The heat makes everybody a little bitchy, doesn't it?

Republicans and Democrats have unleashed fusillades of attack against each other in the wake of the announcement but Obama has stayed quiet, frustrating his partyÂ’s base.

“It’s hard to see how we avoid a Tea-Party recession* if the president who has the biggest megaphone in the country is not willing to speak clearly on the issue,” Justin Ruben, executive director of MoveOn.org, told The Hill in a Saturday afternoon interview.

For all his bluster and crank, Obama just can't manage to be pissy enough for his deep left-field base.

I checked my crystal balls this past week, and came up with two explanations for the leftist bitching over the debt deal. Ace hit on one, they're just now figuring out they lost in 2010.

Mine are 1) they see their Precious™ in deep shit in 2012. It's dawning on them that the pendulum is still swinging the wrong way, and 2) they realize the only thing right now keeping them from 4-8 years of Republican governance is a couple of dozen ninnies in the Senate.

That can't feel good. Hence the full-on, spittle flecked wigout from the left.

They've had 3 years of shoving the shit sandwich down our gullets. Any compromise, any perception that they can't kick us around anymore is intolerable. They don't just want to win, they want to punish conservatives.

Compromising, losing face, is not punishing.

And it's not acceptable to them.

I wish I could hug them all and tell them in a reassuring voice, "too fucking bad."

According to Frau Blucher at the NCEW Civility Project, I can call them bitchy if I deem it factual.

*yup, this is the new trial balloon. I expect tomorrow's Sunday news crap shows to be full of this one, and I predict we'll hear it a lot from now on.

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Everybody's favorite mystery* blog is still up and running.

*the mystery is whether it's a parody or serious. I'm leaning towards parody but it's so damn sincere!

Recent posts have gone into excruciating detail on why the IraqWarWasWrong but there have been occasional excursions into health care and economic theory.

I was impressed by his post of Feb 10, 2010 on Stimulus job creation.

The Results Are In: The Stimulus Made There Be ALOT Of Jobs (In The Future)

WHycome we know the stimulus worked you ask. Well we know on account of ANAYALSIS from STUDIE"S you jacass. STudie's from SMART people like Yggie

Which is how without further adieu here's a good blog post were Yggie show's a GRAPH (yes thats right dhingers ever try using graphs?).

Basically, it's a graph of how many jobs the Stimulus made in the future:

So you see, thats the answer to the question Did the Stimulus make jobs. Answer yes- in the future. Case closed. Tahts basically all the argument you need against someone who questions whether the Stimulus made jobs. It totally did (just look at that graph).

Where did Yggie get this he got it from Macroeconomic Advisor's. Thats how you know its solid right there. At first I was like skeptical. But then when I heard it was from Macroneconomic Advisors. Well I mean how can you argue with that. (Are you a Macroeconomic Advisor? Thought not). Furthermore, as Yggie points out, "all private sector forecasters" agree with it. ALL of them. Take the set of all Private Sector Forecasters. (i.e. People with the job title Private Sector Forecaster). ALL of the members of that set agree with the above graph, as far as Yggie can tell. Now thats what I call a impressive number/finding.

You Can't Argue With That.

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It's a little-known fact that DOOM smells a lot like a burning tire-dump.

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I heard this ad from the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) on the way to work the other day and about wrecked the car:

Seems Darrell Issa didn't care for it much either.

Not a single cent of taxpayer dollars, huh? Then how do you explain this, you lying bastards?

The US Postal Service warned on Friday that it could default on payments it owes the federal government, just days after the US government itself narrowly averted a default.

The government's mail service said it lost $3.1 billion in the period from April to June, blaming "the anemic state of the economy" and the growing popularity of electronic communications over old-fashioned letters.

As a result of its mounting losses, the US Postal Service said it would not be able to make a legally required $5.5 billion payment in September to a health-benefits trust fund.

Oh. The federal government just fronts the USPS workers' (read APWU members') health benefits with taxpayer dollars that the USPS can't reimburse.

Got it!

The entire bloated, corrupt enterprise that is our federal government is about to unravel in front of us. And it's going to be ugly.

More to come.

Update: By comparison, while the USPS was busy losing $3.1 billion, FedEx made $865 million pre-tax in its fourth fiscal quarter ended May 31, 2011.

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Please go to the link and read the whole thing. It's worth it.

[text removed because I'm told the link is on a RightHaven block list -lw]

This guy was obsessed with Ms. Anderson's breasts and made them a constant subject of conversation around the office. Because she is single, he had no fear of some husband coming around to make him eat his own teeth.

Nothing like having to constantly fend off a filthy satyr when you're just trying to support your family.

Disgusting, just awful.

Despite a cursory, thirty-second internet search, I was unable to turn up any pics of Ms. Anderson's stupefying gazongas. Sorry.

But I did find something stupid and boob-related for you below the fold. more...

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The Tabliban is claiming credit. It's not confirmed yet but it looks like it's true.

A military helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops and seven Afghan commandos, the country's president said Saturday. An American official said it was apparently shot down, in the deadliest single incident for American forces in the decade-long war.

The Taliban claimed they downed the helicopter with rocket fire while it was taking part in a raid on a house where insurgents were gathered in the province of Wardak late Friday. It said wreckage of the craft was strewn at the scene.

NATO confirmed the overnight crash took place and that there "was enemy activity in the area." But it said it was still investigating the cause and conducting a recovery operation at the site. It did not release details or casualty figures.

"We are in the process of accessing the facts," said U.S. Air Force Capt. Justin Brockhoff, a NATO spokesman.

This is the worst single day loss of life for Americans in the almost 10 years of the war in Afghanistan.

Report: Majority of those killed were from SEAL Team 6.

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When you read things like this, did it make you think that maybe yesterday's job report might not have been all that bad?

The U.S. economy added more jobs than expected in July and the unemployment rate edged down, a move that should help ease concerns that a new recession may be around the corner.

1. "Above expectations?" A week before the release, the consensus was +100K jobs. Half a week before the release it was +85K jobs. The day before it was +50K jobs. When your expectations are that volatile up to the day before the release, I don't think they matter at all. It's not good news - it's meaningless news.
   
   
2. "Jobs created?" The job creation number is normally taken from the Establishment Survey (the survey of businesses), but it doesn't distinguish between full-time and part-time work. So let's take a look at full-time employment from the Household survey (the survey of the civilian noninstitutional population):

we've lost more than 900,000 full-time jobs since March 2011.

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Rick Santelli, the CNBC contributor whose rant heard 'round the world can be credited as much as anything with sparking the tea party movement, absolutely bitchslapped smarmy WaPo juiceboxer Ezra - the constitution is, like, 100 years old - Klein yesterday.

Video below the fold. more...

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Ah yes, it's Friday! So much Doom! this week that it's only fitting to start off the ONT talking about, well, a bomb that will bring Doom! to our enemies. The above pic is one of the MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator). Here's the latest on where we are at with this 30,000 pound harbinger of kinetic action.

Unlike the MOAB, however, this project’s goal is a GPS-guided, penetrating weapon that can be carried aboard B-52 Stratofortress or B-2 Spirit bombers to defeat “a specialized set of hard and deeply buried targets” like bunkers and tunnel facilities. Some graphics show expectations of over 60 feet of concrete destroyed, and a USAF article stated that the bomb was meant to penetrate 200 feet underground before exploding.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked 66 years ago. 30 years ago Paul Fussell wrote this important essay, 'Thank God for the Atom Bomb'.

21 year old 2nd Lt. Fussell commanded infantry in WWII France. Later, he had to sit around waiting to invade Japan and die. That was the general expectation of the vets of the European theater - they didn't think they'd survive Japan.

Then Aug 6th happened.

When the atom bombs were dropped and news began to circulate that "Operation Olympic" would not, after all, be necessary, when we learned to our astonishment that we would not be obliged in a few months to rush up the beaches near Tokyo assault-firing while being machine-gunned, mortared, and shelled, for all the practiced phlegm of our tough facades we broke down and cried with relief and joy. We were going to live. We were going to grow to adulthood after all.

The point of this post is to entice you click on the above link and read the essay. These excerpts give you a sense of the essay but don't include every example and argument. That's why you should Read The Whole Thing.

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