This isn’t quite as fun as the number of liberals who needed therapy for PEST (post election selection trauma) after Bush beat Waffles Kerry in the 2004 election, what with all the ones who couldn’t get out of bed for days, couldn’t work, and/or went to see professional mental health workers who were just as
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Bummer: Some LA Occupiers Feel Traumatized, May Seek Therapy
Despite all the hype about Republicans wanting Sen. Marco Rubio as the number two on the Republican presidential ticket, there’s talk among some GOP in Washington about wanting Michele Bachmann as the veep, U.S News reports . On the Democrat side, they want Hillary Clinton to replace Joe Biden to try and woo “educated whites.” Of course, Clinton has said time and time again that she plans on leaving President Obama ‘s administration once the first term is up in 2012. Even so, a debate between Bachmann and Clinton is a brawl I’d pay money to see.
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VP girl fight?
Finally, a greenie weenie (read: uber climate alarmist) is attempting to comply with the life the Warmists want everyone else to live. And finding out that it’s, well, not easy (Grist) I’ve become quite the calorie-counter lately. With the holiday season upon us, I’m really tightening my belt, carefully calculating the number of calories I’d consume
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The Greenie Pig Finds Out That Attempting To Live The “Green” Life Is Hard
Don’t blame big banks for the flailing economy and housing crash, notes IBD : … based on the number of toxic loans in the system in 2008, the government was responsible for not just a simple majority, but more than two-thirds. It’s quantifiable — 71% to be exact (see chart). And the remaining 29% of private-label junk was mostly attributable to Countrywide Financial, which was under the heel of HUD and its “fair-lending” edicts. Via Memeorandum and Verum Serum . PHOTO CREDIT : That Mr. G Guy .
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Wall Street Did It?
Obama has had a lot to say in recent days about his new jobs package, though he’s tough to pin down on one important fact: the number of jobs it will create.
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White House Avoids Jobs Estimate
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Just in time for the Labor Day holiday, the U.S. government issued its latest jobs report. The results are as depressing as they can be. The unemployment rate remains at 9.1 percent, but the takeaway number is the number of jobs created.
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Zero Jobs Reports Puts Pressure on President Obama
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Let’s start with yet another bit of deranged climate alarmism. Here’s Tim Worstall at Forbes (via Tom Nelson) As a handy guide, “RCPnumber” should be interpreted thusly: the higher the number after the RCP the closer we are to boiling Flipper as the last humans fight on the desert shores of Antarctica. The lower
AP – Huge increases in deportations of people after they were arrested for breaking traffic or immigration laws or driving drunk helped the Obama administration set a record last year for the number of criminal immigrants forced to leave the country, documents show.
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Traffic crime, drunken driving deportations way up
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