More live music last night, gang - this time "Thursday night at the Lycian" which last night featured Beach Boys cover band "Still Surfin'"
As for politics...
Well... Tea Party Republicans have managed to hold off Boehner - at least so far.
Under the leadership of Jim Jordan (R-OH-4) most members of the Republican Study Committee - the "original" House conservative's caucus - have stood firm in support of their ideals, their campaign promises, and Our agenda of cutting the size of government and therefore cutting government spending.
If only Dr. Nan Hayworth (R-NY-19) was willing put country before party...
(*SIGH*)
Here's what I suggest:
Jim Jordan, Jim DeMint, and all of the other stalwart "insider" defenders of Our America must rat out each and every faux conservative - every Boehner and McConnell yes man (or yes woman).
Folks... when you read or hear that Boehner and McConnell are "twisting arms" in order to gain support for the Boehner bill, what they mean by "twisting arms" is that they're making promises... promises to either steer (borrowed!) money into a member's district or on the flip side, deny pork.
Oh, yes, folks... there's still pork coming out of Washington...
(*RUEFUL CHUCKLE*)
I say that Jordan, DeMint, and other patriot insiders use their access to find out exactly what Boehner and McConnell are promising to various wavering members of their caucus' and publicize this information!
I know that I'd like to know if my congresswoman, Dr. Nan Hayworth (R-NY-19) has gotten any concrete... er... "remuneration" from Boehner in return for turning her back upon constituents such as myself who believed in her and supported her campaign.
I'm sure other Americans would like to know what's being promised their representatives...
(*SHRUG*)
Folks... the RINOs are back. John Boehner is a Republicrat - not a Republican. Unfortunately, certain freshmen members of the House who were elected on a platform of fiscal responsibility and constitutionalism have turned on a dime in order to pursue power under the umbrella of "loyalty to the leadership."
Folks... it's disgusting...
Folks... as I noted in an earlier post... either you're going to be part of the solution... or else you're part of the problem.
Fight, people! With your voices if that's all you have... with your money if that's your style and you're able... but fight!
This is a battle for the Soul of America... for the Survival of the Republic. This is not hyperbole, my friends, this is reality... this is the reality I outline daily via newsbites.
If you love your country than in God's name engage! Don't just stand on the sidelines!
As I often impart to my best friend, being upper-middle-class or even "first rung rich" ain't gonna protect you when the $hit hits the fan.
Billionaires... yeah... they'll be fine. Folks with hundreds of millions, even "just" scores of millions... they'll be fine. As for the affluent working class...
(*SHRUG*)
Not so much.
Have you ever heard the term "high value soft target?"
A billionaire can protect his family... a multi-millionaire can protect his family... a relatively successful professional making a few hundred grand year after year with investments and savings... I'm sorry... but that's not the kind of real wealth it takes to "set up" the next generation - let alone the grandkids one day.
I know I'm largely "preaching" to an empty "church," but even so, I'll keep at it. I have a daughter I love. One day I'll have grandchildren and hopefully I'll live long enough to enjoy my great-grandchildren.
I have nieces... I have nephews... I have Godchildren...
Folks... I'm begging you... keep in mind exactly what's at stake... who's at stake...
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/43941459
The U.S. economy grew less than expected in the second quarter...
* AGAIN WITH THE "LESS THAN EXPECTED." FOLKS... HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU READ THIS PHRASE IN ECONOMIC REPORTING SINCE THE ONSET OF THE AGE OF OBAMA...? (*SMIRK*) (*SIGH*)
Growth in gross domestic product - a measure of all goods and services produced within U.S. borders - rose at a 1.3% annual rate, the Commerce Department said.
* TO TRANSLATE: THAT'S BAD, FOLKS. (*SMIRK*) (*SNORT*)
First-quarter output was sharply revised down to a 0.4% pace from 1.9%.
* AGAIN, FOLKS... ASK YOURSELVES... HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU READ THE PHRASE "REVISED DOWN" SINCE THE ONSET OF THE AGE OF OBAMA...?
Economists had expected the economy to expand at a 1.8% rate in the second quarter.
* "...EXPECTED..." HUH? (*SNORT*) (*LAUGHING OUT LOUD*)
In addition, fourth-quarter growth was revised down to a 2.3% pace from 3.1%, indicating that the economy had already started slowing before the high gasoline prices and supply chain disruptions from Japan hit.
* WELL, FOLKS...? MORE "DOWNWARD REVISIONS." OH... AND AS A "BONUS" WE CAN'T EVEN PLACE THE BLAME ON OBAMA'S EXTRA-CONSTITUTIONAL LIBYAN GAMESMANSHIP OR MOTHER NATURE (RE: JAPAN).
Economists had expected the economy would show signs of perking up by now...
* YA EVER WONDER WHO THESE "ECONOMISTS" ARE WHO ARE... umm... USUALLY WRONG...?
The Treasury says the government will soon run out of money to pay all its bills.
* THEN I SUGGEST GOVERNMENT TIGHTEN ITS BELT AND REDUCE EXPENDITURES...!!!
Economists have warned that a debt default could push the fragile economy over the edge.
* AGAIN, FOLKS... THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF DEFAULT; THE U.S. GOVERNMENT BRINGS IN MANY TIMES THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE MONTHLY THAN IS NEEDED TO MEET OUR LOAN OBLIGATIONS. WHAT THESE BASTARDS ARE CALLING "DEFAULT" YOU AND I WOULD CALL TIGHTENING OUR BELTS IF FOR ANY REASON OUR HOUSEHOLD INCOME TOOK A HIT.
Data released on Friday showed the 2007-2009 recession was much more severe than prior measures had found...
* I SUPPOSE IT'S SIMPLY A "COINCIDENCE" THAT NANCY PELOSI, HARRY REID, AND THE DEMS TOOK OVER BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS FOLLOWING THE 2006 ELECTION... MEANING THEY WERE IN CHARGE ALL DURING 2007 AND 2008 AND IN ADDITION THEY - WITH OBAMA - WERE IN CHARGE IN 2009 AND 2010.
* JEEZUS, AMERICAN PEOPLE... WAKE UP AND SMELL THE F--KING COFFEE! (*GNASHING MY TEETH*) (*SNARLING*) (*BANGING THE DESK*)
The annual revisions of U.S. GDP data from the Commerce Department showed the economy contracted at an annual average rate of 0.3% between 2007 and 2010.
* AGAIN, FOLKS... 2007 - DEMOCRAT CONGRESS; 2008 - DEMOCRAT CONGRESS; 2009 - DEMOCRAT CONGRESS AND OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE; 2010 - DEMOCRAT CONGRESS AND OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
* FOLKS... THIS IS NOT A F--KING COINCIDENCE...!!!
http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/2011/07/thieves-steal-uniform-vehicle-firehouse
* THIS IS WASHINGTON DC, FOLKS... OUR NATION'S CAPITAL!
District firefighters have been deployed to street corners to help protect high-crime neighborhoods.
They may need to begin patrolling their firehouses.
Early Tuesday morning, Engine 33 firefighters returned from a call to their firehouse at 101 Atlantic St. SE to find it ransacked, with a BMW automobile, a firefighter's uniform and other valuables stolen. Thieves had forced their way into the station, trashed the watch desk, and stole a range of gear and personal property.
Since May, the city has deployed D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel and trucks to high-crime spots to deter criminals. The firefighters have been posted at 14 of the most dangerous areas at night. The spots were chosen by the Metropolitan Police Department.
The initiative to patrol high-crime areas has been expanded into the spring of 2012.
Fire officials also are deployed during the day to protect young residents enrolled in the city's youth job program, some of whom work for the fire department. Participants of the Summer Youth Employment Program have been mugged on payday over the years.
* FOLKS...!!! OUR NATION'S FUCKING CAPITAL...!!! THE COPS NEED THE HELP OF THE FIREMEN WHILE OUR TROOPS ARE DYING IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ - NOT TO MENTIONS THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEING SPENT ON OBAMA'S LIBYAN WAR.
Police on Thursday were still investigating the fire station burglary. According to the police report, the culprits are five teenagers, ages 14 to 18.
* WHITE TEENAGERS...? (*SMIRK*) FUNNY HOW "TEENAGERS" CAN BE IDENTIFIED BUT NO FURTHER DETAILS ARE REPORTED... (*SNORT*)
* FOLKS... A FRIGG'N FIREHOUSE IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL ISN'T SAFE FROM THE ANIMALS; AND YOU THINK YOU'RE SAFE IN YOUR HOME OR OUT AND ABOUT? YOU'RE FOOLING YOURSELVES.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/record-number-of-u-s-troops-killed-by-iranian-weapons-20110728
U.S. military commanders in Iraq say Iranian-made weaponry is killing American troops there at an unprecedented pace, posing new dangers to the remaining forces...
* COULD IT POSSIBLY BE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE "REMAINING FORCES" IN IRAQ (WHILE FIREMEN ARE BEING "DRAFTED" TO POLICE OUR NATION'S CAPITAL) THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM?
June was the deadliest month in more than two years for U.S. troops, with 14 killed.
* OH, WELL... THEY'LL BE MOURNED BY THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILIES, AND A SMALL NUMBER OF THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS, BUT MOST AMERICANS... THEY HAVE NO "SKIN IN THE GAME"... THE AVERAGE AMERICAN DOESN'T HAVE A FATHER, MOTHER, SISTER, BROTHER, NIECE, OR NEPHEW IN HARM'S WAY. (*SHRUG*)
* FOLKS... IT'S NOT JUST OUR "COUNTRY" THAT'S IN DECLINE; IT'S OUR SOCIETY. WE'RE A THROWAWAY SOCIETY... AND THAT INCLUDES OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN.
In May, the U.S. death toll was two. In April, it was 11.
* 14 + 2 + 11 = 27. (THESE ARE OUR FELLOW AMERICANS, FOLKS... OR... RATHER... THEY WERE. NOW THEY'RE SIMPLY CORPSES.)
The rising American death toll from Iranian-made weaponry provides a grim counterpoint to Iraq’s escalating political debate over whether any U.S. troops should be allowed to remain in the country past the end of the year. Under the terms of a treaty signed by the Bush administration in late 2008, the remaining 46,000 U.S. troops now in Iraq are supposed to return home by the end of 2011. The Obama administration has made clear that it would be open to leaving approximately 10,000 troops in Iraq indefinitely if Baghdad requests such an extension...
* OUR BLOOD AND TREASURE - THEIR DECISION...? DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE TO YOU, FOLKS?!
* "...INDEFINITELY..." (*SIGH*)
* I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT OR THE LEFT... BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS A PIECE OF $HIT.
* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... THE DEMPUBLICANS AND REPUBLICRATS ARE PLOTTING BEHIND THE SCENES (WITH A VERY, VERY THIN SEE-THROUGH CURTAIN) TO KEEP U.S. TROOPS IN IRAQ - TO KEEP SQUANDERING BLOOD AND TREASURE.
* FOLKS... THE KIA's ARE THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. FOR EACH DEATH GOD ONLY KNOWS HOW MANY OF OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN LOSE LIMBS, EYES, THEIR HEARING, THEIR SANITY...
* FOLKS... THIS IS BEING DONE IN OUR NAME...!!! WE ARE RESPONSIBLE...!!!
* FOLKS... MY CONGRESSWOMAN, DR. NAN HAYWORTH (R-NY-19) HAS TWO SONS - ONE OF WHO IS DEFINITELY OF AGE TO SERVE. OF COURSE HE DOESN'T SERVE. NO MARINE CORP HITCH FOR NAN'S KID! NO ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, COAST GUARD...
(*SIGH*)
* BUT, HEY... SEND OTHER PARENT'S KIDS OFF TO GET BLOWN UP, PERHAPS KILLED. AFTER ALL, THEY'RE "VOLUNTEERS," RIGHT?
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/
Internet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year--in case police want to review them in the future--under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today.
The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans...
* OR DOES IT? I QUESTION WHETHER IT DOES. INDEED, I WORRY IT SIMPLY EXPANDS THE NANNY STATE.
A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses, some committee members suggested. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored.
* HUH...?!?!
* THIS IS THE GOVERNMENT THAT CAN'T KEEP OUR NUCLEAR SECRETS SAFE - AND THEY GET TO KNOW MY CREDIT CARD AND BANK ACCOUNT INFO...?!?!
* THIS IS THE GOVERNMENT THAT CAN'T PROTECT THE PENTAGON'S COMPUTERS FROM BEING HACKED...!!!
(*MASSIVE MIGRAINE HEADACHE*)
It represents "a data bank of every digital act by every American" that would "let us find out where every single American visited Web sites," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill. Lofgren said the data retention requirements are easily avoided because they only apply to "commercial" providers. Criminals would simply go to libraries or Starbucks coffeehouses and use the Web anonymously, she said, while law-abiding Americans would have their activities recorded.
(*BLOOD SHOOTING OUT OF MY EYES, EARS, NOSE, AND MOUTH*)
To make it politically difficult to oppose, proponents of the data retention requirements dubbed the bill the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, even though the mandatory logs would be accessible to police investigating any crime and perhaps attorneys litigating civil disputes in divorce, insurance fraud, and other cases as well.
(*SNORT*) FOLKS... THESE PEOPLE ARE SCUM. LIES... LIES... LIES... DECEPTION AFTER DECEPTION... MISINFORMATION AND MISLEADING... (*SIGH*)
"The bill is mislabeled," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the panel. "This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes."
* JEEZUS... I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M FORCED TO APPLAUD ZOE LOFGREN AND JOHN FRIGG'N CONYERS...
For a while, it seemed like opposition from a handful of conservative members of Congress, coupled with Democrats concerned about civil liberties, would derail the bill. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican and previous chairman of the House Judiciary committee, had criticized it at a hearing earlier this month, and again in the voting session that began yesterday and continued through this morning. "I oppose this bill," said Sensenbrenner. "It can be amended, but I don't think it can be fixed... It poses numerous risks that well outweigh any benefits, and I'm not convinced it will contribute in a significant way to protecting children."
* FOLKS... WE'RE LOSING OUR COUNTRY... BIT BY BIT... DAY BY DAY... DEMPUBLICANS AND REPUBLICRATS UNITED FOR... er... THEIR OWN RETENTION OF POWER.
* BUY GUNS WHILE YOU CAN, FOLKS. BUY GUNS... BUY AMMO... GET FIREARMS TRAINING... I DON'T KNOW WHEN THIS GOVERNMENT WILL "CROSS THE RUBICON" BUT BE IN NEXT YEAR OR 20 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD... (*PAUSE*)... IT'S COMING.
Justice Department officials...have quietly lobbied for the sweeping new requirements...
* AGAIN, FOLKS... DON'T THINK THIS IS "PARTISAN" PER SE. THIS IS OBAMA AND BOEHNER... TOGETHER AGAIN.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/174339-gop-adds-balanced-budget-amendment-to-win-passage-of-debt-plan-
House Republicans will attach a balanced-budget amendment to Speaker John Boehner’s last-ditch debt-ceiling plan...
* O.K. (BUT WASN'T CUT, CAP, AND BALANCE ALREADY PASSED BY THE HOUSE...???) (RHETORICAL QUESTION - THE ANSWER IS "YES.")
Republican lawmakers voiced confidence the enhanced bill would pass muster with conservatives...
(*SMIRK*) NOTICE THE GENERAL NATURE OF THE "REPORTING."
Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), a key holdout, and a Senate candidate, quickly took to Twitter after the meeting to say that he was a "yes" vote. The conservative Club for Growth also offered a tentative endorsement.
* BUT DOES THIS "ENHANCED" BILL CUT FEDERAL SPENDING...? THAT'S THE QUESTION! I'LL KEEP AN OPEN MIND, BUT AS I'VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG, A CUT IN FEDERAL SPENDING MEANS CUTTING FEDERAL SPENDING - NOT CUTTING THE INCREASE IN FEDERAL SPENDING.
* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND HOW SLEAZY AND SCUMMY THESE PEOPLE ARE... AS RONNY USED TO CAUTION, "TRUST... BUT VERIFY!"
Republican lawmakers say the Boehner framework would still pave the way for the debt limit to be raised through the 2012 election in two chunks. But it would also mandate that the second hike of the ceiling could only occur after a balanced-budget amendment passed both chambers of Congress and went to the states for ratification.
* SO IN OTHER WORDS... (*SIGH*)... WE'RE STILL TALKING GUARANTEED DEBT INCREASES WITH NO GUARANTEED SPENDING CUTS.
(*SHRUG*)
* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... I'LL NEVER LIE TO YOU. NOT KNOWINGLY! THE SCUMBAG POLITICIANS... (*SHRUG*)... YOU KNOW THEY'LL LIE TO YOUR FACE WITHOUT HESITATION.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45175
* BY PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
Ronald Reagan was persuaded to sign on to a "bipartisan big deal" to cut spending three dollars for every dollar he accepted in new taxes.
* TO SUPPOSEDLY CUT SPENDING... "SUPPOSEDLY" BEING THE KEY WORD.
The Gipper forever believed he had been lied to, as he got three dollars in tax hikes for every dollar in spending cuts.
(*NOD*)
Obama's offer to Boehner is the same one Reagan signed on to.
(*NOD*)
George H.W. Bush agreed to break his pledge of "no new taxes," and raised the top rate from Reagan's 28% to 35%. How did that work out? A recession ensued that probably cost "Pappy" Bush his presidency.
The biggest of "big deals" came when the GOP establishment arrived in Bill Clinton's East Room to endorse NAFTA, GATT and a World Trade Organization that stripped America of her right to make and enforce her own trade laws. Economic patriots fought the surrender of sovereignty and were dismissed as protectionists. How did NAFTA, GATT and the WTO work out?
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Since 1992, the United States has run a total of $7 trillion in trade deficits. Six million manufacturing jobs disappeared in the last decade, along with 50,000 factories. This year's trade deficit just returned to an annual rate of $600 billion. China is now the world's leading manufacturing power.
And what are Republicans doing? Demanding new "free-trade" deals with Panama, Colombia and South Korea.
(*GNASHING MY TEETH*)
Anyone heard any Republican candidate advance a credible plan to reindustrialize America and leave China in the dust?
(*LITERALLY HOLDING BACK TEARS OF FRUSTRATION*)
Anyone heard a Republican candidate call for America to give the WTO six months' notice and get out, so we can go about rebuilding our country rather than babbling on about some New World Order?
* WHERE ARE THE UNIONS, FOLKS...? WHERE ARE THE UNIONS...?! THEY APPARENTLY HAVE NO MORE INTEREST IN REINDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA THAN DO THE REPUBLICAN FAT CATS. INDEED, FOR NARROW FINANCIAL SELF-INTEREST THEY'LL EVEN OPPOSE EXPANSION OF BOEING'S MANUFACTURING BASE INTO SOUTH CAROLINA SIMPLY BECAUSE SOUTH CAROLINA IS A RIGHT TO WORK STATE!
* FOLKS... THIS AIN'T A VAST LEFT-WING CONSPIRACY; IT AIN'T A VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY; WHAT IT IS IS "MOVERS AND SHAKERS" - SOME REGISTERED REPUBLICAN, SOME REGISTERED DEMOCRAT - COOPERATING TO PROFIT BY THE "SELLING OF AMERICA."
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONTINUING... (Part 2 of 2)
Before George W. Bush launched the war on Iraq, he got Democratic Sens. Tom Daschle, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards and Chris Dodd to give him a blank check.
As the Republican Establishment signed on to Clinton's trade deals, the Democratic Establishment signed on to Bush's war.
Dissenters were denounced, once again, as isolationists.
How did that big deal turn out?
(*SIGH*)
[The Iraq War has so far] cost us 4,400 dead, 35,000 wounded and $1 trillion, with 100,000 Iraqi dead and half a million widows and orphans. Four million Iraqis have been uprooted from their homes, half fleeing to foreign lands. Half of these exiles are Christians whose communities, there since the time of Christ, are dying, as Islamists assume they are allies of the Crusaders that attacked their country. And those weapons of mass destruction that the Democratic leadership authorized Bush to find and destroy? They did not exist.
(*BANGING MY HEAD AGAINST THE DESK*)
Then there was the George Bush-Teddy Kennedy No Child Left Behind deal, which doubled spending at the Department of Education.
How did that work out?
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Hundreds of billions sunk, test scores stagnant or dropping and teachers caught cheating on behalf of students to get test scores back up to keep the NCLB money flowing. The racial gap endures, and though we spend more per capita on education than any nation save Luxembourg, we are getting creamed in international competition by East Asians and Europeans. The response to this disaster? "We need bipartisan agreement to invest more in education."
(*PUTTING ONE SINGLE BULLET IN THE REVOLVER AND SPINNING THE WHEEL*)
Did not Albert Einstein define insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result? Why would we give more money to an education establishment that has consumed the wealth of an empire and failed us for 40 years?
(*CLICK*)
Bipartisan big deals gave us Vietnam, Iraq, the Reagan and Pappy Bush tax hikes, NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, No Child Left Behind and prescription drug benefits under Medicare.
Bipartisan big deals led America to the brink of bankruptcy.
* THE QUESTION IS... SHORT OF TARGETED ASSASINATIONS (IN THEORY, FOLKS... I'M JUST TALKING OUT LOUD... NOT "INCITING"... SIMPLY LAYING OUT THE QUESTION) IS THERE ANY WAY TO STOP THE DEMPUBLICANS AND REPUBLICRATS FROM CONTINUING TO MAKE "DEALS" WHICH ENRICH AND EMPOWER THEM AS INDIVIDUALS WHILE SLOWLY DESTROYING THE COUNTRY?
* THINK ABOUT IT, FOLKS... AND IF YOU COME UP WITH VIABLE ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE THAT COULD ACTUALLY WORK IN THE REAL WORLD - NOT JUST IN THEORY - LET ME KNOW! SHARE WITH THE GROUP!
Hey, I just read your comment on Peggy Noonan's column. Tell me...what good does it do being right if you're a smarmy jerk in the process? How do you expect to convince people? HEY EVERYBODY, I'M AN OBNOXIOUS ASSHOLE, NOW LISTEN TO HOW WRONG PEGGY NOONAN IS!!!
Come on. Do a better job with all this, or you're part of the problem.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/174387-club-for-growth-wont-fight-boehner-plan
* ET TU CLUB FOR GROWTH?
Welcome, Justin!
Come back often!
(Remind me... have I slapped you down like an annoying fly before on the WSJ's comment pages? If you're the Justin I'm thinking of... I think so!)
(*CHUCKLE*)
Hey... free speech zone here... but do try to be a bit "smoother" with your blasts.
Calling me obnoxious is... well... fair enough...
(*MORE CHUCKLING*)
But the a--hole part...
(*SHRUG*)
Try to keep that one in reserve, son.
(*WINK*)
BILL
Hey Justin...
If you come back do me a favor and tell me where my comment which you found fault with is - what "page" of the WSJ comments.
The reason I ask is that I can't find it.
It was on Page 34 when I first posted it...
Obviously the post "took" or you wouldn't have been able to read it and... er... share your opinion here...
Yet now it's not on Page 34 anymore - or any page after Page 34 or on the 10 pages prior to Page 34.
Seriously... I'd appreciate it if you were to copy it and paste it here if YOU can find it again - and please let me know what page you found it on.
Thanks in advance.
BILL
http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2011/07/29/boston_scientific_to_lay_off_1200_plus/
Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday that it plans to eliminate 1,200 to 1,400 jobs worldwide during the next 2 1/2 years...the Natick medical device maker’s second major round of cuts since last year. The company would not say how many jobs will be lost in Massachusetts...
Yesterday’s move, a day after Boston Scientific disclosed it was investing $150 million and hiring 1,000 people in China...
* IN CHINA...
* HIRING 1,000 PEOPLE IN CHINA...
[T]he company yesterday posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter earnings of $146 million, or 10 cents a share, up from $98 million, or 6 cents a share, in the corresponding period last year. Shares of Boston Scientific climbed 8.5% yesterday to $7.28, a gain of 57 cents.
* AND YET... THEY'RE FIRING AMERICANS AND HIRING CHINESE - AS THEY INVEST RESOURCES IN AND BOOST THE ECONOMY OF... CHINA.
Boston Scientific unveiled a plan on Wednesday to spend $150 million to step up its commercial activities in China...
(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)
Those efforts will include building a manufacturing plant for the Chinese market as well as a training center for Chinese medical care providers that use Boston Scientific’s products. It will also involve investing in research and clinical studies in China and boosting the Boston Scientific workforce there from 200 to more than 1,200 over the next five years.
* FIRING AMERICANS... HIRING 1,000 CHINESE. WONDERFUL... JUST GREAT... SPECTACULAR...
* NOT...!!!
The State of Massachusetts extended Boston Scientific tax breaks last year and in 1997 to create jobs at a Quincy warehouse and gave another in 2006 to create and retain jobs in Marlborough.
* SEE, FOLKS... THIS IS WHERE CRONY CAPITALISM LEADS... WHERE "TAX BREAKS" FOR SOME RATHER THAN ACROSS THE BOARD LEAD. THE POLITICIANS BRIBE THE BUSINESS WITH OUR TAX MONEY... AND THEN A FEW YEARS LATER THESE SAME BUSINESSES LEAVE THE STATE WITH ALL THOSE TAX SAVINGS ALREADY RACKED UP. NICE. CUTE.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904800304576476141933620836.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsFifth
Turkey's Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Isik Kosaner, retired from his post Friday in a surprise decision, the state news agency Anadolu Ajansi said...
* OH, SHIT...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
* NOT GOOD, FOLKS... NOT GOOD AT ALL...
CNN Turk television reported that the heads of the Turkish land forces and of the Navy also resigned, but that couldn't be confirmed immediately. No statement was posted on the website of the general staff.
* JEEZUS CHRIST... IF THIS IS TRUE...
(*FEELING SICK*)
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