Since the beginning of the recession (roughly January 2008), some 7.9 million jobs were lost in the private sector while 590,000 jobs were gained in the public one. And since the passage of the stimulus bill (February 2009), over 2.6 million private jobs were lost, but the government workforce grew by 400,000.
I think it’s exactly what they wanted to happen. Have to keep those public union people employed so they can keep providing the campaign cash. Especially when they can pass laws to shut down the opposition.
The deployment of “decoy Jews”…is being criticized by leftist parties such as the Dutch Greens. Evelien van Roemburg, an Amsterdam counselor of the Green Left Party, says that using a decoy by the police amounts to provoking a crime, which is itself a criminal offence under Dutch law.
Got that? If you go out looking like a Jew, and a Muslim physically assaults you, it’s your fault — kind of like it’s your fault if you’re a girl and your skirt is too short. To be on the safe side: Don’t look Jewish. And if you do look Jewish, you had better be Jewish, or the Dutch Greens won’t like it. Or something.
The new anti-Semitism is sometimes hard to keep up with.
Or, if you’re a Muslim, and you assault a Jew who is actually a Jew, that’s kind of bad, but if you assault a Jew who turns out to be a decoy — even though you thought he was a Jew — that’s not so bad, because you were tricked . . . or something.
The new anti-Semitism can give you a headache.
Maybe it would be simpler if they’d just return to the old days, and make the real Jews wear yellow magen Davids.
…elected by morons. Exhibit A: a Democrat county supervisor who thinks that Arizona doesn’t share a border with Mexico. As one commenter notes, Idiocracy is transforming from a comedy to a dystopia horror movie before our very eyes.
Am I the only person who wishes that the president would spend all his time on the golf course? Every minute golfing is one in which he can’t continue to wreck the country.
Clara Moskowitz attempts (as I have in the past) to dispel all of the nutty myths about the new space policy. Probably in futility. Some people will remain either wilfully ignorant, or will continue to lie about it to support their pork.
The Muslim Students Association of UC Irvine has been suspended for a year. I hope that school administrations at other places will start to grow a spine, too. But I think it’s too little, and way too late. Up until now, the behavior of the administration at UCI has been appalling, not just looking the other way, but actually justifying the MSA’s anti-semitic activities.
is transforming from a comedy to a dystopia horror movie before our very eyes.