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Labor Department Blames Snow for Increase in Weekly Unemployment

Posted on | January 27, 2011 | 8 Comments

It’s kind of a dog-ate-my-homework excuse:

More Americans than forecast filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance payments last week, indicating it will take time for the labor market to mend.
Applications for jobless benefits increased by 51,000 to 454,000 in the week ended Jan. 22, Labor Department figures showed today. Economists forecast 405,000 claims, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey. The number of people on unemployment benefit rolls rose, while those collecting extended payments fell.
A Labor Department official said snow in four southern states in previous weeks created a backlog of claims that were processed last week. . .

Really? Are we supposed to believe that?

Category: Economics

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Posted on | January 27, 2011 | 16 Comments

“His theme last night in the State of the Union was the WTF, you know, ‘Winning the Future,’ and I thought OK, that acronym, spot on. There were a lot of WTF moments throughout that speech.”
— Sarah Palin

Category: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin

America, the Doomed

Posted on | January 27, 2011 | 10 Comments

Thank you, Democrats, for creating the Ponzi scheme that will bankrupt our nation:

Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037, congressional budget experts said Wednesday in bleaker-than-previous estimates.
The massive retirement program has been suffering from the effects of the struggling economy for several years. It first went into deficit last year but had been projected to post surpluses for a few more years before permanently slipping into the red in 2016
This year alone, Social Security will pay out $45 billion more in retirement, disability and survivors’ benefits than it collects in payroll taxes, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said. That figure nearly triples — to $130 billion — when the new one-year cut in payroll taxes is included. . . .

Via Memeorandum.

Category: Economics, Social Security

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.27.11

Posted on | January 27, 2011 | 13 Comments

TOP NEWS
Anti-Government Protests Continue To Rock Egypt

Protesters clash with riot police Wednesday

Four killed, dozens wounded, hundreds arrested in second day of violent protests

Congress Likely To Heed President’s Call To Cut Corporate Rates
Tax Foundation says Japan’s April cut likely to force action



House Armed Services Committee Chair Challenges Obama’s Defense Cuts
McKeon: “The concern I have is that defense spending is being based on budget rather than defense needs.”



POLITICS
Can Congress Avoid A Governmental Shutdown?

Speaker of the House John Boehner

GOP wants to cut the budget; Democrats want more stimulus. Where’s the middle ground?

DHS To Scrap Color-Coded Terror Alert Levels By April



Obama Takes Road Show To Midwest

GOP Pushing For More Aggressive Immigration Enforcement



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Dow Finishes Just Shy Of 12,000
Treasuries Snap Decline As Fed Prepares To Buy More U.S. Debt
Judge Rules Financier Stanford Incompetent To Stand Trial
Facebook Founder’s Own FB Page Hacked
Hubble Spies Faint Glow Of Oldest, Furthest Galaxy
Facebook Once Again Hangs Up On Phone Rumors



SPORTS
More Balanced Woods Tees Off At Torrey Pines

Tiger Woods fields questions at press conference before Torrey Pines

Failed to win anywhere last year

NASCAR Hoping Simplified  Points System Will Put Emphasis On Wins

OSU Falls To #7 Texas 61-46



Red Wings Put Clamps On Devils, 3-1

Angels Trade For Blue Jays OF Vernon Wells



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Carrie Underwood Expecting?

Carrie Underwood and hubby Mike Fisher

They wanted to wait but Nature had other plans, it seems

“Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome” Cast Revealed

Welcome To The Whitest Oscars In Ten Years

Cheryl Burke’s Molestation Agony

How Chelsea Handler Broke 50 Cent’s Heart

Jimmy Buffett Hospitalized After Fall From Stage

Jesse James Has More Alarming Nazi Pix

Will Ferrell Helping Steve Carell’s Exit From “The Office”


Padma Lakshmi Speaks Out On Custody Battle

P. Diddy To Guest Star On “Hawaii 5-0”



FOREIGNERS
Lone Retired Gurkha Thwarts Train Robbers: Kills 3, Wounds 8, Drives Off 19 Armed Only With Kukri; Saves Girl From Rape Into The Bargain
As Arabs Protest, Obama Administration Offers Assertive Support
Afghanistan Inaugurates New Parliament
Twenty Killed In Colombia Mine Blast
Sudan Urges U.S. To Look Beyond Darfur, Renew Ties
Apology Not Required For Talks With Norks, Seoul Says



BLOGS & STUFF
Tim Blair: Obama No Longer Has The Hots For Global Warming
Yid With Lid: Chief Medicare Actuary Rips Obamacare In Hearings
Ed Morrissey: Rand Paul – “They Still See Government As The Solution For Everything”
Overlawyered: Dennis Kucinich Sues House Caefteria Over Olive Pit
Megan McArdle: U.S. Budget Deficit To Pass $1.5 Trillion This Year
Weasel Zippers: Harry Reid To Defy Obama’s Pledge To Veto Earmarks
Firedoglake: After Failing To Change Senate Rules, Democrats Lose Right To Blame Mitch McConnell
Jawa Report: Amazing What You Can Find In The Trunk Of A BMW
Erick Erickson: The Bachmann Speech
American Power: Marxist Barbara Ehrenreich Exploits Arizona Shooting In Latest Smear Of Glenn Beck


— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five

Police Say Texas Man Strangled His Children’s 15-Year-Old Babysitter

Posted on | January 26, 2011 | 13 Comments

Nancy Grace featured this story tonight:

A body found near Lubbock, Texas, has been identified as that of a baby sitter seen in a motel surveillance video with a man charged in the case, authorities said Wednesday.
The medical examiner identified the remains found Monday about seven miles outside of the city as belonging to Elizabeth Ennen, 15. She had been strangled, Capt. Greg Stevens told CNN.
Stevens told reporters that Humberto Salinas Jr., 45, was being held on a $250,000 bond on an aggravated kidnapping charge. Police are talking with the district attorney about taking a murder charge to the grand jury, he said.
Elizabeth was reported missing after baby-sitting at a motel for Salinas, who was a friend of the Ennen family and the father of her boyfriend, police said.

Salinas had a history of violent crime dating back to 1986, but Elizabeth Ennen’s family knew nothing about his criminal past. Here’s news video from a local TV station:

Category: Crime, Texas

Snowed In!

Posted on | January 26, 2011 | 12 Comments

STAUNTON, Virginia
My plan to make it back home tonight got changed by the snowstorm. After I got north of Lexington, driving conditions on I-81 deteriorated rapidly. I called my wife, who suggested I get off the road and check into a motel. The place by the interstate was full up, but the clerk offered to call around and see if she could find me a room elsewhere. Turns out I was in luck, and there was a vacancy in a place downtown . . .

Yes, it’s the historic Stonewall Jackson Hotel. Just a fluke, but I’m sure the Southern Poverty Law Center will find a way to portray this as part of a neo-Confederate conspiracy.

The room is $130. Please hit the tip jar.

Category: Virginia

‘Peace For Our Time’

Posted on | January 26, 2011 | 30 Comments

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Diplomacy triumphed here Tuesday night, as Professor Glenn Reynolds and Robert Stacy McCain agreed to a treaty hailed as the greatest achievement for world peace since the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939.

The treaty was reached after hours of strenuous negotiations at Calhoun’s BBQ on Kingston Pike. The specific terms of the agreement were not immediately made public, but afterwards McCain declared, “I have no new territorial demands in the blogosphere.”


Category: Instapundit

Chris Matthews: ‘Balloonhead!’

Posted on | January 26, 2011 | 39 Comments

Interviewing Sal Russo of the Tea Party Express, Matthews decides he wants to talk about Michelle Bachmann, and becomes angry when Russo won’t play along.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Via Memeorandum.

Category: MSNBC, Video
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