9.9%
That’s the jobless rate reported today.
Morning Bell calls it “a recovery only Washington could love.”
The news was mostly good in most sectors. Manufacturing was up 44K, mining added 7,000 jobs, construction continued its rebound with a +14K, and leisure and hospitality added 45,000 jobs. That’s a good showing and an indication that the job market has finally stabilized.
It’s not all good news. There are two million more people not in the labor force now than a year ago, with about the same number of people desiring a job (5.865 million to 5.868 million in April ‘09). Those marginally attached to the labor force are significantly higher now (2.432 million) than a year ago (2.089 million). Both numbers, though, are improvements over March 2010 and before.
On the decline, the Obama administration was able to claim lower numbers by using the unemployment rate and avoiding the issue of discouraged workers.
The Census hiring crutch once again helped prop up the numbers. (Be sure to review my Census Worker True Confession Files for a reminder).
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Every human being, once they reach the age of 40, goes super ugly. So, considering the average life expectancy is around 82 or so, and you usually don’t get married until the age of 25, marriages are back-ended and therefore, personality and kindess count more than looks.
Somebody’s sensitive today
Misscheryl, if you knew my history, you would believe me. I have met women who were 20 years older and unattractive, but quite nice.
happyscrapper: EEEWWWHHH!!!
Speak for yourself, I’ve been stockpiling.
I’ve got at least a year’s supply of TP, on shelves, in my laundry room!
When the SHTF, I’ll be able to wipe it up! HA!
Wife and I tried coupons. They’re too small and not absorbent enough.
Na ah, if you could see me, you’d see I have a big smile on my face.
Hangfire: ROFLMAO!!!
OMGosh…I needed that! THANKS!
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This conservative woman is about to turn 70…
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UpNorth, I was a big fan until you said this:
Mixed mataphors? You have a lot of gall you annoying Keynesian dolt.
Your arguments are like a little boy teasing a dog hoping the alligator doesn’t eat him last with the boy’s father watching idly from the bank too drunk to do anything about it and nauseated because he had just eaten a 4-day-old tunafish sandwich soaked like a hard biscotti in warm mayonnaise made three months earlier by his dead sister who by now must smell like the tuna. I rest my case.
Misscheryl. I am an extreme gentleman in person. I am undemanding, treat women very well and am respectful toward everone.
No one can deny that beauty is for the young. That’s all I was saying.
The most important thing about my statements is that I hold kindness in the highest regard.
Chap is capable of defending himself, but can I point out the difference between a mataphor and a simile?
The personal observation of the person who sets policy.
TOS,
How many of those jobs are public sector vs. private?
Where are the 400,000 instant jobs Pelosi promised from Obamacare?
I agree John. If anyone thinks that politicians don’t inject their personal beliefs into policy decisions, they’re crazier than Nancy Pelosi on meth.
AlohaGuy ~ There are a few skanks under 40.
http://www.black-and-right.com/wp-content/uploads/janeane_garofalo_2.png
But it was clearly an afterthought when he realized he had stepped in it. A typical nonsensical comment from him. Providing a good product… hahahaha, nice try on his part but it doesn’t work.
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I never go quietly into the night…
This conservative woman is mid fifty-ish…
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If you were trying to jerk my chain with this, I’d just like to point out it was a similie, not a metaphor.
Upnorth – I was kidding you. I’m a fan and enjoy reading what you have to say.
Great picture. That’s the Dem’s recruiting poster I assume
AlohaGuy ~ Bo is 64!
Hope that made your day better!
Damn. Should have kept reading before commenting.
I lost track of her for a decade?!!
AlohaGuy – these women are all wearing make-up, have professional photographers taking their photos, computer graphic artists doing touch-ups and also have likely had cosmetic surgery before.
Next time Foxnews.com has their stars without make-up slideshow, check it out. You’ll see the point I am making.
I am not taking a shot at those over 40, I am just pointing out the truth.
Maureen O’Hara looked good well up into her ’80s.
Raquel Welch and Sophia Loren are still looking a lot better than women half their age.
I feel that the older I get, the better I used to be.
Look at the evidence – his legislation and political priorities – it is the very basis of his policy decisions!
On this scale – are you kidding?
Miss C are you tapping the brown liquor? You are on fire.
“Where are the 400,000 instant jobs Pelosi promised from Obamacare?”
They are just a blowing in the wind right TOS? By the way are you first generation 60′s Progressive, by any other name,or are you spawn of the progressive vermin of the 60′s or are you just a product of the 6o’s, now tenured,progressives? Berkley perhaps or Smith?
I finally figured out who 123upnorth really is.
Hey, it’s Friday and I’m on the downhill slide.
No, of course not on this scale. I am talking way, way higher.
I’ve seen enough and I’ve read enough to believe nothing these lying politicians (both Dem and Repub)have to say, statistics or no statistics. If it ain’t Gibbs lying, it’s the press. Wake up, America.
One correction to my post on over 40 attractiveness. I think when MM turns 41, she will still be my dream-girl. Sorry Jesse.
Oh I think you can. A Mataphor is a Spaniard who wipes a red cape across the face of a horned bull, a Simile is something I hope you have on your face. I really never could tell the difference. I have friends who curse me and throw things when I commit those blunders, which I do frequently. It makes me feel good like when I have my blankie at nap time.
Now who’s drinking the brown liquor?
As much as I love the track over women over 40, I point to Rachel Welch and the pianoman’s ex Christie Brinkley.
As to the original blog, 9.9% is going to look good by the end of the year, because unfortunately for the socialist set, the states are broke, and must balance their budget, and the federal government is beyond broke and CAN’T bail out the states as they did for the last year and a half. The ENTIRE SOCIALIST WORLD IS BROKE. THERE APPEARS TO BE AN END TO OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY, CONTRARY TO COMMUNIST/SOCIALIST DOCTRINE.
We have been stockpiling for a long time. We have a lot of shelving downstairs and it is filled with stuff bought when on sale. Canned goods, toilet paper, bottled water, etc. etc. We try to replace as used. We probably have enough to last us 6 months without having to shop except for Milk, cheese, etc., which we can live without. Stockpiling is a practical thing to do.
No. I don’t jerk chains, that would imply I thought you were a dog. That would be rude. I think you are a cat. An intellectual panther. Cruel yet beautiful, conforming to his harsh nature.
… and you mis-spelled smile.
I don’t usually break out in spontaneous laughter…but that did it! #1
As Curly would say, “Speak for yourself!”
But, that part of your post is still absolutely correct!
Simile: (Ex.) “Chappy is drawn to this thread like a tornado to a mobile home park, and with similar results.”
My chronological age is 34, but I feel like I am 78. I got married 11 years ago and that did me in more than anything.
Is this news some kind of plot to incite Domestic Tea-party Terrorists like Shahzad to go nuts?
First, they stopped teaching us Math and Logic at the Public Schools.
Mrs. Brown at my school taught us that when more people are employed, the Unemployment rate goes gown.
Here, the Government paper pushers tell us that both the Unemployment rate as well as Number of people employed by our economy went UP!
RedDog…Are you a professional writer? I love your posts! You can say so much in so few words! Seriously, if you have written a book, I want to read it.
Lots of dead rednecks?
So much for the “stimulus” and the “recovery.”
We are in for years of misery and there is little that can be done to avoid it. If the government did everything right for the next several years they might alleviate some of the pain and suffering they have caused but we all know that isn’t going to happen.
The US is a 5 to 15 years away from where Greece is right now. New Jersey, California, New York and other states are much, much closer to a Greek-like meltdown…
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
Ahhhhh!!!!!
OMG!
Flashback to college and med school in the 70s!!!
Aaaiiiii…!!!!!
Chappy supports Obama’s policies like a welfare mother insists her third consecutive illegitimate child was a mistake.
I am 67 years old. I have fairly unlined skin (without cosmetic surgery), snow white hair, and a pretty good figure. I have been told, recently and often, that I am beautiful. My husband, my children and my grandchildren all call me beautiful. And I believe them.
does anyone else feel like they’re eavesdropping on something “private.”
History was never my thing, care to share?
Btw, I was a kid during the Carter years and as bad as that time period was for much of the country, I do not remember it negatively impacting as many of the people in my immediate community as this one is now.
It’s the personal connection to this economic down turn and it’s affect upon their lives, that many voters will carry into the polling booths this fall.
And as in 2006 and ’08, it’s the party in charge that will get the blame -
Well, if I was going to have an ex, either of those fine ladies would be nice.
BUT I must say that my current blushing bride of 20 years is as fetching to me at 52 as the day I met her!
More statistics:
1. Over 90% of the females in New York City are women.
2. The majority of people suffering a fatal heart attack during sleep do not wake up the following morning.
3. A bird in hand casts no stones.
4. Most cases of insanity are inherited. You get it from your kids.
Actually I was chanelling bad Hemingway.
I’m sorry, you appear to be lost. The site you want is eHarmony.com
Up until about 1955 or so, we were well in excess of 100%. I know WW2 accounts for a good part of that, but not all.
But the point is that, somehow, the world did not end. 100% of GDP is not some magic breaking point.
Young women also look worse without makeup. Everyone has a different standard for beauty. But calling anyone over 40 ugly is just wrong wrong wrong!
If she’s still blushing after 20 years you may want to “do it” with the lights out.
Ok, it’s time for Cheryl to step away from the keyboard…
I got denied registration to e-Harmony because during the profile questionnaire, I answered that I was married. After I spent what seemed like an hour answering all the questions, they informed me that their site wasn’t for people with my relationship status.
I have the perfect wife, you know
I could not ask for more.
She’s deaf, and dumb, and blind as well,
And owns a liquor store.
A wife who is deaf can’t complain, can’t nag, can’t yell etc.
I once signed up for dating4disabled.com because I wanted to find a girl who would be restricted from doing all of the above.
It is for those of us who are unaccustomed to such conditions as we are currently under.
I’m not as good as I once was, but I’m good once, as I ever was!
Hangfire ~ You’re in in rare form today! Keep’em coming…I LOVE to laugh!
Stockpiling is insurance in this bizzaro, Twilight Zone world we’re living in!!! Ditto on the stockpiled items.
Rightwingdad has also become obsessed w/ planting fruit trees: peaches, plums, nectarines, oranges, satsumas, and grapes.
(I KNOW GRAPES ARE A VINE!)
Chap, the problem with debt is that because of interest, which is usually greater than inflation, the cost of whatever you consumed via borrowing is far greater than what it would have cost you to buy it with money already earned. Therefore, you have to give up much more than you originally got in the beginning.
Give up much more when paying it back than you originally got in the beginning. If you carry debt for a long time and don’t pay it back sooner, the cost grows and grows like a weed.
Yes my dear, I am. My writings are prolific yet confined mostly to my head, encased in a blanket of bone with a thick neanderthal brow. Because of this I have never attracted women nor anyone who wished to present me cash for my musings. Although I have the body of a lithe and taut young teenaged boy, I am an old man and my head is among the windy spaces. I spend my days sitting by the Coahulla Creek sipping green label Evan Williams and picking my toes or bantering online with this annoying Chapoutier fellow. See what I have come to? Will I ever enjoy the fruits of Obamacare? I wonder…..
If you want to enjoy the fruits of Obamacare, you must drink kool-aid, not Evan Williams.
I’m TWICE as good as I think I am!
I have figured out your true identity. Stephen King! Oh wait…he is a liberal. Never mind.
I am inflamed with passion. Where is your husband? I will make him a good offer. You are after all somewhat past your expiration date and he may be open to the idea. Nevertheless you have a lot of mileage left in your beautiful frame. If you would rather, I could give your husband instructions on how to romance and thrill you. My moving parts don’t work so well anyway.
You taught your wife to fetch?! You da man! Mine won’t even throw a beer at me unless she’s looking to skull me!
Whoa, sports fans, it’s starting to sound a bit like Bilbo’s fairwell speech:
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
http://www.tk421.net/lotr/film/fotr/05.html
ARRGGHH!!!
…farewell….
Apologies.
This post tells you why all the married men on this site use pseudonyms.
I never thought I would see the day a president of these United States would act so irresponsibly
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/96713-white-house-doesnt-rule-out-sabotage-in-market-fluctuation
Misscheryl ~ Just wait, they’ll pin it on Bush.
Obama Newsflash:
Bush called in a favor w/ a Wall St. fat cat crony, then sat back and chuckled at the near disaster! (sarc)
Hmmm. I’m quite a bit under ’160 lbs.’, but a lot over ’40 years’.
But honey, I got swaggah!
Whew! I’m back. Got called in to see the Captain.
Misscheryl,
Imagine a typo causing a panic like that. It’s never happened before, but did right before the financial reform bill is ready to be voted on. The coincidences are just stacking up with this administration. I’d bet that bill has something in it to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
I wouldn’t rule out sabotage either. But I’m willing to bet my number one suspect is different than the administration’s.
Toni Tenille! Is that you?
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/96713-white-house-doesnt-rule-out-sabotage-in-market-fluctuation
Wow….
Projection on steroids.
That is, after all, without a doubt one of the major things that helped him get elected in 2008.
Cloward-Piven strategy, Cloward-Piven strategy, Cloward-Piven strategy,….
But more to the point, why would this man advertise this when nothing is known? What will be it’s effect on the market? Is this man truly this stupid? Never mind..he wants to destroy capitalism and destroy it he will. We must win in 2010.
Misscheryl said:
I onlt caught the tail end of it but – it is rumored to have started in, yep you guessed it, Chicago and rocketed over to Wall Street.
stillontheroad:
Yep, the DOW plunge was initiated in Chicago….interesting!
http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_15036016
As I said, as Greece goes so goes the USA
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/05/07/john-lott-greece-debt-united-states-gdp-dow-washington/
Misscheryl:
Could you imagine OUR welfare recipients and union cronies marching in protest because their entitlements were cuts?!?!
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Why Randy Andy “The Babreback Queen” Sullivan refuses to out Charlie Crist as an active homosexual.
Sure it has. It’s called Fat Finger. It happens every two years or so. The difference is that it doesn’t always cause a panic like it did yesterday.
But that didn’t happen.
Oh wait..it was Obama’s people that said “fat fingers” wasn’t to blame. In other words, that wouldn’t help Obama’s sabatoge theory so of course it didn’t happen. Never mind…
Yup. The fun part for me is when I’m carded at a liquor store and get to go into the whole “Lad (and/or Lass), I could be your grandfather” spiel.
Yeah, it was a bad save attempt for sure. But since the full quote makes no sense, Obama “acted stupidly” – as is his habit when teleprompter-deprived. As the old saying goes, the “mouth moves before the brain is gear”.
As Happyscrapper will attest. The left wing police chiefs here in the metro area are resisting an attempt by our limpwristed legislature to adopt an AZ like immigration policy. Methinks I smell an underhanded attempt by the liberal legislature to bring it to the floor to debate what will assuredly be failure. Oh, and I’m baaaaaack!
You should have been around when Chuck Stenvig was mayor of Mpls, MNUSMCDavid. Much better days then. Stenvig had previously served as Mpls Police Chief – a nice, but no nonsense, guy.
Actually, thinkin’ on it a bit, Stenvig wasn’t the Police Chief. He had been a police officer, though.
BTW – hope y’all got out of the stock mkt this wk if you hadn’t already!
David…where the He11 have you been, young man? Don’t you know you are supposed to ask permission before you take a leave of absence? We missed you!! I’ll see you on another thread…time to hit the hay. Grandkids over tonight and I am beat!!