Mr Migraine himself has been traded to the Seattle Seahawks for a first a third and a seventh round pick. Not exactly Hershel Walker compensation, but not a bad haul for a player who in the best traditions of Viking receivers "plays when he wants". Definitely one of the most talented players in the league, but between the amount of games he missed to do migraines and injuries, and the games where he played hurt or ill, the Seahawks are taking a big risk by giving up that much and signing him to a long term contract.
The behind the scenes reality is that Harvin had run ins with both Childress and Fraser. While plenty of players had problems with Brad Childress, Leslie Fraser is known as a players coach who is very round around the edges. I see a bit of Stephan Marbury in Harvin. A player who simply didn't like the fact that with Adrian Peterson on the team, he was never going to be the "first option". He was demanding Calvin Johnson money or a trade, while rehabbing a sprained ankle away from his team (and trainers) in Florida... an injury that many didn't believe was actually season ending. One year he missed a majority of training camp for what was first supposedly a "family matter" that turned into a "migraine issue"... when the reality was that he was actually quite a headache over all. There were even rumors that he was threatening to "hold out" this year if he didn't get what he wanted. With little or no leverage, it's impressive what the Vikings got in return.
Perhaps Pete Carrol will be able to coax a 16 game effort out of Harvin and if so, Seattle looks to be a favorite in the NFC. For the Vikings, they free up salary cap space and are said to be going after one or more of the top wide receivers on the market, including Greg Jennings from division rival GB Packers. They also have two first round draft choices and with one of the youngest rosters in the league are looking to build on last years playoff season. Not to read too much into things, but the Vikings went 5-2 after Harvin went down, beating both Houston (on the road) and Green Bay during that stretch.
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George P. Bush Runs for Office in Texas
George P. Bush is officially running for Texas land commissioner — ending months of speculation about which statewide office the grandson of one former president and nephew of another planned to seek.
An attorney from Fort Worth and Spanish-speaker whose mother, Columba Bush, is originally from Mexico, Mr. Bush is considered a rising star among conservative Hispanics.
Mr. Bush, 36 years old, is the son of Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor who is considered a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate. He is the nephew of former President George W. Bush and the grandson of former President George H.W. Bush.
It's ironic that the press call the Kennedy family a dynasty when they really petered out after the first generation.
George P. Bush is the 3rd generation Bush and it's more than possible that he'll be president someday.
Rots o' Ruck. :-)
KARL ROVE STILL SORE ABOUT ELECTION NIGHT
Karl Rove is apparently still upset that Fox News called the presidential election too soon, the Washington Post reports.
"When asked about the papal conclave's quest to rack up enough votes behind a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, Rove -- inexplicably, un-self-awaredly -- steered the discussion into the vicinity of the moment when he balked at calling the state of Ohio -- and the whole presidential election -- for Barack Obama back in November."
Said Rove: "They do it the right way. They get to the final vote and the decision and then they let the smoke get it... Maybe there's a message there for American media Maybe we better wait, rather than try to call it, let the election go to its final conclusion and let the results speak for themselves."
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*snicker* To hear him talk, they called it WRONG.
Certain people sure did. ;-)
VVVVJAMES IN CAPITALS HAS A CONVERSATION with Herman Cain in small print
Cain: Obama Is Neither Dictator nor Leader
I SEE
Of all the things Barack Obama says, the most pathetic may be when he pleads with everyone to understand that he is “not a dictator.” I THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING WITH THAT REPORTER. He says this not for the purpose of exalting the separation of powers inherent in our system. No, he says it as an excuse for not accomplishing things. REALLY!
Why hasn’t he gotten the deficit under control? WHY INDEED? Why aren’t we seeing real economic growth? GOP INTRANSIGENCE, PERHAPS? Why is unemployment still way above 7 percent? SOMETHING TO DO WITH BUSH? Why do we lurch from one fiscal showdown to the next? BECAUSE THE GOP WANTS IT LIKE THAT?
Because Obama is not a dictator, you see. OH. I SEE. He can’t make those horrible Republicans do what he wants them to do, NOW THAT I AGREE WITH so Congress and the president can never make a meaningful deal on anything. UH...THERE WAS A PRETTY GOOD ONE IN THE WORKS, TILL BOEHNER WALKED.
I say this is the most pathetic because Obama’s problem is not that he isn’t a dictator. GLAD TO HEAR THAT. SOME PEOPLE HERE SAY HE IS. GLAD TO HEAR OTHERWISE. It’s that he’s not a leader. OH. The 43 presidents who preceded him were not dictators either, WASN'T NIXON ON THE WAY? and under them we did not see constant fiscal crises, trillion-dollar deficits, and a complete breakdown of the working relationship between Congress and the White House. I AGREE THAT THOSE 43 WERE NEITHER DICTATORS NOR BLACK.
There were certainly political battles, and I’m not saying by any means that the things that got done were always great things. THANKEE. But we have never seen anything like the constant drama and confrontation we’re seeing now. TWO OBSERVATIONS: 1) IT WAS WORSE IN THE CIVIL WAR AND 2)WE NEVER HAD A TEA PARTY BEFORE EITHER.
Let me explain the difference between leadership and what Obama does, because to him it might seem like he’s leading. DOES TO ME TOO. After all, the polls continually show that the public takes his side in the showdowns with Republicans. ISN'T THAT ONE GOOD SIGN OF LEADERSHIP? Doesn’t that mean he’s leading? I'D SAY SO. Doesn’t that mean he’s selling his ideas to the public YEP and the Republicans are just being obstinate in their refusal to go along? YOU CALLED IT RIGHT!
No. NO? That’s not leadership. OH? That’s political gamesmanship. OH? Obama is very good at that. SURE IS! :-) Political gamesmanship means that on any given day, you can convince a fed-up citizenry to be madder at the other guy than they are at you. ISN'T THAT WHAT THE GOP HAS TRIED AND TRIED TO DO AND FAILED? Or you can impress the media with the notion that you’re outmaneuvering the other guy politically, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE! such that they praise you for your shrewdness YEP! and the public reads headlines of another “win for Obama.” WHAT SHOULD THEY CALL HIS OUTMANEUVERING SUCCESSES? FAILURES?
Political gamesmanship keeps your poll numbers looking good, it’s not leadership. I SEE... Leadership is when you honestly put forward your vision for the nation, NOW THAT OBAMA DOES WELL! and the public is so sold on your vision that they not only support it but demand that their representatives in Congress do the same. ISN'T THAT WHAT'S COMING DOWN THE PIKE?
VVVVJAMES IN CAPITALS HAS A CONVERSATION with Herman Cain in small print
Cain: Obama Is Neither Dictator nor Leader
I SEE
Of all the things Barack Obama says, the most pathetic may be when he pleads with everyone to understand that he is “not a dictator.” I THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING WITH THAT REPORTER. He says this not for the purpose of exalting the separation of powers inherent in our system. No, he says it as an excuse for not accomplishing things. REALLY!
Why hasn’t he gotten the deficit under control? WHY INDEED? Why aren’t we seeing real economic growth? GOP INTRANSIGENCE, PERHAPS? Why is unemployment still way above 7 percent? SOMETHING TO DO WITH BUSH? Why do we lurch from one fiscal showdown to the next? BECAUSE THE GOP WANTS IT LIKE THAT?
Because Obama is not a dictator, you see. OH. I SEE. He can’t make those horrible Republicans do what he wants them to do, NOW THAT I AGREE WITH so Congress and the president can never make a meaningful deal on anything. UH...THERE WAS A PRETTY GOOD ONE IN THE WORKS, TILL BOEHNER WALKED.
I say this is the most pathetic because Obama’s problem is not that he isn’t a dictator. GLAD TO HEAR THAT. SOME PEOPLE HERE SAY HE IS. GLAD TO HEAR OTHERWISE. It’s that he’s not a leader. OH. The 43 presidents who preceded him were not dictators either, WASN'T NIXON ON THE WAY? and under them we did not see constant fiscal crises, trillion-dollar deficits, and a complete breakdown of the working relationship between Congress and the White House. I AGREE THAT THOSE 43 WERE NEITHER DICTATORS NOR BLACK.
There were certainly political battles, and I’m not saying by any means that the things that got done were always great things. THANKEE. But we have never seen anything like the constant drama and confrontation we’re seeing now. TWO OBSERVATIONS: 1) IT WAS WORSE IN THE CIVIL WAR AND 2)WE NEVER HAD A TEA PARTY BEFORE EITHER.
Let me explain the difference between leadership and what Obama does, because to him it might seem like he’s leading. DOES TO ME TOO. After all, the polls continually show that the public takes his side in the showdowns with Republicans. ISN'T THAT ONE GOOD SIGN OF LEADERSHIP? Doesn’t that mean he’s leading? I'D SAY SO. Doesn’t that mean he’s selling his ideas to the public YEP and the Republicans are just being obstinate in their refusal to go along? YOU CALLED IT RIGHT!
No. NO? That’s not leadership. OH? That’s political gamesmanship. OH? Obama is very good at that. SURE IS! :-) Political gamesmanship means that on any given day, you can convince a fed-up citizenry to be madder at the other guy than they are at you. ISN'T THAT WHAT THE GOP HAS TRIED AND TRIED TO DO AND FAILED? Or you can impress the media with the notion that you’re outmaneuvering the other guy politically, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE! such that they praise you for your shrewdness YEP! and the public reads headlines of another “win for Obama.” WHAT SHOULD THEY CALL HIS OUTMANEUVERING SUCCESSES? FAILURES?
Political gamesmanship keeps your poll numbers looking good, it’s not leadership. I SEE... Leadership is when you honestly put forward your vision for the nation, NOW THAT OBAMA DOES WELL! and the public is so sold on your vision that they not only support it but demand that their representatives in Congress do the same. ISN'T THAT WHAT'S COMING DOWN THE PIKE?
The public is not demanding that Congress support Obama’s vision. NO? I THOUGHT THEY WERE. Most of them don’t even know what it really is because he doesn’t tell them. HMMM. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF WHITEHOUSE.GOV? For example, people hear Obama say we need a “balanced approach” RIGHT! to reducing the deficit RIGHT! that combines “revenues” (tax increases) RIGHT! and spending cuts. SURE!
--MAKES SENSE TO ME. MAKES SENSE TO EVERYBODY OUTSIDE WASHINTON.
That sounds good, SURELY DOES! but what Republicans in Congress know is that Obama
a) has no intention of seriously cutting spending; I THOUGHT HE WAS REAL SERIOUS ABOUT THE DEAL THAT BOEHNER WALKED AWAY FROM
and b) has never proposed a tax increase that makes even the tiniest dent in the massive deficit. THEN IT OUGHT NOT TO HURT THE VERY WEALTHY MUCH.
That’s why it’s not leadership. SUCCESS IS NOT LEADERSHIP?. If Obama had a plan that would really balance the budget by cutting spending and raising taxes, and the public was behind the plan, Republicans might not like it but they might feel compelled to support it anyway lest they feel the public’s wrath. DON'T LOOK NOW, BUT I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S COMING ON DOWN THE PIKE.
But since they know Obama has no such plan, NO? and has misled the public through political gamesmanship, POOR, POOR PUBLIC. SUCH GULLIBLE SHEEP! they recognize it is merely a political trap for them to support his agenda. YOU MEAN, PEOPLE THINK THAT OF HIM AND YET HIS POLLS ARE SO HIGH?
So he’s left to whine about not being a dictator. AGAIN, HE WAS JOKING, NOT WHINING. HE POINTED OUT THAT HE COULDN'T JUST LOCK UP THE GOP LEADERS IN A ROOM UNTIL THEY CAME TO THEIR SENSES AND PASSED MEANINGFUL LEGISLATION. *CHORTLE* Dictators need their absolute power because they can’t honestly sell the people on what they want to do. YET OBAMA DOESN'T TRY TO BE ONE -- YOU SAID SO YOURSELF.)Obama tries his best to baffle them with Bolshevik, HUNH??? and the media try their best to give him cover when he does so. HUNH??? But leaders solve problems, and the truth is that Obama has no solutions to the nation’s biggest problems. WONDER WHY SOME REPUBLICANS ARE PEELING OFF TO HIM? The fault of his lack of dictatorial power is actually caused by this: He is not very good at the job of being president of the United States. I GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT. WE SHOULD HAVE ELECTED YOU.
WHAT A MISSED OPPORTUNITY! *SIGH*
Heh. This will draw "obsessed" comments from the troothers.
Clearly, James thinks the voices in his head are real...
Scary isn't it? Joan of Arc he's not.
Heh. This will draw "obsessed" comments from the troothers.
Actually he's gone from obsessed to paranoid schizophrenia doughboy.
Tell your buddy he needs help.
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Pet owners listen up: You may want to start saving more money for veterinarian care this year. The reason goes all the way back to Washington and an unintended consequence from medical reform.
Dog owner Lori Heiselman was surprised where her veterinarian posted a warning on Facebook.
The notice read: “Because medical equipment and supplies will be going up in cost, that extra expense will have to passed on to the customers.”
BIG WIN,,, this is also going to cost us ranchers more.
Repeal and replace, the only sensible thing to do.
Why Gun Registration Laws are Dangerious
GUNS OF LAW-ABIDING HUSBAND CONFISCATED AFTER WIFE’S SINGLE VOLUNTARY MENTAL HEALTH VISIT
Just last week, the California Senate approved a $24 million funding bill to expedite the process of collecting guns from owners in the state who legally acquired them but have since become disqualified due to felony convictions or mental illness.
Such was recently the case for one woman, who had been in the hospital voluntarily for mental illness last year that she says was due to medication she was taking. Lynette Phillips of Upland, Calif., told TheBlaze in a phone interview Monday she had purchased a gun years ago for her husband, David, as a present. That gun, as well as two others registered to her law-abiding husband (who does not have a history of felonies or mental illness), were seized last Tuesday.
“My husband is upset that they took the right from us that should never have been taken, Phillips told TheBlaze.
They came in with no warrent, there is more due process in seizing assets from drug crimes than was showed this couple.
And the women's "mental health" problem? It was due to a medication she was taking and has since been cured.
No habemus papam, next vote is this afternoon.
ObamaNomics is by design.
For the middle class, expenses grow faster than paychecks"
When Debbie Bruister buys a gallon of milk at her local Kroger supermarket, she pays $3.69, up 70 cents from what she paid last year.
Getting to the store costs more, too. Gas in Corinth, Miss., her hometown, costs $3.51 a gallon now, compared to less than three bucks in 2012. That really hurts, considering her husband's 112-mile daily round-trip commute to his job as a pharmacist.
Bruister, a mother of four, received a $1,160 raise this school year at her job as an eighth-grade computer teacher. The extra cash -- about $97 a month, before taxes and other deductions -- isn't enough for her and her husband to keep up with their rising costs, especially after the elimination of the payroll tax break. Its loss shrunk their paychecks by more than $270 a month.
"If you look at how much prices are going up, you get in the hole really quick," Bruister said. "It's a constant squeeze."
In the wake of the Great Recession, millions of middle-class people are being pinched by stagnating incomes and the increased cost of living. America's median household income has dropped by more than $4,000 since 2000, after adjusting for inflation, and the typical trappings of middle-class life are slipping out of financial reach for many families.
Families with young kids are struggling to afford childcare and save for the ever-climbing costs of college. Those nearing retirement are scrambling to sock away funds so they don't have to work forever. A weak labor market means that employed Americans aren't getting the pay raises they need to keep up -- especially with big-ticket items such as health care eating away at their paychecks.
Economists say it boils down to two core problems: jobs and wages. The traditional "middle-class job" is disappearing.
Mid-wage occupations such as office managers and truck drivers accounted for 60% of the job losses during the recession, but only 22% of the gains during the recovery, according to a National Employment Law Project analysis of Labor Department data. Low-wage positions, on the other hand, soared 58%.
Uncertainty and insecurity are weighing down the middle class, even those who haven't had a break in employment. More than 40% of those surveyed in a recent Rutgers University study said they were "very concerned" about job security.
They're also not very optimistic about the near future. Fewer than one-third believe that economic conditions will improve next year, and an equal number think they will get worse, according to the Rutgers survey, conducted by the university's Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. Only 19% believe that job, career and employment opportunities will be better for the next generation."
Obama to these workers, work harder and longer to feed the needs of the Federal Govt, because he has no intentions of balancing the Federal Budget as we labor to balance our own.
Tone Deaf zerO
When zerO talks about balance, he means you balance your finances and he doesn't care , he has zerO intentions of doing so at the Federal level, giving us the reason he has failed to present budgets in past years and why FailureRied has not allowed a VOTE on the US House budgets .
Why should balancing the budget be the overriding priority for the federal government? " HE
Good question, because zerO has been talking, all he ever does on issues requiring leadership, for the last 5 years.
Think for a moment, you can figure this out, I believe even you have enough IQ to do it.
IF you falter I will be here to help you as always on all things financial, fiscal and Economic, after all , all your are is a HE.
Is Ryan an inflation fearing, gold standard nutter? It looks that way.
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-12/is-paul-ryan-an-inflation-nutter-.html
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-12/is-paul-ryan-an-inflation-nutter-.html
Drivel.
""If you look at how much prices are going up, you get in the hole really quick," Bruister said. "It's a constant squeeze.""
Move along, suck it up - according to the board economics professional, prices aren't going up anywhere - people can well afford everything.
There's a dozen (at least) chickens in every pot! Thanks to his Lord and saviour, Obama!
Note : HE only knows to talk down real on paper plan.
Reason, zerO has not produced one, and when he does it will not address the long term fiscal health of the US Govt.
2017 Fisker might have repaid the US Tax payer, HE is reading challenged.
“We don’t need a constitutional amendment to do our jobs,” ZerOtold reporters at his Friday news conference. “The Constitution already tells us to do our jobs -- and to make sure that the government is living within its means and making responsible choices.” ZerO
And so far he has done his job to an eye pooping 8 Trillion on the books new debt and 3 Trillion in new yet to be placed on the books Obamacare debt.
Liberals that voted for this kind of new massive historic transformative Debt are you getting enough or are you still believing it is sound economics to go into ever more debt?
CBO says 25 Trillion at just the Federal Level in National Debt by the end of 2020.
Good thing those trust funds at SS and Medicare are there, otherwise this could be worse.
The average 30-year fixed mortgage jumped a very sharp 11 basis points in the week to 3.81 percent for the highest rate since August. "
Here we go, those that are attempting to sell or buy property and need a loan, well, hold on those chicken (not the ones in every pot in the electronic welfare line) are coming home.
Where is CHicKen Jane? Did someone dress him?
Any One have Roger aka HE's real name I sure could use it to track down some data he is unable to share.
Thanks , just email me.
MBA Purchase Applications
Released On 3/13/2013 7:00:00 AM For wk3/8, 2013
Prior Actual
Composite Index - W/W Change 14.8 % -4.7 %
Purchase Index - W/W Change 15.0 % -3.0 %
Refinance Index - W/W Change 15.0 % -5.0 %
I know it is only data, what we need to do is happy talk ObamaNomics.
Ette look at one of the authors of the HE piece, HE never looks past the headlines and drill down a little to see what is really going on.
Chief Economist — Betsey Stevenson
Office of the Secretary
US Department of Labor
Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research
Chief Economist — Betsey Stevenson, DEMocrat
Good grief - she's a whacko like him.
Sigh.
Yep, IF only HE would take a moment and not hyperventate when HE thinks he has found some kind of gem.
Thanks for posting the quote verbatim in context last nite of Steffiee talking economics with the zerO.
It sent HE over the edge.
Oh this is fun. The Ryan budget is a joke. It leaves intact the recent tax increases. That has RedState and Rush both in a tizzy. It repeals Obamacare, something that will not happen.
It is based on future economic growth that no one in their right mind can accurately predict. It almost completely eliminates and federal education spending. And in reality is nothing more than 'Atlas Shrugged" written into a supposedly serious budget proposal.
And to top it all off, leaves intact Social Security and Medicare. This part is pure politics. After all the single largest portion of what remains of the Republican coalition consists of those brilliant old teatards who want to keep the government out of Social Security and Medicare.
HE post Obama's Budget so we can do some side by side analysis.
HE post Obama's Budget so we can do some side by side analysis.
"It is based on future economic growth that no one in their right mind can accurately predict."
That's what a budget does, you know that - right?
" It almost completely eliminates and federal education spending."
LOL! It does not, lol.
"And in reality is nothing more than 'Atlas Shrugged" written into a supposedly serious budget proposal."
Okay - where did you hear that line? LOL.
" And to top it all off, leaves intact Social Security and Medicare. This part is pure politics. After all the single largest portion of what remains of the Republican coalition consists of those brilliant old teatards who want to keep the government out of Social Security and Medicare."
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, knows SS and Medicare aren't going away - since that's the case, we'd just like to see them FIXED.
We'd like to see the billions and billions of dollars of waste and fraud in Medicare, AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - to cease and desist - you DO know what that means, right?
"The economy is not growing fast enough and there are still too many people out of work. Most troubling, the pace of improvement in the labor market slowed in the second quarter of this year," zero economy
Good news, his projections were all off, food cost are higher, income lower, taxes higher on 100 % of labor and higher fuel prices.
So all in all zeroNomics right on course fucking the Nation.
CONgrats Liberals, you WIN!!!
That's what a budget does, you know that - right?"
darn now that is funny, HE knows so little about finance, economics and budgets.
We have to forgive him, given he has not seen an Obama budget is such a long time.
Commensa says I need help, and yet HE tells ME I should gladly post here the name and address of my church and not make a big deal out of it, yet when challenged to do the same, makes a big deal out of it.
Knee slapping funny. We can always depend on Commensa for the belly laughs.
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