Where’s the Outrage?

Here is my NFL preview—

I predict this season many players receive concussions and brain injuries that will shorten their lives.

I predict that games will be played in taxpayer-built stadiums that are gigantic Nero-like wastes of money.

I predict that the price of the average NFL ticket will be out of the range of many fans. I also predict that the ridiculous phony blue-collar Hank Williams Jr. will go on singing the working-class virtues of football on the pre-game show.

The only good thing about football is hearing that the Cincinnati Bengals, my former hometown team, have lost.

The Bengals demanded and got a new stadium after threatening to leave Cincinnati. It was extortion.

In the 1990’s the Bengals had a record of 52-108. In this decade they are 47-65.

Tags: Sports by Texas Liberal
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This group always looks like they can’t out do what they have done before but…  This is a group that I would love to see in concert.

 

 U2 - Beautiful Day [4:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Remember this video?  Who’s the babe that he brings up on stage?  She is now a major TV star.

This song came from The Boss’ huge album Born in the USA.  There were 3 or 4 top 10 hits off this CD.

 

 Dancing in the Dark [3:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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4000 jobs lost during the month of August. It is hard to spin this stat. I know that the neocons will try but the difference between marginal job growth and a loss of a number of jobs is huge!! It will be hard to blame the Democrats for this one but I bet that Rush and the gang will try.

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From the Economic Policy Institute:

In an unexpectedly and extremely weak employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nation’s payrolls shrunk last month, the first monthly decline since August 2003. Prior months’ job gains were revised down by 81,000, leading to an average monthly gain of just 44,000 over the past three months. Such a low monthly rate of job growth provides the first solid evidence that economic turmoil in financial markets has found its way into the job market.

The unemployment rate, calculated from the survey of households, was unchanged at 4.6%, but this was due not to job growth in that concurrent survey. In fact, employment fell 316,000 last month according to the more volatile (and thus less reliable on a monthly basis) household survey. Averaging over the year, that survey shows a monthly decline in jobs of 16,500 so far in 2007.

 

 NN - no job growth [1:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I have had Brian Katulis from the Center for American Progress on my radio show on a number of occasions.  He’s a great guest.  On this video, Brian does an outstanding job of Hardball style debate against some Right Wing talking point.  Brian introduces some new information to me.  I didn’t know that shopkeepers were being paid to open their shops for the photo-ops.

Chris Matthews asks the stupid question on well we get the truth from Petraeus and the White House.  My answer is why?  They haven’t told us the truth yet.  Why would they change course now.   We will get small pieces of truth wrapped in the big lie that life is really a Disney movie in Iraq like Song of the South!

 

 HB - Iraq report and truth [6:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I’m shocked. I’m floored. Bush’s General wants to continue the surge? What’s up with that? There was no indication. Okay, I’m done with the sarcasm for now. This is no surprise. We have heard that the Surge is working in spite of the evidence. They have polished the numbers to a fine gloss. If they keep polishing those numbers just a little more, Iraq may be the savest country in the world!!

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From Cnn.com:

The top U.S. commander in Iraq will recommend to President Bush that current U.S. troop levels be maintained in Iraq through next spring, according to U.S. military officials.

Under dispute are published reports that Gen. David Petraeus would consider pulling out a brigade of between 3,500 and 4,000 U.S. troops early next year to “assuage critics in Congress.”

“That’s total nonsense,” one military official told CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity because Petraeus’ recommendations have not been made public. (more…)

Tags: Bush Administration, Iraq, Military by ecthompson
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