Archive for November, 2008
The Economic Eeyores Blew it Badly
Will we be hearing stories this week about how the Economic Eeyores were dead wrong about their doom and gloom predictions for this weekend? I wouldn’t hold my breath. But they were wrong. Not only was Black Friday up a full 3 percent over last year, but this whole weekend was up 7.2 percent from [...]
When Somali Pirates Raised Their Ugly Heads, They Just Turned Their Tails and Fled…
Note to the Brits and the rest of toothless Europe. You may call them “unarmed security staff” but the Somali pirates call them “potential hostages”. They might as well send in movie theater ushers. I wonder if the British feel any shame that they’ve been showing their bellies to a bunch of thugs armed with [...]
I Don’t See Any Blackberries At This Meeting, But I Do See Motivated Citizens
These are the people who out-hustled conservatives this election season. Look and weep as you watch a room full of whinging leftists and dried-up 60s leftovers plan where to take the country now that they’ve won. And here we conservatives sit, yakking about technology and Sarah Palin’s IQ. How many of these meetings have been [...]
Don’t Push the Panic Button Yet. Black Friday Was A Good Friday.
I think the economic pouty-faces in the MSM are just guessing. All through this month they’ve been dooming and glooming about this year’s holiday season. The predicted 2.2 percent growth - a sizable chunk of money, mind you - would be ruination to the retail industry, they said. Every time I saw one of the [...]
That’s What You Said