This video clip below from Keith Olbermann does a very good job of explaining the smoke and mirrors shenanigans of the White House with the nonsense sold to Congress about having the military report what progress is being made. It is obvious the military will simply be handed the script to read and the script will be written by a bunch of staffers who probably couldnt find Iraq on a map if it werent labeled for them.
MjL 18 Aug 2007, 5:00 a.m.
18 Aug 2007, 6:00 a.m.
Aarons cheeks were a bit more swollen yesterday and I think it was a little more sore than he thought it would be. Still it didnt seem to slow him down much. He is getting frustrated with only being able to eat soft foods and has been making trips to town to get ice cream.
Noah came home from work with some very bad news. He is being laid off. He said they had gotten a new Caterpillar boss some weeks ago who is a Six Sigma idiot and this guy was determined to make his name with cost cuts. Noah got caught in the way of the cost cutting.
There were two guys in the department Noah was working in and they were swamped with work now the other guy, Nate, will really be overloaded. Noah says they (ATS, the actual company he works for) told him they might be hiring in late September to work somewhere else at Caterpillar.
In the meantime he will be going to sign up for Unemployment Insurance on Monday and will be looking for a job. We told him we would help him out as best we could and that he shouldnt be worried about losing his car or anything. I wont be asking for any more car insurance money from him until he gets back on his feet.
I told Noah just to chill out and not get too excited about it all; he has some money in the bank and we can help him. The worst thing he could do is to go hunting for a job with a look of desperation. I think he will find something before it gets too serious anyway hes a sharp guy and it shows.