1 Good morning,  Gabe!

Unemployment numbers up to 479,000 this week.   officials had expected a small drop to 455,000.

So I assume this increase was,  of course,  unexpected.

2 Unemployment claims unexpectedly rise. Again, and again, and again.

3

Gabe, you will really appreciate this.  I got one of my usual e-mail updates from The Freeman, and there was a link to this article from 2007 which discusses the evolution of the family unit and how capitalism has had a huge hand in it, up to and including gay marriage.

It actually makes a very compelling case, and I daresay this one article has started to change the way that I (the parent of a gay daughter) view gay marriage.  I hope it helps......

http://tinyurl.com/2676j5t

4 While the FKOTUS is away, the Okra will play.

5 ...and I posted this on the last thread, but good stuff here.

6 Freakin racist economic numbers.

7 Welcome to the great consumerless, unemployed, recovery. Where people buy cars with unemployment checks.

Where Pimco's fund manager calls stocks a "safe bet."

Outflows on mutual funds are approaching 50 billion over the last twelve weeks. All those fingers plugging all those holes. Pretty soon, the whole fucking dam is gonna give way. You might want to be upstream right about then.

8 Just in case you were getting tired of all the baseless claims of anti-black racism in America being thrown around by the administration the past few weeks tomorrow is the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima so you'll get the chance to listen to them throw around baseless claims of anti-Japanese racism in America for a while.

9 Judge Holds Divorcing Constitution is a Fundamental Right

10

Just in case you were getting tired of all the baseless claims of anti-black racism in America being thrown around by the administration the past few weeks tomorrow is the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima so you'll get the chance to listen to them throw around baseless claims of anti-Japanese racism in America for a while.

i posted in the last thread. HA has a link to an article of the son of Paul Tibbetts and he is pissed to say the least.

11 Just in case you were getting tired of all the baseless claims of anti-black racism in America being thrown around by the administration the past few weeks tomorrow is the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima so you'll get the chance to listen to them throw around baseless claims of anti-Japanese racism in America for a while. Posted by: Nighhawk at August 05, 2010 09:30 AM (OtQXp) I for one get down on my knees and thank G-D each and ever day for the Bomb. My dad was on Iwo Jima, first wave-recon, and lived to tell about it. If the war had no ended he would have been in the first wave of the Invasion of Japan in all likely hood and I would not be here today.

12 Water is dry.

13 I for one get down on my knees and thank G-D each and ever day for the Bomb. My dad was on Iwo Jima, first wave-recon, and lived to tell about it. If the war had no ended he would have been in the first wave of the Invasion of Japan in all likely hood and I would not be here today.

Posted by: nevergiveup at August 05, 2010 09:32 AM (0GFWk)

My dad would have been in a gun turret on a Sumner class destroyer laying off the beach giving your dad artillery support so I (as well as my brother and sister) probably wouldn't be here either.

14 My dad would have been in a gun turret on a Sumner class destroyer laying off the beach giving your dad artillery support so I (as well as my brother and sister) probably wouldn't be here either. Posted by: Nighhawk at August 05, 2010 09:37 AM (OtQXp) Well The Marines always appreciate cover fire from their Navy Cousins.

15 If the war had no ended he would have been in the first wave of the Invasion of Japan in all likely hood and I would not be here today.

Likewise, except it was my grandfather, who created my father after the war.

I've heard the story of his trip home a couple hundred times (he only talks about radio school, coming home, and funny things that happened in the mess)--they packed troop ships with three times as many guys as berths and fed them one tiny meal a day until they got to Hawaii.  In other words...he got treated worse than we currently treat convicted terrorists. 

I think if I ever met Obama, I'd spit on him just for this Hiroshima thing.

16 6 Freakin Ghey racist  economic numbers.

FIFY

17 Get Secretary Chu on the line, if he can build a time machine we can stop the bombing of Hiroshima and eliminate a bunch of teabagging moron opposition. What do you mean if I change history that much I probably won't be President? That's just a bunch of bamboozle.

18
@16

:-)

19 So Michelle had to fly all the way to Spain to find Sancho, 'cause none of the local Latin lovers here would touch her, -no matter how hot blooded.

20 look at the top headline comments on the right, and watch that baseball catch by a player in Hiroshima, clearly all that radiation had some benefit.

21

Take a bite outta my heart tonight.

Gonna be a heartache tonight.

 

22 In other news, I'm still reeling from learning that guy in the Wrangler ads wears Crocs.  It's a sick, sad world.

23

Ex-CIA dudes have difficulty keeping secret who they are against:

http://tinyurl.com/2bmcnlf

 

24 So what are the chances our diplomat wears a bright yellow tie or has a B-29 pin on his lapel; then gives a speech complimenting the food, the flowers, the urban renewal, and the hostess - and then says "without us, none of this would be possible".

25 clearly all that radiation had some benefit.

GOJIRA!

26

I would like to point something out.

Does anyone remember how the media and left wingers went batshit crazy when Reagan went to Bitburg  because Kohl invited him on the 40th anniversary of VE Day? 

 

But apparently what Obama is doing, sending someone to Hiroshima, well thats just the tops.

27

GOJIRA!

The gift that keeps on destroying Japan.

28 Joe Biden's Recovery Summer^tm [imagine accompanying calliope music]

Thank God we dodged that Snowbilly bullet.

29 Does anyone remember how the media and left wingers went batshit crazy when Reagan went to Bitburg because Kohl invited him on the 40th anniversary of VE Day? But apparently what Obama is doing, sending someone to Hiroshima, well thats just the tops. Posted by: Ben at August 05, 2010 09:51 AM (wuv1c) I am not defending Obama but the 2 things are differant. Obama sending our ambassador to Hiroshima is seen as an apology to the Japs. Bitburg is an SS Cemetary and some people thought Reagan should have been seen honoring SS dead.

30

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.

 

There is no stopping Recovery Summer!!!!

 

31
@25

“You may wish to ask Vice President Biden to remind you of the kind of surprises he has encountered in Israel,”

Yeah, like :

      1) It's REALLY hard to surprise a street smart intellectual like Biden, and

       2) Any such "surprise" would be on par with surprises we've had from the Islamists- LIKE AIRLINERS FULL OF INNOCENT PEOPLE FLOWN INTO OFFICE BUILDINGS FULL OF INNOCENT PEOPLE.

And these idiots were "Intelligence Professionals" paid with our tax dollars?

We should demand a refund and every piece of intelligence analysis any of them worked on should be purged from the files and burned.

32 Obama sending our ambassador to Hiroshima is seen as an apology to the Japs.

Um...exactly???

33 Take a bite outta my heart tonight.

'cause no one will ever change this animal I have become!

34 It's a sick, sad world.

Daria fan?

35 VIPS or vipers?

36

"Does anyone remember how the media and left wingers went batshit crazy when Reagan went to Bitburg  because Kohl invited him on the 40th anniversary of VE Day?"

I was too young. But Joey Ramone was so incensed  over it, he wrote "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg". Which in turn pissed Johnny Ramone off, so they finally compromised and called the song "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down".

37 America Held Hostage:  Day 563

38 toby, you counting up or down

39 @3

Sorry to hear about your daughter. I hope that the curtain being pulled back on this degenerate behavior and the resulting public display of mental illness  help her and many others reconsider their damaging choices.

It's got to be tough. At least with drugs and alcohol you have rehab.

40 Does anyone remember how WHEN the media and left wingers went batshit crazy......

Fixed that

Yes, it was sometime in the 30s about the time Duranty went over and kissed the Soviets ass.

41 Man Killed At Anti-Violence Event

42 43 Man Killed At Anti-Violence Event

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2010 10:03 AM (8/oOq)

Kinda like the old Dangerfield joke, "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out"

43

Bitburg is an SS Cemetary and some people thought Reagan should have been seen honoring SS dead.

bitburg isn't an SS Cemetary. It is a German military cemetary of over 2000 people, which happened to have 22 SS soldiers burried.

You don't think there were Kempeitai in Hiroshima or Nagasaki? or Japnese soldiers there?

Also, keep the context in mind, Reagan went their at Helmut Kohl's request. Reagan did so because he owed Kohl. Kohl was allowing the deployment of Pershing IIs in germany even though just about the entire country was against it.

What is Obama getting out of Japan for this visit?

44 My father once told me this:

"Son, even in the hardest times of life there will ALWAYS be titties and beer."

Obama hasn't taken those away yet so I guess all is good, yeah?

45

@24

 

How you doing?

46 Looks like Barry has banned "unexpected"  - you now have to look for "had expected" the opposite ...

47 Obama hasn't taken those away yet so I guess all is good, yeah?

With Obamacare, who knows?

48 _{"Initial Claims Surge To 479K, Trounce Expectations Of 455K, Severe Deterioration From Last Week's 460K"}"The only silver lining: those who had previously fallen of insurance lists, are now back to collecting subsidies from the government, as the ranks of those collecting EUC and Extended Benefits increased by 257K in the week ended July 17, courtesy of Obama's most recent "communism-lite" stimulus."

from yahoo:  "Recent economic data has heightened concerns that the recovery is slowing. Americans are spending cautiously as they save more and pay down debt. Home sales and construction have slumped after a popular homebuyers' tax credit expired on April 30. The impact of the federal government's stimulus efforts is fading."

49

President Obama and congressional Democrats -- out of options for another quick shot of stimulus spending to revive the sluggish economy -- are shifting toward a longer-term strategy that promises to tackle persistently high unemployment by engineering a renaissance in American manufacturing.

That approach, heralded by Obama last week in Detroit and sketched out in a memo to House Democrats as they headed home for the August break, is still evolving and so far focuses primarily on raising taxes on multinational corporations that Democrats accuse of shipping jobs overseas.

Genius! Pure genius. That ought to get the economy rolling along and create or save a trillion new jobs

50

My dad would have been in a gun turret on a Sumner class destroyer laying off the beach giving your dad artillery support so I (as well as my brother and sister) probably wouldn't be here either.

My dad was behind your dads in the Phillipines waiting for them to establish a beach head and then secure an area large enough for him to engineer a landing strip. Most of the engineers killed were killed by snipers and he continued to overreact to a movement in the bushes until the late 1960s.

51 Too bad we can't send a wing of B-29s over Hiroshima today. You know, just to remind our postwar BFFs (and ourselves) that we used to know how do deal with brutal sneak attacks and those who gleefully committed atrocities.

Today, our way of dealing with another group that unleashed a brutal sneak attack on us and gleefully commits atrocities is to let them build a victory shrine to their savage "religion" on the site of their biggest sneak attack.

I like the old days, when we were intolerant of our enemies.

Thanks, Osama Obama (and, to a lesser extent, Bush II, Clinton and Bush I), for turning us into a nation of puling cowards.

52

I was too young. But Joey Ramone was so incensed  over it, he wrote "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg". Which in turn pissed Johnny Ramone off, so they finally compromised and called the song "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down".

"If there's one thing/that makes me sick/ it's when someone tries to hide behind politics/I wish their time/would go by fast/somehow they manage to make it last"

 

Johnny was a big Republican. Funny how lefty lyrics apply more to their own than who they target.

53 i knew it! the body scans are kept!

54

45  and if I remember correctly Reagan didn't grovel or apologize for prosecuting the war

 

55

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 05, 2010 10:12 AM (1Jaio)

We say otherwise.

(Or were you being sarcastic?...)

Posted by: The Laws of Economics at August 05, 2010 10:17 AM (WDySP)

Very. Their idea to get manufacturing going is to tax multinationals. In other words, more pandering to unions.

56 while you guys are worrying about other things, well Basil is apparently becoming an internet superstar.
"He is an improbable longshot in the polls, but Tennessee Republican gubernatorial hopeful Basil Marceaux Sr., of Chattanooga, rules on the Internet, where his views have gone “viral.”
Beck is going to interview the guy in the next hour.  He does think, I"m gathering that people are making fun of the guy, but the guy seems to be heartful.

57

45  and if I remember correctly Reagan didn't grovel or apologize for prosecuting the war

no, and apparently Matthew Ridgeway didn't mind because he escorted Reagan and shook hands with WW2 German Ace, Steinhoff, who had escorted Kohl.

I was just looking through youtube for the video but i can't find it.

58 Too bad we can't send a wing of B-29s over Hiroshima today.

Well, the Confederate Air Force (Midland, TX) still has one active B-29 that they recovered from China Lake and restored. (its the only one currently in flying condition)

Maybe they can be pursued to do a fly-over. 

59 Posted by: 48%er at August 05, 2010 10:16 AM (kcqZS)

the ramones have a huge cult following.  I know people who had them play their CYO dances in high school.

60 did you guys see this thing where O is going to "forgive" the difference for "underwater" mortgages via Fannie/Freddie?!?!?! http://tinyurl.com/38lf4vo This had better just be a damn rumor. Every renter in America would BE PISSED OFF! I guess the "political calculation" there is "we think most tea partiers are just ticked about their mortgage debt, this will sway them"

61 look at the top headline comments on the right, and watch that baseball catch by a player in Hiroshima, clearly all that radiation had some benefit.

But look what Chernobyl wrought in Germany!  http://tinyurl.com/2cmpc8p

62 Basil Marceaux is on Beck now

63 I hadn't even thought of sending the Confederate Air Force over for the Hiroshima festival.

64

Beck is going to interview the guy in the next hour.  He does think, I"m gathering that people are making fun of the guy, but the guy seems to be heartful.

Stephen Colbet is telling all of his fans that live there to vote for Basil as they have open primaries.

Funny how we were accused of electing Greene in South Carolina, even though none of us had heard of him til after the election

65 Also, keep the context in mind, Reagan went their at Helmut Kohl's request. Reagan did so because he owed Kohl. Kohl was allowing the deployment of Pershing IIs in germany even though just about the entire country was against it. What is Obama getting out of Japan for this visit? Posted by: Ben at August 05, 2010 10:07 AM (wuv1c) Yes your correct, I was just framing the 2 arguments to point out they were differant

66

This is a serious scandal:

http://tinyurl.com/2vurtqp

Why?  Because it is a Republican candidate talking about it.  It also qualifies that candidate as a looney nutjob whose very name on the ballot borders on criminally negligent behavior.

Of course when Granny Botox Pelosi tripped all over herself calling on "The Word" as a basis for the support she gives to everything from soaking the rich to supporting abortion, the media gave her a complete pass.

Last I checked, there were a lot of people in this country who still leaned on their religious as the foundation of their convictions. 

Evidently, the media would have us believe that if a Republican makes that linkage, they're off the reservation.  On the otherhand, if a Democrat does the same thing, we are to believe that all is good because they are only doing what they have to; paying lip service to religion in order to con the idiot believers so they can get elected.

 

67 LINK to Beck, click "listen live" or scroll down on this page for "radio affiliates"

68

Daria fan?

Di-a-rhea uh uh uh!  Di-a-rhea uh uh uh!

69
if a Democrat does the same thing, we are to believe that all is good because they are only doing what they have to; paying lip service to religion in order to con the idiot believers so they can get elected.

Ummm, God Damn AmeriKKKa? 

70 Morning morons and moronettes.  Back at work today.  Can't seem to get motivated to do anything.

71 Malor's Malice towards Arpaio gone silent without public affirmation supporting his right to life while officiating as Maricopa County Sheriff?

Much more important? Promoting "special" judicial activism that negates a constitution's integrity, namely legitimate public election results.

The meaning of citizenship ranks below meaning for gay unions as "marriage"? Or does gay marriage define the meaning of citizenship now?

72 I am freaking LUVIN the Marie Antoinette angle being spun over at The NY Daily News.

73 " still evolving and so far focuses primarily on raising taxes on multinational corporations that Democrats accuse of shipping jobs overseas."

Posted by: Downsized Upscale at August 05, 2010 10:25 AM (IhHdM)
"Writing the software Americans won't write: Obama spends $22M training 3,000 IT workers in Asia"
"...As recently as Monday, Obama, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in Atlanta, boasted about his efforts to reduce offshoring. The President said he's implemented "a plan thatÂ’s focused on making our middle class more secure and our country more competitive in the long run -- so that the jobs and industries of the future arenÂ’t all going to China and India, but are being created right here in the United States of America."
Hmmm... how can we blame Bush for this one?"

74 59 while you guys are worrying about other things, well Basil is apparently becoming an internet superstar.
"He is an improbable longshot in the polls, but Tennessee Republican gubernatorial hopeful Basil Marceaux Sr., of Chattanooga, rules on the Internet, where his views have gone “viral.”
Beck is going to interview the guy in the next hour.  He does think, I"m gathering that people are making fun of the guy, but the guy seems to be heartful.

Posted by: curious at August 05, 2010 10:20 AM (p302b)

It's the "Alvin Greene Effect"- people are desperate for ANYBODY who has even the slightest glimmer of being genuine.

In other words they are desperate for the Anti-Obama.

75 i knew it! the body scans are kept! Posted by: phoenixgirl

Yes. And the machines must now be designed with that "save image" feature.

76

the ramones have a huge cult following. 

Gabba Gabba Hey!

77 "The Republican National Committee is trying to set up meetings between Chairman Michael Steele and foreign ambassadors to the United States, according to an email obtained by POLITICO - an effort that has puzzled diplomats as well as fellow Republicans."

anyone care to take a guess as to what he's doing or planning?

78
@82

Probably a feverish, all-out, last ditch attempt to seize defeat from the jaws of victory in November.

79 My dad was a medic with the invasion forces headed for Japan. Without the Bombs, I might not be here today. Thank you, Fat Man and Little Boy!

80 Posted by: Nighhawk at August 05, 2010 10:32 AM (OtQXp)

"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."

'And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.'

Le Petit Prince (1943) is a novel by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, translated into English as The Little Prince.

81
I remember laughing at the lefties over at Fark right after the election.

Did you get banned?  I never bothered to register over there, too much stupid.

82 This had better just be a damn rumor. Every renter in America would BE PISSED OFF!

I had seen someone recommending something like this in previous articles a while back.

This could be one of those things they have in the wings for the lame duck congress.

The other thing is that F&F are still about to go belly-up even after all that TARP bailout.

83 I hadn't even thought of sending the Confederate Air Force over for the Hiroshima festival.

They did a fly-over here last summer with a restored B-25 that's what made me remember it. 

84 Posted by: Vic at August 05, 2010 10:47 AM (/jbAw)

so then the "forgiveness" would be used as the excuse to keep them going?

85 Somehow the babble has to be deflated.  But that would mean pain for everyone.   This might not accomplish much since the more I read about the real estate market the more I learn that the banks are unwilling to let property go under a certain price and they can just hang onto it.  And, most authors say there is "still more pain", translation, "your property value still has another leg down, at least"

86 Vic, the chatter is starting to discuss this person:  "Blythe Sally Jess Masters (born Oxford, England, 22 March 1969) is an economist and current head of global commodities at JP Morgan Chase, and led the development of so-called Credit Default Swaps (CDS's) widely used by financial institutions.

87 Vic,
They say that she will be the one to succeed Jamie

88 This had better just be a damn rumor. Every renter in America would BE PISSED OFF!

Why just renters?

What about the vast majority of homeowners who simply lived within their means?

Or, how about buyers waiting for the final approvals on a short sale?

Or, how about anyone who lost a house to foreclosure?

89 Posted by: MikeO at August 05, 2010 10:58 AM (lBmZl)

If they announce this, when congress is back early, they will turn around the election casue all of those people will then say "see I told you he was going to pay my mortgage and you didn't believe me".   I guess their moral compass dictates that if you made it this long you should keep your house?  Their logic is always flawed so I'm not sure why, if they were going to do this, it wasn't done from day 1 and more people would have been able to keep their homes.

90 so then the "forgiveness" would be used as the excuse to keep them going?

Probably. Ace has a new thread up on this issue BTW.

91 We nuked 100k civilians in Japan. Showing a little decency 65 years later is not a big deal. Really. In fact, many Japanese are embarrassed about the events of Pearl Harbor. They own what happened to them at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Have you ever heard them whine?

I have always found the Japanese to be respectful, responsible, honorable.

Therein lies the sad truth. That real people always pay the price for the mistakes of their governments. Transition here...

I think this is not a country for old men. That by the time you acquire the wisdom of 50 years, nobody wants to hear it. It does not suit the following generations' emotional needs. Heaven forbid, that you actually question whether Japanese concentration camps were really necessary or whether nuking 100k civilians was over kill. We don't really like scrutinizing our own potential mistakes and that's too bad. Because applying rigorous honesty to ourselves and to our own actions...well that is the fountain from which wisdom flows. This from a guy who carried the governments' marching orders for 25 years. Flag and all.

It's just a shame it takes so long to get it.

92
@86 osted by: curious at August 05, 2010 10:43 AM (p302b)

"God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead." - Sirach 10:17

93 Today's question: Does the AFLAC Duck pay up if your head gets bounced off the sidewalk when you've trying to kill someone?

94 _{"The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction'"}I heard someone say on the financial channel yesterday that London is challenging new york as the financial capital of the world.

95 Posted by: Nighhawk at August 05, 2010 11:04 AM (OtQXp)
"Blessed are the meek,
for they shall possess the earth."

96 Posted by: curious at August 05, 2010 11:12 AM (p302b)

Yeah, but after the f*ckwads that are running it now are through with it who the hell would want it? :-)

97 trying - tried

98

41) Sorry to hear about your daughter. I hope that the curtain being pulled back on this degenerate behavior and the resulting public display of mental illness  help her and many others reconsider their damaging choices.
It's got to be tough. At least with drugs and alcohol you have rehab.         Posted by: jtellis at August 05, 2010 09:59 AM (VXI3I)

EXCUSE me?  Who the hell do you think you are?  I happen to love my daughter VERY much.  I may not be comfortable with the fact that she is gay, but she has ALWAYS been that way. 

She is in NO way degenerate, she is not mentally ill, and she has not made any "damaging" choices as a result of who she is.  There is no "rehab" for this, and suggesting that there is implies that she is somehow destructive to herself and/or others.

Nothing could be farther from the truth - she is a well-adjusted young woman.  As much as it may surprise you, she also happens to be very Conservative.  She has never gotten in anyone's face, telling them that they have to accept her.  She has very quietly stood up to those who would seek to harm her.  She has never told anyone that perhaps they, themselves are gay - she recognizes that no one is going to become gay who isn't inherently that way.

As a matter of fact, she has become someone that other kids turn to who are trying to come to grips with how to approach friends and family.  Many of these kids can't "come out" to their families, but they know that they can talk to her and she will be willing to listen.  And if they come to her and it is obvious that they aren't truly gay, she will tell them that, too.

So please don't judge my daughter for being herself.  And don't you dare EVER say anything to me about my beloved child being degenerate or mentally ill.   

99

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at August 05, 2010 11:47 AM (cwgDp)

When I first saw that post, I was going to jump in. But I figured since it was aimed at your daughter, you should have the first strike.

Good job.

100 61 Too bad we can't send a wing of B-29s over Hiroshima today. Well, the Confederate Air Force (Midland, TX) ... Posted by: Vic Believe or not, the CAF succumed to Political Correctness and changed their name to Commemorative Air Force. I don't know if they still make you a Col. if you join up...

101 so good!

102 the  passage  read  so  nice!