Archive for February 10th, 2011

Joe Wilson was right … “you lie”

February 10, 2011

On Monday, President Obama told the Chamber of Commerce that he’s pro-business and would cut both regulations and taxes.

That was Monday.

On Tuesday, the White House proposed to allow cash-strapped states to raise unemployment-insurance taxes.

Last year, Obama’s stimulus law expanded eligibility for unemployment … and the duration of its payments.

Now, the White House is moving to impose tax hikes on employers to pay for it.

Let me get this one straight.

Extend unemployment benefits … then add an employment tax that makes workers more costly … then act surprised when some of the more costly workers are canned – adding to the unemployment rolls and costs … and then raise taxes on employed workers … and so on.

Not exactly a virtuous cycle …

Every time I start thinking these guys can’t be THAT stupid … they prove me wrong.

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Simple question: Why hasn’t Obama fired Ray LaHood?

February 10, 2011

Ray LaHood is Obama’s Transportation Secretary.

The guy who excorciated Toyota for making unsafe cars.

“I wouldn’t let anybody in my family drive one.  They’re not safe.”

No evidence.  Just hearsay.

No investigation.  Just anecdotes and ambulance chasers.

Toyota loses millions.  Government-owned GM surges.

Now, it’s “pedal misapplication”.  Not electronics.

Either LaHodd is totally irresponsible or frightfully conniving.

Either way, he should be fired

Let’s see if Obama has the moral clarity and ‘nads to do what’s right.

I’m taking the under on the bet …

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Keep your Bud, gimme a Walgreen’s … huh?

February 10, 2011

TakeAway: Cheap beer is nothing new, but private label beer is not so common.

But now, Walgreens is introducing its line of Big Flats lager across 4,600 stores.

As if AmBev and MillerCoors didn’t have enough to worry about, there might be some more competition among those companies’ low-end offerings.

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Excerpted from brandchannel, “Walgreens Offers Private-Label Beer,” by Jennifer Sokolowsky, January 31, 2011

Drugstores are the place to go to get your cough drops and allergy tablets, and now they are the places to pick up another kind of medicine — the self-medicating kind found in alcoholic beverages.

Duane Reade is luring Brooklyn hipsters by offering high-end bottled beer and fresh beer on tap to go in Williamsburg.

Now Walgreens is going in a completely different direction: offering its own private-label beer at the low end of the price scale.

Quietly introduced in mid-December, Walgreens now offers Big Flats 1901 lager in more than 4,600 of the chain’s 7,655 locations, according to the Chicago Tribune. …

Big Flats 1901 may be labeled “premium brew,” but its price is anything but premium at about 50 cents a can, or $2.99 for a six-pack, though prices may vary by region. …

Walgreens is surely betting that those who come in looking for cheap beer will probably leave with something else as well — and that those who come in for something else just might not be able to resist leaving with some cheap beer. …

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