I have to laugh at the left's cry of how horrible our economy is/has been. I've lost 4 employees (out of 45) in the last couple of years due to them opening their own businesses (President's 'entrepreneurship' in action) after getting low-interest loans, and others who've left because of other opportunities they've wanted to pursue. In the meantime, finding enough bodies to fill positions is a killer. We're constantly short-handed. There are more jobs than those willing/able to fill them, and I say willing because I figure of the unemployed, there are the unemployable, and the ones who are waiting for the 'perfect job' for themselves to come along.

Ha! Good one! Like Krugman's head would in any way be affected by a fact.

Uncle Jefe,

If the open positions at your company involve serious, professional-quality tough talking, may I recommend lauraw?

"Tax revenues up 13.7%"

Oh jeff, where are you? You've got some 'splainin' to do!

To remind you of your protosexual longings when he was on the cover of Tiger Beat, posing in a kinda-gay two-shot with Sean Cassidy.

Must you ruin everything you touch? Have you no sense of decency? Sir, at long last, HAVE YOU NO DECENCY?

To remind you of your protosexual longings when he was on the cover of Tiger Beat, posing in a kinda-gay two-shot with Sean Cassidy.

Wow, Ace. Now that I think of it, that is kind of written like you own that issue of Tiger Beat, and know from whence you speak.

Sean. Cassidy. pubic. hair. Pluck my eyes out!

I go from avocado rape victim to Mallory in three tips.

That Ace of Spades lifestyle sure is a head spinner. What's klonopin, and where's the nearest Valu-Rite?

The pity is that that Krugman didn't take that bitch Maureen with him.

Klonopin is overrated, unless you actually have a seizure disorder . For garden variety depressives, I'd recommend Ativan instead.

Klonopin is overrated

OK, but have you tried it with a valu-rite vodka enema?
Bitchin'

John Kerry and Howard Dean assure me this can't possible be the case.

There's something wrong with the numbers - you need to keep reconting until you get the "correct" answer.

The sad part about this fantastic economy is the fact that most Americans DON'T feel the economy is doing well, and they don't give Bush high ratings on the economy.

Of course, the steady drumbeat of negative spin from the alphabet evening newscasts has a little to do with it, but most people just don't have an f'ing clue.

If they're not happy with 4% mortgage rates and 5% unemployment, wonder how they would feel with 7% mortgages and 8% unemployment?

But still, Ace, I gotta give you credit for doing so much heavy lifting. It's blogs like you that are breaking the embargo, and getting the word out.

But any new jobs are just "hamburger flipper" jobs, while Chimpy McHilterburton's rich republican buddies cash in on the oil we invaded Iraq for as Americans are strangled by record gasoline prices and inability to afford healthcare and as the environment is being destroyed...right?

I don't want to hear any good news while the antichrist is in the White House. Excuse me while I go read the impartial NYTimes and watch the impartial CBS news.

Dog - I bought my house back when those conditions existed back around 89'. I thought I was lucky to get a 9% rate.

$89K for the who shebang at the time - now I'm told this modest 3/2 hovel is worth well over $220,000. I'm tempted to put it on the market and and cash in on some of this "economic nightmare" the dems keep whining about.

Yes, I was also going to say something about the increase in most house prices, but I don't really consider that a net gain, unless someone is planning on selling in a high price area and then moving to a lower price area. After all, you'll always need a place to live.

But Michael Ironside's character was the survivor in 'Scanners' climactic battle. His body at least, after his younger brother took over at the cost of his own body.

As I recall, Leif Garret is an occasional guest poster at Protein Wisdom...

Coincidence?

I think not.