This picture kind of reminds me of this embattled President.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Wow the Scandals are Taking Their Toll on Obama
Well I guess trying to cover up three different scandals at the same time seems to be taking their toll on Obama. This picture is worth a 1000 words
This picture kind of reminds me of this embattled President.
This picture kind of reminds me of this embattled President.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Well it Wasn't Overworked "Rogue Agents" at the IRS Blocking Tea Party Applications
It seems that the higher ups at the Cincinnati IRS actually knew what was happening at the IRS as far back as Dec 2010.
And Cincinnati's Fox 19 News, which has done more solid reporting on this story than most of the major news outlets, looks to have put the final nail in the "rogue agent" story.
The local news station found that there were six agents — not two as former IRS head Steven Miller insisted just last week — who worked on these tax-exempt applications. These agents, Fox 19 learned, all had different direct managers, who in turn had different territory managers.
That means any directive applying to all these workers would had to have come from at least three levels up the management chain.
That manager turns out to be Cindy Thomas — who the IRS says oversees "exempt organization determinations" nationwide. She also happens to be the same person who ProPublica said signed off on releasing nine confidential tax-exempt applications from conservative groups to that liberal-leaning news website.
What is sad is that the national media again ignores the story and it is up to the Cincinnati Fox Affiliate to do their jobs. I'm sure Holder is bugging their phones, hacking their emails, and tracking their movement with drones as we speak.
This national manager who is supposed to be unbiased seems to have leaked tax-exempt applications to some leftist website as well. Isn't that some sort of crime? According to this it sure might be a crime.
According to the IRS’s own manual, anyone found to have engaged in the “unauthorized disclosure of a return or return information” may be subject to felony charges punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and five years in prison:
Well a return isn't an application so she might be in the clear and Holder will never go after her anyway. It does show the incredible bias at the IRS to have a national manager leaking applications to liberal sites though. Now the smoking gun is going to be some email to Cindy Thomas from somebody at the White House saying "Operation Dunk the Tea Bag (or whatever) has been Greenlit"
And Cincinnati's Fox 19 News, which has done more solid reporting on this story than most of the major news outlets, looks to have put the final nail in the "rogue agent" story.
The local news station found that there were six agents — not two as former IRS head Steven Miller insisted just last week — who worked on these tax-exempt applications. These agents, Fox 19 learned, all had different direct managers, who in turn had different territory managers.
That means any directive applying to all these workers would had to have come from at least three levels up the management chain.
That manager turns out to be Cindy Thomas — who the IRS says oversees "exempt organization determinations" nationwide. She also happens to be the same person who ProPublica said signed off on releasing nine confidential tax-exempt applications from conservative groups to that liberal-leaning news website.
What is sad is that the national media again ignores the story and it is up to the Cincinnati Fox Affiliate to do their jobs. I'm sure Holder is bugging their phones, hacking their emails, and tracking their movement with drones as we speak.
This national manager who is supposed to be unbiased seems to have leaked tax-exempt applications to some leftist website as well. Isn't that some sort of crime? According to this it sure might be a crime.
According to the IRS’s own manual, anyone found to have engaged in the “unauthorized disclosure of a return or return information” may be subject to felony charges punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and five years in prison:
Well a return isn't an application so she might be in the clear and Holder will never go after her anyway. It does show the incredible bias at the IRS to have a national manager leaking applications to liberal sites though. Now the smoking gun is going to be some email to Cindy Thomas from somebody at the White House saying "Operation Dunk the Tea Bag (or whatever) has been Greenlit"
Look Whats in My Right Hand Not My Left: Obama posts his Prom Photo
This has to be the worst case of trying to distract the press that I have seen in a long time.
The magazine obtained the photos from Kelli Allman (née McCormack), Obama's classmate at Punahou School in Hawaii. The images, taken at Allman’s parents’ house in Honolulu, show a smiling Obama, in a white sports coat and draped in a lei, with his arm around his date, Megan Hughes, a student at La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls, alongside Allman and her date, Greg Orme, a fellow varsity basketball player and Obama's best friend at the time.
Just in time to distract people from the three scandals swirling. What is funny about that article is it has this caption to the photo.
President Obama, second from right, on prom night, 1979 (Courtesy of Kelli Allman/Contact Press Image)
Wait he isn't the blond in the blue dress? Or the stoned guy in the navy blazer? I'm glad Time Magazine cleared that up for us.
The magazine obtained the photos from Kelli Allman (née McCormack), Obama's classmate at Punahou School in Hawaii. The images, taken at Allman’s parents’ house in Honolulu, show a smiling Obama, in a white sports coat and draped in a lei, with his arm around his date, Megan Hughes, a student at La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls, alongside Allman and her date, Greg Orme, a fellow varsity basketball player and Obama's best friend at the time.
Just in time to distract people from the three scandals swirling. What is funny about that article is it has this caption to the photo.
President Obama, second from right, on prom night, 1979 (Courtesy of Kelli Allman/Contact Press Image)
IRS Official that Targeted the Tea Party Put On Administrative Leave
I guess this is a pre-emptive strike to keep this scandal from getting further out of hand.
Lois Lerner, the IRS official whose unit is at the center of the investigation into alleged Tea Party targeting, has been placed on administrative leave and a replacement has been named.
Ken Corbin was named acting director of exempt organizations during Lerner's leave. He is currently deputy director of submission processing in the wage and investment division.
She should have just testified and not invoked the 5th Amendment like she was a gangster or a communist in the 50s or something. I think in the minds of a lot of Americans if you have information just admit it and see what happens. When you use the 5th Amendment you just look guilty even though you might not be. Mark my words though, there will be a link to someone in the White House before too long. This kid of stuff has a way of metastasizing.
Lois Lerner, the IRS official whose unit is at the center of the investigation into alleged Tea Party targeting, has been placed on administrative leave and a replacement has been named.
Ken Corbin was named acting director of exempt organizations during Lerner's leave. He is currently deputy director of submission processing in the wage and investment division.
She should have just testified and not invoked the 5th Amendment like she was a gangster or a communist in the 50s or something. I think in the minds of a lot of Americans if you have information just admit it and see what happens. When you use the 5th Amendment you just look guilty even though you might not be. Mark my words though, there will be a link to someone in the White House before too long. This kid of stuff has a way of metastasizing.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
30% of Millennials Regret Going to College (AKA Student Loan Hell)
It seems that Millennials are getting buyers remorse when it comes to college.
Here’s an indication of how burdensome student loans have become : About one-third of millennials say they would have been better off working, instead of going to college and paying tuition.
That’s a according to a new Wells Fargo WFC -1.43% study which surveyed 1,414 millennials between the ages of 22 and 32. More than half of them financed their education through student loans, and many say the if they had $10,000 the “first thing” they’d do is pay down their student loan or credit card debt.
Wow if $10K fell out of the sky Millennials would rush to pay off debt first. Well for some of them that debt will follow them around for decades and act as a wall to buying a car, a house, or getting married. More people have to realize that debt is acid that eats away at your future buying power. The less debt you have the more money you have to spend later on. It's that simple.
I bet quite a few of them are now regretting the vast majority of majors since they don't lead to jobs outside of academia in many cases. So all those ethnic studies or medieval literature majors are ruing the fact that they went into debt for $100K at some private college and there will never be a job waiting for them. That job is currently being held by some baby boomer that has tenure and will never give it up as long as the gravy train (which means tuition hikes) keeps running.
At least some of them are understanding that they got the shaft way back in high school.
The Wells Fargo survey found that 79% of millennials think personal finance should be taught in high school; basic investing, how to save for retirement and how loans work were the top three topics they “wished” they’d learned more about.
You would be surprised on how many college graduates could not tell you what the S&P500 or the NASDAQ is or name one stock in either Index. I'm sure if they ever get a job they will end up taking the minimum 401K match because they have to pay off their stupid college loan debt. So that may eat away at 10 years or more of retirement savings.
What sucks even more is that most of the crap that they were taught in high school has absolutely no practical purpose in the real world. I'm pretty sure that many of them would trade every bit of whatever their Trigonometry or Calculus knowledge still remains for a simple business math course. Introduction to personal finance should be a required course that every high school kid needs to pass.
In any case I hope it makes these kids anti-debt and anti-conspicuous consumption. They can't afford a ton of credit cards when their college loan debt is dogging their path.
Here’s an indication of how burdensome student loans have become : About one-third of millennials say they would have been better off working, instead of going to college and paying tuition.
That’s a according to a new Wells Fargo WFC -1.43% study which surveyed 1,414 millennials between the ages of 22 and 32. More than half of them financed their education through student loans, and many say the if they had $10,000 the “first thing” they’d do is pay down their student loan or credit card debt.
Wow if $10K fell out of the sky Millennials would rush to pay off debt first. Well for some of them that debt will follow them around for decades and act as a wall to buying a car, a house, or getting married. More people have to realize that debt is acid that eats away at your future buying power. The less debt you have the more money you have to spend later on. It's that simple.
I bet quite a few of them are now regretting the vast majority of majors since they don't lead to jobs outside of academia in many cases. So all those ethnic studies or medieval literature majors are ruing the fact that they went into debt for $100K at some private college and there will never be a job waiting for them. That job is currently being held by some baby boomer that has tenure and will never give it up as long as the gravy train (which means tuition hikes) keeps running.
At least some of them are understanding that they got the shaft way back in high school.
The Wells Fargo survey found that 79% of millennials think personal finance should be taught in high school; basic investing, how to save for retirement and how loans work were the top three topics they “wished” they’d learned more about.
You would be surprised on how many college graduates could not tell you what the S&P500 or the NASDAQ is or name one stock in either Index. I'm sure if they ever get a job they will end up taking the minimum 401K match because they have to pay off their stupid college loan debt. So that may eat away at 10 years or more of retirement savings.
What sucks even more is that most of the crap that they were taught in high school has absolutely no practical purpose in the real world. I'm pretty sure that many of them would trade every bit of whatever their Trigonometry or Calculus knowledge still remains for a simple business math course. Introduction to personal finance should be a required course that every high school kid needs to pass.
In any case I hope it makes these kids anti-debt and anti-conspicuous consumption. They can't afford a ton of credit cards when their college loan debt is dogging their path.
It Seems Drone Strikes Are Paying Off Only 13 This Year So Far
I guess it must be effective because the Al-Quida leaders are getting killed off and the strikes are coming down in number.
That’s right, the program’s very success in efficiently eliminating scores of Al Qaeda operatives means there are, quite simply, fewer Al Qaeda targets left to kill.
“The [Obama] administration used the drone strikes aggressively and killed the top al Qaeda leaders,” an unnamed intelligence official told Pakistani news site The News International in December 2012. “Now that we have taken out most of these guys, the usage of the drone strikes seems decreasing.”
In Pakistan, it appears so many Al Qaeda targets have been killed, the focus has quietly shifted to Taliban fighters. Taliban targets account for more than 50 percent of targeted killings, compared with just 8 percent for Al Qaeda figures, according to national security analyst Peter Bergen.
They are running out of Al-Quida guys so they are killing Taliban leaders instead. Pretty soon they will just be flying drones around dropping leaflets at this rate. This is one thing I have praised Obama about because I think it is effective and puts the fear of allah into these scumbags.
That’s right, the program’s very success in efficiently eliminating scores of Al Qaeda operatives means there are, quite simply, fewer Al Qaeda targets left to kill.
“The [Obama] administration used the drone strikes aggressively and killed the top al Qaeda leaders,” an unnamed intelligence official told Pakistani news site The News International in December 2012. “Now that we have taken out most of these guys, the usage of the drone strikes seems decreasing.”
In Pakistan, it appears so many Al Qaeda targets have been killed, the focus has quietly shifted to Taliban fighters. Taliban targets account for more than 50 percent of targeted killings, compared with just 8 percent for Al Qaeda figures, according to national security analyst Peter Bergen.
They are running out of Al-Quida guys so they are killing Taliban leaders instead. Pretty soon they will just be flying drones around dropping leaflets at this rate. This is one thing I have praised Obama about because I think it is effective and puts the fear of allah into these scumbags.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Might Be Close to the "Cure for Cancer Wonder" According to a Phase 1 Study
Well I was wondering why Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) stock shot up today when the market was down and it might have been due to this finding.
Ipilimumab (Yervoy, Bristol-Myers Squibb) and nivolumab (BMS-936558, Bristol-Myers Squibb) target immune system checkpoints on immune cells, increasing the immune system’s ability to fight off cancer, according to background information provided by researchers.
For their study, Wolchok and colleagues enrolled patients with inoperable stage III and stage IV metastatic melanoma who underwent up to three prior therapies.
Okay so these are some of the worst of the worst skin cancer patients. So the cancer is bad stuff and getting close to killing the person off. It seems when you use both of these hard to pronounce drugs together this happens:
“What was unique in our experience was that most of these responding patients had rapid and deep regressions,” Wolchok said.
Three out of four patients who responded to concurrent treatment demonstrated tumor reduction within 3 months, a rate faster than that observed with ipilimumab alone, Wolchok said. Sixteen of 52 patients (31%) experienced tumor shrinkage of more than 80%.
“When all concurrent cohorts were considered together, 40% had objective responses,” Wolchok said. “If one broadens this to include patients with slow responses, then 65% of patients have the melanoma controlled with this combination.”
So 65% of the people that took both drugs had the melanoma "controlled." I'm not sure if that is actually cured but I guess it means you won't die from it like in a few weeks or something. Also shrinkage of 80% sounds pretty impressive. I wonder if these people kept taking both drugs it would shrink it even further?
I guess that is what other future studies will show. Also they need to find out how it will work on other types of cancer as well. It's only a Phase 1 study but it might be a pretty good deal for BMY going forward as long as it doesn't have all sorts of side effects and such. Even then 80% tumor shrinkage sound pretty good as far as I can tell.
Ipilimumab (Yervoy, Bristol-Myers Squibb) and nivolumab (BMS-936558, Bristol-Myers Squibb) target immune system checkpoints on immune cells, increasing the immune system’s ability to fight off cancer, according to background information provided by researchers.
For their study, Wolchok and colleagues enrolled patients with inoperable stage III and stage IV metastatic melanoma who underwent up to three prior therapies.
Okay so these are some of the worst of the worst skin cancer patients. So the cancer is bad stuff and getting close to killing the person off. It seems when you use both of these hard to pronounce drugs together this happens:
“What was unique in our experience was that most of these responding patients had rapid and deep regressions,” Wolchok said.
Three out of four patients who responded to concurrent treatment demonstrated tumor reduction within 3 months, a rate faster than that observed with ipilimumab alone, Wolchok said. Sixteen of 52 patients (31%) experienced tumor shrinkage of more than 80%.
“When all concurrent cohorts were considered together, 40% had objective responses,” Wolchok said. “If one broadens this to include patients with slow responses, then 65% of patients have the melanoma controlled with this combination.”
So 65% of the people that took both drugs had the melanoma "controlled." I'm not sure if that is actually cured but I guess it means you won't die from it like in a few weeks or something. Also shrinkage of 80% sounds pretty impressive. I wonder if these people kept taking both drugs it would shrink it even further?
I guess that is what other future studies will show. Also they need to find out how it will work on other types of cancer as well. It's only a Phase 1 study but it might be a pretty good deal for BMY going forward as long as it doesn't have all sorts of side effects and such. Even then 80% tumor shrinkage sound pretty good as far as I can tell.
Some at the Fed Want to Take Away the Punchbowl
I guess you can't buy $85 billion in treasury bonds forever. Easing from the Quantitative Easing is not going to be easy and the market is going to sell off because of it. There is just too much funny money floating around and a nice correction might be a good time to pause to get back in.
Minutes of the Fed's April 30-May 1 meeting released Wednesday show "a number" of members expressed a willingness to scale back the $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bonds the Fed has been purchasing, perhaps as soon as next month, if the economy accelerates. The Fed next meets on June 18-19.
Minutes of the Fed's April 30-May 1 meeting released Wednesday show "a number" of members expressed a willingness to scale back the $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bonds the Fed has been purchasing, perhaps as soon as next month, if the economy accelerates. The Fed next meets on June 18-19.
Still, Chairman Ben Bernanke, the
Fed's most important voice, signaled Wednesday in testimony to Congress
that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to slow its extraordinary
stimulus programs.
I'm picturing the other Fed officials jumping on the skids of the money-dropping helicopter that "Helicopter Ben" is in trying to get it to land.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Cute!: I Had to Post this Sphinx Rat Bathing
I came across this picture and just had to post it. This is the Ottoman Sphinx taking a quick spritz.
The White House Went All Big Brother on Fox News Reporter
Um why does Eric Holder still have a job? This kind of stuff sounds like something out of a Stalinist Police State and not the US.
Investigators looking into disclosures of sensitive information about North Korea got Rosen’s telephone records and a warrant for his personal emails but also used his State Department security badge to track his movements in and out of that building, the Post reported, citing court documents.
They tracked his security badge to see where he went in and outside of the State Department building? I can see Vladimir Putin nodding his encouragement.
The case began when Rosen reported on June 11, 2009, that U.S. intelligence believed North Korea might respond to tighter United Nations sanctions with new nuclear tests. Rosen reported that the information came from CIA sources inside the hermetic Stalinist state.
In other words the reporter developed a source and asked him for news on what is happening at the CIA. Kind of like any reporter in the world. I wonder if the White House plan to break into Rosen's psychiatrists office (if Rosen was indeed seeing a shrink) or not? This pretty much sums up the White House currently.
Investigators looking into disclosures of sensitive information about North Korea got Rosen’s telephone records and a warrant for his personal emails but also used his State Department security badge to track his movements in and out of that building, the Post reported, citing court documents.
They tracked his security badge to see where he went in and outside of the State Department building? I can see Vladimir Putin nodding his encouragement.
The case began when Rosen reported on June 11, 2009, that U.S. intelligence believed North Korea might respond to tighter United Nations sanctions with new nuclear tests. Rosen reported that the information came from CIA sources inside the hermetic Stalinist state.
In other words the reporter developed a source and asked him for news on what is happening at the CIA. Kind of like any reporter in the world. I wonder if the White House plan to break into Rosen's psychiatrists office (if Rosen was indeed seeing a shrink) or not? This pretty much sums up the White House currently.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Why Women Hate Game of Thrones? Wait all the Women I Know Love It
Talk about a way to insult women's intelligence. The article also appears to have been written by a woman that came from the 1950s.
We hate gross things. Know what’s gross? Screwing your sibling.
Yeah girls hate gross things. All those frogs and blood and stuff. Women should be fainting dead away of the vapors upon hearing about that kind of thing. There is not enough poodle dresses and cotillions on Game of Thrones for this author. Although the Lannister siblings getting it on is pretty damn gross. However, it fits the strange world of Westeros and mirrors our own world quite well. The royals in our world are all a pretty inbred lot.
It’s hard to follow. Brilliantly developed storylines are great, but whipping out a dry erase board and Venn diagrams to figure it all out isn’t our idea of a good time. Unless we’re talking about soap operas. Those are perfectly fine.
Wow misogynistic much? She just said that the show is too complicated for a woman to follow. I think this statement got into a time machine from 1951 and found its way onto the Internet. I guess this is brought to you from the same women that gave you the "Allergic to Algebra" T-shirts from Forever 21.
It reminds us of the kids that used to play magic cards in the cafeteria. And people who go to Renaissance festivals. Eating a giant drumstick and drinking out of a goblet is cool, just not every Sunday night for three months straight.
Hmm, the Ren Faires I have been to have about the same amount of women as men. It seems that watching Game of Thrones makes a woman "uncool." I guess the author is still waiting for Barry the Football god to pick her up for a couple of malteds at the soda fountain in his jalopy.
It’s all naked chicks. In addition to the actual ladies of the night on the show, there seem to be a lot of...unofficial ladies of the night on the show. This is why guys love it, we get it, but we can do without seeing topless wenches in loin cloths.
There seems to be about as many men's butts as there is boobs. I have seen far too much of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau wandering around nude. Also the first season was all about Jason Momoa never wearing a shirt the entire time he was on screen. I'm sure this woman gets the vapors whenever she sees herself in the nude.
Dudes get their hands chopped off. And their nipples. And their balls. Really? How is it that you guys like this again?
It's almost like there are no such things as female trauma surgeons in this woman's idealized 1950s world. What is sad about this article is that Game of Thrones has some of the most powerful and capable female characters on TV anywhere.
We hate gross things. Know what’s gross? Screwing your sibling.
Yeah girls hate gross things. All those frogs and blood and stuff. Women should be fainting dead away of the vapors upon hearing about that kind of thing. There is not enough poodle dresses and cotillions on Game of Thrones for this author. Although the Lannister siblings getting it on is pretty damn gross. However, it fits the strange world of Westeros and mirrors our own world quite well. The royals in our world are all a pretty inbred lot.
It’s hard to follow. Brilliantly developed storylines are great, but whipping out a dry erase board and Venn diagrams to figure it all out isn’t our idea of a good time. Unless we’re talking about soap operas. Those are perfectly fine.
Wow misogynistic much? She just said that the show is too complicated for a woman to follow. I think this statement got into a time machine from 1951 and found its way onto the Internet. I guess this is brought to you from the same women that gave you the "Allergic to Algebra" T-shirts from Forever 21.
It reminds us of the kids that used to play magic cards in the cafeteria. And people who go to Renaissance festivals. Eating a giant drumstick and drinking out of a goblet is cool, just not every Sunday night for three months straight.
Hmm, the Ren Faires I have been to have about the same amount of women as men. It seems that watching Game of Thrones makes a woman "uncool." I guess the author is still waiting for Barry the Football god to pick her up for a couple of malteds at the soda fountain in his jalopy.
It’s all naked chicks. In addition to the actual ladies of the night on the show, there seem to be a lot of...unofficial ladies of the night on the show. This is why guys love it, we get it, but we can do without seeing topless wenches in loin cloths.
There seems to be about as many men's butts as there is boobs. I have seen far too much of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau wandering around nude. Also the first season was all about Jason Momoa never wearing a shirt the entire time he was on screen. I'm sure this woman gets the vapors whenever she sees herself in the nude.
Dudes get their hands chopped off. And their nipples. And their balls. Really? How is it that you guys like this again?
It's almost like there are no such things as female trauma surgeons in this woman's idealized 1950s world. What is sad about this article is that Game of Thrones has some of the most powerful and capable female characters on TV anywhere.
College Industrial Complex Scrambles to Fill Seats: Offers Deep Discounts
Well it seems that going into debt for decades to go to college is finally starting to run into pricing pressure.
Among colleges still seeking students for fall classes are Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, the University of Maryland, College Park, The New School in New York City, Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, according to Forbes.com.
Among colleges still seeking students for fall classes are Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, the University of Maryland, College Park, The New School in New York City, Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, according to Forbes.com.
Its list includes more selective schools but the National Association of College Admissions Counselors counts 288 colleges nationwide that have reported having space for incoming freshmen this fall.
The reason why is that families and high school kids are getting sticker-shock at these outrageous prices.
Average tuition and fees alone at private nonprofit four-year
institutions rose $1,173 or 4.2 percent to $29,056 in 2012-13, according
to the College Board. The costs are not much lower for out-of-state
students at public four-year institutions where average tuition and fees
rose $883 or 4.2 percent to $21,706.
Yeah that is a brand new car a year to send a kid to college. Over 4 years you could buy a pretty nice three bedroom house somewhere in the Midwest. What makes this even worse is that after spending all this money these newly minted graduates have a 50/50 chance at best of finding a job. So maybe these colleges shouldn't raise their tuition at four times the rate of inflation going forward.
Monday, May 13, 2013
One thing the GOP and the Dems can Agree On: They Hate Justin Bieber
Well I am not a big fan of the Bieberite but these numbers are pretty crappy.
Bieber was the only artist who had a majority unfavorability rating across all party lines – a majority of Democrats (23-54), Republicans (17-52), and independents (18-56) all reported negative views of the singer.
I wonder what Nikki Minaj got? She can also be called Nikki "I made everyone lose their job on American Idol" Minaj. I do agree with their top three liked people though.
PPP tested the favorability ratings of several of today’s biggest music stars: Taylor Swift (53-27), Adele (54-18), Beyonce (51-30), and Justin Timberlake (52-24) all received positive reviews from voters.
It seems like these celebs seldom get into trouble and produce work that people enjoy.
Bieber was the only artist who had a majority unfavorability rating across all party lines – a majority of Democrats (23-54), Republicans (17-52), and independents (18-56) all reported negative views of the singer.
I wonder what Nikki Minaj got? She can also be called Nikki "I made everyone lose their job on American Idol" Minaj. I do agree with their top three liked people though.
PPP tested the favorability ratings of several of today’s biggest music stars: Taylor Swift (53-27), Adele (54-18), Beyonce (51-30), and Justin Timberlake (52-24) all received positive reviews from voters.
It seems like these celebs seldom get into trouble and produce work that people enjoy.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Holy Crap! Snake-eaters! aka JSOC *pumps fist* Heck Yeah!
I must be buying this book because this stuff sounds strait-up awesome!
Their real days of glory ... really only started after 9/11," Colonel Walter Patrick Lang, who spent much of his career in covert operations, told Scahill. "They didn't do a lot of fighting before that."
Known within the covert ops community as ninjas or "snake eaters," JSOC operators train to track a target, fix his position, and then finish him off without being detected.
Their real days of glory ... really only started after 9/11," Colonel Walter Patrick Lang, who spent much of his career in covert operations, told Scahill. "They didn't do a lot of fighting before that."
Known within the covert ops community as ninjas or "snake eaters," JSOC operators train to track a target, fix his position, and then finish him off without being detected.
"They're the ace in the hole,"
General Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under
President Clinton, told Scahill. "If you need someone that can sky dive
from thirty miles away, go down the chimney of a castle, and blow it up
from the inside — those are the guys you want to call on."
Snake-eaters vs. Jihadis! Who are they killing in a castle? Man, global killing teams culled from the best soldiers we have along with 1000s of targeted drone assassinations? America is such a bad-ass nowadays.
Kudlow is Right: Immigration Reform Means Big Growth for the US
I never understood that nativist part of the GOP that is so dead-set against immigration reform. I think Kudlow is right when he says that a great engine of growth will be unlocked if we fix immigration.
Immigration-reform proposals from Senator Marco Rubio and others land squarely on the growth side of the debate. And I do find it interesting that the Congressional Budget Office — no friend of supply-siders — is touting the dynamic impacts of immigration on economic growth. In a letter to budget chair Paul Ryan, the CBO said the failed 2006 immigration effort would have increased federal revenues more than direct spending. The Joint Tax Committee agreed. The dynamic idea is that immigration significantly increases the size of the U.S. labor force, and that more workers mean more growth.
If you put 11 million people on the tax rolls and starting bringing in waves of future Sergey Brins then the pro-growth part of the GOP needs to jump at the chance. The former CBO head figures that it will put on 1% to GDP growth and reduce the deficit by $2.5 trillion. You add a few Googles to that mix and we are talking real money.
That is why the GOP is such a Frankenstein Monster nowadays. You have pro-growth fiscal conservatives like Kudlow and I butting up against grim austerity nativists trying to block immigration reform. Then we have the Religious Reich vs. the younger part of the GOP who doesn't give a crap about gays and abortion has been the law of the land for our entire lives. Hell I was -2 when Roe vs. Wade actually decided by the Supreme Court.
Immigration-reform proposals from Senator Marco Rubio and others land squarely on the growth side of the debate. And I do find it interesting that the Congressional Budget Office — no friend of supply-siders — is touting the dynamic impacts of immigration on economic growth. In a letter to budget chair Paul Ryan, the CBO said the failed 2006 immigration effort would have increased federal revenues more than direct spending. The Joint Tax Committee agreed. The dynamic idea is that immigration significantly increases the size of the U.S. labor force, and that more workers mean more growth.
If you put 11 million people on the tax rolls and starting bringing in waves of future Sergey Brins then the pro-growth part of the GOP needs to jump at the chance. The former CBO head figures that it will put on 1% to GDP growth and reduce the deficit by $2.5 trillion. You add a few Googles to that mix and we are talking real money.
That is why the GOP is such a Frankenstein Monster nowadays. You have pro-growth fiscal conservatives like Kudlow and I butting up against grim austerity nativists trying to block immigration reform. Then we have the Religious Reich vs. the younger part of the GOP who doesn't give a crap about gays and abortion has been the law of the land for our entire lives. Hell I was -2 when Roe vs. Wade actually decided by the Supreme Court.
Buried News: We Have the Biggest Monthly Budget Surplus in 5 years?
You would think that the White House would hang this news from a banner on the South Lawn.
The U.S. government had a budget surplus of $113 billion in April, the largest monthly surplus in five years, the Treasury Department reported Friday. The April surplus was $54 billion more than the same month a year ago. Tax receipts were $407 billion, up 28% compared to April 2012, while spending was $294 billion, 13% more than the year-ago period. April is usually a surplus month because of income tax payments. Through the first seven months of fiscal 2013, the deficit was $488 billion, 32% narrower than during the same period last year.
We usually run a surplus during April but I love how income growth is outpacing expense growth by nearly double for the first time in I don't know how long. Add this to the narrowing Trade Deficit and America might actually make some money for a little while.
The U.S. government had a budget surplus of $113 billion in April, the largest monthly surplus in five years, the Treasury Department reported Friday. The April surplus was $54 billion more than the same month a year ago. Tax receipts were $407 billion, up 28% compared to April 2012, while spending was $294 billion, 13% more than the year-ago period. April is usually a surplus month because of income tax payments. Through the first seven months of fiscal 2013, the deficit was $488 billion, 32% narrower than during the same period last year.
We usually run a surplus during April but I love how income growth is outpacing expense growth by nearly double for the first time in I don't know how long. Add this to the narrowing Trade Deficit and America might actually make some money for a little while.
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