Obamanomics: 50% Of New College Grads Unemployed/Underemployed

By William Teach April 23, 2012 – 6:49 am

How’s that HopeyChangey crappola working for ya?

(AP) The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work.

A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge.

Young adults with bachelor’s degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs — waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk or receptionist, for example — and that’s confounding their hopes a degree would pay off despite higher tuition and mounting student loans.

An analysis of government data conducted for The Associated Press lays bare the highly uneven prospects for holders of bachelor’s degrees. (snip)

About 1.5 million, or 53.6 percent, of bachelor’s degree-holders under the age of 25 last year were jobless or underemployed, the highest share in at least 11 years. In 2000, the share was at a low of 41 percent, before the dot-com bust erased job gains for college graduates in the telecommunications and IT fields.

There is simply way too much contained within the article to excerpt, but, suffice to say, those who have graduated over the past few years are learning the extent of pure miserable failure they voted for in 2008, and that miserable failure has rebounded straight back. The guy they thought was the Lightbringer, the Messiah, The One, told them what their college activist ears wanted to hear, but they never took the time to transition from “fired up and involved” to “hey, would his policies actually work?”

One more thing to point out

On the other end of the scale, the southern U.S., anchored by Texas, was most likely to have young college graduates in higher-skill jobs.

Hmm, so, places that tend to be good Red states work best. Make sure to read the whole thing, which should, of course, be blamed on Bush. Or Palin. The TEA Party. ATMs. China. Tsunamis. But not Obama.

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Flashback: Most Narcissistic President Ever Declares April 22nd Earth Day

By William Teach April 22, 2012 – 2:14 pm

The man is beyond belief. Via IBD, comes Obama’s proclamation. We’ll skip the self serving garbage, and get to

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 22, 2011, as Earth Day.  I encourage all Americans to participate in service programs and activities that will protect our environment and contribute to a prosperous, healthy, and sustainable future.

Seriously? Did he actually take credit for Earth Day? For making it “official”? He even notes it has been around for 42 years (43 this year). From Wikipedia

The genesis of Earth Day is credited to Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he called for an environmental teach-in, or Earth Day, to be held on April 22, 1970. Over 20 million people participated that year, and this Earth Day is now observed on April 22 each year by more than 500 million people and several national governments in 175 countries.[citation needed] Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues.

In Obama World, it can’t be official till He Chimes In.

Oh, and the typical unhinged enviroweenies are calling for “population stabilization.”

BTW, here’s Obama Green Fail

Via Real Science from Divided States.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 22, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is a resource sucking dog warming the atmosphere, you might just be a Warmist

I should make Barack Obama’s campaign site, I Eat Dogs, the blog of the day, but, let’s make it Coyote Blog.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup-Don’t Eat The Dogs Edition

By William Teach April 22, 2012 – 9:17 am

Happy Sunday! It’s another great day in America, but, hide your dogs, North Carolina, Iowa, and Colorado, Obama is heading your way this coming week! This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help from some very pensive dogs who don’t want to be eaten

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15 (not everyone gets a dog bonus: that kind of meme can be a pain in the behind to write)

  1. Wake Up America points out that the Democrat dogs are abandoning Obama
  2. Watts Up With That? asks you to connect the dots
  3. Steven Goddard is not dead
  4. The POH Diaries offers up unhinged lefty art
  5. Smitty (The Other McCain) fisks another BHO weekly screed
  6. The Lonely Conservative tells us how socialism is working in Venezuala. At least they’re not eating dogs
  7. The First Street Journal wonders about political prisoners in the US
  8. American Power opines on dog eating and the lamestream media
  9. Scared Monkeys highlights a real hate crime
  10. Republican Redefined shows what a dog would look like if it was the dog Obama ate
  11. Raised on Hoecakes lists Obama’s accomplishments
  12. Political Clown Parade has Obama being boo’d
  13. Karl (Patterico) says Politifact has gone to the dogs
  14. Maggie’s Notebook shows how Occupy chose to remember the Holocaust (adding the link is helpful)
  15. And last, but not least, House of Eratosthenes makes up a new word, phrase, red dot science. Consider it stolen, MK.

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

The posts do take a long time, so, if you want to send me your links for Rule 5 babeage or links, use ye olde email in the header bar (remove the NOSPAM part). Preferably, create the html link so I can copy and paste how you want it to read.

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Washington Post: Toss The All Volunteer Military

By William Teach April 22, 2012 – 8:33 am

Welcome to Ãœber Liberal World!

(Washington Post) Our lives are cluttered with unnecessary traditions, ideas and institutions. Warm weather came early this year, but there’s still time for a good spring cleaning. After purging old receipts, broken appliances and unloved outfits, what else should we toss? Outlook asked 10 writers what they thought we’d be better off without. From the Cabinet to premium gas to chick flicks, here are their picks.

1. All-volunteer military by Thomas E. Ricks
2. Premium gas by Jeff S. Bartlett
3. Home equity loans by Bethany McLean
4. 3 p.m. school day by Peter Orszag
5. Chick flicks by Melissa Silverstein
6. The Cabinet by Dana Milbank
7. Software patents by Christina Mulligan
8. The social kiss by Meghan Daum
9. Brainstorming by Jonah Lehrer
10. Grades by Melissa Harris-Perry

The above link goes to #1 on the list, the all-volunteer military, with links to the other 9 embedded at the beginning of the story

Since the end of the military draft in 1973, every person joining the U.S. armed forces has done so because he or she asked to be there. Over the past decade, this all-volunteer force has been put to the test and has succeeded, fighting two sustained foreign wars with troops standing up to multiple combat deployments and extreme stress.

This is precisely the reason it is time to get rid of the all-volunteer force. It has been too successful. Our relatively small and highly adept military has made it all too easy for our nation to go to war — and to ignore the consequences.

So, our military is just to darned good, so let’s do away with volunteering and go to a draft?

We had a draft in the 1960s, of course, and it did not stop President Lyndon Johnson from getting into a ground war in Vietnam. But the draft sure did encourage people to pay attention to the war and decide whether they were willing to support it.

Hmm, so even with a draft, LBJ was still rather adventuresome? Then what’s the point? “...reestablishing a draft, with all its Vietnam-era connotations, would cause problems for the military…” Ah. There’s the point. Ruining the best fighting force on the planet, bringing America down off our perch.

As for the others

2. Premium gas by Jeff S. Bartlett (so what if you’re engine can be damaged? You shouldn’t be driving that type of super evil Gaia killing vehicle)
3. Home equity loans by Bethany McLean (actually makes a good point about home owners loading up on debt)
4. 3 p.m. school day by Peter Orszag (makes some good points in keeping school open till 5 or 6pm, but, I think we all know the idea is to provide more indoctrination time for kids. Of course, what of those who play sports, have groups to attend, or work?)
5. Chick flicks by Melissa Silverstein (yes, please!)
6. The Cabinet by Dana Milbank (Milbank makes a few good points on this one, which is the presidential cabinet. Another one would be to get rid of all the unelected and unaccountable czars)
7. Software patents by Christina Mulligan (people are mean for daring to patent their work, oh, and it’s hard to enforce them, so…)
8. The social kiss by Meghan Daum (because we might….gulp….graze lips. Cooties!)
9. Brainstorming by Jonah Lehrer (some good points)
10. Grades by Melissa Harris-Perry (this one deserves a post of its own. It’s about as whiny from a left wing teachers POV as it can get)

I’d get rid of:

  1. Science that doesn’t follow the scientific method
  2. Science that is based on political advocacy
  3. Warmists that don’t live the life they say everyone else should live. I suggest they be drafted into the Peace Corps and dropped in some Third World shit hole, er, developing nation, to see how they live
  4. The permanent political aristrocracy – we need term limits. Which would also eliminate
  5. The neverending campaigns
  6. Voting rights for people who are too unknowledgable to vote

I could surely come up with some more, however, what are your ideas?

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Globull Warming Project Will Be Like “Arab Spring”

By William Teach April 21, 2012 – 3:44 pm

Well, it already kinda is: a movement that seems legit, and it turns out that in a lot of cases there are extremists behind the scenes

(CBC) As part of the effort to mobilize the public to tackle climate change, several U.S. environmental groups plan to launch a large initiative in 2013 based around engaging young people through social media and crowdsourcing ideas on green technologies, renewable energy and others means of mitigating the factors contributing to climate change.

The aim, says Hayes, is to create “a huge public consensus-building exercise that hopefully will have some political consequences.”

“In a sense, it’s a climatic Arab Spring,” said Hayes. “Climate has been mostly a television issue. It’s something where people preach at other people or, in the case of Al Gore’s movie, they provide a film, and you go and you watch it. But it’s not a computer kind of issue where you are involved and engaged in doing something yourself.

“What we’re trying to do is make that transition, so it’s not just passive receptacles of information, but people who engage in it, challenge things and become committed to acting on the basis of their growing understanding of what’s really going on.”

Hayes also wants to get back to calling CO2 a “poison”. Because that’s worked so well to date. This is just another in a long line of spreading awareness campaigns which accomplish nothing but make people feel good about themselves, while enriching the Warmist big wigs.

But, I have a great idea to mobilize the public: all Warmists should practice what they preach. Then, maybe people would believe that anthropogenic global warming is real.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 21, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil dog which causes the seas to rise, you might just be a Warmist

I should make Barack Obama’s campaign site, I Eat Dogs, the blog of the day, but, let’s make it Nice Deb.

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UN Pushing For Massive Wealth Redistribution For “Green” Crap

By William Teach April 21, 2012 – 11:08 am

I’d forgotten about this story, which I saw a few days ago at a different news outlet, till I was perusing the blogroll, and saw it over at the Lonely Conservative

(Fox News) The upcoming United Nations environmental conference on sustainable development will consider  a breathtaking array of carbon taxes, transfers of trillions of dollars from wealthy countries to poor ones, and new spending programs to guarantee that populations around the world are protected from the effects of the very programs the world organization wants to implement, according to stunning U.N. documents examined  by Fox News.

Among the proposals on how the “challenges can and must be addressed,” according to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon:

–More than $2.1 trillion a year in wealth transfers from rich countries to poorer ones, in the name of fostering “green infrastructure, ” “climate adaptation” and other “green economy” measures.

–New carbon taxes for industrialized countries that could cost about $250 billion a year, or 0.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product, by 2020. Other environmental taxes are mentioned, but not specified.

–Further unspecified price hikes that extend beyond fossil fuels to anything derived from agriculture, fisheries, forestry, or other kinds of land and water use, all of which would be radically reorganized. These cost changes would “contribute to a more level playing field between established, ‘brown’ technologies and newer, greener ones.”

And guess who gets to administer all this money? The unelected bureaucrats at the United Nations. Anyone remember the UN’s Food For Oil program, and what a colossal failure that was? How about the bribery scandals? Sex trafficking? Major human rights violating countries on the Human Rights Commission?

What this does is what the far left has always been about: more and more power in the hands of the government, giving them more money, and reducing people’s liberty. Liberals should be careful for what they wish for, because they will not be immune to having their own wealth confiscated and their freedom curtailed. And none of it will benefit the environment, sustainability, or reduce globull warming: it’ll just enrich the UN people.

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Union Supporting Speaker Says Of Scott Walker “We Cut Your Head Off”

By William Teach April 21, 2012 – 9:05 am

Strange that I’m failing to find this story in any of the usual liberal media outlets

(Big Government) But Pastor T. Ray McJunkins of the Union Baptist Church and President of the Faith Coalition for the Common Good and William McNary of USAction stole the show.

McJunkins delivered an energetic address he closed up metaphorically with the story of David and Goliath, ultimately declaring:

We are the Davids … and you may be a big giant, a big goliath, but David had 5 smooth stones that brought Goliath down … all he had was stones and a sling shot, and I just wonder out there among us, how many of you came with your sling today? … Load your slings up today when we leave here, putting a smooth stone of equal rights at the collective bargaining table and throw it at Goliath … And Goliath will come down, Scott Walker we send you back to Wisconsin as David did Goliath, we cut your head off and go back into town, singing a new song!

Rather uncivil and violent discourse, wouldn’t you say? Surely, most of us who live in Reality Land understand that this is simply a metaphor, but, under the Liberal Rules Of Political Discourse, this is considered to be a call to violence, so, it should be condemned. When will we hear Obama and all his peeps denounce it?

Then you have William McNary, a longtime ally of the Communist Party and Obama

McNary lit up the crowd as he warned the unions to be prepared, “they are gonna call us names now … they are gonna say we are engaging in class warfare … they say this as they lower our wages and cut our benefits, were engaging in class warfare, they say this as they lay off workers and send jobs over seas, we’re engaging in class warfare … They got the nerve that we’re engaging in welfare[sic]? But I got a message for ‘em, the bully Scott Walker and all the bully governors across this country. We didn’t ask for this fight, we didn’t pick this fight, but if it’s a fight you want, it’s a fight you gonna get. Knuckle up! Knuckle up! Knuckle up!” he shouted to the roaring crowd.

So, will you Democrats denounce this violent tone?

Oh, and lest you think Big Government made it up, there’s video at the link.

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Sorry, Stoners, Looks Like Obama’s Not On Your Side For Marijuana Legalization

By William Teach April 21, 2012 – 8:52 am

Two points to start out: first, I could personally care less about legalization of marijuana for medical use or complete legalization (with certain regulations such as age controls), as I do not use it. But, from my classical liberalism point of view, smoking it doesn’t hurt other people, and, if it doesn’t hurt other people, then the government should stay out. Also, pot is much less a worse drug than even alcohol.

Second, it’s interesting to note that I made the point several times regarding the Arizona immigration law, wondering if the politicized Obama DOJ would also go after medical marijuana in the states that allow it based on the Obama administrations use of the Supremacy Clause, since pot is classified federally as a Schedule I drug, meaning it has no medicinal value. Actually, it seems that they have gone after the medical marijuana companies, though the DOJ hasn’t sued the states that allow the usage in violation of federal law

(Politico) President Barack Obama has turned out to be a real buzzkill.

Back when he was running in 2008, Obama said he supported the “basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs” and that he was “not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws.” He didn’t go farther. But he also didn’t do anything to dissuade speculation among medical marijuana proponents who took this as a sign that the man headed to the Oval Office was on their side.

Four years later, the raids on drug dispensaries have kept up — despite a Justice Department memo formalizing low-enforcement priority instructions from Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced in a March 2009 press conference that the raids would stop on distributors who were in compliance with state and local law. Obama never said anything about supporting legalization or decriminalization, but his medical marijuana statements were enough to get him heralded by some in the larger pro-pot community as the best hope for chipping away at the decades-long drug war.

Like, a total bummer, dude. Of course, the Obama admin. has also done their best to kill off fun stoner foods. But, really, Obama voters heard what Team Obama wanted them to hear

But the hopes that Obama would be a kinder, gentler, more tolerant drug warrior have gone up in smoke.

“I’m very disappointed,” Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), a longtime supporter of marijuana legalization and medical marijuana, told POLITICO. “They look more like the Bush administration than the Clinton administration.”

So, why didn’t you put forth legislation to legalize it at the federal level, Barney?

“I believed in him,” Montana-based activist and medical cannabis user Sarah Combs said about the president. “I don’t believe a word he says now.”

That’s because the DOJ started rolling up the Montana medical marijuana dispensers, as well as ones in other states in 2011. You basically heard what you wanted to hear, and you ended up with an incompetent who really doesn’t care.

Still, even allies of the president find the status-quo unsustainable: with the medical marijuana community dazed and confused over how exactly how tolerant the federal government is willing to be.

Why should they be tolerant? The law is the law. Either the Obama admin. will follow the law, or he should be impeached, or at least resign.

Just a hint for those of you who want to legalize medical marijuana nationally: no one is buying the notion that it won’t be misused. Furthermore, if you want to totally legalize it (which could bring in some nice tax revenue, I might add), don’t show up at rallies stoned and looking like this (via WRAL)

Oh, and don’t expect Obama to do anything: he’s too busy vacationing, golfing, partying, and campaigning.

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