Don't ask why I know this, but the president managed to use the word "forward" a full 15 times in his press conference today. Fifteen times.  Number of times he said "backward": zero.

The *Bureau of Labor Statistics today released its report on "mass layoffs" for the month of September.  No, it isn't really getting better.

*The BLS release includes (at the end) a table of all mass layoffs from October 2002 through September 2006.

Amazing how fast some slogans and concepts drift out of date and out of the public consciousness.  It's the fate of many ideas assocated with the president and his friends, especially over the last year to a year and a half.  Seems to me that the following are definitely now MIA (missing in action):

In the past few years, all Americans have faced real challenges, ranging from the war to catastrophic hurricanes. But these challenges do not change, nor should they diminish, the fundamental facts about our economy and our progress in the war on terror. As the election draws closer, take a break from the rhetoric and consider the facts. They clearly demonstrate that the Republican approach is working for America.

[Any more doubts that the sleazy and/or insane get readily elected and reelected in the United States?]
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Conrad [Burns] wouldn't do something crooked, so how in the world this Abramoff slipped in some funny money, I don't know. Conrad would not do something that devious or that crooked. He's a better man than that.

[Any more questions on how the sleazy and/or insane manage to get elected and reelected in the United States?]

Simple question for every single American who works for a living: has your income gone up 35% over the last five years?

If not, it's gonna be harder to pay for college for your kids, according to a study just released by the College Board.

If Bush and Cheney were being sincere, then they're lying to themselves; if not, they're lying to the rest of us. My money is on the latter.

Both [the leaders of North Korea and Iran] are like Hitler, who was willing to see his own people decimated and his own country reduced to rubble rather than quit when it was obvious to all that he could not win. If you can imagine Hitler with a few nuclear weapons to use to vent his all-consuming hatreds in a lost cause, you can see what a nuclear North Korea or a nuclear Iran would mean for America and the world.

Here's a royal cutie I found over at YouTube. Guess who it stars? Guess what it says?.........

My wife goes apoplectic when the subject of voting integrity comes up.  How in the f'ing world, she wonders loudly, can the Democrats and the media simply continue to ignore such a serious problem with the fundamental activity on which our democracy rests? Well, ABC News finally reports that Electronic voting machines could skew elections.  Better late than never, right?  But, as usual, the report deals only with a piece--though obviously a crucial piece--of the overall problem.

This was publicly reported in England back in 2004, but didn't get nearly as much play here as it did there.  For the record, here's the link to The Guardian story on the connection between Prescott Bush and companies run by, and apparently for, the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s.

You have to wonder, at times, about Rush Lardbutt and his inability to focus on reality at times...

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