Unemployment up once again...

The stimulus was supposed to keep us below 8% unemployment, that didn't happen.

In fact jobless claims have consistently been rising.

Ed Morrisey has an excellent post on this today at HotAir.



Ed shows a great contrast between this recession and the previous recession..

The BLS also tracks “discouraged workers,” those who have left the workforce altogether and are not seeking jobs. That number has also reached highs not seen in at least a decade, with 796,000 workers currently falling into this category. Compare that to the last recession and recovery, where that number never rose above 534,000.

As Ed points out in his post, the last recession recovery was called a "jobless recovery"...I wonder what they would be calling this if a republican were president instead of The One™.

Anyhow...as the say, go read the whole thing.

Aaron B. Gardner

"You had 9 months to sort out a lift"

[via DrudgeReport]
[inspired by Lori...aka SnarkandBoobs]

Woman gives birth on pavement 'after being refused ambulance"

Seriously...that was a headline from the Daily Mail Online. As we all know the U.K. has a single payer health care system, similar to what President Obama, Barney Frank and many others in Congress envision for our Nation in the long term.

Now I don't want to be an alarmist so I had better look at more of the article...catch you below the fold.

the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100m from her house in Leicester to the city's nearby Royal Infirmary.

Ok I know what you are probably thinking...100 meters isn't that far to walk. This may be true, but imagine yourself trying to walk 100 meters with a case of extremely explosive diarrhea, kinda like what comes out of Joe Biden's mouth. Might as well be a marathon.

Today the Trust that runs the hospital said it would look into any complaint made about the advice and care the 27-year-old received.

This Trust would be the equivalent to the Public Option or Co-op if you speak newspeak.

I phoned up the Royal Infirmary, it's just across the road, and they said to go into a hot bath, and then to make my way over there.

So a woman is in labor and calls the hospital and they say take a hot bath and then we will see you when you get here. I can't confirm this but I hear they also suggested she rub some dirt on it.

Moving on...

I went into the bath and realised she was going to come quickly. I didn't think I'd be able to make it out of the bath, so I phoned the maternity ward back and told them to get an ambulance out.

That's right...put that free health care to work!!

They said they were not sending an ambulance and told me I had had nine months to sort out a lift.

Wait...what? Sorry...no ambulance for you. I wonder what metric was used to deny emergency services to a woman in labor.

Ms Blake said despite the happy ending she was upset she was told to make her own way to the hospital as, being an experienced mum, she knew she did not have the time

Ms. Blake seems to be confused...she must think she controls her health care...crazy talk. After all, she couldn't even be trusted to "sort out a lift" given 9 months of prep time.

We are disappointed that Ms Blake was not happy with the advice and care she received and will of course investigate any complaint. We are pleased that both Ms Blake and her daughter are well and healthy.

That closing paragraph is a double edge blow off if I have ever seen one. First they take no responsibility and then act as if they had something to do with Ms Blake and her new daughter's healthy outcome.

Make no mistake...this is our future if the statists in this country get their way.


Aaron B. Gardner

Crossposted at RedState

P.S. A friend of mine, Caleb Howe, brought up a great point.

In the United States, if she were uninsured ... SHE'D STILL HAVE BEEN GIVEN AMBULANCE AND EMERGENCY CARE.

Just sayin'

Go Flag Yourself...

[h/t to Left Coast Rebel for this one.]

[Additional h/t to my friend Steve Foley over at TMR]

I haven't yet flagged myself...I've heard it makes you blind*. Alas I think it may be time to take that risk.

Let the self flagging begin.


Aaron B. Gardner

* Blind = racist, redneck, homophobe who is so selfish that he refuses to cede his medical care to a benevolent leader like Barack Obama. Duh. /sarc

Dear 52...or is that 47

"All your base are belong to us"



Crossposted at RedState

A quick lesson in projection

When a person has uncomfortable thoughts or feelings, they may project these onto other people, assigning the thoughts or feelings that they need to repress to a convenient alternative target.
Projection may also happen to obliterate attributes of other people with which we are uncomfortable. We assume that they are like us, and in doing so we allow ourselves to ignore those attributes they have with which we are uncomfortable.

We all know that the President and his minions have been claiming that right leaning activists are actually all bought and paid for by the Republican party and AFP. Most of us know that this is not the case but rather just projection from Democrats who are afraid of their own constituents.

The media and the Adminsitration has been going off for a week, or longer, about these astroturf claims.

Well I think the lady doth project too much...and the evidence is below...



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Emphasis mine.

As you can see this is a Progressive front group that is putting together an Astroturf campaign. By the way...$600 a week is more than my Wife makes working with disabled children. Just saying.

I have said it before but it is worth saying again...if you want to know what this Administration is doing, simply listen to what they are claiming the other side is doing.

[h/t to Charlie @ RedState]


Aaron B. Gardner

Crossposted @ RedState

Post Partisan MY ASS!!!

[h/t Steve Foley @ The Minority Report]

President Obama is actively inciting hate against those that disagree with him, not those who created this mess, after all the Democrats have had control of the congress since Jan 2007. Obama is up there preaching like his pal Rev. Wright...using the bully pulpit to cause division rather than unity.

He claimed to be post partisan.

He claimed to be above the fray.

But to those who were paying attention, these sort of union thug tactics are no surprise.

Remember...this is not the first time he has asked his minions to get in the faces of those who dissent with The One™.

Aaron B. Gardner

Mel Martinez to resign early...

Just saw the report on Fox and also at RedState. No doubt Crist will appoint himself as Senator and then resign his current office as Governor of Florida.

The questions I would like answers to are...

Was this deal worked out between Martinez and Crist before hand?

If there was collusion between Crist and Martinez, were Crist's poor showings in straw poll after straw poll the catalyst for this?

Those are two very important questions which should be asked...and answered.

The good people of Florida deserve that, well actually they deserve Marco Rubio but when has the well being of Floridians ever stopped Crist from being a self absorbed political elite?

Aaron B. Gardner

After 6 Months, More View Obama's Presidency as a Failure Than Bush's

After 6 Months, More View Obama's Presidency as a 'Failure' Than Bush's - Real Clear Politics.

Yes you read that correctly.

President Obama is worse than Bush...and that was with an oversample of African Americans.

I wonder if he is plotting an attack on the homeland in order to bump up his polling numbers?*

The only question is who will he blame the attack on...My guess is that it would be a 3 letter word just like "JOBS" [h/t Joe Biden]. But then again everyone in the know spells it with 11 O's**.

But I digress...

Here's to you President I WON™, You are now less popular the ChimpyMcBushiltler***.

Suck it!!

Aaron B. Gardner

P.S. I am the Mob!!


* Sarcasm
** Even if nothing happens it will be the fault of the Jooooooooooos!!! That's just how the left thinks.
*** I thought about not using that...but I wanted to remind everyone of the lengths that the left has gone to in the past.

34 Million on Foodstamps in U.S. [UPDATED]

[UPDATE]
Ok Math FAIL on me. As pointed out in the comments the % is 11% not "almost 10%" Thanks to my friend from Maine for pointing out my error!!
[END UPDATE]

For the first time ever the number of Americans on Foodstamps has hit 34 Million.

With the current population at 307,101,771...That is over 11% of the nation. 11%!!!

Since Obama's inauguration the number has increased by 2.2 Million.

You just gotta love all this Hope&Change™

Aaron B. Gardner