Thursday, June 9

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a 30 degree drop from yesterday.  and a huge rainstorm going on now. 
the unemployment figures were released today, and the "unexpectedly went up"...you'd have to be a total moron to have not expected unemployment to get worse.  Inflation is beginning to run rampant, gasoline prices have not gone down (even though the barrel price is down significantly from its high) and the financial situation of pretty much the whole world is in shambles.  The saying "when America sneezes the world catches a cold, when America gets a cold, the world gets pneumonia" is pretty much b.s. these days.  I guess using that logic, America has infected the rest of the world with its financial problems.  too bad our president has no clue of how to fix things....I imagine there is no fixing what is wrong.  and so we embark on such brilliant strategies such as bailing out Greece (we have all seen how quickly Greece stepped up to help us, right?), giving aid to China (the country that we owe trillions to), banning oil drilling in the US (gotta remain a slave to the middle east) and fighting expensive wars that do not benefit this country.  again, does anyone see a method to this madness?  I don't believe there is one...and, oh, btw - Obama's economic genius is leaving the cabinet to resume his teaching career.  I suppose since the economy is all fixed, he can move on, right?

and we swirl just a little lower in the toilet.

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