Monday, October 6, 2014

As we all know, guests are generally, how do I say this diplomatically?, pigs.  Here we go America

Patronizing leftist lectures on the reality of risks and the desirableness of peace, which once were merely fatuous, are now obscene. Link

They also admit that after a year’s worth of trapping cats in the Key Deer Refuge they have “yet to see any definitive results.”

Unfortunately, U.S.F.W.S. could not quit while they were ahead and allow things to stop at that point.  The obligatory indictment of cats had to be included somewhere.  This time is was the “success” experienced with the Key Largo woodrat “which has some of the same predators as the rabbit, but is starting to show some population growth”, which they credit to their cat trapping program on North Key Largo.  What they fail to mention is that in the latest round of trapping at the Crocodile Lake Refuge more than four months of effort produced the whopping total of four trapped cats.  Can anyone other than U.S.F.W.S. seriously believe that trapping one cat a month on more than 6000 acres of refuge land can have any real effect on the population of any animal?

I’ll again cite a refrain which by now nearly everyone has heard from me.  The cat trapping program on which U.S.F.W.S. has literally spent years and tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars is a waste of time, effort, and money.  This, on a species that their own computer models indicate a 100% probability of extinction, irrespective of any actions that may be taken.   ~Jerry Dykhuisen

There is one thing that’s left out. We had a long wooden pole (clothes pole) that was used to push the clotheslines up so that longer items
(sheets/pants/etc.) didn’t brush the ground and get dirty.  I can hear my mother now…

10% of women think their ass is too skinny. 30% of women think their ass is too fat. 60% say they don’t care, they love him, he is a good man and they wouldn’t trade him for the world.

He claimed that no person can rightly give moral advice to themselves and should instead rely on direction from angels. “It is dangerous to chase away our travelling companion,” he said. “The Holy Spirit advises me, the angel advises me. This is why we need him.”

During the address, the Pope also used Biblical examples to hit out against “careerism”, saying it was against the attitude of “docility” taught by Jesus. His predecessor, Pope Benedict, made a similar address on angels in 2011, saying: “From the beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their constant protection.” But his insistence in 2012 that angels did not sing at the birth of Christ devastated lovers of carol “Hark! The herald angels sing”. He also wrote in his book about Jesus’ early life that contrary to popular belief, there were no donkeys, camels or any other animals present at the Nativity scene.

Instead of going on television to try to convince us this administration has a plan, oblaba bin lying went to Northwestern University to deliver a speech on the economy.  He stated, “It is indisputable the economy is stronger today than when I took office.”  He further stated, “By every econommic measure, we are better off now than we were when I took office.”

Let’s see, in fact, what some of those ‘economic measures’ say.

Jan., 2009                 Now
————              ———
National Debt                                     $10.6 T                    $17.8T
Median Household Income                        $56,900                   $54,000
Labor Participation                              65.7%                        62.8%
Home Ownership                                 67.5%                        64.7%
No. of People on Food Stamps                 32 million                   46 million

I suppose the way the government no longer includes the cost of food and fuel when calculating the cost of living, they also no longer include any of the above economic measures.

That doesn’t mean the facts don’t exist

FTR’S RESPONSE: Last month’s jobs report was not good news. The number of new hires was good, and the unemployment percentage (U3) has again declined. But the civilian labor force participation rate has declined, and the number of people who have abandoned the labor force has increased by 315. There is no good news in any of that.

But that is only a part of the story. The latest unemployment rate (U3) is 5.9%, that’s 32% higher than it was when the Democrats gained control of Congress in 2007. That same report also revealed that the employment/population ratio remained unchanged at 59%. When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, the rate was 63.4%. To put that in perspective….it has not been that low since March of 1978. To add further perspective, it had reached a high of 64.3% during the intervening years before 2007.

One of the reasons that the U3 u/e rate slightly declined is that more people are not even looking for work, an additional 325k joined those ranks last month. The civilian participation rate last month was 62.7%. When the Democrats took control of Congress, the rate was 66.4%. We continue to go backward.

You might also want to consider that the civil non institutional population has grown by 18.3 million (a measure used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) since January ’07. But the number of employed persons has grown by only 674k. That is atrocious.

What does all of that mean? It means that fewer Americans who are capable of working and not retired are not working. Perhaps that explains why food stamps usage and means tested welfare enrollment is at an all-time high.

There is another measure of unemployment, it is called U6. U-6 is a broader measure of unemployment. It includes discouraged workers and many consider U-6 to be the “Real Unemployment Rate.”

The U6 unemployment rate counts not only people without work seeking full-time employment (the more familiar U-3 rate), but also counts “marginally attached workers and those working part-time for economic reasons.” Note that some of these part-time workers counted as employed by U-3 could be working as little as an hour a week. And the “marginally attached workers” include those who have gotten discouraged and stopped looking, but still want to work.

One would wonder why we have a U-3 number at all. After all aren’t all U-6 people unemployed? But during bad times like the years since 2007, it would have been scary to hear that the unemployment rate grew to 18% (U-6), but less scary if the number you heard was “only” 10.6% (U-3). So the government prefers the U-3 number and unfortunately the news media plays along and uses the U-3 number because it is the “Official” unemployment rate.

The U6 unemployment rate was 7.9% in January of 2007 when the Democrats took control of Congress. Today it is 11.8%. That’s a 50% increase…..that sucks!