The Unemployed Need Not Apply

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Sunday June 06, 2010 · 7:34 AM PDT

2010/06/06 · 07:34

Yesterday I had a discussion with a staffer at the headquarters of a Democratic candidate in my home state. He seemed surprised when I said that jobs would be the deciding factor in the race.

"In what parts of the state?" he asked.

In what parts of the state? Surely, unemployment numbers are the clearest indicator of the health of the economy. Look at the fluctuations in the stock market last week. If you have a job, you're worried about keeping your job. If your job is secure, you're worried about your 401(k).

Right? Or am I crazy?

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Tuesday May 25, 2010 · 4:01 PM PDT

2010/05/25 · 16:01

Is more than 99 weeks too long to collect unemployment?

If it seems like you've been jobless forever, this post is not for you.

If you've already moved, cut your cable and landline, and sold your car -- and old jewelry and knickknacks -- to make ends meet, this post is not for you.

This post is for the senators, the congressmen and women, and yes, even members of this fair site who seem to think that we don't need to extend unemployment benefits.

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Should we extend jobless benefits for more than 99 weeks?

104 votes Vote Now!

Should we extend jobless benefits for more than 99 weeks?

Yes

75 votes

13 votes

It's complicated.

16 votes

Bush's top ten worst days (w/poll)

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Thursday January 15, 2009 · 8:23 AM PST

2009/01/15 · 08:23

9/11. It will be the defining moment of Bush's presidency. His years in power have been a nauseating mix of incompetence and inaction. Didn't the Bush team fail to heed advice from Clinton officials such as Richard Clarkethat that the Al Qaeda threat needed to be dealt with swiftly? Didn't Bush fail to act on the daily intel report of August 6, 2001 with the alarming title: "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the U.S." Nero fiddled in Crawford, Texas, and Rome later burned.

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What was the worst day of the Bush years?

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What was the worst day of the Bush years?

11/24/00: Republicans bully their way into office

39 votes

8/9/01: Bush gives the finger to stem cell research, and science

1 vote

9/11/01: New York and the Pentagon are attacked

24 votes

3/19/03: Invasion of Iraq

34 votes

7/14/03: Betraying Valerie Plame

2 votes

4/26/04: Tortures at Abu Ghraib revealed

5 votes

8/04: John Kerry is swift-boated

1 vote

8/7/05: Queer as Folk gets no respect

1 vote

8/31/05: Thousands stranded in Katrina's wake

43 votes

You-name-the-date 2008: The day you lost your job

2 votes

Report: Obama to offer McCain a post

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 8:10 PM PDT

2008/10/11 · 20:10

The Telegraph newspaper is reporting in its Sunday edition that if elected president, Barack Obama is prepared to offer John McCain a job in an Obama administration. The paper also notes the hate speech spewing from the McCain campaign, saying that "a friend of Mr McCain revealed that the Republican candidate is concerned that the ugly rhetoric of the last week will damage his reputation."

Details below the fold:

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What role should McCain play in an Obama administration?

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What role should McCain play in an Obama administration?

Overseeing Bureau of Get Off My Lawn!

261 votes

Liaison to Veterans Affairs (Brazilian division)

29 votes

Assistant to Gen. Petraeus

59 votes

Head of Bad Ideas that Don't Work for the Economy

75 votes

Chief of Wandering Around the Stage

242 votes

Secretary of Old Age Pensioners (Arizona division)

113 votes

Tic, tic, tic: McCain the show-off just lost the election

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 1:17 PM PDT

2008/09/27 · 13:17

"The scowls and the squints and the facial tics of John McCain didn't serve him well here," said Obama adviser Robert Gibbs after last night's debate.

But it wasn't McCain's smirks or rattling his papers or lecturing Obama that lost the average viewer. Who is the average viewer? Let's think Sarah Palin. Someone who doesn't read the paper every day or tune in to the TV news every night.

Neither did McCain alienate the Sarahs of this world when he got "Kardari" and "failed state" wrong or flubbed the pronunciation of Ahmadinejad. McCain lost because ...

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 9:02 AM PDT

2008/09/26 · 09:02

Finally, someone is discussing the bizarre townhall that McCain held in Scranton on Monday. We're still in the middle of a financial 9/11, Pearl Harbor, WW II -- pick your metaphor -- and McCain opens his townhall with an Irish joke, makes a few comments on the economy and then launches into a talk about the importance of encouraging trade/immigration with .... Ireland. McCain has lost it. Even when he tries to pander to his townhall audience, he blows it.

UDATE: Link to joke at this page
http://www.necn.com/...

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 12:56 PM PDT

2008/09/24 · 12:56

Ever since John McCain plucked Sarah Palin out of snowy obscurity to be his running mate, analysts both on the left and the right have been swooning over his political savvy. Karl Rove has admitted on at least two occasions that McCain's selection of Palin was a political decision not a "governing decision." Conventional wisdom says that Palin is there to energize the GOP base and to boost McCain's ticket by 3 points. Oh, really?

Palin is a drag on McCain's ticket. And yesterday's tete a tete with foreign leaders proves that McCain does not trust her.

There's more behind the cut ...

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Who would be better politically for McCain?

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Who would be better politically for McCain?

Bobby Jindal

15 votes

Mike Huckabee

11 votes

Joe Lieberman

5 votes

Mike Bloomberg

10 votes

Elmer Fudd

46 votes

Anybody besides Palin

21 votes

George Will Turns on McCain

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 10:41 AM PDT

2008/09/21 · 10:41

Who in this crisis looked more presidential, calm and un-flustered? It wasn't John McCain

, said the conservative commentator and, until ABC's This Week's broadcast today, a McCain defender.

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Saturday September 20, 2008 · 4:50 PM PDT

2008/09/20 · 16:50

A study in a recent issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests that snap decisions aren't reliable. Dr. Ben Newell tells us that careful reasoning is probably the better way to go. Now I am always interested in new research, but for this we needed a study?!!

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Which gut decision by McCain makes you sickest?

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Which gut decision by McCain makes you sickest?

His selection of Palin

23 votes

His co-opting of Obama's message of change

4 votes

His lying about Obama's tax plan

4 votes

His reckless response to the Wall Street crisis

1 vote

His sudden attack on the media

0 votes

His *compromise* on Bush's torture policy

3 votes

His bellicose language toward Russia and Iran

10 votes

Lost in McCain's lies, reality of post-Roe v. Wade world (w/poll)

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Saturday September 13, 2008 · 4:10 PM PDT

2008/09/13 · 16:10

The McCain-Palin ticket may turn out to be the worst unnatural disaster ever to hit U.S. shores. The lies being told by the GOP campaign are like a hurricane's rain drops -- too numerous to count and just as dangerous. Where are these headlines? Lies Batter U.S. / Sarah Cuts a Punishing Path Through the Media / Millions Without the Facts Across the Country. Amid the debris, John McCain's dirty tricks flap in the wind.

McCain-Palin's lies have been hitting us with such frequency and ferocity that we may lost sight of one thing they are not "lying" about: Roe v. Wade. Oh, sure, McCain, Palin, Schmidt & Associates are trying to put lipstick on their extremist views with the same "pretty" words we've heard for decades now, phrases from Palin like "I would choose life" sound a heckuva lot better than saying "If my daughter is raped, her feelings don't matter." But make no mistake: if John McCain is elected together with Cindy's new sister-wife, we can all kiss Roe goodbye.

Move over, Charlie. I have a few questions to ask McCain-Pain [sic] about abortion.

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What question would you ask McCain about his post-Roe era?

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What question would you ask McCain about his post-Roe era?

Will pregnant women be incarcerated and forced to bear unwanted children inside prison?

10 votes

Are states going to start issuing *conception certificates* instead of birth certificates?

4 votes

Will every *pre-born* baby be issued a Social Security No.? Will parents get a pre-birth deduction?

5 votes

How much will it cost the federal and state governments to implement these changes in the post-Roe v. Wade era?

1 vote

Will out-of-the-picture fathers be forced to start paying child support for *pre-born* babies?

2 votes

Will businesses who employ pregnant women be forced to give *pre-born* babies sick leave and vacation?

2 votes

What about miscarriages? Will those *pre-born* babies finally get Christian burials?

5 votes

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The Unemployed Need Not Apply

A report from the unemployment trenches

Bush's top ten worst days (w/poll)

Report: Obama to offer McCain a post

Tic, tic, tic: McCain the show-off just lost the election

Irish leader tells McCain he's offensive UPDATED

McCain doesn't trust Palin, so why should we?

George Will Turns on McCain

Gut decisions may be hazardous to our health

Lost in McCain's lies, reality of post-Roe v. Wade world (w/poll)