I thought this might be a little good news start to our Labor Day.

Actually by the end of 2014 it is projected that the deficit will only represent 2.9% pf the GDP.

Gee imagine how much better it would be if the Republicans would lift a finger to help the President repair the economy.

Sit down kiddies, Sarah Palin's going to learn ya about unions.

Holy crap! Did you buy ANY of that?

Here was Wonkette's take on this drivel:

It start with some facts about the history of Labor Day that Sarah found on Wikipedia, about how hard-workin’ people built America. What do Republicans think of hard-workin’ Americans, you ask? “Fer ‘em!” Sarah replies. But then she brings up how Todd was in a union — elected treasurer, even! — and how that was fine because Todd was helpin’ some hard-workin’ guys up in Alaska, whereas the “union thugs,” the ones runnin’ the unions, they’re no good. She concludes this rambling saying that the true meaning of Labor Day is not about politics. 

At the end of the video, she takes a moment to address everyone who doesn’t have Labor Day off, and she thanks them for coming to work that day. 

So Palin has nothing against her union brothers and sisters' but flat out hate those union "thugs" don'tcha know?

I guess it does not dawn on Palin that those "thugs" ie union bosses, are union members as well who worked their way up. (And by the way if Todd was the treasurer, you know the guy that makes sure people pay their dues and keeps track of the payout, that kind of puts him in cahoots with those same thugs that Palin is dissing in this stupid video.

As for Palin's contention that the Republicans are on the side of union member, well that is simply Palin brand mooseshit.

Here is just a smattering of what the GOP has been up to lately to undermine or even destroy unions in this country, courtesy of Mother Jones:

From New Hampshire to Alaska, Republican lawmakers are waging war on organized labor. They're pushing bills to curb, if not eliminate, collective bargaining for public workers; make it harder for unions to collect member dues; and, in some states, allow workers to opt out of joining unions entirely but still enjoy union-won benefits. All told, it's one of the largest assaults on American unions in recent history. 

Behind the onslaught is a well-funded network of conservative think tanks that you've probably never heard of. Conceived by the same conservative ideologues who helped found the Heritage Foundation, the State Policy Network (SPN) is a little-known umbrella group with deep ties to the national conservative movement. Its mission is simple: to back a constellation of state-level think tanks loosely modeled after Heritage that promote free-market principles and rail against unions, regulation, and tax increases.

In the immortal words of Keith Olbermann, "The woman...is an idiot."

Conservative think tank decides to demonstrate their disdain for unions by working on Labor Day. Oh yeah, that'll teach'em.

Courtesy of The Seattle Times:  

Just when it seemed the right wing couldn’t get any more divorced from reality around here, a local conservative group has launched a protest against what it sees as a pernicious cultural touchstone. 

Labor Day. 

Yes, bittersweet old Labor Day — the first Monday in September, the holiday that’s been around for generations and is known to most non-ideologically blinkered Americans as an end-of-summer free day honoring all the hard work you put in the rest of the year. 

But to the Freedom Foundation, a business-backed Olympia think tank, the day is evidence of the power of unions, which to them equals the decline of America. Rather than stoop to taking a union-backed day off, they plan to fight the power by ... working all day Monday instead! 

“I can’t think of a problem in society that can’t be traced in some way back to the abuses of organized labor, so it would be hypocritical of us to take a day off on its behalf,” said Freedom Foundation CEO Tom McCabe, in announcing the “work-in.” 

That’ll show those unions who control everything around here. Let’s all go into the offices and the factories and work like dogs instead of barbecuing or watching parades! Who’s with me? 

Of course, if McCabe followed this principle to its logical end, he’d have to work every Saturday, too. Year round.

But why end with working Saturdays?

The unions are also responsible for out ability to be paid overtime, have lunch breaks, receive paid vacations, the 40 hour work week, safety standards, child labor laws, etc, etc., etc..

Clearly these idiots know NOTHING about American history.

Remembering when the Republican party could celebrate Labor Day with pride.

Could you imagine the GOP posting something like this today?

It just seems to drive home the point that the Republican has abandoned virtually ALL of its former principles.

(H/T to Mike the Biologist.)

Paul Ryan to young man asking how deregulating business will help create jobs: "Would you like some candy?"

Look I am going to give Ryan a little bit of a break here.

It must be a HUGE pain in the ass to have somebody confront you like this while you are with your family and not expecting it, however his response was SO arrogant and dismissive that it is hard to feel TOO sorry for him.

There are a number of ways in which Paul Ryan could have handled this more effectively, and asking this young man if he wants candy is certainly not one of them.

President Obama's Weekly Address: Honoring the American worker.

This election cycle is already starting to get ugly.  It is nice to hear from the "Grown-up-in-chief" occasionally.

Happy Labor Day!

I hope you are all enjoying this Labor Day so far. If you are off work I hope that you are spending some quality time with your family. And if you are at work, well then why are you reading this? Don't you have something to do? Just kidding, this is America, asking us to work hard on Labor Day is socialism.

If you click the title you will visit the Wikipedia page about Labor Day. (I am all about the learning.)

And speaking of learning, I did a little research on how Google decides which ads to display and came across this little nugget:

As users browse websites in the AdSense network, including YouTube, Google stores an advertising cookie in a user's browser to understand the types of pages that user is visiting. This information is used to show ads based on interest categories that might appeal to your users. For example, if a user browses many sports-related websites displaying AdSense ads or watches sports-related videos on YouTube, Google may associate a sports interest category with their cookie and show the user more sports-related ads.

In other words, the ads you see while visiting this site are determined by YOUR surfing history and not the content of my blog. So if you are seeing a SarahPAC ad (which surprisingly I have never seen) then that is being determined by the cookies on your computer.

Hopefully that clears a few things up. To be honest I also did not understand exactly how this Google advertising thing worked either.