For all those who are "taking the day off...from looking for work" [once known as Labor Day, pre-hopenchangen].
The same statistical gimmicks and phoney-baloney reasoning that allows the bureaurats to LIE to us with straight faces and say that unemployment is running 9.1%....and not over 23% (the real number as it would be calculated 30-years ago), has allowed them to claim that ZERO jobs were added to the NFP (non farm payroll) for August. Zero. Zip. Nada. Bupkis. Well, not exactly and not really. If you thought zero was a bad enough number, it sounds a helluva lot better than the 'real' number.
- WE LOST 58,000 JOBS frm July to August. Really. I kid you not.
And wait....there's MORE!!!
The US has the same number of jobs today as it did in 2000...but the population today is 30 million larger.
- To get the same employment-to-population ratio as 2000, 18 million jobs would be needed.
Gee....I can hardly wait to 'hear' what the Clown-in-Chief will read from his teleprompter next week!
- Whatever BS he serves up, you can (a) count on it costing the remaining taxpayers more money, (b) it will be geared more towards saving his job [read: re-election campaigning], and (c) it will be worthless and ineffectual...accomplishing no positive results [just like the reader].
Rasberries!
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Taking the day off.............from Rico
News........
Foot Baths, Basketball, and Islamic Flags
"Grand Theft Auto" - How Auto Dealers Fought Back and Won
CDR Salamander: LCS WTF of the Week
Mission for deploying guard soldiers unclear with Iraq exit in limbo
Mission for Md. soldiers unclear with Iraq exit in limbo
Obama Caption Contest
Israel's Contribution to Science and Technology.
EagleSpeak: Old Time LCS - Pegasus : Vanguard of the New Navy
Bachmann: Why do we need a Department of Education, anyway?
Your right to record the police
US Post Office on the brink of default
The “Dark Ages” « Neptunus Lex
Turkey, Syria and the prospects of war
Iraq's Sadr gives govt 'last chance' for reform
Iraq says dispute over Kuwaiti port resolved
Sadrist Trend fears support for US troop extension
BLACKFIVE: The atom bomb ended WWII.......right?
What will happen to the Jerusalem holy sites if Palestinians get control of Jerusalem?
Cambridge tops league table of world's best universities
How to build and monetise a blog
Frenchman ordered to pay wife damages for lack of sex
Should MI6 have come in from the cold?
Australian man carrying 'bomb' locks himself in lawyer's office with young daughter
Senior al-Qaeda leader arrested in Pakistan
Iran offers 'full' nuclear supervision if sanctions lifted
Syria: government forces raid houses as they search for defector
The slandering of the American conservative movement has begun
Libya: Chinese denies defying UN arms embargo
Life After the Despot: Libya Settles Uneasily Into Life After Gadhafi
World's slowest concert crawls to 10th anniversary
Libya rebels deny promising France oil
The Curious Case of Marine One's Emergency Landing
Shovel Ready
CDR Salamander: How do you say "Sea Apache" in Russian?
Weimar England?...............by Dan Friedman
Throughout history the perception that Jews were becoming numerous, strong and prosperous set off wild frenzies of Jew-hatred. With the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel, and its flowering against all odds and opposition, the ancient reflex has surfaced among the Nations again. We are in the middle of another paroxysm of self-destructive hate which, ironically, only the Jewish state of Israel can save the Nations from.
A Proms protest with a whiff of Weimar about it
Dan Friedman
NYC
Slicing unemployment.................from Rico
OK, with the 'offishul' unemployment numbers cooked/jiggered by the government, what is happening is hard enough for many to understand. Many likely 'think' of unemployment as a monolithic number, and accept the 9.1% figure as 'not that bad'...especially if it isn't them yet.
It would be different if the 'real' number 23% were admitted to, and used by the presstitutes. It won't be.
Slicing the 'official' unemployment numbers by level of education, something else becomes apparent. It explains why some seem to be faring better than others
...and it has nothing to do with which farm animal you vote for (the jackass or the elephant):
- The unemployment rate for BA degrees and higher is 4.3%.
- It's almost double for HS graduates at 9.3%.
- Doubling-down yet again it is 15% for non-HS graduates.
Equality of outcome is a problematic and elusive 'dream' for our "progressives." Some people are harder-working than others, and some are smarter than others. This is why such great efforts are made to 'lobotmize' the general population, and to place them into dependency [serfdom] on the government's plantation...this is easier than actually motivating people to improve their lot in life, and to be capable of critical thought. Besides, what would happen to our self-annointed 'leaders' if independence of thought and self-sufficiency were the order of the day like it used to be? [read: who needs 'em?]
Song: Dublin Kerry - Bring it on, Corrigan Brothers and Shay Healy
By our friends the Corrigan Brothers...........
Monday, 5 September 2011
Happy Labor Day!
Here's wishing Theo Spark's awesome readers a great holiday.
That's your humble blogger with one of my favorite Southern California conservatives. See: "Happy Labor Day to Opus #6!"
We met at a Michele Bachmann event in 2009.
Meanwhile, just posted: "Mitt Romney at Tea Party Express Rally in Concord, New Hampshire (VIDEO)."
Thanks friends!!
News..........
NASA scientist wants Obama arrested
Parenting
Special Report for Gun Owners - From Chuck Holton
EagleSpeak: Sunday Ship History: The American Revolutionary War Battle the French Won at Sea - the Battle of the Virginia Capes -230 Years Ago
Information Dissemination: Signs of Decline
Granted
Water Warm Enough For You? Apparently Not. « SOYLENT GREEN
Rainforest Fungus Naturally Synthesizes Diesel
Miss Pole dancing competition kicks off in Budapest
Mystery behind mega boobs revealed!
Breastfeeding driver shocks commuters
Iceland says it was 'bullied' over bank debt
California's babysitter law would hurt teenage employment
Labor unions adjust to new reality under Obama
The great Obama cover-up
How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right
Libyan 'extremist’ Britain allowed to stay was link to al-Qaeda in Iran
A red tape nightmare has hit our village cricket club for six
Iran accused of hacking Dutch websites
Libya: Chinese arms firms offered to sell weapons to Gaddafi
Niall Ferguson: I just want to get away
9/11: what have we learnt?
Libya: rebels poised to attack Gaddafi stronghold
Iran's nuclear power station hooked up to national grid
Gaddafi's feared son Khamis 'confirmed dead', claims NTC
The Region: Plenty to worry about but little to fear
Palin Runs Surprise Half-Marathon in Iowa
She registered under her maiden name, Sarah Heath. Wore a visor and kept her head down, and no one noticed her until late in the race. And she looks awesome: "Sarah Palin Runs Unannounced Half-Marathon in Storm Lake, Iowa."
Sunday, 4 September 2011
Obama's Fearmongering
Cross-posted from American Power.
*****
From Toby Harnden, at Telegraph UK, "American Way: Barack Obama, 2008 man of hope and change, becomes 2012 candidate of fear and status quo."
So how much trouble is Barack Obama in? Well, it doesn’t get much worse.Read it all at the link. After bungling everything else, Obama's still got fearmongering. Also, at Legal Insurrection, "He always was the “candidate of fear”."
His approval rating is hovering just above 40 per cent. Unemployment is stuck at 9.1 per cent; the White House forecast that it would be about 6.5 per cent by now if its economic stimulus plan was passed. Essentially, the American economy is grinding to a halt.
More importantly, what is Obama going to do about it? In terms of policy, the White House has run out of whatever ideas it ever had.
Obama, who declined even to comment on the latest jobless figures on Friday, is like a rabbit caught in the headlights.
Having squandered the first two years of his presidency ramming through a healthcare reform that could not win the support of a single Republican on Capitol Hill and is now mired in the courts, he finds himself confronting a divided Congress.
So the only thing that matters to the people around Obama, who are eager for another four years of employment, is his re-election. I’ve long thought that Obama himself is lukewarm about continuing in a job where the adulation he is used to is in short supply. For Democratic powerbrokers, however, maintaining their grasp of the White House is everything.
Erin Heatherton
Fall fashion season is almost here, which I love, since Victoria's Secret pulls out all the stops on their beautiful promotions.
'Polls are for strippers and cross country skiers...'
Sarah Palin at Indianola, Iowa.
Her comment about "polls and strippers" is just after 11:00 minutes.
Robert Stacy McCain has some commentary and links: "People Who Like Sarah Palin Liked Her Iowa Speech; Ace of Spades, Not So Much." Also, "Palin’s Pressure on Perry."
Cincinnati Man Dies of Tooth Infection
This story is getting a lot of attention: "24-Year-Old Cincinnati Man Dies of Toothache After Brilliantly Filling His Pain Medication Prescription Instead of Antibiotics."
