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Justice Department Seeks To Hire Ebonics "Experts"

You have GOT to be kidding me.

The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.

A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media”

Guess not.

Hmm... Finding people in Atlanta who speak Ebonics?  Not hard I"m guessing.  Finding people in Atlanta who speak Ebonics AND can speak English?  That's an entirely different matter.

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Dayum nigga, I be all up in dat shee-it!  Head'n down ta 'Lanta tuh git me a dayum J O B so I can git paid in FULL.  Workin fo tha man though dawg?  Dat's aw-ight, maybe dey'll give me a gatt n a badge n shit!  Time to get my fly on y'all. 

BIll Whittle On The Ground Zero Mosque

Class is now in session. 

Hat tip to CMBlake6.

Roselyn Sanchez

I've been getting some flack for neglecting my Babes section, so without further ado here is this week's month's quarter's babe Roselyn Sanchez.

The 37 year old Puerto Rican beauty came to my attention when I recently screened Rush Hour 2 in my home theater. "DAMN!  Who is DAT?  OMFG she is tha HOTNESS!"

Hit Me

What's up with all these web hits I've been getting these last few days?  I went from 1,500 to 2,000 a day to 3,000+ all of a sudden.  Oh, the website for a UK TV show linked to me, and all their fans began linking on Facebook and Twitter.  Cool! 

Well this just means I'm closing in on half a million hits even faster now.  Perhaps I should have a contest or something to celebrate.  Any ideas fellas?

Quote Of The Day: Stossel On "Paying For" Tax Cuts

Via CMBlake6:

The stupidest thing said about tax cuts is the often-repeated claim that "they ought to be paid for." How absurd! Tax cuts merely let people keep money they rightfully own. It's government programs, not tax cuts, that must be paid for. The tax-hungry politicians' demand that cuts be "paid for" implies the federal budget isn't $3 trillion, but $15 trillion – the whole GDP – with anything mercifully left in our pockets being some form of government spending. How monstrous!

Exactly.  How the Republicans let the Democrats get away with this kind of distortion year after year is beyond me.  I think we need to haul them all out of Washington for yearly re-education camps or something!

Why Businesses Aren't Hiring

The Wall Street Journal published a brilliant editorial by Micheal Fleischer explaining why businesses aren't hiring new employees.  It's a must read.

[...] To offset tax increases and steepening rises in health-insurance premiums, my company needs sustainably higher profits and sales—something unlikely in this "summer of recovery." We can't pass the additional costs onto our customers, because the market is too tight and we'd lose sales. Only governments can raise prices repeatedly and pretend there will be no consequences.

And even if the economic outlook were more encouraging, increasing revenues is always uncertain and expensive. As much as I might want to hire new salespeople, engineers and marketing staff in an effort to grow, I would be increasing my company's vulnerability to government decisions to raise taxes, to policies that make health insurance more expensive, and to the difficulties of this economic environment.

A life in business is filled with uncertainties, but I can be quite sure that every time I hire someone my obligations to the government go up. From where I sit, the government's message is unmistakable: Creating a new job carries a punishing price.

Be sure to click over and read the rest.  It's right on the money.

EXIT QUESTION: How long before the MSM/DNC Cabal embargo on the failure of Obamanomics begins to crack?  I'm guessing right after the election.

Nanny State Liberation Front

Great new blog.  Add 'em to your blogrolls and/or Facebook.

The Mayflower

Brilliant Video, Great Idea

Here's a brilliant little video produced by Ten Buck Fridays.

The group is trying to organize coordinated donations of $10 per person each week via Facebook and direct them to the one conservative candidate who can make the best use of them to have a broader impact.  What a great idea!  Are you in?  

Hat tip to CMBlake6.

The Chevy Volt Just Doesn't Add Up

Doctor Zero did some math and finds that GM's new Chevy Volt just doesn't add up.

The sticker price is $41,000. However, with federal subsidies, you could pay as little as $33,500. Additional subsidies provided by the state of California could knock it down even lower, for residents of the Golden State. So what’s the price?

$41,000, of course. The subsidies just mean you don’t pay all of it. The utterly bankrupt federal government takes money from other taxpayers, and uses it to discount your purchase. Since California is teetering on the edge of total collapse, and may well require federal bailouts in the near future, taxpayers across the country could end up paying additional sums to support Volt purchases that happen to occur within the state of California. These transfer payments are mixed into the thickening concrete surrounding the American economy, making it just a few inches deeper.

I made a chart to illustrate the point he is making:

	Sticker Price	$41,000.00
	Federal Tax Credit	-$7,500.00
	Purchase Price	$33,500.00
	Initial Production Run	10,000
	Federal R&D Subsidies	$400,000,000.00
	Subsidy Per Vehicle	$40,000.00
	Actual Cost Per Vehicle	$81,000.00
	Car Buyers Pay	$33,500.00
	Taxpayers Pay	$47,500.00

And who would pay $81,000 for this $18,000 sedan with a battery?  Why, the US taxpayer of course! 

The Volt would not exist at all, if the government had not performed an elaborate voodoo ritual which involved burning $50 billion in taxpayer cash and sprinkling the ashes over the United Auto Workers union. This raised General Motors from its free-market grave, and placed it at the service of those who killed it. How much of this fifty billion should be divided among the Volt production run to calculate its true, final value?

The purpose of seizing money from taxpayers to finance the Volt was preserving the jobs of union members politically connected to the Democrat Party.

And there we have it.  The root of all this mess is votes for Democrats, just like the housing meltdown.  Go figure.  Is there no end to how many things they can fuck up?