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That was the headline of a story in the business section of this morning’s Atlanta Urinal and Constipation. For the last seven years the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party has been trying to convince us of just how great the economy has been under Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade. After reading all of these articles over the years you would think that we were living in the best economy this country has ever seen rather than the jobs recession we are actually living in.

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy has resembled an especially dizzying roller-coaster ride this year, with a hurtling dive followed by a steep climb leading to yet another slide.

On Thursday, when the government issues its first of three estimates of growth in the July-September quarter, it’s expected to show an economy slumping from global weakness and reduced corporate stockpiling — but poised to rise again.

Geez! It sounds like another “green shoots” story. The economy is always ready to take off. Prosperity is right around the corner.

Economists’ consensus forecast, according to FactSet, is that the economy eked out just a 1.7 percent annual growth rate last quarter, a subpar pace by any standard.

Yep! If we had a Republican president, the headline for this story would be Economy Stumbling Along or sumpin’ like that.

“We got a lot of weakness during the summer from a widening of the trade deficit and a drawdown of inventories,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “But I think the consumer will lead the way to stronger growth in the fourth quarter.”

They’ve been saying that for the last seven years.

The year began on a rocky note. A severe winter and West Coast port disruptions combined to essentially stall the economy. Overall growth, as measured by the gross domestic product, slowed to a barely discernible 0.6 percent annual rate in the January-March quarter.

A severe winter? How could that be? NOAA said that 2015 is gonna go on record as the hottest year in history. January was the hottest January in history. How could we have had a severe winter?

Then, as the snow melted and the West Coast ports resumed full operations, growth jumped to a 3.9 percent rate in the April-June quarter.

But true to the pattern this year, economist think the summer slowdown will be followed by an acceleration in the final three months of the year. For the year, after all the ups and down, the economy is expected to expand around 2.3 percent, close to 2014’s modest 2.4 percent growth.

Under a Republican president, that would be dismal news. Remember when unemployment was under 5 percent during the Bush 43 years and the LSM called it a “jobless recovery”? Now these same idiots are jumping up and down with glee over unemployment in the fives while the job participation rate is at a 38 year low. Unemployment for blacks is a disaster. Real unemployment is over 12 percent. I would be willing to bet these GDP growth numbers are bogus as well.

They try and try to put lipstick on this pig but Obungler’s economy sucks. This article is just another example of cheerleading by the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party.

This one is from AlphaDelta.

I was sitting at a long stop light yesterday, thinking about what I would
do to keep busy for the rest of the week, minding my own business and
patiently waiting for the light to turn green, even though there was no
on-coming traffic.

An old Nissan full of bearded, young, loud Muslims, shouting Anti-American
slogans, with a half-burned American Flag duct-taped on the trunk of their
car, and a “Remember 9-11” slogan spray painted on the side, stopped next
to me.

Suddenly they yelled, “Allah Akbar! Praise Allah! Death to America” and took
off before the light changed.

Out of nowhere an 18-wheeler truck came speeding through the intersection
and ran directly over their car, crushing it completely and killing everyone
in it.

For several minutes I sat in my car thinking to myself ,”Man, that could
have been me!”

So today, bright and early, I went out and got a job as a truck driver.

Fifty years ago today I joined the Navy. I remember taking the train up to Chicago and then walking to the Chicago and Northwestern station to take the train up to North Chicago and the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. I traveled with some other guys that I was in charge of. The next six weeks of my life would suck! Since there was a war going on they had cut boot camp down from twelve weeks to six weeks so there was that. I do remember how cold it was when I got there and how cold the next six weeks was what with the wind blowing off Lake Michigan.

When I got there we were met at the front gate by some recruits doing their Service Week. This was their big chance to order around other boots. “Line up! Nuts to butts! Make the guy in front of you smile. If he laughs, you’re too close.”

That was what passed for boot camp humor.

Since there were so many recruits and not enough space we got to spend the first night sleeping on mattresses on the floor of a drill hall. The next day, we were broken up into companies and assigned a barracks. Then, the fun began. For some strange reason, I guess it was because of my aptitude scores, I was made a petty officer and a squad leader. This entailed some additional responsibilities but got me out of some crap jobs. Plus, I got to wear white spats which looked cooler than the dirty beige spats the grunts wore. It also got me a cooler job during Service Week and more time off during that time to goof off with another squad leader.

Our company commander was a grizzled old E6 Machinist Mate who was also an alcoholic. His morning coffee always had a shot or two of whiskey in it.

Half a century ago. Where has the time gone?

From Heironymus.

A devout Arab Mooslime entered a black cab in London. He curtly asked
the cabbie to turn off the radio because as decreed by his religious
teaching, he must not listen to music because in the time of the
prophet there was no music, especially Western music which is the music
of the infidel.

The cab driver politely switched off the radio, stopped the cab and
opened the door.

The Arab Mooslime asked him, “What are you doing?”

The cabbie answered, “In the time of the prophet there were no taxis,
so piss off and wait for a camel.”

I read a column this morning by some liberal twit named Mary Sanchez and she had her panties in a bunch about Trump hosting Saturday Night Live. Funny, I didn’t read anything about her writing a column about the SNL campaign commercial for Thunder Rodent Thighs in its season debut. Cankles on SNL good. Trump on SNL bad. If it weren’t for double standards, liberals wouldn’t have any standards at all. By the way, that episode of SNL did it for me. I’m done with SNL. As soon as the PIAP’s ugly face appeared on my TV screen, I turned the TV off before I threw sumpin’ through the screen. I read later that the episode was basically one big campaign commercial for Thunder Rodent Thighs.

Yeah, I know, SNL is liberal, but this time, they are really in the tank for Cankles. Anyway, the show has gone downhill lately. The cast is so large it’s hard to know who is who anymore. And the news? They sure ruined that. Colin Jost? Just because writers like Tina Fey and Seth Meyers could do the news, it doesn’t mean that any writer can. Meyers was already a performer when he started doing Weekend Update and Tina Fey had performing talent as well. Jost? Forget it.

Then they doubled down on failure by adding Michael Che to Weekend Update, prolly for Diversity (All Hail Diversity!). Or maybe it was an attempt to make Jost look good since Che is so bad. I mean really, really bad. In all of SNL I cannot think of anyone worse than this dude. But they do have a black dude who can take potshots at Ben Carson and tell all of us that he isn’t really black. Liberal blacks can get away with racism, yannow.

The only two really good parts of SNL are the opening skit and Weekend Update. Now, they’ve ruined Weekend Update. As for the musical guests? I always fast forwarded through them since they are almost always total crap. I never watched SNL in real time. Now I won’t bother at all, not even the episode that Trump will be in.

I also don’t watch the weekly one hour campaign commercial for Cankles known as Madame Secretary. Madame Secretary is the secretary of state that Hollywood wanted the PIAP to be like: competent and attractive. 0 for 2. Just like when BJ was president. They made movies about presidents that they wished he was like. Like Air Force One. Can you imagine BJ? He would be cowering in fear the entire movie. The only people he wouldn’t be afraid of would be the women staffers.

I read in the paper this morning that we are on the verge of another recession. Another? That implies that we got out of the last one. According to the gummint we did even though the growth numbers have been very tepid and we have had at least one quarter of negative growth. Of course, that means that you have to trust the gummint’s numbers in the first place. Yeah. Trust and gummint are two words that don’t go together during the Obungler reign.

Maybe as far as the growth numbers go we have been in a recovery, but as far as the job numbers go we have been in a jobs recession if not a jobs depression. The unemployment numbers in the fives is totally bogus. It does not count the number of people who have given up looking for work. It does not count the number of people whose jobs went from full time to part time because of Obummercare. It does not count disabled people who wanted to work but couldn’t find a job and went on disability. In other words, employment sucks big time. What demographic has been hit the hardest? Ironically, it is black people. Why does Obumbler hate black people? And why do you black people vote for someone who has screwed you so badly? Are you racist and vote for skin color? Yep!

When you look at the real unemployment numbers, I would venture to say they are on the north side of 12%. On top of that, wages are stagnant as well. One reason is that the cheap labor streaming across our border keeps wages down. You would think that would make black people vote for strong immigration policies but they are being stabbed in the back by Oblunder, the Dimocrat Party (whose policies are bad for blacks which is what you would expect of the party that gave us the KKK), and the useful idiots in the Congressional Black Caucus. The CBC members live well and they don’t have to worry about being thrown out of office as they stab their constituents in the back since their constituents are stupid enough to keep voting for them and the policies that keep them poor, uneducated, unemployed, and dependent upon the gummint. What a racket.

Wages in the IT industry are depressed due to cheap Asian IT labor allowed into the country. IT companies claim there is a shortage of IT people but it is nowhere as severe as they claim. Meanwhile, business has bought off half of the Stupid Party whose members are willing to commit political suicide by refusing to seal the border and allowing future Dimocrat voters to enter the country. Dimocrats, “the party of the little guy”, gets lots and lots of money from business as well. Wall Street now gives as much money to the Dimocrats (if not more) as it does to Republicans. Obongo ain’t known as president Goldman Sachs for nothing.

The economy has sucked for the last seven years despite what the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party has been feeding us. It’s gonna continue to suck for the next year, especially with a new recession on the horizon. The Fed is not gonna raise interest rates which means geezers are gonna continue to get screwed.

There are booger eatin’ moh-rons who are gonna vote for Thundeer Rodent Thighs next year thinking that she will be the second coming of BJ and she will bring back his policies. Nothing is further from the truth. Cankles is campaigning against all of those policies. She will double down on Obammy’s policies. She will take this country further to the left which will mean slower growth, higher unemployment, and, of course, another lawless administration with no accountability from either the spineless Stupid Party or the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party. We are getting closer and closer to becoming a South American banana republic. We’re even speaking more and more Spanish.

We’re doomed!

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Happy Birthday to me! 69 years old! For my birthday it’s Tornado of Souls played by Megadeth’s best lineup. This song has prolly the best metal guitar solo ever. Marty Friedman is an epic guitarist. I read somewhere that when Mustaine heard this solo after Marty laid it down he just turned to him and shook his hand.

And as a bonus, from the same concert, In My Darkest Hour. How Mustaine plays those opening chords is beyond me. Talk about stretching the fingers. And he does it on a 12 string!

CharlieDelta gave me the DVD of this concert for Veterans’ Day a few years back.

My second favorite female guitarist, Ana Vidovic.