tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2882443765914688391..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Winter storm sweeps US, hits mid-Atlantic and Northeast, causing flight chaos and government office shutdown Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28878503765133317452023-10-13T04:02:42.150-04:002023-10-13T04:02:42.150-04:00Hey there!
I stumbled upon your article about the...Hey there!<br /> I stumbled upon your article about the winter storm sweeping across the US and had to drop you a comment. First off, kudos to you for such a timely and insightful piece. I'm writing this from my cozy little nook in Chicago, and I can totally relate to the chaos that a winter storm can bring. Your vivid descriptions took me back to the last storm we had here, and I felt like I was right there with you in the midst of it all. It's always comforting to know that others are experiencing similar weather woes, and your writing made me feel connected to a broader community of people battling the elements.<br /><br />The way you detailed the impact on daily life was spot on. From the joys of a snow day to the frustration of shoveling, it's a rollercoaster of emotions, and you captured that beautifully. I particularly loved your tips for staying warm and safe during the storm. As someone who often forgets to stock up on essentials, your reminders are a lifesaver! Thanks for sharing your experiences and advice. I'm looking forward to more of your articles, and I hope this winter treats you kindly. Stay warm! 🌨️❄️🔥 visit https://certifiedtranslationservicesusa.comstartseohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00532494750165453453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58484479785955566582014-01-23T01:48:24.768-05:002014-01-23T01:48:24.768-05:00Jan 20 is the Moldy Oldy Archives, Mr. Boldy?Jan 20 is the Moldy Oldy Archives, Mr. Boldy?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35923745371446372262014-01-23T01:47:34.629-05:002014-01-23T01:47:34.629-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5033106640247607942014-01-23T01:42:59.467-05:002014-01-23T01:42:59.467-05:009 Million fewer people employed.
Record numbers o...9 Million fewer people employed.<br /><br />Record numbers on Foodstamps.<br /><br />Great Record.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38363540695175240362014-01-22T22:54:22.387-05:002014-01-22T22:54:22.387-05:00Here is a long term graph that shows ATA's For...Here is a long term graph that shows ATA's For-Hire Truck Tonnage index.<br /><br /> The dashed line is the current level of the index.<br /><br /> The index is up solidly year-over-year. The index is at a record high, and this was best year for growth since 1998.<br />Read more at http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/01/ata-trucking-index-increased-in-december.html#7cSO2d4fxoyDTkl2.99<br /><br /><a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/01/ata-trucking-index-increased-in-december.html" rel="nofollow">Clickable</a>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70573053042354658512014-01-22T21:57:58.633-05:002014-01-22T21:57:58.633-05:0011.95 Million Winners<a href="http://acasignups.net/" rel="nofollow">11.95 Million Winners</a>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15254567155971954482014-01-22T21:53:23.185-05:002014-01-22T21:53:23.185-05:00Please don't use my name. I can feel the IQ p...Please don't use my name. I can feel the IQ points draining away every time you do it.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53723994239064087362014-01-22T21:51:34.978-05:002014-01-22T21:51:34.978-05:00And, you pulled a poll Out of the Archives to prov...And, you pulled a poll <b>Out of the Archives</b> to prove it?Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71875478550380862352014-01-22T21:44:49.252-05:002014-01-22T21:44:49.252-05:00Lordy dougo, paradise is so miserable no wonder ev...Lordy dougo, paradise is so miserable no wonder everything else (I.e. ACA) is equally bad.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49050523024545869822014-01-22T21:13:44.905-05:002014-01-22T21:13:44.905-05:00Dunno, haven't crawled outta bed yet, too damn...Dunno, haven't crawled outta bed yet, too damn cold.<br /><br />...computer says it's 79, tho.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60087950350280971862014-01-22T21:11:27.019-05:002014-01-22T21:11:27.019-05:00Up at Commentary Daily -
Number of ObamaCare Lose...Up at Commentary Daily -<br /><br />Number of ObamaCare Losers Rises<br /><br />But I guess I won't post it, Rufus is dealing with too many issues today as it is.....Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85912462705417085942014-01-22T21:10:04.908-05:002014-01-22T21:10:04.908-05:00I simply said Rasmussen's link was misleading ...I simply said Rasmussen's link was misleading according to his polling, Rufus.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50400812826390410102014-01-22T21:01:29.493-05:002014-01-22T21:01:29.493-05:00How's the weather over there, Doug?
Buried in...How's the weather over there, Doug?<br /><br />Buried in three feet of snow, are you?<br /><br />With a wind chill of -40?Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69185113766032232712014-01-22T20:59:30.722-05:002014-01-22T20:59:30.722-05:00The Canadians have better sense than we, these day...The Canadians have better sense than we, these days.<br /><br />Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10208671943188502542014-01-22T20:57:25.439-05:002014-01-22T20:57:25.439-05:00On acid.
Rasmussen, or Rufus? -- both, I'd ...On acid.<br /><br />Rasmussen, or Rufus? -- both, I'd say.<br /><br />When the middle class has decided that you are toast, you are most certainly toast.<br /><br />Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9008698763306531002014-01-22T20:56:36.008-05:002014-01-22T20:56:36.008-05:00from Your link:
The latest Rasmussen Reports nati...from Your link:<br /><br /><i>The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 41% of Likely U.S. Voters rate the new law at least somewhat favorably, while<b> 56%</b> share an unfavorable opinion of it.</i><br /><br />What you dreamers always overlook is that if you separate out the 15% that want the law to go further (single payer,) it becomes 56% Positive, and 40% Negative.<br /><br />Don't worry, though, plumbdumbpolling agrees with you. Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70430771015566390012014-01-22T20:47:41.797-05:002014-01-22T20:47:41.797-05:00"Death to America"
...a mere figure of ..."Death to America"<br /><br />...a mere figure of speech by our new allies in Peace.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57495500091081767502014-01-22T20:46:12.075-05:002014-01-22T20:46:12.075-05:00Obama replies:
"Al-Qaeda is Jayvee, nothing ...Obama replies:<br /><br />"<i>Al-Qaeda is Jayvee, nothing to see here, move along.</i>" Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51533158221583616792014-01-22T20:44:08.474-05:002014-01-22T20:44:08.474-05:00allenTue Jan 21, 07:04:00 PM EST
Roman Catholicis...allenTue Jan 21, 07:04:00 PM EST<br /><br />Roman Catholicism has found itself the target of its failures. I believe that the Roman Catholic Church is making a sincere effort to clean house. But whatever the failures, they were not Roman Catholic Doctrine and were considered abhorrent and hurtful to the Church and its charges.<br /><br />This cannot be said of Islam, which provides instructions on the appropriate protocols for bestiality, pedophilia, and pederasty.<br /><br />On one hand is a church which regrets the sins of its errant sons; on the other is a political system (Islam) which normalizes and encourages the sins of its savage sons. The moral void is unbridgeable.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42023380264247311542014-01-22T20:34:52.832-05:002014-01-22T20:34:52.832-05:00Rufus IITue Jan 21, 01:49:00 PM EST
Probably, the ...Rufus IITue Jan 21, 01:49:00 PM EST<br />Probably, the only possible "losers" in this deal are those taxpayers that earn more than $250,000.00 / Yr. <br /><br />And, a lot of those are Healthcare Professionals. This is important because Doctors' incomes went up something like 2 hundred percent following the introduction of Medicare.<br /><br />---<br /><br />Well that sure proves Government intervention drove costs down, doesn't it?<br /><br />...in Dreamland.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46294412147611975252014-01-22T20:25:04.738-05:002014-01-22T20:25:04.738-05:00Is Ramussen on Acid?
This is his link to Rufus...Is Ramussen on Acid?<br /><br />This is his link to Rufus's more positive story:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/health_care_law" rel="nofollow">New High: 58% View Obamacare Unfavorably </a><br /><br />WTF?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62866824485971226822014-01-22T20:16:02.062-05:002014-01-22T20:16:02.062-05:00Rufus IIWed Jan 22, 10:49:00 AM EST
Obama back in...Rufus IIWed Jan 22, 10:49:00 AM EST<br /><br />Obama back in the Positive - 50 / 49<br /><br />...grasping at straws, look at the chart!<br /><br />(shows daily variations, no new trend whatsoever, at this point)Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23678618570665429712014-01-22T20:12:42.338-05:002014-01-22T20:12:42.338-05:00One must note that this is just one poll and that ...One must note that this is just one poll and that opinions may change as events unfold. But it looks very much like the astonishingly disastrous Obamacare rollout has moved opinion decisively against the president and his trademark policy. <br /><br />And all those predictions -- not just by Democrats -- that the Republican Party faced extinction because of overwhelming opposition from Millennials and Hispanics look to be, like Mark Twain's famous obituary, premature. <br /><br />There's one other interesting result from Quinnipiac. Has the Obama administration "been competent in running the government"? Overall, 53 percent said no and only 43 percent said yes. Young voters (47 percent said yes, 46 percent said no) and Hispanics (51 percent said yes, 46 percent said no) were only slightly more positive. <br /><br />The fiasco of the healthcare.gov website undoubtedly contributed to this. But perhaps Americans are also starting to notice that this president is not performing his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law -- and in this case, a law he and his party wrote. <br /><br />The Obama administration announced last July that it is not enforcing Obamacare's employer mandate. It has admitted that it cannot verify the eligibility of applicants for Obamacare subsidies. (Come and get it!) <br /><br />It says it will provide subsidies for those buying insurance through the federal health care exchanges in 36 states -- even though the legislation nowhere authorizes that. <br /><br />And last Thursday, as congressional Democrats were panicking and supporting measures to allow people to keep their current health insurance policies, Obama announced that he would not impose penalties on policies that don't comply with the law. <br /><br />That was plainly a transparent attempt to fob off the blame for cancelled policies on insurers and state regulators who complied with the law as written. It is a political ploy inconsistent with the rule of law. <br /><br />Quinnipiac and other pollsters are not in the habit of asking Americans whether presidents are faithfully executing the law. The assumption has been that, unlike in Russia, they mostly are -- or were. <br /><br />The Framers of the Constitution regarded refusal to faithfully execute the law as tyranny. Barack Obama, with his Swiss cheese exceptions to Obamacare, seems to take a different view.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84519552923384718892014-01-22T20:12:19.540-05:002014-01-22T20:12:19.540-05:00A Devastating Poll on Obama -- and Obamacare
A Com...A Devastating Poll on Obama -- and Obamacare<br />A Commentary By Michael Barone<br /><br />"The Affordable Care Act's political position has deteriorated dramatically over the last week." That, coming from longtime Obamacare cheerleader and Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, was pretty strong language. And it was only Wednesday. <br /><br />That was the day after the release of a devastating Quinnipiac national poll. It showed Barack Obama's approval rating at 39 percent, with his disapproval rating at 54 percent -- sharply down from 45 percent approval and 49 percent disapproval on Oct. 1, the day the government shutdown began and healthcare.gov went into (limited) operation. <br /><br />Democrats hoped that Republicans would take a shellacking in public opinion for the Oct. 1-16 government shutdown. They did, briefly. But Quinnipiac's survey, conducted three weeks after the shutdown ended, indicated that the Obamacare rollout inflicted much more damage on the Democratic brand -- and the party's leader. <br /><br />Quinnipiac's numbers on Obamacare were also exactly the same as their numbers on Obama: 49 percent favored the health care legislation, 55 percent were opposed. Moreover, a near-majority -- 46 percent -- said the president knowingly deceived them when he assured Americans over and over that they could keep their health insurance plans. <br /><br />There are few names a president can be called that are more damaging than liar. <br /><br />The numbers are particularly daunting when you look at the groups that Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg identifies as major parts of "the big cultural and demographic wave that threatens to swamp the Republican party" -- young voters and Hispanics. <br /><br />Obama carried voters under 30 by 66 percent to 32 percent in 2008 and 60 percent to 37 percent in 2010. He carried older voters by 1 point in the first election and lost them to Mitt Romney in the second. <br /><br />Obama did even better with Hispanics: 67 percent to 31 percent in 2008 and 71 percent to 27 percent in 2012. This was one of the few demographic groups among which he ran stronger than four years earlier. <br /><br />But that was then, and this is now. Quinnipiac shows young voters disapproving of Obama 54 percent to 36 percent and Hispanics disapproving 47 percent to 41 percent. <br /><br />Both groups rate him negatively on the economy, the federal budget, immigration, foreign policy and health care. Bare majorities, 51 percent of both groups, say Obama cares about people like them. <br /><br />Obamacare, popular among both groups in 2012, is now an Obama albatross. Young voters oppose it 51 percent to 42 percent and Hispanics 50 percent to 44 percent. Majorities of both groups give Obama negative ratings on health care. <br /><br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87701401221689825462014-01-22T19:25:32.938-05:002014-01-22T19:25:32.938-05:00given up on the morongiven up on the moronFarmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.com