Are We Lumberjacks?

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Verdict

This whole Casey Anthony thing, I dunno... I really haven't been paying attention. I figured early on that this was either an unspeakable tragedy or an unimaginable tragedy, and that's not the sort of thing I'd like to dwell on. Many smart friends and family members are telling me that she was guilty, so I imagine she probably is. But she still has to go before another judge. The Judge. And He knows all and sees all.

By the way, minutes after the OJ verdict came out I remarked to a customer that the next judge wouldn't be so easily fooled. (meaning the next judge would be God) The customer didn't say much but obviously he didn't get what I was saying. Because two years later, when OJ lost in civil court, the customer was astounded that I had even known that there would be a civil trial. "and you called the verdict too"

I acted all humble and mentioned something about wisdom coming with age.

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

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Stimulus

It's looking like we may have an historic presidency in the making. Much like the Hindenburg was an historic airship. From the Weekly Standard:

The report was written by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors, a group of three economists who were all handpicked by Obama, and it chronicles the alleged success of the “stimulus” in adding or saving jobs. The council reports that, using “mainstream estimates of economic multipliers for the effects of fiscal stimulus” (which it describes as a “natural way to estimate the effects of” the legislation), the “stimulus” has added or saved just under 2.4 million jobs — whether private or public — at a cost (to date) of $666 billion. That’s a cost to taxpayers of $278,000 per job...

...The actual employment numbers from the administration’s own Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the unemployment rate was 7.3 percent when the “stimulus” was being debated. It has since risen to 9.1 percent. Meanwhile, the national debt at the end of 2008, when Obama was poised to take office, was $9.986 trillion (see Table S-9). It’s now $14.467 trillion — and counting.

All sides agree on these incriminating numbers — and now they also appear to agree on this important point: The economy would now be generating job growth at a faster rate if the Democrats hadn’t passed the “stimulus.”

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