Time to put on those travelin’ shoes and go a-fishin’
The first time I saw the great Elvin Bishop, we were both younger men. It was back in the early ’70s, in Raleigh, N.C., right about the time he put out his excellent and underrated album “Let It Flow.” Looking through the song list from that album — “Travelin’ Shoes,” “Stealin’ Watermelons” — is like going back in time.
That album also included Elvin’s classic celebration of fishing, the aptly titled “Fishin’.” It’s a critically important theme, so important that Mr. Bishop felt obligated to revisit it at more length in a later song, the equally aptly titled “Gone Fishin’ Again,” as in “me and my no-good friends are gone fishin’ again.”
Which of course we are. See ya’ll back here in a couple of weeks. Be good, be cool and be wishin’ you were with us, ‘cuz we plan on having us a damn good time.
– Jay Bookman
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Tundra Dude
July 23rd, 2012
6:18 pm
I’m thinking, like you, that there’s so much more that’ll come outta that closet in the next few weeks, that they wanted to take the first deal offered, slap their signature on it, to keep what little they have a football program intact before more information came out.
Think yer right!
I noticed, so far, the Gov of Penn came out unscathed. Hope that changes.
By Dave Zirin, The Nation July 15, 2012
(snipped)
The Governor is far from an innocent bystander. As the state’s attorney general in 2009, Corbett headed a state investigation into accusations against the revered former coach. Although his office denies it, there are multiple confirmations that Corbett assigned no one from his office to follow up on the charges: just one state trooper, a state trooper “not authorized to bring charges against Sandusky.”
In addition, when Corbett was sworn in as governor in 2011, he still had not informed Thae Second Mile Foundation that their founder was under investigation. Instead, as a candidate for governor, he took $650,000 in donations from members of the Second Mile’s unknowing board, even allowing their chairman to hold a fundraiser for his campaign. Upon being elected, Corbett then moved deftly from doing nothing to immediately try to deflect the entire weight of the scandal onto Joe Paterno and Penn State itself, using his recently appointed position as a member of the school’s Board of Trustees to do so.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
6:20 pm
Kammie:
““Consenting adults” are not the only people that can form intent. A 16 year old can decide to be a gold digger just the same as an 18 year old.”
You sound like NAMBLA trying to get the age of consent lowered.
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Captalists..
July 23rd, 2012
6:20 pm
Frog: They seem to be setting up
a legal position with Erickson
the chief sacrifice along with
the others probably to go
in negotiation with the
victims since they allegedly
were the only ones aware
of the molestation.
Hmmm didn’t think of that. That’ll be one venue to take. However, there’s another article in ESPN that says some abuse dated back to the 70s. PSU is gonna be broke by the time this is all over.
We Are PEDOPHILE State!
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8170790/penn-state-nittany-lions-new-jerry-sandusky-accusers-say-abuse-dates-1970s-report-says
Three men have told investigators that Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator recently convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse, molested them in the 1970s and 1980s, The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa., has reported, citing sources close to the case.
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
6:20 pm
0311
I see you are just belly aching and caught up with the selective outrage fever.
You will be alright. I promise
bman.
July 23rd, 2012
6:21 pm
DDR .. .. I don’t know. Good question.
If a hefty fine was placed, I would’ve rather have seen something like : Every child, male or female – in the nation who has been a documented victim of child abuse (not just sexual abuse) up to age 20 should be awarded FULL scholarships.
Instead, the $ will be given to charities who assist with victims. In other words, they’ll hire more people, buy some new computers, Ipads, Iphones, upgrade their offices and maybe even a few “company” cars.
josef
July 23rd, 2012
6:21 pm
K’CHAK
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not arguing for one minute that such has a “cut off” age in going for the filthy lucre, prestige or what have you. But I am saying that the male culture does play into it and at some point it does have its nasty little seal of approval when its male on female…
************************
DDR
I wonder just how many of those coming in calling for a slap on the wrist or confining the punishment to “3 or 4″ have actually read the Freeh report. I did. Word for word, start to finish. One of the most disturbing things I have ever read and a clear indictment of the instiution, the program, and a clear condemnation on those who still want to make this about foo-ball and Penn State rather than about those boys…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
6:21 pm
“Arlene Holmes, the mother of Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes, has suggested that ABC News mischaracterized her when it reported that her initial statement to the reporter, “you have the right person,” was a reference to her son.”
Would someone please tell her she needs to go hide in a hole.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
6:24 pm
Changes:
And I see you are biased.
Touche’
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 23rd, 2012
6:26 pm
But I am saying that the male culture does play into it and at some point it does have its nasty little seal of approval when its male on female…
It most certainly DOES NOT have my seal of approval, so careful where you wave that 3′ broad brush.
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
6:26 pm
Biased because you are concerned about the golf Obama plays but not the number of days of vacation the last President took.
I could careless either way. Merely demonstrating to you that you have selective outrage. Tap dance like Fred Estaire if it makes you feel good. You didn’t post it as a kudos to Obama. It was a slam and all the spin will not change anything.
josef
July 23rd, 2012
6:28 pm
SCOUT
“Would someone please tell her she needs to go hide in a hole.”
That is cruel and unkind. My heart grieves for those two parents as much as it does for the victims’ families. There but for the grace of G-d go you and I.
Woodstock Mike
July 23rd, 2012
6:29 pm
“Biased because you are concerned about the golf Obama plays but not the number of days of vacation the last President took.”
And this person is happy with what Obama has done in 4 years. Talk about selective outrage!! LOL
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
6:30 pm
josef:
Sorry. She should stay out of the news. Period !
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
6:30 pm
Woodstock Mike:
Thank you …………………..
Woodstock Mike
July 23rd, 2012
6:31 pm
The question about the Penn State issue to ask yourself is…
Do you believe that Joe Paterno knew children were being raped and did nothing about it?
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
6:32 pm
“And this person is happy with what Obama has done in 4 years. Talk about selective outrage!! LOL”
And you can post where I said that, right?
You fn dumbass. No you can’t post that because I didn’t say it.
josef
July 23rd, 2012
6:33 pm
K’chak
Oh, please, did I say for one minute it applied to you personally? I used the phrase “male culture” and “at some point.” That’s about as far from a personal indictment as you can get. You’ve got a real bad habit, imauo, of rather arrogantly separating yourself from the herd when you don’t like the way it sounds. I am as much a product of the male culture as you are…how we relate to that personally and what we have done with it personally are another matter…
Woodstock Mike
July 23rd, 2012
6:33 pm
“You fn dumbass. No you can’t post that because I didn’t say it”
Wow, I thought Democrats were more understanding??
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Captalists..
July 23rd, 2012
6:34 pm
Tundra Dude – the GOVERNOR too! It makes me wanna cry at how so many people turned their backs on all those kids. What type of country ARE WE? We have people marching in protest about other people wearing fur coats, yet they turn their backs on our children!
I hope that Governor gets his big time. He needs a cell right next to Sandusky’s and the rest of them.
josef: I wonder just how many of those coming in calling for a slap on the wrist or confining the punishment to “3 or 4″ have actually read the Freeh report. I did. Word for word, start to finish. One of the most disturbing things I have ever read and a clear indictment of the instiution, the program, and a clear condemnation on those who still want to make this about foo-ball and Penn State rather than about those boys…
Unfortunately I couldn’t. It reminded me too much of my days are a Social Worker — I still have nightmares about those times, still see those faces; it was awful.
I’m a big, “READ IT FOR YOURSELF — DON’T TAKE ANYONE’S WORD FER IT!” Girl, but this time, I let a friend of mine put it into a brief, and I just read the pertinent information.
Sometimes, I just can’t deal with it anymore. It’s like a stain that sits on our society that people pretend not to see. We’re supposed to be such a Christian Country; yet we commit and allow others to commit the most unchrisitan things.
bman – Totally understand.
Woodstock Mike
July 23rd, 2012
6:35 pm
“You fn dumbass. No you can’t post that because I didn’t say it.”
When someone responds this way you know immediately they are unable to have an educated conversation, and they must be scorned Democrat. So upset that Obama didn’t come through for them that they hate everyone!!!! LOL
josef
July 23rd, 2012
6:36 pm
SCOUT
Why? The media won’t leave her alone. If she didn’t say anything, the gawkers would be demanding that she say something…She is in the news, whether she says anything or not…
Woodstock Mike
Have you read the Freeh report?
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
6:36 pm
Woodstock Mike
Again, can you show where I posted what your claimed?
The answer is no.
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
6:38 pm
“When someone responds this way you know immediately they are unable to have an educated conversation”
Educated conversation does not commence with one blogger basically lying and saying another blogger said something that they didn’t say.
So what were you saying? I’m sure the post can’t be too difficult to find, right? I did say what you claimed, didn’t I?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 23rd, 2012
6:39 pm
You’ve got a real bad habit, imauo, of rather arrogantly separating yourself from the herd when you don’t like the way it sounds.
A classic case of a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
G Mare
July 23rd, 2012
6:39 pm
0311, I think I get it: whatever our last president did/did not do is okay with you and nothing Presidebt Obama did/does/will do passes muster with you. Alrighty then, if we didn’t know before, we certainly do know now where you stand. Ah, a closed mind is a terrible thing to encounter.
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Captalists..
July 23rd, 2012
6:40 pm
WM: Do you believe that Joe Paterno knew children were being raped and did nothing about it?
Yes.
josef
July 23rd, 2012
6:41 pm
DDR
I had to force myself to read it. I had to stop and do other things throughout.
Doggone/GA
July 23rd, 2012
6:42 pm
“How stupid have people become?”
What do you mean “become”? There have ALWAYS been suckers. There’s one born every minute..remember?
josef
July 23rd, 2012
6:42 pm
K’chak
Espejo, espejo!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
6:42 pm
I disagree with almost all of you libs. on these issues but my question to you now is where are your “leaders” who feel the same way you do ????
Headline: “Colorado attacks unlikely to affect gun laws”
“Little about the nation’s gun laws has changed in the wake of recent high-profile incidents of gun violence, and all indications are that the movie theater shooting last week in Aurora, Colo., isn’t likely to affect the gun control debate, either.
Outside of a few isolated, expected voices — primarily New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — few political leaders have called for stronger gun laws after a massacre that left 12 dead.
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters traveling to Aurora with President Obama on Sunday that the president “believes we need to take steps that protect Second Amendment rights of the American people but that ensure that we are not allowing weapons into the hands of individuals who should not, by existing law, obtain those weapons.”
“The president’s view is that we can take steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them under existing law,” Carney added. “And that’s his focus right now.”
http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/23/12907227-colo-attacks-unlikely-to-affect-gun-laws?lite&__utma=14933801.1481915832.1343083143.1343083143.1343083143.1&__utmb=14933801.2.10.1343083143&__utmc=14933801&__utmx=-&__utmz=14933801.1343083143.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=14933801.|8=Earned%20By=msnbc%7Ccover=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.nbcnews.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=73579794
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
6:46 pm
G Mare:
I just want him to keep his word.
To the American electorate: “If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
6:47 pm
0311
Did you agree with everything Bush did and all of Romney’s stances on the issues?
I highly doubt that and there isn’t anything wrong with that.
So please do not be so blind to think all Democrats and the left is in agreement with all elected Democrats.
Heck both Parties has internal squabbles all the time.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
6:51 pm
Changes:
I just want him to keep his word.
To the American electorate: “If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 23rd, 2012
6:51 pm
I just want him to keep his word.
The same way that you kept “your word” when you dramatically stomped your foot and left this blog saying that you would not return?
Oh yeah, when you say things like that it’s OK because you changed your mind.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
6:53 pm
Out for awhile. Everyone be nice.
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
6:55 pm
0311
He kept his word on health care. Did you praise him for that?
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
6:58 pm
0311
For someone who wants to pin down others for answers and make the assertions you make at times, you sure are shifty character when the heat is turned back on you.
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
6:58 pm
Ch….yeah I’d call it selective out rage, the come back of “W did it too”….as justification when you loathe all things W is, if nothing else, entertaining
Doggone/GA
July 23rd, 2012
7:00 pm
“He kept his word on health care. Did you praise him for that?”
See, when you read Scout you have to get good at reading what he didn’t write…more so than what he did. When he says “I just want him to keep his word.” what gets left unsaid is “on the things that I want him to keep” There’s not credit coming for keeping his word on the things that Scout doesn’t want him to keep.
Soothsayer
July 23rd, 2012
7:01 pm
That Romney feller’s my man. Why wouldn’t I vote for him?
Be sure to use the “control +” feature to read the text.
getalife
July 23rd, 2012
7:06 pm
scout is satire playing a typical partisan con.
getalife
July 23rd, 2012
7:07 pm
cat,
The hypocrisy is funny?
I find it sad .
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
7:07 pm
“He kept his word on health care…”
Did he?
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Captalists..
July 23rd, 2012
7:09 pm
josef: I had to force myself to read it. I had to stop and do other things throughout.
It was sickening. And it’s making me sad. It’s allright to be mad, but when I start thinking about it too much it just makes me sad. And when Tundra told me about the GOVERNOR’s actions!! That was too much to bear.
I’m out for a while myself. Think I’ll play some Sade, drink some wine, and try to get as high as Scout naturally is.
(He says he doesn’t do chemicals — I don’t know about you, but I was TOTALLY shocked to find out that he’s NATURALLY that way!! How spooky is THAT!?)
getalife
July 23rd, 2012
7:10 pm
He passed a bill Presidents have been trying to do for decades.
Yes, he did cat.
barking frog
July 23rd, 2012
7:10 pm
getalife
or maybe satyr playing a
typical partisan con..
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
7:11 pm
get…not funny, but interesting…which entertains me….the human animal is an entertaining creature, my own short comings included
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
7:13 pm
“He passed a bill Presidents have been trying to do for decades.”
not exactly as advertised and far short of the promise
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
7:15 pm
Erwin’s Car
If that is all you have to defend 0311’s selective outrage, you have very little.
Keep swinging
getalife
July 23rd, 2012
7:15 pm
To play a partisan con, you must ignore anything the gop did in the past and blame everything on Obama.
It is a mindless boring role.
getalife
July 23rd, 2012
7:17 pm
cat,
It is a major accomplishment.
This President makes history.
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
7:18 pm
i’m not defending Scout…he’s all to capable to defend himself
I was commenting on your selective outrage
Find the ballpark
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
7:20 pm
my 7:18 is for Ch-ch
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
7:24 pm
Ewrin Cat
If that make you feel good and boosted your self esteem, ok.
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
7:29 pm
Ch-ch…yeah, it’ll get me thru the night
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
7:32 pm
get – bait and switch is not an accomplishment, it’s a gimmick
Ch, ch, changes
July 23rd, 2012
7:37 pm
Erwin’s Cat
Good to know. Whatever it takes these days.
Doggone/GA
July 23rd, 2012
7:44 pm
“get – bait and switch is not an accomplishment, it’s a gimmick”
yeah, because, you know, really…all he had to do was wave his magic wand and get EXACTLY what he wanted. And Congress be damned. Right?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 23rd, 2012
7:51 pm
or maybe satyr playing a
typical partisan con..
Satyricon?
godless heathen
July 23rd, 2012
7:52 pm
I’d like to interrupt this partisan bickering to dedicate a song to Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012).
A true hero and a leader. RIP Sally.
http://youtu.be/VFJQgrVmJoQ
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 23rd, 2012
7:53 pm
Only by opening the box may we determine if the cat has short comings.
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
7:54 pm
Doggone there’s a difference between compromise and sell-out….the excuse, “sure it’s bad, but that’s the best we can do” …ain’t working for me
They BOTH suck
July 23rd, 2012
7:56 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8rHn2Pd2DM&feature=related
They BOTH suck
July 23rd, 2012
7:58 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztq8cE-Fzsw&feature=related
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
7:58 pm
Kam….really…there’s no need to open the box on that one….
really
gotta run…..
travel safe
Doggone/GA
July 23rd, 2012
8:07 pm
“Doggone there’s a difference between compromise and sell-out….the excuse, “sure it’s bad, but that’s the best we can do” …ain’t working for me”
And…luckily…it wasn’t YOUR decision to make.
Josef
July 23rd, 2012
8:11 pm
K’chak
@ 7:51
Three thumbs up!!!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
8:11 pm
Kammie:
You mean Corporal or 0311 ?
John Travolta's Massage Therapist
July 23rd, 2012
8:14 pm
Here’s a funny video from an Egyptian Candid Camera TV show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLFrLOet0Y&feature=player_embedded
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 23rd, 2012
8:14 pm
Hey !! It’s always great to come back and see how much you guys have talked about me while I was gone.
That just assures me I’m getting under you skin.
I love it !!!
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
8:15 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADzTtqpV4QM
a scientist motto
Thulsa Doom
July 23rd, 2012
8:18 pm
cat,
“It is a major accomplishment.
This President makes history.”
Yep. He sure do. We set a record for the number of people on food stamps under this president and now it appears in today’s news that we will set a new record for number of people now living in poverty. That president is indeed a record breaker.
http://www.kristv.com/news/poverty-in-u-s-rising-to-record-levels/
John Travolta's Massage Therapist
July 23rd, 2012
8:23 pm
Triumph The Insult Comic Dog in Chicago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33zPlnhymCU
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 23rd, 2012
8:24 pm
josef
Thought you might catch that.
Encolpius seems a role well suited.
Tink
July 23rd, 2012
8:26 pm
Miss ya Jay. Hope y’all are having a well deserved time. God Bless Ms. Ride; her accomplishments to the NASA program and children’s science are unfathomable, really.
Erwin's cat
July 23rd, 2012
8:31 pm
Doom…I’m not your straight man
in the vaudeville way…
TaxPayer
July 23rd, 2012
8:31 pm
Bain Capital, GOP presidential hope Mitt Romney’s firm, had bought Dade and shuttered its factory in Puerto Rico in 1998. The closings continued under Bain’s management.
It’s become a familiar tale about Romney and Bain’s business dealings. The New York Times reported that Bain pushed the profitable company into bankruptcy. The Miami Herald followed with its own chronicle of the mass layoffs and mass profits for Romney and company. The Tampa Bay Times reported that Dade had received millions in tax breaks to promote job creation in Puerto Rico one year before it closed the factory there.
Bain, of course, walked away with a huge profit. In 1999, the private equity firm grabbed $242 million after it pressured Dade to borrow more millions to buy up Bain’s shares in the company.
So many Dade workers lost their jobs — 1,700 in the United States, 850 in Miami alone — that the Bain-Dade dealings have become a symbol of corporate bloodletting and a painful memory to those who witnessed the layoffs.
That’s the Mitt that so many people remember. Mitt Romney-Chief Executive Outsourcer/Chief Information Obfuscator/Chief Operating Offshorer. Never has a more exemplary Reublican ever existed. This calls for a tax cut.
Mr_B
July 23rd, 2012
8:33 pm
“We set a record for the number of people on food stamps under this president and now it appears in today’s news that we will set a new record for number of people now living in poverty. ”
Thanks to the unceasing and heroic efforts of our congresscritters and their laser-like focus on jobs.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
July 23rd, 2012
8:36 pm
Well, I sure hope Bookman remembered to pack a couple cans of beans, because if he fishes the way he writes columns he’s going to get mighty hungry. All those casts to the left can’t be good.
Have a good night everybody.
Josef
July 23rd, 2012
8:41 pm
K’chak
@ 8:24
I wouldn’t argue with that!!
TaxPayer
July 23rd, 2012
8:48 pm
More Americans in poverty since Republicans won the House in 2010 on their “jobs” campaign promise. Too bad they didn’t warn people that they meant fewer jobs under their rule. Where are those jobs, cons.
barking frog
July 23rd, 2012
8:51 pm
Kamchak, josef
Satyr icon along with git on
the point man. false convictions and hypocrisy..
Mr_B
July 23rd, 2012
8:53 pm
TP: Well, there all those jobs they created by re-affirming the national motto. Now folks have got to put “In God We Trust” on all the curren…………..oh, never mind.
TaxPayer
July 23rd, 2012
8:54 pm
Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the libertarian think-tank Cato Institute, argues that low-skill jobs (such as product assembly and call centers) are not cost effective for U.S. companies anymore. In an interview with The Daily Ticker, Tanner says outsourcing has allowed U.S. companies to penetrate foreign markets, be more competitive and hire more U.S. workers at home.
Let me get this straight now. According to those conned at Cato, outsourcing more jobs from the US has allowed US companies to create more jobs here. My only question is, where are those jobs because no one outside of Cato can seem to find them. Well, I have not checked with the Heritage Foundation or Paul Ryan. They probably know where they’re at too.
Thulsa Doom
July 23rd, 2012
8:54 pm
‘their “jobs” campaign promise. Too bad they didn’t warn people that they meant fewer jobs under their rule. Where are those jobs, cons.”
The new jobs died along with 30 something bills in the do nothing Dem controlled Senate.
Mr_B
July 23rd, 2012
9:00 pm
Thulsa: The mere fact that somebody puts “Jobs” in the title of a bill designed to cut taxes or to gut a regulation doesn’t mean it is actually about creating employment for anyone. These goofs know that what they are sending over won’t pass the Senate. Why not try writing a substantive bill that could attract some support from the other side? You know, the way it used to work?
St Simons - he-ne-ha
July 23rd, 2012
9:04 pm
‘outsourcing more jobs from the US has allowed US companies
to create more jobs here.’
ho-ho haha heehee i knew that one was coming
and when heritage & two am radio shows repeat it tomorrow
that will make it true, in the small fetid circular pool of echoes, so there
Josef
July 23rd, 2012
9:07 pm
Frog
Good one!
bman.
July 23rd, 2012
9:07 pm
when i read some odd Obama-supporting message .. .. I don’t know what to think anymore. The man could sell some of you guys the crap out of a landfill, call it gold, and you’d buy it. Blame Bush for the first 2 years. Shift the blame to rep congress for the last 2. Blame Reagan for Penn State?
TaxPayer
July 23rd, 2012
9:07 pm
Poor cons. If only they could have convinced a few Democrats that their bills actually created a job or two… Doesn’t anyone understand that new Republican laws requiring the defunding of Planned Parenthood and criminalization of not having a live baby nine months or less after every instance of sex would create all sorts of bedroom monitor jobs. Then, there are all the new jobs created just to cover training of people in the proper use of vaginal probes…
Thulsa Doom
July 23rd, 2012
9:08 pm
“According to those conned at Cato, outsourcing more jobs from the US has allowed US companies to create more jobs here. My only question is, where are those jobs because no one outside of Cato can seem to find them.”
You’re not very bright are you? There are numerous low skill mfg jobs that are better done in China or elsewhere because if they are done in the U.S. then the fact of the matter is that the company may not stay in business at all because they will not be price competitive and will be driven out of business. And they may not be able to ramp up as quickly on production lines here as they could in China due to an unlimited labor supply and lower regulatory hurdles.
But I digress. Lets take 2 companies as an example. Apple mfgs its I-phone and tablets overseas because its cheaper and ramp up assembly line times are substantially quicker due to lower regulations. The resulting increase in U.S. i-phone and I suppose I-pad tablet sales means that in the U.S. that apple has to hire more sales support staff, more direct sales people, open more Apple stores, basically they have to hire more of everything to support greater domestic sales. Why it is that people like you can’t understand this is nothing short of amazing.
In the case of GE Immelt was criticized that GE had outsourced many low end production jobs overseas and to China in particular. His argument was that while that was true that in order to keep up with increasing demand in the U.S. that GE had to hire new U.S. workers to support the sales process here in the U.S.
JamVet
July 23rd, 2012
9:08 pm
BOTH, I talked with one of my friends in SoCal who was at the final show of the All Starr Band Tour 2012 show at the Greek Theater on Saturday night.
How about this for a lineup on stage joining in to sing With a Little Help from my Friends?
Todd Rundgren, Steve Lukather (Toto), Greg Rollie (Santana and Journey), Richard Page (Mister Mister), Gregg Bissonette, Mark Rivera, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Gary Wright, Jeff Lynne, Jack Bruce, Edgar Winter, Tal Wickenfeld, Mickey Dolenz and Jim Keltner.
That is some serious star power…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbG7PlJtfkk
Ch, Ch, Changes
July 23rd, 2012
9:09 pm
“The new jobs died along with 30 something bills in the do nothing Dem controlled Senate.”
And there have been how many Republican filibusters?
Tell it all brother, tell it all.
Don’t be like 0311 and feign selective outrage
Thulsa Doom
July 23rd, 2012
9:10 pm
” after every instance of sex would create all sorts of bedroom monitor jobs.”
Libs do love they ridiculous hyperbole they do.
Thulsa Doom
July 23rd, 2012
9:14 pm
Mr_B,
I understand what you are saying but its a 2 way street. Just as you say why don’t the Rs pass a passable bill I could then say why doesn’t the D Senate quit obstructing bills that the Rs consider to be reasonable and pass them.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 23rd, 2012
9:14 pm
The man could sell some of you guys the crap out of a landfill, call it gold, and you’d buy it.
The smoking gun is the mushroom cloud.
bman.
July 23rd, 2012
9:14 pm
“Greek Theater”
I would really like to go to the Greek Theater. Billy Joel still has a pretty good voice. I’d like to see him straighten up & do a solo piano tour. Perfect venue for that!
G Mare
July 23rd, 2012
9:15 pm
0311, President Obama lied? Remember “mission accomplished?”
TaxPayer
July 23rd, 2012
9:15 pm
Late breaking news… Paul Ryan has promised that his latest proposed tax cuts for the wealthiest will not cost those on social security or medicare or medicaid any more than he has promised just as soon as the unemployment rate drops to 2.8% and stays there.
Later late breaking news… Paul Ryan blames Obama for his failure to meet his target unemployment rate.
They BOTH suck
July 23rd, 2012
9:17 pm
Jam
Damn!!!!!!!!!!
Now that is a line up.