Watching this map makes me feel lucky that I’m in one of the few counties that is still “yellow”, and I still have a job, but to see that it’s coming this way is disheartening. The data on this map (at this time) has only been updated through December 2009, when the unemployment rate was 9.3%. We all know that it’s went up, since then.
To know that there seems to be no real economists involved in making any decisions about how to recover from this makes me doubt that we will recover… at least for quite a long time.
Does anybody involved in making decisions about the economy actually know their history? I guess that they decided to skip the 1920-1940 years, since we learned that throwing money at the problem just prolonged the suffering, back then. Not only are they throwing money at a problem that they shouldn’t… they’re throwing it in all the wrong places. Top-down is not the way to fix this and stimulate the economy. This needs a bottom-up fix… something I haven’t seen anybody mention. Comment or Talk
You would think that CNET would know the difference between Steve Ballmer and Steve Jobs. I caught this screenshot, before they actually fixed the problem with the captions on this story.
I’m not judging, but it looks to me like Ina Fried has a lot of confusion in her/his life. It seems to be affecting him/her, or something. Focus!
Tomorrow, I’ll be a grandfather for the fifth time. My daughter is scheduled to have her daughter on Thursday. I will then have as many grandchildren as I have children.
It’s hard to believe that I only turned 40, about three months ago and I already have this many.
I’ll add more details, soon.
UPDATE: Maycee was born Thursday morning. She weighed 6 lbs. 11 oz. and was 19″ long. Both mother and daughter are doing fine. You can see her here.
In order to move on with this site, I need to get some things off my chest. Not that I can’t continue without getting it out in the open, but it will make things so much easier for me once I do.
I had met a friend online about five years ago. Throughout those five years we had become great friends, and had spent a lot of time together, talking on Skype, playing games, sharing our thoughts and views, and more. He had also become friends with my wife, and she would spend a lot of time with us doing the same (except for the political arguing).
In late Summer or early Fall of 2009, we had asked that he come down to visit us for the holiday season. We had a hotel room reserved for him that would have been no cost to him. We had purchased special things that we knew that he liked, such as food and coffee, and even had gifts that he would find in his stocking on Christmas Day.
As far as we knew, everything was set. He had his bus ticket “sitting on the desk next to him” and we knew what time he would be arriving in town.
Over the months between the planning and the time that he was to come, my wife and I had some doubts as to whether he would actually come, or not. There was no real reason behind the doubts we had… it was just a feeling. On the morning before he was to leave, my wife had talked to him, and she told me that she had no doubt that he was coming, any more.
Then… During the time that he “should have been” sleeping, packing, getting ready to leave, or on the bus, we discovered something that we still can’t comprehend.
We were friends of his on Facebook. Two of our sons and a daughter-in-law were also listed as his Facebook friends. All of a sudden, he removed all of us from his friends, there. We had also played World of Warcraft, and he was in our guild. Suddenly, his level 70-ish character (his only toon) was deleted. He hadn’t even logged on to delete it.
He still had friends listed when I looked at his Facebook page, but since I was no longer a friend, that was all I could see. He could not claim that somebody “hacked” his accout or computer and got rid of everything, since it was obvious that it was very selective. We received no explaination from him… no phone call… no email.
I actually held out hope that he was playing some sort of “trick” on us, and that he would call us at the time that the bus was supposed to arrive. That never happened.
What did happen is I had sent him one email… not asking for a reason, but to tell him how bad he hurt us. After that, I deleted any contact information, listings, bookmarks, and anything else that I had from him. Even though I had deleted everything, it didn’t answer the big question… “Why”… that I have. Maybe there isn’t a reason… or what he feels may be a “good enough” reason why. All that he had to do was make something up and we would have been okay with it.
Instead, he decided to burn a bridge. That wide river that took five years to cross now has no way accross, except to swim. I’m on the other side of that river and won’t be crossing it, again.
Welcome to the latest incarnation of Webfeed Central. Because there have been many things that have changed in my life, I figured that it would also be a great time to get rid of the old, and start fresh. With the new decade upon us, I decided to bring the site back to life without any reminders from the past.
I still believe that those who don’t know the past are doomed to repeat it, but in the case of this website, I will remember the past and try not to make any of the same mistakes that were made. Even though any new visitors may not know this site’s history, I would now like to keep it that way.
So with that, I’ll say “Hello” to all of the new visitors to the site and “Welcome Back” to all of our faithful readers (if there’s any of you that are still around).
