Archive for 2014

ED DRISCOLL ON MUZAK AT TRADER JOE’S: You Can’t Always Get What You Want. “It’s nice to know that even as he’s a month away from turning 71 years old, Mick Jagger can still offend someone.” To be fair, it’s just crazed feminists with trigger issues.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: International Monetary Fund cuts U.S. growth forecast.

The International Monetary Fund sees a more painful short-term future for the U.S. economy than the U.S. government does.

The IMF on Monday projected U.S. growth clocking in at just under 2 percent this year, a significant downgrade from the IMF’s projection of 2.7 percent growth last year.

The prediction, part of the IMF’s regular consultation with the U.S., also is well below the Federal Reserve’s most recent forecast in March of 2.8 percent-3 percent, although the central bank is expected to lower its expectations following its monetary policy meeting this week.

Some recovery.

CLETA MITCHELL TO THE IRS: Answer This.

THIS IS ACTUALLY A SECRET SUBSIDY FOR CARMAKERS: Going After Smartphone Map Apps In The Name Of Safety. “The department is intensifying its battle against distracted driving by seeking explicit authority from Congress to regulate navigation aids of all types, including apps on smartphones. . . . The measure has the support of automakers.” It has the support of automakers because they want to keep charging you $2000 for a nav system that’s not as good as your smartphone.

JOHN HINDERAKER: THE LATEST ON LOIS LERNER’S “LOST” EMAILS, WITH A BOMBSHELL AT THE END. “That is all very interesting, but the question remains: did Lois Lerner really lose the only copies of her 2009-2011 emails in a hard drive crash? In its correspondence, the IRS tried to prove the point by attaching an email thread in which the agency’s IT professionals sadly advised Ms. Lerner that they had been unable to recover her missing files. But if you read to the end of the thread (i.e., the beginning) you see Lerner’s email of July 19, 2011, in which she laments the loss of ‘personal files’ due to her computer’s crash, but never mentions any lost emails.”

WALKBACK: Colorado Governor Apologizes To Sheriffs Over Gun Control Laws. “This is curious. The GOP – with Tom Tancredo as their candidate – has been hot on the Democrat Governor’s heels for a while now, particularly since the signing of the gun control law. But as recently as last month, the conventional wisdom was that the crisis was past, Hickenlooper was out of the woods, and was sitting on a somewhat slim but still manageable seven point lead in the polls. He’s been faced with a number of other decisions which have drawn some of the attention away and mended a few fences, including some controversial drilling legislation and his veto of a water management bill which environmentalists had been pushing for. But if things were looking cozy enough to save his seat at the Governor’s mansion, why offer an olive branch to the Sheriffs now?”

FIRST CHELSEA CLINTON, now Malia Obama. “Why are all these stories about daughters? Is it because we keep choosing — for our high-ranking politicians — men with daughters? Is it because big media more easily accommodates females? Or do females find it easier to hop onto a career path built with political favors?”