In any other universe, when one breaks the law, one generally goes to jail. Instead, Charlie Rangel had to endure standing up while Nancy Pelosi somberly intoned “you are a bad man. Bad. Really bad. Really.”
The news calls it a “staggering fall for Mr. Rangel.” Even Faux News thought this “punishment” nearly capital. A staggering fall? Ms. Pelosi didn’t even rap his nose with a newspaper.
Ever see a man back up to a building corner or a handy tree to scratch his back? Why is it that backal regional itches always appear only where you can’t regionally reach?
When I itches, I scratches,
no matter where I is or where I itches.
The hair on my toes seems to have migrated to my shoulders.
Today, in addition to being Premte Peeve day, is National Quitter’s Day but I ain’t about to.
Quit.
Motors Liquidation Company (the old GM, formerly known as General Motors Corporation) filed for bankruptcy on June 1, 2009. On July 5, 2009, the bankruptcy approved the sale of substantially all its assets. They had no choice. The ObamaNation determined that government could run a business better and that centralized planning made up for good engineering. On July 10, 2009, Government Motors Inc. purchased the ongoing operations and trademarks from General Motors Corporation. The purchasing company, in turn, changed its name from Obama Motors Inc. to “General Motors Company.” The name of the original stock changed to MTLQQ.PK so we losers would be lost in the national celebration.
Clever, innit.
At one time, GM was the second largest employer in the world; only Soviet state industries employed more people. Imagine that.
Today is also the day the government of the United States of America reaps the benefit of stealing what was once America’s largest business from its owners (that would be pension funds across the country and me) and giving it to Obama’s cronies.
This is not an ordinary peeve. I wrote to my Congressional when Government Motors first announced it would place today’s IPO. “It is your job to assure the company ownership stolen from us by the government is returned to its rightful owners,” I wrote.
Not one single congress critter replied, not even with the canned “I am determined to find the best course for America” reply.
Not one.
They came first for GM,
and you didn’t speak up because you didn’t work there.Then they came for the insurance companies,
and you didn’t speak up because you hated insurance companies.Then they came for the houses,
and you didn’t speak up because your mortgage was paid.Then they came for the trade unionists,
and you didn’t speak up because you weren’t a trade unionist.When they come for your newspaper …
by that time no one will be left to speak up.
(Thanks but no apologies to Pastor Martin Niemöller)
I spoke up. The people we elected didn’t. You didn’t. And that hurt all of us. Yeppers, I AM more than peeved.
Retailers created 151,000 new jobs in October, nearly triple the number for the Octobers of 2009 and 2008, according to John Challenger and Barack Obama. Talking heads from the White House to WKRP have lauded this as the turn around we’ve waited for.
Let’s see what the prez to the pundits didn’t tell us:
(a) The number of US workers who filed new claims for unemployment benefits fell 24,000 last week to 446,500. That’s a net loss <mumble><mumble> carry-the-two of 295,500 jobs.
(b) The people losing those $50,000 jobs are engineers and teachers and not $17,000 Wally World clerks.
(c) Seasonal jobs like these always post gains during the holidays. Guess what happens after the holidays?
(d) Most surprising of all, population growth means we need 100,000 jobs just to stay even so October’s net loss wasn’t almost 300,000 jobs. It was nearly 400,000 jobs.
So what’s the peeve? Other than the fact that my friend and my wife are both still unemployed, everyone from the prez to the pundits have pulled the wool over your eyes. Again.