Manuel Noriega, Panama’s military dictator of the 1980s, 
is being returned to Panama today to a jungle prison and a 20-year term for the murders of opponents during his rule.
Having served sentences in the United States and France, now 77 years old, he has only 20 more years to go before he completes his sentence.
Link: The Guardian
Here’s a peek into the liberal’s version of what’s wrong with President Obama.
Tina Brown believes that he just doesn’t like his job. Jon Meacham compares him to Jimmy Carter, ‘a technocratic president who thinks he’s really smart and perhaps above it all.’
Apparently, these liberals don’t buy the ‘leading from behind’ explanation. Obama’s problem is he is President of a country that he does not like.
There’s really nothing more to know about President Obama than his roots. When you understand where he came from, everything he has done and wants to do to this country begins to make sense.
He is, was, and always has been a community organizer. Community organizers pit people against people. Those people with the pitchforks that Obama said he could unleash on the banks if they didn’t go along with his bailout . . . the Occupy Everywhere crowd. It’s what community organizers do.
The percent figure that the Bureau of Labor Statistics put out yesterday is not what it appears to be.
The administration goes through some machinations of the number of people out of work to make the unemployment percent seem to go down. They no longer count, like they no longer exist, those people out of work who gave up looking, the underemployed, and those whose 99 weeks of unemployment compensation has run out. When you count them as still alive, the unemployment rate is 15.6 percent.
When you don’t count the them, you cut (on paper) the number of people in the job pool. That is how the administration and their media followers can say the percentage dropped .4% from 9 to 8.6 and yet make it sound like things are getting better. When they are not.
“When the unemployment rate declines, we want to see both employment and participation increase as discouraged workers return to the labor force. Today, we got the former, but not the latter, making the 0.4 percent drop look a bit suspect,” Neil Dutta, US economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told clients. “We would not be surprised to see the unemployment rate give back some of its decline in the coming month(s).”
Considering that nearly half of the jobs created were for the Christmas retail season, expect them to go away in January.
This smoke and mirrors scheme was explained last August in this post.