Sometimes, I just don't get it.

Unless it turns out that I actually am surrounded by morons.

Hopeful signs that the worst may be over for the economy boosted Americans' moods in April, sending a closely watched barometer of sentiment to the highest level since November.

These so-called "signs" remain a mystery to me.  Must be that my unicorn is still on back-order.
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Shocker: TARP may not be working as advertised.

Show of hands - who didn't see this coming?

According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Treasury Department data, the biggest recipients of taxpayer aid made or refinanced 23% less in new loans in February, the latest available data, than in October, the month the Treasury kicked off the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Well, duh?  Of course they made less loans.  That's because they're - wait for it - BROKE!  And they're using TARP money to try to hide their looming (if not already de facto present) bankruptcy.

A cynic would claim that was a feature - rather than a bug - of the Obambi, Dubya, Geithner, Paulson bank balance sheet rescue program.

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So much for that Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism thing, I guess

Dissent is Hate Speech, Part Infinity-minus-one.

Robert Stacy McCain has the run down on the apoplectic reaction of liberals to the "tea parties" sweeping the country. His post appropriately is titled "WTF" based on this hyperventilation (via Instapundit) by someone who apparently only watches MSNBC:

President Obama was elected democratically, according to the doctrines set forth by the Founding Fathers. The Tea Party movement represents a real danger to the tenets of democracy Americans have embraced for centuries.

The editors of the San Francisco Examiner (I thought it was out of business, no?) put this fearful title on an otherwise reasonable article explaining how the liberal bias of the mainstream media has blinded them to the tea party phenomenon: Tea parties are flash crowds Obama should fear. One commenter, who apparently read the headline but not the article, commented: "Many of those signing on to these tea parties are from the militia movement groups. They are scary and potentially violent."

Got that?  Dissent is now "scary and potentially violent."  When not practiced by people like Code Pinko and International ANSWER, that is.

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