House GOP Holds 30 Times More Votes On Repealing Obamacare Than On Creating Jobs

Well at least it's keeping them out of trouble and giving them something to do. Heh.

House GOP Holds 30 Times More Votes On Repealing Obamacare Than On Creating Jobs

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Jobs Bill With Jobs in It? Rachel Maddow

The unemployment bill used to actually have "JOBS" in it(and Boy Howdee could I use one!)
Rachel Maddow explains pretty well. This is from her show last night:

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And speaking of jobs, I haven't heard anything from the interview I did on Friday. NOT a good sign. Didn't think I'd get it anyway but gave it my best shot, hoping...oh, well..

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Blog Check! - Photo; Orchidaceae, Summer Day, Close-up

Still around Net surfers(crickets...)!
Just awfully busy for someone who's barely makin'it. I did have a job interview yesterday. It went well and I knew going in that I didn't have a very good chance of getting it. It's just a receptionist/secretary position(yes, I'll GLADLY take a secretary/receptionist job, if it's FULL time with benefits!). I'm pretty sure they're looking for someone half my age, not my gender and probably a degree. It would be a pretty good little job though. We'll see, I gave it my best shot. If I don't hear by Wednesday I'll know I didn't get it.
Have to work tonight at my low-end part time job:-( Gotta start getting ready in a few minutes for that.
Anyway, I'm still kickin' and just wanted to check in.
Not much Blogging, Tweeting or anything going on these days. Here's one of the photo shots I took today on the deck.



An orchid I rescued that's been doing great out there in the semi-shade. Be back later. Going to look at some news. Like everyone I've been keeping my fingers crossed that the gulf oil leak is shut off for good. More later.

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New Jobs Programs and Other Fairy Tales

As often happens I agree with Atrios:

"..They* should unveil a major new jobs plan like today, and then spend the next few months talking about it nonstop even if they can't pass it..."
*Democrats & the Obama admin.)














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But we're just DFH's and all the serious, centrist tv talking heads knows that's crazy talk along with, cutting the defense budget, taxing the filthy rich more, off shore corporate tax havens, two eternal wars, etc, etc....Sooo don't hold your breath for anything even close to a decent jobs bill.

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For My Webby Scrapbook: My Job Applications List

For posterity's sake below is a picture of my job search lists for the last 12 months. 224 job applications. That doesn't include all applications because some I didn't right down but it's pretty close. Almost 19 a month, nearly 5 a week. A LONG difficult time. A lot of scary moments and a lot of sleepless nights.
On the lower right page you can see(just barely) one entry circled in red. That's the one I start April 1st. The job I'm working now is just make do work.



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I'm Logged In World! | Kentucky Vs LSU - Videos

I'm back Blogworld. If nothing else the Internet "tubes" will know I'm still kicking.
Here's a little item. Yesterday the Kentucky Wildcats demolished LSU, at LSU. It was expected to be sure, but when you actually start rooting for the other team to make a three pointer you know it's a blowout.
No matter if you like Kentucky basketball or not. If you're just an occasional basketball fan you should have fun watching some of the things these guys can do. Freshmen Wall and Cousins in particular. Here's some highlights:


Here's Coach John Caliperi's post game interview:


Here's a video of Demarcus Cousin's interview, mostly about how he's feels handicapped by referees watching him closer than anyone else.

Thanks to Sea of Blue and John Clay.

Still alive, and STILL doing the job searches every day. Got an interview Tuesday with American Income Life Insurance. I've read some bad things about them though and they've already deceived me about the job. So I may well call and negate that one, alas..alak.
Aah, well...Go Cats!

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Update: Career Resources Of Lexington | Throwing Your Money Away

Looking for a job in Central Kentucky and thinking you may need help in the search for a good career? Freshly laid-off and thinking about paying the professionals at "Career Resouces" of Lexington for that extra boost you'll need for a good job? My experience with Career Resources- I could have held my money(160 bucks) out the car window and let go with the same results and just as much action on their part.
Save your money, and make business cards. You'll do just as well.
And NO I wouldn't give a link if they had one...

..And there's your central Kentucky unemployment news update of the day.

Good hunting!

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More About Joining The Unemployed

I haven't been posting to the Blog the way I thought I might since finding out that I'd joined the legions of the nation's unemployed. So much more on my mind, fear for the future can have a crystalizing affect on priorities.
Unless I fall to caveman-like depths of no internet I'll not stop Blogging. The last few days have been hectic, frightening and strange mix. I'll find myself at times in a nearly zen state staring off into space in a varying combination of depression, disbelief and visions of what the future may hold for myself and my whole family.
I worked for this company for nearly 23 years. That's a LONG time for an employee "cushion" to build. Yes, I saw it coming but the reality still seems to have hit me like a ton of bricks. Just like it has thousands before me. The last time I actually "typed" up a resume was on an actual typewriter. That's a LONG time ago and a helluva cushion.
There's bright sides to this(maybe), in some ways. I may find a job closer to home, and not 30 miles round trip away. I may find a job that is interesting, fulfilling and challenging to me personally.
The ONLY enjoyment I had out of my old job in the last years was the coffee, Internet and email. I felt(and was) completely wasted doing what I was doing. I knew it and it made me feel bad every day.
One of the good things, if you want to call it that was, when watching the end results of Bushonomics on my tv news, I could at least think, "well my job may bore me to tears, but at least it pays decent(not good) and I have, barely decent(just barely) health insurance through it". Now is that reason enough to slog through the tedium of dozing off in front of my work computer each day? Well, yes it was, but I don't have that choice anymore.
A new future has been forced on me. It's frightening and terrifying in ways but I may come out of it happier. I can only hope.
Some late evening thoughts aboard the unemployed train.
Note: I've also found that sleep is not very good on that train. Henry David Thoreau said "most men lead lives of quiet desperation". If he were alive today, at my age with no job. He might change the "desperation" to horror.
P.S. I'm not sure what Edward Hopper's painting "Nighthawks" has to do with this but I like it. It has a similar feeling of late night alienation, foreboding and strangeness that I'm feeling at the moment.
Obama send me some stimulus, Now!

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Letterman's Bush Top Ten

You'll enjoy these.



And the best part: This embarrassing, evil clown has only about a week to screw our country any more.

Meanwhile, along with everything else. Job losses are the highest since 1945.

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