You’ve likely heard today that the unemployment rate is at a 26 year high. We continue to chart it here broken out by men/women for folks 20-yrs+ seasonally adjusted. Source: BLS
The difference between the rate for men and women is significant and, from what we’ve seen, under-reported:
Wonder why the unemployment rate for men and women was essentially the same until March ‘08 and then started to form a gap that has been widening fairly consistently ever since.
Sphere: Related ContentEven Helen Thomas is frustrated with the staged, propaganda filled “press conferences” and “town hall meetings”:
This is how “freedom of the press” looks in countries ruled by totalitarian regimes…
These guys in NY are more out of control than the Texas Dems a few years back:
Fox News:As state Democrats convened around noon to hold a one-party session, Republican Sen. Frank Padavan of Queens walked through the chamber on a hunt for the soda machine — a caffeine quest that would later result with him being tallied as voting with the Democrats.
Padavan reportedly claimed he was taking a short-cut to the members lounge, but the 31 Democrats seized the opportunity to count him as their 32 vote and unanimously passed 125 bills in three hours with Republicans absent — the latest attempt to break the three-week-old stalemate that has caused a power struggle in Albany.
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New York Gov. Paterson has said he will not sign any of the bills into law — citing Padavan’s seemingly unintentional presence in the chamber on Tuesday. Padvan, who has served as state senator for 36 years, reportedly claims he left the chamber before any bills were voted on.
“My only motive was to get in the lounge and get a Coke or cup of coffee,” Padavan said in interview with Newsday. “I was not in there when the session began. To say otherwise is totally untrue.”
Kudos to NY Gov Paterson (Dem) for not joining his fellow Dems in this immature, reprehensible behavior.
Sphere: Related ContentPresident Obama and most nations have called for the reinstatement of the President of Honduras who was removed via a military coup… apparently, when President Manuel Zelaya tried to force through a referendum allowing him to be president for life, the military stepped in (I know this is probably an oversimplification).
On the other hand, in Iran the military acted against the people to keep Ahmadinejad in power after he clearly retained his office via a fixed election.
So… when a “president” tries to become a dictator and is thrown own by the military, Obama wants him returned to power…
And when a “president” remains in power via a fixed election, essentially acting as either a dictator or, it could be argued, the front man for a dictatorship by committee, Obama doesn’t believe it is appropriate to interfere…
A hint at things to come? This president for life thing has a nice ring to it…
Sphere: Related ContentSaw this over at Bottom Line Up Front:
Is anyone else starting to sense that the Democratic Party is somewhat out of control, drunk on power, or just allowing their sense of entitlement to be on display for all to see?
The bend rules to squelch any input from Republicans in the US House and Senate, in Texas they actually left the state to avoid a quorum so that the Texas legislature could not have a session… don’t remember that one?
From CNN: With action in the Texas House brought to a standstill, roughly 50 state Democratic representatives said they would remain in neighboring Oklahoma “as long as it takes” to block a Republican-drawn redistricting plan that could cost them five seats in Congress.
And now in NY they stage a sit-in, refuse to accept that a Republican had been elected as the senate president, and carried the protest to the point where these elected officials disrespected our country by refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance.
Why… because it is their right to be in control in this brave new world of ours…
Sphere: Related ContentThree cheers for our newest senator, Al Franken:
This is great! No really… one party government is the way to go. President, House and Senate were already Democrat of course … (you knew that, right? Just checking because a lot of folks thought the Republicans were in charge during the last election), but now the Dems have 60, count em, 60 votes in the Senate!
No more faux filibusters (you know, the kind where no one actually filibusters like in the old days, reading from the phone book for hours.. they just announce “hey, I’m filibustering” and then go out for martinis).
So, this is either the second sign of the apocalypse, the final climb of the pendulum to the far left before a rapid swing back to the right, what this country needs, what this country deserves, or totally irrelevant because we’ve already screwed things up so bad there’s no real hope of recovery… I’m sure with time we can come up with something positive out of this…
Six months from now, for folks who voted for Obama and who helped secure huge majorities in the House and Senate for the Dems, I’ll be asking one question: “How’s that workin’ for ya”.
Way back in Feb 2007, Thinkin’Bout Stuff presented a case for the strong possibility Obama would be elected president. Based upon his current course and trajectory, would have to say, more than three years out, he’s looking like a likely one-term president. Frankly, I think that would be OK with him because he is looking to reshape America in his image of “fairness” without regard to his future political fortunes, fully aware that it will be virtually impossible to unravel in his lifetime.
Sphere: Related ContentAs we look to shut down Guantanamo and move our country towards a more equitable and fair approach to ensuring swift justice for terrorists or criminals who are more comfortable with Islamic law, we need to look to those who have centuries of experience at providing justice that will hold up under the scrutiny of those in this world who expect better of the United States in the future. From FoxNews:
“An Islamic court in Somalia on Thursday cut off a hand and foot from each of four men convicted of stealing phones and guns, drawing hundreds of onlookers as the weeping men were punished at a military camp.”
Although they had body parts cut off with a long knife and no anesthesia, the men were reportedly thankful that they were not forced to listen to loud music, stay awake for hours at a time, deal with the absolute terror of having a caterpillar placed in their cell, or dunked repeatedly in water.
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