Category Archives: The Economy

Rule 5: Swim wear

Posted on June 30, 2013 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Swim wear

If I wasn’t so lazy, I would use software to trim out the ad part of this since all I’m interested in is the pretty gal on the swing. But since I don’t know the name of this advertising model, it’s probably best to leave it alone.

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Saving the planet by destroying the economy

Posted on June 28, 2013 | Comments Off on Saving the planet by destroying the economy

President Wormtongue’s new “executive order” (read dictator’s fiat) to put new restrictions on power plant carbon emissions will hike unemployment by raising the cost of doing business, i.e. increasing the cost of electricity.

Just like his party’s tax increases which are restraining consumer spending, but have been hidden by federal (read Democrat) manipulation of the data.

Not to mention Wormtongue’s own manipulation of climate “science.”

All of which amazes me, frankly, because back when I voted Democrat the party wasn’t this stupid. They tried to lower unemployment, not raise it. They tried to encourage business, not penalize it. They wanted general prosperity for all, not more welfare and food stamps. But, then, they didn’t send cretins to the White House just because their skin was the preferred color.

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The ObamaCare catastrophe

Posted on June 22, 2013 | Comments Off on The ObamaCare catastrophe

Primary care doctors (the first ones you see when you’re sick) already are in short supply so the fed’s October-materializing mandated service to all comers will inevitably cause longer delays for everyone.

Meanwhile, the healthy young who supposedly are going to be funding this new bureaucratic nightmare have no reason to do so: “…why would they sign up [to pay an estimated $5,800 a year], especially since the alleged penalties will be negligible and likely unenforced?” Why, indeed.

Remember Sarah Palin’s assertion that there would be “death panels” to decide when old people had lived long enough? Wormtongue’s minions swore it wasn’t true and the Democrat news media piled on. Well, guess what? There will be a panel and it will make life and death decisions.

“The IPAB’s godlike powers are not accidental. Its goal, conspicuously proclaimed by the Obama administration, is to control Medicare spending in ways that are insulated from the political process.”

About the only good thing to come out of ObamaCare, so far, is the number of doctors abandoning health insurance altogether and lowering their prices.

The worst thing to come? Surely it will be management of the old private and new public health insurance system by the corruptible Internal Revenue Service. You think they’re hated and distrusted now? Just wait…

“…the IRS can barely manage what it already has to do (and that’s a generous characterization given its unlawful targeting of conservative groups). The prospect of the IRS taking a central role in the administration of ObamaCare can only be described as scary.”

Meanwhile, the brilliant guy who rubber-stamped this sucker is off to Africa as part of his and Mooch’s endless series of vacations, this time spending a cool $100 million of our tax money. They know a sweet deal when they see one!

As Instapundit says, the country is in the very best of hands.

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The elephants in the room, heh

Posted on June 21, 2013 | Comments Off on The elephants in the room, heh

What is it about New York and Chicago union bosses? Are they all fat and happy, not to mention lazy and stupid?

Or is it just these two behemoths?

Via ChicagoBoyz.

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Weaponizing the tax code in California

Posted on June 5, 2013 | Comments Off on Weaponizing the tax code in California

The Boy Scouts (Mr. B. is a rising First Class) recently changed their policy to start admitting homosexual boys, even here in Texas. They still refuse, however, to allow homosexual adults as full or assistant scoutmasters.

So California—naturally it would be the Californicators—is raising the ante. The scouts must allow homosexuals in all capacities or lose their nonprofit status there. Also the California churches and synagogues that frequently sponsor their outfits (called troops) must do the same or suffer the same.

The way to fight this, it seems to me, would be to demand (via a good lawsuit if necessary) that it be enforced equally. Politicians don’t do equal very well, for all their pious prattle about it.

Force mosques, for instance, to allow homosexuals in all capacities. Since the goat-lovers are about the only fully-protected American minority these days, their howling might get this oppressive nonsense stopped. Might. Or it may take the Boy Scouts joining the business exodus out of California.

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Krystal Ball: the snooze media’s future

Posted on June 4, 2013 | Comments Off on Krystal Ball: the snooze media’s future

I can see (and hear) the executive meeting in the publisher’s office where the print bigs ponder what to do, what to do, now that they have lost forever the bills-and-salaries-paying classifieds to the Net and the alphabets seek a remedy to Fox News.

Ah, ha, they hit upon it! If you can’t beat the Net, then you join the Net, and not with just a blizzard of advertising pop-ups on your snazzy new subscription site where subscriptions are going begging.

No, the brainstorm is more obvious than that (though, granted, snooze media executives have real problems with the obvious). It’s this: which Net product (after the ancestry sites, that is) makes the most money? Okay, after Fox. Exactly. Porn.

Well, you could go for a real merger, but probably not. How would you continue to get all those young PC women journalism school graduates to work for peanuts, for the thrill (down the leg and elsewhere) of helping the Democrat party maintain (and, yea, verily) expand its hold on America?

I’ve got it, yells the new up-and-coming rising exec star. And, lo and behold, the new angle is unveiled on MSNBC, the most blatant of the Democrat-pushing snooze sites: Introducing…. ta-da (or, more appropriately, ta-ta) Krystal Ball.

Krystal Ball. Get it? Sounds like a fifth-tier porn queen with grotesquely-inflated breasts, a MILF with pets, no children, who actually prefers DP? Yeah, okay, so what? That’s the point, ace. It’s the future.

Via Weasel Zippers.

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Remember: Evian is naive spelled backwards

Posted on May 21, 2013 | Comments Off on Remember: Evian is naive spelled backwards

Bernie at Planck’s Constant can’t help but wonder at the pols requiring expiration dates on bottled water. He thinks they’re stupid.

Actually they’re crooks. Expiration dates mean more sales and passing laws like that mean more bribes from the lobby. We have the best pols money can buy, after all, though it ain’t sayin’ much.

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