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- New this morning: The unemployment rate drops to 8.1%. I wonder if it will get to 7.9% with 60 days to go before the presidential election.
- I proclaimed a highway between Grapevine and Frisco the "greatest" in North Texas on Monday. Yesterday, its service road claimed a motorcycle death.
- Florida St. has opened as a 70.5 favorite over Savannah State -- the largest spread in NCAA history. There has to be widespread corruption in games like this -- there is no question that Florida State could cover if they wanted to. So what if a coach tells a buddy, "I'd go to Vegas on this one."
- A personal injury lawyer in Dallas was indicted yesterday for, among other things, allegedly stealing from clients. His online bio proves he's full of himself (especially near the end.) His "family lives life to its fullest from their 280 acre ranch in Palmer, Texas." Sheesh.
- We put an old clothes dryer out on the curb in front of our house last weekend and someone came by and loaded it in a truck within 15 minutes.
- The A's Brandon McCarthy (pitcher) almost got killed by a batted ball two days OK. After the initial "he's doing fine" reports, it was announced he underwent surgery on his skull. I think he used to pitch for the Rangers.
- I missed the President's speech last night because I was at a high school football game. And, mind you, I believe that Thursday night high school football is downright un-American.
- It sounds like his speech was much like Romney's: Good but not great.
- I always see a defendant charged with a misdemeanor decide to represent himself even though he doesn't speak English. He'll go into a prosecutor's office with an interpreter who works for the county to try and resolve the case.
- A "cool front" is coming through tonight which will drop the temperatures 20 degrees. Being at a high school football game tonight at the moment it comes through would be fantastic.
- This morning it will be announced that the Big 12 has reached a deal with ESPN/ABC/Fox for $2.6 billion over thirteen years. Could TCU have joined at a better time? And I was absolutely convinced twice over the last three years that there would no longer be a Big 12.
- It's a football travel weekend for me: An LSU night game and a New Orleans Saints day game (which just happens to be RG3's first game.) I can't tell you how everything lined up perfectly for this trip (including family schedule.)
- I also want to see a cemetery near the French Quarter -- the same one seen near the end of Easy Rider -- but so many reviews say "go with a tour -- it's in a bad neighborhood."
- I'll try to update on the Twitter -- which I've neglected for pretty much over a year.
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75 comments:
The cemetary tour is good and very informative. Take it.
All praise and glory to mahamid Osama braacka Obama. He is worthy of praise and glory. Praise his name. !!!!
Df hog wash
Bacon Scale
1 out of 5
Not good BG.
Worst pic all week.
The employment report was the worst in a while. Less than 100,000 jobs produced, and almost four times that number dropped out of the work force. Just gave up.
Further, prior months dropped 41.000 jobs.
The economy is cratering.
Art Laffer
No mention of Chisholm Trail Days or the Sheriff's Posse Rodeo and parade in Decatur? The weather is going to be perfect!
"The A's Brandon McCarthy (pitcher) almost got killed by a batted ball two days OK."
What?
Yes, he pitched for the Rangers.
The superdome may come down on top of you guys Sunday. We just went through New Orleans and those people were already angry/jacked about Goodell giving them the shaft, and then Issac hit. Wear a helmet. I'm not even kidding. That is going to be a crazy event. T'shirts were everywhere say F*&k Goodell Etc.
Dear Kenneth Starr,
Thank you for keeping the Big 12 together, no matter what everyone else said about you.
Sincerely,
Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, and TCU
Did you drop acid at the cemetary like Captain America and Billy did?
Regarding unemployment....
The labor department even admitted that many people have completely given up looking for jobs. Also, many have taken any job they could get just to make ends meet.
If you factor in those two parts, the number would be around 13% or 14%, but I am sure that Obama would never tell you that. Don't expect to hear it from msnbc either! They are too busy getting that thrill up their legs from Obama.
who would want to live in any predominately black city, chicago, detroit, south central la, oak cliff...
RTG-WOW!! look at the beak on that bird! I'm all for natural, but if there ever was a case for a nose job, this chick has got in in the bag.
I know it is touristy, but stop in Cafe DuMonde for beignets & coffee. And be sure to drop in Brennan's Restaurant. Commander's Palace has lost some edge, but worth a stop also. Uniquely Big Easy.
How does the labor dept know if someone just gives up on looking for a job?
Who would want to live in predominately Latino area with no parking on the Square?
Where is the Rhome Pioneer Days Rodeo being held?
Re: The Cemetery. We walked from the Quarter. I wasn't uncomfortable at all. Don't forget an offering for Madame Laveau, and a piece of chalk. If you deface her grave with "XXX" (illegal to do), she'll grant you a wish.
Louis Armstrong park is just down the road. Not much to it, but it's a nice park and a cool statue of Stachmo. Plus, they got ducks.
A lawyer is caught stealing and you find that newsworthy? Isn't that a foundational job description of a lawyer?
Probably the key to the attorney's indictment--family heavily "involved" with HORSES, horse racing, horse showing, etc. That's about equal to America's Cup sailboat racing, once likened to--"tearing up $100 bills as fast as you can in the wind"! :-)
The labor dept employees went to Primos and asked them 9:05.
9:13
Stachmo? Really?
Double Fake Satchmo
It's interesting how, regardless of the topic, the comments always come around to the push/pull of the political arena. The comments themselves, however, aren't that interesting. Nobody is saying anything new. Perhaps that because it's all been said before. Everybody likes to think that the Founding Fathers had such high ideals, and we are not honoring the memory of what they established.
Here are some comments made by the political operatives of the day (think Glenn Beck and Bill Maher in powdered wigs and tricorn hats) way back in the campaign of 1800:
"...a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."
"...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father...raised wholly on hoe-cake (made of coarse-ground Southern corn), bacon, and hominy, with an occasional change of fricaseed bullfrog."
"Murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will all be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes."
"The only question to be asked by every American, laying his hand on his heart, is, 'shall I continue in allegiance to GOD - AND A RELIGIOUS PRESIDENT; Or impiously declare for JEFFERSON - AND NO GOD!!!'"
"one of the most egregious fools upon the continent"
"strange compound of ignorance and ferocity, of deceit and weakness"
excerpted from a column in yesterday's Star-Telegram (by Dick Polman - Philadelphia Inquirer columnist)
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/
Some of those hit kinda close to home (modern-daywise)
8:55
Unemployment stats have NEVER included people who have done nothing to look for a job (filled out an application, gone to a job interview, made calls, etc.) in the month the data was taken.......doesn't matter what Pres. is in office.
Check out Economics 101 if in doubt.
You buried the lede regarding Brandon McCarthy. His wife Amanda is definitely "Hey, now!" material..
http://www.sportressofblogitude.com/2012/08/22/wife-of-brandon-mccarthy-tweets-joke-about-extenze-poking-fun-at-hubby/
Thank me later. Oh, and that unemployment report has got to get below 7% if POTUS wants a second term.
Echoing 9:14... An attorney who is full of himself and steals from his clients? That's news?
"The unemployment rate drops to 8.1%." Too easy. (In the off chance that one of your readers sees your comment and actually believes that more people are working.)
9:05
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm
See the write up on question number 6.
I'll bet that randy girl has some hail damage on the backside judging by the way her legs look.
That's ok with me, maybe i could pop a few dents.
I vote for McCarthy's wife as RTG today!!!!
Thank you Sean
938 - BG tried that argument once before. You are correct about the how the calculation is made, but not about the numbers. The number of Americans either working or looking for work has dropped like a rock under Obama. That artificially keeps the official unemployment rate down (since those not looking for work are not counted.) And the problem is getting worse, not better, under Obama.
SEDDK - "lede" - Nicely done.
Decatur looks like LA now with all the cops not doing shit about loitering near primos. The homes around that area seem to be for sale.
Ahh, the Great Stachmo, lives in our hearts forever.
DF Dizzy Gillespie
There was a great special on last night with info from the 9-11 tragedy. Didn't have to waste any time listening to Obamy!
Get your children to show you how to record those inane speeches. That way you can zip through the, " Ya knows," and the, "uhs."
you are just jealous cuz the lawyer used the word GOD in his bio.
If you are driving from here to the LSU/Saints game, the drive is a boring, BORING, beating. Tiger stadium on a Saturday night is awesome!!!! Have fun, be safe and GEAUX TIGERS!!!!
9:38
I think the point he is tryoing to get across is that since the job market is so dismal, some have quit looking out of despair. If the job market were better, these people would still be looking for a job and would be counted as unemployed. You libs can take so much form everything said by a conservative except the common sense stuff. You have to be spoonfed the common sense stuff and stretch so far with the nonsensical stuff. You make ny head hurt.
WK's avatar is the icon for the Church of the SubGenius. The basis of that church is "don't take me serious".
Be prepared for lots of DRUNK CAJUNS.
The 911 show was titled the falling man. Obama's show should be the Failing Man.
As always, the president's speech was in every way content free.
Who's the only person in America glad unemployment is over 8%?
THIS GUY!!!
wordkyle
Yes, the advice is true,take a tour. You'd be a sitting duck, hidden in the cemetary on your own.
Wonder if Wordy is counted as "unemployed" or just under-employed. Can't fathom how he could do any work for the amount of time he wastes spreading slanted views and half-truths on this blog.
I was in NOLA late last year. You should be fine going to that cemetery during the day.
Re NOLA; Just wear an OBAMA button and you should be safe.
What will it take to get the illegals out of Decatur? I agree with looking like LA. They are ruining the downtown area and the neighborhoods in town. Have you driven down Miller or Church street (N)? NO ONE is doing anything to stop the influx. HOW can we stop it? How can we get the ones here to leave? I'm sick of all of 'em!
Yep still a bunch of closed minded hating biggots...nothing more to see here. I might check back in a nother couple of months BG. See y'all haters later.
1149 - You seriously overestimate the amount of time it takes to add information that readers are free to check for themselves. (And to save time for those who are interested in seeing the information for themselves rather than Liberal agitprop or mainstream media reports (redundant, I know,) I provide lots of links!)
since the labor department puts out the unemployment numbers and they work for obama, it may be 5 or 6 % by november
its not easy to win against an odvious lyer
C'mon down bout 45 miles southeast of Thibodaux. I'll show you a real good time--Ah garuntee.
Amos Moses
Great employment news! One in a thousand
more working than last month.
Debt @ 16,000,000,000,000.00 +
Just because FDR helped your
grand father (opinions vary),
don't let BHO screw your
grand children (again).
Havent you heard that channel 8 will be @ the Decatur pep rally and game tonight filming the debut of Tyler Story?
what about all the niggers?
i wonder how many loyal dems and libs on this blog get a government check?
I was on that service road just the other day. Thanks goodness it didn't decide to kill me, I guess. Meantime, I think I could put a month's worth of family poop and some used diapers into a crate made from rotted, wet, old 2x4s; put it out on the curb and it would be picked up by somebody.
well was the Prez half white or all Black in his speech last night?
As long as people are willing to accept the information fed them, we are pretty much up the creek. At that point, it becomes a shouting match. Instead of researching a topic themselves, we are so lazy we go to factcheck.org or snopes to determine the truth. The problem with that is wherever you go, you will get a biased opinion of what is true or untrue. Even the biggest lie will have a sliver of truth. I would challenge any liberal to read "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek. The book was written in 1944 by an Austrian economist so there is no democrat vs republican in the text but there is a lot of truth. The gist of the book is, the more people sucking on the government teat, the more control the government will have on your life. With each social program, the price you will pay is a little more loss of liberty. This is not a fun book to read becasue the similarities between Ameirica today and Europe in the 1940's are chilling.
didos 12:55
2:24,
Further, Obama has a large percentage of the country believing government is the answer, provides the jobs, etc.
The truth is, business is the answer, and Obama has cast stones at business since before he was president.
Business, WE, did build this.
Business BUILT everything in this country, including all of the government. Think about it...business provides almost all of the GDP, and therefore almost all of the income to the government, either through direct taxes, taxes on employees, capital gains taxes, etc.
Government gets a bit in leases, and of course concessions at Yellowstone. That is it.
So every time Obama hits business, he is killing the country. All of the presidents of this country, up until now, have realized the value of the private sector. R or D, government asked not why or why not, but let us get about the business of building this country. But not this guy, unless of course, you are a contributor to his campaign.
We DID build this. And will continue, when we are sure this government is not against us.
Henry Ford
Exciting weekend of football. My Eagles will get back on track and fans will fill the stadium. Hopefully the board will recognize the need to improve the old field and replace the eyesore with a new up to date facility.
12:12 you find a way and I'll help. Then can we do something about my street with all the Mesican's on it?
Henry Ford was a socialist, 5 dollar a day wage.
2:24 - your first sentence is pure gold. We can only hope the resident "know it all" Wordkyle reads it. He accepts the information he reads and tries to pass it on to the rest of us.
Why isn't this guy in the classroom so he can warp young minds with his visionary idiocy and conservative viewpoints?
He is so out of touch with folks who can read for themselves and thus THINK FOR THEMSELVES.
Free Payton !!!
Jacques Imo's for the Alligator Cheesecake!
Yup, you heard that right.
Also Willie Mae's Scotch House for the chicken.
This guy is President, not the head of marketing or manager of sales. 4 years should be enough to show SOMETHING. I think we should expect more from the most powerful man in the world. He focused on Democrat dream legislation and not the nation as a whole and see where it got us...
"Know it all"? Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say I know it all, but I'm certainly flattered by your high opinion of me.
Incidentally, those blue things you see in many of my posts are called "links," which you can click on and read for yourself the data behind my comments. Do that enough and you, too, can "know it all," or at least more than before. Meanwhile, keep those cards and letters coming! I always love to hear from my fans!
P.S. I read Hayek's book many years ago.
While you Wise County whiners and Decatur Square elite are complaining about the black SOB in the White House, the Mexicans are operating cash only business and pocketing the sales tax, encouraging illegals by Primos, thus driving down the value and attractiveness of the area homes, and using your dollars to jip the City of Decatur. Gloat all you want about Fuzzys Taco and all those new places, you cannot compete with people whose sales tax does not go to the city.
DHS wants to be Northwest. F the turf! Education first.
5:45, move you and your kids out of Decatur if you're not happy with our football field! EYESORE? Seriously? The stadium is beautiful (after pouring tons of money into remodeling) and there's not one damn thing wrong with playing on REAL GRASS. You cry babies just disgust me!
6:51...2:24 here. Do you have a clue what you wrote? That may very well be the stupidest comment I have read on this blog and believe me, that bar is high. Do you honestly believe Wordkyle accepts everything he reads without discernment? His citations are there to prove he is not just pulling information out of his ass like so many do on this blog. He is doing your homework for you. You can read his sources and decide for yourself whether it is valid or not. I do not recall him ever calling other posters names but let him post and the more liberal readers really get nasty. It makes the liberal poster look petty and childish. Read the book I cited and see if it changes the way you feel about the direction of this country.
Ya know a past board president short circuited the last attempt to improve eagle stadium. Given that picce of history I believe improvement to that place is forever a dead issue!
If people do not want to work, then why is it we always see people carrying sings about sales at stoplights in the city? Even a low paying job like that attracts people.
8:22 why don't you say what you mean. The only thing turned down for "stadium" improvement was the purchase of artificial turf!!! That would be field improvements, not stadium improvement. Your the prime example of how people talk around an issue. The stadium is fine. The field is fine. If you want artificial turf, then you and those who want it can group together and PAY for it as a gift. Works for me!
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