‘Economy’ Archives
White Barbie Doll Cheaper Than Black Barbie Doll at Wal-Mart: An Economics Lesson for Race Pimps
Jesse Jackson is en route as we speak: Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll’s white counterpart at one store and possibly others. A photo first posted to the humor Web site FunnyJunk.com and later to the Latino Web site Guanabee.com shows packages of Mattel’s [...]
Jesse Jackson: ‘Keep Bingo Alive!”
Jesse Jackson led a pro-Bingo march in Montgomery, Alabama over the weekend. Because when you think of civil and voting rights and economic justice, you think Bingo: The Rev. Jesse Jackson led a march of about 200 people down Dexter Avenue to the Alabama Capitol to rally supporting bingo jobs in the state. Jackson said the bingo debate ongoing in [...]
Video Of The Day
Funny or Die ‘Presidential reunion’ Will Ferrell as George W. Bush, Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton, Dana Carvey as George H.W. Bush, Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter and Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford, and Jim Carrey as Ronald Reagan. The video is directed by Ron Howard. So we’re now to take financial advise from grossly overpaid actors, many [...]
More People Losing Their Jobs Isn’t ‘Good News’ Until Harry Reid is One of Them
The video highlight of the week is only about seven seconds long, but that’s all the time it took for Harry Reid to offer a hell of a nice soundbyte for his opponent’s campaign ads: Imagine how many people will be losing their jobs every day when the well of money that’s paying for all these make-work public sector jobs runs [...]
Pic Of The Day
Indonesian students protest Barack Obama’s visit It sucks when that “resist” part of the indoctrination is turned on you, then again who ever said kids were reliable?
Detroyt Skool Bored Prezzident Cant Reed, Rite ore Spel Goode
Otis Mathis is president of the Detroit school board — he is also, somehow, a college graduate. The Detroit school system is the worst performing in the country, ranks at the bottom in literacy, and has a dropout rate of well over 60%. Read parts of emails Mathis sent and part of the reason becomes abundantly clear: If you saw Sunday’s [...]
Boneheads Of The Day
Academia owns the Bonehead category today. Students at the University of California’s flagship Berkeley campus took to the streets on Friday night, vandalizing university buildings, burning trash cans and clashing with police in the latest expression of frustration over cuts to the educational budget in California. Now, I’m not an [...]
A Republican Tries to Enforce the Democrats ‘Pay as You Go’ and Gets Bashed for It
President Obama claims to be a big “Pay as you Go” proponent. So does Nancy Pelosi. In January, Harry Reid said this: “Let’s not kid ourselves: we are in this financial situation – and these pay-as-you-go rules are necessary – because we spent the last decade spending money we didn’t have. We spent trillions on two wars, tax [...]
Growing Trend: Union Jobs Must Be Saved for Reasons of National Security, So Just Shut Up and Pay Us Unless You Want to Die!
Labor unions, facing the growing reality of having priced themselves into near extinction, realize they’ve milked their employers about as much as possible, so recently they’ve been forced to turn to getting state and federal funding. How so? Every union job is being made a “national security” issue. Even Michelle [...]
I-Told-You-So Of The Day
I never jumped on the bandwagon because I know Mass RINOs, but while many people got all caught up in the “Massachusetts Miracle” moment, in the end Scott Brown is as reliable as a sunny day in London. A modest job-creation bill advanced in the U.S. Senate on Monday as the chamber’s newest Republican bucked his party and sided [...]
