You call that exuberant?

When even the cheerful folk sound like Cassandras, we're in a world of hurt.

Exuberant Accountant:
Is our Country on a Collision Course?

As an accountant and auditor I have been trained to make assessments on the health of organizations. In fact, we even have a special model we use called the Altman Z-Score. This mathematical formula determines the probability that an organization will go into bankruptcy. As I read Lawrence Kadish’s article titled, Taking the National Debt Seriously in the Wall Street Journal, I just kept thinking of the Altman Z-Score.

The answer to the question in the title is a resounding "Yes."

Thanks to Jr. Deputy Accountant for pointing me to a good new blog.

THE RECESSION IS OVER!

US Recession Over, Joblessness to Reach 10 Percent: NABE

"The great recession is over," said NABE President-Elect Lynn Reaser.

This is wonderful news and I have no doubt that no truer words have ever been spoken.

This reminds me of a great quote:

"Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over."
- Herbert Hoover, responding to a delegation requesting a public works program to help speed the recovery, June 1930

US Committed to Beating Mother Nature

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is “deeply committed” to solving the problem of climate change, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said.

So the United States is going to change the warming patterns that have been around for tens of millions of years? That's not arrogant.

Our planet has a long, long, long history of climate changes but apparently the United States, with about 5% of the earth's population, is going to somehow stop that. That's science fiction my friends.

This green movement is to the Democrats what the Christian movement is to the Republicans. It's a motivator that causes people to believe in things that can without a doubt be refuted scientifically. It's religion. Those people believe in their leaders as gods instead of as employees. So they elect their leaders, watch them destroy everything else in the country but hold onto the one thing that they are certain their leader will achieve. In Obama it's the end of global warming. For GW it was the end of abortion.

But here is the contradiction: George W. Bush and the Republican party got control of the legislature and the executive in 2000 with the loud drum beat of anti-abortion, a very Christian evil. So why didn't they immediately pass legislation outlawing it? The answer is because then there would be no reason for those who voted for them to vote for them again. And those who did vote for them would be forced to think about something else.

I believe the same will hold true with the Obama administration. Actually it's turning out that Obama is doing NOTHING he promised in his campaign, but on this issue I am confident that they will hem and haw about their commitment to stopping global warming. They will pass legislation that will funnel money to certain folks all in the name of saving the planet. In the end all they will have accomplished is more theft of money and the weakening of our country.

So my question is, why stop at halting global warming? Why not build a tractor beam and move Mars much, much closer to earth so we can mine all that iron ore that is on it? Also shouldn't we try to reduce the temperature of the Sun while we are at it?

UPDATE: Check out the first thing Senator Lindsey Graham uses to defend his record in a raucous town meeting the other day. He's anti abortion and if they ever abolish it he'll be out of a job. That's why they'll never abolish it. At least the Dems have it easier because it's impossible to impact such macro cycles of climate change on Earth without maybe lighting off 100 nukes. They'll have that cause forever for people to vote for.

Freedom of Speech - so much better during the last administration

There's a war a brewin' and it's not against the evil Al-Qaeda, Hamas or those who thought it was absurd that Obama won the Nobel Piece Prize. This war is between the righteous White House and evil Fox News. Fox is broadcasting opinions and apparently that's just a little more than the White House wants.

White House accuses Fox News of 'waging war against Barack Obama'
Published: 11:45PM BST 12 Oct 2009

Anita Dunn, communications director, has led the charge, appearing on CNN television and conducting interviews with Time magazine and The New York Times in recent days to make her case.
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Speaking of media magnate Rupert Murdoch's Fox, Ms Dunn told the Times in an interview published Monday: "We're going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent.

"As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don't need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave," she said.

In comments just days earlier to Time magazine, Ms Dunn, a veteran Democratic Party communications strategist who joined the White House in May, denounced Fox as "opinion journalism masquerading as news".

"They are boosting their audience. But that doesn't mean we are going to sit back," she said.

Appearing on CNN on Sunday, Ms Dunn said "the reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party".

She said the White House would not be a "passive bystander" as opponents try to "tear down the president and his presidency."

So what do "active bystanders" that happen to be executive branches of governments do in these sort of situations?

And She states "opinion journalism masquerading as news" and later the article refers to Glenn Beck.

The White House blog singled out Glenn Beck, a conservative talk show host on Fox, for criticism, saying his program "has shown that nothing is worthy of respect if it can be used as part of a partisan attack to boost ratings."

Wait just one second there deary, a television program is molding it’s message to target a specific demographic?!? SAY IT AIN’T SO! Thank goodness John Stewart and Stephan Colbert don’t do anything like that! Oh wait, they do (and I enjoy their shows) because in America we have freedom of speech and there is nothing wrong with people paying you to say something. If there is some legal issue with what they say then settle it in a legal arena. This sort of mob tactic, media attack further illustrates how desperate and unhinged the Democratic party is becoming.

Ms. Dunn appeared on CNN, a Network that is well known to never attempt to make a profit from the hard core news it reports.

CNNMoney - What To Do With $1000 Now. Suggestion 10 - Invest in Schwab.

That's some kind of unbiased, profit independent journalism.

Animal Farm

Obama sides with Republicans on Patriot Act renewal.

No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Invite a Marine to Holiday Dinner

No, this isn't for you horny USD girls. Wholesome families only, please.

Bring a Marine to Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.

That link, from North County Conservatives, focuses on Camp Pendleton Marines in San Diego County, but those of you scattered around the rest of the country could do your part by reaching out to your local military base, too.

In praise of Barack Obama

Thank you, President Obama, for announcing an end to discrimination in the military.

This is the first Obama policy decision I can remember agreeing with. Why Obama would decide to start doing the right thing after nine months of pork, corruption, government expansion, and bailouts for Wall Street crooks is a bit curious. Maybe he wants to lock down a 10% voter base.

Let's hope this promise isn't just another Obama lie, like:

- No tax increases on families making under $250,000
- No one will lose their existing health care plan
- Closing Guantanamo
- Unemployment will stay under 8% if we pass the $787 billion porkulus bill

Based on his track record, I'm not holding my breath. Apparently, neither are gays.

I'm sorry if my praise of Obama was a bit effusive.

Meanwhile, obviously closeted and self-loathing homosexual (come on now, a 54-year-old bachelor named Lindsey who is a McCain sycophant and cries like a little bitch in public when he doesn't get his way?) Lindsey Graham went on NBC to trash the proposal to try to show off his anti-gay credentials.

Equal rights
For Sodomites!
Loaded guns
For lez-be-yuns!

UPDATE: Obama White House tells uppity homos to know their place.