Well, the recent economic good news has been a welcome surprise this week. I mean, it’s not anything amazing and Americans are right to feel apprehensive. But it always helps (the economy) to look on the bright side.
The first thing people should realize is that we are *not* in a recession. Laymen, especially journalists and pompous college campus know-it-alls, love to throw this term around. But the term “recession” doesn’t mean “an economy that isn’t doing so good.” It is defined by two consecutive quarters of negative growth. And that just hasn’t happened. The quarter that just wrapped up, the first in 2008, saw 0.6% growth in GDP. This isn’t awesome, but it’s also not a recession. Worth pointing out, at least.
And this nice article is just chock-full of positive information. Just look at the first paragraph!
Wall Street shot higher Thursday as investors, while anticipating another dismal jobs report Friday, viewed the rising dollar and falling oil prices as promising signs for the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average soared nearly 190 points to close above 13,000 for the first time since Jan. 3.
I’m not trained in economics, and frankly I find it all very confusing. But it doesn’t help for our journalists and politicians (who are probably just as clueless as me) to run around with doomsday language of imminent economic disasters. It depresses people, and then they don’t want to spend money, and that just hurts the economy more.
Horror Fiction’s ‘King’ Jackass
Ok, I’m sick of Stephen King running around making juvenile comments about politics. As far as his fiction goes, his contribution to the horror genre, I don’t care. All his movies suck, and you know it. The Shining was pretty cool, I guess, but only because of Kubrick’s brilliant hand. Not because it’s a cool or original concept or anything.
I’ve always been a Clive Barker fan myself, who oddly enough, and even though I disagree with him, never comes off as a tremendously clueless jackass when he talks about politics. He sounds like a down-to-Earth guy interested in having a conversation. Want proof? Check out Clive Barker and Ann Coulter talking with each other. But remember to ignore D.L. Hugley, who’s just a random jackass in the equation.
But back to Stephen King. I’m sick of his crap. Like it wasn’t enough that he was running around suggesting that we waterboard Jenna Bush. Yeah, great idea. It’s horrifying for liberals like King to picture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed getting some rough treatment by interrogators in order to save innocent men, women, and children from barbarous terrorist attacks.
But it’s much more acceptable for liberals to fantasize about waterboarding an innocent young woman, who has spend her working on things like UNICEF charities in Latin America and the United Nations Children’s Fund. Oh, and then she wrote a book about inspiring humanitarian work and is donating all of the profit to UNICEF.
That’s the girl who King says deserves to be waterboarded just to prove some idiotic liberal fantasy-point. Unacceptable, not funny, and demonstrative of a sick and deprived mind.
Then the bozo makes the same mistake that Kerry made just a few years ago…he insinuates that the US Military is full of illiterate apes who are too stupid and unqualified to do anything important. As if putting your life on the line to serve and protect your country isn’t one of the most selfless, noble, and character-building things a young person can do.
No, King would rather that they sit around their whole life writing thousand page books about spooky evil clowns.
And then, when he’s called on his ignorant comment, he’s not even sorry for it. He doesn’t apologize for being a condescending d-bag to the Americans that we will always owe the most to. King “fires back”:
Here’s the thing, King. No one is questioning your patriotism. No one in their right minds would consider you anything but a foul-mouthed traitor since your deplorable comment about Jenna Bush. What we’re starting to question by now is your intelligence and your sanity.
King should just shut up already, before the government decides to waterboard him.