Reformed Chicks Blabbing

I'm going to be hanging out with my family today, so no blogging (or even tweeting or facebook). Real conversation, not electronic :-)

I'll leave you with this. The real reason famous people die in threes :-)

If you allow "In God We Trust" on a license plate, then you really have to let an atheist put a "No GODS" license plate on his car. Just seems like the fair thing to do in a society that guarantees our freedom to practice the religion of our choice whether that means acknowledging God or rejecting him.

Hemant Mehta says that the plate was rejected because it was offensive. Actually, I don't think the license plate is offensive, I just think it's part of a sentence that I can finish myself, "No GODS but God" :-) I wouldn't mind seeing that plate because it's a reminder that I worship the Almighty God.

But in Louisiana they are a lot more tolerant. They approved an atheist's "GODLESS" license plate after rejecting it.

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CNN has a clip of it:

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That's the highest number since 1983. We lost 467,000 non-farm jobs in June which was worse than analysts had predicated. The average working week is 33 hours, that's the shortest week since the Labor Department started keeping track (1964).

And the construction industry lost 79,000 jobs:

For the specific industry sectors tracked by the government, manufacturing and professional and business services took the brunt of the pain in June. Manufacturing jobs contracted by 136,000 people, while construction jobs shed 79,000 people. Retail lost 21,000 people while the business service industry shed 118,000 jobs.

The number of part-time workers who want to work full time has doubled since the beginning of the recession:

The number of people considered "involuntary part-time" workers, or citizens wanting to work full time but for job or economic reasons cannot do so, remained at 9 million people. That figure is up 4.4 million from the start of the recession.

Total unemployment, which includes involuntary part-time and discouraged workers among others, rose to 16.5% - showing that this recession has impacted about one of six workers in the U.S.

So, it looks like the president's stimulus package hasn't lived up to his hype, maybe that's why he's losing support among Independents.

So, what do you think? Obama doing a good job on the economy or it's really not his fault since it's beyond his control? Or is it all Bush's fault?

And then there's this:

@markknoller Though WH thinks worst job losses may be behind us, still expects the unemployment rate to hit 10% in next month or two.

Um...if they're expecting 10% unemployment the worst hasn't happened yet, right? And remember this is from the same guy who promised that if they passed the stimulus, unemployment wouldn't go above 8%. Yeah, this is what you get when you accept the economic predictions of a politician.

They've removed it from their website, they were getting complaints:

"We make a point of listening to our customers," a Microsoft representative said in an e-mail Thursday morning. "We created the OMGIGP video as a tongue-in-cheek look at the InPrivate Browsing feature of Internet Explorer 8, using the same irreverent humor that our customers told us they liked about other components of the Internet Explorer 8 marketing campaign. While much of the feedback to this particular piece of creative was positive, some of our customers found it offensive, so we have removed it."

The ad agency is still displaying their ad (be warned if you have motion sickness the spinning wheel may cause you to recreate the ad).
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