Now that the tax revenue is coming in short of Christie’s glowing predictions, Christie yells “Get me Dr. Theodor Morell, we need more tax cuts!”
Ok, he didn’t actually yell that, but that’s what it sounds like to me.
Gov. Christie comes under fire as N.J.’s tax revenue falls short | NJ.com.
” ‘The rule is somebody builds a big shrine to themselves and that usually is the end of the company,’ said David Rudow, senior equity analyst with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a not-for-profit financial services firm . . .”
Hehe. C. Northcote Parkinson said pretty much the same thing in his 1957 Parkinson’s Law, and Other Studies in Administration.
Actually, I’m convinced that the high cost of college is being driven by the ready availability of loan money. And it will just get worse until we stop lending outrageous sums to people who have no prospect of ever paying it back.
Student Loans Weighing Down a Generation With Heavy Debt – NYTimes.com.
JPMorgan doesn’t understand how to manage risk.” Ok, but why is that? The answer is not too complicated: for over forty years, all the big Wall Street firms have been publicly owned. As a result, when they make money, the executives get huge bonuses; and when they lose money, the owners (i.e., you, your mutual fund, your pension plan) lose money. Thus the incentive to make big risky bets is irresistible.
What Jamie Dimon didn’t tell you on ‘Meet the Press’ – latimes.com.
Yup, NJ 3rd graders in 15 school districts across the state were required to write essays about their secrets as part of a recent standardized test. It’s all part of the New Jersey Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (NJ ASK), administered by Christie’s Department of Education.
Because the tests are mandatory, Christie can Bite Me.
State exam asks N.J. 3rd graders to write essay on secret they had kept | NJ.com.
Someone told state legislators in Kansas that they were in danger of being taken over by Sharia law. Like that could happen in a legislature where Republicans hold a supermajority in both houses. But the Kansans got suckered good and have passed a law to ban Sharia in their state. Someone should tell them about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide.
The ATF has issued a new rule that multiple sales of high-powered rifles in border states must be reported to the federal government. The rule would reveal which American dealers are most active in the deadly business of shipping arms to murderous Mexican drug dealers.
The gun-nut wing of the House, apparently thinking that the “right to bear arms” somehow means the “right to sell arms to any bloodthirsty foreign thug who comes calling,” crafted a measure to block the new rule and stuck into a budget bill. The Republicans who voted to do that can Bite Me. But the insane Democrats who supported them can double Bite Me.
House blocks Obama rule on border-state rifle sales – Houston Chronicle.
“David Gibson, a Religion News Service correspondent, said the crackdown shows that concerns about poverty and economic inequality are taking a backseat in the church. ‘There’s so much riding on the gay marriage battle, and on abortion rights, and on contraception that [bishops] want everybody in the church to be doubling down on those issues and not being distracted by social justice,’ Gibson told msnbc.com.
“Bishops have been playing defense for years in the wake of the church’s sexual abuse crisis, and Gibson said they’ve been looking for issues on which they can reassert their moral authority.”
via U.S. News – US priests reportedly behind Vatican crackdown on nuns.
House Speaker John Boehner is desperate to get attention off of gay marriage. While it was a nifty way to raise funds and stir up the core of the Republican Party, when it comes to getting the votes of undecided voters, it stinks. Unfortunately, Boehner’s candidate, Mitt Romney, went off message at a campaign stop in Oklahoma City yesterday. “I have the same view that I’ve had since running for office . . . my view is that marriage itself is a relationship between a man and a woman” quoth the Mitt.
Speaker Boehner wants to focus on jobs, not gay marriage – chicagotribune.com.
In New York, they balance the state budget by running lotteries, as well as taxing casinos, liquor and cigarettes. The clever state fathers in Topeka are going even further and levying a new luxury tax on abortions and abortifacient medications.
Reminds me of the late 90’s when the Federal government owned the Mustang Ranch. Way to go Kansas!
Abortion becomes a tax issue in Kansas House bill – Politics Wires – MiamiHerald.com.