What needs to happen

I think the unemployment extensions coupled with the employers refusing to accept resumes from "overqualified" people is prolonging the recession (which at this point economically outlasted the great depression). In previous recessions, we all humbled ourselves and took a step or two back from our current pay grade.. worked a lower job, whatever you want to call it. It paid the bills and after 8-9 months, you were back above board. We'd paid back our creditors enabling them to pay their vendors. then consumer spending would amp up and development would improve increasing the creation of jobs. I'm no economist but this is how I've seen it work in the past and all the current economists are doing is finger pointing and blaming wet sidewalks for rain.

Start hiring upper level professionals for mid level jobs. Who cares if they leave in 6 months? The jobs you need done now will be done, most likely done right by a more experienced person, and the market will right itself creating a healthy market for everyone.

Mammograms being removed for women under 50

I am neither a doctor nor a woman, but I know women who had breast cancer before their 50th birthday and because of mammograms, they detected it and are alive today. I believe that whether this study was started before obama got in, or not, it has shades of socialized medicine all over it and will only result in people losing mothers aunts sisters and grandmothers to a detectible fightable disease.
I just had an intellectual discussion with a woman scientist who indicated that not all types can be defeated with early detection. That is a moronic defense for making no attempt to detect the disease to begin with. I wonder, after mammograms, how many other preventative measures Obamacare will take away from us as Americans. Please comment and tell everyone to stop this measure and keep our mothers safe.

More terror surrendering

Ok, I had to watch Barack Obama shake hands with Khaddafi, I have to watch the war on terror let every terrorist out of Gitmo but this takes the cake. I WILL NOT BUY ANYTHING MADE IN SCOTLAND OR THE UK.

Ken McAskill, Justice secretary of the shithole that is Scotland, has decided that a dying terrorist who took the lives of hundreds of people who cannot be released from "dead" can go home to be with his libyan terrorist family. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only terrorist convicted of bombing the Pan Am flight that took the lives of 189 Americans has served 8 years in jail. 8 years! That's nothing thats less than 16 days per victim! This is where the world is going. Muslim terrorists win, honest, forthright freedom lovers lose.

This Race thing....again

I was down with "Everybody's equal already" until this Harvard professor thing surfaced. I didn't follow the news stories because at first glance it seemed cut and dry. I heard "cops get call, told black guys trying to get into a house or houses, they show up and request ID, homeowner who happens to be black gets hostile with cop and refuses to show ID."

Before I even imagined it could become a black/white thing my mind said "another egomaniacal professor thinking the world knows of his glory" I had professors like that. Black or white, they think that they are celebrities and when the cop didnt see him and go "Oh my gosh it's him! it's Professor Gates!" He got angry and obstinate. Next thing you know president Obama is calling a cop stupid for following a procedure. The cop wasn't profiling. He wasn't given a list a the beginning of the day that read "get those black home invaders". He received a single call from a neighbor with a description that included black. What if it included "tall"? So anyway, president Obama is backpedaling faster than a husband who didn't get the "do these shoes make me look fat" question right. Note I said backpedaling, not to be confused with apologizing. I hate to prime a heated issue's pump but ---thoughts???

Fat America gets fatter

Ok, so my foot's broken but I can walk. I went to the boardwalk and proceeded to see 100s of people over 50lbs overweight sitting on a tramcar to avoid walking 1 block. I walked about 3 miles on my broken foot. Diabetes drugs made something in the way of $31B last year. This year it'll probably be $50B. I saw a broke down tramcar full of people so I stopped and watched. The other tram pulled up, the waiting chunkies hopped on and rode for one maybe two more blocks.. I swear these are people who influence the behaviors of children.

Tramcar ride--------------------------$2.50
Diabetes drugs----------------------->$300 a month
Knowing I'll never be found on either---Priceless

Dead Perverts society

First, heartfelt condolences to the friends and family of Farrah Fawcett who bravely fought cancer for a long time.

Now onto the rant. How sick is it that this woman, a great lady with a challenging family life, a tumultuous final couple years and a brave battle against a horrible disease is overshadowed by the death of a corrupt deviant who bought his way out of justice, not one, but TWO times. This is not a random guy who was on the street and some girl pointed him out. This is a sick man who admitted to taking little boys into his bed. Instead of hearing about the brave struggles of a woman who culturally changed the world from the 70s forward, I had to hear 100 Michael Jackson songs on radio stations that don't even support the "pop music" format.

This guy deserved no accolades at death. If anything, he deserved to die sooner for what he put those children through. IF there could be any question of his guilt, his father abused him, and his sister flashed all of our children at the superbowl. There is a link to genetics, family conditioning and being a sex offender. It is more documented than STD propogation. There will always be fans who choose to argue against it but this is a family of deviant people who don't feel that the laws of decency apply to them and I am certain that we have not heard the final death nell of corrupt sexual behavior committed by them.

Obesity as an epidemic

Do terms like "BBW" downplay the obesity epidemic in the western world? With all the new political correctness in the world, we are no longer allowed to remind people who are more than 30% overweight and sedentary of the inherent risks to their health. Now they have a way they can find validation for being self-destructive with the personals-ad acronym BBW big beautiful woman.

A MEDCO report finds that diabetes treatments were the second leading contributor in total dollars to prescription drug spending growth in 2006, trailing only cholesterol drugs. Spending on diabetes treatments increased 14.5 percent from 2005 to 2006 and the use of diabetes drugs increased 5.1 percent.

I dont care how wonderful a charitable, caring, philanthropic human being one might be as a person. There is no justification for a weight of 375 pounds unless you are a motorcycle.