From On High

• Bad News For Russell County

  It was just a matter of time:
  Planned layoffs, shutdown at Alcoa plant
  Bristol Herald Courier editorial
  
  The Alcoa plant in Lebanon, Va., that makes forged aluminum car wheels, was poised to take off in 2010, with contracts that were expected to provide work for years.
  
  Instead, [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:42am EST
  

• Call It PTSDOD

  "Allahu Akbar!" be damned.  The REAL reason that Muslim fanatic shot and killed 13 Americans has something to do with his having to sit and listen to gruesome stories coming out of Iraq.
  
  The New York Times has hit upon a new disorder: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Observation Disorder:
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:24am EST
  

• It's Worse Than We Thought

  I'm shocked that this appears on the front page of today's New York Times.  But there it is:
  Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%
  By David Leonhardt, New York Times
  
  For all the pain caused by the Great Recession, the job market still was not in as' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:02am EST
  

• You Trust The Gov't With Your Health Care?

  Go out and try to find an H1N1 flu vaccine that the government promised would be there in sufficient quantities for you.
  
  These bozos can't even get a small matter like that right.  So they're going to take over the entire system?
  
  Over my soon to be dead [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:59am EST
  

• Australian PM Goes Mad

  But then he was a true-believer in global warming, so the symptoms were there all along:
  Australian PM warns 'skeptics' could derail climate talks
  Space Daily
  
  Powerful climate change skeptics were "holding the world to ransom", Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Friday as he warned of fear campaigns [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:32am EST
  

• They're Talking About a Second Stimulus

  Can America withstand another one?
  
  
  
  Click on the image to enlarge it.
  
  Or don't.  It'll just get in the way of Obama's narrative that the mainstream press is more than willing to trumpet.  It goes like this: Bush is gone.  The economy [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:22am EST
  

• 'Reporting' At Its Finest

  In a Reuters story that focuses on the possible motives behind the mass slaughter on the Ft. Hood Army base Thursday (like the gunman screaming, "Allah akbar!" wasn't clue enough), "reporter" Chris Blatimore just had to get these shots in (pardon the pun):
  The United States has been engaged in' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:02am EST
  

• While Obama Focuses On Health Care ...

  ... the health of the nation goes on life support.
  
  Tom Blumer tells of even more problems developing for the Treasury.
  
  A graph he provides is illustrative:
  
  
  
  While federal expenditures are skyrocketing, federal revenue is plummeting.  Because the economy still sucks.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:51am EST
  

• Beware Babes With Guns

  My daughter called yesterday to bring me this news:
  The mother who brought down the Fort Hood killer
  Chris Ayres, Times of London
  
  A police officer and mother of one was hailed a heroine yesterday after it emerged that she almost single handedly ended the massacre at America’s biggest [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:45am EST
  

• 'America, Land of the Free ...'

  I forget where I read that:
  PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
  Committee On Ways & Means Republicans, Ranking Member, Dave Camp
  
  Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:18am EST
  

• This Would Be Funny ...

  ... if it weren't so enraging:
  Oh my: Public now opposes ObamaCare, 45/53
  
  A tip o’ the hat to CNN for gamely trying to spin one of the most gruesome polls for ObamaCare that we’ve seen this year — so far. Opposition to The One’s plan is now a' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:11am EST