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demhater asked:


The reality is that average daily spending overall, including Christmas gifts, needs to show an increase of 30% to 40% from its current level of around $65 just to match readings from Gallup’s Consumer Spending measure of $90+ during last year’s Christmas season — a spending level higher than Gallup has found for any week so far in 2009. This may be possible if consumers have been holding back on their spending and plan to let go for the holidays. The huge sums investors are making on Wall Street could also help some high-end retailers. Still, consumers face tighter credit and a much higher unemployment rate this Christmas — not to mention reduced inventories and the related possibility that this year’s holiday sales may not be as good as last year’s.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124304/Gallup-Economic-Weekly-Waiting-Holiday-Cheer.aspx

CAROL

turd furgeson asked:


http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/31/airline-terrorism-al-qaida-opinions-columnists-claudia-rosett.html

“Isolated extremist” was the label President Barack Obama initially slapped on the Nigerian Muslim who flew into Detroit on Christmas Day, burning himself in a botched attempt to take down the plane with explosives sewn into his underwear.

If anyone seems isolated here, it is the U.S. president himself. For three days after the terrorist attack, Obama carried on with his Hawaii holiday, “monitoring” the situation while leaving his staff to deal with the public. When Obama finally appeared on Monday to make a statement, he gave a boilerplate nod to the potential terror connections of the “suspect,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: “We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.” But in the same statement he went on to say that “This incident, like several that have preceded it, demonstrates that an alert and courageous citizenry are far more resilient than an isolated extremist.”

At what point, in Obama’s scheme of the universe, did Abdulmutallab qualify as “isolated?” By the time Obama spoke up, Abdulmutallab himself had already confessed to U.S. authorities that he’d trained with al-Qaida bomb-makers in Yemen. Weeks earlier, Abdulmutallab’s father had warned U.S. officials that his son had become radicalized by Islamic extremists and might be in contact with terrorist groups. Before the attack, the name of the “suspect” was already listed in the ample company of some 400,000 likely terrorist affiliates, if not on an actual no-fly list. By the time Obama spoke, al-Qaida’s Yemen franchise itself was chiming in to take credit for the Christmas airliner demolition plot.

Lady

John S asked:


Are these kids idiots?! Do they not know what is going on in the southern borders? Do they not know that the Cartel gang is pretty much killing a lot of people right now? What the hell is wrong with these kids?

Starr

Joseph L asked:


How can this be when we no longer have Christmas vacation or Easter.
It is now winter and spring vacation.
What are they breaking for?
You can’t sing Christmas carols or religious songs at the winter break.
You can’t make pictures of Santa Clause.
Has sanity left the contry?

LATOYA

Mr. E Man asked:


You have to WORK or go to school in order to GET a vacation.

Justin

italiandudeinchicago82 asked:


All these global warming nuts dont practice what they preach. They fly around in private jets and caravans of suv’s but tell us to drive junky little go carts. Nancy Pelosi is dropping a bipartisan effort to drill but she won’t. Could it be because she has stock and investments in wind energy companies. She disclosed this on her financial disclosusre thing herself so its true.
Hookem, you said she’s in bed with T Boone Pickens, really bad mental image there.

Joyce

Jdufy F asked:


I am writing a literature review essay..and i have to discuss about the political impact of solar energy..can anyone give me some advices or examples for what i can do about this topic.

Brian

Steve asked:


Not including the green jobs the free market has already taken into account.
Wind energy costs 25% more than coal. In essence our energy productivity will go down by 25%.
Whenever has productivity going down created jobs?
Do not give me the foreign oil, the only time foreign oil is used in energy production is for peeker plants. Wind can not replace that.
As an engineer I like the idea of power and all kinds of power. Also as an engineer I can not see a more expensive means creating jobs.
The 25% more espensive is from my Mechanical ENgineering hand book.
One coal generator vs. about 10,000 for wind for the same power.
where to begin.
I am an engineer.
We wast more energy at night than we currently or probale ever will get from wind.
If you borrow money to put in a plant, the building of the plant is a net zero jobs. As jobs are eliminated from other areas as you pay that back.
Wind will take jobs away from other industries, raise your monthly rate, taking jobs away from other areas.
I never said I was against wind (although we should focus on storage first) I just asked how it would create jobs.
We can still make coal and Nuclear cheaper as well. It was not that long ago the guy designed the new hopper (funny shaped) that prevented cloggs.
Thunder B,
I have evidence from several engineering manual. The link ou produced neglects the energy wasted due to the fact the wind does not blow.
If wind was cheaper it would go in under private investment. And T BOONE pickens would not need money to get it going.
qris,
Productivity decreasing does not create jobs. It may increase the job for that industry, but that means it must cost more and decrease jobs elsewhere. If you it takes a plumber 2X as long as one, you will be out more on plumbing and less on other things.

Dorcus