Rocket Surgery FTW!

Blah blah blah recent graduates and kids on summer break can't find work (caution NY Times article)

Actually, this is an interesting point about unemployment numbers and the like. But that's not what caught my eye. This is.

Nice job admitting to underage drinking to the entire universe!  And admitting that your friends are providing alcohol to a minor!  Gooooo you!  Look, it's stupid stupid stupid that the drinking age is 21.  But it is.  Have the sense God gave a rock not to get the NY Times to print that you're blissfully ignoring that. 

Then there's this:

Bingo bango.  This is the generation that were told that they were the best and brightest and everyone they want is theirs, just ask.  (Yes, that's a huge overstatement and I can safely presume the parents in the Moron Horde don't do that)  To be smacked in the face with reality must truly suck.  I've always been thankful that my parents made me work for what I wanted, including standing in the fields picking blueberries with the migrant workers at a family friend's farm.  It's made me very very grateful that I now "work" by sitting on my ass and thinking all day.  But I've always been realistic that sometimes you have to take a shitty job because it pays the bills. 

Look, it sucks for the kids to be in this position.  It really really does.  But mayhap some reality smacking will do some of them some good. 

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The Obama administration can't read

Pluggy Joe sticks his foot in it again.

"We misread how bad the economy was, but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package," Biden added. More jobs will be created in coming months, he said.

We're actually 132 days into the recovery package - apparently this ten percent underestimation is another example of the stellar math coming from the Obama administration.

Uh, Plugs, have you actually looked at how many jobs the Obama administration has created? Geoff has created a graph that even cretins like you should be able to understand:



In other words, Plugs, you haven't created shit.  If we get any 'more' of what your administration is serving up, we're going to be in double digit unemployment in short order.

Congratulations on admitting publicly the Obama administration's economic illiteracy - the first step to curing ignorance is admitting it.  Now that you've fessed up to what the rest of us have known all along - that the Obama administration is clueless about economics - could you please start listening to some people who actually know something about how to fix an ailing economy?  Seriously, just because you have no fucking idea about how to financially plan - we just have to look at your personal financials to see that - that doesn't mean you have to wreck the rest of the country to put us in the same position you're in.  Could you maybe start looking at some history and see what pulled us out of the economic morass of the 1970s?  I understand that Obama was still in grade school in the 70s, but you and your hair plugs are old enough to remember the mess the country was in, thanks to the same economic policies the Obama administration is implementing.  Pluggy Joe, do you really think that all we needed to pull us out of that mess was for the banks to more freely lend to people who can't afford to pay their bills anyway, for economic restrictions to be put on corporations that create jobs so that not only can the corporations not afford to grow, they will have to raise prices on the average schmuck who can barely afford to pay his bills as it is.  And then you're going to vilify the corporations for not pitching in enough!

Pluggy Joe, is this really how you think you're going to fix the economy, by taking from the people who really save and create jobs?  The only thing that is going to save your administration from going down in history as the administration who destroyed the American financial system is that you're doing such a good job of it, you're pretty much ensuring no second term, so you won't have time to completely wreck things.  Generations ahead will be paying for your administration's economic illiteracy, but keep torpedoing things for us, Plugs, so in three and a half years people who have actually bothered to educate themselves can step in and mop up the mess where you've piddled all over yourself and us. 

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A new low

A reliable source* tells me that Andrew Sullivan just e-mailed this guy and asked him to "tone it down a little, dude."

(h/t)


*And by "reliable source," I mean "joke that I just made up."

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New unemployment chart from geoff at IB

Well, here it be, unemployment went up a tenth of a percent.  When I saw the new numbers, my first thought was back in my old college macroeconomics class and taking the "discouraged worker" percentage into account when reading unemployment numbers, because they aren't included, because they're no longer actively searching for employment.  Looks like geoff may be thinking the same thing.

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A visit to Bizarro World

What would it look like if St. Andrew of the Blessed Heart-Ache was actually the Conservative that we're so often told he is? Well, I changed a few key words, and...

My view is that people do not change that much and their history is often a guide to who they are, and I observed Obama very closely - after initially liking him - and that's my judgment. I'm very fallible and I may be wrong so I urge Dish readers to seek other views and interpretations. But here's the point I'd make now: If Obama had himself shifted the narrative since the election, if he had gone back to the Senate to do his job diligently, and made an effort to master domestic and foreign policy issues, and run for a second term on his record, rather than preening about in [insert fawning media outlet here] and picking fights with Rush Limbaugh and setting up Organizing For America and on and on, then I think many of us would have been prepared to look again. He was hopelessly unready in 2008 - but he's young and could evolve and grow. Everything we see - from the international family citizenship issues and poverty scandals to the staged controversies - suggest a regression, not an evolution. He is who he is, hence the solidity of his support and opposition.

Yeah. The true conservative voice. Again, yeah.

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The Bailout/Stimulus/Hopeandchange Money Is Tackling The Major Issues

Especially in the eyes of Treacher.

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