Although Midtown is a rather vague term for an area in Memphis, it basically entails Central Gardens, Overton Park, Hein Park near Rhodes College, Cooper Young, Annesdale Snowden, Little Hanoi and the Parkway. . . . → More
February 21, 2012 - Chi Town Gets Gas Break - The Chicago area, which usually leads the nation's highest gas prices, is getting a break at the pump. - Patrick DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com, says Chicago's apparent discounted gas prices are partly due to local refineries clearing out the winter blend gas to make room for cleaner-burning summer blend. - "Prices across Chicago continue to buck the national trend and have gone down in the last week," said DeHaan. "The national average has gone up 5 cents last week and Chicago dropped about 9 cents a gallon last... More →
February 19, 2012 - Michelle on Vacation - Again - Michelle Obama has embarked on a skiing vacation with her daughters in Aspen, Colorado, according to the Aspen Daily News. The first lady, who just returned last month from 17 days of relaxation in Hawaii, is skiing in Colorado on Presidents' Day Weekend for the second year in a row. Last year she went to... More →
February 19, 2012 - Muslim Warned Us - As reported at Gatewaypundit: On May 10, 2008, Sheik Muhammad ABu Al Qat said on TV, "let me bring good tidings to the Muslims: Allah willing, the American empire will very soon collapse...This won’t happen as a result of war. Not at all. Allah will send to America an American Gorbachev, from within. Gorbachev, who brought about the USSR collapse, was one of them. Everybody knows this story. An American Gorbachev will surface in America, and he will destroy this... More →
February 18, 2012 - For It, But They Don't Want to Pay It - As orthodox Catholic author Steve Kellmeyer points out (in americanthinker.com): - On the one hand, the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) is attacking Obama for forcing them (the bishops) to pay for contraception. On the other hand, the USCCB is pushing forward the idea that taxpayers should pay to extend unemployment insurance (again). - And that's just the beginning of the rich irony. You see, almost none of the parishes in the United States pay unemployment insurance. They get dispensed from the mandate to do so because they are religious organizations. So, if you are employed by a Catholic parish and you get laid off, so long, sucker. You can't collect unemployment because your bishop hasn't paid into unemployment for you.... - Read more:... More →
February 17, 2012 - Uh Oh - This note from Zerohedge blog: - while we know that total debt to GDP is already over 100% and unlikely to ever decline back to double digits, thus putting into question the marginal utility of debt to generate further economic growth, another just as important question is what is the incremental utility of tax revenue relative to debt issuance, i.e., is America now issuing more debt than it is collecting from tax revenues: a step which would further cement its status as a banana debt... More →
February 15, 2012 - Not Prepped for This - Sipsey Street Irregulars blog has this item: - "Just days after appearing on the National Geographic TV Show Doomsday Prepper, a prepper from Tennessee has been declared Mentally Defective and his guns have been seized by the government." His first mistake? -- Going on TV and expecting anything different than what he got. Not that this isn't an outrage, just... More →
Michelle Obama has embarked on a skiing vacation with her daughters in Aspen, Colorado, according to the Aspen Daily News. The first lady, who just returned last month from 17 days of relaxation in Hawaii, is skiing in Colorado on Presidents’ Day Weekend for the second year in a row. Last year she went to [...] [...]
I have noticed prices going up at the grocery and department stores, but I had no idea inflation was this bad. How bad? So bad that an outing for undies set the First Lady back $50,000. And I thought ground beef was high at $3 plus! At least that’s what the U.K. Mirror reports. They say [...] [...]
Although pundits last night said Gingrich didn’t help himself in the debate and Romney did, they seemed about equal from my viewpoint. Neither one hit it out of the park. Santorum did, at times. Ron Paul had his charm, but he still looks like the one you’d X out when asked who doesn’t belong in [...] [...]
Fresh from her Guinness World Record jumping jacks stunt and her perpetual nagging of American kids for liking junk food (while she and the Prez indulge themselves), Fist Lady Michelle Obama has once again proven she’s a “vacation junkie.” The First Lady thinks nothing of spending $10 million on her travels and wasting $300,000 on [...] [...]
This morning, the November ISM came in at 52 vs. the 53.5 in October. This data reports on the Service Industry, i.e. non manufacturing and its employment picture. It represents, in essence, 70% of the US GDP. It was the worst level in 23 months. Also, factory orders fell for the second straight month. Do these numbers [...] [...]
The Department of Justice recently raided Gibson Guitar in Memphis and in Nashville, saying the company allegedly used a wood from endangered trees in India for their guitars. The company was shut down. Funny, the DOJ seems to have forgotten that First Lady Michelle Obama gave a Gibson Hummingbird acoustic guitar to French First Lady [...] [...]
Dominionists has to be the most important word bandied around this week. Why? It is a clue to the Obama reelection strategy. It was used in a New York Times magazine story yesterday by Bill Keller entitled “Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith.” He uses the term to suggest that Republican candidates, in particular Michele Bachmann [...] [...]
While Japan continues its descent into nightmare, while civil war is near in Libya, while the stock market plunges and oil goes up, while Wisconsin union strife heats up and while the U.S. still doesn’t have a budget for last year voted on, President Obama has his thoughts elsewhere. He was AWOL on major issues last [...] [...]
Rahm Emanuel’s victory in Chicago’s mayoral election yesterday may have had a different denouement than Washington pundits like to think. According to Ulsterman at Newsflavor.com, Rahm has found Obama clueless. Emanuel didn’t feel the president was handling the Affordable Care Act well, depending solely on the media to help it towards public acceptance. Soon he came [...] [...]
