Thursday, June 16, 2011

SHOCKING! EPA cost benefit predictions based on “feelings”.

Well, it's the "reality-based community." Feelings are real.
"MORE THAN TWO YEARS after Obama took office vowing to banish 'special interests' from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events ...."

Unexpectedly.
WASHINGTON POST: Some Republican freshmen in Congress hold major debt. And congressional Democrats are all debt free, because no where does the Post identify a single liberal with any financial liabilities.
ARREST WARRANT issued for California professor who allegedly urinated on colleague's door. Apparently it's no longer better to be pissed off than pissed on.
POP GOES THE WEINER: Congressman resigns.
U.S. SENATOR calls robot projects wasteful. Robots call Senator wasteful.
HEH. "You always share documents with your own people first."
BILL MAHER: What's wrong with socialism? Nothing, if you're a member of the governing (political) class; everything, if you're a member of the governed (citizen) class.
HAH! UNLIKE HOMOSEXUALITY, heterosexuality is curable.
FOX VIDEO: Obama Blames ATMs for High Unemployment. Obama has been roundly criticized on the Right for this statement, but I think there is a kernel of truth in the statement. Automation (driven to some extent by minimum wage laws) has taken over many of the easy jobs - gas station attendant, cashier, receptionist, telephone operator, to name a few - that used to be the entry-level jobs for the unskilled.