The unions are at it again—pushing the absurd idea that a card check is fairer than secret ballots.  But here’s an idea for the unions, maybe membership is falling because you haven’t updated your value proposition since the early 1900s.  Honestly, what does a union do for us today that isn’t already codified in law somewhere?

Management’s not responsible for declining membership; it’s their inability to react to a vastly different world that’s the problem.  For example, in an era of globalization, how does the union propose forcing a company to keep wages high instead of outsourcing?  Even the union fat cats won’t get their paychecks under those circumstances.

When you hit the ballot box this November, consider what kind of people you want running the country.  Do you want the candidate whose friends make-up rumors about Sarah Palin’s Down syndrome child?  Or perhaps you want the candidate whose former party chariman was gleefully cheering on hurricane Gustav because of its potential impact on the RNC?  Of course, he’s not really sorry about it, just sorry he got caught:

“One doesn’t anticipate that one’s private conversation will be surreptitiously taped by some right-wing nutcase,” said Fowler. “But that’s the nature of what we’re dealing with.”

That’s “change” the White House and American people can live without.

No, this isn’t about the administration of JIMMY CARTER (Peace be upon him)!  But considering rampant inflation, and the subject of Iran, maybe it IS about Jimmy Carter. 

In June, Iran’s inflation rate was a peace-be-upon-it 26%, or maybe a transcendant 30%, depending upon the data source.  The Iranian Rial now trades at 9,600 per dollar, where in 1979 the Rial traded at 70 per dollar.   Could this be a fiendish Carteresque strategy, planned as far back as 1979?  Hell no.  Carter couldn’t find his own significant appendage with an electric cattle prod.   This is pure Iranian.

Islamic monetary policy (Peace be upon it) pasha Tahmasb Mazaheri (no relation to Greenspan) told the country that Iran’s Central Bank might just lop off three or four zeroes on the rial to bring inflation down.   Another scheme is to boost the rial to 1/100th of a gram of gold - if I read this correctly - that makes 1/100th of a gram of gold equal to 2,500 rials.

A Troy Ounce of gold is equal to 31.1034768 grams.  I’m no math head, obviously, but to buy a Troy Ounce of gold Shitzmak Six Pack will need 7,750,000 Mahmoods, or about $807.29.  Assume the Iranian Central Bank’s gold option PLUS lopping four zeroes off the rial, Shitzmak needs 775 Mahmoods to buy a Troy Ounce, crunching the ounce price of gold in Iran down to  9 American pennies.

 We need Mazaheri at our Federal Reserve.  He’s a whiz at Obamanomics.