I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
not wrong
5-4 and going southward.
health care could be headed for slip and fall.
heard from gooper staffer on HC for all.
"Everyone cant have a mercedes."
Gotcher jobs right here; (over the edge of the world)
http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
Health care is different. I want what my elected representative has. she/he works for me.
not the other way around.
that's http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/.../
parasites.html
They get it, they're just afraid to deal with it.
great
bye for now 
Unemployment is a lagging indicator. Happy days are right around the corner, donchaknow. Also.
uh-oh
Krugman said it all Friday in his column , "That '30's Show."
woodward:
first of all, it is oil and gas country.
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 11,853 people, 4,787 households, and 3,245 families residing in the city. The population density was 348.8/km² (903.5/mi²). There were 5,561 housing units at an average density of 163.7/km² (423.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 91.98% White, 0.25% African American, 1.96% Native American, 0.67% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 3.26% from other races, and 1.86% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.06% of the population.
faux news interview this morning: "Obamageddon"
premise: the national debt is so high and the dow is so tanked and unemployment so rampant that if we don't stop obama now we'll never dig our way out. even the faux newsmuffin pointed out that jobless numbers were softening and the dow was heading up - the response was "but from it's high of 14k that's nothing; less bad is not good."
translation: clinton left the country at the top of the rollercoaster, ready to fall. bush rode it like a champion all the way down, and it was obama's job to pull the brakes. utter failure.
discuss amongst yourselves.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
ak...s_b_225817.html
Palin and the blogger
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U.S. Job Report Suggests that Green Shoots are Mostly Yellow Weeds
This can all be laid at Dumbya's doorstep. He killed every little flower that poked up its head.
Res will like Roubini's rhetoric:
The June employment report suggests that the alleged ‘green shoots’ are mostly yellow weeds that may eventually turn into brown manure.
Heh indeedy. We are so fucked.
Uh, I think you've posted this before. Hey...but it ain't up to me.
The cutbacks at the municipal and state levels of government will only fuel the direness of this situation.
Billions in government purchasing is GONE.
Billions more in government wages are going to be lost through layoffs and furloughs.
Doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Welcome to a 1931/1937 hybrid.
More proof that Taylor Marsh has lost her fucking mind.
Oh, I thought you said "Palin and The Booger."
Atrios - wtf do you suggest obama do?
I think we need Federal construction programs because the states are too dysfunctional to put people to work. But getting that through the moron senate???
fdr had the right reaction: "all the work that needs to be done to fix this country, how can there be people not working?"
Wow.
Fifth set coming up.
Fifth Set, fuckers!
‘green shoots’
Should be banned into Ned's Atomic Dustbin.
I, unfortunately, agree: the problem that is QUITE different about this is that the jobs that are the bedrock of our economic system are being eliminated: teachers, custodial, public employees, hospital employees (at least here) police, fire and others.
IF you take these stable people out of the economic system: well, there's just not a lot left to fall back on, is there?
Governments - all governments - need to step up to the plate and raise the necessary revenue of we are going to be in a world of trouble.
"discuss amongst yourselves."
Faux News is a 24/7 trolling network. No thanks.
He killed every little flower that poked up its head.
Lime Rickey | 07.05.09 - 11:56 am | #
except the turdblossom.
CoT
This is amazing, no?
Now, I really wish you were there.
That's amazingly grueling tennis.
The state gov'ts are so *proud* of "keeping the taxes down"... long ways to go, for sure... and what really *is* that 'light at the end of the tunnel' going to be, I wonder...
Fitness and endurance are beautiful things.
Fifth set. Great match.
5th set in the men's final. I've never seen Roddick play this well.
I can't decide who I'm rooting for. I'm a Federer fan, and want to see history, but I like Roddick very much too.
From HBK's Marsh link:
We know many things right now. But one thing is for certain. With Palin free of her governorship she can travel the country for Republicans in 2010 likely being the hottest ticket in any town, not stopping with trips inside the U.S. She will draw gigantic Obama sized like crowds wherever she goes and will make huge headlines, even as she refuses national media, picking her conversations and outlets much more carefully than she did the first time around making sure that friendly journalists get the nod first.
Good golly.
The obsession with taxes is a scarcity mentality.
CoT
I agree 100%
It is interesting how the crowd changed mid match.
I'm a Federer fan, and want to see history, but I like Roddick very much too.
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 07.05.09 - 12:00 pm | #
i'm hoping agassi takes it.
Both are hugely motivated to play well, no doubt.
"even as she refuses national media, picking her conversations and outlets much more carefully than she did the first time around making sure that friendly journalists get the nod first."
KKKarl Rove is proud.
picking her conversations and outlets much more carefully than she did the first time around making sure that friendly journalists get the nod first.
translation: the local fox affiliate in branson, mo. watch out, liberals!
Well, there will be a lot of people with time on their hands. Maybe they *will* go see Palin... food for thought?
The Mayor of Woodward Bill Fanning says approximately 6,500 people were there. Woodward voted 90% for Bush in 2004.
Probably isn't a library or bookstore in that whole hellhole.
A WalMart, I'm sure, but no library or bookstore.
More proof that Taylor Marsh has lost her fucking mind.
HoneyBearKelly
Wow. I, for one, hope Palin stays loud and proud on the campaign trail, but I can't think of a feasible national office she could win. Too many enemies in the AK GOP. I just want her to fuck up the '12 primary
Well, there will be a lot of people with time on their hands. Maybe they *will* go see Palin... food for thought?
nick carraway | 07.05.09 - 12:02 pm | #
tomatoes?
She will draw gigantic Obama sized like crowds wherever she goes
Three-quarters of them will be hecklers.
Roddick has turned from a guy with a big serve and soemwhat average otherwise to having a well-rounded game in the last year. It's impressive to make such an improvement so late in his career.
They are both giving it there all. Great to watch.
She's never drawn an "Obama-sized" crowd, and the better people know her, the less they like her -- but you go ahead and fantasize, Ms. Marsh.
Don't like Agassi much or Nadal.
I told a friend before it began don't count Andy out.
if you take the phrase 'job losses' and replace 'j' with 'bl' then you've actually 'solved' the problem.
well, except for reality and everything.
Three-quarters of them will be hecklers.
Terry C - Castrating B*tch- | Homepage | 07.05.09 - 12:03 pm | #
1/8 will be misinformed tina fey fans
there = their
She will draw gigantic Obama sized like crowds wherever she goes
The Decembrists are gonna open for her? Prussian Blue?
Miss Elizabeth Hassellbeck Sings?
dirk: 
no time for serious talk now, later all-- gotta enjoy the sun while it shines...
Three-quarters of them will be horny old men with prostate issues.
Terry C - Castrating B*tch-
FYT
1/8 will be misinformed tina fey fans
While 3/16s of them will only be there to see what her glasses look like.
She will draw gigantic Obama sized like crowds wherever she goes
One guy, six feet tall.
.
discuss amongst yourselves.
dirk gently,sociopathetic
FUCK Faux Noise.
"Probably isn't a library or bookstore in that whole hellhole."
Come now, there's Paradise Christian Books & Gifts.
Officialdom stumbling over new communications, new way to invent a persona for sale or rent;
http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
This is a great tennis match.
Former D.C. Mayor Barry charged with stalkingText July 05, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been arrested and charged with stalking a woman.
The United States Park Police said Barry, a current D.C. Council member, was arrested Saturday in Washington after a woman flagged down an officer and complained that Barry was stalking her.
Barry was charged with misdemeanor stalking and released.
A message left seeking comment from a spokeswoman for Barry wasn't immediately returned early Sunday.
Barry served four terms as mayor. In his third, he was videotaped in 1990 in a hotel room smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting. He served six months in prison and in 1994 regained the mayor's office
the question for the policymakers is, on what basis other than wishful thinking would the job losses not continue for some time?
.
While 3/16s of them will only be there to see what her glasses look like.
AndyG | Homepage | 07.05.09 - 12:04 pm | #
1/32 will be bitter ex-letterman interns.
(AP) — Police say former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been arrested and charged with stalking a woman.
I have no sympathy for him.
He's been on a rant against gay marriage.
Look, hunny -- a blessed Jeebus church key!
She will draw gigantic Obama sized like crowds wherever she goes
Can there be that many wingnuts on the loose?
If so, this country is doomed.
I like Nadal.
Federer plays like Sampras and Nadal offers a little different style.
There really isn't anyone I dislike at the moment.
I didn't love Agassi, and didn't like Becker, but now I'm rambling..
1/32 will be bitter ex-letterman interns.
dirk gently
Shirley McClaine and Bryant Gumbel will campaign for her.
Roddick won the US Open and was #1. He always had potential, but agree he's improved. I'm impressed by the recognition that he needed to get better and the effort he put in to do it.
Heh.
http://bit.ly/s3SKJ
1/64 will not quite be plumbers
She's never drawn an "Obama-sized" crowd, and the better people know her, the less they like her -- but you go ahead and fantasize, Ms. Marsh.
plantsman, mad google skillz
MSNBC keeps re-running The Speech.
I don't see how that helps her.
Woodward looks like Butt City.
I kind of like Nadal but I don't root for him, generally.
Also didn't root or Agassi or Becker.
It was in, wasn't it?
public library link on city of woodward homepage:
check it out.
http://www.cityofwoodward.com/
ht...ic_library.html
wow, that was a key overrule.
Three-quarters of them will be horny old men with prostate issues.
Terry C - Castrating B*tch-
FYT
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Orifice
Led by Pat Buchanan.
Heh. Also.
"Woodward is the corporate headquarters for Beaver Express Service"
Obama's win in the primaries did something to Ms.Marsh's grasp on reality.
1/64 will not quite be plumbers
1/85 will be Minneapolis Neiman Marcus employees that got shafted on their gratuity.
public library link on city of woodward homepage:
check it out.
http://www.cityofwoodward.com/ ht...ic_library.html
peterboy
The list of "banned books" must be a mile long.
Comedy gold...
http://www.cityofwoodward.com/
Sp...reen_Photo_.jpg
It was in, wasn't it?
ms fahrenheit
Federer had three called against him, maybe on is his favor?
He is hitting a bit long,though.
1/85 will be Minneapolis Neiman Marcus employees that got shafted on their gratuity.
AndyG | Homepage | 07.05.09 - 12:09 pm | #
1/85? great, now i have to do math.
i was going to end it with "1/128 would be todd."
Need to eat. Later, good folks.
why in gods name did i spent 7 minutes following links to find this.
anyway:
http://www.woodward.lib.ok.us/
A state corrections officer is more than a little upset with Gov. Jennifer Granholm for closing prisons -- including the one where he works.
Paul Piche of Omer wants to recall Granholm. In petitions he filed last week with the Ingham County clerk, Piche charged that Granholm has closed 11 prisons, released 4,000 inmates, wants to release 6,000 more and "is directly responsible for all the new crimes committed."
Count me in: there was no reason for this other than political timidness and a willingness to fuck the rural parts of the state.
Nadal wins Wimbledon but can't win the French, Federer wins French but can't win Wimbledon
Also, Dogs, Cats Living Together
Basically, I love serve and volley and did not appreciate the big servers who would serve, ace, and out.
Bad for tennis.
Who was the other one? Czech maybe?
Monica Crowley on McLaughlin food fight saying Pres O doesn;t really believe in Merkin Exceptionalism, Clarence Page disgustedly tells her 'let me put your fears at rest, O loves this country as much as anyone on this panel.' heh.
Staff of 7 at the library
It's either Wii tennis for me, or no tennis at all.
"why in gods name did i spent 7 minutes following links to find this."
They have a World Book!
Granholm has closed 11 prisons, released 4,000 inmates, wants to release 6,000 more and "is directly responsible for all the new crimes committed."
That wasn't a very smart move on her part.
Comedy gold...
http://www.cityofwoodward.com/ Sp...reen_Photo_.jpg
fred
Dear G*d...
Only think missing is a Bible in his hand.
Nadal wins Wimbledon but can't win the French, Federer wins French but can't win Wimbledon
Hadn't thought of that but it is really odd.
Of course this isn't like grass play, you know. Look at that court.
Basically, I love serve and volley and did not appreciate the big servers who would serve, ace, and out.
you probably don't care for first round knockouts, either.
Well, since Federer can't break Roddick's serve, this could last until well into the afternoon.
Monica Crowley on McLaughlin food fight saying Pres O doesn;t really believe in Merkin Exceptionalism,
Thank heaven for that.
Monica Crowley on McLaughlin food fight saying Pres O doesn;t really believe in Merkin Exceptionalism,
being born on a particular land mass doesn't give one superhuman powers?
huh. there goes my belief system.
Crowley believes in glass parking lot exceptionalism, Terry C
doesn't get the other kind.
Only thing missing is a Bible in his hand.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Orifice
And a cross in the other.
huh. there goes my belief system.
dirk gently,sociopathetic
kin I have the cape, then?
What a shot on the line. Nice.
Free Republic ^ | 7/5/09 | Self
On April 15, thousands of people in 100's of cities and towns gathered to protest rising taxes, failed bailouts, 1st and 2nd Amendment clamp downs and, in general, failing policies of the current Congress and Administration. Yesterday, there was a repeat of the Tea Party grassroots movement. Although conservatives make up the majority of those gathering, there are people participating from all over the political spectrum. Is it time for the Tea Party Movement to have a leader? To have an organized structure and means of communication? To have a fund raising instrument?
Hey, why don't you become the leader? There are still plenty of rubes to be hustled.
They have a World Book!
fred | 07.05.09 - 12:14 pm | #
heh.
I recall summers in a small city.
just loving going to the library and reading fascinating things I couldn't begin to comprehend.
And checking out books to read under the ol' crabapple tree also.
*down* the line.
Nothing says Eschaton like an Anne Coulter ad on RSS -almost fell over in the chair (do not want!)
Roddick has a rocket serve, when it's working.
crystal meth production in rural michigan resumes full-scale production.
Although conservatives make up the majority of those gathering, there are people participating from all over the political spectrum.
They're pointing and laughing at you, you dumbass.
Woodward is a big metropolis. They have THREE stoplights!
That wasn't a very smart move on her part.
Terry C - Castrating B*tch-
No, it wasn't and furthermore, in this state, to "Earn" you way into the prison system (as opposed to the county jail system) you have to have done something pretty heinous - and done it repeatedly.
These are not "Political" prisoners there for selling a couple of joints: these are armed robbers, child molesters, murderers, rapists - not the sort of people to release into an economy with virtually NO jobs.
What are they gonna do?
(Hint: don't take no crystal ball to figure that one out)
Roddick has a rocket serve, when it's working.
MP | 07.05.09 - 12:17 pm | #
Yes, and I love it, but he volleys well too, and has many good shots.
tennis match interrupted by johnny cash lookalike 'walking' the line
‘green shoots’ are mostly yellow weeds that may eventually turn into brown manure.
B-b-but, we need that manure to plant the seeds of recovery in!
Oh...he was at a rodeo? Well, I saw Borat.
Remember when Agassi would get a new racket all the time?
I think Conners did that too.
"Only think missing is a Bible in his hand."
I love that he's photoshopped on to that picture - got his gold tie, his coffee mug (?), his flag pin, and his wedding band. Why exactly is he drinking coffee with the moon up?
It's also like, "Welcome to Woodward! We've paved it over for your convenience and are proud to have no local businesses!"
wodeo
wodeo
i wide to the wodeo
Federer just pwned that last game.
I love that he's photoshopped on to that picture - got his gold tie, his coffee mug (?), his flag pin, and his wedding band. Why exactly is he drinking coffee with the moon up?
I don't think he's photoshopped in, it's just poorly done foreground flash.
You guys, do I come off as sounding bitter?
"gathered to protest rising taxes"
Gathered to protest something nonexistent? What a strange protest.
"Is it time for the Tea Party Movement to have a leader?"
That's what Palin is thinking.
I see I'm being name stolen again.
And again Buttles has managed to steal the gravatar AND the homepage.
If anyone is "bitter", it's him.
Woodward is a big metropolis. They have THREE stoplights!
Mark B.--Buzzkiller
Burger King AND McDonalds!
Walgreen's!
Auto Zone!
And they wake up with a rising moon!!
woodward where your smile is jimmy stewartesque
and your kids take the abstinance prayer
and you hold hands in church
and cheerleaders
well
there are cheerleaders
Terry, you come off sounding informed. That upsets our trolls.
kin I have the cape, then?
Ruth | Homepage | 07.05.09 - 12:16 pm | #
sure.
[pssst - it's just a dishtowel]
"I don't think he's photoshopped in, it's just poorly done foreground flash."
OK, so what is a guy in a suit doing at the side of a busy highway, holding a cup of coffee in a MUG at dusk?
Bizarre...
does woodword have a store called 'bernsteins?"
Describe "bitter", "hateful" and "angry", Buttles.
I dare you.
And in the midst of all this, the biggest state government of them all is laying people off left and right.
I'm going to break out in hives from nerves.
Good morning. Did Mlle show up?
but when night rolls in
you best take that smile mister
and keep moving
Terry, you come off sounding informed. That upsets our trolls.
Ruth
It must - because this particular mouthbreather is going through a lot of trouble to pay his little game.
Dunno Erin, I haven't heard.
The berenstein bears are having a wonderful picnic today in woodward
[pssst - it's just a dishtowel]
dirk gently,sociopathetic
as long as it has the leaves on it (from the beleaf system)
Palin might be thinking she will head the Tea Party "movement"; her problem is that she is all too easily tagged with the epiteth of "quitter," which all her political opponents will hit her with.
OK, so what is a guy in a suit doing at the side of a busy highway, holding a cup of coffee in a MUG at dusk?
It's supposed to be dawn. and somebody thought it was a good idea to do this as a setup shot. Mayor stands at the city limits at dawn.
Looks to me like the major industry in town is to provide fast food to the people driving from Texas to Iowa. Average stay in Woodward: 25 minutes.
Why exactly is he drinking coffee with the moon up?
Sure that IS coffee in there?
Or moonshine?
Terry C - Castrating B*tch*
He thinks it's cute. But he's just a moron.
do they have 'midnight madness' sales in woodward?
'christ officer there are some kids under the bleacher at the high school and i've got no idea what they're up to.'
'i told them no 'scrapbooking' outside regular library hours. oh those darn kids.'
if you killfile it, the real Terry C is still here.
Hey - maybe the RNC will eventually replace Michael Steele with Palin.
Nah - the FSM could NEVER love us THAT much!
ms f, why nerves? are you on the road or are you going to Blissfest?
I'm looking sadly like a no=show, with all the incidents.
oops.
'christ' would not be included in any implorings to an officer of the law.'
'jiminy cricket officer pete' might be more like it.
in the movie version anyway.
Nerves from watching this great tennis match, Ruth.
wow
ah, the match. Not watching it.
Google Maps version...
http://bit.ly/CAHhA
{{{{{{{{{{{{Ruth!}}}}}}}}}}
[sobs]
You've got mail.
Could you fly?
andrew malcolm continues his concerted drooling over at the latimes. First, he does that neocon thing of comparing Palin speech to Richard Nixon in 1962 (but Nixon had actually been elected VP already twice and served in both the Senate and the House), then he offers this lame-mouthed attack on OB:
Will Lakers fans forgive Obama?
Chicagoan and basketballophile Obama appears to be writing off the California vote in 2012, at least the basketball fans around Los Angeles.
In a pre-holiday interview with the Associated Press, Obama was asked who was the better player -- six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan or four-time champion Kobe Bryant?
Without a moment's hesitation, the ex-senator from Illinois blurted out, "Oh, Michael!"
Then, apparently realizing what he'd said and the profound effect on any 2012 election, the new president hastened to add: "I mean, Kobe's terrific. Don't get me wrong. But I haven't seen anybody match up with Jordan yet."
Too late.
Uh, I dont know any Laker fans who argue that Kobe is better than Michael.
and I live amongst them.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009...-goldman-sachs/
The new rule means the public will no longer be able to tell if large investment banks are manipulating the stock market for their own gain, says Matt Taibbi, the journalist whose Rolling Stone article on Goldman Sachs’ role in asset bubbles over the past century has rocked the financial world.
According to previous NYSE rules, any company that carried out program trading — essentially, large computer-automated trades worth more than $1 million — had to report the trades to the NYSE, which then made the information publicly available.
But, under new regulations (PDF) published last week, that requirement has been removed.
“The NYSE announced that it will no longer be releasing its weekly program trading data,” Taibbi wrote in a blog posting. “This is quiet obviously a move designed to make it even more impossible to track what’s going on in the NYSE and shield, in particular, Goldman Sachs.”
Taibbi argues that the move is designed to protect investment banks from bloggers who are exposing the companies’ stock market manipulations. Goldman Sachs is singled out because the investment bank’s share of principal NYSE trading has gone from 27 percent at the end of 2008 to fully 50 percent of trades in recent months.
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Thanks Preznit Samebo!
Why I have no sympathy for Marion Barry:
http://www.prospect.org/cs/
artic...s_moral_compass
Not a nice person, that guy.
The best outcome we can truly pray to FSM for is that Palin comes to the lower 48 to try to start up some sort of nativist-fundie pseudo-populist third party to compete with the Republicans. Maybe Huckabee and Ron Paul will join in, and Pukecannon can be their official MSM cheerleader. I would certainly sacrifice a goat to Ba'al to see that happen.
Obama was asked who was the better player -- six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan or four-time champion Kobe Bryant?
What's the problem?
Jordan IS the better player.
"Chicagoan and basketballophile Obama appears to be writing off the California vote in 2012"
Jaw droppingly stupid.
Like Californians have nothing better to think about.
omg
."Chicagoan and basketballophile Obama appears to be writing off the California vote in 2012"
It warms the cockles of my heart to see them hanging their hopes on such pathetic slender reeds.
link to malcolm and his fawning over palin...
http://www.latimes.com/news/
nati...0,1629385.story
Let's parse the viability of Woodward in the "new economy."
Walgreen's: For those with scrip coverage or elderly with Medicare D, probably OK. Otherwise...
Strip highway local bank. Mortgages for oil workers. Precarious.
McDs/BK: Value menu success. Deluxe stuff? Maybe for oil dudes.
Auto Zone: Keeping old cars running longer. Success.
This is the future of America, folx - HIGHWAY TO HELL.
there's an art exhibit on a train traveling across america?
Oklahoma Arts Council News26 Aug 2004 ... Oklahoma City, OK --Artrain USA, the nation's only traveling art museum on a train will visit Bartlesville, Woodward, Muskogee and Ada ...
www.arts.ok.gov/news/2004/082604Artrain.html - Cached - Similar
"It's supposed to be dawn. and somebody thought it was a good idea to do this as a setup shot. Mayor stands at the city limits at dawn."
That must be one big telephoto they used.
ooooooh
I'm thinking of a Roddick/Nadal match.
What's the problem?
Jordan IS the better player.
Yeah, and the Lakers just picked up Artest for nothing. Bryant has benefitted from a superior supporting cast. Without Gasol, they wouldn't have won this year. They've got to be the favorites to repeat.
VA, it's just looking like an impossibility. If I do get everything straight, I am thinking coming to Blissfest anyway.
"This is the future of America, folx - HIGHWAY TO HELL."
What's disturbing is that strip is in 10,000 different towns across the country.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Orifice | 07.05.09 - 12:33 pm | #
they have a huge fricking wind farm project underway too.
maybe there's money to be made going 'green?'
It warms the cockles of my heart to see them hanging their hopes on such pathetic slender reeds.
slartibartfast
OMFG
CoT sheets
These guys just keep fucking fighting.
If I do get everything straight, I am thinking coming to Blissfest anyway.
Ruth
Well, yay! for that, at least.
maybe there's money to be made going 'green?'
T. Boone Pickens, "steward" of the environment, is betting on that.
holy shit. Woodward had a Schindler exhibition.
I saw a Klimt/Schindler/Kokoschka exhibition in Rome (Italy).
oodward's Plains Indians and Pioneer Museum has been named the "BEST" local history museum in the state of Oklahoma! The Museum in January 2006 featured the Schindler exhibit from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Local artists have the opportunity to compete in the annual Fine Arts competition, Photographic competition and the annual Paul Laune High School competition!
That must be one big telephoto they used.
You are correct. Judging by the foreshortening of the streets, it's a medium to long telephoto.
my brain is fried.
I'm thinking of Kirchner I think.
and confused it with Schindler.
good grief.
The travling Smithsonian exhibit in Woodward, OK. was Schindler's ww2 stuff. Not German expressionism.
well, in a way it was I suppose.
i keep expecting roddick to wilt from the pressure, and he keeps standing up to it.
Just a little observation from my small part of the stimulus universe...
Of the 10 billion dollars that went to the NIH for extra grant money to provide jobs, all of it was earmarked for scientists at top academic or private institutions who were already working in the field. Even the money supposedly for 'administrative' expenses was restricted to people with advanced scientific degrees (PhD secretaries?). It really provided no grass roots jobs at all and completely and specifically cut out support workers who provide research-related services. I work for a non-profit patient advocacy group and one of our main roles is to assist in patient recruitment for NIH-sponsored studies. We were surprised and stung to find out that we were not eligible to apply for any of the stimulus funding, even though the participation of our group was mandatory for investigators to get funded. I guess this is one example of a unfunded mandate, but to do that to non-profit community service organizations while denying them access to stimulus money was pretty rotten. Many non-profits are disappearing due to the economic crisis, taking good jobs and benefits down with them. I think they aimed the stimulus in the wrong direction. It almost has a 'trickle down' feeling to it.
"I'm happily employed as Norm Coleman's wingman"-David Broder
Since unemployment is a lagging indicator (you would think anybody who took Economics at a decent U would know that), job losses are going to continue past the end of the official recession.
The biggest thing that the Obama administration could to boost employment in the US would be to pass an updated transportation Bill with more investment in transit, but they want to wait 18 months.
The problem is that we are drowning in debt. No one wants to take on more debt.
The solution is to spend money directly into the economy. Here's how it would work: The government creates as much money as it needs (because it can and it has the Consitutional authority to do so) and spends it directly into the economy. It doesn't route it through the "banks" or some other financial organ.
For example, if a project needs $10 billion dollars to, say, build a network of power plants, then the government creates $10 billion dollars to pay for it. It can do that because it's the government and that's where money comes from.
Then as the power plants (or whatever) are being built, the government pays the contractors and the suppliers (who in turn pay their workers, etc, etc). Then those people, in turn, deposit their money into a bank or other financial institution, which collects it, pays the depositors interest for their money, and lends it out to willing borrowers.
I really hope that Barak Obama wakes up to the reality facing him. One of the major problems is that this crisis started and was promoted on Wall Street. So selecting people from Wall Street--like Tim Geithner--isn't the way out of this catastrophe. Neither is picking people like Larry Summers, a protege of Robert Rubin, the ultimate Wall Street insider, going to help America. It'll make Wall Street proud, alright, but it will be death on the rest of the country.
No more debt, Mr. President. MONEY--that's what we need right now.
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