Hello peeps, I’m a little surprised at what I read this morning. Apparently Osama Bin Laden has seen the light as well as Al Gore’s piece of crap movie/”documentary”. He is now calling on a “boycott of U.S. goods and the dollar” because of the dangers of “climate change” and the only way to stop it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt. You mean to tell me that this guy who has been hiding out in a cave for all these years is worried about the snow melting? Of course the audio couldn’t be confirmed it was him. You don’t think Al Gore doesn’t have a way to reach all of the radical Muslims yet, do you? What do you think most of his funding is used for? It sure isn’t really being used to help the scientists since they have to make up the numbers. Not a sermon, just a thought.

In other news, the economy grew 5.7% in Q4? Source Businesses cut inventories less than before and the trade deficit narrowed slightly. How much do you want to bet that President Obama will take the credit for this, touting the stimulus package? I’ll wager a bit more and say that he will still blame Bush for the bad stuff still. You know, stuff like wages rise at a weak 1.5%.

Maybe Greece should be a … warning? to the U.S. Stop spending what you don’t have. Oh, nope. They still haven’t. It seems that the Senate voted to raise the debt ceiling by 1.9 TRILLION dollars. Numerically that is $1,900,000,000,000. That is insane to borrow that much MORE. Maybe instead of just freezing some spending, the lawmakers and President should CUT some spending.

Speaking of other big numbers, NBC expects 200 Million viewers to watch the Vancouver Winter Olympics. I may watch as long as Kieth Olbermann isn’t on and spewing his never ending load of crap in that ridiculously annoying voice.

CNN, I think you get a “DUH” award today. Why in the world would you ask if people liked specifics but not the overall stimulus bill? Source Runner Up? MSNBC. The Gitmo closure is looking increasingly uncertain?

Ben Bernanke was confirmed by the Senate yesterday for a second term. Not surprisingly it was the closest confirmation vote of a Fred Chairman ever. Considering the crooks that are popping up like Geithner it’s no surprise.

It sure is early while I’m writing this, but hey it’s got to be noon somewhere I suppose.

Government debt figures are out and it isn’t pretty. 12.3 TRILLION dollars is the outstanding public debt? While the operating balance is 142.45 Billion dollars? And we are supposed to support new programs like health care for what reason?

Call Bush an idiot for looking dumb while he was reading a book to a bunch of grade school kids after he was told about the 9-11 attacks, maybe he would have done better with a teleprompter.

In other news, I really can’t wait to hear how eeeeeeeeevil Apple is for having a 50% rise in profits last quarter. What’s next, bailouts and subsidies for Microsoft? Ugh. Even worse, the eeeeeeeeevil pharmaceutical company Novartis AG recorded a 54% rise compared to the same time last year. I suppose the threshold is 50%.

Ever want to see how the Washington bureaucrats live it up on the taxpayers dime? Check it out. I would slap any employee that tried to expense out over $2k per day for food and lodging.

It seems that President Obama will ask that non-security spending be halted in his State of the Union address. Source. Really? I thought there would be no end to the bottomless pockets that was shown the first year. Funnier, he’s asking that it be halted for 3 years starting in 2011. So 2014 in the middle of a new presidency(count on it folks) domestic spending can increase again? I hate to see how much pressure that this will put on his pet programs like health care reform and climate change. Oh, never mind, that funding will come from new taxes.

That does it for now. Maybe we’ll get an update later today. In the meantime, discuss these opinions and more on the Phatooine.net message boards.

It seems that every time we hear an Obama Administration Official discuss the economy, we hear that either that the Obama Administration’s economic plans have saved or created so many jobs or that it is Former President Bush’s fault that the country is in a difficult recession. So which is it? Can a President and his administration take credit for one part of the economy, alleged growth, while not taking credit for the other part?

It doesn’t make sense to me, to be honest. George W. Bush can never be president again and it’s time to move on.

New news that isn’t old news. I love how people talk about Halliburton with their giant no-bid contracts and still think their candidate has clean hands. Here’s a little egg on your face. It looks like a $25M no-bid contract was awarded to a big Dem donor. At least we won’t hear the cries of cronyism from people about this open administration.

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