Hot air and baloney bubbles

So the stock markets went nuts over a "great" employment report. Guess what, morons. To get back all the jobs that have been lost since the real estate bubble burst, we'd need that much improvement every month for about a year and a half. Do you really think that's going to happen? I don't. What I want to know is, with all this talk about "job creation," what kind of jobs were created? Part time with no benefits? Minimum wage burger slinging? That sort of thing is what I suspect. But just watch. This probably half-phony report will be used as an excuse to try to cancel the payroll tax reduction, and the GOP will continue to push for more tax cuts for the richest Americans.

I see the Susan G. Komen Foundation is now back-pedaling on their decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood. No, I don't believe for one minute that they were not influenced in that original decision by the political and religious right. Those groups hate Planned Parenthood passionately. And I can see no reason at all for Komen to cut off funding grants to the group unless it was being influenced by anti-abortion groups in some way. Nothing they say now can erase that doubt. They've lost their credibility with me and also lost the hope of any future support from me.