340,000 layoffs equals 288,000 "new" jobs?

The Obama administration keeps touting figures for "new" jobs.  They never did spell out what makes a job "new".  I'm thinking that every single hire is counted as a "new" job.  In the same week they claimed 288,000 "new" jobs, they also announced 340,000 new claims for unemployment benefits, i.e. 340,000 people got laid off.  First thing anyone does after getting laid off is go right down and file for unemployment.  Put the two numbers together and we lost about 52,000 jobs last month.  They don't say that on the evening TV news.
   They do say that GNP growth has dropped to just about nothing.  0.1% is the number given, which is so low it might as well be zero. 
  Obama doesn't talk about that either.  At least he isn't blaming it on George Bush any more.

White House Coorespondent's dinner

Getting a lot of press coverage this morning.  Obama has a fancy dinner for all his lovers in the press.  How is this news?  We know the press loves him and covers for him. 

Up here trees are the enemy

Damn things keep growing, spreading, reseeding, putting up shoots, dropping leaves on the grass.  Around the edge of my lawn,  the brush and the saplings try to move in on the grass.  Shade it, bury it in dead leaves,  emit hostile pheromones.  The trees were staking a claim to 4-5 feet into the lawn.
   Can't have that, they will be tearing down the house next.
   Hedge clippers, very good against the pricker bushes, the saplings, the low hanging branches.  And lopping shears for the stuff too thick for the hedge clippers.  And a rake, a metal leaf rake.  I used to use a big bamboo rake but it isn't strong enough to tangle with the brush.  Any how,  I pushed the woods back a good 5 feet.  Long live the grass.
   Gotta wait for the grass to green up this year.  At least I got it all raked and looking better before the trees leafed.    

Meet and Greet Jim Rubins, running for US Senate

I'm doing a meet and greet at my place for Jim Rubins next Thursday 8 May 6 PM.  Jim is a Republican running for US Senator for New Hampshire.  My place is up at the top of Franconia Notch.
22 Ridge Cut Road
Mittersill
Franconia, NH 03580

The Mittersill driveway is a couple of hundred yards down the road from the Peabody Slopes parking lot at Cannon.  You can get off I93 at the Peabody Slopes/Echo Lake/ State Rt 18 exit.  It's one exit north of the Cannon Mt Tramway exit.

Obama fired general officers on the night of Benghazi

With the new Ben Rhodes email the Benghazi story is coming back to life.  As was obvious at the time, Obama spun the story, from a terrorist attack to a political demonstration.  The consulate held out under attack for seven hours that night.  Plenty of time to send reinforcements.  Commanders on the scene, General Carter Ham, and Admiral Charles M Gaouette were fired by Obama that night.  No explanation has ever been given.  Rumor has it that Obama fired them when they refused to recall rescue missions en route to Benghazi. 
   I noticed that while Bret Baier was roasting Tommy Vietor medium rare last night, he didn't ask about the firings of general officers with distinguished service records. 
   Put this together with retired Air Force general Robert Lovell, who testified before Congress that "We should have gone in."
  I think the real untold story of Benghazi is that the armed forces  attempted rescue missions but Obama ordered them to stop and return to base.  I think Obama sacrificed four brave Americans to prevent an incident that would have made him look bad, and demanded some serious US intervention in Libya, which he did not want to cope with. 

Microsoft does one more XP patch.

Despite months of XP whines about Microsoft cutting off upgrades and patches, a new "zero day exploit" (hole in Windows just discovered today) is so bad that M$ cranked out a patch for it.  Actually the hole seems to be in Internet Exploder Version 8, rather than in Windows proper, not that it mkes much difference to us users.  We don't care where the bug lives, we just want it squashed.  Anyhow, if you fire up Windows Update, and wait, the Exploder patch will download and install.

Sexual Orientation

We have a push to amend the New Hampshire constitution to guarantee equality (or something) for "sexual orientation".  Not sure just what sexual orientation means.  Is it a new word for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered?  Actually I, and everyone else, assumes that anti discrimination laws already on the books covers them.  Or is it a term that just covers boys who want to be girls and girls who want to be boys?  And what equality does it offer?  I can understand requiring equality in things like college admissions, apartment rental, hiring.  But what about more intimate jobs such as live in house keeper, day care provider, or nanny?
Apparently the NH senate has passed the amendment (dubbed CACR 17) and it's now over at the House. 
   I'm dubious about the value of this one.