Reward the foolish, punish the frugal:
President Barack Obama walked into the Oval Office in January 2009 during a severe economic downturn led by a meltdown in housing prices — and promptly made things worse.
By bailing out banks, insurance companies and auto firms — done to a lesser extent by the previous administration — Obama rewarded poor performers and punished their better-managed competitors. Prevented from pouncing on wounded rivals and thus increasing market share or buying the assets of the wounded at fire sale prices, Ford, for example, watched GM and Chrysler get a cash infusion from taxpayers. Despite GM’s recent “successful” public offering, taxpayers lost billions of dollars.
Obama and the Democratic congressional supermajorities passed a nearly trillion-dollar economic “stimulus” package and then proceeded to award fiscally irresponsible states with “stimulus” funds, helping postpone the day of reckoning when states must meet their budgets by reducing spending and cutting the size of government. Stimulus supposedly “saved or created” 3.5 million jobs, but it merely succeeded in transferring money from the pockets of producer taxpayers into the pockets of others.
#44 mhaprer42, Agree those Target ads are disturbing and a bit weird. And annoying. I think the company wasted a lot of $$$ making them. Hope the ad agency genius who dreamed that up doesn’t get hired again.
#43 TT
Priceless thought, California is a unicorn ranch
One more thing tonight: I assume anyone with a TV has seen the Target ads with the hyper blond woman e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POwG7udjg_Y Does anyone else find these spots disturbing? Her strained expressions, nutty fixed smile, bizarre obsession with being ready for the 4 a.m. sale. I thought the worst one (so far!) was where she was “resting” with eyes wide… Read more »
And rainbow farting ones, at that!
Adee, I look forward to your description of a frosty dawn at your home tomorrow.
Projected 27 for Richmond over night, 39 at 9:30 and falling. Plants covered or put up next to the house under the patio cover. Had a 32 and a 35 early in the month, two lovely frosts. Tomorrow morning should be beautiful.
#38 SS More than interesting, your link is eye-opening and total news to me. It’s been many decades since I studied American history so I don’t recall now if I ever really knew that US Senators were once selected by state legislatures. But I was quite unaware of the repeal effort. Funny line though in the post: he had given… Read more »
#33
mharper
Nothing meant at all with the name, just being silly. The culprit rhymes with bob42, I’ll say no more. 😛
Interesting
#35 Dave
Thanks 😀
a lot 😆
My #28 I found this, YOU decide; Ooh emphisis mine 😉 Recent presidents have had a number of medical scares. George W. Bush choked on a pretzel and briefly lost consciousness, falling and hurting his head. Bill Clinton had surgery and used crutches for months for a torn tendon in his knee when he stumbled on steps at the Florida… Read more »
mharper42,
Here Ya’ go! “Word Press Smileys”
Did anyone save the link that someone posted before LST went dark, with the codes for all the various smileys? I am tired of being the only one who still has to use 8 + ) to get any smiley at all. Mine wears shades and not much of a smile 8) I tried to find something on my own… Read more »
#32 Tim
Ya know, I even annoy myself with all my questions. What do you mean by “chirping chicken”? Who on BigJolly do you regard as a chicken of any stripe?
#23
mharper
Just a chirping chicken over at the place of which you speak. 😀
Some down to earth reflection on “Black Friday”. Don’t give in to the hype, folks. Hope y’all had a nice Thanksgiving.
At least they’re not leaving it in the hands of politicians and lawyers.
#26 M42
The misspelling is intentional. The question of humor is subject to individual perception.
Here’s a Herbie Hancock demo/sales pitch for the Rhodes.
OUCH
YES! 😀
#25
Is this humor or misspelling?
Wild horses could not drag me to the maul today. I have plenty of food, an ample beer supply, and my mission for the weekend is to finish fixing the Rhodes, which is currently in more pieces than I’d care to count.
Norah Jones plays one in this cover of The Band’s Bessie Smith.
It seems humans are not the only mammals getting into the internet thing.
Yeah, thanks, I had checked there, but did not see anything new today.
I was interested in specifically what Tim42 was referring to. Hopefully he will post a link…
#21 M42, bigjolly.com has been covering the issue very well.
#18 Tim
Do you have a link to what you read about the House Speaker? I haven’t seen anything new today.
The $378 37″ LCD TV at Wally World was tempting, but still passed.
Son has a new job at one of the big box electronic stores, he had to go in at 5 and works till 4.
He’s prolly ready for it to be over about now. 😀
Ah, Black Friday. You could not pay me to even drive past any of the megastores that were open since 4 a.m. for frenzied holiday sales. I stock up on all staples the weekend before Thanksgiving, getting enough to last until after New Year’s. Then during the 6 weeks of shopping madness, I only have to go to the grocery… Read more »
I read there is concern all Texans should be represented in the Texas House Speaker selection. Any concerns that a good number, probably a majority of people having business in the Houston Municipal courts cannot vote in the Houston mayoral elections? How about California’s prop 8 voter’s wishes? SB1070?
Or that Tooter character.
#15 Tim
Sounds good, and reminds me of the Crankshaft character from the comic strips, who is always griping about something. Hope the improvement continues.
#8 SD
Thanks, he was waking up at times last night and was asking questions and griping. Griping was a good sign and made us smile. 😀
WHOOP!!!
The 17th-ranked Aggies beat the Longhorns 24-17 on Thanksgiving Day in Austin. The Aggies finished the regular season 9-3, 6-2 in Big 12. The Longhorns, on the other hand, finished 5-7, 2-6, for their first losing season since 1997.
That was a good game, BTW.
Sounds like some lopping off is in order. Or at least he apply for a city job, great benefits I hear.
Good chilly morning all. Rainy, blustery 41 at 6:30, wind chill according to spouse’s fancy new home weather station was 36. We managed to hit 45 by 10:30 here on the north bank of the Brazos at Richmond. More leaves fly off the trees, some dusky gold. some vivid gold, some wrinkled rust/brown. More acorns and pecans fly and bounce,… Read more »
Yes. But remind him to see a doctor if his erection lasts longer than four hours.
Had a great day yesterday with family and friends. Amazing some of the weird conversations that come up. A good friend of mine has an unusual dilemma. Maybe Bob42 can help.
My friend identifies as a lesbian, but is biologically male. Should he take birth control in order to prevent getting knocked up by some random chick?
It’s a couple of gay bears wearing clown suits in bed singing show tunes.
Mornin’ GJT Prayers go out for your dad, I hope he’s doing better. I know that diabetes can be real bad especially if he’s an older fellow.
SD
What, no dancing bears??
#1 texanadian This comment was great and oh soo true. 😀 Commentor Clayton sums it all up with: I, for one, welcome our new robot entertainers; they’re likely more talented than the human crop we have now, and probably less inclined to lecture me about global warming killing lesbian snail darters when not singing. Mornin’ Gang Cold wet Friday here… Read more »
Tom DeLay was convicted of money laundering and conspiracy.
He is now the first Texan ever eligible to run for mayor of Chicago.
Obama taped an interview with Barbara Walters for tonight on ABC. He told her he has Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan on his iPod
Unfortunately Barbara asked him what he planned to do about North Korea.
G’Morning all
Yep, that article pretty well sums it up.
Excellent articly btw, good summary of incomptent leadership.
2nd. 🙂
This is really neat. I need to get out of the bunker more often and keep up. Take me to the holodeck.
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/innovations/something_amazing_hatsune.php
oh, happy Friday all.
#44 mhaprer42, Agree those Target ads are disturbing and a bit weird. And annoying. I think the company wasted a lot of $$$ making them. Hope the ad agency genius who dreamed that up doesn’t get hired again.
#43 TT
Priceless thought, California is a unicorn ranch
One more thing tonight: I assume anyone with a TV has seen the Target ads with the hyper blond woman e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POwG7udjg_Y Does anyone else find these spots disturbing? Her strained expressions, nutty fixed smile, bizarre obsession with being ready for the 4 a.m. sale. I thought the worst one (so far!) was where she was “resting” with eyes wide… Read more »
And rainbow farting ones, at that!