Archives for the 'money' Category
Oh … That Massively Stimulating OT
Published on 6 Mar 2010 at 8:43 am.
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Filed under Boston, money.
Boston Herald gets action. State transportation officials, the memory of Big Dig excesses* fresh, pledge to eye the OT-palooza on federal job stimulus funds that have given some civil engineers the equivalent to two jobs’ worth of pay, while the staties rake in detail pay. Kind of makes me wonder whether the feds would be interested in [...]
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$ucce$$ In Marjah
Published on 2 Mar 2010 at 12:02 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, military, money.
The fighting is largely over, now begins the other hard part. They’re talking a lot about governance.
But the real story of success in Marjah — what was been achieved and what has to be achieved — looks like a ”follow the money” story. Opium money, Taliban money no more. That opium’s a dodgy problem though, and there [...]
The Future Of Newspapers
Published on 27 Jan 2010 at 6:00 am.
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Filed under Internet, dummkopf!, impending doom!, money, western civilization.
OK, we’ve pinned it down to the exact time and place where it happened. Where the future of newspapers was decided, the fateful technology set in motion. San Francisco, 1981:
OK, here’s what needs to happen. We go back to this future, this “San Francisco, 1981.” We find these people, and we terminate their editorships.
You know what I’m talking [...]
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Bad News For Bad Ideas
Published on 14 Dec 2009 at 8:38 am.
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Filed under China, money, pols, warmalism, western civilization.
Starts in Copenhagen but comes back home. UK Guardian: Poor nations in shakedown bid threaten to shut down Copenhagen deal. Wall Street Journal: Copenhagen shapes up as a China vs. U.S. power play. BBC, breaking, talks suspended! Good lord, don’t these people understand it’s about saving life itself?
Limo Libs Take A Hit
Published on 5 Dec 2009 at 10:01 am.
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Filed under Boston, money, pols.
It’s been a rough couple of years in the halls of privilege. John Kerry, not exactly reduced to wearing a Heinz pickle barrel, but no longer the nation’s richest senator. The late, great Limo Liberal Lion Ted K’s legacy, not worth so much. Boston Herald:
Economic Stimulation
Published on 5 Nov 2009 at 12:01 am.
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Filed under Obama, money.
Never mind the inflated job counts and pay raises counted as jobs saved. I’m still stuck on the subsidies to social service agencies counting as economic stimulus part. That’s not economic stimulus. That’s welfare. AP.
Walking, Chewing Gum
Published on 14 Sep 2009 at 12:00 pm.
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Filed under Obama, money.
That’s what USA Today cruelly calls the stumbling on economic and health-care agendas. Hey, that’s hurtful. Maybe it’s not that bad.
Opposition to Obama’s health-care reform remains high, but there’s a potential for softening … if he ditches it. OK, that’s not exactly what the Washington Post is reporting:
Upward Mobility Downturn
Published on 6 Sep 2009 at 9:14 am.
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Filed under America, Obama, history, money.
Happens to coincide with the Great Society, War on Poverty, etc. Imagine that. The social scientists don’t seem to have quite figured it out yet, though. Boston Herald:
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More Cash For More Cons!
Published on 26 Aug 2009 at 9:44 am.
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Filed under Obama, crime, money.
The economic stimulation of Inmate-Americans hits 4,000 nationwide. Boston Herald:
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Cash For Cons
Published on 25 Aug 2009 at 10:23 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama, hacks, money, moronocy.
Sounds like an “Only in Massachusetts” kind of thing, but even the hacks in Taxachusetts couldn’t believe it when the feds mailed economic stimulus checks to state prison inmates. Boston Herald:
Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some [...]
Economic Credulus
Published on 11 Jul 2009 at 11:11 am.
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Filed under Obama, hacks, money, pols.
Obama rejects a second stimulus. Coming from the Hero of Guantanamo and Savior of America’s Image Abroad, I believe that. via the Boston Herald:
The Week Pop Culture Died
Published on 29 Jun 2009 at 7:58 am.
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Filed under America, money, sex, western civilization.
First Ed McMahon. Then Farrah Fawcett. And wham, before anyone really had time to react to that news, Michael Jackson.
Now Billy Mays. Cut down in his prime by a freak overhead luggage bin accident. Allegedly. The black-bearded pitchman has sold his last tub of OxyClean.
It felt like the week pop culture died. So much of our weird, [...]
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Agenda-Driven Stimulus
Published on 22 Jun 2009 at 11:36 am.
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Filed under Obama, men, money, women.
You already knew that, after the wild porkfest that the drunken rampaging chimp known as Congress engaged in, and the shoveling of stimulus funds to save as many government jobs as possible from their long-overdue reckoning.
Now, Christine Hoff Sommers at the Weekly Standard describes the “man-cession” and how feminists strong-armed Obama into diverting stimulus funds from the [...]
Sleepless In Dreamland
Published on 16 Jun 2009 at 9:20 pm.
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Filed under Obama, money.
Obama is losing sleep over the record deficit he is running up. Reuters:
Now He’s Worried
Published on 15 May 2009 at 8:32 am.
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Filed under Obama, money, pols.
Obama, U.S. long-term debt unsustainable. Bloomberg:
President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to [...]
Free Cars For Welfare Recipients!
Published on 7 May 2009 at 12:30 pm.
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Filed under cars, money, pols.
Welcome to Massachusetts! Vroom vroom!
(Republican meanspiritedness alert. NSF bleeding-heart libs).
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Get Real
Published on 7 May 2009 at 10:59 am.
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Filed under Bush, Obama, money.
Washington Post unfairly compares Obama’s modest $17 billion trim in his bloated budget to George Bush’s $34 billion in cuts last year. C’mon, it’s not like George Bush was the Dem Cong’s lapdog! It was easier for him to tell Pelosi to stuff it. Also, Obama has astronomically increased spending, so it’s hardly realistic to expect [...]
Money Changes Everything
Published on 14 Apr 2009 at 9:51 pm.
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UK Telegraph: Bills tucked in a brassiere save Brazilian woman’s life as bullets fly on a bus in Bahia. In a cop vs. robbers shoot-out, the cop didn’t make it and the robbers got away, but a passenger who caught some lead, 58-year-old Ivonete Pereira, will live because her 150 reals, about $70 worth in 10 and [...]
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Stop Making (AP) Sense
Published on 12 Apr 2009 at 9:24 am.
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AP Chairman Dean Singleton squawks tough about going after the Internet. Politico mulls the issue, reports the speculation is they want to shake down Google and Huffpo, other search engines and news aggregators. Politico reports some confusion over this among observers, as the engines and aggregators already have licensing deals, and anyway, are just using headlines [...]
Lights Out
Published on 9 Apr 2009 at 9:13 pm.
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Filed under Boston, money.
I’m not sure if they are trying to impress us or punish us. Probably a little of both. But the spendthrifts at the Massachusetts Turnpike, who literally cost Massachusetts and federal taxpayers billions upon billions of dollars in wasteful cost overruns on the Big Dig, turned off the blue lights on the Zakim Bridge’s suspension cables tonight [...]
The Money Part
Published on 8 Apr 2009 at 8:18 am.
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Filed under military, money, pols.
And the procurement part of war-fighting. Danger Room on the end of an arms procurement program. One-vehicle-fits-all-purposes sounds like a pretty bad idea. More Pentagon budget discussion at Abu Muqawama, who looks at nuance in budgetary COIN support in several posts.
UPDATE: Thomas Donnelly and Gary Schmitt pick through in a little more detail at WSJ. Not happy. [...]
Crittenden’s Boutique Right-Wing Warmonger Bookshop & General Store
Published on 1 Apr 2009 at 12:28 pm.
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Filed under A Right-Wing Warmonger's Boutique Bookshop, blogs, books, literary, money, shameless opportunism, shameless self-promotion.
You’ll notice the Pajamas Media ads at top and at left have been replaced by Amazon widgets. This is because PJM has discontinued its blog advertising network, of which I was an arm’s length member.
My non-exclusive contract paid less than the usual deal, but allowed me to pursue other advertising relationships. I never did the math to figure out whether [...]
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Immigrant Minority Persecuted
Published on 27 Mar 2009 at 9:08 pm.
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Filed under Germans, Nazis, money, racism.
Swiss anti-discrimination authorities move to protect a minority immigrant population from vicious discrimination and hate speech. Germans are being cruelly stereotyped by native Swiss as “boorish” and “domineering.” They have even been mocked as “Nazis.”
In tough economic times, some of the cheese-gobbling yodelers see the spike-topped sausage-eaters as competition and wouldn’t mind seeing the Auslanders the heck [...]
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Unemployment Spike
Published on 27 Mar 2009 at 1:05 am.
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Feared in Massachusetts. UMass study predicts 9.1 percent before summer at the current rate, with the prospect of double digits. And that’s not even the worst part. Boston Herald:
Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) said the new numbers “put an exclamation point on the problems we’re trying to solve” but he insisted “help is on the way.”
Really, [...]
Boo Hoo
Published on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:25 pm.
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Filed under money, pols.
AIG guy resigns via NYT op-ed, makes a compelling case for why he’s being screwed by his bosses and the pols, when he’s innocent of everything in this horrible mess, and he’s just a regular guy from a humble background, an American Dream-come-true who is being shafted.
Not Socialist Enough
Published on 16 Mar 2009 at 7:37 am.
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Filed under America, Europe, money.
Nobel Economics Laureate Krugman at NYT re Europe, about which he frets. He is disappointed that Congress and Obama didn’t drive up the deficit three times higher, and Europe has failed to meet even our current paltry standard for agenda-pushing porkulus. No worries, Krugman, they’re switching to a new system over there, anyway. European Umma.
Meanwhile, NYT reports the Obama [...]
Market Rebounds
Published on 14 Mar 2009 at 8:21 am.
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Filed under Bush, Obama, money.
Nice week. I blame George Bush, but see it as an opportunity to push pork and an socialist agenda. Hang on, that’s what Dear Leader counsels during downturns. This is different. via Yahoo, stocks end the week up. No worries, it’s not all good news. Object-in-Chief cautiously test-markets upbeat, but insists on anti-credit card bubblism, which I take [...]
Edward M. Kennedy Non-Presidential Consolation Institute
Published on 11 Mar 2009 at 10:20 pm.
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It’s sort of a non-Presidential Library for a guy who was never quite president. It’ll be next to his brother’s presidential library in Dorchester. Teddy didn’t get one of those, but he’s hung in for nearly 50 years, through events that would have croaked a lesser man’s career, and incidentally he’s a Kennedy, so he’ll get the Edward M. [...]
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Teacher Incentives
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 10:40 am.
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Filed under education, money.
Obama proposes merit pay for teachers who excel. WSJ. Great idea. How about trading that with his teacher union pals for measures making it easier to fire ones who don’t? Nothing focuses the mind like an execution. Take one out, the others notice.
Politico says Obama will be “shaping new processes” to do that, but says [...]
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 10:26 am.
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Filed under Boston, Bums, money.
Boston aims to crack down on “aggressive solicitation,” aka obnoxious panhandling, possibly up due to hard times. It’s been chronic. I wrote about it in boom times in the mid-1990s,* when chi-chi Newbury Street organized to broom the bums. Have noticed an uptick at some intersections lately, though I have to say a lot of [...]
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It Takes A Warehouse
Published on 9 Mar 2009 at 5:21 am.
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Maybe a couple of them. You can put $1 million in am attache case, as any 1960s Bondian action thriller fan can tell you. $1 trillion, your new debt burden, taks up more space and looks like this. via Theo Spark, astute potato digger of Norfolk, who also brings us other things he’s never going to see [...]
Great Depression
Published on 8 Mar 2009 at 10:26 am.
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Filed under America, Boston, history, money.
A couple of comparisons, macro and micro, at the Boston Herald.
Change
Published on 2 Mar 2009 at 10:01 pm.
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Filed under Obama, hacks, money.
He promised it, now he delivers. Change turns out to be from campaign rhetoric to actual practice, as Obama caves on Congressional pork. Speaking of change, it’s AP beating up on Obama again. Not without some gratuitous Bush-bash, of course. And only because McCain forced them to.
Calling All Porkbusters!
Published on 2 Mar 2009 at 8:01 am.
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Massachusetts GOP calls on citizenry to drop dimes on any state workers insufficiently stimulated, or over-stimulated, by the billions in stimulus bucks. Boston Herald:
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A Great Gnashing Of Teeth
Published on 2 Mar 2009 at 8:00 am.
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Dentists say grinding, tooth damage are up in a down economy, Boston Herald:
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Just Say No
Published on 26 Feb 2009 at 11:05 am.
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Filed under Obama, money, pols.
Great news, via Politico: GOP At Risk of Becoming the Party of No.
Bottom Line
Published on 26 Feb 2009 at 9:54 am.
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Economic Stimulus Plan, what’s in it for you. If you’re not a volcano, a rare mouse, a bank or a bureacrat, that is. Econ4U on what’s in it for actual people:
He’s Baaaaaaaack!*
Published on 21 Feb 2009 at 7:54 pm.
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It’s the socialist, warmalist, Kumbayahist, pie-in-the-sky, head-in-the-sand Obama 52 percent of the American electorate came to love over the course of Campaign 2008. Washington Post:
Stink Around Murtha
Published on 19 Feb 2009 at 8:50 am.
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Smells like pork. CQ Politics with the news that John “Power” Murtha he may have got up to 100 House members to do his bidding.
Malkin wants to know who the GOP members are among them. Riehl with more links and background.
Economic Wartime Presidency
Published on 18 Feb 2009 at 3:58 pm.
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Filed under Bush, GWOT, Obama, money.
He didn’t seek this crisis any more than George Bush sought 9/11. It was thrust on him. With the $787 billion Democratic economic stimulation plan, and the $75 billion to homeowners in financial distress as well as those currently just having fits of pique,* Obama in less than a month is closing within a couple billion of George [...]
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EGreggious Egress
Published on 12 Feb 2009 at 10:31 pm.
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Filed under Obama, money, pols.
Obama’s economic stimulation was too much for Gregg, he’s out for Commerce. Quick egress, and a smart move. Who would want to be a part of Obama’s personal Katrina? You know, a major disaster exacerbated by vile Democratic corruption, bad Democratic policy, and worse Democratic responses.
On Wings Of Clay
Published on 10 Feb 2009 at 12:10 pm.
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The last honest man on the Obama economic team* and his Citibank problem. Boston Herald on the flight of Larry Summers:
Hanky Panky Takes A Hit
Published on 9 Feb 2009 at 6:58 am.
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Private dicks see a 50 percent drop in business, say cheats are getting cheaper. Boston Herald:
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Bi-Partisanship
Published on 7 Feb 2009 at 6:22 am.
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Bi-Schmartisanmanship. Politico:
In a statement sure to rile Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday dismissed calls for bipartisanship as “process” arguments extraneous to passing a stimulus bill — and warned Senate Democrats against slashing proposed increases to education spending.
In fairness, she isn’t the one who got elected promising to do a reach across, and it is nice [...]
OK, It’s A Depression
Published on 6 Feb 2009 at 9:52 pm.
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Filed under booze, money.
So I go into the grog shop on the way home from work. Big shop, best in town … better than most towns. Wine from four or five continents and several islands, beer from Belgium with corks in it, a couple dozen kinds of stout, all the good stuff, plus all the Miller, Bud Lite you want, [...]
Celebrate Lifes!
Published on 31 Jan 2009 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under America, TV, incompetence, kids, medicine, moms and dads, money, moronocy.
All 14 of them. That’s how many the heart-warming miracle octuplet mom has brought into the world, with no dad in sight! Because six wasn’t enough, even for a woman in bankruptcy living at home with mom and dad. LA Times:
Your Great Support And Readership
Published on 18 Jan 2009 at 8:27 am.
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Always appreciated. Received a complaint about the site’s loading speed, apparently bogged down by the recent addition of several Amazon widgets. They are a great form of lucrative expression, allowing me to run the boutique armchair warmonger’s bookshop/historical obsessive compulsive disorder clinic I’ve always dreamed of, while making some additional income off an effort that occupies a fair amount of [...]
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XXX Bailout
Published on 7 Jan 2009 at 10:30 pm.
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Filed under money, pols, porn.
The porn industry wants a stimulus package to get over the hump. Tastelessness alert: Even worse jokes rounded up after the news, via CNN.
Good Jobs At Good Wages
Published on 4 Jan 2009 at 12:23 pm.
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Filed under hacks, money.
With a pay hike for the pols who helped bollix your economy. Barney Frank admits a twinge of guilt. About the raise, not helping to bollix your economy, that is. Boston Herald:
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Glum Season!
Published on 26 Dec 2008 at 8:41 am.
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Filed under Christmas, money.
No holiday cheer for the commercialized Christmas sector. No worries, nothing a bailout can’t fix! WSJ first:
