Daily Archives: November 7, 2009
As predicted
Teen unemployment at record rate of 27%. Direct result of raising minimum wage. But if they could find a job, then they could support a family of four!
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Freddie Mac posts $5.5 billion loss for third quarter
It says it will need more money, from guess who?
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Come a cropper – phrase origin
Walt asked and he’s going to love this phrase. Come a cropper – to fail badly “Cropper, ‘to go a cropper’, or ‘to come a cropper’, i.e., to fail badly.” For the actual derivation we need to consider the nether … Continue reading
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This may prove to have been a bad idea
WSJ: Rich folks used their houses as piggy banks, just like the poor. LOS ANGELES — In recent years, millions of Americans looked at their houses and saw big, fat piggy banks. And it occurred to them to take out … Continue reading
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Will Crown Lane displace Round Hill as Ignominy Avenue?
The feds have a former SAC trader by the short hairs and he’s squealing like a pig. No one has ever gone beyond whispering that Stevie Cohen’s been trading on inside information all these years – no proof, no hard … Continue reading
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Somebody robbed the Springfield train
Cos Cobber calls the New Haven – Springfield rail project a boondoggle and he’s surely right. It’s a pet project of our upstate legislators that was slowly going nowhere until Dodd got hisself some Stimulus funds and breathed life into it. … Continue reading
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The man with the tingly orgasms for Obama has another insight
Chris Matthews: We may never know if religion was a factor at Fort Hood. Well sure, I can see that. I mean, a guy who prays at his mosque five times a day, dresses in sheets, posts rants praising suicide … Continue reading
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A good editorial about Himes and his competition – first one to say something intelligent wins
So far, the state deficit is ballooning, revenues are dropping, the states going down the tubes, and all the announced candidates have nothing to say on the subject except to promise “leadership”. But in another sense Lamont might as well … Continue reading
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What, Jimbo Himes won’t help out his alma mater?
Lawrenceville School, other preps suffer endowment losses, cut student aid. Maybe Jimbo’s used all his cash to buy Shay’s house. Still, you’d expect more from the former Managing Director of Goldman Sachs.
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We pointed this out yesterday but again, if the NY Times says it’s so….
Real unemployment rate 17.5%
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Shays sells home in Black Rock, staying in Washington
Like everyone else who goes down there. Once a pol sees Paree, there’s no keeping him down on the farm. I don’t blame the man, and this was openly listed on the MLS, but I have a nagging thought that … Continue reading
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