Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Orders for durable goods increased less than forecast in July, a sign one of the few remaining bright spots in the U.S. economy is cooling.

Oh no! The non-existent recovery is cooling

Vice President Biden today played attack dog for the White House, accusing Rep. John Boehner (R) of being "nostalgic" for the failed economic policies of the Bush administration.

Biden also defended the administration's plan to let tax cuts expire for the highest wage earners, while extending others for the middle class. To the charge that these decisions would hurt small businesses, the VP claimed it would affect only a minute percentage.

"It's a Wall Street tax cut, not a Main Street tax cut," he said of the expiring law. He also attacked Republicans for blocking in the Senate a planned $12 billion tax cut that Democrats had offered.

Biden conceded that the economic recovery was not proceeding as fast as the administration had hoped, but claimed there was "no doubt we're moving in the right direction."

The captain of the Titanic said the same thing.

Murkowski still might win, her family had big influence in the republican party if i am not mistaken,

they might find a box of uncounted voted in a moose butt or something similar.

Murkowski still might will win, her family had big influence in the republican party if i am not mistaken,

they might find a box of uncounted voted in a moose butt or something similar.

Posted by: Ben at August 25, 2010 09:20 AM (wuv1c)"

FIFY

It will hinge on the absentee ballots and the recounts. If this was a general with an R running against a D, I would say good chance for a D steal.

Absentee ballots have always been a source of fraud.

Are they military ballots? or Alaskan fisherman out at sea and unable to get to a voting booth?

I think Murkowski will  probably pull it out, althought 2,000 votes may be hard to find when only 90.000 people voted.

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Orders for durable goods increased less than forecast in July, a sign one of the few remaining bright spots in the U.S. economy is cooling.

Oh no! The non-existent recovery is cooling

yeah, since they were hoping for 3% increase, and got a 0.3% increase in stead.  Off by an order of magnitude. If I had that kind of error, i'd be out of a job in jail, most likely.

is it time for the adjetive of the year?

Yahoo News had some nice bias last night: Meeks=Democrat, Rubio=tea party favorite, Crist=independent.

To those assholes, Leftist Republicans=Republicans; Conservatives=illegitimate teabaggers.

Bloomberg Still Stuck On Stupid (NYP)

 A defiant Mayor Bloomberg, saying there should be no compromise, insisted last night that a mosque be built near Ground Zero, declaring, "We must do what is right, not what is easy.

they don't start counting absentee ballots until august 31st.  that gives murkowski 6 days to find some ballots.

she's as good as won the race.

shoot. miller needed to win by around 4-5 thousand to ensure no foul play could swing the election

Posted by: Meghan

And we have an early front runner for the thread winner.

Yahoo News had some nice bias last night: Meeks=Democrat, Rubio=tea party favorite, Crist=independent.

To those assholes, Leftist Republicans=Republicans; Conservatives=illegitimate teabaggers.

Posted by: Zimriel at August 25, 2010 09:33 AM (9Sbz+)

If you want to read some really painful raw stupidity. Read Holly Bailey's mindless "political analysis" of last night's elections. There are high school newpapers that would be embarrassed to run the idiotic shit she writes

WHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I can see 10,000 from here.

Its up

Posted by: Meghan

It rubs the lotion on its skin.

If Palin's protege can knock off Lisa Murkowski, she'll have two Poles on her bedpost. 

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 25, 2010 09:40 AM (554T5)"

He's tone deaf....he voted himself that third term and he's been downright dictatorial ever since.

Remember 5000?   Good times...good times.  I can't seem to get Pets.com off the bottom of my shoe. 

Posted by: Vic

1. He's quoting the character Albus Dumbledore from a Harry Potter book. Telling. Frightening as well.

2. He should be asked into which category his decision to ban trans-fats, but not nicotine, falls.

3. He should be asked into which category his decision to blame the attempted bombing of Times square on Tea-Partiers falls.

Posted by: Tami at August 25, 2010 09:40 AM (VuLos)

My guess is it was a left over joke from the Bush years and Letterman is so senile he said it thinking Bush is still in office

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 25, 2010 09:47 AM (0fzsA)

Works for me, I'm no longer a Democrat, I'm a Socialist!

Posted by: Methos at August 25, 2010 09:52 AM (1sroz) 

Elliot Wave analysis says 8,000 is the stop.

Joseph Farah says he's not a conservative anymore.

Great!
Bye.  See ya latter, asshole. 

I'm sure Alex Jones will love the company. they can share birth certificate stories.

Posted by: curious at August 25, 2010 09:13 AM (p302b)

Nice!

From the link:
US SENATOR (ADL)  Total Votes: 29837
US SENATOR (R)       Total Votes: 89858

It's seriously disappointing that Beck is only making his 8/28 event available if you pay $6.95 and join his "insider extreme".   He claimed he is "done writing checks" and if you want to see it this is how.

If he was really sincere he would make it available free on some public access channel or on C SPANN

Yeah, I am starting to question his motives. Pretty soon he'll be selling coffee mugs, door mats and be doing a word of the day at the end of the show.

I've never understood why people become meglomaniacs once they have power, but it seems to happen without fail to every person.

I think Beck honestly believes he is on a mission from god. He's become extremely religious, which doesn't bother me a whole ton as i don't care what people beleive when it comes to faith, but I feel as thought adding more religion to the current political climate is what we need.

wuv1c, um, lose the sock.

Trollbustaz in 3..2..1..

Hey, Ben, ace asked us not to sockpuppet 'real' people -- people who do comment here on occasion.  We're supposed to modify the names somehow

sock off.

jeez, everyone is so touchy about AP here.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 25, 2010 10:06 AM (qXoXH)

The proof is in the results. I got out of the market at DOW 11,200 based on their advice. The DOW is now below 10,000. They predict the next drop will be a sudden drop to DOW 8,000. Let's see if it happens.

Sales of new single-family houses in July 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 276,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 12.4 percent (±10.8%) below the revised June rate of 315,000 and is 32.4 percent (±8.7%) below the July 2009 estimate of 408,000.

The median sales price of new houses sold in July 2010 was $204,000; the average sales price was $235,300. The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of July was 210,000. This represents a supply of 9.1 months at the current sales rate.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 25, 2010 09:40 AM (554T5)

I love that movie!

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 25, 2010 10:13 AM (FkKjr)

That is true. And sooooo hot.

Posted by: Radioactive Satellite Of LOVE at August 25, 2010 09:57 AM (zqzYV)

Strangly, Mike Barnacle, a very liberal columnist for the Boston Globe, was commenting along a similar line. He says there are two depressions going on in this country - the first is the economic depression. The second is a mental depression, where people have doubts about the country and want someone to reassure them that America will be great again, that it will rise above again.

Meanwhile, President Shout Out will continue to apologize for America's failure and promise the UN we will try and do better. Oh, and Saudi Arabia and Iran, if you could tell us how to become more tolerant of minorities, woman and gays - we would really appreciate the advice.

Posted by: Mallamutt at August 25, 2010 10:01 AM (OWjjx)

And according to wave theory, social mood drives stock prices. They are related. I subscribe to it becuase it works. It got me out of the market before the 1,000 point drop. It's keeping me out now.

Posted by: Gran at August 25, 2010 10:18 AM (xmjMj)

Ok, can someone please get the Westboro idiots to try and build a "church" next to Matthew Sheppard's grave? I think we need to see a little State Media whiplash action...

Maybe we could ask Al Gore since he is buddy-buddy with them?

Posted by: Gran at August 25, 2010 10:18 AM (xmjMj)

You didn't now that Wicca was all the rage among Jewish men in the 1940's?

That being said, they really should give that soldier a new headstone. He's more than earned it by his sacrifice.

Posted by: Gran at August 25, 2010 10:18 AM (xmjMj)

Ok, I'm stumped AP.  What the hell does a WWII veteran's tombstone at Arlington with a Wiccan symbol on it have to do with a Mosque at ground zero?

Posted by: Y-not at August 25, 2010 09:59 AM (4/eCJ)

Yea, cut it out. Now, I gotta get in my Ewok costume and go have furry sex with S.E. Cupp

i've been thinking, rare for me, if you think the Ground Zero Mosque debate is bad now, just wait about 2 weeks.

I have a feeling that the second week of september is going to be constant coverage of how intolerant and racist we all are some 9 years after 9/11. Also, i think this is the year that the media starts to blame america for the events that day.

Posted by: Hatchet Five at August 25, 2010 10:26 AM (pyi1D)

Sorry, there is no "line". Alpha Ewoks go to the front, wait your turn beta.

Andrew McCarthy has written about four great articles in a row over at National Review.  He's really been doing his Islamic homework.

Which Islam Will Prevail?

"...But doing it quietly was imperative. Most American Muslims are not instinctively different from other Americans. But American Muslim communities are peculiar. In many of them, the leadership of the mosques and Islamic centers is foreign (or at least foreign-influenced). This leadership tends to be anti-Western and arrogant, claiming an Islamic authenticity Americans are said to lack. Many American Muslims are intimidated into silence. They are cowed by the specter of being condemned as too American. In Islam, there is no more grievous offense than causing disunity through infidelity. It is no small thing when community leaders frame a Muslim as insufficiently loyal to the ummah, the notional Islamic nation."

Exactly.   A death penalty which can be carried out by a sharia court or by another Muslim is no small thing.  And given the MFM's complete media blackout on sharia, murder by right, and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood leadership dominant in the US, I'm amazed any Muslim ever cooperates with law enforcement.

Why should they help us win when it's obvious most people would rather pretend nothing is happening? 

it's those fundamental Wiccans that you have to look out for. They preach a strict interpretation of the tree pruning guidlines and shun those who do not comply. Which is difficult to do, since they're all standing in a field in the dark.

Ah, dramatic pause?  Sorry about that. 

Ah, dramatic pause?  Sorry about that. 

Posted by: Beagle

at least it wasn't a pregnant pause. 'Cause then the place would be littered.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten

I am getting sick unto death of hearing this crap. I can and have worked for and voted for pro-abortion candidates because I determined that they were the best candidate running. Case in point: I'll  probably be voting for Mike Castle in November. Does sane fiscal policy matter? Yes. Do many beneficial things flow from sane fiscal policy? Yes. Is anyone willing to say that no social issue is worth any condsideration, or that it must always be trumped by political advantage and opportunism? Do we really believe that because we don't have an active three ring circus under our tent we're somehow bereft?

And the intolerant morally superior tent-shrinking faction of the religious right are the dividers?

#125

California is huge on "beach access."  So they allow hobo RVs to completely take away any beach parking for anyone else.  It's very common for them to dump raw sewage on the street.  I saw a TV interview where a guy started throwing garbage from the top of his RV at the interviewer who tried to ask him some questions.

That's the end result of modern progressive thought: being buried under human excrement.   

#125

California is huge on "beach access."  So they allow hobo RVs to completely take away any beach parking for anyone else.  It's very common for them to dump raw sewage on the street.  I saw a TV interview where a guy started throwing garbage from the top of his RV at the interviewer who tried to ask him some questions.

That's the end result of modern progressive thought: being buried under human excrement.   

Posted by: Downsized Upscale

Sure can. You wanna push for SS benefits for those in civil unions? Go for it. But that's not what is happening here. it's another push to legitimize Gay marriage. When SS was conceived, it was deemed as being desirable, and it was geared to recognize survivors that were married. Do we as a society want to extend that eligibility to those in civil unions? That's a question for this country to consider, not one to be force fed.

I'd like to submit....

"I didn't read the Obamacare bill, but I did write it." - Sen Max Baucus.

If a civil union doesn't take care of that then change the social secuity law so that their partner receives the benefit. Inequities especially financial ones can be fixed without going full out "marriage".

However, fiscally, if we start paying out death benefits to some sort of partner for every single person then social secuity becomes insolvent a lot faster than it would. Perhaps the caveat that if there are no children the couple needs to have lived together at least 25 years. Also, if a couple doesn't have children then they have both worked and each has their own benefits. If a couple has children there used to be and still often is a time when one loses income, status, and benefits to care for children hence needing the other's benefits.

I live across the street from a very nice gay couple. They have been together forever and they should be able to inherit from one another, etc. They have also both worked full time with no children to interrupt their careers. I've been married the same amount of time but have been home for 15 years raising children. They have more disposable income than I do, uninterrupted careers, less debt because they haven't had to rear children. The marriage benefits were set up so that the person, usually the wife, still has benefits when her husband dies.

It's not about sexual fairness, it's about the family and trying to balance the inequities associated with child rearing. If we start punishing people for having children, we end up not replacing ourselves and might as well turn it over to the illegals and sharia law advocates now.

Michael Bennet, D-Colo,at a town hall meeting in Greeley last Saturday, Aug 21 said we had nothing to show for the debt incurred by the stimulus package and other expenditures calling the recession the worst since the Great Depression. [...]

Regarding spending during his time in office he said, “We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet” and, “in my view we have nothing to show for it.”

I think Farah went several bridges too far in going after Coulter.

I have a big problem with courts magically finding a right to something which has never existed in human history.  Better to legislate from the legislature.  But attacking people for their bedroom behavior is rude.  It's hard to believe some people sit around and get angry about consensual sex between adults.  Good thing everything else in the world is A-OK...  

"PRESENT!" - Barack Obama.

He should be required to yell "FORE" everytime that he signs a bill so that we American's down the fairway will know to duck.

Posted by: Bob T

FUBARed it for you

Though our Founders were steeped in "Judeo-Christian principles" it's really not fair to say our Constitution had much to do with religious thought.

If it was math it might be something like this:

Locke + Montesquieu + a dash of Machiavelli + wanting to avoid centuries of European religious war between (mostly) Catholics and Protestants + great knowledge of (not just) Greek and Roman history + yet still having great respect for basic Christian values + Freemasons! =

US Constitution. 

Not a fan of gay marriage. However many points could be addressed without such an extreme solution. Inheritance, you should be allowed to leave your estate to any one you want without the gov. hitting you one last time. Do away for the tax for everyone, gay, straight, or undetermined.  In matters of health care, you should be able to assign power of attorney to anyone you wish, gay companions included. Let's find ways to reach a concensus, not all or nothing on both sides.

There are a number of gay posters here and I value there friendship and participation  the same as every one else's.

Beagle 152 , yeah, until the 14th Amendment.

The 14th Amendment exists not just because of slavery, but because of Mormonism. The Federal Government didn't want an established church of LDS in "Deseret" (Utah / Nevada / southern Idaho). Also, the feds fretted about Catholics on the eastern seaboard.

Mencius Moldbug has asserted that the late-1800s Republicans established a Federal Church of Secular Calvinism: yay Unitarian and mainline Protestant denominations; boo Mormons, Catholics, and Southern Baptists. I suspect he's right.

I found this interesting.

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