1 The sun unexpectedly rose in the east this morning.

2
brb...

3 The economy is back, baby!!!!

4
They have the script and they're going to stick to it, by gaia.

5

If America is not too big to fail, how can anything else be?

6 OT

Must read charts on ideology of various professions and politicians
http://tinyurl.com/27wrtnz

A little lunchtime knowledge for my fellow morons.
your welcome.

7 There is the possibility that these people in the administration really and truly believe that what they are doing is going to improve economic growth. That would mean two things, that they are committed Keynesians, and that they are profoundly stupid.

8
Joe "Stupid Head" Biden, July, 2009

The Obama admin "misread" the depth of the economic troubles it inherited and still expects more new jobs in the long term as the spending pace from the $787 billion stimulus plan quickens, Vice President Joe Biden said.

9 Your ads are taking too long to load - 10-15 seconds.  It locks up my entire browser.  I am not that patient.

10 I unexpectedly got a boner watching pron last night.

11 8 STILL BOOSHS FAULT!!11ELEVENTY11

12 The good news is that we can have a summer of recovery next summer too!

13
Joe "Fucking Dope" Biden, April 2010:

Vice President Biden predicted Friday at a Pennsylvania fundraiser that the U.S. economy would be adding up to 500,000 jobs each month "some time in the next couple of months."
 
"All in all we're going to be creating somewhere between 100[,000] and 200,000 jobs next month, I predict," Biden said, according to a pool report, adding that he "got in trouble" for a job growth prediction last month. "Even some in the White House said, 'Hey, don't get ahead of yourself.' Well, I'm here to tell you, some time in the next couple of months, we're going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month."
 
"We caught a lot of bad breaks on the way down," Biden added. "We're going to catch a few good breaks because of good planning on the way up."

14 Sigh. Double dip, anyone?

15 Unexpectedly is the new Expectedly

16

Just like you'd unexpectedly get VD if you went out with a whore. And speaking of whores, how are the Democrats going to spin this when the unemployment figure goes up tomorrow? I thought this was the "Recovery Summer?" You mean, Joe Biden would actually lie to us? I thought Obama's magic economic plans were going to save us all?

November, keep your eyes on November and throw them all out of office. Make it a fall they'll remember for a long, long, time.

17 "At this point one thing is certain: as long as the Treasury can keep issuing trillions in new debt without a glitch, there will be nothing to stop the administration, now in its pre-midterm death throes, from throwing the kitchen sinks, and 9 other it bought on margin, at every imaginable problem. The Obama administration is about to take this country down in flames by spending hundreds of billions, trillions, tens of trillions on anything and everything, just like your garden variety drowning man clutches at straws. And as long as the Fed has the bond vigilantes locked up, kneecapped and ball-and-gagged in its basement, there is nothing at all that can be done: we suggest leaning back in your favorite made in China chair and watching the nation''s slow motion collapse as it unravels before our very eyes."

From Zero Hedge.....he has a lot of numbers in there, and now, I've lost my appetite for food today..

18
I remember a year ago after unemployment ticked down a tenth of a percent Obama came out and said he sees light at the end of the tunnel. And all his little ministers of propaganda reported we were officially in a recovery.

And I remember leaving this comment: "If this is an Obama recovery, I'd hate to see an Obama recession."

This isn't funny, anymore. Obama is fucking things up on purpose.

19 2 hours? McDonalds is like Super Colon Blow to me.

20 This isn't funny, anymore.

When was it funny? I haven't laughed since McCain got the nomination.

21 That is to say, since before McCain got the nomination.

Oh fucking nevermind.

22 O/T:  and in the "Why you are not surprised category", we have a winner.

23
you're right.

As Obama would say, I guess it's a case of gallows humor.

And the hits keep coming...

24 Well I know why it's un expected. Consider: The UN is one of the most worthless organizations in the world. So one could say that the UN means nothing. Therefore, using substitution, UN-expectedly = expectedly.

25 Hey! It could be worse, right?

26 So this is what "Recovery Summer" feels like.

27 "Unexpectedly, two hours after I eat McDonald's I have to make an urgent trip to the bathroom."

Its funny cus its true

28

Obama is praising the bailout....at Ford.

My. God.

29 http://pointsandfigures.com/2010/08/04/looking-ahead-to-friday/ Uncertainty is driving companies to do nothing. Let's ignore the headline numbers and dig into what is important. Ave Time on the unemployment line, how many people have left the job search due to frustration, hourly wages, and hours worked plus u-6; measure of all that are unemployed. My guess is it is over 17%. Anecdotal evidence of pain and suffering-more people on food stamps, no credit being issued The O in Obama=0, zero

30 Unexpectedly, yesterday was Wednesday.

31 21 I can't stop laughing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

32 Irrelevant. Those are private-sector 'claims'. Welcome to the new workforce, citizens! Each of you will be recieving a monthly taxable check from Uncle Marx and that, my friends, is a job. Congratulations!

33 I  unexpectedly had to shit this morning after my first cup of coffee.

34 Accuweather is predicting an even colder, snowier winter than normal for the Midwest. 

I guess The One's abilities stop at causing the seas to cease rising.

35 The economy is back, baby!!!!

Posted by: Dumb Liberal Rags Everywhere at August 05, 2010 12:31 PM (5I0Yr)

And that's why the liberal rags are being sold for a $1.  In the end the entire media industry will be worth $15 and Ace will be able to buy it with the change he digs out of his couch.

36
Are you this guy? Don't we all feel like we are this guy?

He's jumping up and down, waving his arms, shouting the obvious, and no one is listening.

37 Unexpectedly to the Obama Mal-Administration-- expectedly to anyone else with a grain of common sense. (Looks like the Official Obama Economic Figures Frigger goofed up - maybe s/he has a problem with decimals or something.) 

38 For Bloomberg's editors and experts to assimilate all the available gloomy economic data and continue to be amazed at these numbers, makes them complicit in America's demise. If the Fed's numbers were not completely massaged and people were reported the truth by the MSM, America could solve this situation... instead, by sugar coating these results every frickin' month to opiate the masses only prolongs the suffering.

39 All the AGW shit is coming back with a vengeance.CRU and Mann were "cleared" of any wrongdoing.Remember when people were giddy that AGW was dead?

40 I worked at the largest McPukils west of the Mississippi while in college. What a miserable sweat shop. And then the fucking corporation donates money to every damn libtard group around. I haven't eaten anything from Pukils in 25 years. They can McKiss my ass.

41 Hey, you guys are forgetting the jobs saved and created by Chelsea's wedding.  Please.

42 Unexpectedly, two hours after I eat McDonald's I have to make an urgent trip to the bathroom.

Which makes you more productive that the "stimulus".

43 Unexpectedly, your boy Masturbatin' Pete recently got laid off from his Biglaw job. Unexpectedly.

Well, that means more time for you-know-what...

44 The place I'm at just dropped 370 more people, director level and above. Does that sound like a company gearing up to bask in the sunshine of Recovery Summer?

45

I kinda wondered why the news was so slow earlier in the week.

Now I know.

Time to start drinking!

46 these are people who are just too laxy to ho out and find a job probably a lot of union workers

47

I finished school 1.5 years ago and never could get a fulltime job.

unexpectedly

48 I just put the tip in and unexpectedly 2 months later I was in front of the JP with her and her Dad.  Who had picked me up for a hunting trip.  In April.  Holding a fine greek italian shotgun.  Which, while never directly pointed at me, was never held so as to be not pointed in my general direction neither.

49 Meanwhile,fuckin' Brett Favre,retires every year,never goes to training camp and winds up being named the starting Qb unexpectedly.

50 Scientists shocked to find there's water at the bottom of the ocean.

51 48 I finished school 1.5 years ago and never could get a fulltime job. unexpectedly Posted by: brett favre's crocs at August 05, 2010 12:50 PM (9B8os) ---------------------------- So what. You're buying health insurance!

52

In the news today here in gulf coast Texas, the city of Sealey is facing half its residents getting laid off as the defense contract for BAE is moved from red Texas to purple Wisconsin.

unexpectedly

53 liberals will blame the GOP for the sunset and claim credit for the following sunrise ...

54 Who needs a job? Just move to D.C. and get some o' that Obammi Wowie!

http://bit.ly/9rl8a4

55 Unexpectedly, two hours after I eat McDonald's I have to make an urgent trip to the bathroom.

Geez Ace, all that Hobo jerky and Val-U-Rite gives you one hell of a "constitution". I usually only make it about 15 minutes before crapping myself.

Little OT, but my wife works for one of the major banks in their loan dept., and she told me they are at about 35% of their projections for loans this year. I'm beginning to lose my faith in the Obama regime.

56 53 Big mistake letting those limeys take over our defense companies.

57 OT:

Does anyone find it odd that the State of California refused to mount a defense in the gay marriage case?

From the procedural history portion at the beginning of the decision:

With the exception of the Attorney General, who concedes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, Doc #39, the government defendants refused to take a position on the merits of plaintiffs' claims and declined to defend Proposition 8.

Anybody else feel like they just got bumrolled?

58 So I
Unexpectedly woke up this morning.
Unexpectedly showed up to work.
Unexpectedly had a cup of my favorite caffeinated beverage.
Unexpectedly started wasting time on AoSHQ.
Unexpectedly started listening to Rush...

More critical updates of erratic unpredictable behavior to follow!

59

I, for one, just hope Michelle and her entourage are enjoying their vacation in Spain.

60 On the bright side, US manufacturing of currency is at an all-time high. Go, USA!

61

Anybody else feel like they just got bumrolled?

 

legally bumrolled now that Prop 8 is  gone.

62

I have a question for your old timers?

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

63

The Obama administration is about to take this country down in flames by spending hundreds of billions, trillions, tens of trillions on anything and everything, just like your garden variety drowning man clutches at straws.

Curious, I agree, though never ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity.  This administration has no idea whatsover, they are flailing around and hoping that the Fourth Estate will cover for them until their time is up.  That's why Obama said he would rather be a one-term president than a mediocre president.  He wishes!  He is going to be a spectacular failure.

64 Democrats suffer huge losses in November election.

Unexpectedly.

65 Another unexpected result of this unprecended administration!

66
John Kerry unexpectedly had to pay taxes on his foreign built swift boat.

67
Moosed, you just gave me an ideer.

A remake of the song "[Because] I Got High" using the word "Unexpected"

68 Curious, I agree, though never ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

If they were just stupid, they'd at least see that they're getting nowhere and look to make changes.

This is racism malice, straight up.

69

I have a question for your old timers?

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

Yes, in Cuba

70 Posted by: Decaf at August 05, 2010 12:44 PM (NooBZ)

This is the beginning of the libs/dems trying to put together the kind of empire that the fox news people have put together.  They actually think this is all they have to do.  They forget, ratings are based on whether or not people are actually watching, listening and reading.   they've been down this road before, but, if somehow they can build a small empire to lib/dem dom....and get rid of the fox news empire, then they will be the go to guys for news right?

71 63

I have a question for your old timers?

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

Posted by: Ben at August 05, 2010 12:56 PM (wuv1c)

I'm old enough to answer that question, the problem is I can't remember.

72 Unexpectedly, your boy Masturbatin' Pete recently got laid off from his Biglaw job. Unexpectedly.

Welcome to funemployment.  Well, more fun for some you than for others, IYKWIMAITYD.

73

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

Posted by: Ben at August 05, 2010 12:56 PM (wuv1c)

Except for being in black and white, yes.  And the background music was worse.

74 Democrats suffer huge losses in November election.

Unexpectedly.

Nuh, Uh! intrade has the democrats up by 20%!

75 I just, unexpectedly, shit in the woods.

76
Double dip, anyone?

More like a double-decker shit sammich.

77

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

Well, almost.

We had jobs back then.

78

@35

I guess The One's abilities stop at causing the seas to cease rising.

Even his King Canute act is dubious --we still  keep having high tides here -- or is that just because we're a Red State?  Hell, he can't even command a upsurge of  crude oil to stop flowing -- even after 60 days of magical imprecations, all of them invoking the name of the Dreaded Demon George W. Bush.  (Finally, the hole was plugged over the squawking and howling of  the uusual Environmental Experts, accompanied by the ritual hara-kiri ofthe BP CEO.)

79 is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

Hard to say.  I had less stuff, less money, fewer options and, to top it off, had the threat of nuclear vaporization hanging over my my head but, I was young and strong, gravity was still in a losing battle with my wife's bustline and I had cute little children who weren't making my pull my hair out.

And the music was better.

80

I have a question for your old timers?

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

No. As bad as it was then, you at least had a smidgen of faith in the American people, and that it would get better.


_{not that I'm really and old timer}

81

_{We had jobs back then.}

Don't forget Huge Muff, Arthur Treacher's and 'Pong'.

82 "67
John Kerry unexpectedly had to pay taxes on his foreign built swift boat.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at August 05, 2010 12:57 PM (rMMMP)"

Dontcha always think though that they make sure they get caught on one thing so they don't get caught on others?  Like, "I'll throw the peasants in the media this bone, they can expose me, I'll balk, but ultimately pay my taxes and then the peasants will stop looking at me, thinking they got me and that is that"  (disclaimer, not necessarily talking about kerry here, rather talking about a what may be widespread modus operandi)

83 f'n italics not working again

84 these are people who are just too laxy to ho out and find a job probably a lot of union workers

Posted by: denny crane

 

Wow, what a splendid effort Denny! This was almost coherent. Now let's finishing gluing on the stars, and we'll hang this on the wall outside the classroom. And then you can tuck in to your juice and cookies.

85

I have a question for your old timers?

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

Who you callin an "Old Timer" Punk?

Now get off my lawn!!

86 f'n italics not working again

F*'n ITALICS! How do they WORK!

87

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

It was much, much colder. You could release your shakras on any woman, and your dad would bail you out of trouble. You got into elite colleges without trying, and they made movies about your eternal love story.

88 Thank goodness we have tax increases, unfunded bailouts, and choking regulations on the horizon to get us out of the ditch.

Barack Obama in
Cloward-Piven, The Reckoning

Roger Ebert gives it "Two Thumbs Up" and America "The Middle Finger".

89

 is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

Back then in Texas it was rather uncivilized to not pull in to the stop-n-rob convenience store and pick up a rather icy can or two of carbonated amber nectar for the ride home.  Gunracks could also be used to store golf umbrellas, in addition to the intended items, in the pickup for use when either was needed. 

90 Now, now, now fellow morons, all this negative talk is what is causing this double dip.

Why that is what the AP says! http://tinyurl.com/28qvq58

91 is this what it felt like in the 1970's? Maybe in East Germany. Over here we just had a weak President, some oil shocks, and some bad decisions. But it was still America.

92 Two shades of O/T, just to cleanse the palate.

1.) Terror arrests in California, Minnesota, and...Alabama?!?  (Clearly, the Redneck Early Warning system needs tuning.) (h/t Hot Air)

2.) ND Gov. Hoeven has a daughter.  Who, as it happens, looks smokin' hot in a bikini. (duff of cap to Other McCain, and yes, there's image-y goodness)

We now return you to your previously scheduled mental breakdown, already in progress.

93

If they were just stupid, they'd at least see that they're getting nowhere and look to make changes.

This is racism malice, straight up.

Nickless, being stupid that sort of rationalization is beyond them.  OK, I'll move a little bit: these people have gone to prestige colleges so either they have some smarts or their parents are/were loaded.  Nah, changed my mind, they're still stupid.

94 Easy boys, I have saved EleventyBillion jobs since I was crowned ruler of the world.  Heck, I saved 10,000 jobs at a hotel in Spain this week alone.

95 1 The sun unexpectedly rose in the east this morning.

Posted by: NJConservative at August 05, 2010 12:30 PM (LH6ir)

And apparently Ace with it!

(am I too new to make those jokes? Impressed by the posting spree today.)

96

...but, if somehow they can build a small empire to lib/dem dom....and get rid of the fox news empire, then they will be the go to guys for news right?

Build something?  No.  So their other option is to get rid of Fox but there again they may encounter unintended consequences - meaning that some, or a lot, or even all of theirs may go as well.  Hello Pravda!

97 Unexpectedly, Obozo's numbers drop to below 30...

98 The sun unexpectedly rose in the east this morning.

Posted by: NJConservative at August 05, 2010 12:30 PM (LH6ir)

And apparently Ace with it!

(am I too new to make those jokes? Impressed by the posting spree today.)

Posted by: Randy

 

Depends upon what you meant by 'rose'. If you went straight for the worst, most disgusting connotation, then you sir are in the groove. Otherwise, back off junior, and let the pros work.

99

I have a question for your old timers?

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

Posted by: Ben at August 05, 2010 12:56 PM

Nuh-uh.

I had a job, and so did everyone else I knew.

Had a nice place near the beach, and enough money for some low-key Valu-Rite paaaah-taaaaay goodness. Had a car I could service myself, one that didn't flash error codes to gubmint computers when I disconnected the seatbelt warning light.

Was gettin' more, ummmm, friendly action from the chix IYKWIMAITYD.

And Jimmuh Carter was a fool, but hadn't reached that stage of dementia where he hated the USA. Yet.

100 Start a new life in the off-world colonies..

101

Pradva would be so proud of the AP

The crowd at the Ford plant was smiling from ear to ear, giving a very warm welcome to President Obama, who finished speaking at about 10:45 a.m.

The plant is hiring some 1,200 new employees; 400 to 600 of them will be brand new employees, to put together the new Ford Explorer SUV.

Of those employees, many will be making $14 an hour, which is about half of what the previous employees make at the plant.

Not mentioned in the story is the 5,000 people laid off. So 5,000 out and 1,200 back in and half of those being paid half of what the former employees made. I can see why they were "smiling from ear to ear"

102 steevy: "All the AGW shit is coming back with a vengeance..."

That was the cover the communists were using to infiltrate every Western nation. As with all of the policies that have been crafted since the radical 60's, the Progressives/Democrats cannot afford to abandon their constructs or methodology. Their ends did not change, only the means - a less radical pose. We're being taken over by Watermelons.

103

I have a question for your old timers?

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

Posted by: Ben at August 05, 2010 12:56 PM

Well, for the first half of the 70s I was mostly in the South China Seas making a floating airport go so we could bomb the hell out of the commies just so the commies at home could make it all for naught.

The music was a whole lot better though, even if Elvis did die. In the last part of the 70s inflation was astronomical unemployment was high and Carter fixed everything with his shit eating grin and a sweater.

But I had a job and I didn't have to sleep in a coffin inside a room full of swinging dicks underneath a jet engine test stand.

I was happy. 

104 I have turned their machinations messing with the U3 unemployment rate into a game to try and find where they fiddle with it.  The U3 is a terrible metric to begin with but at least there was a historical way to compare apples with apples.  It is now apples vs oranges.

105 Decaf: "Curious, I agree, though never ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity."

Even stupid people occasionally, even if accidentally, do something right. A dart from a blind man will eventually hit the target. This all is not explainable by mere stupidity.

106 Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 05, 2010 01:35 PM (1Jaio)

I said here yesterday that the college grads, newly minted are getting jobs.  Maybe not the $60 grand jobs they were promised when they started college, instead they are getting $20 and $30 and up to $50 grand, depending on their field of study and the city, but they are getting jobs.  those who were fired were making way more money than this.  And they are easily replaced by the new kids coming out of school.   And, since you can live with ten others in the same position in a 9 X 12 room, they are happy.  Plus mom and dad can keep them on their insurance, so they don't even need benefits.

The people who lost their jobs aren't even getting the jobs that are out there that do require a level of experience.  Apparently, rumor has it, those with the jobs would rather lore someone away from a competitor.  rumor has it, that they are telling head hunters they will only hire people who are already working, not the ones who have been fired. 

why do you suppose this is?

107 Well, that means more time for you-know-what... Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at August 05, 2010 12:48 PM (bgboM) Prayer and contemplation? No? (Seriously, condolences on losing your job. Any prospects?)

108 When are those assholes going to fire their fucking 'economists'?  They haven't been right yet.

Or are those 'economists' also "affirmative action employees"?

109 Obviously retail sales are down.  People hunker down during depressions.  I've stopped buying stuff entirely, but I have significantly upscaled the places I shoplift at and only siphon fuel out of new Caddys.

110

 Obviously retail sales are down.  People hunker down during depressions.  I've stopped buying stuff entirely, but I have significantly upscaled the places I shoplift at and only siphon fuel out of new Caddys.

PA, you are a card. 

111

I have a question for your old timers?

is this what life felt like in the 1970s?

Posted by: Ben at August 05, 2010 12:56 PM 

Yes and no.

Yes because it looked like there was no end in sight and Carter had no fucking clue how to fix anything.

No because back then us proles were only accused of causing a "malaise", not of being enemies of the ruling class and actively screwing everything up. Plus, now those of us who went through that actually have homes, families and an ever-increasing mountain of federal regulations.

Does somebody have a time-travel machine to lend me to go back?

 

 

112 Still not a word of this 'unexpected' news on my talk radio station 1/2 hour breaks. Lots about Prop 8 though. MFM doing the typical 'nothing to see here' approach to the news.

113
I thought the one thing that's missing from this 1970's rehash was the rise of cult membership.  Then I remembered Global Warming.

114 To append what Paulie@112 et al. wrote:

We thought we only had to worry about the Communists in the Soviet Union. Now, we have to worry about them both foreign and domestic and cannot hide behind our ignorance.

115 I really, really want to nuke this fuckers nostrils from orbit.

116 Wrong thread.  My bad.

117 Yeah it was really unexpected that it burns when I take a piss after I banged that disgusting whore in my Buick last week.

118 This might be the longest running joke in D.C.

119
Two hours?  You must have an iron stomach!  If I eat McDonald's I will have a tsunami-like bowel movement in exactly 15 minutes after the fact.  Unexpectedly, of course.  Have not bought Ex Lax in years, oddly enough.

120

Please, Ace, spare us the urgencies to specific destinations. (Fan, spray, run)

121 so good!

122 the  passage  read  so  nice!