With the Progressive Democrats in political trouble, they’re up to their old tricks. With Arizona passing their tough Immigration law, the Leftist media is now trying to scar Hispanics. Harry Reid is pushing for an Amnesty Bill to get Latin votes for the midterms. However, this is not their main weapon. The Tranzi Progressive media is now promoting the Economy. They are exaggerating some signs of rebound and are proclaiming an Obama economic boom. The NY Times once again has another story promoting this talking point.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The docks are humming again at this sprawling Pacific port, with clouds of golden dust billowing off the piles of grain spilling into the bellies of giant tankers.
“Things are looking up,” said Dan Broadie, a longshoreman. No longer killing time at the union hall while waiting for work, instead he is guiding a mechanized spout pouring 44,000 tons of wheat into the Arion SB, bound for the Philippines.
At malls from New Jersey to California, shoppers are snapping up electronics and furniture, as fears of joblessness yield to exuberance over rising stock prices. Tractor trailers and railroad cars haul swelling quantities of goods through transportation corridors, generating paychecks for truckers and repair crews.
Read the rest: From the Mall to the Docks, Recovery Signs
Expect to keep hearing how great the economy is. When the economy was doing well in 2005, the Tranzi Progressive media kept saying how bad it was. They talked the economy down in the media during the Bush years. Now they are talking it up in hopes of creating confidence. This is an example of Leftist propaganda.
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A lot of my liberal friends keep pushing :the recession is over” tripe. I tell them (those who still have a job), “Yeah go out and try to find another job and get back to me on that.”
lol, exuberance over rising stock prices,where have we heard that scam before.
My butt. A couple hundred miles to the north, there are still ships at anchor, with nowhere to go, and nothing to do. Grain is the one item that’s somewhat recession-resistant, and that’s been moving through the recession, but manufactured goods aren’t moving.
Ignorance, or narrative? You decide.
Rising stocks = falling currency.
@ snork:
They are trying to get people to spend hence create economic growth. How can the economy grow when there are no incentives to create jobs in the United States?
I am a doom and gloom guy these days.
Perhaps I should use the feel-good news as a cover to exit the market, but to where?
@ Speranza:
I bet those same Leftists back in 2005, when you could get a new job complained how sluggish it was and that wages sucked!
Kinda on topic, But the WSJ is rumored to be starting a daily New York City only newspaper. Advertising rates will be approx 1/2 of what the NY Times charges for a full page ad. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it NYT!!!
Even people who have comfortable stable income are running scared.One couple I know are maxed out on credit and home equity,about to lose their home. These are professionals,so imagine what the overall is.
The MSM, Harry Reid, B. Obama, Nancy Pelosi, DNC are in full panic mode now.
They see the clif about four feet in back of them and the clear air under them.
So, panic, lie, push Cap and Trade, push “Amnesty”, play every card in the race deck too.
No lie to large, no treason too evil, any vote fraud possible, they are in a death sprial.
Push them out from the cliff so far the only thing left is the work gravity lust for them with.
IMHO
citizen_q wrote:
I heard you can get a lot of Zimbabwe bucks for one of ours.
yeah one of my good patient just lost his job and he needs about $5000 worth of dental work. He is lucky his Dentist is a sucker and is willing to do it for 1/2 price.
taxfreekiller wrote:
But you know how those cartoons work. They walk off the cliff and hang there for a minute. That’s where they are now. They’re already over the cliff, they’re just consulting their consensus of experts about this “gravity” thing they heard about somewhere.
I can tell you from personal experience that the housing market still completely sucks. And the $8000 tax credends this week unless they extend it. I expect sales to tank then, kind of like car sales after “cash for clunkers” ended.
Rodan wrote:
Until the Subprime Crash in late 2008 (thanks Barney Frank) they never gave Bush credit for low unemployment. If you are lucky enough to have a job you have to hold onto it for dear life as there are no other jobs for you to go to. In a real sense – you are stuck where you are.
Meanwhile the money wonks at CNN:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/26/news/economy/NABE_survey/
I can sum up our economy in these radio news tidbits.
Monday morning commute – Unemployment numbers drop unexpectedly, homes sales up 3% from last month.
Wednesday evening commute – Unemployment numbers raise, home foreclosures at an all time record last month.
It seems week in and week out this is the news cycle or maybe that is news recycle?
@ snork:
I hope you are right. I hope it is too late for them to turn it around. I want them to crash and burn. I want Obama to be a complete failure. Speaking of epic fails, have you seen this:
Read the list. ObamaCare is hosed before it even gets out the door. Let’s pray the courts eviscerate this monster before it destroys health care in this country, and the economy in the process.
@ snork:
Yeah, butt (gratuitous pun) I hear charmin is still easier on the hind quarters.
There’s only been a boom in gloom and doom.
@ Speranza:
Nope, they would say wages are lower and he’s fixing the numbers. I’m not saying the Mid 2000′s was a great boom, but it was stable growth. They would always comparte Bush’s numbers to Clintons. What they didn’t realize is we are talking apples and oranges. in the 90′s Globalization still hadn’t taken effect, so job growth and wage growth was booming. In the 2000′s Globalization took effect and less jobs were created and wages were lower becasue of this. However, if you needed a job you can get one. The Left just said how bad everything was and this created a ngative perception thatw as out of proportion.
What is needed is massive Tax reform to make America economically competitive in a Global market.
@ The Osprey:
Yup as early as the summer of 2009, they proclaimed a boom and that this would be the greatest recovery in history.
Through the Looking Glass. Pravda condemns America’s slide into Marxism:
As they say, read the whole thing. It is interesting not so much for what it says (it is so right-wing it could almost be National Review
) as for where it is. When Pravda condemns American Marxism, you know we are fucked.
@ Rodan:
The Clinton boom was as phony as him and Hillary. All those ridiculous dotcom IPOs that went belly up.Instant millionaires fresh out of college,lol.
OT, but you’re gonna love this. MSM artist doing a series on “Love and Marriage,” i.e., softball profiles to favor legalizing same-sex marriage.
This one has a mixed couple (one Christian into “Liberation Theology,” one Jew) who end up going on pro-Palestinian “Witness” trips.
Comments are moderated, so there’s a good chance anything you say will not make it public—but the artist, at least, will have to read them.
PS, if you want to take the artist’s measure, check out her drawings of Sarah Palin (click link, scroll down). If the artist weren’t married already, she’d be Cato’s dream girl.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Feelings for obummer are the next pix down.
@ BenZacharia:
Click the second link, keep scrolling down, and down, and down. Sort of like you were diving into a sinkhole.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
That is the one I hit, obummer in stained glass.
@ Iron Fist:
Ironic that both Russia and China have warned about our slide towards Marxism! Am I living in an alternate universe?
On the lighter side…
A tough old cowboy once counseled his grandson that if he wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a pinch of gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning. The grandson did this religiously and lived to the age of 110.
He left 4 children,
20 grandchildren,
30 great-grandchildren,
40 great-great-grandchildren,
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And a 50-foot crater where the crematorium used to be.
BenZacharia wrote:
You must not have let it fully load; there are a number of images on a very long scroll; most of the Palin images in the “Politics” section are further down.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
saw them all, just interseting that after the first ‘Palin’ was obummer as the messiah.
TTFN
@ vagabond trader:
Yup it was a mirage but the Left played it up. The last real meaningful economic boom was Reagan boom of the 1980′s.
@ BenZacharia:
ROFLMAO!!! Thanks very much for a late morning laugh.
Another sick Palin pic.
This Zina Saunders has some serious issues.
They’re trying to eliminate the economy and jobs as one reason to oppose illegal immigration. Americans are the most generous people on the planet and some will fall for it and say, oh, they just want to better their lives. Screw that. We are under foreign invasion. 70% of Arizonans (including 51% of Arizona Democrats) support the new law. All this new law does is echo federal law. Why is that such a problem for the Dems? hmmm?
40% of illegal border crossing into the USA happen right here in Arizona. 37% of all illegals caught in Pinal County already have criminal convictions in Arizona. Phoenix is the kidnapping capital of America and 2nd in the world behind Mexico City.
someone called http://www.newstalkkcrs.com (which I listen to on the internet) and said “When Obama met Reverend Bill Graham, did Obama bow and kiss his ring?”.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
DAMN! What a DFC that artist is!
@ Kirly:
Yup they are creating a false illusion.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Left a comment,tried to be nice about it,but damn!
Another sick Palin pic.
This Saunders is one sick bitch.
@ Macker:
What’s “DFC?”
Sorry for OT so soon:
Iranian technocrats, disillusioned with government, offer wealth of intelligence to U.S.
Iran’s political turmoil has prompted a growing number of the country’s officials to defect or leak information to the West, creating a new flow of intelligence about its secretive nuclear program, U.S. officials said.
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The Osprey wrote:
i keep telling you all we are doomed.
my comments are disappearing.
Breaking news/rumor from Fox: General McCrystal is resigning.
@ Kirly:
we are being colonized. By the Mexicans in the Southwest (and South. We have plenty of Illegals around here. I have already resigned myself to having to learn Spanish), and by Mohammedans in Michigan (think Dearbornistan, although that is by no means the only place). Their intent isn’t to come here and assimilate. It is to bring their culture here and replace ours. Because the places they are coming from are such roaring successes.
mjazz wrote:
Didn’t you know that the “i” in “iPad” stands for “invisible ink?”
One more time- Zina Saunders has issues:
http://www.drawger.com/zinasaunders/index.php?article_id=8238
(No ipod here)
@ mjazz:
Sorry, mjazz! They’re up now.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
That is huge. Nothing on the Web yet
GAK, I hates zero’s voice. Rush just played the clip of him begging for voters to help him keep the country fair. He has a decidedly different tone to his voice when he is begging. He has hidden most of the arrogance and that obnoxious arrogant uptick on the last word in the sentence.
He is disgusting.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I think he meant to say, Delta Foxtrot Charlie.
Kirly wrote:
Obama would never bow to a Christian. That would be, like, debasing
MohammedanismObamaism. No matter what he really is, he is an Obamunist first and foremost.@ buzzsawmonkey:
Dumb freaking scrunt.
mjazz wrote:
LOL, You read my mind.
@ Kirly:
Have faith!
@ Kirly:
I wonder how many jihadists are coming with them?
Prediction of 200,000 jobs created in May, up to 500,000 soon after, courtesy of ‘Plugs’ Biden
@ m:
They don’t just go online? You have to enable them somehow?
Kirly wrote:
Boom Boom and a Zoom Zoom ?
@ Iron Fist:
I refuse to learn Spanish. If I’m going to learn a different language, and I’d love to, it’s going to be one I want to learn, whether that language might be Gaelic or German, Navajo or Korean. If I visit another country, I should at least make an effort to learn a few basic phrases. If I move there, I’d better have a working knowledge of the language, even if it’s not fluency. It’s common courtesy.
Sudan’s President Wins Re-Election While Facing International Arrest Warrant
FOXNews.com
KHARTOUM, SUDAN
Sudan’s president won another term in office Monday, becoming the first leader to be elected while facing an international arrest warrant for alleged crimes he orchestrated in the western region of Darfur.
Obama’s new best friend?
I tell ya, the Palin hatred is strong over in Artsyland.
@ Iron Fist:
That’s what I don’t get. If America is so evil, why are you coming here? And if allah is so great, why don’t you have economic opportunities in the countries that are slaves to his crummy will?
And their daughters ain’t going along with it, God bless em.
@ Guggi:
That’s some good news.
@ Iron Fist:
We need a freeze on islamic Immigration and secure our borders.
mjazz wrote:
This is a very good question. but, since the southern border (at least the part of it in Arizona) is wide open. In fact, the weather is helping them since it’s so incredible here this year… very cool spring and it’s lasting far longer than normal thus allowing far more to make the trek across the desert. and of course, the traitors who put out water for the illegals always help them. this is stupid. put up signs in spanish (with pix for the illiterates) showing just how hot and dry it is and that it will kill them. if i found one of those freaking water stations on my land, i’d destroy it immediately.
@ Kirly:
that should have been…
“This is a very good question. but, since the southern border (at least the part of it in Arizona) is wide open, no one knows.”
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Then he says
Dude, it’s “betcha’, not “betchya”. Why Jonny cant paradize.
@ mfhorn:
I have a bit of Spanish from a childhood in California, and the year in school before I switched to German. I will not speak it in the USA.
I walked into a Taqueria in Moro Bay Ca. on my honeymoon cruise up the coast to Napa. All the libtard customers where going to extreme lengths to address the counter girl in their best Spanish. I walked up to the counter and ordered in english and ever head turned and gave me the death daggers stare down. Well, the girl politely answered me in perfect non regional english. She was probably fifth generation or better Mex-Am. I just turned around an laughed right in their faces over that. Again, they were not amused.
Freakin ass wipes!
I will address anyone speaking Spanish hear in one of the other 3 or 4 tongues I have some familiarity with, but not Spanish
@ mfhorn:
I don’t disagree, but I am also mindful that I don’t want to be in a situation whre there is a sizable minority of the population whom I can’t understand or communiicate with. I don’t like it in the least, but I am resigned to it. Right now, I am focusing on Russian again (I’ve been trying to learn Russian since I was a kid). I’m doing the Rosetta Stone thing, and it seems like it has potential. If, after si x months or so, I am satisfied with it, I’ll break down and buy the Spanish version. I don’t care if I’m speaking high Castillian or whatever, but I want to be able to comprehend and communicate.
mfhorn wrote:
i have nothing against the language. even took it in high school. thanks to the first year being an immersion type, i even remember a bit of it. besides, a great many people in the world speak spanish so it’s handy. plus, while it screwed up my accent horribly when i tried to learn some French for work, it helped my understanding of the words since they’re both Latin based. Even helped with some Italian words.
Time for some Infidel Music
@ Kirly:
The Canadian Border is wide open as well and Canada is 3% Muzzie. I really don’t get why the United States can’t secure any of its borders.
@ Rodan:
I’d go further, and deport all non-citizen Mohammedans. nobody who isn’t a citizen has the right to come to America. That is one of the key pieces the Left ignores on the whole question of immigration. They want the borders completely open, with the hope that unrestricted immigration (and colonization) will destroy the internal integrity of the United States.
@ mjazz:
Normally they just go online, but for some reason 3 of yours went to the spam box.
:-/
I took Spanish in junior high until I got kicked out for singing about the Frito Bandito.
@ Rodan:
You know, maybe if, after Pearl Harbor, we put up signs (like in my workplace, after 9/11) that Shintoism is a religion of peace and allowed a million more Japanese into the country, things would have been different.
@ Kirly:
Once you learn Spanish, Italian and Portuguese come very easily. WHne I went to Italy, I got by speaking Spanish. With French there are some similiarities especially when written, but speaking is a whole other matter. French is a debased from of the Latin tongues kind of like what Jamaican Patois is to English. Romanian is a Latin language that SPanish helps with but it has alot of Slavic and Hungarian words.
@ Kirly:
I’ve seen the piles of trash they leave also.
mjazz wrote:
Just like the libs.
@ Iron Fist:
I agree with you 100%!
Imagine if you and I ran this country!
Rodan wrote:
Those in charge do not wish to secure our borders for reasons they do not wish to share with us.
Kirly wrote:
But sharing is good. At least, we are told that we should share as much as possible with the less fortunate.
chickadee wrote:
oh, that is such a good point. i should follow the si se puede idiots around and film the garbage they leave. probably pissing in the streets too. pigs.
oh, you wouldn’t believe the filth they leave behind while crossing the border.
@ Kirly:
I read a while ago that a lot of them are learning Spanish.
There is a lawless triangle where they have a base of operations in South America and MS 13 is smuggling them across.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
no, no, no, sharing our wealth is good. elitists sharing their wealth or what they are doing is bad.
Rodan wrote:
The Canadian border is huge, and a most of it is forested. Don’t forget also, the Alaska/Canada border. Really securing it with a fence is pretty much impossible. Patrols by drones is about the best we can expect.
On the BC/Washington border, there have been several instances of drug smugglers building tunnels from a house in BC to a house in Wash. When they’re willing to do that, all bets are off.
If a fence is going to work (as the Israelis well know), you need a no man’s land about a half mile on each side. That would involve a lot of eminent domain.
mjazz wrote:
you heard correctly.
Kirly wrote:
Communism: Share and share alike.
Islam: Sharia and sharia-like.
@ Kirly:
Canada is very close to Deaborn, Michigan. Many of those Muzzies are illegals who came right over the Canadian border. That’s the Northern Border States are getting filled with Somalis and others.
Then you have Mexico’s ethnic cleansing campaign of their Indian population driving them to America.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
And they are told to take as much as possible from us because we stole it from them anyway, somehow.
@ snork:
we need to sink the fence 50 ft deep as the Egyptians are doing on their border with Gaza.
@ Kirly:
Hey give em credit, Hillary donated Bill’s boxers to charity and took a tax credit for it.
@ mjazz:
The Brazilian, Paraguay and Bolivian border regione. Most Hispanics hate ARab Muslism. What they do is link up with drug smugglers who could care less who they work with.
New York activists, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, compared Arizona’s new immigration law to apartheid, Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South – and vowed to shut it down with mass protests.
Fun times are here again…
@ Rodan:
There’s an awful lot of heroin in the middle east also, a common denominator.
@ snork:
It’s never mentioned in the msm but the security fence at Israel and Jordan’s shared border works well.
@ snork:
The part of the Canadian border that needs watching is round Quebec and Ontario. That is where there’s a huge Islamic population.
@ snork:
Sharpton is an anti-semitie. He is no one to speak on the Nazis.
obummers’ commie parent and grand parents raised him with the belief that he could go up to become anything he wanted…
…so he became an asshole.
Hey obummer, AZs gonna make ya show a BC long form when yo yo goes to file as a candidate.
Rodan wrote:
But the place to slip across is North Dakota. The only reason why a lot more haven’t slipped in is they’re so dumb (see: millennium bomber).
Saudi border fence largest in the world.
I read that “the Asir (“difficult”) region (see map) was taken from Yemen in 1934″. So Saudi Arabia is occupying Yemeni land.
mjazz wrote:
The Saudis are brigands. “Yemeni or your life” is second nature to them.
@ BenZacharia:
I wonder if he’ll finally show it, or if he just won’t run in AZ? He can’t likely win the State, anyway, but it would be, how you say, instructive if he chose not to contest the State…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
He’s not. That’s all I can say.
@ snork:
I wonder how Reverend Al would feel about MS13 living next door to him and moving into his neighborhood?
Has this guy ever actually worked for a living?
vapig wrote:
Hope you’re right.
vapig wrote:
Nevermind – what I was looking at was old. I guess he could be – no scuttle butt here.
Rodan wrote:
No, no, no, no…. sharpton is an entrepreneur! A commodity broker. He trades in racial grievance. Its a bull market, and the administration is behind him.
citizen_q wrote:
True, a lot of people buy into the bull.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
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@ Iron Fist:
I don’t ‘know’ where he was born, but I do KNOW we was an Indonesian citizen when he was adopted and that makes him a naturalized US citizen at best.
@ snork:
Somebody should point out to the good fake-rev that the illegals take jobs mainly from the black community.