3 June 2011, Fri. Rush Limbaugh headlines

--Our President is Winning His War Against America's Private Sector
This is what Barack Obama wants. This is his recovery.

--No Matter How the Media Spins It, Obama Owns This Economic Crisis
Abject panic and despair amid disastrous news.

--El Rushbo on the Apple iCloud
Will their latest innovation change everything again?

--Palin Won't Follow a Losing Script
She's not playing by Republican establishment rules.
Politico: Palin's Tour a Rolling Menace

--The Idiocy of Thomas L. Friedman
On the economy and Israel, he spews ridiculousness.

--A Federal Lottery Isn't the Answer
Gov't always spends as much money as it takes in.

--Employer Can't Find Applicants
She's having trouble competing with the sloth industry.

Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page
» Breck Girl Tries to Avoid Perp Walk, Faces Jail Time
» Dr. Kevorkian Dies in Hospital, Not Back of VW Bus
» Mysterious Figure James Arness of Gunsmoke Dies
» Regime: If You Don't Like the Mandate, Make Less
» CNBC: Americans Lower Their Income Expectations

--The Unstimulated Novelist
His book has been nationalized by Hugo Chavez!
• Buy Tom Grace's Novel: The Secret Cardinal
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*Monday through Friday afternoon - List of topics Limbaugh discussed on his program that day
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*Saturday through Sunday morning - An addition to my booklist of political books - covering Democrats, Republicans and other interested parties.

3 June, 2011, Fri, SoS Clinton and Staff schedule

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2011/06/164897.htm
SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
9:20 a.m. Secretary Clinton meets with participants in the Middle East Partnership Initiative’s Leaders for Democracy Fellowship (LDF) Program, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

9:30 a.m. Secretary Clinton meets with Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

10:25 a.m. Secretary Clinton participates in the Business Forum Promoting Commercial Opportunities in Iraq, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)

11:00 a.m. Secretary Clinton attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)

2:15 p.m. Secretary Clinton holds a bilateral meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, at the Department of State.

3:30 p.m. Secretary Clinton meets with the staff who worked on the 2011 U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

DEPUTY SECRETARY JAMES STEINBERG
Deputy Secretary Steinberg is on foreign travel to Hong Kong and Singapore through June 5.

DEPUTY SECRETARY THOMAS NIDES
9:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides opens the Business Forum Promoting Commercial Opportunities in Iraq, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

10:25 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides introduces Secretary Clinton at the Business Forum Promoting Commercial Opportunities in Iraq, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)

2:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with Administrator Shah, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

5:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with Under Secretary McHale, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

USAID ADMINISTRATOR RAJIV SHAH
2:30 p.m. Administrator Shah meets with Deputy Secretary Nides, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

US FOR ECONOMIC, ENERGY AND AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS ROBERT HORMATS
10:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Ambassador-designate to China, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

11:20 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Bahraini Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

12:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats participates in the Business Forum Promoting Commercial Opportunities in Iraq, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

2:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Ambassador Paul Dobriansky, Senior Vice President and Head of Government Affairs for the Americas at Thomson Reuters, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

4:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Ambassador A. Peter Burleigh, Chargé d’Affaires to India, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

US FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS JUDITH MCHALE
9:00 a.m. Under Secretary McHale attends a Broadcasting Board of Governors Meeting, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

1:15 p.m. Under Secretary McHale meets with Ambassador-designate to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

2:30 p.m. Under Secretary McHale meets with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Ambassador-designate to China, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

5:30 p.m. Under Secretary McHale meets with Deputy Secretary Nides, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

AS FOR EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN AFFAIRS PHILIP GORDON
2:15 p.m. Assistant Secretary Gordon joins Secretary Clinton’s bilateral meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Mammadyarov, at the Department of State.
(CAMERA SPRAY PRECEDING BILATERAL MEETING)

COORDINATOR FOR INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS DAWN MCCALL
Coordinator McCall holds meetings in New York City through June 3 with leading social media researchers and industry leaders in youth-focused content. The discussions will touch upon the latest developments in digital engagement, gaming for change, and crowd-sourcing.

AS FOR POLITICAL-MILITARY AFFAIRS ANDREW SHAPIRO
Assistant Secretary Shapiro is on foreign travel to Colombia and Brazil through June 3.

AS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANN STOCK
8:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Stock meets with TechWomen program participants from the Middle East and North Africa prior to the formal TechWomen launch, at the Hilton Financial District Hotel in San Francisco, California.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)

8:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Stock meets with Jen Fitzpatrick, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, at the Hilton Financial District Hotel in San Francisco, California.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)

9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Stock launches the TechWomen program, an international exchange to empower women and girls worldwide through technology, at the Hilton Financial District Hotel in San Francisco, California.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)

10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Stock meets with Katie Stanton, Twitter’s Vice President for International Strategy, in San Francisco, California.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

11:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Stock attends a meeting at Google’s offices in San Francisco, California.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
9:00 a.m. Ambassador Goosby participates in a panel discussion entitled “Taking Evidence to Impact: Fifth Global Partners Forum on Children affected by HIV and AIDS,” in New York.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES MELANNE VERVEER
9:00 a.m. Ambassador Verveer participates in the Business Forum Promoting Commercial Opportunities in Iraq, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

1:30 p.m. Ambassador Verveer leads a roundtable discussion with leaders in the private sector on the role women can play in supply chain and/or franchise development in Iraq, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS RETA JO LEWIS
Special Representative Lewis is in Beijing, China to meet with government officials and to speak to the Women Corporate Directors group and the Women's Professional Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce.

PRESS BRIEFING SCHEDULE
11:00 a.m. Deputy Spokesperson Mark C. Toner will brief the press on-the-record, off-camera in the Correspondents’ Room (Room 2310).


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3 June 2011, Fri, Pres and VP Schedules

http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president
9:30 am The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press

9:55 am The President departs the White House en route Andrews Air Force Base
South Lawn
Open Press

10:10 am The President departs Andrews Air Force Base en route Toledo, Ohio
Travel Pool Coverage
Call Time 8:30AM – Virginia Gate, Andrews Air Force Base

11:30 am The President arrives in Toledo, Ohio
Ohio, Toledo, Toledo Express Airport
Open Press

1:00 pm The President tours Chrysler Group Toledo Supplier Park
Chrysler Group Toledo Supplier Park, Ohio, Toledo
Travel Pool Coverage

1:25 pm The President delivers remarks to workers
Chrysler Group Toledo Supplier Park, Ohio, Toledo
Open Press

4:00 pm The President departs Toledo, Ohio en route Andrews Air Force Base
Ohio, Toledo, Toledo Express Airport
Open Press

5:15 pm The President arrives at Andrews Air Force Base
Travel Pool Coverage

5:30 pm The President arrives at the White House
South Lawn
Open Press

http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president
No public schedule.

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*Monday through Friday afternoon - List of topics Limbaugh discussed on his program that day
*Monday through Friday throughout the day - My posts on anything that I feel like talking about. At least one or two a day, sometimes more.
*Saturday through Sunday morning - An addition to my booklist of political books - covering Democrats, Republicans and other interested parties.

Obscene profit (I hope) timeout: The Coldest Equations ebook

Hi, all

I've just published my first science fiction novel on the Kindle (and if B&N everr gets their girdle in gear, the Nook), called The Coldest Equations. (Author, Caroline Miniscule) Cost is only $2.99!

Here's the plot:

Whenever a new TV show is committed to celluloid, the world evoked by that TV movie or series manifests itself as an alternate Earth. And there are beings Out There who have devised a machine (the Teleinvisichronomicon) which enables them to transfer the actors from Earth 1 into the bodies of their characters on these alternate Earths. And vice versa.

Tracy Karlovassi is the star of a science fiction erise called The Coldest Equations, in which she plays Miranda Rainbird, top spy, for the Capablanca Corporation. (And her boyfriend in real life, Nick Belfour, plays her arch enemy in the series).

In the earth of this series, the civilian space organizations vie with each other to be the first - and only - companies to set up space stations on the moon, on the asteroids, and on Mars. Some security teams keep their own scientists and technology safe, other security teams attempt to kidnap scientists and appropriate technology from their rivals. It is to one of those security teams that Miranda Rainbird belongs.

In Season 3 of The Coldest Equations, Miranda Rainbird has been framed for a crime she did not commit and is on the run from friend and foe alike. Rainbird may have had no trouble proving her innocence and bringing the real culprits to justice, but then Tracy Karlovassi is transferred into her body, and what can a mere actress do?

You can request the first chapter as a sample for your Kindle by going to
http://www.amazon.com/Coldest-Equations-People-There-ebook/dp/B0052NSRKK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1307088045&sr=1-1

or read a sample chapter further along in the book:

Chapter Five excerpt:
VI.
At the exact same time that Tracy was waking up in Miranda Rainbird’s bedroom, the following exchange occurred, in a place far, far away.

Has the second subject been acquired?
Yes, Oh Great One.
Very well. Initiate the Teleinvisichronomicon now.
But, Oh Great One, to do a simultaneous switch…it might cause havoc…
Initiate now!
Yes, Oh, Great One.

Miranda Rainbird came awake instantly, blinking at a slight feeling of dizziness that had doubtless caused her to waken. Someone had entered her bedroom. She kept her eyes shut, as she strained her ears.

No one was coming near the bed. Someone was…she heard clothes rustling, footsteps echoing from a corner wall…undressing and heading for the bathroom.

Who the hell?

Miranda opened her eyes. There was a bit of light in the room, coming from the green light of her alarm clerk. There was a man in her bedroom, shirtless. Good god! She recognized that profile. It was Mr. White!

But he did not approach her – he walked into the bathroom, snapping on the light as he did so, and closing the door behind him.

Miranda rolled out of bed and stepped toward her wardrobe, within which were dozens of weapons.

Where the hell was her wardrobe?

This wasn’t her bedroom.

Up until a couple of weeks ago, Miranda would have gone looking for a weapon – she could turn any household appliance or, indeed, household anything, into a weapon. But she didn’t need to do that anymore. Her cyborg arms were all the weapon she needed.

She moved to just in front of the bathroom door and waited, listening to the sounds within. Mr. White was…the bastard was brushing his teeth! Now he was gargling. Now he must be washing his face.

The bathroom door opened just a little bit, and Mr. White started to squeeze through it even as he made a gesture as if he were about to turn off the bathroom light.

In one part of her mind, Miranda wondered what the hell he thought he was doing. With the other part of her mind, she judged the exact pressure needed to hit White that would knock him unconscious. And at the same time, she punched him in the mouth.

She judged her punch nicely – she didn’t want to kill him, yet. She just wanted him knocked unconscious until she could tie him up.

But Mr. White didn’t drop to the ground, unconscious. Instead he just staggered back, putting one hand to his mouth.

“Baby, what the hell are you doing?”

Miranda stared at him, shocked. She was experienced with her cyborg arms by now. He should be on the ground.

And….and…her hand hurt.

Miranda looked down at her left hand. By the light of the bathroom she could see that her hand was bleeding.

Her hand was bleeding!

As she staggered back, gasping, staring at her hand, the bedroom lights snapped on. Mr. White was standing by the light switch, one hand still on the light, the other held to his mouth.

Miranda registered the fact that he was in a completely indefensible position – which was very odd for a trained agent, particularly for one who was in the bedroom of a woman whom he intended to kill and whom he knew could kill him – even as she snapped forward in a balestra move and punched him in the face again.

Again he didn’t drop, he just staggered back.

“Jesus Christ, baby, not in the face!” he shrieked, clutching his nose.

Miranda turned away from him. She had felt that punch. She had felt it in her hand, in her forearm. Something had happened, something wonderful. She made a claw out of her left hand, and brought her fingernails down her right forearm. She watched as four tracks of blood welled up – bright, red blood, not horrible green stuff or whatever the hell had been inside her cyborg arms. She touched her fingers to it, brought the blood to her lips, sucked it – it was real blood.

Real blood. Real arms. She had her arms back.

Miranda’s vision blurred as hot tears filled her eyes. She was whole again.

Wait…she’d tested her right arm, what about her other arm?

She made a claw of her right hand and was about to test her left forearm when Mr. White was upon her again.

This time he grabbed her wrists, and went down on his knees in front of her, his face turned up to her, his expression anguished. There were tears in his eyes and blood was dripping from his nose, and it was that more than anything else that caused Miranda to pause, and not give him a knee to the chin.

Mr. White would never have put himself into such a vulnerable position.

Miranda stared down at him.

“Baby, please,” he said. “What’s the matter with you? Why are you doing this?”

Miranda took a deep breath, then another shuddering breath, and then she began to cry.

Mr. White stood up, and put his arms around her.

She buried her face in his neck, sobbing.

“Oh, baby, baby, what’s happened to you?” he whispered. “Did you take something? Some kind of drug?”

Miranda didn’t answer, and he didn’t ask her again.

“Come on, baby,” he said gently, pushing her toward the bed. “You must have been having a nightmare. Please, baby, stop crying.”

He twisted her a bit so that he laid down on the bed first, and then she laid down at his side and placed her face on his chest.

Her right arm was aching terribly – and she loved every second of that pain. Her arms were real again.

Mr. White kept one hand around her shoulders, and with his other stroked her hair, crooning softly. “It’s okay, baby, it’s okay.”

Eventually, Miranda fell asleep.

Now.

Tracy Karlovassi opened her eyes. She was nestled against Nick’s broad, warm chest. His strong arms were wrapped around her…it felt so good.

The sunlight was pouring into the room from the open curtains. She could have closed her eyes and grabbed a few more seconds of sleep, but her arm was aching abominably. Curiously, she lifted up her right forearm and looked at it. She saw the dried over scabs of four long furrows running down her forearm.

“What the hell happened to my arm?” she shrieked.

Nick jerked awake immediately. He tightened his arms around her. “Tracy! It’s okay. It’s okay!”

Tracy struggled against him. “Nick, what the hell’s going on? What happened to my arm?”

Nick loosened his grasp. “Don’t you remember what happened last night?”

“No, I don’t. I…” she sat up, and looked at him. “Nick,” she gasped. “What the hell happened to your face?”

“You hit me!”

“Oh, Nick, what the hell are you talking about?”

“Don’t you remember anything about last night?”

Tracy stared at him. “Of course…of course I remember. We were at the Rendition. I got a phone call, to say I had an early call this morning. As a matter of fact…”

She twisted to look at the clock, then relaxed. She had plenty of time. “Anyway,” she continued, “I came home, took a bath, and went to bed. And that’s it. I…I had a dream, I think…I dreamed about the show…I’ve been doing that a lot lately, but that’s it. I slept through the whole night!”

“Well, Tracy, here’s what happened. I got home around eleven o’clock. I didn’t want to wake you, so I came into the bedroom and didn’t turn on the lights. I went into the bathroom and did a bit of washing up. When I came out of the bathroom, you hit me in the mouth!”

“Oh, no, Nick!” Tracy reached out to cup his face. Nick’s nose had a cut across it and was a bit swelled. His lower lip was also swollen.

Nick smiled at her reassuringly. He grasped her hand and kissed her fingers. “It’s all right, baby. Well, you hit me again, and then you did something really weird. You raked your fingers down your own arm, hard enough to draw blood, and then you started to laugh, like it was the greatest thing in the world.”

“No way,” said Tracy. “I have perfect skin! There’s no way in hell that I’d mark myself up in any way. Why would I?”

“I don’t know, baby. But that’s what you were doing. And if I hadn’t stopped you, you would have done it to your other arm, too. It was like…I dunno, like you’d taken some LSD or something.”

“No way,” repeated Tracy. “You know I don’t do drugs.”

“Yes, I know…but, did you maybe get a gift from somebody – a fan or something? Brownies or something that you ate? They could have been laced with something.”

“No, no Nick, no way. I never eat anything fans give me, just for that very reason.”

“Well, then…”

Tracy put her hands to her head, wincing at the pain in her forearm.

“I had a dream last night. A dream about the show. I remembered it, for a second or so when I got up, but it’s all faded now. But…it was about the show…maybe I…I don’t know, maybe I was in the middle of a nightmare when you came in, and I attacked you…like I was sleepwalking.”

“Yeah, but why would you scratch your arms?”

“I don’t know. It doesn’t make any sense.”

“Tracy….” Nick said carefully, “Maybe we should go visit a….a….a doctor.”

Tracy shoved him - gently. “Don’t be silly, Nick. I’m not crazy. I will go to a doctor, though. A dermatologist. I don’t want these scratches to scar. My skin is perfect, and I intend it to stay that way.”

“But these dreams of yours have me worried,” Nick persisted.

“Nick, it’s all right. Now that I know that it’s not safe to have these dreams – I won’t have any more! I’ve done directed dreaming before, I’ll just make sure I direct myself into different directions…directions of happiness and sweetness and light.”

“But what if you do have another nightmare?”

“Well, keep a bowl of water by your side of the bed. And if I start kicking out at you, just throw the water in my face.”

“Baby, if you scratching your arm to shreds didn’t wake you up from a nightmare, I don’t think me pouring water into your face will do any good.”

“Yeah,” said Tracy. She stared at his damaged face, and reached out a hand gently to cup his cheek. “Damn, Nick, you’re so sweet. You’re taking this so well. Your poor face.”

“Oh, don’t worry about that, Tracy. The makeup guys can do wonderful things. And if they can’t hide it completely, they could maybe write in an extra scene where I run into a door or something.”

“Oh, poor Nick!”

She kissed him gently, then tapped him on the chest. “There’s no need for you to worry anymore. I’m not going to have another nightmare. I’ll make sure I don’t. “

“Okay, Tracy,” Nick said, a bit reluctantly.

Tracy leaned over and kissed him, then touched his bruised features gently. “It is scary to think I’d actually hit out at you, Nick,” she admitted. “But I promise you, it’s not going to happen again.” Nick kissed her back.

“Okay, baby, okay. Well, we’d better get moving if you’re going to get to the studio doctor before it’s time for you to report on stage.”

“Yeah – let’s make a move.”

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*Monday through Friday afternoon - List of topics Limbaugh discussed on his program that day
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*Saturday through Sunday morning - An addition to my booklist of political books - covering Democrats, Republicans and other interested parties.

Goodbye, happy women in Egypt

Sharia law is on tap for Egypt... that does not bode well for women. Or for the non-Muslims in the country.

RUSH: Well, it's another See, I Told You So. What happened to that freedom movement in Egypt? "The Muslim Brotherhood will impose Islamic Sharia Law in Egypt if it comes to power, according to the movement's Sobhi Saleh, the Egyptian Arabic daily Al Masry Al Youm reports. Saleh, a leading Muslim Brotherhood figure, claimed Sharia would protect Muslims and non-Muslims alike. 'Terms like civil or secular state are misleading,' he said. 'Islamic Sharia is the best system for Muslims and non-Muslims.'" (crumbles up paper) That's who we (ahem, ahem) backed in Egypt. There was a outbreak of democracy there! The Arab spring! Yep.

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*Saturday through Sunday morning - An addition to my booklist of political books - covering Democrats, Republicans and other interested parties.

What Can Be Done To Rescule the US Economy?

Things aren't looking well for the US economy. I'm going to get a closer look at that myself, as I'll be leaving next Friday for a week and a half long drive from Cheyenne to Warroad, MN and back. I expect to see a lot of closed businesses on the way, and that is always so sad.

"Reports Wednesday on manufacturing and company hiring were so weak that many economists immediately downgraded their forecasts for Friday's jobs report for May. Some analysts also slashed their estimates for growth in the April-June quarter." Now you got people out there talking about another recession. You've got some Democrats talking about perhaps a Great Depression. So now the doom and gloom is surfacing -- and believe me, this is not what the regime wanted. This is not part and parcel of the giant plan here. You don't have miracle economic recoveries from this baseline, but they're trying to set something like that up.

Here are three examples, for instance, of the bad economic news over the last few days just from CNBC. "Horror for US Economy as Data Falls Off Cliff." "Wall Street Baffled by Slowing Economy, Low Yields." Trader: Prepare for More Money Printing: Analysts." This last article reported that QE3 is about to start. That's Quantitative Easing 3. This is like a heroin addiction to people on Wall Street. It is the printing of money. Quantitative Easing 2 that kept stock prices up. You saw what happened. Stock prices were down demonstrably lower yesterday; this creating a panic. They're down again today. And so now the Wall Street people say, "Hey, give us more money, Ben! Pump some more money in! Start printing some more money." All of these official fixes have done nothing to revitalize the economy. Let's go to the audio sound bites and give a listen to this. A panic is beginning to set in out there and the media spin is that we're in recovery and they couldn't sustain it. The numbers don't lie. We have never been in a recovery. This is CNBC's Squawk on the Street today.

YASTROW: What we've got right now is almost near panic going on with money managers and people who are responsible for money. Ben Bernanke's not a magician. We're on the verge of a Great, Great Depression. The Fed knows it. We have many, many homeowners who are totally underwater here and cannot get out from under. The technology frontier is limited right now. We definitely have an innovation slowdown, and the economy's gonna suffer -- and all the Fed tweaking and all the interest rate tweaking and all of the tax adjustments are actually not going to be able to save us if we cannot get a cost of labor that's in line with the rest of the planet and we can't get our productivity levels high enough to justify the wages we're already being paid. It's not that complicated.

You really have to wonder how the US got into this state. We're supposed to be the most powerful country on the planet, the richest, yet half our citizens can't read and live on welfare, our politicians - Democrat and Republican - are corrupt, and the whole government is just ineptly run - and has been ineptly run for decades - regardless of the party in power.


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*Monday through Friday afternoon - List of topics Limbaugh discussed on his program that day
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*Saturday through Sunday morning - An addition to my booklist of political books - covering Democrats, Republicans and other interested parties.

2 June, 2011, Thurs, Rush Limbaugh headlines

--A Different Take on Weinergate
Opening monologue on the story's cultural implications.
Fox: Weiner Struggles to Explain Lewd Photo
Tom Rowan: Krauthammer and Palin

--On Leaders and Their Flaws
Call prompts an expansion of the discussion on heroes.

--Sarah Palin vs. The Establishment
She has the Washington elite running around in circles.

--Liberals Panic Over the Economy
Democrats realize they need some growth - and fast.

--Flashback: Joe Bite Me on the Great Success of the Stimulus
A look back on the statements of our esteemed veep.

--Republican Leaders Meet with the Extremely Beatable Barack Obama
Ryan gets standing ovation at White House summit.

Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page
» Panic: Superbug Spreads on Vegetables in Europe
» Moody's Warns of Rising Risk to US Credit Rating
» What Happened to That Freedom Movement in Egypt?

--We All Knew About Obama, Mitt
Gov. Romney announces what we knew years ago.

--Can't Separate Obama and Policies
The man and his policies are one in the same, America.
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*Saturday through Sunday morning - An addition to my booklist of political books - covering Democrats, Republicans and other interested parties.