Review and Comment on The News 9/2/2011

For the first time since 1945:

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Employment growth ground to a halt in August, as sagging consumer confidence discouraged already skittish U.S. businesses from hiring, keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve to provide more monetary stimulus to aid the struggling economy.
   
Nonfarm payrolls were unchanged last month, the Labor Department said Friday. It was the first time since 1945 that the government has reported a net monthly job change of zero. The August payrolls report was the worst since September 2010, while nonfarm employment for June and July was revised to show 58,000 fewer jobs.

....and just when you think things can't get any worse for this parsdent, this coffin nail presents itself:

Five NASCAR Drivers Decline President Obamer's White House Invitation:

President Barack Obama will honor NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and the 11 other Chase drivers from last year in a White House ceremony on Wednesday – but nearly half of the 2010 playoff contenders won't be there. NASCAR said Thursday that five drivers – Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart – will not be attending the White House visit due to "schedule conflicts."

You'd think whatever photo shoots or sponsor appearances these drivers have lined up on Wednesday afternoon – if that's indeed the reason – could be rescheduled. After all, this is the President of the United States we're talking about here. For a sport that prides itself on patriotism, having so many drivers turn down the president's invitation simply seems strange.

Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton and Matt Kenseth will attend.

...we all know that "patriotism" is code for "teabagger"...

This should endear him to his base (frankly, it endears him to me, but I am a bad person and I want to see black, billowing clouds of filth pouring into children's eye sockets and school lunches as they are led in chains to the Salt Mines of Kessel,  to be smashed into who knows what... ):

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday scrapped his administration's controversial plans to tighten smog rules, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders. Obama overruled the Environmental Protection Agency — and the unanimous opinion of its independent panel of scientific advisers — and directed administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the proposed regulation to reduce concentrations of ground-level ozone, smog's main ingredient. The decision rests in part on reducing regulatory burdens and uncertainty for businesses at a time of rampant uncertainty about an unsteady economy.

.....Obama, polluter, in bed with massive corporations....oil pouring out of his eyes, his unlamentable duplicity couched in steaming allegory and an overwhelming patios of ennui. I don't know what that last bit meant, it just came out of me...

 The Hong Kong Dodgers?:

In an international twist in the Dodgers' ownership saga, Frank McCourt has been offered $1.2 billion to sell the team to a group indirectly financed by the government of China.

...what the fuck, why not? Chiner owns everything anyway....

Vice Fuhrer CheneyHitler: I am Darth Vader:

Talk show radio host Laura Ingraham opened her show this morning with the Darth Vader theme song to introduce former Vice-President Dick Cheney recalling the nickname given to Cheney by the left.
"I always had a soft spot for Darth Vader," said Ingraham as she began her interview, "He was the most interesting person, other than Chewbacca in the Star Wars series. . . c'mon." "I love the music and Star Wars reference," Cheney responded, "I was honored to be compared to Darth Vader."

Ingraham and Cheney then shared memories of Cheney dressing up as Darth Vader for Halloween one year at the Vice President's mansion.

....I wonder if Former RealmLeader Bush is honored to be compared to Hitler? 

No more blustery poems, trays of meats, cheeses, bottles of mead or even unguents:

Michelle Turner Overdrive seems to have fallen off the radar after her sweeping Iowa win...

Bachmann, who had spent July and August railing against the federal deficit and raising the debt ceiling, was focusing on jobs as a rival for the nomination, Jon Huntsman, was releasing his jobs blueprint.

But Bachmann's stepped-up jobs rhetoric comes as the campaign's landscape has changed since she won the Aug. 13 Iowa GOP straw poll on an outpouring from Christian and tea party conservatives.

The biggest change has been the rise of Perry, who entered the race the day of the straw poll and has since vaulted to the top of national polls.

...fucking men....