Got into the writing mood this morning and thought I should opine while I’m sitting down and reading the news.

Maybe I’m just dumb, but if you have a net job loss of 247,000 jobs in July, how does the unemployment rate fall from 9.5% to 9.4%? It DOES NOT MAKE SENSE! A net loss of 247k jobs can not mean that unemployment went down. Speaking of which, cnn money has a graph showing how the number of jobs lost is easing.

Employers can only cut so many people before it’s just the owners working there or they can no longer perform their business. Maybe that’s it. I’ll just say that if Bush was in office, they would be talking about how bad it is. Funny how we can look back at the good economy that we had while Bush was in office. *sigh* Back when the government didn’t own the banks, car companies and have an eye on the insurance or the medical system.

There’s talk about a second stimulus. JUST A DOG GONE SECOND!!!!!! If the first stimulus worked so well, why should there be a second stimulus? Once again, all of this spending can’t be good. WHO WILL PAY FOR IT?????

Judge Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate yesterday. Congrats on making history as the first Latina to sit on the SCOTUS. We now have a woman who talks about how wise she is and how she comes to better conclusions than a white man, ruled that it was ok to discriminate against white men but somehow isn’t racist. Debate was somehow not relevant because her nomination was historical. I’m sure glad Dr. Martin Luther King jr.’s dream came true. We don’t judge our fellow man by the color of his skin but by their merits. It’s a good thing that Judge Sotomayor isn’t a man.

Former Charlie Manson acolyte Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme is set to be released on parole in 11 days. Who says there’s no justice? All she did was point a gun at a Republican president.

Hey, more cash for clunkers. It’s great how we are now predominantly subsidizing cars made overseas. Dumb how there are no restrictions saying you have to buy an American made car to get a $4500 subsidy.

Baitullah Mehsud, suspect in Benazir Bhutto killing, dies in U.S. missile strike. Ok, I’ll give the government a passing grade in warfare.

Congrats to Swampscott, MA for declining an offer for a free statue that honors troops fighting overseas. Apparently it’s not consistent with what has been placed on Monument Avenue. The statue was inspired by the movie “Taking Chance”.

Congrats to the Obama administration, you have successfully taken “The War on Terror” and “Jihadist” out of the current government vocabulary. If there is no war on terror anymore, who won?

So we are 200 days in or so to this administration. CNN has a report card based on polling in every state. I find it funny that in all 50 states, Obama overwhelmingly gets failing grades on the economy. His lowest percentage of “F” was in Washington D.C. Of course it was, his whole administration lives there. On Healthcare, Obama gets 49% “F” overall. Better in foreign affairs with an overall C. Hillary Clinton got high marks for her job as Secretary of State, but what has she done? Obama has done all the traveling. Biden gets bad grades on par with Obama. No state likes Congress except DC. Funny, they have a congresswoman who has no vote and they are pleased? Congresspeople voting for themselves. No one likes the Republican leadership, but they didn’t ask about the dem leadership. The Media gets the same cold shoulder as Obama and Biden. Figures, you can’t tell them apart.

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