to coal?

EPA is a perfect example of what you get when the R tent gets big enough. Like your Postal Service, it's Republican through and through, and commie as hell. Some poor fools still think of Nixon as a right winger.  

39 Here comes the AMNESTY TRAIN arriving on track #9! http://tinyurl.com/ygpx2tk

40

Always in touch with the heartland of America, after a year of trying to ram socialized healthcare down people's throats, guess what's next on the BHO agenda?

http://tinyurl.com/ygpx2tk

 

41 Gratuitous self promotion of fabricated story follows.. TOWER KID RECEIVES CZAR APPOINTMENT AS CARI. http://tinyurl.com/yb6nmr3

42

I am unable to find the roots of Teapot Dome any farther back than the Taft administration.

LOL, that's what you get when you work from memory alone. Teapot Dome was Harding.

Grant had Black Friday in 1869 and the Whiskey Ring in 1875, and The Crédit Mobilier. I knew he was corrupt just had the wrong ones.

43

GREAT NEW! Lindsey Graham and Chick Schumer working on immigeation bill for Obama!

http://tinyurl.com/ygpx2tk

44 Can lindsey grahmn have an affair or go to a baseball game on the corporate dime...I don't want to get extreme here but this mf has to go!

45 The time of chaos is near. I believe it was in things jefferson might have thought vol 3 that said when old man winter lifts the us out of the great recession the republic has drawn its last breath.
In the end, there will be only... snowfall.

46 I thought about it for a second I do want to get extreme. Fuck graham with the barbed cock of satan. Is there anyone to primary this parasite? Hey cock holster 20m illegals - 17m unemployed. That's a real winner.

47 Why is there no republican in NY willing to challenge shoomer.  Heard King the other day.  He is hoping that the republicans will become the majority and he will regain his chairmanship of the committee so that he can "keep NYer's safe".  Obviously he must be thinking that whoever is the chair now isn't interested in doing that.

48 File Under: It may be old, but it's new to me.

Just happened to run across it, while looking for some Gourmet Vodka.

49

http://tinyurl.com/yz23lmq.

Nancy shows how to reconcile differences.

50 Campus police in FL called after unapproved thought detected.

51 We all joked about it, but the joke is now a reality:

How the FUCK is an anti-Bush Truther wacko in any way a right winger???

http://tinyurl.com/yjajfdg

52 "from the quantum vacuum via the conversion of energy into mass in accordance with Einsteins famous equation E = mc²"


I bought a quantum vacuum once, but I lost all the attachments so it ended up in the garage.

53 Outlaw,
I remember hearing something about the Gowanus,... not sure but I think there was some scam going where if they turned it into a superfund site all the current projects would be buried in paperwork so no one wanted it. They wanted to go around the regs and get it cleaned up without the actual designation, but somehow that deprived the "wheel grease" that NYC needs so badly (or at least the politician's brother's in law and legal profession need it) so even though the community does not want it to be SF, the dems were forcing it through.

54 One term president http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MddREczVeL4

55 "Brookhaven National Laboratory concocts negatively strange antihypernucleic antimatter! Mua ha ha ha! Ha! " That should read "Muon ha ha ha!"

56 Supra Vaider Tan High