Not to diminish your work, Jimmy P, but you may as well have titled your article, “New study suggests the very same thing all the old studies — not to mention our own eyes and ears and experience — suggested, namely, that the job numbers the government puts out are manipulated, that the press who reports them are either corrupt or illiterate (and most certainly incurious), and that people have probably begun largely to tune them out, feeling helpless to affect a government and a media they know to be lying to them always and forever”.
Of course, your headline has the advantage of being shorter and easier to Tweet.
So I don’t blame you one bit for taking that approach, now that I think about it.
If you come here for the pithy, you’re in the wrong place!
Some things don’t fit on a bumper sticker.
“If you come here for the pithy, you’re in the wrong place!”
Am not! When you gotta go, ya gotta go.
Sorry, I have been reading to many hf comments.
Don’t get pithy with me – develop your thought completely. We’ll be doing word counts.
And we want to see something strongly polysyllabic, mister.
I’ll just stand over here in implacable equanimity.
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Oh, and why is the stock market up? On the back of US Socialism and a decimated US manufacturing sector?
Eighty five billion in monthly printing would be your answer. My liberal friends-cum-free-market-capitalists assure me that it’s really just an ode to the success of Progg economics. And you know, they’re right. Because Krugman.
PS: If I weren’t a kook I’d give the Federal Reserve a pass — surely it’s just a nice private sector banking operation and not the terminal scourge on classical liberalism that kook Jefferson and those other kooks said such central policy was.
There’s no need to fear, Obama man is near.
Why they don’t go ahead and make it $200/hr and do away with poverty altogether I don’t know…
They need to give DHS time to stockpile wheelbarrows.
“New study suggests jobless rate is misleadingly low”
And who is doing that “misleading”, Jimmy P?
These rates are the product of someone’s work, and as such, if the rates are “misleading” that implies an effort to mislead, or at the very least, a failure to address a common misunderstanding about the numbers. If we had a media, instead of a government propaganda outfit, they could explain the fairly simple and obvious concept that the unemployment rate can rise or fall based upon not only the taking or losing of jobs, but also based on the number of people seeking employment.
This is comedy gold. So this guy is suggesting that it is the masterminds at the Fed (and not, say, NBC prime time viewers) who are being misled or are in some way confused by these unemployment numbers? It’s a PERCENTAGE!!! If you don’t have some idea of the size/quantity of the thing it happens to be a percentage of, you’re DOING IT WRONG!
And then he goes on about “easing”. Is this group supposed to be conservative? You’re doing that wrong, too.
“Don’t get pithy with me – develop your thought completely. We’ll be doing word counts.”
They told me there would be no math.
“And we want to see something strongly polysyllabic, mister.”
Brevity is the soul of wit. I takes my chuckles where I finds them.
Jackass is POTUS and doesn’t comprehend feedback loops.
In that he reminds one of the Fed.
Or of Keynes.
Or Marx.
“Why they don’t go ahead and make it $200/hr and do away with poverty altogether I don’t know…”
The only thing holding them back is the $50.00 loaves of bread.
Sure. Because private sector. Printing money and driving global events via unrepresentative fiat power is conservative where money is involved.
The GOP has tied itself around its neck and jumped overboard.
“Or Marx.”
A shame it isn’t Groucho.
“The Omega Man (type of setting), It’s a guy stealing into old ruins of a town, picking through salvage, thinking about the past, having dreams about how it used to be and dodging things that track him him from the shadows. ”
Or Romney. He proposed the same stupid thing. Christ, am I going to have to tell future generations what having a regular job was like? Why turn into Europe just as Europe is going broke and cracking up?
—-Okay, LETS TRY THAT ONE AGAIN, THIS TIME WITHOUT THE CLIP-BOARD BETRAYAL.—-
“Jackass is POTUS and doesn’t comprehend feedback loops.
In that he reminds one of the Fed.
Or of Keynes.
Or Marx.”
Or Romney. He proposed the same stupid thing. Christ, am I going to have to tell future generations what having a regular job was like? Why turn into Europe just as Europe is going broke and cracking up?
“I’m Clippy. I’ll show you how to use the features of Microsoft Office Professional Edition. And One day maybe I’ll drink your blood as you sleep and then set fire to your house!”
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“—-Okay, LETS TRY THAT ONE AGAIN, THIS TIME WITHOUT THE CLIP-BOARD BETRAYAL.—-”
Not that bad a first shot.
“I’ll drink your blood as you sleep and then set fire to your house!”
Why not? Your dog greams about that all the time.
It’s true. My dog is a Russian pyro/phlebo-greamer mix. Or a dachsund. One of those.
“Not that bad a first shot.”
I guess I should have said it made a certain kind of sense.
“The only thing holding them back is the $50.00 loaves of bread.”
But just think if bread was a durable good (I mean bread other than old bollios, which make really great bricks for low heat building applications).
That was Charleton Heston killing hippies. It was awesome!
“Or a dachsund.”
Yeah, ankle nippers are evil bastids.
Bah. I survived Microsoft Bob and Prody Parrot. What can you do?
Speaking of “old bollios”, you gonna eat that? (And the un-asked question; queso o no?)
“you gonna eat that?”
My little brother Mikey wants to know.
O O H.
I hope it did something else to itself first.
So the GOP has gone from elephant to albatross?
– All those oxygen generating trees and plants must be killing the environment.
OT: Umm I guess this answers the argument about whether the SPLC runs the military’s policies on Christianity.
Spoke too soon. Obama has just exceeded my expectations…
– “I’m just the president…..nobody tells me anything.”
– This promises to be the earliest 2nd term lame duck in the history of the Union.
I can’t believe this isn’t catching fire out there.
It’s all crickets on the blogs…
Related to mondamay’s 1:36 pm post:
Pentagon May Court Martial Soldiers Who Share Their Christian Faith (links back to mondamay’s Breitbart link)
Coincidently, this just so happens to answer a question Glenn Reynolds asked today:
Apparently it’s going to fund “awareness” about Tea Party and Christian extremism throughout the government.
Also bullets with which to shoot Tea Partiers and Chistians should any of them get uppity.
“military’s policies on Christianity.”
look squirrels
looks squirrels
Personally, I’d consider the possibility that economy is the distraction and all the socio-cultural squirrels are the real game.
But I’m a hatey hating So-Con hater what clutters threads with bullshit, because of hate or something, so take that with a grain of salt.
he said mischieviously
looks squirrels looks better
Too much Cheetos dust gumming up my keyboard.
Did you read it? This is effectively “Don’t ask, don’t tell” for religion. It is obviously petulant retribution for Obama’s recent legislative setbacks. You can see in the story comments that people of faith are already talking about advising their young relatives to stay away from the military, and the progs knew it would have that effect. Couple this with the recent decision to include women in combat, and it seems highly likely that someone will be pushing for a draft before too long, and it will include women. (You may have noticed the Left has a perpetual hard-on for a draft.)
I see this as being done to shake the relationship between conservatives and the military. Divide and conquer.
Still seeing squirrels?
I wonder if soldiers proselytizing about Islam will be treated the same.
I kid, I kid.
If they cn’t proselytize about Christianity, can they proselytize about classical liberalism?
“I wonder if soldiers proselytizing about Islam will be treated the same.”
Or Wicca. Or that totally awesome Jedi thing. Or those people who choose to worship the Arisans who are slowly breeding the human race so it can eventually produce worthy Lensman for the coming conflict with the Boskone.
So that’s who L. Ron Hubbard ripped off!
Frank Herbert too, I supose, but Herbert didn’t try to make a cult out of it, did he?
He left that to George Lucas.
yea that’s the ticket run away from the fight.
newrouter would apparently have us lie down in front of the bulldozer.
If the guy at the controls isn’t a Vogon, or if you’re not Rachel Corrie, there’s a non-zero chance it could work.
“So that’s who L. Ron Hubbard ripped off!”
Yep. Among others.
Elron was a prolific hack SF writer, but not a particularly original one.
Even the idea of starting a religion was stolen from Heinlein.
“newrouter would apparently have us lie down in front of the bulldozer.”
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”
“So that’s who L. Ron Hubbard ripped off!”
I haven’t read too much of L. Ron’s stuff beyond Battlefield Earth and bits of Mission Earth. I must admit that now that you mention it is does come off as repetitive variations of ‘ Triplanetary’ only chopped and screwed to go wit dat purple drank.
Poor E.E. Doc Smith. His work became a seminal ingredient for a twisted monster. They took his weekend fun project written for adolescents, and made bullets and shackles out of it.
I never read that much science fiction —more into fantasy when I was a teen. But it’s interesting to see E.E. Smith as a parallel to J.R.R. Tolkien.
dad dated an SF writer before he married mom
this was back when she had to pretend she was a boy to get published
she came to his funeral it was super-sweet
newrouter says May 2, 2013 at 3:40 pm
yea that’s the ticket run away from the fight.
What fight? All you see are squirrels here. Why should Christians throw their kids into the bureaucratic grinder, when they don’t even have full support from the “right” on this?
Smith’s estate would kick your ass for even suggesting that.
If you haven’t read any of Hubbard’s copious drivel, you needn’t bother. It’s as if a nearly insanely egomaniacal fellow put his subconscious on loudspeaker.
Maybe not “as if”.
Anyway: unbearably tedious. I wouldn’t say it’s bad writing in the strictest sense of the phrase, because it’s got most or all of e.g. verb tense consistency. But bad in the sense of…have I mentioned unbearably tedious?