Bizzy’s Lunchtime Links (032806)

Free Links:

• Consumer Confidence Shoots Up — Despite the best efforts of the WORMs (Worn-Out Reactionary Media, known to most as The Mainstream Media) to talk down the economy, The Conference Board’s index of consumer sentiment shot up 4.5 points in March to its highest level (107.2) in almost four years (and February was revised upward a point). A Bloomberg report earlier in the morning said a consensus of economists “expected” it to only go up about 0.3 points, and talked of a “slowing economy.” These guys wouldn’t even make it as TV weathermen.
• The Smoking Gun, which has tirelessly chronicled the travel and hotel demands of touring rock stars and entertainers, has branched out into politics, getting a hold of the hotel-suite “demands” of Vice President Dick Cheney and 2004 Democratic Presidential Nominee John Kerry. Do you really have to ask whose list is four times longer? S.O.B. Alliance member Lincoln Logs “catches up” to the story.
• Earth to Polticians — The public is seriously concerned about immigration (with the focus on the ILLEGAL part).
• Unofficial Hillary Clinton campaign advisers Madonna and Sharon Stone share their, uh, wisdom.
• Tolerance, Schmolerance — The City by the Bay tolerates everything, except rallying Christian youths in their midst. The City’s Board of Supervisors even passed a resolution condemning it. S.O.B. Alliance members Conservative Culture and Conservatorium have pertinent observations.