Category Archives: The Economy

Eat Mor Chikin

Posted on September 30, 2014 | 3 comments

One reason your beef and pork prices are going up at the grocery is because Obozo and his green cronies are conspiring to raise electricity bills to fight non-existent climate change. The grocery is passing the higher cost on.

But Andy at MyOldRV, whose wholesaler recently alerted him to rising beef and pork prices even without the grocery middleman, has discovered another problem that’s apparently going under-reported.

“Cattle herds were depleted over the last two years as ranchers were forced to sell due to the drought. There was some sort of virus introduced into the pigs starting in North Carolina that they think came from China. It has since spread across the country and killed millions of piglets. I never saw it reported on the news.”

So, like the billboards say, “Eat Mor Chickin.” It’s likely to be the cheapest.

Via MyOldRV.

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Movin’ to McKinney

Posted on September 27, 2014 | Comments Off on Movin’ to McKinney

The downside (for the rest of us) of McKinney’s top ranking in Money mag’s Best Places to Live feetch:

“Mark Strange, 41, who relocated from California two years ago for his job at Fossil, an accessories manufacturer, says that living downtown was a no-brainer for him, his wife, Patrizia Montanari, and their two young children. ‘It’s a mix of European, East Coast, and West Coast here,’ adds Mon­tan­ari, 36, a photographer. ‘You get culture and more country charm for less money than what you’d find in Dallas.’”

Some of us would never equate culture and Dal-ass at all, but I suppose if the Californicators and East Coast lefties must flock (like the sheep they are) to Texas in order to escape the Obama/Democrat Depression, the Dallas area is the best place for them.

UPDATE:  This kind of Dal-ass culture we could all do without: First U.S. case of Ebola. Lucky us.

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Rule 5: News Babes

Posted on September 24, 2014 | 1 comment

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PJTV’s Michele Fields, who has previously given a cool Econ 101 talk on how Obozo’s favorite president, FDR, prolonged the Great Depression. Just like the O is doing now with his own version of big spending, big taxes and big regulations.

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RFK’s Jr. wants to jail warming deniers

Posted on September 23, 2014 | 3 comments

Like father like son?

Daddy is infamous for ordering the FBI wiretapping of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1963-66, supposedly because two of Dr. King’s advisers were members of the American Communist Party — which wasn’t illegal then and isn’t now.

Now sonny, a marcher in Sunday’s socialist meetup in NYC at the Dictator’s Club, aka the UN, says Americans who dispute global warming are guilty of “a criminal offense — and they ought to be serving time for it.”

Just a chip off the old Democrat’s block. Fortunately for us, without Daddy’s power. Dream on, Junior, dream on.

Via Instapundit.

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Cool, wet summer equals hottest August ever?

Posted on September 21, 2014 | Comments Off on Cool, wet summer equals hottest August ever?

NOAA and NASA say yes. NASA satellite data says no, the peak was actually in 1998. The agencies are part of you-know-who’s administration. The satellite data isn’t political. Not yet, anyhow. Adds so-called “flat-earther” Dr. Roy Spencer:

“The fortuitous revelation of record warm sea surface temperatures in August, only days before Climate Summit 2014, begs the question — why? Why were SSTs so warm? (Not “Why announce it just before Leonardo DiCaprio’s coronation?”)” The timing is obvious.

The Dictator’s Club (aka the UN), hosting Obozo’s climate summit on Tuesday (which will excuse our soon-to-be record-setting, further economy-killing electricity hikes), appointed the Hollyweird actor as its climate spokesfolk. Isn’t that special? And the federal lying, backing a president who can’t ever seem to tell, much less reveal, the truth, is no surprise. Adds Steve Goddard:

“Contrary to the spectacular ‘hottest August ever’ lies being propagated by NASA GISS and NOAA ahead of Obama’s climate conference – August was the coldest in five years and the second coldest in 10 years, according to far more accurate NASA satellite data.” It was, indeed, an unusually cool summer and a very wet August here in Central Texas.

Quick, one of you Democrat bureaucrats round up a tech to rejigger the sat sensors. The boss ain’t gonna like being contradicted by science.

UPDATE:  All those federal lies have produced a following, of course. The usual crowd of Marxists and assorted loons. DiCaprio wasn’t pleased when PJTV asked about his carbon footprint from his multiple private yachts and jets. He scurried away without answering.

Of course. He and Al Bore want the rest of us to do without electricity and cars while their lives stay the same. It therefore should be no surprise that the climate warriors also were as trash-can challenged as any other group of adolescents. 

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The Democrat Depression, Part Deux

Posted on September 16, 2014 | 1 comment

Wonder why we’re enduring a now 6-year jobless recovery and very likely even worse to come? Part of it, according to a new international tally, is because we are close to the worst among industrialized nations in our tax burden on business: 32nd out of 34. Only better than Portugal and France.

“Since capital is mobile and businesses can choose where to invest, tax rates that are too high ‘drive investment elsewhere, leading to slower economic growth,’ as the Tax Foundation puts it.” Simple, really. Econ 101.

But don’t expect the Democrats to admit it. They love to tax. At least you can enjoy their rhetoric, if you don’t look behind the curtain. They’ll babble on about income inequality and how they’re going to punish those nasty one percenters who’re taking their investments elsewhere.

Feel better? They hope so. While always keeping their hands out under the table.

Via WSJ.

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Is it okay to steal soap from hotel rooms?

Posted on September 12, 2014 | 2 comments

Miriam of Miriam’s Ideas worries about this because of a family connection:

“One of my relatives who travels extensively has not bought soap in 20 years.  Apparently the complimentary soaps he takes from  hotel rooms fulfill the sanitary needs of his entire family.”

It’s a common behavior, apparently, since her post has drawn scores of hits, including mine. I always swiped the soaps when I traveled but I’d prefer to buy soaps than travel

Via Miriam’s Ideas.

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