Suck it!:

“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.”

Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military.

“That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did,” Broun said. “When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”

Great news!

Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, has decided to run for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee and is in talks with Newt Gingrich to win the former House speaker’s endorsement, FOX News learned Tuesday.

Steele declined to comment, but a source close to the situation said Steele would announce his candidacy as early as Thursday.

The source also contradicted a report in Tuesday’s Washington Times that Steele and Gingrich were competing for the RNC post.

“There is no fight,” the source said. “This tension between Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich is totally fabricated and, in fact, Gingrich and Steele are working together to create a new strategy for the direction of the GOP.”

Steele will really bring in all the racist voters who picked McCain not because he was a Republican but because he wasn’t black.

And Newt. Oh, how we’ve missed you. You should never have allowed the liberals to run you out of town in disgrace. Come back and destroy the party again!

…A better idea would be to hire people and just pay them in store credit.

Better still, store credit cards so the employees would end up paying to work and the retail chains would remain solvent through at least January.

Stores see surge in applicants for holiday help
Nov 11 03:32 PM US/Eastern By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO / Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - The odds of landing a part-time job at department store operator Bealls Outlet Stores Inc. this holiday season are slimmer than getting into Harvard: It’s one out of every 45.

Don’t think the chances are any better at 7-Eleven. One California store received more than 100 applicants in a week and a half for jobs that pay $8.50 per hour—and the retailer doesn’t even usually hire holiday workers.

From department stores and convenience chains to call centers, managers who only a year ago had to scramble to fill holiday jobs are seeing a surge in the number of seasoned applicants—many of them laid off in other sectors and desperate for a way to pay the bills.

…and!…

Tight retail market narrows jobseekers’ options
Nov 11 03:29 PM US/Eastern / Associated Press

_UNEMPLOYMENT: The U.S. retail industry shed 38,100 jobs in October, bringing the total since January to 297,000, according to Michael P. Niemira, chief economist at the International Council of Shopping Centers. That’s about 25 percent of the overall 1.2 million jobs lost in the U.S. this year. Yet retail jobs made up just about 11 percent of total payroll employment—meaning the industry is losing a higher proportion of its jobs. That has been a factor in the unemployment rate rising to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October.

_HOLIDAY HIRING: Seasonal hiring is expected to be well below the levels of a year ago. A survey of 1,000 managers by SnagAJob.com found that on average, each plans to hire 3.7 seasonal employees—down from 5.6 last year. A survey of 20 retailers by management consultants The Hay Group reported that in September, 75 percent were planning to hire the same number of seasonal workers from a year ago. In November, that figure fell to 53 percent, while 26 percent planned to hire 5 percent to 15 percent fewer workers.

…locking yourself in the basement and waiting for the next four years to be over.

The coming of the New World Order…

“We must use the power of multilateralism to establish a global consensus on a new, decisive and systemic approach to strengthening the global economy,” [British Prime Minister Gordon] Brown will say today, according to a text released by his office. After committing more than $3 trillion to bail out the banking system, governments must now turn to “international co-ordination of fiscal and monetary policy,” he will say.

The Group of 20 — gathering in Brazil of all fucking places — is recommending nation’s across the globe set up internationalized levels of taxation and spending.

Tax and Spend.

Led by the Redcoats and the Red Chinese — will America fall into this trap? Will we cut taxes on the poor and, thus, ensure our national destruction?

“A package of emergency tax cuts” would be the most
effective way of “increasing demand in the economy,” Frank
Field, a lawmaker with the ruling Labour Party, wrote in the
Sunday Telegraph newspaper yesterday. “Steering these cuts
towards the poorest” would ensure that most of the cash would
be spent immediately, he said.

NYT: How Merrill Lynch Faltered and Fell:

“Investors said, ‘I don’t want to be in equities anymore and I’m not
getting any return in my bond positions,’ ” said William T. Winters,
co-chief executive of JPMorgan’s investment bank and a colleague of Ms.
Masters on the team that invented the first synthetic. “Two things
happened. They took more and more leverage, and they reached for
riskier asset classes. Give me yield, give me leverage, give me
return.”

I don’t wanna be
in equities no more

Give me yield,
Give me leverage,
Baby, please,
Give me return!

Back in 2006, Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News wrote a great little profile on Ms. Palin. In it, he explained the beautiful love story behind The Governor and her first gentleman:

Sarah and Todd eloped in 1988, slipping away to the Palmer Courthouse where, learning they needed witnesses, they enlisted two from the pioneers’ home across the street, one in a wheelchair and one with a walker. They eloped because they were poor at the time and didn’t want their parents to foot the bill for a wedding, she says today.

“I tell my kids, ‘Don’t do what I did,’ ” she said. She is the mother of four. Her oldest, son Track, is attending high school and playing hockey in Michigan this year. Daughters Bristol, Willow and Piper attend Wasilla public schools.

Apparently that didn’t work so well.

Track was born in April 1989. The desirous 2nd Couple eloped in August of 1988.

That ain’t enough time.
On an equally politically viable note: Ms. Palin’s nickname in High School? “Sarah Barracuda!”

Apparently she’s was ruthless on the basketball courts.

“…it is outrageous that a minor girl can get an abortion without parental consent…”