Thanks For Clearing That Up

More headlines that really ought not be newsworthy at all:

Obama wants high-paying, high-skill jobs in future

Let's cut to Daniel Henninger as he covers the long good-bye between Dems and business.

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Comments

[PDinDetroit]

TM - I think the title should be Thanks For Muddying That Up.

And, on that note, more High-Paying and High-Skill Jobs will be moving overseas in the near future - SEE LUN.

Obama Lied, Jobs Died.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

As I said below, does that mean he's spotted one for which he feels qualified, or is he thinking of going back to school?

[bgates]

He feels qualified for all of them.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Oh, I love this:

"I don't want people to think that businesses and people who have worked hard, performed well and received bonuses are going to be painted with the AIG brush," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday.

Translation: "Wow, my foot hurts! And look at that bullet hole!"

[bgates]

Nancy could have cut that quote off after the 6th words, at which point #3, 4, and 5 would still be extraneous.

[PeterUK]

Look,you will all get traing as teleprompters or bearers of the Imperial Palenquin.

[Extraneus]

Notice they didn't quote his actual statement. It was in response to a question on when outsourced jobs would be coming back, to which he answered something along the lines of "They won't be, but we don't want those jobs anyway."

Yeah, O, we don't need those stinking jobs that are being outsourced. Alternative energy will replace them with even better, higher-paying jobs!

Think about the people who fall for that.

[DebinNC]

Obama said the only reason he had been elected president was because of the education he received, in large part through scholarships and his family's sacrifice.

What "scholarships" is he talking about? Does he mean need-based grants? And what about those student loans he and ME were still paying off 15 years later?

[PeterUK]

"Alternative energy will replace them with even better, higher-paying jobs!"

If there are no jobs,what is the energy for?

[PeterUK]

"and his family's sacrifice".

Which one did they sacrifice?

[Neo]

Dick Morris sat on Fox News the other day and claimed that O'Bama doesn't want an economic recovery .. as soon as the economy recovers, the sooner he is no longer the hero of the world .. the guy with the trillions of dollars to throw around.

The AIG outrage "thing", the employees of AIG now quitting, and the growing number of banks that just can't wait to return their TARP money have come together to yield at least part of what Morris claimed .. the recovery will at least be much slower as the government has now proven itself a "useless partner."

The Banks will now "grunt it out" rather than take any more money and the endless "strings" that goes with it. In fact, I expect at least one bank, in the next couple of weeks, to return the money .. even before the Treasury sets up a system to take it back .. embarrassing the hell out of Geithner et al.

The recovery will be longer .. but the power of the federal government has been diminished .. so O"Bama only gets half of his goal.

And oddly enough, the recovery will resemble what the Republicans said it should be (except for the wasted billions of the "stimulus to nowhere").

[MayBee]

Obama is supposed to make his auto bailout announcement soon. This is what Gibbs said today:

"I think there's a frustration on the part of this President and on the part of many Americans that we didn't just get into this situation because of a global economic slowdown; that though the President believes that automakers manufacture cars that Americans want to buy, I think the President also believes that they could manufacture more cars that Americans want to buy; that it's not surprising that some have sought to end different model lines that, driving around in a car that gets 10 miles...to a gallon of gas when gas is $4 a gallon."

It looks to me like he is going to dictate GM make fuel-efficient cars if they want more bailout money. Which is swell, because I understand the Obama White House is full of people with business backgrounds who've done extensive research into consumer demands.

[LindaK]

What we should be also worrying about is BO's ongoing effort to cede US sovereignty to the rest of the world -- mostly folks who want us to fail. Remember Geithner's comments the other day to Rep. Michelle Bachmann about how the US currency would be sovereign? Then his comments the very next day about how the Chinese made a reasonable suggestion about expanding the role of SDRs?

There's a lot afoot here to undermine our US$.

SDRs were created by the IMF to provide a new international reserve asset because the amount of US$ and gold were inadequate to promote global trade. They are not currency nor a reserve currency. SDRs are a claim on another IMF member, like a trade deficit. Like the trade deficit between the US and China.

The Chinese are $2 TRILLION ahead and we are $2 trillion behind.

What might Timmy IMF tax cheat be up to? Perhaps working with an old comrade to facilitate the approval of the IMF board's idea to "revitalize" SDRs by reallocating particpation from the US/EU/China/Jap to all IMF members. Rest of IMF voted to do this. Needs US to approve with its 17% position.

Tsy is prosposing to allocate AT LEAST $250 bil to this.

Aren't you gladdened by this undercover evisceration of our sovereignty. I'm not.

[pagar]

Here's how Obama created one of those high paying jobs. We have no report on how many low paying jobs will be wiped out by the high paying job Obama created. The Marathon Pundit reports:

In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying to push rapidly through Congress.

It is more of the Chicago Way--The President of the Joyce Foundation in 2000, when the foundation made its first grant to the Climate Exchange, was Paula DiPerna, who is now executive vice president of the Chicago Climate Exchange in charge of corporate recruitment and public policy, as well as president of CCX International.

The money that AIG employees earned must be stolen from them because their company asked for government aid. But no one will steal any money from foundation presidents who create plush jobs for them selves as head of Crap and Trade Exchanges, which they sent Obama to Washington to create.

And the administration claimed to be outraged when Blago wanted a soft spot on some foundation

[RichatUF]

Maybee-

Yep. The Dem Widowmakers are selling like hotcakes.

graf-

Although vehicle sales have declined across the board, sales of gas and electric-powered hybrids have fallen faster than most, dropping to only 15,144 nationwide last month, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

[MayBee]

Rich- if Obama wants the automakers to sell cars that will still sell at $4/gallon, there's only one thing to do.......

[Ann]

For those of us worried about the National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, this is fun:

Welfare For Freed Gitmo Folks?

During his news conference, Blair also said the Obama administration is still wrestling with what to do with the remaining 240 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, which the president has ordered closed.

Some of the detainees, deemed non-threatening, may be released into the United States as free men, Blair confirmed.

That would happen when they can't be returned to their home countries, because the governments either won't take them or the U.S. fears they will be abused or tortured. That is the case with 17 Uighers (WEE'-gurz), Chinese Muslim separatists who were cleared for release from the jail long ago. The U.S. can't find a country willing to take them, and it will not turn them over to China.

Blair said the former prisoners would have get some sort of assistance to start their new lives in the United States.

"We can't put them out on the street," he said.

[Fresh Air]

"We can't put them out on the street," he said.

Let them loose in West Texas in mid-August. Give them a canteen and a pocketknife and one day's rations. Anyone who survives until September can go back to China.

[Porchlight]

OT,

Hey y'all, sorry if this has been posted, but I'm having trouble keeping up with multiple threads today so I'm putting this on the shortest/most recent one.

I think you'll all enjoy Mickey Kaus' scoop - he has been forwarded a JournoList discussion thread, and he insists it's not parody!

Kaus: JournoList Revealed! Inside the Liberal Media Cabal

As noted on The Corner by Mark Hemingway, it's exactly as self-referential and self-satisfied as you'd think it would be.

[MayBee]

Porch- this is my favorite:

: Chris Hayes Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: BREAKING: Marty Peretz is a Crazy-Ass Racist

There's a lot of people on this list routinely criticized who are not
on it, Jon. That said, I'm more than happy to call Marty Peretz a
racist to his (electronic) face.

Got that?

(fyi:
Christopher Hayes is the Washington editor of The Nation.)

[Charlie (Colorado)]

In fact, I expect at least one bank, in the next couple of weeks, to return the money ...

What should be particularly amusing is that apparently Treasury isn't anxious to receive the money. I look forward with some interest to what happens when the CEO of BofA shows up on TV with a check and says "they won't take their money back."

[hit and run]

Charlie:
I look forward with some interest to what happens when the CEO of BofA shows up on TV with a check and says "they won't take their money back."

You know what would be even more fun? Showing up at Treasury http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/mar/16/147000-pennies-headed-capital-support-1-percent-sa/>with cash.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Wow. You know, I'm not sure there even exists $20 billion in actual physical currency. ...

Okay, I guess there might be; M1 money supply is about $1,550 billion, and the latest currency number I can find is about $750 billion.

[Porchlight]

Heh, MayBee. They are so very courageous.

Does it not read exactly like parody?

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Okay, God alone knows which thread would be best for this, but this yield curve animation is way cool.

It's interesting that it hasn't really inverted except for a month or so.

[bad]

Thanks for that link Maybee. Why is it exactly that they are so self-satisfied?

[Jane]

What should be particularly amusing is that apparently Treasury isn't anxious to receive the money.

Apparently the push back is enormous. I think the CEO of BOA should arrive with a camera crew and one of those life size checks seen on The Price is Right.

[clarice]

BTW, I have found our real St Janes--Should be easy to buy up the place for ourselves now:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Seychelles-Paradise-goes-hftn-14745001.html

[Danube of Thought]

If only Daniel Hannan could run for president in this country. LUN (Click on the word "speech" in the article to hear the whole lovely three minutes.) I think Bad or Deb linked to this yesterday, but it's worth a repeat in case anyone missed it.

[MayBee]

Thanks for that link Maybee. Why is it exactly that they are so self-satisfied?

oooh! I'll take the credit, even though Porch provided the link.

They are self-satisfied because they are making a living writing nothing but their opinions, and taking great pains to keep themselves in the "in" club.
Plus, calling people racist (or antisemitic, as they did last week with Althouse) is super fun!

[clarice]

I think the more time they spend on such drivel, the less time they'll have to write their garbage.

[mel]

The preferred shares bought for term (TARP) may not be resold back to the Treas. Dept, until said term is up. Some for three years, others for longer. Sales may only be conducted on agreement of both parties. (not too shocking LUN) Hah.

[clarice]

Just heard from Mr. Rick--He's been on the road without IT access and will be back in his usual place (here) tomorrow.

[PD]

"We can't put them out on the street," he said.

Put 'em on a boat. Give 'em directions to Mariel. Wouldn't even need to waste gas filling the tank all the way.

[MayBee]

thanks, clarice.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Thanks, Mel, I thought I'd heard something to that effect but wasn't sure.

All the more reason to enjoy the spectacle of a CEO showing up with a check on TV.

[Pofarmer]

there's only one thing to do.......

Drill baby drill?

[MayBee]

If you're Obama? No, you try to get the price of gas up to $4/gallon again. Gas Tax!

[Elliott]

Big day today.

[hit and run]

H A P P Y   B I R T H D A Y   C A T H Y F ! ! !

[Pofarmer]

If you're Obama?

Sorry, was thinking from the point of view of a car company who actually wanted to sell CARS!!!!!

O.K.

Looking at that bond chart. The effects of the Fed Funds rate being at essentially zero is pretty obvious. But, is that gonna mess with the chart any?

[MayBee]

Happy Birthday CathyF!

[MayBee]

Po- that's ok. You just forgot you were a car company that had been told by Obama you have to make high mpg cars if you want your government money.

[clarice]

Happy birthday , cathyf..
And good night all

[Elliott]

Happy birthday, CathyF!

[Neo]

one of those life size checks seen on The Price is Right

Imagine if he returned it at a Congressional subcommittee meeting and told Barney Frank to use it as a anal suppository

[Pofarmer]

O.K.

Can anybody help a guy out with a link to that big ole PDF on the bailout? I can't find it now.

Po- that's ok. You just forgot you were a car company that had been told by Obama you have to make high mpg cars if you want your government money.

I think by now you probably know where my instincts lie on that one.

[Caro]

Happy day to the brilliant cathyf!

[DrJ]

Happy Birthday Cathyf! Have a wonderful day.

OT, but have I ever mentioned that I hate computers?? Gack, it has been a hell of a couple of days, and things still do not work. Yes, I have others, but my main one still is giving me fits.

[Neo]

Obama wants high-paying, high-skill jobs in future

What kind of job can a community organizer get ?

[Neo]

Geithner Plan explained LUN

[Neo]

Geithner Plan explained LUN

[Porchlight]

Happy Birthday cathyf! Thanks for all your wonderful insight and analysis. I hope it is a great day for you!

[Fresh Air]

OT, Rush zooms to No. 1 in all three of the largest radio markets.

"Curly" Carville, "Larry" Begala and "Moe Barry" Zero--officially El Rushbo's "Three Stooges."

[MaryW]

DrJ,

I don't hate computers, but I hate fixing them. Now before I install a new program, I "Ghost" the primary drive. Then if all goes well I "Ghost" it again. And I never, ever keep any data files on that drive. My data drives are backed up daily. I really hate disk failures.

[verner]

Porchlight,

Thanks for the link!

What total YOBS on the Journolist! And complete losers like ALterman and the rest of the NATION group.

Bottom line, who cares what those pathetic bozos think.

If not for Soros' money, they would all be writing classifieds for some rag alternative paper.

[bgates]

Insomnia and unwarranted hope led me to leave Law & Order on tv for an hour. It was an old episode about the Brinks robbery by the Weathermen. They catch a woman who had been a lookout and alerted the crook who shot a cop, awkwardly mumble about how the 60s were different because of Vietnam, and eventually give the woman a plea bargain for 8 years.

Last line of the episode is Sam Waterman saying, "She'll be in prison until 2003. The 60s should be over by then."

Tim McVeigh shoulda said he was upset about Vietnam, or the Iraq sanctions. He'd have a 3-picture movie deal right now.

[daddy]

I think you guys are being way too hard on Obama.

He says he wants high paying, high skilled jobs for American workers, and if its in the energy field, so much the better.
He has but to speak, and">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090325/ap_on_bi_ge/ge_china">and his wishes are granted.

[daddy]

I suspected as much,

Porchlight has a Birthday; Kaboom goes Redoubt.

Cathyf! has a Birthday; Kaboom goes Redoubt.

I think Mother Nature's a JOM fan.

[Extraneus]

Thanks for the link to Rush's ratings, Fresh Air. Very encouraging to consider the implications of these numbers, and in particular what they say about Obama.

[pagar]

Happy Birthday to Cathyf!

Pofarmer, This may be the PDF file you are looking for, on the Class Warfare thread yesterday,see IR's post Mar 26, 02:23---you'll find it just below the 1/2 mark on the page.

[hit and run]

Daddy:
I think Mother Nature's a JOM fan.

Well, ok...I went back to check Redoubt's activity for my birthday.

One week before my b-day, this was the update:

Seismic activity at Redoubt volcano has increased markedly. This activity could be precursory to an eruption, perhaps within hours to days.

Yes! She's building for the big one just for me!

Oh, carp...four days after my b-day:

Unrest at Redoubt Volcano continues, though no eruption has yet occurred.

Thanks for nothing, stupid volcano.

Although, http://www.avo.alaska.edu/image.php?id=17104>this photo kicks ash ... http://www.avo.alaska.edu/image.php?id=17127>this one, too

[centralcal]

CathyF: Hope you have a wonderful birthday and year ahead.

(with or without eruptions, like Hit!)

[Jane]

It's Cathy's birthday? That makes me want to sing. Happy b-day Cathy!

As for this Clarice: Seychelles officials have another idea though: to promote the country's longstanding virtue of being an off-shore business haven, with no corporate tax, no minimum capital requirements, only one shareholder or director required, and an annual licensing fee of just $100

I like it. I really like it. We could set it up as a place where people can come and see what free enterprise looks like.

[centralcal]

A techy question.

A few weeks ago when we got this new, improved version of typepad (gack) I posted a LUN. Now I cannot get rid of it no matter what I do. I have to delete it with every comment and after posting, back it comes.

What am I doing wrong? Why won't it just go away?

[bad]

Happy Birthday Cathyf!!

[bad]

Thanks for the link Porch. It's easy to see why they are J-listers rather than A-listers.

Though they're really O-listers...

[hit and run]

I'm soooooo stoked about Cathyf's birthday, I'm not going in to work today.

Taking the day off.

To celebrate.

Just for Cathyf.

[bad]

How did yesterday's interviews go, Hit. Did ya wow 'em?

[Donald]

Those high paying jobs are only for the right people. And only if they're coming from a union backed goverment position.

[sbw]

TO GET RID OF A LUN --

Centralcal, roll up your sleeves, put on your rubber gloves, and, ifyou are using Firefox, click on Firefox in the menu and then select Preferences.

Under the Privacy tab, click the Show cookies button.

Enter "typepadurl" without the quotes in the search field and tap Return.

Click on the justoneminute.typepad.com cookie and tap the Remove cookie button.

Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.

[centralcal]

sbw, thank you. Actually, I am not having the problem in Firefox, just in crappy IE.

Yes, I still use both browsers.

[sbw]

Tsk, tsk, tsk!

My condolences.

[DrJ]

MaryW,

I don't hate computers, but I hate fixing them.

Well, this *was* fixing it. I'll keep it short, but the fan in my power supply started to sound like a motorboat. So that meant ordering a new fan, disassembling the whole thing (the PS can't be removed with the motherboard in place), replacing the fan in the PS, and reassembling.

That's easy enough, but it refused to boot, even off a live CD. Turns out that I kinked the cable to a secondary disk, and that confused the boot loader for some reason.

There were a lot more twists and turns than it sounds like, but that's the gist of it.

The computer itself is over six years old, but it works well enough otherwise.

[glasater]

I'm so old--I remember having to load the operating system when turning the computer on:-)

[hit and run]

Bad:
How did yesterday's interviews go, Hit.

Had one yesterday. It went very well. Not sure it's the job I would want ... not sure in this environment I would be choosy, though. Not sure I would want to live in Obama's hometown ... sure would like to be mel's neighbor, so to speak, though.

[sbw]

Yeah, kinking a cable is like bending a water hose, the electrons have no place to go. Stevens explained that when he was explaining Intertubes.

In the 1970s, in the days of assembly language coding, we explained to newbs that dirty instructions, like Shift Left and Right, dropped their boolean bits off the end of the data registers where they were collected, sent along the water cooling hoses to the big pipes at IBM, Poughkeepsie, where they went into the Hudson untreated.

[MaryW]

DrJ

It was a power supply that made me crack my first computer case. An IBM power supply for the PS2. IBM told me that the part was proprietory and they wanted $300.00CDN for the part and $250.00CDN to install it. I bought the part and have done all the repairs since. I have not tackled the motherboard yet but I did build drive bays with duct tape.

[DrJ]

Congrats, MaryW!

I'll spare you the stories from the S-100 days that predate the original IBM PC.

sbw,

I found the putative bad cable just before I went to bed. And today it is off for spring skiing, so I'll get to it later.

Love the assembly story. There actually is truth in it, in spite of the rhetorical flourishes.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Taking the day off.

How can you tell?

[PD]

I'm so old--I remember having to load the operating system when turning the computer on:-)

That doesn't mean you're old unless you're referring to loading via toggle switches. :-)

Daddy, watch out, there are more March birthdays to come around here.

[PD]

Yeah, kinking a cable is like bending a water hose, the electrons have no place to go. Stevens explained that when he was explaining Intertubes.

I wonder if Stevens gets a somewhat bad rap on those remarks. After all, lots of people describe how things work in those terms. How many of us have said we have a little or a lot of bandwidth by saying we have a "small pipe" or a "big pipe"?

Anyone got a link to his original remarks?

[sbw]

Hey, I remember when paper tape held the operating system.

And who still has Hollerith punch cards in the basement AND can read what the punches mean!

[hit and run]

PD:
Daddy, watch out, there are more March birthdays to come around here.

In like 2 days, according to intel.

[hit and run]

Charlie:
How can you tell?

I tell mrs hit and run that I will not be putting any cover sheets on my TPS reports.

[daddy]

More March Birthdays, Yikes.

Just had another eruption about 40 minutes ago, with ash cloud topping out at 50,000 feet according to radar.
Impossible to see anything as we are in the midst of a very heavy snowfall. Here's a neat">http://www.avo.alaska.edu/">neat photo photo from a few days back.

I'm now on what's known as "Standby Forever Begin" status.