Displaying 2,011 To 2,040 Of 2,270 Comments New Pepsi Rapture. When you are tired of the mortal coil… » Posted By funksands On June 9, 2011 @ 7:46 pm Ad, I don’t understand, Julia Robert was perfectly believable as a hooker, an activist, and a cancer victim. She’s perfect. » Posted By funksands On June 9, 2011 @ 5:25 pm Eviscerating Urine!!! » Posted By funksands On June 9, 2011 @ 4:46 pm LeBron Watch!! Why did LeBron James, with his best chance to win a title in his career, completely and inexplicably disappear in game 5? According to rumors, he had just found out that his fiancee had slept with fellow NBA’er Rashard Lewis. Ouch. That will distract one a bit. Awful…..just awful….shame…. I wonder if Cuban can sign him for game 6? 🙂 » Posted By funksands On June 9, 2011 @ 3:57 pm I am totally doing that tomorrow. 🙂 » Posted By funksands On June 9, 2011 @ 3:01 pm I hear they had to bust down the door of his hotel room bathroom. They found him on the toilet sobbing uncontrollably. All they could pick out between gasps, sobs, and chest heaves was “I am such a douchebag!! Why am I such a douchebag?” » Posted By funksands On June 9, 2011 @ 1:15 pm Bito: Maybe Newt has cancer and his staff felt that leaving him was the only honorable thing to do. » Posted By funksands On June 9, 2011 @ 12:47 pm Ad, I thought every day in Alabama was “Slavery Appreciation Day”. » Posted By funksands On June 9, 2011 @ 11:59 am Data Watch ——————————————————————————– Brian S. Wesbury – Chief Economist The trade deficit in goods and services shrank by $3.1 billion to $43.7 billion in April. The consensus expected a trade deficit of $48.8 billion. Exports increased $2.2 billion in April, led by petroleum. Imports declined $1.0 billion, led by autos/parts and oil. The decline in oil imports was due to lower volume; oil prices climbed in April. In the last year, exports are up 18.8% while imports are up 15.9%. The monthly trade deficit is $2.2 billion larger than last year. Adjusted for inflation, the trade deficit in goods is $0.1 billion smaller than last year. This is the trade measure that is most important for calculating real GDP. Implications: Record exports and lower imports sharply reduced the trade deficit in April. This was largely due to two factors: (1) a drop in imports of autos and auto parts, primarily due to recent disasters in Japan, and (2) a change in petroleum flows, with the US increasing its exports and reducing its imports in the face of higher prices. Today’s trade data are the flip side of some recent weaker data on domestic auto production and auto sales and will partially offset the negative impact on GDP. As a result, we are raising our forecast for real GDP growth in the second quarter from a 1.5% annual rate to 2%, with much faster growth in the second half of the year. In addition, revisions to trade data suggest that real GDP growth in the first quarter will be revised up to a 2.2% annualized growth rate from 1.8%. Despite the reduction in the trade deficit in April, total trade volumes continued to rise. Exports plus imports are now only 0.7% below the record peak of mid-2008. Exports are already at a record high and up substantially from a year ago. In other news this morning, initial claims for unemployment insurance increased 1,000 last week to 427,000. Continuing claims for regular state benefits declined 71,000 to 3.68 million. These figures suggest a rebound in payroll job creation in June after the lull in May. » Posted By funksands On June 9, 2011 @ 9:13 am Done. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 9:47 pm Thanks Sally. All we do all year long is fund-raise to try to keep the school open. It shouldn’t be this hard to take care of the most vulnerable of us all. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 9:43 pm Anyone ever come home after a tough day, craving some relaxation with a cold adult beverage? You can almost taste it on the drive home…. ….and when you get home find your options in the adult beverage dept. are slim to none…. …and the choice that faces you is: go to the store, or get really creative with what you have? I’ll let my vodka and hawaiian punch clue you into which I chose. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 9:36 pm Can you believe these f-ing mouthbreathers? » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 9:32 pm What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply. Sonia Taitz I feel your loss keenly. My autistic son has been enrolled in a unique program for the last 5 years. I cannot imagine losing it. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 9:29 pm Mississippi School District Sued For Allegedly Shackling Students To Poles For Hours Civil rights advocates have filed suit against Jackson’s public school district, claiming officials at one alternative school respond to minor violations by shackling children to railings and poles for hours at a time. Critics of the Capital City Alternative School in Jackson say the allegedly excessive punishment at the schools makes such students more likely to drop out of school – and commit crimes later in life. http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=19412 » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 9:20 pm Right there with you Sally. This has not been a good day at all. Ah well, life is a bumpy road. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 4:18 pm AdL: Count Scottula will not stop until he has drained that whole f-ing state. Everyone will work at Wal-Mart, get their prescriptions filled at Wal-mart, get medical from Rick’s medical clinics in Wal-mart, and then when they die they can drag themselves to Home and Garden and throw themselves on the Wal-Mart compost heap. He is horrible bastard. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 3:31 pm Anyone want a job? Specifically my job? Right now? 🙁 » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 3:27 pm Sally, I like you more every day. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 3:10 pm WTS: LeBron is a giant man-baby. He is a douchebag, hates puppies, is repsonsible for the Mississippi River flooding, talks to Sarah Palin every day and is a bedbug breeder. While I have no direct evidence for some of these claims, the mere suspicion should preclude him from winning an NBA title. » Posted By funksands On June 8, 2011 @ 3:09 pm Arguing with conservatives about Reagan is like re-enacting Monty Python’s “Ded Parrot” skit. “He raised taxes 6 times in six years” “No he didn’t” “Uh, yes he did, I’m looking at the websites for the bills right here in front of me” “Liberal myth” “Oookay, let me list them for you, and list what taxes they raised. Look here are the links!” “Oh, those just closed loopholes” “Uh…no rasing the Social Security tax, AMT, cigarette tax, telephone, and gas tax is no the same as closing a loophole.” “He lowered income taxes, he lowered taxes” “For some people he lowered taxes for others he raised them. Surely you can admit that right?” “Liar. He has beautiful plumage.” » Posted By funksands On June 2, 2011 @ 3:06 pm Martin Sheen as President Palin[img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EO9y4rGxvk[/img] » Posted By funksands On June 1, 2011 @ 11:32 pm …and then got his fat ass driven in a state car the last 100 yards to the baseball diamond. (Rachel Maddow) » Posted By funksands On June 1, 2011 @ 9:13 pm Hmmmm I’ll try the second video again…[img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs3T5e6mPpw[/img] » Posted By funksands On June 1, 2011 @ 9:12 pm She is quite possibly the only woman I know that I can safely call a….oh never mind. » Posted By funksands On June 1, 2011 @ 9:02 pm Video of Democrats getting booted from Gov. Rick Scott’s budget event The sheriff’s deputy explains at the start that you can have signs at the event, but the signs have to be in “support.” The deputy says he’s there on official duty and just doing what he’s told, but never says who his orders came from. (The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office did not return a pair of calls today.) The second video is a copy of Gov. Rick Scott’s controversial robo-call trying to gin up support for his budget vetoes. » Posted By funksands On June 1, 2011 @ 9:01 pm John Oliver is excellent in the beginning of the clip. » Posted By funksands On June 1, 2011 @ 8:57 pm Bito, I am convinced that Sarah is God’s idea of a cruel, slow-motion manual rapture. Ultimately the female Greg Stillson is destined to destroy the world. » Posted By funksands On June 1, 2011 @ 8:55 pm Check this out Jkk:[img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bZ_9B_RlGY[/img] » Posted By funksands On May 31, 2011 @ 8:36 pm Bito, I did find Newsweek’s abashed response from a day ago: » Posted By funksands On May 30, 2011 @ 8:30 amComments Posted By funksands
The trade deficit in goods and services shrank by $3.1 billion to $43.7 billion in April
Robert Stein, CFA – Senior Economist
Date: 6/9/2011
Couple interesting things to watch for in this video:
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