Bits and Pieces for the Week of July 31 - August 6

You may never see anything like this again in your lifetime. (Mike)

This year The Atlantic's web site added a section containing timely and professional-quality photo galleries. (Mike)

Stop picking on truck drivers. (Mike)

The recovery is dead. (Mike)

It's becoming clearer day by day that the Obama whom people had elected is not the Obama they THOUGHT they were electing. If you review all his decisions during his term as President, it becomes crystal clear that he is a moderate conservative. He's done more for Republicans in 2-1/2 years than Bush did in 8. (Mike)

Banks' shadow inventory of homes will keep house prices artifically inflated, and keep potential buyers away. (Mike)

Labor's Discontent With Obama Surfaces Yet Again "We have now had at least three or more experiences of the president explaining to people that he has a plan and it is under control but the results don't match," said Andy Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union. "He has an unreasonable Congress that doesn't respond to reason. So why continue to reason with them?" Exactly Andy... WHY? (7 of 6)