09:00 – I see that Obama apparently ordered his minions to declare a surprising decline in unemployment to aid his campaign. Looking at the actual report makes it clear that these numbers have been massaged and spun to make Obama look good. In reality they are, as everyone expected, worse month-on-month and year-on-year. Of course, Obama is counting on the fact that the media won’t bother to look behind the headline number. The real number, the one that matters, is non-government, non-farm employment, which you’ll never see reported because it makes clear just how bad things are and that they’re getting worse with every report.
We’re working hard on a new batch of biology kits, but I’m afraid we’re going to run dry before the new batch is ready. We’re also down to about half a dozen chemistry kits, although we have another 15 of those that just need to be boxed up. Barbara is getting ready to head over to parents’ house, where the clean-up continues. They’re getting a bunch of stuff ready to be picked up Monday by Good Will. Once that’s finished they can start throwing a lot of stuff away, and then finally get started on cleaning the house itself. I’ll be working on more biology kit stuff.
11:45 – Not even close: The craziest things found in the refrigerator
They really need to visit our house. Compared to some of the stuff Barbara has stumbled on in our refrigerators, these folks are complete amateurs. Okay, I’ll grant you that the sheep’s brain would get an honorable mention here.
13:36 – This guy nails it: Obama did not ‘underperform’: we saw the real man
I almost sprayed Coke out my nose when I read the claim of Obama as an “intellectual giant”. Intellectual midget, more like. Although we’ve had some reasonably bright presidents, there’s been exactly one US president with a valid claim to that title: Tom Jefferson. None of the others have come remotely close.