Category Archives: The Economy

Rule 5: Ashley Lawrence

President Pinocchio allegedly wants to ban these semiautomatic AR-15s. I think the illegal silencer is a movie prop as Ms Lawrence has appeared in horror flicks. (Although it seems [see comments] silencers are legal in Texas, in case you want to murder without making any noise.)

I say allegedly because President Pinocchio seems to know he has no chance of banning them. But it’s a perfect distraction from the bad economy and continuing high unemployment. Quick, look over there: gun control, assault rifles, gay marriage, war on women, etc…

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The imperial first family

The Cyprus theft better not come here

I’m still waiting for the honest Congressperson (if there is such a one) to file a bill making it a crime for government to try to steal from private bank accounts to pay its debts—as is happening in Cyprus.

I’m usually relaxed about the American response to bad news, however close to home, but I think there will be literal hell to pay if the feds try anything like what the EU is doing. Especially while our spendthrift president and his family live it up on their unprecedented, vacation-a-month tours at our considerable expense.

UPDATE:  It could happen here and it very well might. When is the only question. It’s time to take your money out of the bank and put it under the mattress, though that would certainly make the economy much worse. Then buy yourself a handgun and learn how to use it.

MORE: Economist Thomas Sowell says Barry’s treasury department already is stealing from our savings accounts via “quantitative easing.”

The Democrats’ true intention

Maxine Waters has brain farts all the time, whenever she tries to put more than three or four words together in one sentence. But this one was priceless (in a manner of speaking) because she was left trying so hard to backpedal after inadvertently revealing her party’s true intentions.

Happy little liberal that she is (she even brags about it) she just couldn’t pass up a chance to threaten an oil industry executive with nationalizing his job right out from under him.

But the result of federal management would not be priceless. Five dollar gasoline? Shoot. Try $20 and rationing as all the petit bureaucrats line up for their new jobs “managing” the industry. Think of the towering piles of shuffled paper, reams of ever-new forms to fill out, and the contradictory decisions.

Think the TSA. Think FEMA. Think about taking the bus.

No mo cheese in Cheese Whiz

Charles at Dustbury has discovered that the makers of Cheese Whiz have figured out a way to make the stuff without cheese. Whoop-de-do.

Back off, I say, those folks down in Port Arthur have to do something with all that petro waste they produce while filling your cars with gasoline. They can’t dump it ALL in the Gulf.

Besides, I do assure you from my very own personal experience, there’s not a 13-year-old boy on the planet who could tell the difference.

Yipes: Fossil fuels are greening the planet

Hey, wait a minute. Aren’t fossil fuels and the Greens quite distinct? Isn’t the former the nemesis of the other? Isn’t the so-called runaway greenhouse effect and, uh, its attendant global warming, supposed to create deserts at least as far north as Minneapolis-St. Paul?

Hmm. Instead, it seems, vegetation up there (and even farther north) is growing like mad. More plants, more trees, more grass. Well, these things do take in CO2 in order to grow, and so, taking in the CO2, they are, indeed, growing. Duh.

UPDATE:  The Gorebot didn’t get the memo, or, more likely, he got it but didn’t want to read it as it conflicts with his plan to raise taxes. And, naturally, Obutthead is still leading with his behind. As what they’ve left of our economy dies, get ready for the new Ice Age.