But why the snub?

Rahmbo, please return to Aisle 9 to collect an item you left behind.

If this is true, it’s going to be a long four years.

This link is for eCAHN…
http://www.startribune.com/pol…..LanchO7DiU
and, also for anyone else who missed the story.

I’m so glad that Palin has decided to stay in the news. I would have missed having someone to make fun of.

Geez, I missed that story altogether. Just shows you what my priorities are. *g*

But no picture?

I’d guess the breakage story is accurate. No way you can handle that many dishes quickly without breakage.

“I know that a lot of people are capitalizing on, oh I don’t know, perhaps some exploiting that was done via me, my family, my administration — that’s a little bit perplexing, but it also says a great deal about our society.”
Exploiting? Via her and her family? Does she mean about her family or by her and her family?
I’m really, really, really glad she’s not moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Paulson’s cronies on Wall Street are not going to be happy with Congress giving money to somebody other than them. Good. They’ll just have to do with 1 Ferrari they don’t know how to drive in the garage.

Whether or not Emanuel had anything to do with Gov Dean’s non-appearance he’s still a water moccasin hidin’ in the weeds. And a moc would prolly consider that an insult.

Hey, blondie, you wanna photo, you get a photo…
http://www.newsobserver.com/15…..57827.html
hee hee.
I think your priorities are just fine. I happened to see the story headlined on Yahoo the other day when I was cruising by.

Oh, and for those who were so vehement in their praise of the Big 12’s top team:

FL 24 OK 14

Go Gators!

SEC rules.

There were pictures on another thread…don’t recall. She spent a fortune; ugly; she won’t be there to use; silly; leaving her mark. Thanks

Thanks. I like it, though the gold silverware is OTT.

My own preference is for something with a strong color on the rim. Livens up the table.

I swear she is wearing her “bought” clothes…Does the RNC know?

Would the RNC care? Is there a RNC? Seems like it fell apart awhile ago and can’t seem to get itself together.

I’m a banana leaf and fingers kinda dude. Less to clean up.

Here’s one of the rejected china patterns.

I don’t know which woman, Sarah or Laura is easier to poke fun at.
That via comment cracked me up. Maybe with all that switching from this college to that one, she missed taking an English course. Oh, brother.
She is correct, however, that she did a lot of exploiting.

Except for the announcers praising of Tebow, the game was good. Gee, at one point I did think that they were going to announce that Tebow, walked on water. Although I’m a proud supporter of the SEC, I almost started cheering for OU.

You sure that’s not a nouveau riche litter box?

No gold-rimmed napkins?

It’s a sort of variation on the carpet theme. It’s designed to promote optimistic eating.

I just tuned them out. I surely miss the old time announcers, who were more about the game than the personalities. Great defensive game.

Nah, that’s what shirts and pants are for.

That is funny. Did you do that?

Although I really do use cloth napkins. Can’t stand wiping my hands and mouth with recycled newsprint.

When I read about the possible announcement of Richard Haas as an envoy to the Middle East, I was dismayed; then I read Guardian’s article yesterday about low level discussions with Hamas. Obama does seem to have a plan and until there is more imformation, I’m going to wait before I attack his picks. Now if he puts Parsons as Commerce Sec’y, that will change my position.

Born in a barn? You make me smile, SD. Thanks.

Damn. That’s my favorite.

I think she doesn’t know the proper usage of the word *via* or it’s definition.

Babe Buch…calling Katie an angry, unfriendly person…re. the interview.
I wonder if the arguement can be made: If Palin wanted more protection/easy coverage for her family, maybe she should not have dragged them all over the country. Alot of people were concerned about school for the older children and the very health/needs of that little baby.

It’s toooo early in the morning for me to look at Bush’s face. It was clever though.

Oh, gee whiz. I keep an actual, not virtual, dictionary on my desk.

Waiting for Dec employment report in 5 minutes.

Sarah has already come out and said that she thinks Caroline would make an excellent Senator. Sarah believes in covering all bases.

What’s the Laura reference? I missed that/what happened. Thanks

For some reason, the Buchanons are more inspired by Palen than anyone since Nixon.

Dixie Chicks

Yes, the story I heard yesterday on NPR said this report would say a lot.

I would like for Sarah to take this opportunity to become a “private” person.

Waiting for Dec employment report in 5 minutes.

ygm

Expectations are -525,000 on jobs, 7% unemployment rate. Actual soon.

Just about her buying the china as she was getting ready to move out. I think there’s a lot about her to poke fun at tho. Like her choice of a husband.

Re: Israel ignores UN resolution
Can I please point out that Hamas also said they “had no interest” in the cease-fire? I do not fully support what Israel is doing, but the conflict is not entirely on their shoulders.

I’ll willing to bet that the real world unemployment rate is already approaching 12% instead of the govt’s manipulated figures.

-524,000 actual, umemployment rate 7.2%. Downward revisions in Oct & Nov. For all of 2008, 2.6 million jobs lost.

Sarah is whining because she thought that she could run her campaign the way she did in Alaska. She did not understand that on a national stage you are expected to at least show some curiosity in national and world events.

The market is happy for the “lucky duckies” that it’s not worse.

Yes. A private person who actually does care about the education and health of her children.

Let’s see now…that averages out to 216,000+ jobs LOST per month. Way to go, George and Dick.

Thanks…with defenders like Babe, I guess she is right/correct.

NYT article says both rejected the call for a cease-fire. I’d like to see the text of the proposal.

Yes, there are folks in Alaska who would rather someone else’s attentions be put to the state’s problems since Sarah seems to be trying to govern by staring into the mirror all the time. Because…it’s always ALL about her.

Let’s not forget Phil Gramm and his no regulation cronies.

The U-6 measure, the broadest measure of under utilized labor, jumped to 13.5% in December from 12.6% in November and 8.7% a year ago. Here’s the definition of U-6: Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers.

For some reason, I’m thinking of the witch in the Wizard of Oz…What a world, what a world.

I know we’ve discussed this before but how do they arrive at a “total unemployment” figure when it’s nigh impossible to know what people are doing once they’ve used up their unemployment and are no longer on the rolls.

I’m wondering if the effects of the recession are, so far, somewhat geographic in severity. To date, I can’t see any effects as apparent as those in prior recessions. I still see large commercial development projects in progress, perhaps financed prior the awareness of the credit problem. Only one car dealership, that I’m aware of, has gone belly-up.
The classified section in the newspapers still seems to have about the same number of vacancies advertised. I don’t doubt that it’s coming, but am waiting for the shoe to drop.

Let’s not forget Phil Gramm and his no regulation cronies.

don’t want to forget that rubin, summers, levitt and schumer are a few of the cronies.

It’s covered in my diary.
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/2249

The workforce now socks away more money in case they get laid off. Tax cuts are not going to change their thinking. The government can create jobs and that should be what Obama focuses on. As an expert in the area, how concerned are you on a level of one to ten. Ten being very concerned.

Large projects lag (the larger the project the greater the lag) at business cycle turning points. It’s because they take so long to get started.

Yep. The economic is in both a classic liquidity trap and paradox of thrift. It’s nuts to give tax cuts under those conditions, a real waste of stimulus funds, as households & businesses will save the lion’s share.

I remember reading that at the time. Guess I’ll have to re-read it.

Got that right. What little I have left each week goes in the credit union.

That’s why I wrote it. It’s a keeper. *g*

book marked for reference.

I do think that you might be able to get a small stimulus by lowering the payroll tax but only if you remove the cap. That way lower income would have extra money for rent and food.

O Please, Let’s do forget Phil…and his wife as well.. “Just go on down the road,” as they say in TX.

Immediate problem is a question of bang for the buck. Your suggestion would be good in a longer run sense.

i’d love to – the only reason i can’t is that one of gramm’s main partners in crime, larry summers, is now advising obama on economic policy. may even be the main advisor. :(

Any other Qs about employment report? Otherwise I’m off to do an update diary.

The few times that I have voted REPUB was when I lived in Dallas and Phil was a democrat. I’m still proud of that vote, although it didn’t help.

Thanks! I’m anxious to read your update.

Thanks for the help. You periodically come under seige.

“What were you doing when you were 21 years old”? Big whoop. Tebo is a great football player and they can take all the rest of that crap and stick it.

Here is what BBC had on the call for cease fire with lots of links as well

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7820027.stm

Worst year (Dec-Dec) for job losses since WWII.

Unemployment figures just released. 7.2%! If Reagan and Clinton’s changes of how unemployment is calculated were not used in determining the “official” number it would likely be double figures.

well done!

Teaching in MA. Two of my older brothers are still fighting the View Nam war. One was a fighter pilot and the other a helicopter pilot. It was a terrible, terrible time. Tebow is great. What a good game.

Good for you…. his wife is still probably cashing in from Enron. Charming.

eCahn: Have a good one..probably see you later in the day. I need to be close behind you.

I don’t remember even seein’ the announcers during the game. Just their inane patter. When he asked that question I had to stop and think. Oh, yeah, I was on my way to Spain.

See my 52.

The employee’s share of FICA is 7.65 percent. Lower the tax and you damage social security. The other part of payroll tax is Federal Withholding tax which varies. I’m not sure what tax the Republicans are referring to.

If Joe Sixpack grosses $600 per week and gets to keep 5 percent more that’s $30 a week. If he’s losing his house, it won’t make any difference. Job creation is what is needed. The Repubs are stealing the show here with their BS. I though they were the minority party.

Incidentally, the lower gas prices should have skyrocketed the economy into the heavens, if the Republicans’ strategizing were true. We’re talking about the same $30 per week. Where is the stimulus? Very few are seeing it.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Christy is up with a post on early childhood education. She has been doing amazing work and if you haven’t read her post on nutrition that she wrote the other day, take the time to find it. Later folks and have a good day.

I skimmed last night’s posts. You need to take a victory lap for your Gators by 10 forecast.

Tebow was good. I think he, McCoy, Bradford, and Harrell are some of the best college quarterbacks I’ve ever seen.

Where’s Barbara? Looks like she is having real cold again, maybe snow, couldn’t tell…while we are headed to the high 70s. we’ll take it.

Good work.

You’d have to remove the cap. Since payroll taxes hurt the poor the most, the few dollars would help but Ecahn is correct that we need to focus on jobs.

Tebow is great because of Jesus. John 3:16 on his cheeks. La Figa has a post about missionary work in Afrika spawning witch hunts. Not good.

About that crybaby. . .

Don’t like Stafford huh?

IF she is the Mama Bear, why didn’t she stay in the cave and look after her “cubs”? That is the part I don’t get. She chose to put her pregnant daughter on the national stage and complains when that gets noticed. Gee, what would have been said about Chelsea or Patricia Nixon…Give Me a Break.

And she bought them all clothes for the performance. I gues I am having the vapors. She is in la-la land.

I jut haven’t seen him. I a Longhorns fan and hadn’t even seen Tebow, except for clips, until last night.

Geez, it’s my keyboard’s fault.

DIGG

I opened the DIGG. My first time to try to make the copy/paste of URL, so don’t know what I’ll get.

Come on, pups! 94 comments and nobody opened the DIGG for Blue???

Hey, neurophius, I DID IT, the DIGG turned blue. You told me how long ago — but I’m a slow learner. hee,hee
Thanks.
pup34

Over at http://www.alternet.org
there are too many great articles to give link to each.

Naomi Klein: ‘Want to end the Violence in Gaza? Boycott Israel’

Deepak Tripathi: ‘Bush’s Final Act: A Bloody War in Gaza’
, , , ,*he tags Bush as “an instinctive demolisher” and says Bush is “a hostage to his own demons”.

If nobody is asking other women candidates what they read, that may have something to do with the fact that many of them are lawyers. Everyone knows what fussy elitists top law schools are about expecting their students to read all those big books.