SATURDAY 2/15/14

Over the last 10 weeks, a record 75K airline flights have been cancelled in the US. The XAL moves higher, however, with airline stocks such as LUV far higher. The eastern US is hit with another snowstorm overnight with five deaths occurring due to the storms in recent days. FB updates the site with 56 preset options identifying gender including intersex, androgynous and bi-gender. The world has come a long way from the two original choices; male or female. Auto workers at Tennessee’s Volkswagen factory reject unionization demoralizing the United Auto Workers union. The UAW wants to expand its presence in the southern US but the prospects appear weak going forward. Unions continue to lose their clout each passing year.

President Obama promotes a $1 billion “Climate Resilience Fund.” Politicians cannot stop spending money; they are addicted. Interestingly, President Bush was reading “My Pet Goat” when 911 occurred and also was photographed playing guitar as Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana which created the image of Nero fiddling while Rome was burning. President Obama is in the pickle barrel now taking to Twitter the other day urging folks to not play spoiler for the television shows he watches. Today he wants to create another fund and spend taxpayer money on unproven climate science. The president needs to realign priorities since 25 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed and the economy remains weak with the middle-class and poor suffering daily. The president needs to log some additional hours at the oval office as well as start working more closely with Congress rather than watching television while donning Nero’s crown.