Obama backs overdue freeze on federal pay raises
“President Obama today proposed a two-year freeze in civilian pay for federal employees that the White House says will save $2 billion in fiscal year 2011 and more than $60 billion over the next decade.
“The hard truth is getting this budget under control is going to require some broad sacrifice, and that sacrifice must be shared by employees of the federal government,” he said, adding that he “did not reach this decision easily.”
The freeze will apply to all civilian federal employees — including, as the White House noted, doctors who care for wounded veterans, national parks workers, Department of Defense employees and other federal workers — but not military personnel….
American Federation of Government Employees president John Gage told the Associated Press that the move was “a slap at working people.” He suggested federal employees were being made into scapegoats….
Republicans have called for federal pay freezes (and even brief furloughs for federal workers), and the bipartisan federal deficit commission is expected to call for a pay freeze when it releases its recommendations this week. (A proposal from the commission chairmen called for a three-year freeze.)”
The pay freeze would have to be approved by Congress, but with Republicans now in control of the House, I doubt that’s going to be a problem. And while the White House would probably deny it, it’s pretty obvious that Obama’s move is a direct response to the midterm results.
That said, it’s also the right thing to do. Most Americans are feeling the pinch in one way or another, from losing their jobs and homes to going without pay raises or even taking unpaid leave. That includes employees in state and local government. Voters and taxpayers shouldn’t have the sense that federal employees are somehow immune to the pain felt by the rest of the country; it feeds a resentment already close to the boiling point.
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Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
5:23 pm
As I have said before I work in a highly technical field and there are tons and tons of Engineers out there that just cannot find jobs and when they do, they are low paying. And the quality of the engineers that American universities are turning out are terrible.
Gotta love that capitalistic system. If I can pay you less to do the same job and you accept, you will get paid less. If you don’t accept it, I’ll import someone who will accept that pay. Oh well, it’s the system that the pro-business, capitalists preach and pine for.
Fred
November 29th, 2010
5:25 pm
Interesting read RW, but it runs counter to some of my research.
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
5:26 pm
SoCo,
I liked the part of the story where he became a marxist and everybody thought how good it was that he moderated.
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
5:29 pm
Fred,
It may or may not make a difference but that article is from 2002.
Fred
November 29th, 2010
5:29 pm
You know, if we did away with the ridiculous pension plans for members of congress and their top shelf health care packages we could probably cut 1 trillion off the Nat’l debt……..
Matti
November 29th, 2010
5:29 pm
America has lost its edge because of liberal politics.
Sure, if you think education and employability matter. The silver lining, of course, is that a dumbed-down populace is a BOON for the Republican Party and the Tea Party faction thereof. Woo-hooo! Fewer and fewer people control more and more of the money, and they’re stashing it offshore to avoid taxes. Future’s so bright, gotta wear SHADES, man!
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
5:29 pm
josef
Here’s a linguistic news story that you’d probably be interested in, if you haven’t already read or heard about it.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/nyc-teacher-caught-up-756235.html
TaxPayer
November 29th, 2010
5:29 pm
UnitedHealth 2011 Profit Will Fall as U.S. Mandates Spending on Patients
Oh! The Horror! How could Obama do this to US!
Fred
November 29th, 2010
5:29 pm
RW, my research was conducted last year or the year before.
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
5:30 pm
I liked the part of the story where he became a marxist and everybody thought how good it was that he moderated
That one brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard.
jewcowboy
November 29th, 2010
5:32 pm
Pogo,
“do you really think that having a college degree makes much of a difference nowadays? ”
Look who is unemployed…it’s not those with advanced degrees.
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/24/131575218/jobless-rate-less-scary-for-college-grads
“Somebody has to do the grunt work and right now one can make a better living having plumbing skills than one can having an MBA.”
Yes…and plumbing is a skillset in demand..that you train for…the people who have no skillset and not specialized training will always be the last hired and first fired. Quite frankly, I think this nation would be better off if we put emphasis on trade schools in addition to traditional college. Those who have specialized skills who continue to educate themselves as technology changes will always be in demand.
The guy who dropped out of high school to work a service job…not so much.
“And the quality of the engineers that American universities are turning out are terrible. ”
Maybe that is why they have trouble finding a job
“America has lost its edge because of liberal politics.”
Wow…you mean those liberal politics that have been in the White House for 36 of the 57 years since Eisenhower? Oh wait…those were Republicans. What cop-out. Lazy lazy thinking…
jewcowboy
November 29th, 2010
5:33 pm
Scout,
“By the way, what’s the latest on “Lipgate”?”
At least it wasn’t a pretzel
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
5:38 pm
SoCo
Thanks for the link! It is being added to my resources. We hold a workshop every year for our new teachers called “Cussin’ in Spanish.” Something that may be filthy to a Cuban may be perfectly acceptable in Mexico…often the context is everything…we had a British teacher once we had to tell not to you “p*sser” or “p*ss me off” and she would turn red when we used “bloody…”
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
5:41 pm
RW, my research was conducted last year or the year before.
Fred,
There’s a couple of ways of looking at that. It might be that they had a less distorted body of information to research than you did a few years later.
Doggone/GA
November 29th, 2010
5:47 pm
“At least it wasn’t a pretzel”
Or a shotgun
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
5:49 pm
Or a shotgun
Dusty
November 29th, 2010
5:51 pm
Hey SoCo,
I enjoyed reading your language link. My son-in-law is from Colombia but he doesn’t use much slang of any kind. I am not fluent in Spanish so I am safe!! (It’s the American slang that get’s me. Right, Josef?)
Now, off to the very last day of t-u-r——-k-e-y-…..Maybe nobody will recognize it at this point in time…..
Doggone/GA
November 29th, 2010
5:53 pm
SoCo – I try real hard not to judge a situation based just on the first reports, but I’ve always thought that when it comes to that hunting “incident” “the half wasn’t told us” and that we’ll never really know the whole truth about it.
And for anyone about to ask, nope, I have no facts to base that opinion on…it’s just my opinion.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
5:59 pm
DUSTY
Oh, the Colombians speak the best Spanish in the Americas, all right and aren’t prone to slang. But those double entendres! Ask him what “coger” means!
A joke for him when he tells you…
A fellow goes to Buenos Aires. He asks a passerby, “Adonde puedo coger el autobus No, 41?”
The passerby answers in English, “I’d say the tailpipe might be best.”
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2010
6:01 pm
Try the ‘lone ranger and his trusty sidekick tonto’ with the spanish meaning of ‘tonto’ LOL
Pogo@5:18 pm
Jewdude, do you really think that having a college degree makes much of a difference nowadays? What you are basically saying is that if we had a nation made up of college graduates our un-employment would be much lower. Sorry man, that just doesn’t stack up. Somebody has to do the grunt work and right now one can make a better living having plumbing skills than one can having an MBA. Welcome to the new world. As I have said before I work in a highly technical field and there are tons and tons of Engineers out there that just cannot find jobs and when they do, they are low paying. And the quality of the engineers that American universities are turning out are terrible. Thus we import them from India and wherever else we can find them. America has lost its edge because of liberal politics.
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I agree and disagree with your statement.
This country has always needed workmen who are good with their hands be they plumbers, masons, electricians etc. they too should be paid a living wage.
But as to the Computer Science grads who cannot find employment or are unemployed. I disagree completely. I have an advanced degree and 30+ years experience.
So what you are saying is that all others in this same boat cannot do the work of the H1bs brought into this country.
Look on Dice or Monster any day of the week and see the number of mainframe positions open. Then look at the recruiters name. There are a large number of them Indians. They will not hire a US citizen. The rates are also way too low to relocate and yes they do not like to pay T&L expenses for the recruit.
If you have a family would you be willing to pay all expenses to uproot them from say Atlanta to Chicago for a 6 month contract that did not pay expenses. The H1b’s will.
Sorry about the rant but I have been living this since 2003 and yes the republicans allowed the continuation of the H1b visas without enforcement of its requirements. Thanks to big business.
Also thanks to Clinton starting the whole H1b mess and NAFTA.
Saving money for a company does no good when there is no one to buy their product.
@@
November 29th, 2010
6:03 pm
Failing to Make the Grade
Philanthropic Experiments in ‘Small Schools’ Are Proving Largely Disappointing
Problems quickly surfaced. Bowen students envied the Gates-funded after-school programs at the new schools, said Joann Podkul, a history teacher who became lead teacher at B.E.S.T. High School, new unit. The rifts spawned animosities among campuses—and some fistfights.
The district insisted the new schools follow traditional rules such as mandatory physical education, which complicated hiring and scheduling as schools tried to share gym teachers and space, Ms. Podkul said. Each also was required to have its own principal, angering teachers who felt they should be in charge.
Reminds me of Clayton County’s recent shenanigans.
If I’m not mistaken, two of our graduating seniors…2009…received scholarships from Bill and Melinda Gates in spite of…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730304575632540120043552.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
6:06 pm
Philosophical question. What’s worse, blaming God for your dropping a pass or assuming God was subscribing to your Twitter feed?
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
November 29th, 2010
6:19 pm
LOL — RW nailed it.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
6:21 pm
RW
Well, as G-d said to Job when he asked a similar question, “I dunno, Job, there’s just somethin about you that p*sses me off!”
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 29th, 2010
6:26 pm
I hear way more cussing in public, in English, than I ever thought I would. Whatever happened to manners?
If somebody is cussing at me in Spanish or any other language, odds are I don’t have sense enough to know it.
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
6:27 pm
Where are all the jokes about obama’s injured lip? Everyone sure had a field day with Cheney shooting his friend in the face. Don’t equal rights demand the same with obama? Leno? Letterman? Stewart? Anyone…..anyone?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 29th, 2010
6:27 pm
Well, I see the editor of the UGA newspaper had to quit after visiting the President’s box at the game loaded up on vodka. Seems S______d Purdue was in the box and so was old Nathan (I’m getting little ______ Zell George’s name changed just as soon as I can put away a few bucks.) I don’t know how they could tell it was him. Everybody over there in Athens is soaked to the gills all day and night. Heck, finding a sober person at UGA would be easier than finding a virgin in a House of Ill Repute.
Anyhow, good to hear this Obama is going to freeze the pay of all those shiftless federal employees. Now if he can just fire a couple million of them we’ll be in business. I don’t care what else he does, long as the guvmint keeps its hands off of my Medicare.
Have a good night everybody.
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
6:31 pm
BADA BING,
I think tonight will be the first chance any of those guys will have had to joke about
Michelle hitting him with that ashtraythe basketball injury.RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
6:32 pm
josef,
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
6:36 pm
Hillbilly
More cussin in public…same here! I do my share and then some here on the blog, but I wasn’t raised to do that out in public. I was taught it just isn’t proper manners befitting a lady or gentleman…it’s funny, but folks are always complimenting our kids on how “nice” they are and how they “never use bad language!” Whoo-whee…maybe not in public! But, funny thing, they never use foul language when talking to us…
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
6:38 pm
I just knew Lady Gaga had to be wrapped up in this someway, somehow
It was childishly easy, according to the published chatlog of a conversation Manning had with a fellow-hacker. “I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like ‘Lady Gaga’ … erase the music … then write a compressed split file. No one suspected a thing … [I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga’s Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history
Dave R.
November 29th, 2010
6:39 pm
jewcowboy: “Yes, quite a few. you can thank gov’t workers for the the medium in which we are conversing, among other things.”
Actually, you can thank an engineer at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for the medium in which we are conversing. Without a viable networking standard, the internet was doomed to be just a localized phenomena.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
6:39 pm
Redneck
Temme sumpin..what’s a house of ill repute…?
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
6:39 pm
Hillbilly D, and josef,
Around my neighborhood lots of the young ones do their cussing in English because their parents don’t know what they’re saying.
Mick
November 29th, 2010
6:40 pm
pogo
**America has lost its edge because of liberal politics**
America has lost its edge because of the election of 2000. Think how different this country might be right now if the man who won the popular vote had became president. It’s a moot point though because bush was appointed and a collective sledge hammering is what happened. By the time he left, real estate was in the tank and the bankers that ran amok almost took us down. He handed off a broken country with two lingering wars and trillions of debt. With a record like that, why are you so worried about liberal politics?
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
November 29th, 2010
6:44 pm
Eat seafood from The Gulf of Mexico.
The oil spill was a big distraction.
Just eat it… !!
Dave R.
November 29th, 2010
6:45 pm
Mick, please. That rant of yours becomes so very tiresome, especially since it ignores the Democrat policies of the past 30 years which also contributed to the downfall of the housing market. Both parties have their faults, but the failure of the policies of the Democrat party vastly outweigh the problems caused by one president and his party only in power for 6 years.
Reality. You should try it sometime.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
6:45 pm
RW
First words kids learn in any second language! Two weeks on the playground, and they can cuss like a sailor on leave…! And the thing with the parents…we’re always getting parents who want to know what this or that phrase means…sometimes you hate to tell them, but they need to know!
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
November 29th, 2010
6:48 pm
Sanity will prevail.
Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.
Smokescreen again…
Freeze the teacher’s, cops, and legislators pay for 3 years in Georgia. NO RAISES WHATSOEVER !!
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 29th, 2010
6:55 pm
josef, RW
Maybe I’m just getting old but it never ceases to amaze me, the language you hear in places like stores and fast food places, where there are kids everywhere.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
6:55 pm
Information
Question…what does a beginning teacher with a BA make in Georgia? A beginning cop in Atlanta?
Don’t go lumping us with the legislators…now, look at that teacher’s salary, Figure that s/he puts in a minimum of 10-12 hours per day by the time you figure in teacher’s meetings, grading homework, doing lesson plans, etc (right now my other screen has pulled up supplemental resources for use in teaching cvc to beginning readers, and will be followed by a search for reading problems using double digit into quadruple digit division with rounding to the thousandths decimal place in language accessible to the beginning language learner…what’s the pay per hour? Would YOU do it for that wage?
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 29th, 2010
6:56 pm
Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.
You can’t even believe what you see, since they invented Photoshop.
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
6:58 pm
Doggone
We’ll never really know what happened. From my training, I know not to walk down range or in front of someone handling a loaded gun. The dynamics change a little when you’re hunting vs shooting at a range, but I know enough to be wary of where all the guns are located and pointing.
Dusty & josef
That language difference is quite interesting to me. I know a little Spanish, but I refrain from using it as much as possible because I know one word can have different meanings depending on where the person originates. Here’s another example of the differences in language..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RezHc7YRSlA&NR=1
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymMBEwtRZOg
F. Sinkwich
November 29th, 2010
6:59 pm
A pay freeze is bull-crap, Jay, and you know it.
The US Government must cut its costs by at least 10% immediately. That means layoffs at EPA, Department of Energy, WH executive staff, DOE, and HHS for starters. Then move into DHS.
A “pay freeze” is nothing more than PR designed to provide lefties like Jay with cover so Obama can continue to implement his socialist policies designed to destroy our freedoms while claiming he’s “making the hard choices.”
Pathetic.
Paul
November 29th, 2010
7:00 pm
RW-(the original) 6:38
Considering what Assange released about the King of Saudi Arabia, I’ve been wondering… do Saudi black ops teams carry swords?
Information 6:44
“The oil spill was a big distraction.”
DOI Inspector General concluded the White House manipulated (bureaucrat-speak for “Lied”) information do substantiate their drilling moratorium. Over the weekend, one mainstream journalist stated the media dropped the story because they supported the moratorium -
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
7:04 pm
That means layoffs at EPA, Department of Energy, WH executive staff, DOE, and HHS for starters. Then move into DHS.
Any logic behind the order of those agencies, or are they just ones you think are useless?
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:06 pm
SoCo
Love those Airplane clips…they’re another one we use when teaching interpreting…! Unmentionable and I catch Swamp People and keep wondering why they use subtitles! (Linguistic Cultural Imperialism is the term we academics use!) But it never ceases to amaze me. Another one I like to use is Ed Koch’s getting into a dither over the use of what for lack of a better term (I loathe this one!) Ebonics…his own Brooklynese “gonna, wanna, you guys” was even more alien a dialect to my Rebel Child ear!
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:07 pm
PAUL
Happy Birthday, Baby Jesus!
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
7:08 pm
Accidental basketball injury my a**. I hear that the basketball hit one man in the shoulder, then mysteriously changed directions and struck another man in the arm before hitting obama in the lip. It is my theory that there was a second basketball involved.
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
7:10 pm
josef
I thought you’d like those.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 29th, 2010
7:11 pm
josef
I wondered why they used subtitles on “Swamp People”, too. Several years ago when they had that “Story of English” on PBS, they were talking to some old man up in East Tennessee and had him “subtitled”. Everything he said, sounded perfectly normal to me.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:12 pm
BADA BING
@ 7:08
That’s TOO good!
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
7:12 pm
HD
Bada
Next, you’ll be trying to convince me there was a grassy knoll at half court..
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
7:12 pm
A security camera videotape from the gym where obama was injured has 3 seconds of footage missing. And what was that strange, shadowy image moving under the bleachers?
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 29th, 2010
7:13 pm
It is my theory that there was a second basketball involved.
You just ain’t right.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 29th, 2010
7:14 pm
And what was that strange, shadowy image moving under the bleachers?
What goes on under the bleachers, stays under the bleachers.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:16 pm
Hillbilly
That PBS special was of interest to me, as you may be sure, but I swear when they went to subtitling I almost turned it off! Another one that wears me out is when they’re doing a report, say, from South Africa and they start subtitling when the English being spoken is virtually without error grammatically and the pronunciation much cleaner and more precise than that of the interviewer…
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
7:16 pm
And what was that strange, shadowy image moving under the bleachers?
DADT!!!!
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
7:17 pm
Brett Butler, a Southern born comedienne, did a stand-up bit many years ago (circa 1990s?). After a show in New York City, a guido with a monstrously thick NYC accent came up to her and said, “I coult nevah live down Sout’…peepul soun’ so stoopit when dey tawlk.” Her response was, “Oh Arturo, Prince of Irony.”
That was from answers dot com and I don’t know if it’s true or a derivation of a joke she used to tell in her standup routine. The answers thing cleaned the language up a bit though from the one I heard her tell doing standup.
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
7:18 pm
The Drudge report has images of what appears to be blood spatter on Michelle’s dress, who was reportedly at a luncheon 25 miles away when the ‘Accident’ happened. Who knew what and when did they know it?
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
7:21 pm
When I was in High School, that strange shadowy figure moving under the bleachers would have been me and a cheerleader. If you know what I mean!
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:22 pm
RW
My favorite Yankees are the ones who go to the trouble of learning the native language when they immigrate…truth be told, those who master it are true geniuses and wits of the highest order…My Yankee Repbulican brother-in-law can turn a phrase that makes you forget for a few minutes that he’s a furriner…
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
7:23 pm
LOL @ Bada
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:23 pm
BADA
No, what DO you mean? In my case it was the quarterback!
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
7:26 pm
The Secret Service and the FBI have the elbow and the basketball from the ‘Incident”. Both appear to be Chinese made.I am not saying that something is fishy here, I’m just saying……
Rosie
November 29th, 2010
7:27 pm
As a Federal employee, I’m pissed. It’s bad enough that our raise percentage and agency funds have been dwindling since George W. Bush entered the office and began his ludicrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, Obama is entering the game by freezing our paychecks for the next two years. And to throw an even bigger bone to the Republicans, the military is being exempted. Does this mean that the Congressmen and Senators will have their paychecks cut as well? I hope so, but I rather doubt it. That is something that most of the Republicans will never support.
If you’re hoping for a Democrat more liberal than Barack Obama in the White House, forget it. You won’t get one. Liberal Democrats hardly ever make it to the White House. Only conservative Democrats like Obama, Clinton, Kennedy and Johnson.
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
7:28 pm
josef, you are ruining my fantasy here !
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
7:30 pm
josef, like I always say…..Don’t ask, Do tell !
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2010
7:32 pm
Southern Comfort@7:16 pm
And what was that strange, shadowy image moving under the bleachers?
DADT!!!!
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Bill and Monica (Bill kept his key) lol
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:32 pm
BADA
Sorry about the fantasy! Mine was reality! Of course when the head cheerleader found out, I got the worst ass whuppin I got in high school! That b*tch was p*ssed off big time! Course I couldn’t hit back, being a Southern gentleman of culture and breeding, but that girl’s field hockey buddy took care of my ego!
Paul
November 29th, 2010
7:33 pm
josef nix
Yeah, I love birthday parties, too!
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
7:36 pm
BADA,
Allow me to restore your fantasy even as josef has it under attack
RB from Gwinnett
November 29th, 2010
7:37 pm
Geez… Shouldn’t he have figured this out about 18-24 months ago like every other entity who has employees all over the planet?
And what’s up with the dude whining about it? I’m gonna guess he’s a left wing nut case like a fair share of the posters on this blog.
Paul
November 29th, 2010
7:41 pm
Rosie
“the military is being exempted. ”
I’ll get back on my soap box and say, not only should the military be included in the pay freeze, many of their bonuses that, like many other federal programs, have outlived their usefulness, should be done away with, completely.
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
7:41 pm
By coincidence, the names of the three guys on the other team who may have hit obama were Lee, Harvey, and Oswald.
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
7:42 pm
Common Sense
RW
I couldn’t get your link to work, but I have an idea of what it was based on the ip address.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:42 pm
RW
Back in high school the photographer got a shot of me on the hurdles that, well, let’s just say showed my better qualities…we had it ready to go in the yearbook when the faculty sponsor caught it! Her comment, “Josef modesty is a virtue and some things are better left to the imagination…”
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
7:43 pm
Paul
Obama is simply offering up a GOP solution. You know there’s no way in hell the GOP will cut anything defense related.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:44 pm
SoCo
It took a triple try to get the link to come up, but it did and, yes, it is worth the effort (for breeders, anyway!)
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:46 pm
BADA
Somebody said somebody going by the initials LBJ had something to do with it…
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
7:46 pm
SoCo,
That ip address is a pretty good giveaway, but there was nothing graphic there….unless it was lurking in the sidebars. I always forget to check there.
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
7:46 pm
josef
I finally got it to work, and yes it was definitely worth it!!
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
7:46 pm
Another coincidence……The basketball that was involved was made by Wilson, the name of another unpopular President.
Paul
November 29th, 2010
7:47 pm
SoCom
“And they call me a cockeyed OP-timist…”
Democrats either, for that matter.
RW-(the original)
November 29th, 2010
7:48 pm
I googled lingerie football qb and it was the third link. Sometimes you can get to links through google that you can’t get to directly.
BADA BING
November 29th, 2010
7:50 pm
josef, we had an Asian guy who ran high hurdles in high school who was terrible at it. His name…….. Wan Hung Lo.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:51 pm
A c*ckeyed optimist….
Ooooh! Too many lines…
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
7:52 pm
BADA
The cutlines we came up with for that one were, well, colorful…
@@
November 29th, 2010
7:58 pm
Surely we can afford to provide Hillary with a hairdresser. Doesn’t have to cost as much as John Edwards’, but GEEZ!!!!
She’s lookin’ a bit frazzled, frumpish, unkempt. Pull it up or SOMETHIN’…
Southern Comfort
November 29th, 2010
7:58 pm
Paul
Yep, you understand it!! People are oohing and aaahhhing over this pay freeze when, in actuality, it doesn’t amount to a pimple on a teenager’s ass.
#1 It only involves the Executive Branch. That leaves 2/3 of the government unaffected.
#2 It only freezes cost of living increases. That’s usually between 1%-4% a year on average. Might not have been a COLA this year anyway because of the economy.
#3 Regular grade and step increases will still happen. Depending on the increase amount, that could potentially be more than what the COLA adjustment would be.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
8:01 pm
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I was thinking the same thing about Sister Hillary…I mean, for real, surely she knows at least ONE hairdresser.. ISH
Mick
November 29th, 2010
8:10 pm
dave r
If you look at the past 30 years, which party has held power longer? Clinton sold out with nafta and glass/steagall and was rewarded with impeachment. Another precious waste of time by that other party. True reality says that the predicament that we find ourselves in did not begin on 1/2009. Democrats are certainly not blameless but the repubs had their hand on the switch in congress (94-06) and the white house in 2000. Seems like that is the difference in where we are today.
TDone
November 29th, 2010
8:12 pm
Will there be promotoins? Will there be longevity pay increases? If not, this is nothing but a shell game. Typical government bovine skullduggery.
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
8:13 pm
Mick
We’re where we’ve been all along…same song and dance, different tune…
josef nix
November 29th, 2010
8:14 pm
TDone
“bovine skullduggery” I LIKE that one….
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 29th, 2010
8:15 pm
When the layoffs start hitting, it will not be funny when the others possibly have a slowdown to prove they NEEDED the workers that were layed off.
Lil' Barry Bailout
November 29th, 2010
8:15 pm
Now let’s fire a bunch of them too.
Doggone/GA
November 29th, 2010
8:16 pm
SoCo – what you said about being downrange and guns…I used to date a guy that was in the Reserves. He got sent home from training for knocking out a fellow soldier. The guy he hit was parading around with a loaded gun on his shoulder and when someone called his name he turned sharply around and ended up with the loaded gun pointing straight at my boyfriend – who promptly knocked him down AND out.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 29th, 2010
8:19 pm
I wonder if anybody in that LFL ever spends time on the disabled list for astroturf burns?
Dave R.
November 29th, 2010
8:20 pm
“If you look at the past 30 years, which party has held power longer? ”
Uh, that would be the Democrats in Congress, Mick. Congress has the majority of the power because they control the purse strings.
Try again.