Why Yahoo! and Other Job Information Sites are Full of Crap

Every day, Yahoo! has some story about supposedly secret jobs that you can tap into if you just got your ass off the couch. Today’s story is, “Great Paying Government Jobs.” Among these “great government jobs,” are:

* FBI Special Agent
* Patent Clerk
* Defense Intelligence Agent
* Aerospace Engineer
* Archaeologist

Now, does anyone understand what the requirements are for those positions? You don’t just walk into the FBI or wherever and ask for a job. All require AT LEAST a Bachelor’s degree if not a doctorate. Another article from Yahoo!: “10 Jobs with High Pay and Minimum Schooling.” Among the jobs listed:

* Police Officer
* Funeral Director
* Air Traffic Controller
* Real Estate Broker
* Advertising Sales Agent

I like this one:

Airplane Pilot, Department of Agriculture

There are plenty of openings for pilots across the country. Unfortunately, many of these positions do not pay very well, but if you’re the kind of person who has always wanted to fly, then perhaps the position will make up for the paycheck.
Annual Salary: $46,000 and $67,000

Oh, yeah? What this fails to mention is that Doc Utopia came down so hard on the execs who use private planes that the entire industry very nearly came to a screeching halt last year and thousands of jobs were lost. A means of transportation became elitist and wasteful and unseemly. Some small airports closed.
There are layoffs still and while it’s true that the industry is starting to bounce back, ‘plenty of openings across the country’ could be -like the rest of the story- grossly misleading.

And guess what? More people seem to be working for Uncle Obama than ever before – and getting paid, too.

Forbes recently reported that the government will be hiring 600,000 more employees during the next four years. If that’s not reason enough, USA Today reported that the number of government employees earning six-figure salaries has increased too. So, get your resume ready!

Unemployment seems to be soaring… except in government.

Doc Utopia is a filthy lying sack of shit.

Speaking at the Democratic National Committee winter meeting at the Capitol Hilton in snow-drenched Washington today, President Obama touted new figures from the Labor Department showing a 0.3 percent decrease in the unemployment rate and took a few shots at former President Bush.

Faced with mounting national opposition to his party’s platform, the president reminded voters the real reason the trillion-dollar stimulus package still hasn’t reduced unemployment to 8 percent as promised: Bush did it, and it’ll take a lot of time to undo it.

“The country cannot return to the “dereliction of duty that helped deliver this recession,” Obama said. He added that the previous administration’s role in the economic meltdown was the “real outrage.”

This economy is very much his fault and his irresponsible habit of blaming Bush won’t help. He owns it.

Rat Bastard.

Filched from Bou -she’s got the entire audio of the call over at her place.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

The government regulators aren’t buying Toyota’s ‘just take the floor mats out’ story.

Federal regulators have launched an inquiry into whether engine electronics caused vehicles to accelerate unexpectedly as legislators and experts on Tuesday cast doubt on Toyota’s explanation of its “runaway cars.”

The new probe reopened a controversy that seemed to be waning earlier this week, after a Toyota Motor executive went on national television to say a fix was on the way. Several congressmen questioned the company’s assurances Tuesday, and new data showed the Japanese auto giant’s sales in January falling to their lowest level in 11 years.

“It really appears that there is a problem in the electronics,” said former NHTSA administrator Joan Claybrook. “There have been incidents of acceleration when the floor mats were already taken out.”

After Toyota’s stock dropped, LaHood recanted his statement and said that he ‘misspoke’.

They’d better take a look at all those complaints about brake problems while they’re at it…

I’ve never owned a Toyota, but if I did… I wouldn’t be driving it until the problems are worked out – for good. Just sayin’.

Hat tip: a gleeful Quality Weenie.

“I’ve been to Guantanamo,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said today at a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence – as the subject of the federal government’s intentions of purchasing the Thomson Correctional Center in northwest Illinois came up.

“It’s pretty nice compared to Illinois — the place in Illinois where they want to put them,” Hatch said in the committee hearing. “It’d be nice and cold in the winter time and… all I can say is that I imagine there’ll be a hue and a cry that we’re not fair by bringing them here.”

Yes, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth -by both United States citizens as well as the entire terrorist community. Because if they can’t bitch about one thing, they’ll pick 17 more. It’s not about a slight, real or imagined. You could kiss their asses… but as long as you don’t worship their God, you need to die…. preferably by suicide bomber.

“Among the things that we can do that would weaken al Qaeda would be to close Guantanamo and diminish the emotional and symbolic support that that gives them in the pool of people they try to recruit in order to come against us,” Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, told senators at the committee hearing.

“Well, isn’t it true that al Qaeda used to prosecute — the prosecution and imprisonment of a blind sheikh as a recruiting tool and that al Qaeda members have said they were inspired to attack us because of that incarceration?” Hatch asked. “You know that’s true. Is there any intelligence that suggests al Qaeda would not use a prison located in the United States as a recruiting tool? ”

Blair is wrong. They’ll use any excuse available. Hell, they’ll make ‘em up.

Hatch noted that:

“Well, I think the point I’m trying to make,” Hatch said. “I think it’s easy to see… that no matter what we do, they’re going to criticize us.”

Until and unless we adopt sharia law and all turn to allah, they’ll come after us. Any and all other reasons are a means to an end.