Well, consider it done. Though in the President’s defense, he never promised he’d rebuild it, you know — well:
The employment picture is looking bleaker as applications for jobless benefits rose last week to the highest level in almost six months.
It’s a sign that hiring is weak and employers are still cutting their staffs.
First-time claims for jobless benefits edged up by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 484,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. Analysts had expected a drop. That’s the highest total since February.
Initial claims have now risen in three of the last four weeks and are close to their high point for the year of 490,000, reached in late January. The four-week average, which smooths volatility, soared by 14,250 to 473,500, also the highest since late February.
Analysts said that the unexpected rise in claims suggests hiring in August won’t be much better than July. The economy added a net 12,000 jobs last month after excluding the loss of temporary census positions. That’s not nearly enough to reduce the unemployment rate, which is currently 9.5 percent.
The jobless claims report “represents a very adverse turn in the labor market, threatening income growth and consumer spending,” Pierre Ellis, an economist at Decision Economics, wrote in a note to clients.
The prospect of more layoffs added to this week’s grim outlook for the economy, which began Tuesday when the Federal Reserve lowered its assessment of the recovery.
Obama also promised not to rest until unemployment fell. Which, again, technically, playing basketball and golf isn’t really rest, so…
YES WE CAN!
See, see, not his fault. He has been hiring up a storm. Those evil private sector yobs are the ones to blame for it all.
Remember when he took full responsibility for the economy at that presser? Wonder how many times he has blamed bbbbbbuuuusssshhhh since then?
Identity Crisis:
Michelle thinks she’s Jackie O
Barack thinks he’s Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods thinks he’s Bill Clinton
and all the rest of us are becoming the Joad’s….
– Just yesterday JD. As he says, he won’t rest until he’s eliminated private sector employment.
– When his time comes that will be on his stone.
“Here lies Barrack Obama, the same as he lied in life.
(We blame Boooooosh}
More than one person has noted that Romer jumped ship just before the new numbers came out.
Someone must have told BO that jumping up and down on the back of the private sector was the sure way to springboard the thing into prosperity.
– Apparently she kept bringing up the economy at staff meetings, and throwing his backswing off.
Coming to the NBC fall line-up!
“Uncle Joe Knows Best”
Tuesday at 10:00pm
A leftist ideologue of no real accomplishment improbably attains the Oval Office whereupon he is visited by the ghost of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Uncle Joe advises the young, inexperienced President on adopting the ruthless, class warfare policies and punishing economic pogroms that Stalin himself employed to imprison political dissidents in gulags, starve millions of Ukrainian peasants and subject the citizenry to a tyrannical police state which left them in abject poverty while Party officials lived the lifestyle of the Czars.
Tonight, Stalin’s ghost directs Obama to send numerous AM radio talk show hosts, FoxNews anchors and the entire GOP Congressional leadership to a “bi-partisan summit” deep in the Katyn Forest of Poland.
NBC, the home of Must-See TV!
Where’s AJB to put us the troof about the Reader of the Free World’s great recovery plan?
Cordially…
when was the cowardly piece of shit’s last presser exactly?
Hasn’t had one yet hf, since the press hasn’t ever been there.
Who would have thought that if you keep passing new entitlements and threatening to raise taxes that employers would take you seriously and hunker down until they know what the costs of hiring new people will be? It’s a conundrum.
Here’s the good news: it’s still not as bad as it’s a gonna get.
Enjoy your life while you can.
– It was sometime yesterday feets. Saw a clip on HannityHannityHannityHannityHannityCoultersLegsHannityHannityHannity, but I didn’t catch the location or details.
– Whenever he comes on the tube my TV sound switches to Hung singing “she bangs”.
– Judging from the dogleg to the Left my guess is it was on the Tee of the 3rd hole at Augusta.
Atilla the Hun also did quite a job when he brought “hope and change” to Rome. Rocketman.
– Bumbblefuck can’t use Attila’s act. He doesn’t work and play well with Elephants.
– Oh wait, that was Hannibal.
– Yeh, maybe Attila does fit.
– Waiting for the Ebony Emperor to replace Gibb with Tiger Woods.
What I noticed was that it took five paragraphs to get to “unexpectedly”.
If Obama gets a stone, that one word is all that should be on it.
Regards,
Ric
Attila didn’t bring Hope and Change to Rome, Mr. Bibb. Hope and Change brought Attila the Hun.
My guess is Obama will have a frenzied hiring of 3,000,000 government employees (to the tune of $700,000/job)over the next couple of months to improve the numbers.
See! Ogabe will have created 3 million new jobs and it only cost $2,250,000,000,000 ! Victory! Deficits smeficits!
God help us from this tyrant.
That’s a sign there is no liberal bias in the press Ric.
Nevermind, the rosy cover is right there in the headline ‘Jobs picture dims as unemployment claims rise’. Really? It dims does it? Because the situation was great just a minute ago.
Unexpected!
It will be his first.
Ha!
Actually, Makewi, I considered it a sign that leftoid bias in the Press is waning somewhat.
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind,
Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?
Regards,
Ric
I just want to say that one of the small pleasures of reading this site is clicking on the “Official Obama Website” ad on the sidebar and costing them 50 cents or whatever it costs. And having a few pennies go to Jeff.
Maybe we’re not supposed to mention that.
Your tax dollars are paying for Obama’s website. Just sayin’.
Come to think of it, what isn’t being paid for by our taxes now?
Come to think of it, what isn’t being paid for by our taxes now?
Unfortunately for us, almost everything.
what fresh faggotry is this? When did the Wall Street Journal get this gay? No one tells me anything.
How did we get here? Listen to someone who got us here.
And I can’t imaging Bumblefuck’s job-killing drilling moratorium is helping none.
This economy sucks ass.
happyfeet asks what fresh faggotry is this, and the racist hilljack skinflute playing thief shows up in his trench coat and sun glasses …
that was supposed to say *imagine* I just used the wrong letter is all
– Whenever he comes on the tube my TV sound switches to Hung singing “she bangs”.
You, sir, are quite self-absuive.
Bumblefuck’s job-killing
Job killing?
William Plagiarist Yelverton the racist hilljack is an imbecile.
Fresh faggotry!
So now, a positive 3,000,000+ is bad, but a negative 8,000,000 is good?
And he can’t even spell “Bowel” correctly.
Mike Barone, on the thing. Arnold Kling, who Mike cites.
“After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want to keys back. No! You can’t drive. We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch. We just got the car out.”
–President Obama – referring to the dismal Bush Administration that had the worst job record in history.
Clinton presidency – 22.5 million jobs in less than eight years—the most jobs ever created under a single administration, and more than were created in the previous 12 years. Of the total new jobs, 20.7 million, or 92 percent, are in the private sector.
Ram’s link is actually worth a look. No, really! The guy profiled nails it on overspending on the part of Republicans, though the article goes out of its way to paint Democrats as somehow better, if only because they were willing to raise taxes. That’s where I part ways with the author: the problem is not insufficient federal revenues; the problem is excessive spending. Has been for a long time.
I’d just like to say how glad I am that this Ram character is finally showing support for the Tea Party and its platform of spending discipline. Once we’ve won over Ram and its ilk, the battle is pretty much over.
Anyone notice that Obama isn’t Clinton, other than Clinton, that is?
Ah, I see Sowel is a big proponent of bubble economies. I think he must be the only student in that particular school of thought.
Fortunately, the teaparty is now seen as a negative by more Americans than as a positive (34-30%) in the most recent Wall Street Journal Poll. The teaparty’s best accomplishment is to help nominate a candidate Harry Reid can beat. many thanx!
Fortunately Sowel, you are nothing but a moron and can safely be disregarded. So you’re welcome.
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows 24 percent of Americans view the Republican Party positively, an all-time low in the poll’s 21-year history. That compares with a 33 percent positive rating for the Democrats.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Election-2010/2010/0812/Why-GOP-s-predicted-gains-in-midterm-elections-might-be-short-lived
Relentless bad press has driven Tea Party negatives to a whopping 34%. Relentless good press has driven Obama negatives to a whopping 52%.
Keep trying to discourage us, Sowel. We are the rising tide, and you’ve run out of volunteers to build up your levees.
And keep giving up whackos like Sharon Angle that a weak candidate like Harry Reid can beat.
The poll you quote oversamples Democrats by at least seven point, Sowel. You and yours are going down hard come November.
No, the teabaggers are going down. They’ve already been defeated in many key primaries. They are victims of their extremism, ignorance, and bigotry.
You’ll see …
http://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/articles/tea_party_candidates_could_lea
Perhaps one day, Googling “fresh faggotry” will also lead the curious straight to William Yelverton’s “awesome paella” photo.
For the accuracy!
I suspect fresh faggotry is actually the secret ingredient in his awesome paella.
Oh lordy no, I thought that was just poorly cooked shellfish. Eewww.
William Yelverton is a cowardly plagiarist what buggers goats. How many net jobs has Barcky created, willy?
I’m sure JD will be along in a second to tell us that “awesome paella” is (according to Urban Dictionary) a singularly disturbing sexual practice.
Awesome paella is when a midget pulls his mini donger between his legs, and bend over, giving you the brown eye wink with a smiley face.
Pretty sure awesome paella would need to involve a cat and a lute.
The cat could be a Paddington replacement.
I don’t make predictions, Sowel, but I do think looking from the other angle (!) is amusing.
Yes, the Tea Partiers had some input, but it doesn’t take much investigation to discover that the Nevada Democrats spent a lot of time (and money) sticking their fingers in the pie to select the weakest possible Republican candidate.
And just imagine: the weakest possible Republican candidate is continually trading the lead with ol’ Harry like a pair of nags struggling for second at Pimlico, even with all the Democrat-oversampling and positive spin the pollsters can load on and a multimillion-dollar barrage of negative ads! It’s a wonder to behold, it is.
Regards,
Ric
They are victims of their extremism, ignorance, and bigotry.
Because wanting to return the federal government to its historical foundation is extremism. Because reading and understanding the Federalist Papers and de Tocqueville is ignorance. Because judging individuals on the basis of their behavior and accomplishments, and not on race-based historical grievances, is bigotry.
You can call us stupid and racist ’til you’re blue in the face, Sowel (or whatever your name is), but that doesn’t make it so. You can try to promote social issues in an effort to divide us and keep us powerless, but the bedrock of the movement is limited government, and it’s a notion that enjoys extraordinary support outside of the campus and the metropolis.
In the meantime, don’t expect us to participate in your ransacking of our children’s future. For as long as you and yours are steering the country off a cliff, you can expect me and mine to hunker down. We’re not expanding our businesses, we’re not creating new jobs, and we’re not creating the new wealth needed to pay off the Chinese. It’s just good business sense on our part, since the risks today far outweigh any potential rewards. The fact that it denies you and yours the revenue needed to pay off your creditors and your electoral dependents is just a serendipitous side effect.
#43 is a masterpiece of plagiarism, btw.
Willie, you really, really should be careful about that. We do know who you are after all.
For all the claims of extremism lain against the Tea Party folk, it is still something of a wonder that nothing remotely like the violence of the Civil War draft riots has taken place, we ought to note. You know, God bless them for their patient forbearance and long may it reign.
Here’s a hint, Willie. There’s this thing called Google. When you type something that sounds like an misguided adult wrote it, I search and I find the exact words somewhere else like the HuffPo or Wiki. When you type something that sounds incredibly idiotic, I search and I find your blog.
Most people know how to spell words like tea party. Most people don’t repeat “extremism, ignorance, and bigotry” more than once because most people can phrase things in numerous different ways.
This can actually burn you professionally. If you’re not actually a nutjob, take a moment, think about it, stop plagiarizing and stop trolling here.
a misguided, that is.
That Obama guy isn’t working out too well for you, is he Sowel.
the obama administration to a tee
You aren’t suggesting, are you bh, that MTSU would be interested in the fact that one of their instructors, William Yelverton, is practicing academic theft? That he is dishonestly claiming someone else’s work as his own? Why, such conduct would bound to lead to some form of formal sanction in a normal institution.
Shocking idea, I know, SW. You’d think he’d wise up.
Of course, I suspect they didn’t write many papers at Lute U. He might not be familiar with the concept of attribution.
Well, he cannot write his own music, I guess it would be too much to expect him to write his own words.
William Yelverton the plagiarizing cousinfucking racist hilljack skin flute player never fails to beclown himself.
Usually the freshman intake has some difficulty with the concept, but by the time they make it to sophomore, it has penetrated all but the most dense of skulls. Oh Willie! Why are you so dim?
And just wait until he finds out that the secret ingredient to his latest “awesome paella” came from my catbox.
the bedrock of the movement is limited government,
Yes, like Bill Clinton decreased the size of government while Reagan expanded it.
In the meantime, don’t expect us to participate in your ransacking of our children’s future
Where was the tea party when Bush never vetoed a spending bill, and increased our National deficit 500%? I don’t recall hearing Mr. Squid complaining about spending $2 illion a week in Iraq. I don’t recall Mr. Squid complaining about ransacking anyone’s future. Instead, he goes against Obama when Obama’s tax plan serves to benefit all who make less than $250,000 and serves to repeal Bush tax cuts for the top 1%..
* We’re now spending 2.7 million a day in Iraq, and another 2.2 million a day in Afghanistan. (and growing)
= Obamacare will increase, as a minimum effectively, every tax-payer in America’s annual “hidden” tax through increased healthcare costs to themselves and/or their employers an estimated 15%-25% within 3 years.
– Hellofajob Barry.
– The Left simply does not know what to do about Bumbblefick either, so they weak wristedly, half-ass attempt to blame Booooosh, because even morons know when the chickens come home to poop on thier shoes.
“In the meantime, don’t expect us to participate in your ransacking of our children’s future.”
* The deficit expected to top 1.7 Trillion by the end of this fiscal year, and double that by the time Bumbblefuck gets run out of town in 2012.
* Yeh. You should check yourself into the nearest ER for serious drug therupy.
bjork could ease everyones fears of the deficit easily..
by killing us!
she likes to see the worry lines grow on our faces tho
u grumpy gus you!
bjork is the bjest bjreakfast cook..ever!
when she cjooks
toast flies outta the toaster/ and lands on your plate
chickens pre scrammble their eggs in their asses before farting out on your plate..
perfectly cooked/i might add
pigs slice themselves in halves to deliver u bacon/ or ham patties..
ethiopian coffee growers hop on planes and take cabs to ur house
to give you fresh ethiopian coffe!/ and they refuse to have “anchor babies” while their here
belgian waffles and doolps of whipped cream sing / in a low voice
wake up!
is there a bjetter bjreakfast cook than bjork?
the answer my friends/ is blowing in the wind/ or up ur ass?
of course theirs no bjetter bjreakfast cook than bjork..
seize the day!
I recall Mr. Squid complaining quite a bit about Bush’s domestic spending and deficits. I recall most of the regulars here complaining about it in fact.
Sowell, you are a dishonest lying SOB. The only cutting Clinton did was to our military. Ask the victims of the attacks this allowed if the price was fair. Oh, and let’s not forget that Reagan “grew” the government in order to defeat an evil empire which was causing the deaths of MILLIONS.
Oh, and the deficit went DOWN under Bush despite having to deal with the responsibility Clinton ignored… until Copperheads like you took over the Congress.
Here are some facts, William the Plagiarist Yelverton. You appear to be stuck in one of your feedback loops, blurting out the same tired BS over and over and over and over and over and over again. Maybe you could read this, something sdferr kindly linked for you previously. It might make your head hurt.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/printarticle.cfm/in–i-bush-v–obama-i–bush-wins-in-a-rout-15497
Still, with the BUUUUUUUSSSSHHHHH, stuff? Willie, although he most likely is clinically insane, and his fellow travelers don’t give a shit about deficits. They just can’t. Their guy is absolutely destroying BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSHHHHH in that category. And B Moe’s #80 nails it. MANY, if not the majority, were complaining of Bush’s profligate spending, made all the worse by having a republican congress who obviously enabled it. Hence, the fucking tea party movement.
OI – It is ironic that Barcky has done more damage to the deficits and debts in 20 months than Bush did in 8 years, yet people like willie the racist plagiarist continue to march forward with their silly talking points. He is only a few comments away from calling people racists, he was inching there earlier.
William Yelverton – How sad is it that your brand of stupid is so pervasive that no matter what silly new name you pick out, we all know it is you, almost immediately?
Some people can just never accept how profoundly wrong they have been. They invested so much emotionally in Obama.
They are just a bunch of emoting emos, carin. It is what they do.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954804575381673746828724.html?mod=ITP_pageone_0
“Ms. Jones is part of an unmeasured, agitated mass: unemployed Americans who don’t believe the Obama Administration and Congress have done enough to produce jobs.”
Even the WSJ gets this wrong. The Admin and Congress have actually produced the jobs that they can, they have grown government by leaps and bounds. What they haven’t done is keep their feet off of the throat of the economy.
Jobs saved, jobs destroyed, and why the 26 billion was so desperately needed. And will be needed again and again and again ad infinitum.
geoffb – It seems like the need to prop up state, county, and local governments to preserve the AFSCME and NEA jobs is going to be an endless cycle. No need to fix the structural problems with budgets are the lower levels, when the permanent campaign arm can just be funded with federal taxpayer bailouts.
Even the WSJ gets this wrong. The Admin and Congress have actually produced the jobs that they can, they have grown government by leaps and bounds. What they haven’t done is keep their feet off of the throat of the economy.
Yep. The government “has” done what it could. I hope everyone sees and understands what happens when the government “does something.”
#85 – and I will never, ever understand why people invest such in a politician. My parents, my wife and kids, my brothers in arms, sure…but a musician, movie actor, sports figure or politician? Grow up already.
In your face:
http://congressionalconnection.nationaljournal.com/2010/07/despite-tough-climate-public-p.php
In your face? Are you serious? Is this like 1987 or something? You are even dummerer than we ever gave you credit for.
Sowel, I suggest you print out that little article and look at it every day. First thing in the morning, last thing at night. Constantly refresh yourself with its little pronouncement.
You’re gonna need it for moral.
Carin – don’t indulge him by calling him sowel. That is willie the rqacist plagiarizing hilljack. He obviously does not read the comments. He is a lying output generator, a link spammer, and a fucking asshat of the highest order. That is all.
Willie the racist cousin-humping cat-testicle-gargling hilljack and his pathetic attempts at link spamming reminds me of a kid who waves his toy pistol at you and wails, “You hafta fall down now, I got you! I GOT YOU!!!!“
Darth – he has a belly full of Barcky’s love spunk, and a little dripping from his chin, and is mad that he is not getting the attention he believes he deserves. I suggest, veggie pie-ay-yah.
JD, given the fact that willie, or sowel in this case, is indeed insane, I don’t think ironic is the correct word. It’s just not capable of irony. It’s just insane. It just knows what it “hates” and it marches on.
Doesn’t matter, I envy Yelverton so much I can’t stop insulting him because I have very little else to say. I only wish I had it as easy as he does. I guess socialism IS the way to go.
I had to teach him what teabagger actually meant. Obviously, he has no experience with balls in the mouth as I do.
Namejacking.
Thanks for the added motivation to fuck with you, William Yelverton of MTSU, known plagiarist.
bh, if you had a Doctorate, you might really understand what scholarship is, then you might know that commenting on a blog is not considered ‘publishing.’ In any case, why would I keep talking about him so much if I ddn’t want to suck his balls? I just can’t help it.
*
That’s awesome, Yelverton (namejacking JD), you just admitted it. You just said the forum didn’t matter.
Feel like testing that theory?
That is pretty fucking cowardly and dishonest, William Yelverton. Besides being a midget racist plagiarist skin flute player, is there anything else you would like to add to that list? I hope that dishonesty like the type you displayed here gets amplified, not deleted, because MTSU ought to become aware of what you are doing to their previously Ivy-esque reputation.
“previously Ivy-esque reputation”
Eh?
William Yelverton, you haven’t the tiniest fucking clue what scholarship is. If you did, you would scarcely plagiarise every thread. Do yourself and us all a favour – go write a book. In several volumes.
Bust this moron.
I really can’t think of anything more absurd than the idea of a Phd. in fucking guitar.
A PhD in air guitar?
LtC John – I was mocking willie and MTSU ;-) This disease spread from Morehead State. Apparently greasy fucking douchenozzle professors from 6th tier schools need to find new and innovative ways to bring discredit to their institutions.
This really is breath taking to watch.
I understand JD’s position on leaving namejacker’s dishonorable acts up to public view but have never agreed with it on the grounds that it is too far a reward which will only lead to repetition. The act deserves annihilation instead, and the actor punishment (such as banning thereafter or some such). Some things are simply intolerable even in the appearance.
I agree with that too, sdferr. This particular one has name-jacked me on more than just this site, but unfortunately, William Yelverton plagiarist midget racist hilljack skin flute professor at Middle Tennessee State University has been banned here multiple times under multiple names. What is does is beyond low and deceitful, but I have no doubt that the people here immediately recognize it for what it is. Since banning has not worked, why not very public shaming?
MTSU? Heh. I bet the University of Phoenix has a better athletic program. Judging by Yelverton, they certainly have better faculty.
Yelverton should try out to be a sprinter on their track team. Surely there is an ADA spot for midgets.
So, William Yelverton, professor at MTSU that likes to name-jack, plagiarize, cower in feat at brown people that spell well, and overall nozzle of douche, how do you respond? Is this appropriate behavior for a Professor? Do you have an ounce of honor in your dark little soul? Is it because you are a midget? When you serenade your cats, do they dream of pie-ay-yah?
I think the cat’s got his penis, JD.
Cats have the ability to utilize a magnifying glass and tweezers at the same time? Who woulda thunk it.
That’s only fair, SW. Yelverton has the cat’s balls in his mouth.
Must be hard for Willie to do that and whistle "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" at the same time, Darth.
William Yelverton is pdbuttons’ muse for the parched flat headed webfingered crippled prison farm kid in a box story.
I’d be careful about pulling that PhD card around here, Willie, and somehow talking about your “scholarship” in the same sentence, or even in the same paragraph. Anyone juvenile enough to use someone else’s handle would find that held against them if known by their peers in any ranked university or in the research community. Then again, I guess you don’t have to worry about that after all.
Bh scared the plagiarizing cat serenading cowardly asshat away. How to bh’s ballz taste, william yelverton?
What a fucking coward William Yelverton, racist plagiarizing midget extraordinaire is.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to give guitar players a bad name?
Willie Yelverton the dishonest plagiarizing racist hilltard is doing his best, BMoe.
In how many threads under how many names will William Yelverton, Professor of Plagiarism at MTSU make an ass of himself?