Re Chinese buying U.S. houses: buy high, sell low, like the Japanese did in the 1980s? Was always my solution for how the U.S. could repeatedly get away with running large deficits. There’s always a greater fool.

Wrt the rush article, it would be nice if we could herd all the wealthy who’re whining about having to pay higher taxes and wanting to move someplace else into one state (not in my backyard!) or, better yet, another country and put a fence around it so they can never get back out again.

Lowry punts on R plan to cure U.S. trade deficit.

I can’t figure out what that marraige stuff was all about- is it an ad using audition rejects? sympathy factor is what they are going for?

Do you think they know? My guess is self-parody.

I saw the final product on the Ed Show, I think. It was no more comprehensible than these auditions. The best I could make out of it was a theme that everyone from pearl divers to brain surgeons will somehow be adversely effected by the impending storm of same sex marriages, and they are all very saddened by the prospect.

Morning everyone. Tomorrow at this time I’ll be commenting from sunny Myrtle Beach. Then Sunday through Thursday, I’ll be commenting from cloudy, cold, rainy Myrtle Beach.

Enjoy!

BT,

Your last link, regarding unemployment, is spot on if GM and Chrysler have to go into bankruptcy. Those figures totally match “the math” I have been posting on for Ohio and MI and what the impact of the crumble will be. This map will help tell the story. Note that some of the higher population states will be terribly affected. Now, I will note that CNN’s numbers are a bit wrong. For instance, Ohio has actually 900,000 tier one and tier two jobs related to the auto industry. Nonetheless, the map still shows the impact on heavily populated areas. Ohio is number two in North America in parts production. Canada is the number one parts supplier.

So, it is quite important that we, for the time, invest in saving the auto industry while we give time for new green technology jobs and infrastructure jobs to kick in. Now, if there is any chance that the auto industry can turn around and save itself in the few years we invest in saving it, great. It just means more jobs, which just makes the country stronger. If not, well at least we’ll have some other industry sectors kicking in that will be in place to provide jobs for those that are lost if the auto industry tumbles over the next three years.

Come on Chase, restructure the Chrysler loan. Or do you still want to whine about all your credit card losses due to high unemployment? See, you make no sense. If you restructure, you’ll prevent job loss and loose less on your CC business unit. Or, you take great joy in raping and pillaging and then turning around and whine about the impact of your actions. You know, the joy you feel every time you send out an (EBT) unemployment benefits card and gather all those transaction fees?

I haven’t been to Myrtle Beach since my dad died in 1980. As a kid we vacationed there every August. Sleepy little beach town with an amusement park, complete with ferris wheel, downtown. My uncle owned a laundry that did the majority of the hotels/motels and the hospital. Mickey Spillane lived in Murrell’s Inlet, where my dad eventually moved to. Spillane used to hold birthday parties for the local kids. Down the road were the little places that sold things like rope hammocks. Now it’s mega hotels and golf courses. Too bad.

Wishing you safe travels and a drastic turnaround in weather forecast.

While I’m infuriated that Chase isn’t helping Chrysler, I’m even more angry about the UIB fees. Why isn’t Granholm doing something about that? That should be quite easy to take care of. Switch banks fer crissakes.

BT, I did *not* need to see a picture of Michelle Bachmann this early in the morning.

It’s still lovely. Big and bustling but when you’re on that beach, watching the waves, waiting for the dolphins to swim by….it’s wonderful.

Now it’s mega hotels and golf courses.

And bumper-to-bumper traffic. :-( Went down 5-6 years back to go to a specific store and swore, “Never. again!”

Have I got the beach for you!!! Minus the “big and bustling” ick.

Myrtle Beach had the most beautiful sand in the world. Then the US Air Farce had to go and lose 2 thermonuclear devices off the coast of Spain in the 60s. The sand from the Spanish beaches near the site was dug up and put on top of Myrtle Beach’s sand. I got brown as a nut and people thought my knockout stepmother was my older sister. Couldn’t keep me out of the water. Great body surfing.

The differences in average annual salaries are striking and point out why Bob Corker has such a great interest in breaking the UAW for his foreign auto makers. The bottom of the barrel wages in Texas and Florida must reflect the high amount of commission-only high turnover sales jobs.

Mornin’ All,

early 60’s Myrtle Beach nicely recreated in this 80’s light comedy Shag. alas, no tigers

Goods morning, Cbl.

I know what your talking about, but I was TDY at both Myrtle Beach AFB and Tyndall AFB (Panama City), in the mid 60’s, and rate Panama City area as the most beautiful beaches. People think the sand is snow in old 8mm films taken during the 60’s. Of course, I may have been seeing the sand at Myrtle Beach after the dumping of Spanish sand. The nuclear accident occured only a few months before I was there. You’re right, there was almost no commercial development at either place at that time.

I assume you have seen this already

The program ensures that parts suppliers get money owed them for their products, no matter what happens to Chrysler and GM.

Why would anyone put sand from Spain in Florida? I’m not getting it.

mornin’ (((scooter boy))) – call when you can

AmeriKablog will censor your posts if you call them out for whining about not getting their share of Progressive fund raising money. You can swear if you want. You can bash gays if you want. Don’t dare question their patriotism for wanting their share of the money. Show me the money, that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?

Peace?

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”–William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

“I think it’s working.”–PJ, citizen, 2009

Concerning news from the cocoon, if you assume that 42% of the populace is Republican, then over 90% of Republicans are willing to attend a tea party. That’s very significant, and worthy of coverage. Doesn’t mean that their actions are rational.

So, don’t go there. We don’t have to like everything or get along with everyone. Just leave them be.

And why did I spend one minute reading the Rush piece when I have, long time ago, exorcized him off my radio. I need to go to confession for such a misstep.

I didn’t know about any transfer of sand to Myrtle Beach either, but I assume the sand may have been part of that sent to the Savannah River Nuclear Plant for decontamination as noted in this wiki article.

Yep, saw that yesterday and unfortunately, that is simply a very, very small “patch” and not an investment into long term viability for the parts supplier business and tier two suppliers. Some note that we are going to let a ton of foreign car manufacturers into the US over the next three years and that those same parts suppliers will be saved.

Yes, a number of foreign manufacturers are coming. The “picking up the slack” for tier one and tier two of the auto industry: total bull.

This is honestly a patch to not make the current unemployment figures look bad all at once.

Myrtle Beach is in South Carolina. The Spanish government was afraid the sand from the beaches around Torremolinos (sp) was contaminated by radiation from the 2 nukes. We dug it up and shipped it to Myrtle Beach.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool, sans sand.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

I am going to leave them be. It’s just disappointing they were so quick to ban my posts. I thought there was a progressive cause to believe in, but it does appear to be just about the money.

Sad

Christy’s up
GOP’s Blocking of Obama Legal Nominees More Than a Pissing Match, It’s Coordinated Obstruction
as Christy might say, put down all beverages …

That’s just nuts. Why not dump it in the middle of the ocean, or, I know…how ’bout we don’t manufacture any more nuclear waste? Hey, what do I know? *g*

You’ve heard that song, Money Makes The World Go Around? Sad, yes. But, that’s the way it is. :(