Economy Improving, Unemployment Way UP, Consumer Spending down!

This always kills me.

Economic data has been politicized in the Obama Administration to the point where they are claiming the recession that started after the democrats took congress has bottomed out.

Orders for durable goods are steeply down. Durable goods are the things that people typically use to make consumer goods. Essentially this means business think business down the road is going to be really bad.

Consumer confidence is way down and Unemployment is way up. This data supports the durable goods orders, people won't be buying stuff that businesses won't be making.

So what is up? Home sales typically go up in the spring and summer and with the 8K tax credit people are buying existing homes. Good thing too since Obama is trying to sell government bonds to a bloated market and that will push interest rates up.

Auto sales are up for July and probably August thanks to CARS. Morons who bought gas guzzlers are getting paid for their irresponsibility while responsible people are once again getting screwed by the demophytes.

The economy is tanking. Period.

I wish it weren't. You know what they do with engineers over 40, don't you? They shoot them. If you are not in marketing or management by 40 you will eventually get tanked, after all who needs experienced engineers when they have inexperienced college grads who make less money?

Welcome to the future, where your products are designed by inexperienced people with an academic background and very little understanding of the applications of their education.

Conservative Comentators and Freedom

Colin Powell had some advice, not what I would call good advice for the majority of people.

Colin Powell tells us not to get upset when cops treat us like crap, just wait until after it is over and then sue the jerk.

I guess if you have deep pockets like the commentators at Hotair.com or Colin Powell that makes a lot of sense.

It loses the rest of us that don't have deep enough pockets to pay an attorney to file a lawsuit against a government that is making us pay to defend them from treating us like crap.

Suppose you get treated like crap by a cop. Suppose the lawsuit is worth a million dollars. Suppose you can get 4% interest. The government, or a corporation or anyone with deep pockets, can pay some lawyer 40 grand a year just to delay the proceedings forever.

Not a big deal to morons with deep pockets. A really big deal for the rest of us.

My bottom line is, and always will be no matter how many police state supporting idiots come up with other policies, Cops should be able to defend an arrest in front of a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.

If a cop cannot prove an arrest was necessary beyond a reasonable doubt, without the courts giving the cop more credibility than any other citizen, then the cop should be charged with violations of civil rights. Period.

Cops should be at least as afraid of violating someones rights as any individual is of being arrested by some cop having a crap day.

Breaking News from MSNBC: Flash Pretty Women can't be smart!

An Anchor on MSNBC mused that Sarah Palin was popular because she is "hot".

First, I really don't think Sarah Palin is "hot". Michelle Phifer is hot. There are a lot of women who are hot, Sarah Palin does not make my "hot" list. She is pretty though.

So aside from having totally different tastes in women what does this comment mean, at least to me?

In my opinion the comment proves that this moronic MSNBC Anchor thinks pretty women can't be intelligent and competent.

I dated a woman with really big breasts once. I mean really big, huge. She was over weight, but, the rest of her body was pretty much in proportion to her breasts. She was tall too, so she was a big woman. We talked about weight once and she explained that she was happier being proportionate than she was when she was thinner.

Last I heard, about ten years ago, she had gone through a breast reduction and she had lost weight to become her idea of proportionate.

I didn't think of her as being any prettier, more intelligent or more competent (she had a masters already).

As a society we have varying tastes in looks. Over time the societal idea of beauty changes and we can see that by looking at sexual icons of the last one hundred years.

As a society we tend to choose the better looking person if we believe the competence and intelligence levels are the same.

Barney Frank is evidence that ugly people can achieve positions of power and authority, at least in my opinion. I am sure there are some people out there who think Barney Frank is a hunk ;-) Liberal Demophytes have skewed ideas.

The idea that "pretty" or "hot" women can't be smart is offensive to me.

The idea that any person has to conform to societal pressures to look or dress in a specific way is offensive also, but, lets face it. Society has it's own bigotries and those are not going to change.

People who do not look "appropriate" to society in general will be shunned, long hair, pink hair, piercings, tattoos, etc. The "better" looking a person is the more likely the person is to succeed in our society.

Individuals are not society though, and we change society one person at a time.

Morons like this jerk at MSNBC need to become more tolerant of the way people look so we can develop a more tolerant society.

Lance Armstrong, Greg LeMond and people in general

I don't think of Lance Armstrong as a hero. Over the years Lance Armstrong has done some pretty despicable things that have been publicized and I am sure he has done rotten things that are not public.

I don't think of Greg LeMond as a hero either.

When you read about these two athletes there are pretty poor things about both of them. Both of them have achieved great things in cycling.

In my opinion neither of these men are heros. Neither of these men are saints. Neither of these guys are my first choice for a euchre partner on a Saturday night.

They are both great US cycling champions.

Of the two I think of Lance Armstrong as being the better cyclist, the more skilled cyclist.

In my opinion Greg LeMond comes across as being pretty bitter, but, having never met the man I really can't say.

I believe that Greg LeMond, Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis are great US cyclists. Period.

So everyone. quit the damn whining and celebrate the wins.

Gates Arrest and Racism

Want to bet that if we carefully examine Crowley's record we can find a similar experience with a white guy where the white didn't end up in jail?

It would be harder to find because Crowley would probably not have even written a report about it.

Cops know that an arrest will be held against a person if they are later arrested for something different and as a result they only arrest people for tripe charges that they believe will be arrested again or that they want to embarrass.

Any cop telling you any different is just covering with a blue shield.

Gates was treated like crap and arrested because he was black and nothing anyone tells me will make me believe any different.

I don't care if Crowley were black. Racial profiling is something so ingrained in police work that it is impossible to separate the racial stereotypes from the racial profile.

Gates arrest is a perfect example of racial stereotyping. The black guy is arrested. Period.

If Obama were not a ball-less wonder he would point this corruption of police in the United States out to the world.

If a cop cannot prove to a jury that an arrest was necessary to preserve public safety the cop should be arrested and convicted of civil rights violations. Period.

Cops will whine and fascists will insist that holding cops accountable to the same standards as private citizens is ridiculous.

Cops should be at least as afraid of arresting innocent people as people are of being arrested.

Where the idea is that you always have to be polite to a cop no matter how the cop treats you, you live in a police state.