"Hatman" strikes again!!
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"Dumfuk Mental Masturbating Moron"

Jobless rates rose in 44 states in July, including in several swing states considered key in the presidential election.

Unemployment crept up in Florida, Iowa, Nevada and five more states labeled toss ups by RealClearPolitics. In another toss up state, Ohio, the jobless rate was unchanged in July at 7.2%.

The upticks from June’s numbers aren’t huge — Florida’s jobless rate rose to 8.8% from 8.6%, for example — but will give Barack Obama’s opponents more fodder to attack the president’s economic record as he seeks reelection.

Obama’s Gotta Go

This should be interesting.

Something you won't see on the nightly news..coal miners lining up to see Mitt.

Is that Joe Biden?

Crickets. The writer went to Oxford.

He responds to his critics.

Author of ‘Hit the Road’ Newsweek Cover Story Skewers His Critics
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 7:15pm by Mytheos Holt
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Being a conservative in any predominately liberal environment is difficult. Being a conservative at Newsweek is likely prohibitively difficult. And being the conservative whose message lands on Newsweek’s cover seemed, until this week, to be nigh impossible.

Enter Niall Ferguson, the rogue columnist responsible for the recent Newsweek cover story calling for President Obama to be voted out of office. Ferguson’s article has been slammed by several different sources for what those sources claim are factual inaccuracies and/or arguments in bad faith. Ferguson first acknowledged these attacks when he hit back against New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for misconstruing an argument that Ferguson had made about the Congressional Budget Office.

Well, now Ferguson has extended his attack beyond Krugman to the entire academic Left in a blistering four page blog entry countering numerous claims that Ferguson considers unfair. Most of the entry gets very deeply into the policy weeds, and if you want to read them all, you can look at Ferguson’s full take-down here. However, we do want to call your attention to the end, where he mockingly hands out “prizes” to his critics for specific varieties of ridiculousness:

First prize goes to Berkeley professor Brad DeLong, whose blog opened with the headline “Fire-His-Ass-Now.” “He lied,” rants DeLong. “Convene a committee at Harvard to examine whether he has the moral character to teach at a university.” My own counter-suggestion would be to convene a committee at Berkeley to examine whether or not Professor DeLong is spending too much of his time blogging when he really should be conducting serious research or teaching his students. For example, why hasn’t Professor DeLong published that economic history of the 20th century he’s been promising for the past six years? It can’t be writer’s block, that’s for sure.

Runner up is James Fallows of The Atlantic for his hilariously pompous post “As a Harvard Alum, I Apologize.” Well, as an Oxford alum, I laugh.


In third place comes Krugman with his charge of “unethical commentary … a plain misrepresentation of the facts” requiring “an abject correction.” The idea of getting a lesson from Paul Krugman about the ethics of commentary is almost as funny as Fallows’s apologizing on behalf of Harvard. Both these paragons of the commentariat, by the way, shamelessly accused me of racism three years ago when I drew an innocent parallel between President Obama and “Felix the Cat.” I don’t know of many more unethical tricks than to brand someone who criticizes the president a racist.

And, finally, a consolation prize for righteous indignation goes to Dylan Byers of Politico (“ridiculous, misleading, ethically questionable”).

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/author-of-hit-the-road-newsweek-cover-story-skewers-his-critics/

CU-Boulder study predicts win for Mitt Romney in general election

A University of Colorado analysis that has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1980 based on state-by-state factors forecasts that Mitt Romney will unseat incumbent Barack Obama to become the new president in November's general election, according to a release.

The prediction model looks at economic data from all 50 states and Washington D.C., including state and national unemployment figures and changes in real per capita income, according to CU political science professors Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry.

"Based on our forecasting model, it becomes clear that the president is in electoral trouble," said Bickers in a statement.

According to the analysis, Obama will win only 218 votes in the Electoral College and will also lose the popular vote to Romney -- 47.1 percent to 52.9 percent -- when considering only the two major political parties. the model has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1980.

We Need a ‘Conservative’ Party

There has been lots of talk that Paul Ryan’s nomination ensures that we’ll now have a “real” debate about the role of government. That’s actually funny. The bar for this campaign is so low that we celebrate the fact that it might include a serious debate about one of the four great issues of the day, though even that is not clear yet. And even if Ryan’s entry does spark a meaningful debate about one of the great issues facing America — the nexus of debt, taxes and entitlements — there is little sign that we’ll seriously debate our other three major challenges: how to generate growth and upgrade the skills of every American in an age when the merger of globalization and the information technology revolution means every good job requires more education; how to meet our energy and climate challenges; and how to create an immigration policy that will treat those who are here illegally humanely, while opening America to the world’s most talented immigrants, whom we need to remain the world’s most innovative economy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/opinion/friedman-we-need-a-conservative-party.html?hpw

Fishy

Analysts Project $1.1T Federal Deficit This Year

Congress' nonpartisan budget analysts are projecting a $1.1 trillion federal deficit for 2012, the fourth straight year the government's shortfall will exceed $1 trillion.

Jobless claims rise

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- More people filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week, signaling little improvement in the job market in August.

Here's an old article on the cost of Bush's war, since we like to go back decades and all with the C & P.


The $1 Trillion Bill for Bush's War on Terror

The news that President Bush's war on terrorism soon will have cost the U.S. taxpayers $1 trillion — and counting — is unlikely to spread much Christmas cheer in these tough economic times. A trio of recent reports — none by the Bush Administration — suggests that sometime early in the Obama presidency, spending on the wars started since 9/11 will pass the trillion-dollar mark. Even after adjusting for inflation, that's four times more than America spent fighting World War I, and more than 10 times the cost of 1991's Persian Gulf War (90% of which was paid for by U.S. allies). The war on terrorism looks set to surpass the costs the Korean and Vietnam wars combined, topped only by World War II's price tag of $3.5 trillion.


3.5 Trillion dollars!!!!!!!! What an outrage, the hubris...Oh wait it was a Republican Pres so that's alright, NOT.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1868367,00.html

Fishy

Here's one I forgot to add.

Household income is below recession levels

Michael A. Fletcher, Published: August 23

Household income is down sharply since the recession ended three years ago, according to a report released Thursday, providing another sign of the stubborn weakness of the economic recovery.

From June 2009 to June 2012, inflation-adjusted median household income fell 4.8 percent, to $50,964, according to a report by Sentier Research, a firm headed by two former Census Bureau officials.


We need another stimuless.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/201...th-certificate/