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Weekly Standard | America's Debt Is Greater than Entire Eurozone's (and U.K.'s) Combined Debt

Just to note: Newt was speaking over the weekend that Romney is now virtually guaranteed to get the nomination and that he'll support him. So it seems all but over. There was one recent poll where Romney was +5 in Penn, and another where Santorum was +4. Regardless, Pennsylvania, with proportional delegates, was a state that Santorum needed to win by a wide margin (30-40 points) in order to retain even that 1-2% shot of carrying this thing to the RNC and hoping for a brokering. All the other 24 April states were going Romney and beyond that too with California being the whopper 172-delegate winner take all. Losing Pennsylvania w/o an excuse like this would have screwed his future aspirations. But as it stands he's the nominal runner-up, which historically shows he's favored in 2016 if Romney doesn't win in the general (several polls out today showing that Romney vs. Obama is a tie, and that he's in this deep this far out with all the advantages that the office brings, doesn't stand well for Barry). Anyway, this comes about a month-and-a-half to two months late for Santorum. I understand why he did it. He had things he wanted to talk about, wanted to get his name out there, no matter what the math was saying. But it was getting awkward and going further had the potential to damage the party. It would be interesting if the party holds him to any accountability for producing fractures.... On another note, tho, Mr. Santorum's youngest child, Bella was released from the hospital yesterday, and while the campaign has been nasty at times, I sincerely wish the best for her. Santorum talks the talk on abortion, etc. but give credit where it's due, he also walks the walk. Then again, I (and ~70% of the electorate) go with the idea of stare juris on Roe that defined it as a private matter and left for people (women) to decide for themselves. As I said, I don't want a president who seems to want to be a pastor-in-chief. That's not government's function. There are a number of other possible candidates who would get my support. Mike Pence, Mitch Daniels, Susanna Martinez....

Also by the employment stats, those people who've fallen off the unemployment roll and those who've decided to stop looking for work because it's a waste of time... well, the administration and the media who want another term for their golden child like to pretend that those people dropped off the map.

Yep. An average of $12,000 of regulatory expenses to hire one person in this country --- note: this is before a salary/wages start being paid --- and the problem is that there's too little regulation.

Actually, to my surprise, Sheryl Atkisson of CBS News has been one of the principle reporters breaking stuff about Fast and Furious. If she doesn't win a Pulitzer, then they need to stop giving them out. But generally speaking, yes, these kinds of stories are more and more originating online and then the MSM begrudgingly gets in on it. Well... if there's no missing white women that week.

So basically, all that happened last night was an amp-up of ire and the teams bunched up a lot, time-wise. You know, Rico may think they're *s, but the BP agents were right. I don't know about you, but I don't like being lied to, even with small stuff. It's an indication that someone will lie about important stuff, too. But really, how silly/stupid are the FBI girls being about it? That bit last night in the tent set-up where they claimed to be at a disadvantage b/c they were the only team w/o a man was crap. It was crap. They picked their team, they need to deal with it. Vanessa either can't ride a bike, they were too dumb to check if the seat could be lowered (it looked like there were knobs under the seat...) or pooh on AR for providing bikes that aren't suitable and can't be adjusted to be made safe. Sure, there's a thing of 'This is it, they're all the same, and figure it out or you're done' but come on, this is a safety thing. They're provided cars with adjustable seats.... Just sayin'. Bopper looks out at the African plains and exclaims, "This is beautiful!!!" then half a second later, he spits his gum out of the window with a big *ptui*. You stay classy, Kentucky!

Try ~ $120.

Oooo! Nice! That's one where you get mentally associated with vacation. Not bad.

Sh--, I believe the plural is Zubazes.

Red sky at night, sailors' delight!

Brillo pads?

Otherwise... you would've done your duty as a Bills fan and sacked him, right?

To clarify, one store manager went PC and then corporate went common-sense. I see this no differently than my views in the thread about a pharmacist who refuses to sell birth control items or Rxs in a store that carries them. You either perform the whole job, which includes parts that you may not personally or religiously agree with, or you do another job or find another field of work. This was part of the job description when she applied, right? She could reasonably be expected to have known that some people buy bacon and beer at the supermarket and that she might have to touch them, right? We should not be expecting employers to have to cater to their employees' every whim about moral problems they might have about customers' purchasing decisions. They stock it, you handle it or you do something else. Kudos to Wegmans head office for not wimping out. Why does this reek of someone angling for (specious) grounds for a lawsuit/$ettlement?

Some updates on the show: It will be two more seasons of 8 episodes each. I don't know if this has been shared here before, but it's the first time I'm seeing it set in concrete. They are filming S5 currently. Gilligan and his writing team have a rough outline of what they want gor the major characters and the end of the series. Link

NYT | Life of the 'Body Man': Garrett Jackson

By 2019, we will be spending more in interest payments on the national debt than we spend on the Department of Defense. $600B in interest payments! Not even touching the debt principle! Link I look at that graph and think, 'How are we not totally, totally screwed?!?' Like... Harvard-PhD-philosophy-student-with-half-a-million-in-debt-and-the-only-job-he'll-ever-find-is-McDonald's screwed. But keep talking about secret clubs, MSM. That's what the national consciousness needs to think about. Because Economy This, Debt That won't get your boy re-elected, will it?

You mean, count the people who still don't have a job but who've run out of unemployment? In the articles touting month-to-month lower unemployment rates (neatly coinciding with layoffs+99 weeks), you can almost see the reporter jumping up and down wearing an 'Obama 2012' T-shirt. 'See? See? He's putting people back to work!' Not fast enough to even keep pace with the number of young people who are joining the workforce, but whatever.

Well, besides the "Do-nothing Congress" that has been doing or trying to do things (note the story that came out the other week that revealed it was Obama who walked away at the Eleventh Hour from debt reduction legislation where the Republicans had agreed to billions in tax increases to go with spending cuts. That was going to be bad for Obama's re-election narrative, so....), by Dave in Nor F^€£'s regurgitation of the talking points memo, they're evidently going to try a "The devil you know..." argument. Around October, we'll probably be hearing from them about how Romney is part of the Zombiepocalypse and/or has cooties.

Dude, you liked "Before Sunrise"? That's a 150-point deduction on your Man Card. And a Man Card only has 100 points.

Let me tell ya, Santorum isn't making any friends among the rank and file for this crap. Book deal? Probably. Speaking fees? Out of the question. 2016/2020? Nope. He had his say, he talked his bit. I can respect someone who enters the race to do give voice to issues they care about. But when it came time to bow out gracefully, he's staying in the back corner of the stage juggling balls, chasing ferrets and taming fleas. He has no grace. And even people who supported him started to say that it's time and switched their votes. He's not getting them message even when it's loud in his ears. I don't think people want a president who refuses to get the message. He's going to get embarrassed on the 24th. I don't know what he's expecting at the nomination convention, but it definitely isn't the narrative that's bouncing around in his head. He's sharing sentiments with Newt "Moon colony = 51st state" Gingrich. That's when you know it's time to stop drinking so much Dimetapp.

According to a leaked league memo, teams will only be allowed to wear 3rd jerseys twice next season. They will only be allowed to wear them during Sunday afternoon games. No wearing them in prime-time. And no wearing them once the "flex" scheduling starts (week 10?).

I don't get it. If I wanted a polo shirt with a collar, I'd buy one.

Roger Ebert has been posting a lot of 'Available on Netflix Streaming' movies/reviews on his Facebook page. Not saying that I agree with him 100% on taste, but it's a quick, handy reference and suggestion sheet.

From what I've seen, Seattle is making a small color change in the logo (grey in one of the rear panes) and go to a darker helmet and from what I hear, will have a 3rd jersey featuring the grey. I wouldn't call that "completely changing" their look. The Nike event is going to be at 11 a.m. ET. There might be a few tweaks, but I'm not expecting anything earth-shattering.

If it does leak, all fingers would point to Kagan. That said, I don't think it will.