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This arrived in my e-mail inbox this morning…. a rather humorous video.
Notice how they played it so straight? I mean, it is pretty darned good. Something tells me that if this was a real product, the PUMA’s would be buying this by the crate.
Exit question: If Catharsis for Hillary, then what for Bill?
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I was looking at the upcoming stories this morning.
A liberal think tank organization released a news piece of the shape of social security and it’s status. Turns out it is just fine.
Well, right away, some on the right are crying “Foul“!
Because there was a gross distortion of the facts? Uhmm.. No, because they did not link the source article.
Well, here it is guys… The report in question, in PDF format.
From the Congressional Budget Office, Director’s Blog:
Today we released a paper on updated long-term projection for Social Security. (Our last long-term projection for social security was included in the December 2007 Long-Term Budget Outlook.) As CBO has highlighted in previous reports, the number of Social Security beneficiaries will grow considerably as the baby boomers become eligible for retirement benefits. Absent legislative changes, spending for the program will therefore climb substantially and exceed the program’s revenues. CBO projects that the 75-year actuarial imbalance in the program amounts to 0.38 percent of GDP, or 1.06 percent of taxable payroll.
The projections released today differ somewhat from earlier results because of newly available programmatic and economic data, updated assumptions about future demographic and economic trends, and improvements in CBO’s models. For example, these projections assume that future immigrants will be younger and more numerous than was assumed in 2007. (This change was included in the 2008 Social Security trustees’ report; CBO adopts the trustees’ aggregate demographic assumptions.) As a result of this and other changes, CBO projects somewhat smaller future deficits than we did in our 2007 projections.
CBO’s long-term Social Security projections have always shown both a point estimate and the range within which 80 percent of the possible values are likely to fall. In this update, however, CBO has expanded its uncertainty presentation. Many figures and tables still show the 10th and 90th percentiles of various measures, but new presentations show the probabilities of specific outcomes.
Here is an example of our new presentation. A table in today’s report shows the probability that Social Security outlays will exceed revenues by a specified percentage of GDP in a selected year. For example, the likelihood that outlays will exceed revenues in 2030 is about 97 percent, CBO projects, and there is almost a 50 percent chance that the gap will be larger than 1 percentage point of GDP; the chance of its being 2 percentage points (or more) of GDP is only 6 percent.
Another new table shows the probability, for different birth cohorts, that the Social Security trust funds will be sufficient to pay specified percentages of scheduled benefits. According to CBO’s projections, the 1940s cohort, for example, is virtually certain to receive all of its scheduled first-year benefit. The 1990s cohort has only a 32 percent chance of receiving all of its scheduled first-year benefit but an 84 percent chance of receiving at least 70 percent of that benefit.
Both the analyses that show 10th and 90th percentiles and the new presentations are based on the same underlying data, but we hope that the different perspectives will help to communicate uncertainty more fully to readers.
Gee guys, it’s called goggle. (and not THE Google, as called by Keith Olbermann, it is not a living thing!) it cannot be that hard to look up. 🙄
No wonder the majority of Americans believe that the Republican Party is filled with idiots. It might just be because it is! 😆
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When the damned Homosexuals want nothing to do with you! 😯 😮
This comes via Ben Smith’s Blog at Politico.com
The executives of a gay sex site are apparently more concerned about the perception that they’re associated with John McCain than McCain is about the association with them.
The chairman of the board of Manhunt, the Cambridge-based hookup site, was forced to resign after reports that he gave $2,300 to McCain.
Manhunt co-founder Larry Basile e-mailed the blog Towleroad:
It should be known that Jonathan Crutchley’s donation to McCain left the entire Board in disbelief. I am disappointed that we have lost some customers, and I understand the anger. It is too bad for the web site if we lose customers, but PLEASE never refer to me as a Republican. I consider it an offense.
Earlier today, at the request of the Board, Jonathan has stepped down as Chairman.McCain’s campaign hasn’t responded to questions about the $2,300 contribution.
Heh….. I mean, when a homosexual website’s board asks the Chairman to hit the road, because he gave to John McCain, that’s pretty sad. 😆
Where’s the log cabin Republicans when you need ’em?
*snort*
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As you all know, I have WorldNetDaily in my sidebar. I like Joe Farah, even though he did act like a bit of a tool towards me once.
But someone needs to teach those guys how to use Google Adsense!
I was over looking around over there and I’m seeing the normal stuff, including an article on how wind will not solve our energy problems. Which doubles as a ad hawking Farah’s Magazine “Whistleblower”.
However, when I clicked on another page, I saw this, about mid-screen on the page.
You ever get the feeling that the right hand, doesn’t know what the left is doing over there at WorldNetDaily?
It’s called the Competitive Ad Filter people, Please, Look into it!
I think Joe Farah needs to hire me. Just so I can go around and keep him from looking like a blithering idiot. 😆 😉
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Man, I thought I was grouchy in the morning…. 😮 😯
The Story: Cop suspended for demanding free Starbucks (Via msnbc.com)
Chicago police officer has been suspended for 15 months for demanding free coffee and baked goods from six different Starbucks.
Officer Barbara Nevers, a 14-year veteran, has also been ordered to undergo counseling.
The Police Board ruled in May that 55-year-old Nevers intimidated Starbucks employees by screaming at them and flashing her badge, handcuffs or gun when they wanted her to pay. The board released its findings Thursday.
There’s a Arnold Schwarzenegger imitation in that story somewhere… Paging Jim Ward!
Heh.
OMFG…. She would make a good looking President. 😛
Better than that other old liberal that dropped out. 😆 😀
Others: TalkLeft, The New Republic, Open Left, Fox News, Economist’s View, TMZ.com, TIME.com, Political Radar, The World Newser, FOX Embeds, Grasping Reality …, Hot Air and Riehl World View
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Looking through my stats here and I see this:
Geeez… Asshat Perverts. Go elsewhere please, this is not a site where you can spank your monkey and look at nekkid people.
Freakin’ Morons.
Update: Wow, what a typo…. “Spank your money” Geeez. 🙄 😀 😛
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From MAUREEN DOWD:
The odd thing is that Obama bears a distinct resemblance to the most cherished hero in chick-lit history. The senator is a modern incarnation of the clever, haughty, reserved and fastidious Mr. Darcy.
*Snort*
I thinking more Steve Urkel myself.. 😆
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1. Members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for really drinking it up.
2. Rep. Tim Walberg For being the only person to vote against the head start program
3. To Neo-Con asshole Michael Goldfarb for comparing NYT’s Editorial Board to the adverage Daily Kos Diarist. When he himself is a blogger at McCain’s Blog and also is the editor and Blogger at the Weekly standard. 🙄
Silver: Bill O’ For bragging about his ratings, and royally screwing them up
Bronze: Republican Congresswoman Michelle Backman for basically being full of HotAir… (HotAir?!?! Hmmmm… Does Michelle know this?)
Gold: Rush Limbaugh, Bush 4.1, and Bush 4.3 for basically admitting that Roger Ailes is on the string… (Uh, Keith, I get 4.1 and 4.3, but why Rush? he didn’t say it… 🙄 )
Here’s funny one, that I read.
Via Politico.com:
“When Letterman is doing ‘Top Ten’ lists about something, it has officially entered the public consciousness,” said Dan Schnur, a political analyst from the University of Southern California and the communications director in John McCain’s 2000 campaign. “And it usually stays there for a long, long time.”
*snort*
Others: The Swamp, Confederate Yankee, The Reaction, First Draft, The Mahablog, MyDD, Hot Air, American Street, No More Mister Nice Blog, Gateway Pundit, Real Clear Politics, Media Blog and American Spectator
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Does Michelle know about this?
A few snort worthy quotes:
“Hi, how’s it going?“ asks Obama in his deep voice. My heart beats. “Very good, and you?” I say. Obama replies: “Very good, thank you!”
What? No Halo? Hmmm…
He goes and picks up a pair of 16 kilo
weights and starts curling them with his left and right arms, 30
repetitions on each side. Then, amazingly, he picks up the 32 kilo
weights! Very slowly he lifts
them, first 10 curls with his right, then 10 with his left. He breathes
deeply in and out and takes a sip of water from his 0,5 litre Evian
bottle.
Oh man, making me moist already… 😛 😆
“My name’s Judith” I reply. “I’m Barack
Obama, nice to meet you!” he says, and puts his arm across my shoulder.
I put my arm around his hip – wow, he didn’t even sweat! WHAT A MAN!
*snort*
For those wondering… 16 kilos is 78 pounds. 🙄
Others:
Macsmind, NewsBusters.org, Newsweek Blogs, Stop The ACLU, Wonkette, www.redstate.com, alicublog and Deadline USA
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(H/T HotAir)
Now I know that Politics has entered the silly season!
Richard Simmons — Congressman? (Via CNN Political Ticker)
Fitness star and effervescence extreme Richard Simmons is on Capitol Hill today, tackling the issue of childhood obesity and pushing for increased school exercise programs. But as he testifies before the House Education and Labor Committee, the 60-year-old is nodding toward that celebrity siren song: political office.
In a half-serious, half-jocular tone, Simmons described his approach to the hearing, saying, “I want to have the respect of a congressman, I want to talk like a congressman, and maybe, someday, I’ll be a congressman.”
During three minutes of follow-up questions, Simmons displayed an almost Washingtonian flare for avoiding a direct position. “However I can be of use,” he said, “If my country wants me, I’ll be there for my country.”
So has no plans to run?
“Well,” he answered coyly, “I don’t know. I may run for office. You never know.”
Egad. What’s next? Pee Wee Herman? 🙄
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Yeah, I’m still miffed at him, for some rather stupid and insensitive remarks that he and some of his cohorts made. But he does a have a point here:
I mean the misspelling of education, during, of all things, an education spot, is just downright funny. 😛
The poll thing goes without saying….
But the biggest of all, Bill O’ comparing Al Gore going to a Netroots convention, to a Klan meeting? That takes on a whole other decibel of stupidity. 🙄
I mean, don’t get me wrong, My feelings on global warming are that the science is just unproven and the whole movement was hi-jacked as a political movement rather than a Environmental issue, which is what it should be.
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I happened to be reading the headlines, and I happened to see a story in the National Enquirer about John Edwards supposedly meeting a supposed lover, Rielle Hunter. Of course, we just know about the National Enquirer’s journalistic integrity. 🙄
Anyhow, the snort worthy quote is from Steve over at Hog On Ice:
My observations:
1. Thank God it wasn’t a man.
2. Nice manly recovery, running into a stairwell and then hiding on a toilet.
3. Gary Hart sends his regards.
*snort*
Others Blogging:
The Corner, Pajamas Media, protein wisdom, Macsmind, Six Meat Buffet, Gawker, Doug Ross, www.redstate.com, Overlawyered and Hog On Ice
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That this dude here, takes this whole internet, web 2.0 thing… waaaaaaay too seriously.
Snagged from FriendFeed:
Snagged from FriendFeed
It’s kind of a blunt way of putting things… Whoa! 😮 😯
*Snort*
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I think all Americans should read this.
“Obama ain’t black.”
I turned to look over my shoulder to see who had uttered that ridiculous statement.
“Pardon Me?” I squinted at the dark-skinned man who had just interjected himself into my over-coffee conversation with my buddy, Kevin.
“Obama ain’t black.” He said again more matter-of-factly as he walked around the porcelain dividing wall and stood at our table where he could be more active in our conversation.
“My name’s Andree,” he said as he extended his hand. “I couldn’t help but hear what you boys had been discussin’ and I don’t mean to stick my nose in where it don’t belong, but I couldn’t leave without settin’ you straight. Obama ain’t black.”
I looked at Kevin as he shifted nervously in his seat, not sure how to take this visitor to our table.
“Well, have a seat Andree,” somewhat trying to judge the book by its cover. “I’m Dave, but most folks call me Coach, and this is Kevin.” Kevin extended his hand politely.——- Click the link to read the rest of Conveniently Black by Dave Daubenmire (via NewsWithViews.com
I will simply say the following, that it is pretty telling when Obama is doing better in White America, out in places where blacks are in rare supply, than he is in the more urban communities.
I don’t have much to add to this article… Because Dave says it all in this article. Enjoy.
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