I've always been a believer that numbers don't lie. They can be misinterpreted, rationalized, argued or downplayed but at the end of the day cold hard numbers are usually a good indicator as to whether or not you are delivering the goods as promised. Today, I'd like to look at the numbers in Afghanistan. This is a country in which we "won" between late 2001 and early 2002. And, almost 8 years into it we're still fighting. We still don't have control of the countryside (the reverse has...
Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visitting Deny's: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_drastically_scales_back?utm_source=a-section A little tuesday morning pick-me up.
The following words are from a Republican Congressman in Texas- Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of “keeping us safe” or “promoting democracy” or “protecting their strategic interests.” Imagine that the...
Run for the hills, the world is coming to an end!!!! The sky is falling and Obama's to blame for everything!!! ZOMG look at the stock markets, clearly 2 days in office and Obama's the sole reason why everything's tanking!! ahem. Let's take a moment to calm down (just a bit) and look at the "radical" leftist policies Obama has enacted in his first couple of days- 1) Treatment of prisoners- Obama has made it clear that prisoners are to be treated in accordance with the regulations set out...
I would like to take a moment to congratulate Al Franken for getting elected to the senate, and beating his republican incumbent opponent Norm Coleman. Considering that Franken started his campaign WAAAAY behind the incumbent and was pretty much written off as a goofball no-chance candidate I think he's done pretty durn' gud if ya ask me. But anywho. Let's take a step back and take a look at the fellow. Noted books he wrote: "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and other Observation...
Obama winning the presidential election is the greatest thing going for the Republican party right now. In fact, the absolute BEST outcome possible for the Republicans is if they are not in power, or hold any majorities in any branch of government over the next 4 years. If anything, everyone who is wailing and moaning that Obama is going to destroy the country should be thanking him for taking power in the near future! Why? Please allow me to explain; If...
So far this year more than 110,000 workers on Wall Street have lost their jobs. Most estimates agree that by the time the bloodletting is done we could end up with almost 200,000 financial sector workers joining the ranks of the unemployed. But that isn't all. Manufacturing is still shedding jobs, especially anything to do with autos or auto parts. Construction workers -and- the many industries that support them are also looking grim. And let's not forget the front end of a...
A letter from Michael Moore, on his website here- http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=237 Because, well, I think it's interesting, and I know he gets people's blood boiling on this site!! neener neener, Artysim Friends, The richest 400 Americans -- that's right, just four hundred people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! Their combined net...
Wanna make a quick 19 million bucks? All it'll take is 3 weeks. Cause that's what hapenned to the last CEO of Washington Mutual (WaMu) He worked there for three weeks, during which time the bank nosedived and is now being snapped up by JP Morgan at firesale prices. Okay, well, he's still technically working there. He has to stay on the job for a little while longer while JP Morgan consolidates it's takeover of assets, but comeon! Let's look at this this way: Th...
It's time for the U.S to give peace a chance. "what the hell are talking about boy?? Don't you know those terrorists are gonna kick down our doors and chop our heads off at any minute!?!?" Without expounding further on the fact that you have a much higher chance of dying in a car accident or a heart attack from eating too much high calorie junk than you do from getting killed in a terrorist attack, let's look at the current U.S situation on the world stage. Namely, let's look at all the cu...
I have a question I'd like to put forth to the good folks here at JU, a question that can be reasonably asked now that we're in the twilight of the Bush Administration. In your opinion, what was the biggest mistake the White House made in the last 8 years? I'm not asking this to attack Bush or his administration. It's an honest question. Everyone makes mistakes. So, as usual before I go any further I have to roll out my disclaimer; I don't give two rips about the democrat vs. republican...
It's time to pony up and admit it. With all the hoopla we've been seeing over the last couple weeks, Palin should be the one running for president in the Republican camp. She seems to be the focal point of the whole discussion at this point. McCain hasn't been getting too terribly much attention, for, well, anything, for pretty much this whole election. He's not charismatic. He doesn't have the charm or wit or any personable characteristics that will endear him to the American ...
All stories have two sides. Very rarely in life will you ever find a cut and dry case of "good vs evil" though by all means, from time to time this does indeed occur. In the case of the conflict between Georgia and Russia, constantly Russia has been painted as an evil aggressor who inexplicably attacked a smaller nation. That is the side of the story that the west has told. But let us now consider the other side of the story- the following are the words of Dmitry Medvedev, the president of Ru...
In the debate over energy policy we keep hearing about how there are no viable alternatives to replace oil, coal and natural gas as fuel sources. Well, I've got a solution. Invest in space travel. I can tell many readers are now rolling their eyes, but you should know that the Chinese agree with me. In fact, that's where I got the idea from. The Chinese are making serious efforts to get men on the moon in the next decade. And they're not planning on going there just to kick a f...
"Well doctor, what have we got- A Republic or a Monarchy?" "A Republic, if you can keep it" -Benjamin Franklin, 1787. The above mentioned Republic is, for all intents and purposes, finished. It was done with the flick of a pen by your supreme court last month. For anyone not aware, the determination was made that corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to support political candidates in their run for office. The fallacy of this should be obvious to a five year old...