Economy Produces Anemic 156,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Ticks Up

Missing the already-low projection of 176,000.

Sounds like a job for the Washington Post, aka Jeff Bezos' multimillion in-kind donation to Hillary:

Why is the word "solid" in here? pic.twitter.com/OQ9BRysWs3
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) October 7, 2016

Solid work, Washington Post.

Posted by: Ace at 12:25 PM

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1 Good Morning, Ace.

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2016 12:26 PM (wq2/T)

2 The chocolate ration was increased to 20 grams from 30....

Posted by: Curmudgeon at October 07, 2016 12:27 PM (ujg0T)

3 Once deep? They've secured the borders?

Posted by: Fischer at October 07, 2016 12:27 PM (/f2Lp)

4 And we know even these numbers are probably bogus...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 12:27 PM (O2RFr)

5 War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery!

Posted by: Jmel at October 07, 2016 12:28 PM (0OXT4)

6
Stand back and witness the awesome hiring power of my Fully Recovered Economy.

Posted by: Barackhenaten I at October 07, 2016 12:28 PM (wq2/T)

7 It's almost like they have a narrative

Posted by: BacktoGA at October 07, 2016 12:29 PM (QUl0c)

8 OK everybody repeat after President Obama: This is because Bush lied approximately 8 years ago and it is his fault. Not our President of Color you racist pigs!! News Networks we expect you to blame Bush and to re-emphasize that Hillary is the solution... Thank You !!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 12:29 PM (NuElX)

9 Howdy All! Happy Friday.

Posted by: Beth M at October 07, 2016 12:29 PM (kiy9d)

10 Spin,spin,spin,spin,spin...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 12:29 PM (O2RFr)

11 Yeah, that was a solid bit of Obamalingus from the Post. Bravo.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 07, 2016 12:30 PM (RD7QR)

12 I'd guess also that a large percentage of these jobs involve the title Barista, or Assistant Night Manager.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:30 PM (7ZVPa)

13 Why is the word "solid" in here?>>>

It is slang for doing something nice for our King Barak Obama. Oh and it helps our future Queen too.

Posted by: The WP at October 07, 2016 12:30 PM (tf9Ne)

14 Solid.

Because the only thing positive you can say about a Turd is, "It's solid".

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2016 12:30 PM (wq2/T)

15 Repost:

The only government the GOP has ever shrunk in my lifetime was Saddam Hussein's.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living

LOL,

It's yesterday but I'm a slow old white man now.

Posted by: DaveA at October 07, 2016 12:31 PM (8J/Te)

16 Why is the word "solid" in here?

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Because that's normally the product of constipation.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 12:31 PM (8zHLN)

17 I don't think Obama is going to really hit his stride until the 3rd 5-Year Plan drops.

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2016 12:31 PM (wq2/T)

18 Solid, as in hard. Like a chubby the MSM has every time they think of B.O.

Posted by: wth at October 07, 2016 12:31 PM (HgMAr)

19 "once deep pool of available labor has grown thin"

Wow. We really are living in an orwellian nightmare.

90+ million people out of the work force is a "thin" pool of available labor?

Lowest participation rate ever is a "thin" pool of labor?

And speaking of "solid" - what % of those "new" jobs are full-time? And in which sectors? Those details usually make the already anemic numbers much worse, to any thinking person.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2016 12:32 PM (QDnY+)

20 I'm remembering back when Bush was president when 400 thousand new jobs was a "solid"...... disappointment...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 12:32 PM (O2RFr)

21 It's the economy, stupid!

I've posted before about John Crudele at the NY Post -- a real journalist who's been exposing the lies in our economic statistics for the last few years, including the two key figures of GDP growth and the unemployment rate. There was also recent finagling of household incomes. It's like we're living in a Soviet Five Year Plan or Mao's Great Leap Forward.

Notably most Americans are worse off despite Obama's spending in excess of $8 trillion with borrowings while the Fed has kept interest rates near zero -- GDP growth should have been redlining above 5% -- instead its been less than our population growth -- we've collectively been getting poorer.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 07, 2016 12:32 PM (r1fLd)

22 Wait, wut? The WaPo gave money to Hillary? That can't be true. DeBlasio said the WaPo was a right-wing rag.

Posted by: Hank at October 07, 2016 12:32 PM (KDvcX)

23 "Solid"--because, thud.

Posted by: Caliban at October 07, 2016 12:32 PM (DrC22)

24 Notice how they add the suggestion more immigration is needed because the "pool of available labor has grown thin"!!!1???

I laughed out loud here at my desk!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 07, 2016 12:33 PM (so+oy)

25 Of course, we all know the risk of a turd that is too solid.

Splashback.

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2016 12:33 PM (wq2/T)

26 What's the minimum number for jobs to match population growth? 200k or something like that?

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 12:33 PM (mf5HN)

27 11 Yeah, that was a solid bit of Obamalingus from the Post. Bravo.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 07, 2016 12:30 PM (RD7QR)

Do they ever get tired of Obama political fellatio? How much Obamunist political spooge and smegma have they guzzled down?

And political cunnilingus of the cheese on Hillary's taco has to be even more rancid....

Yes, I denounce myself.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at October 07, 2016 12:33 PM (ujg0T)

28 Solid is like when you get a no-nonsense hand job from your co-worker.

Posted by: Fritz at October 07, 2016 12:33 PM (2Mnv1)

29

I am continually amazed that MFM reporters can with a straight face report the 'unemployment' numbers when they KNOW the number is a cooked statistic. They KNOW that. They KNOW that many many unemployed have been removed from that number as 'no longer seeking employment.'

Can somebody please invent a medium where these 'reporters' are interviewed, live, to explain their ability to lie like this????

Posted by: Sphynx at October 07, 2016 12:33 PM (OZmbA)

30

green shoots!

Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 07, 2016 12:33 PM (zu88C)

31 It's like a solid B+, right?

Posted by: JQ Flyover at October 07, 2016 12:34 PM (044Fx)

32 No worries, there'll be plenty of construction jobs for unemployed citizens putting the Florida and Georgia coasts back together.

Oh wait, no there won't. It'll be illegals doing that "mind numbing" work.

Posted by: Country Singer (gab @BertG) at October 07, 2016 12:34 PM (GUBah)

33 24 Notice how they add the suggestion more immigration is needed because the "pool of available labor has grown thin"!!!1???

Yes... So why is the number of people out of the work force the largest in decades?

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 12:34 PM (O2RFr)

34 DaveA, loved that one yesterday, worth repeating it, thanks!

garrett, great one about 5-yr plans

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2016 12:34 PM (QDnY+)

35 And the shallow pool of available labor is only over 90 million.

Let's see, that's close to 30% of the population. But what do we know.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 12:34 PM (8zHLN)

36 >>Notice how they add the suggestion more immigration is needed because the "pool of available labor has grown thin"!

You call that Labor Force, 'thin'.

You don't know thin Gringo.

Posted by: Venezuela at October 07, 2016 12:34 PM (wq2/T)

37

#LiquidJobsMatter

Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 07, 2016 12:34 PM (zu88C)

38 They misspelled "soiled"

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:35 PM (7ZVPa)

39 This laborer needs to grow thin.

Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 12:35 PM (gmeXX)

40 I don't expect anything solid to ever come from H-Roid.

Posted by: wth at October 07, 2016 12:36 PM (HgMAr)

41 What's the minimum number for jobs to match population growth? 200k or something like that?
.............
about 156,000!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 07, 2016 12:36 PM (so+oy)

42 "Spin,spin,spin,spin,spin..."

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Yes, the Hadron collider has nothing on WaPo.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 12:36 PM (8zHLN)

43 Alex, the number is something over 250K, it was 250K about six or seven years ago, but population has increased.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:36 PM (7ZVPa)

44 Hahaaa, back in the Reagan years they told us we needed 250-300K jobs per month to keep unemployment from rising. More fake numbers from the modern D-Rats.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at October 07, 2016 12:36 PM (+O9YB)

45 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at October 07, 2016 12:36 PM (YRq0k)

46 Monthly jobs number of 400k used to be the standard for replacement and population growth. 150k is anemic.

Posted by: Running Man at October 07, 2016 12:36 PM (NWEXe)

47 well "thin" was referring to the physical nature of the labor force.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 12:36 PM (cPsPa)

48 Rush is killing it today

Posted by: Yo! at October 07, 2016 12:37 PM (YRq0k)

49 The Red Sox scored a solid 4 runs in last night's 4-5 loss.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 07, 2016 12:37 PM (mgbwf)

50 it is the second part of obamacare. 1 ration healthcare. 2. solve obesity epidemic.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 12:37 PM (cPsPa)

51 Solid? What the f* is that?

Posted by: Grannie Splatter AKA Abuela Salpicar at October 07, 2016 12:37 PM (HgMAr)

52 654 Hmmm.

Point of order, Horde, it's not technically possible to threadjack an open thread.

But Imma give it a try.

Let us discuss this, shall we?

http://bit.ly/2dZnw0n

Personally, I find the juxtaposition of the vibrant colors against the black foundation to truly make the colors sing. Not to mention the complimentary play of the variants in color between the organic and inorganic materials.

There's also something piquant about the delicacy and wispiness of the outer wrapping with the solid and firm structures required with that which is underneath.

But, and this is key, holy hell are those amazing boobs.
Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 12:31 PM (mf5HN)

Truly we are enriched, having been gifted so by The Empress. Thanks and glory be upon her.

Posted by: random lurker at October 07, 2016 12:37 PM (+tRIN)

53 Soooo, is this all still Bush's fault? It must be, because nearly half of this country wants a Wicked Witch presidency. And, jokes fly here and there about this kinda stuff, but it really is very scary the way the "news" business has evolved into a 100% in-the-tank Democrat apparatus. Absolutely incredible.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at October 07, 2016 12:37 PM (+FSld)

54 "Economy Produces Anemic 156,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Ticks Up"

Debate prep? Mission Accomplished!

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 12:38 PM (JBggj)

55

what is 93,000,000 divided by 156,000 ?

Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 07, 2016 12:38 PM (zu88C)

56 Recall how Obama's Stimulus was supposed to bring down unemployment, but then didn't. Nancy Pelosi purposefully shifted Stimulus spending away from Burly Men jobs, where deficit spending might have had a positive multiplier. Businesses got the message and hunkered down by hiring less and cutting expenses. ObamaCare added to this by often making full-time employees a liability not an asset. And the beat of over-regulation and over-taxation went on.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 07, 2016 12:38 PM (r1fLd)

57 Cole Hamels pitched a solid 4 1/3 innings, yesterday.

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2016 12:38 PM (wq2/T)

58 Three more months.

Posted by: Soona at October 07, 2016 12:38 PM (Fmupd)

59 My favorite response to the above Tweet:

jokeronparade �� ‏@jokeronparade 3h3 hours ago
@jamestaranto @BeladonnaRogers they misspelled abysmal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 12:38 PM (9mTYi)

60 Solidly anemic

Posted by: real joe at October 07, 2016 12:38 PM (2gGwJ)

61 Recovery summer here we come!!!

Posted by: Yo! at October 07, 2016 12:38 PM (YRq0k)

62 Solid stool!

Posted by: Cholera at October 07, 2016 12:39 PM (LdMbv)

63
Hahaaa, back in the Reagan years they told us we needed 250-300K jobs
per month to keep unemployment from rising. More fake numbers from the
modern D-Rats.
Posted by: JewishOdysseus at October 07, 2016 12:36 PM (+O9YB)
It requires faster job growth to keep the unemployment rate from rising when the labor force participation rate is increasing (as it did under Reagan) than when it's decreasing (as it has under Obama).

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 07, 2016 12:39 PM (EIB5Y)

64 well what is interesting about the obamaganda we have been receiving is that it will be very easy to make direct comparisons to how economic data was reported in the obama years and in subsequent years. number for number, surprise for surprise.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 12:39 PM (cPsPa)

65 Can I make a wild guess without bothering to look that the August job numbers were also revised down as well.

Posted by: buzzion at October 07, 2016 12:39 PM (z/Ubi)

66 Starbucks hired 156,000 new baristas? Wow.

Posted by: wth at October 07, 2016 12:39 PM (HgMAr)

67 To be fair, a lot of the 93 million Americans not in the workforce are just not willing to do the jobs that millions of illegals and imported jihadists will do.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:39 PM (7ZVPa)

68 On the scale of solidity of animal feces:

156,000 is Whale Shit.

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2016 12:39 PM (wq2/T)

69 "22 Wait, wut? The WaPo gave money to Hillary? That can't be true. DeBlasio said the WaPo was a right-wing rag."

I believe he was referring to the NY Post. Check out the front page today with DeBlasio in a high chair wearing a bib that says "Lil Mayor"

Posted by: Benji Carver at October 07, 2016 12:40 PM (OD2ni)

70 The whole of the weaponized goverment is illigitimate and is engaged with their media apparatchiks in campaign of propaganda, spin and lies.

If you thinks it's bad now imagine how worse it will be with the FAB as the head of a criminal enterprise right inside the Oval Office.

Hillary Clinton is an extiction level event for the republic.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 07, 2016 12:40 PM (zs6mP)

71 Do me a solid, man? I need this, okay? My girlfriend Conchita she got busted, man. I mean, she's going down: dope, guns, midgets, all kindsa crazy shit, you feel me? I give you this, you put in a word with the DA, right? You do for me, I do for you, okay? We cool?

Posted by: Every Skeevy Police Informant On Every Cop Show Ever at October 07, 2016 12:40 PM (OGbEB)

72 Alex, the number is something over 250K, it was 250K about six or seven years ago, but population has increased.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:36 PM (7ZVPa)

Thank you. Yeah so we're in outright contraction. Not that this is news to anyone but still.

Anecdata. I have noticed more hiring signs up lately for fast food places and convenience stores and the like. Retail doesn't count because it's gearing up for Christmas season.

What does that mean? I have no clue.

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 12:40 PM (mf5HN)

73 Recall how Obama's Stimulus was supposed to bring down unemployment, but then didn't. Nancy Pelosi purposefully shifted Stimulus spending away from Burly Men jobs, where deficit spending might have had a positive multiplier. Businesses got the message and hunkered down by hiring less and cutting expenses. ObamaCare added to this by often making full-time employees a liability not an asset. And the beat of over-regulation and over-taxation went on.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 07, 2016 12:38 PM (r1fLd)

well you are forgetting how many jobs were saved, even if they were only saved as part time jobs.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 12:40 PM (cPsPa)

74 Solid like a Hillary bowel movement.

Posted by: steevy at October 07, 2016 12:40 PM (fA75F)

75 Three more months.

Posted by: Soona

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Good to see some optimism.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:40 PM (7ZVPa)

76
For the next Bezos rocket that explodes, will the WaPo report a "solid" lift off followed by unexpectedly powerful omnidirectional thrust ?

Posted by: Sphynx at October 07, 2016 12:40 PM (OZmbA)

77
Hillary Clinton is an extinction level event for the republic.

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But But , PRINCIPLES!!!! My lovely, lovely PRINCIPLES!!!

Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 07, 2016 12:41 PM (zu88C)

78 Drudge reports another massive surge of illegal migrants crossing our border with Mexico.

They must have been inspired by the Washington Post's report of 156,000 new jobs in the United States!

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 12:41 PM (JBggj)

79 well, one quick way to get the unemployment back in line is to get rid of every illegal here. you are going to need to hire lots of people to replace them even if it is at higher wages.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 12:41 PM (cPsPa)

80 Remain calm- everything is awesome!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 07, 2016 12:41 PM (mN+tK)

81 Solid.

Like the lifters in my Trans Am.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 07, 2016 12:42 PM (wq2/T)

82 You ingrates should be thanking me for not showing you up.

If I hadn't borrowed trillions of dollars and injected it into the economy and my political hack Janet Yellen hadn't printed money like nobody's business, everyone would realize what a lousy, sick underlying economy you stupid, racist Americans have.

You people have disappointed me yet again, with your weak and sickly economic activity.

I've had to inject more stimulants than Hillary's doctors just to keep you from economically face-planting in the street.

Posted by: Barack Obama at October 07, 2016 12:42 PM (fgOnp)

83 "Thin" available labor force of only around 100 million.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 07, 2016 12:42 PM (mN+tK)

84 I left a mondo solid in the restroom.

Posted by: josephistan at October 07, 2016 12:42 PM (7HtZB)

85 You are right about the in-kind donation Ace. Open, in your face and blatant partisan bias.

Media bias amounts to a 15-20% edge for the Democrats in every election
(according to Evan Thomas, a noted lib, who said this years ago). Without this bias every election would be a blowout and Democrats wouldn't be
elected as dogcatcher.

Our side needs to go after these propaganda artists and take away their licenses for making unreported, in-kind contributions to the Democrat Party.
D'Nesh D'Sousa went to fucking jail for making an unreported contribution to a
friend for fuck's sake. Why shouldn't the owner of the Washington Post or the head of CBS News be held to the same
standard? Their licenses say they will serve the interests of the community,
NOT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!!!

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Posted by: LGoPs at October 07, 2016 12:42 PM (AtCmq)

86 "No worries, there'll be plenty of construction jobs for unemployed citizens putting the Florida and Georgia coasts back together."

Is anyone still left? Shep said everyone was going to die.

Posted by: Benji Carver at October 07, 2016 12:43 PM (OD2ni)

87 "solid"

"robust"

"vibrant"

"intersectional" and the ever-popular

"historic"

Ah, the NewSpeak dictionary is coming along apace, comrades.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 07, 2016 12:43 PM (SRKgf)

88 I did it again didn't I?

Posted by: LGoPs at October 07, 2016 12:43 PM (AtCmq)

89 Does "solid" = "real" because....most of these jobs reports are revised downward a month or two after they come out, particularly when there's an upcoming election.

I would bet "solid" becomes "made-up/incorrectly calculated" by the end of the year.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 12:43 PM (NOIQH)

90

Bottomless barrel ?

Posted by: Sphynx at October 07, 2016 12:43 PM (OZmbA)

91 Under President Obama, the economy has come roaring back!

Posted by: Lester Holt at October 07, 2016 12:43 PM (9mTYi)

92 >>Posted by: LGoPs at October 07, 2016 12:42 PM (AtCmq)

Nothing Solid in the Barrel.

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2016 12:43 PM (wq2/T)

93 Just you wait til Hillary gets to hiring for all those roads, bridges and solar watsits jobs. Millions and millions will be employed at good union wages. Just as soon as they get trained to rake hot asphalt and pound rivets. Millions I say.

Posted by: Hank at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (KDvcX)

94 I just heard a solid impact in the barrel.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (7ZVPa)

95 Can I make a wild guess without bothering to look that the August job numbers were also revised down as well.
Posted by: buzzion at October 07, 2016 12:39 PM (z/Ubi)
August's job growth was revised upward by 16 thousand but July's job growth was revised downward by 23 thousand.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (EIB5Y)

96 62 Solid stool!

" My own stools, Sir, are gigantic and have no more odor than a hot biscuit."

Posted by: jwest at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (Zs4uk)

97 Note.... almost all those jobs 'created' were in the Service Industry....

BLS shows manufacturing jobs down...

Posted by: Don Quixote at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (qf6WZ)

98
now THATS an epic embarrelling!

4.85/5.0

*golf clap*

Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (zu88C)

99 They added "solid" in order to give the crappy numbers the cachet of being more than they actually are.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (SRKgf)

100 LGoPs, report to the dildo washing section.

Posted by: The Barrel at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (mgbwf)

101 You people are overreacting. I'm sure the word solid was just an homage to the cool Linc character from the 70s hippie crime drama "Mod Squad"

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (mN+tK)

102 >>I did it again didn't I?

Never cut/paste from MS Word into AoSHQ.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (NOIQH)

103 "To be fair, a lot of the 93 million Americans not in the workforce are just not willing to do the jobs that millions of illegals and imported jihadists will do."

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It's a bit hard when you are expected to blow up on your first day on the job.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (8zHLN)

104 Sorry.

*Red-faced*

Posted by: LGoPs at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (AtCmq)

105 I'd guess also that a large percentage of these jobs involve the title Barista, or Assistant Night Manager.

Those jobs are only for the highly educated.
Everyone else sucks hind tit.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (Bd48Y)

106 The Japanese Navy lost a solid 4 aircraft carriers at Midway.

Oh, and LGoPs? The barrel beckons.

Posted by: Gran of the Deplorables at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (XIXhw)

107
Out: "Unexpectedly"

In: "SOLID"

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (JBggj)

108 There is a "SOLID" dry section in Hurricane Mathew as it ticks up the coast..media jerkoffs never stop do they?

Posted by: Knightbrigade at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (z4eLR)

109 The neighbor's dog left a solid on my lawn this morning.

Posted by: wooga at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (CYxjF)

110 LGoPs to the Barrel. LGoPs, please return to the Barrel.

The Red Sox scored a solid 4 runs in last night's 4-5 loss.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 07, 2016 12:37 PM (mgbwf)

I just want to rub this in a, okay, I was going to say little.

A lot. A whole really lot.

*rolls about it in for a bit*

Yes, I know this will bite me in my face but that's later and this is now.

Bander, did you notice that the Red Sox lost to the Indians last night?

Did you?

HUH HUH HUH DIDJA DIDJA?

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (mf5HN)

111 Never cut/paste from MS Word into AoSHQ.

Got it.

Posted by: LGoPs at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (AtCmq)

112 The barrel yawns wide, LGops

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (9mTYi)

113 Good grief, that's a lot of lies concentrated in one teeny weenie little headline.

"Added," "solid," "156K," "rose" "5%."

That's five solid lies. And I'm not so sure about "U.S.," September," "rate" or "as" either.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (TOk1P)

114
did it again didn't I?
Posted by: LGoPs at October 07, 2016 12:43 PM (AtCmq)

Yes you did

Posted by: The Barrel at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (lKyWE)

115 Notice how they add the suggestion more immigration is needed because the "pool of available labor has grown thin"!!!1???

=============================================

We've killed approximately 54 million children in the last 40 years or so. Perhaps they might have made the labor force more robust if they weren't dead.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (bpfzP)

116 21 It's the economy, stupid!

I've posted before about John Crudele at the NY Post -- a real journalist who's been exposing the lies in our economic statistics for the last few years, including the two key figures of GDP growth and the unemployment rate. There was also recent finagling of household incomes. It's like we're living in a Soviet Five Year Plan or Mao's Great Leap Forward.

Notably most Americans are worse off despite Obama's spending in excess of $8 trillion with borrowings while the Fed has kept interest rates near zero -- GDP growth should have been redlining above 5% -- instead its been less than our population growth -- we've collectively been getting poorer.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 07, 2016 12:32 PM (r1fLd)

All of the Quantitative Easing. The Fed buying up equities.

Also I read an interesting article at the Conservative Tree House that correctly states there has not been a budget passed since the TARP bailouts so every year another 700 billion are handed out to the banks to distribute money globally to prop up the economy. Passing a budget would end that yearly free cash handout.

Explains why both parties refuse to pass a budget.

Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (0wm3C)

117 >>I'd guess also that a large percentage of these jobs involve the title Barista, or Assistant Night Manager.

I'm thinking "campaign worker" and "paid astro-turf protester".

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (NOIQH)

118 105
I'd guess also that a large percentage of these jobs involve the title Barista, or Assistant Night Manager.

==========

'Consultant (Self Employed)'

Posted by: Mortimer, deplorable at October 07, 2016 12:46 PM (zu88C)

119 Notice there is no reference to the actual unemployment number. If it were there It would be what 5%. Even if it were there 5% is a lie. try 15%. How many people are not working or underemployed. How many people have quit looking for work and live on the dole. Notice I'm disabled myself and feel like I'm a hypocrite. If I could I would believe me.

Posted by: USNtakim at October 07, 2016 12:46 PM (hMqvx)

120 111 Never cut/paste from MS Word into AoSHQ.

Got it.

Posted by: LGoPs at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (AtCmq)

Copy/paste from Word into Notepad, and then from Notepad into the comments here.

Posted by: Gran of the Deplorables at October 07, 2016 12:46 PM (XIXhw)

121 LGops to visit The Other Place

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 12:46 PM (9mTYi)

122 Those working class folks should just die. It would help the unemployment numbers.

Posted by: Kevin D. Williamson at October 07, 2016 12:46 PM (0mRoj)

123 Fox Business had a break down of the different sectors including in the hiring numbers.

Positive numbers for the service sector and the hospitality sector.
Manufacturing was down and mining had exactly ZERO hires last month.

Posted by: Jen the original at October 07, 2016 12:46 PM (ntZAP)

124 Word is that the moderators will hit Trump on Global Warming at Sunday night's debate, in the aftermath of man-made Hurricane Matthew, and ManBearPig going on the trail for Hillary. Both sides have mostly avoided this topic until now.

Meanwhile Hillary and Huma just had their 20th Anniversary. You give China on your 20th, right?

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 07, 2016 12:46 PM (r1fLd)

125 So the barrels claimed another victim...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 12:46 PM (O2RFr)

126 "OK everybody repeat after President Obama:"

Actually, I think that was Mary Cloggenstein's spiel.

Posted by: Chris M at October 07, 2016 12:46 PM (k3w9p)

127 The Barrel is not that bad.Really.Make sure all your shots are up to date.

Posted by: steevy at October 07, 2016 12:47 PM (fA75F)

128 OT: New reporting via Hurricane Watch Net (http://hwn.org),
Jacksonville area National Weather Service and "commercial broadcast"
stations off the air. Electric grid power is intermittent.

Posted by: Country Singer (gab @BertG) at October 07, 2016 12:47 PM (GUBah)

129 The Red Sox scored a solid 4 runs in last night's 4-5 loss.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 07, 2016 12:37 PM (mgbwf)

The rate of David Ortiz rate of piss to steroids rose to a solid 5%.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 07, 2016 12:47 PM (TOk1P)

130 America's morning news this morning (hey it's the station alarm clock is set to) with Gordon Deal, the guy reporting this number said we were at full employment.
Almost dropped my coffee cup.
And yes, they are that had about something almost every morning. Makes me want to rush in my order for a Harry's razor.
Not.

Posted by: teej at October 07, 2016 12:47 PM (mzCLD)

131 As solid as Bob Dole before taking my little blue pill!

Posted by: Bob Dole at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (cUGxQ)

132 Bander, did you notice that the Red Sox lost to the Indians last night?

Did you notice that I was wry and self-deprecating about that?

Those whom the Gods will destroy they first make midgets, and ginger, and Cleveland fans.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (mgbwf)

133 Public service announcement - go read the latest Imprimus from Hillsdale College. It speaks to America's Economic Mobility and is quite good.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (7ZVPa)

134 My friends, we have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House

Posted by: John McCain at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (DpOmP)

135 Meanwhile Hillary and Huma just had their 20th Anniversary. You give China on your 20th, right?
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 07, 2016 12:46 PM (r1fLd)

Yes. You give China our manufacturing jobs, control of the South China Sea...

Posted by: josephistan at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (7HtZB)

136 >>Notice how they add the suggestion more immigration is needed because the "pool of available labor has grown thin"!!!1???

Yes, more uneducated immigrants and refugees will fit the bill!
Just look at what's happening in Germany: most of the "refugees" (only 10% are Syrian) are unemployable, so now Merkel is ordering businesses to hire them. #Winning!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (NOIQH)

137 They didn't have to revise unemployment sharply downward since it's not a D re-election cycle.

Posted by: TexasDan at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (TqXWc)

138 Meanwhile Hillary and Huma just had their 20th Anniversary. You give China on your 20th, right?

North Korea for your 20th. China for 25th.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (Bd48Y)

139 #MakeTheBarrelGreatAgain

Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (9krrF)

140 OT, but now I'm worried my sister might get into hot water with the campus SJWs.

She works at a college and got an appointment for a seminar called (I shit you not) Black Sexual Lives Matter. She forwarded the appointment itself to me and her husband and friends with a mocking "can you believe this shit?" comment. However, if any of her friends replies to it, the reply will go, not back to her, but to the organizer of the event.

She and her husband and friends are not very computer savvy people. I just emailed her telling her to tell everyone on that list to delete the appointment, not hit reply.

I doubt that anybody idiot enough to set up a "Black Sexual Lives Matter" seminar will have much of a sense of humor about being mocked.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (u0lmX)

141 At the risk of being pedantic, whenever I see an adjective I think of what the antonym would be from which the present case is being distinguished, and operationally (i.e., empirically) how one would know which case obtained.

In this case, I've got nuthin'.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (SRKgf)

142 Those whom the Gods will destroy they first make midgets, and ginger, and Cleveland fans.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (mgbwf)

THAT'S SO MEAN!

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (mf5HN)

143 But the point remains. Media bias counts as unreported donations to the Democrat Party. Or it should.

Posted by: LGoPs at October 07, 2016 12:49 PM (AtCmq)

144 I don't really have proof of this, and universities wouldn't research it and defy the first black President's economic miracle, but I do believe there's probably been a large uptick in sex work over the last 8 years.

Whether it's girls doing cam-work, sugar babies or seeking arrangements to get through the month, even the stupidest university student still has one thing they can fall back on.....

Of course, it's hotter if the women selling themselves have 'Womyn's Studies' degrees.....

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 07, 2016 12:49 PM (n7ncP)

145 Our economic woes today are a direct result of the Fed slashing interest rates when dot.bomb happened. Thanks Alan.

Posted by: SFGoth at October 07, 2016 12:50 PM (dZ756)

146
A friend of my daughter is a barista and she makes fairly decent money for someone her age.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at October 07, 2016 12:50 PM (lKyWE)

147 I think I'll have LGoPs with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Posted by: The Barrel at October 07, 2016 12:50 PM (fgOnp)

148
Headline Round-up

CNN Money: U.S. job growth is solid in September

Marketwatch: The economy created 156,000 new jobs in September, another solid gain in employment

CBS: Solid jobs report, little fodder for Fed, politicians

NYT: U.S. Economy, Showing Resilience, Added 156,000 Jobs Last Month

LATimes: The era of big monthly job gains appears over and economists say that's a good thing

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2016 12:50 PM (kdS6q)

149
Know what else is 'solid'?

Posted by: $19,240,226,530,789.00 at October 07, 2016 12:50 PM (zu88C)

150 133 Public service announcement - go read the latest Imprimus from Hillsdale College. It speaks to America's Economic Mobility and is quite good.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (7ZVPa)

It is good, although it doesn't paint a pretty picture.

Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (0mRoj)

151 >>A friend of my daughter is a barista and she makes fairly decent money for someone her age.

But, is she hot?

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (wq2/T)

152 What we need is a good jobs program. Like maybe we should conduct a census again? That really helped folks out the last time.

Posted by: ajmojo at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (1H9ox)

153 Headline Round-up

CNN Money: U.S. job growth is solid in September

Marketwatch: The economy created 156,000 new jobs in September, another solid gain in employment

CBS: Solid jobs report, little fodder for Fed, politicians

NYT: U.S. Economy, Showing Resilience, Added 156,000 Jobs Last Month

LATimes: The era of big monthly job gains appears over and economists say that's a good thing

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2016 12:50 PM (kdS6q)

Oh, Lord. How I hate those tools.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (u0lmX)

154 #148

That's solid North Korean-level propaganda, there.

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (JBggj)

155 Would the Washington Post use the word "solid" if President George W. Bush was president. I remember when Bush was president and over 300,000 jobs had been added in one month and the liberal media was talking about it as if we had lost 300,000 jobs instead. They are pathetic.

Posted by: James at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (M9gRj)

156 Headline Round-up

CNN Money: U.S. job growth is solid in September

Marketwatch: The economy created 156,000 new jobs in September, another solid gain in employment

CBS: Solid jobs report, little fodder for Fed, politicians

NYT: U.S. Economy, Showing Resilience, Added 156,000 Jobs Last Month

LATimes: The era of big monthly job gains appears over and economists say that's a good thing

So they all got the memo to say "solid."

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (O2RFr)

157 I think I'll have LGoPs with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Posted by: The Barrel at October 07, 2016 12:50 PM (fgOnp)

But I have a gammy leg.

Posted by: LGoPs at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (AtCmq)

158 A friend of my daughter is a barista and she makes fairly decent money for someone her age.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at October 07, 2016 12:50 PM (lKyWE)

starbucks is the gs of the fastfood world. healthcare, stock options, insurance, education benefits, high pay.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (cPsPa)

159 Know what else is 'solid'?

Posted by: $19,240,226,530,789.00 at October 07, 2016 12:50 PM (zu88C)

I do, I do!

Posted by: Russian influence in the Middle East at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (TOk1P)

160 Why does Bush hate our Black President? Bush should have done something before he left office to create more jobs. Poor President Obama was stuck with a Shitty Bush Sandwich !!! Let's give Chocolate Jesus another 4 years and forget about that stupid Constitution thing written by Honky's over two hundred years ago !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 12:52 PM (NuElX)

161 go read the latest Imprimus from Hillsdale College. It speaks to America's Economic Mobility and is quite good.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (7ZVPa)

It is good, although it doesn't paint a pretty picture.

Posted by: Insomniac

--

Yeah, I should have used the word 'solid'.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:52 PM (7ZVPa)

162 People, people. Calm yourselves. These are not the McJobs that Chimpy HalliBusHitler created. Nosirree, these are solid ObamaJobs created by the Lightworker.

Much different.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Hillbot 3.0 Control Override Kits at the Outrage Outlet! at October 07, 2016 12:52 PM (hLRSq)

163 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2016 12:50 PM (kdS6q)

If I didn't know better, I'd think that was awesome snark.

Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2016 12:52 PM (wq2/T)

164 I got your "solid" right here...

Posted by: USNtakim at October 07, 2016 12:52 PM (hMqvx)

165
But, is she hot?
Posted by: garrett at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (wq2/T)

I feel creepy saying this,but yes.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at October 07, 2016 12:52 PM (lKyWE)

166 Bander, did you notice that the Red Sox lost to the Indians last night?

Did you?

HUH HUH HUH DIDJA DIDJA?

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM

*glares*

Posted by: Cameron at October 07, 2016 12:52 PM (bzd8I)

167

"Revised down" will not be reported when it happens.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 07, 2016 12:52 PM (qCMvj)

168 Those whom the Gods will destroy they first make midgets, and ginger, and Cleveland fans.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 07, 2016 12:48 PM (mgbwf)

I'll have to concur with that.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Hillbot 3.0 Control Override Kits at the Outrage Outlet! at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (hLRSq)

169 Everyone knows the economy is the worst it's been in decades if not longer.

I'll see something on the tv or on the news about how it's great everything is wonderful and later on someone will slip on a different story about working or culture or something and say "Especially in this economy". So which is it? I think we all know.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (4ErVI)

170 Stand back and witness the awesome hiring power of my Fully Recovered Economy.
Posted by: Barackhenaten I at October 07, 2016 12:28 PM (wq2/T)

I feel a little Brokeback Mountain towards this blog: "I wish I knew how to quit you!"

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (SeD0w)

171 After I eat Taco Bell, my bowels explode solidly.

Posted by: Landofskybluewater at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (cUGxQ)

172 *ponders*

I thought that only thing that routinely got unexpectedly solid was teenage boys.

*ponders*

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (mf5HN)

173
As for the "solid" common narrative point, looks like it started with:

Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester told CNBC on Friday the government's weaker-than-expected employment report for September was still strong enough to keep her thinking central bankers should increase interest rates.

"It's a solid labor market report," Mester said on "Squawk Box." She's a voting member this year on the Fed's policy panel, the Federal Open Market Committee. "This is very consistent with what we expected to see."

And since your average business reporter is a liberal who just watches the business channels and retypes press releases, they ran with it.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (kdS6q)

174 "CBS: Solid jobs report, little fodder for Fed, politicians"

From the latest email release, we know that CBS takes direct orders from Jen Psaki.

Posted by: Benji Carver at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (OD2ni)

175 I don't even watch the TV news anymore. I go to Drudge and Rush for the news. They are a joke and I hope President Trump does something about these idiots !!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (NuElX)

176 In a healthy economy with a constant growth of this number, with spats of more in REAL employment numbers, this IS a solid number.

In the 8 years of continued recession, this is a JOKE.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (CIpNU)

177 162 People, people. Calm yourselves. These are not the McJobs that Chimpy HalliBusHitler created. Nosirree, these are solid ObamaJobs created by the Lightworker.

Much different.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH

Wow! I'm glad you clarified that. The tits are now calm.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (Bd48Y)

178 "You people have disappointed me yet again, with your weak and sickly economic activity.

I've had to inject more stimulants than Hillary's doctors just to keep you from economically face-planting in the street.,

---------

Yeah, you ingrates. The least you can do is vote for Hillary who will work even harder to wreck... er, fix the economy. You lot are not worthy if her either, I can see you will only disappoint her too.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (8zHLN)

179 So they all got the memo to say "solid."
Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (O2RFr)

unbelievable

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 07, 2016 12:54 PM (qCMvj)

180 Everyone knows the economy is the worst it's been in decades if not longer.

I'll see something on the tv or on the news about how it's great everything is wonderful and later on someone will slip on a different story about working or culture or something and say "Especially in this economy". So which is it? I think we all know.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (4ErVI)

eventually, the 2008 forward period will be labeled the second depression.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 12:54 PM (cPsPa)

181 The economy is so great, Clinton is running on recreating the WPA for millenials.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:54 PM (7ZVPa)

182 95 Can I make a wild guess without bothering to look that the August job numbers were also revised down as well.
Posted by: buzzion at October 07, 2016 12:39 PM (z/Ubi)
August's job growth was revised upward by 16 thousand but July's job growth was revised downward by 23 thousand.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 07, 2016 12:44 PM (EIB5Y)

Darn I was wrong. I'll have to remember next month to ask what August was revised to. Because if they revised it up 16,000 maybe next month it gets revised down 20,000. I wonder what the July revision last month was.

Posted by: buzzion at October 07, 2016 12:54 PM (z/Ubi)

183 12 I'd guess also that a large percentage of these jobs involve the title Barista, or Assistant Night Manager.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:30 PM (7ZVPa)

They did under Georgie Porgie too. The ZOMFG! look how great these numbers are! only worked if you didn't look closer. The vast, VAST majority of them were service industry drudge work at low pay or part time work in the same industry.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2016 12:54 PM (4ErVI)

184
169 Everyone knows the economy is the worst it's been in decades if not longer.

I'll see something on the tv or on the news about how it's great everything is wonderful and later on someone will slip on a different story about working or culture or something and say "Especially in this economy". So which is it? I think we all know.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (4ErVI)

Millennials certainly know it's shitty. And yet they mostly want to vote for more of the same.

There you have the "critical thinking skills" chemjeff was talking about in the last thread.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 07, 2016 12:54 PM (u0lmX)

185 From the latest email release, we know that CBS takes direct orders from Jen Psaki.

I read that... Unfrikkinbelievable...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 12:54 PM (O2RFr)

186 Yes SOLID as my Chihuahua's dump last night !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 12:55 PM (NuElX)

187 *glares*
Posted by: Cameron at October 07, 2016 12:52 PM (bzd8I)

*frolics about*

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 12:55 PM (mf5HN)

188 I kept Amazon alive during its infancy by purchasing an enormous amount of books. I'm beginning to think I should have strangled it in its crib.

Posted by: kathysaysso at October 07, 2016 12:55 PM (43OZ6)

189 Solid!

*points both fingers at you*

Posted by: Isaac the Love Boat bartender at October 07, 2016 12:55 PM (cUGxQ)

190 If the average over the "recovery" per month was between 150 and 250, then this is solid. When this is a TOP END, it's NOT.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 07, 2016 12:55 PM (CIpNU)

191 So Bushes fault? Or now Trumps because he didn't pay his taxes?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'jonesing for hobo jerkey' at October 07, 2016 12:55 PM (B+MYz)

192 I'll see something on the tv or on the news about how it's great everything is wonderful and later on someone will slip on a different story about working or culture or something and say "Especially in this economy". So which is it? I think we all know.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2016 12:53 PM (4ErVI)

Best example: in the Democrat debates, where Her Thighness and Bernie argued over their plans to get the economy back on track. "Back on track?" Doesn't that kinda imply it's NOT on track now?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 07, 2016 12:55 PM (SRKgf)

193 I thought that only thing that routinely got unexpectedly solid was teenage boys.

No. That's routinely EXPECTED.
When the wind blows, two synapses fire, etc.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 12:56 PM (Bd48Y)

194 The jobs market is more solid than the cankles holding Hillary upright.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 07, 2016 12:56 PM (u0lmX)

195 Well everyone knows it wasn't Trump hiring for his ground game hurrumpf

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at October 07, 2016 12:56 PM (W653s)

196 I just realized I omitted "unexpectedly" from the nascent NewSpeak dictionary above.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 07, 2016 12:56 PM (SRKgf)

197 1000's of people should have gone to prison after the 2008 meltdown. And we should have let it melt down instead of kicking the can down the road making the inevitable exponentially worse.

Both parties are guilty.

Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 12:57 PM (0wm3C)

198 This blog needs some healing after that cavernous rift opened to divide the early commenters from those with jobs.

Also, I think we'll see "solid" as the new normal anytime something gets revised downward.

The fig leaf they are hiding behind will be that they're affirming that the number was reduced, but that the new number, while lower, can be relied upon.

The first number was not solid. We had to revise it. But this new crap sandwich? Super solid. Break your teeth on it.

Posted by: TexasDan at October 07, 2016 12:57 PM (TqXWc)

199 When the geniuses eventually turn the US into a fully service economy, 156K is going to look like a great number.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:57 PM (7ZVPa)

200 185 From the latest email release, we know that CBS takes direct orders from Jen Psaki.

I read that... Unfrikkinbelievable...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 12:54 PM (O2RFr)

*Giggles* It's like, so majorly awesome to have the media taking orders from me.

/sweater puppy Jen

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (u0lmX)

201 eventually, the 2008 forward period will be labeled the second depression.

If they'd had EBT cards in '29, you'd have never seen bread lines either.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (Bd48Y)

202 "Expectantly Solid"???

Posted by: USNtakim at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (hMqvx)

203 We're preparing a solid foundation for next year's Recovery Summer VIII!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (EIB5Y)

204 But never forget, it is the editorial position of the AmazonIncWashPost (NASDAQ: AMZN) that Citizens United is terrible because it allows corporations to influence elections and that is wicked.

Posted by: Jeff B at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (gKJkf)

205 If you bother to ask Tasha Yar, I can be quite solid.

.....quite.

Posted by: Data at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (cUGxQ)

206 "Meanwhile Hillary and Huma just had their 20th Anniversary. You give China on your 20th, right?"

----///

What is left to give China? They already took most of the jobs.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (8zHLN)

207 OH MY GAWD!!!...can nothing make you wing-nuts happy???

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (wcSGs)

208 Unexpectedly solid like a shart

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (W653s)

209 199 When the geniuses eventually turn the US into a fully service economy, 156K is going to look like a great number.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:57 PM (7ZVPa)

When the geniuses finish, 156,000 will be the total employment in the US.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (SRKgf)

210 The Genius' are getting jobs. The democrat demograph, are NOT.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (CIpNU)

211 The sectors that have too high prices and/or too high wages are those with high levels of government interference: health care, education, housing.

The rest of the economy could do fine with deflation and lower wages if this weren't the case, but the elites would unduly suffer from deflation.

Illegal immigration provides job growth in education and health care.

There's an alternative universe where typical Americans pay less for housing, health care and education, and government taxes, but work less and have smaller paychecks, but have a higher quality of life.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (r1fLd)

212 Solid all right , solid cr@p. Spent-uranium-dipped-in-gold-burnished-in-silver-plate cr@p!

Feck the MSM - if Trump cannot hammer this - and judo flip these asinine "solid" economy questions ( or questions like last debate: "Gee Obama's great recovery has been soooooo super - but, really, how could you make it better") in the next debate we are going to lose this thing. He simply cannot let softball opportunities to both hammer Hillary and skewer the MSM liberals go by the board anymore.

Any response that does not start with: " I am sorry . Did you just start off your question with the statement that the economy is doing great? Maybe for you in the MSM and your liberal crony capitalist friends and inside of the government like Hillary, who are selling access in return for payoffs and jobs for friends, like she did with the so called "Clinton Foundation" . . . [pause for eyebrow raise and disgust filled glance at moderator] . . . but for the rest of America, the real America of working people, they have been suffering non stop, and their kids have no job prospects and, worst of all, in inner cities and African America communities the jobless rate is well above 8 percent, and if our current crooked administration kept accurate runners it would probably be reported as well above 20%. So I cannot answer your slanted, biased question as it supposes that everything in our economy is just great - and it is not - people are suffering, and will continue to suffer if we re-elect someone so patently unfit to run any sort of business as Hillary, who has never done an honest days work, or started a business or doen anything that has led to job creation and has only taken your hard earned tax dollars and wasted them on graft and corruption. It ends here. It ends now. And it certainly ends when I am elected president" [drop mike. Wait for applause to end - start measuring for drapes in the oval office]

Pax ex.

Posted by: Publius Redux at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (Fb9aZ)

213 202 "Expectantly Solid"???

Posted by: USNtakim at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (hMqvx)

My bowel movement this morning.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (4ErVI)

214 1000's of people should have gone to prison after the 2008 meltdown. And we should have let it melt down instead of kicking the can down the road making the inevitable exponentially worse.

Both parties are guilty.
Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 12:57 PM (0wm3C)

I am fixated on the notion that Wells Fargo had nigh upon 6,000 people engaging in admitted identity theft and, so far as I know, not a single person will be charged with anything.

arrrrggghhhh

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (mf5HN)

215 >>I remember when Bush was president and over 300,000 jobs had been added
in one month and the liberal media was talking about it as if we had
lost 300,000 jobs instead. They are pathetic.

They *always* dinged Bush for job growth being "below expectations".
So the story was always along the lines of "Job Growth 0.25% Less Than Expected" even when there was growth.

The MSM loves to reference what is "expected" or that happens "unexpectedly." Always wondered where these expectations originated and why they bother to heed them given that they're always off.
Maybe they're hanging out with the "Some People" who are always quoted (as in "Some people say Trump does not have the temperament to be POTUS")...

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (NOIQH)

216 199 When the geniuses eventually turn the US into a fully service economy, 156K is going to look like a great number.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:57 PM (7ZVPa)

'Fully service' is 'fully goverment'? Because private industry so messy.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'jonesing for hobo jerkey' at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (B+MYz)

217 I honestly thought Bezos would have been a sort of LIBERALtarian that at least would have been more pro market than some of his peers, but the Washington Post just seems to go further and further left.

Posted by: Maritime at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (hm8zK)

218 1000's of people should have gone to prison after the 2008 meltdown. And we should have let it melt down instead of kicking the can down the road making the inevitable exponentially worse.

Both parties are guilty.

Posted by: Pepe

--

You, go read the latest Imprimis.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (7ZVPa)

219 I thought that only thing that routinely got unexpectedly solid was teenage boys.

If it wasn't for Pee-Chee folders, high school would have been a total humiliation for me.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 07, 2016 01:00 PM (SeD0w)

220 Josephistan, snap.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 01:00 PM (8zHLN)

221 De-lurking to check in from Lake County, FL.

The worst of it is passed us, and I'm inland a bit so it really want too bad here. Lots us junk in the yard to clean up once it stops raining, but the power stayed on through the whole thing and there are no downed trees in my neighborhood.

My folks are in Jacksonville, so they're getting ready to get the main body of the storm passing through. Prayers for all the morons and moronettes still in the path of this thing.

Posted by: Mandy P. (Not Patinkin), lurking lurker who lurks at October 07, 2016 01:00 PM (KkVB6)

222 A 'solid' is not quite a 'hard', which could lead to a trip to the Pain And Rectal' aisle. A solid is considered better than a 'runny' or 'liquid', but not as forgiving as a 'soft'. A shitty economy in any language.
ProTips from a RN friend.

Posted by: Eromero at October 07, 2016 01:00 PM (zLDYs)

223 OMG wickedpinto!

/Leopold

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at October 07, 2016 01:00 PM (W653s)

224 sorry - meant to end that last post with:

Any response that dopes not start with this will be a wasted opportunity. Bang!

Posted by: Publius Redux at October 07, 2016 01:00 PM (Fb9aZ)

225 Is it mere coincidence that the national unemployment rate rose at the same time that several Obamacare health insurance exchanges were going belly-up?

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 01:00 PM (JBggj)

226 I build things sweetheart, I'm always valuable, EVEN MORE SO! now that you idiots think you are worth a lot more than a robot, when a robot does more and bitches less. I fix robots, robot production is expanding, my skills, that require effort, not bitches, are more desireable, so the obama bitch and moan economy is serving me quite well.

Thank you, and good riddance to you.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 07, 2016 01:00 PM (CIpNU)

227 I lost two cities solid when I let my military start a war with a country that ended up nuking us.

Posted by: Hirohito at October 07, 2016 01:01 PM (XIXhw)

228 >>I am fixated on the notion that Wells Fargo had nigh upon 6,000 people
engaging in admitted identity theft and, so far as I know, not a single
person will be charged with anything.

Amazing, huh?
But hey, you got your outrage theater of Elizabeth Warren screaming at the Wells Fargo president, so I guess we're all good now?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 01:01 PM (NOIQH)

229 212... From your finger spill pure poetry.

Posted by: USNtakim at October 07, 2016 01:01 PM (hMqvx)

230 As solid as my colostomy bag! Speaking of which.

*Types e-mail: Huma get in here! I need to get my server 'dumped'*

Posted by: Hillary! at October 07, 2016 01:01 PM (cUGxQ)

231 Th next recession that hits is not going to be able to get any relief, plus we're going to start hitting a wall with respect to entitlements and pension funds.

A rough ride coming.

Posted by: Maritime at October 07, 2016 01:01 PM (hm8zK)

232 I honestly thought Bezos would have been a sort of LIBERALtarian that at least would have been more pro market than some of his peers, but the Washington Post just seems to go further and further left.
Posted by: Maritime at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (hm8zK)

bezos is shaping up to be a bond villain. he needs to get some hot girl or boy to help him blow off his stress and quit trying to make a real live moonraker.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (cPsPa)

233 Oh and the deficit was $1.4 trillion for Federal FY2016

Maybe the press can take a minute from some 20 year old Trump story to cover it

Posted by: Make America Great Again at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (BS8yt)

234 Solid!

Posted by: Linc at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (C9pBZ)

235 201 eventually, the 2008 forward period will be labeled the second depression.

If they'd had EBT cards in '29, you'd have never seen bread lines either.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 12:58 PM (Bd48Y)

If we got rid of the EBT cards, you better believe the Uniparty in Washington would change policies quickly to save their own assets and in turn saving this country.

Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (0wm3C)

236 Obamacare is Bush's fault. OK repeat after me again Obamacare is Bush's fault........ Continue ....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (NuElX)

237 quit trying to make a real live moonraker.
Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (cPsPa)

I thought that was Elon Musk.

Posted by: buzzion at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (z/Ubi)

238 the obama bitch and moan economy is serving me quite well.

++++

I serve the miserable. I'm always busy.

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (W653s)

239 I am fixated on the notion that Wells Fargo had nigh upon 6,000 people engaging in admitted identity theft and, so far as I know, not a single person will be charged with anything.

arrrrggghhhh
Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (mf5HN)

ah... but they are being Fined as a company...

fines... which are NOT part of the General Fund... they are a slush fund with no Congressional oversight.

Posted by: Don Quixote at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (qf6WZ)

240 Heh. Another Tweet response: Solid BS

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:03 PM (9mTYi)

241 231 Th next recession that hits is not going to be able to get any relief, plus we're going to start hitting a wall with respect to entitlements and pension funds.

A rough ride coming.

Correct... So who are they gonna blame if Hillary is elected president? They can't blame the Messiah.... I guess it's gonna be Bush's fault still

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:03 PM (O2RFr)

242
I am fixated on the notion that Wells Fargo had nigh upon 6,000 people engaging in admitted identity theft and, so far as I know, not a single person will be charged with anything.

arrrrggghhhh
Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth

It's a really good point.

On a side note, I was ALWAYS getting ID theft and with things that the only place I could point to was my bank, which was Wells Fargo.

I think these employees were selling this stuff to other people beyond just signing up bogus accounts for internal bonuses.

Posted by: Maritime at October 07, 2016 01:03 PM (hm8zK)

243
229 212... From your finger spill pure poetry.
Posted by: USNtakim at October 07, 2016 01:01 PM (hMqvx)

No shit. Publius...me like lots. We can only hop.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'jonesing for hobo jerkey' at October 07, 2016 01:04 PM (B+MYz)

244 I honestly thought Bezos would have been a sort of
LIBERALtarian that at least would have been more pro market than some of
his peers, but the Washington Post just seems to go further and further
left.

Posted by: Maritime at October 07, 2016 12:59 PM (hm8zK)

=========================
Those private enterprise rockets aren't cheap. And drone permits, and all that stuff regulated by the feds. A man's gotta feed his family, so Jeff is a solid Hillary supporter.

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 01:04 PM (JBggj)

245 quit trying to make a real live moonraker.
Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (cPsPa)

I thought that was Elon Musk.
Posted by: buzzion at October 07, 2016 01:02 PM (z/Ubi)

he is a sideshow. bezos has amazon, blue origin,
washington times, actually impacts the physical world.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:04 PM (cPsPa)

246 Not hop...hope. Cawfee.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'jonesing for hobo jerkey' at October 07, 2016 01:04 PM (B+MYz)

247 Off, Ferris Bueller sock!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 07, 2016 01:04 PM (bzd8I)

248 I don't fucking believe this.

I went to the cafeteria to buy lunch because I left mine at home.

I bought a bowl of beef chili.

THERE ARE GODDAMN CARROTS IN THE CHILI!

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 07, 2016 01:04 PM (u0lmX)

249 Man, the box office returns on that Ben Hur remake were absolutely solid!

Posted by: Hollywood exec at October 07, 2016 01:05 PM (cUGxQ)

250 CARROTS LIVES MATTER!!!!

Posted by: USNtakim at October 07, 2016 01:05 PM (hMqvx)

251 THERE ARE GODDAMN CARROTS IN THE CHILI!

The Dark Hand of Cochran reaches far.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 07, 2016 01:05 PM (mgbwf)

252 And speaking of "solid" - what % of those "new" jobs are full-time? And in which sectors? Those details usually make the already anemic numbers much worse, to any thinking person.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2016 12:32 PM (QDnY+)

I haven't read all the comments so forgive me if this is a repeat.

Zerohedge has an article up that states since 2014 America has added over 500,000 waiter and bartender jobs and lost 30,000 manufacturing jobs, or something to that effect.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at October 07, 2016 01:06 PM (pbyiQ)

253 Mandy, I'm glad to hear you're safe.

Amazing, huh?
But hey, you got your outrage theater of Elizabeth Warren screaming at the Wells Fargo president, so I guess we're all good now?
Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 01:01 PM (NOIQH)

Totes good.

There's a very interesting class action suit that was filed a few weeks ago against Wells Fargo by people who were fired because they didn't hit the targets as they refused to engage in false business practices. I have no idea the validity of the claims but it would be nice to see Wells Fargo have to take some kind of responsibility for its actions.

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 01:06 PM (mf5HN)

254 I don't fucking believe this.

I went to the cafeteria to buy lunch because I left mine at home.

I bought a bowl of beef chili.

THERE ARE GODDAMN CARROTS IN THE CHILI!

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No jury would convict you - well none in Texas.

Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:06 PM (gmeXX)

255 Obamacare is Bush's fault. OK repeat after me again Obamacare is Bush's fault........ Continue ....
Posted by: Ferd Berfall
-----------

Last night Zeke Emanuel blamed Ted Cruz for Obamacare's ~~solid~~ abysmal performance. You couldn't make this stuff up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:06 PM (9mTYi)

256
I bought a bowl of beef chili.

THERE ARE GODDAMN CARROTS IN THE CHILI!

You know who's fault that is...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:06 PM (O2RFr)

257 Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (0wm3C)

I'm starting to wonder if they *can* pass a budget at this point. Does *anyone* know what the real numbers are anymore? Sort of like how NOAA and others deleted the source weather data after massaging the numbers, I suspect that a team of forensic accountants could be kept busy for the rest of their lives trying to figure out what the real state of the economy is.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 07, 2016 01:07 PM (GDulk)

258 "Solid", just like the cement block in a central bankster's head.

Posted by: Janet Iz Yellin' at October 07, 2016 01:07 PM (QEUhF)

259 Speaking of Bezos: if you don't have Prime, Amazon is utter shit now. It's okay for Kindle of course, but for physical goods I'll buy from absolutely anybody else.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 07, 2016 01:07 PM (oNNJp)

260 You know how blacks get a bump of 250 points on their SAT scores and Asians have 50 points taken off their score? Well, you must grade Obama ' s economy the same way. By the way, Obama isn't asian.
- your MSM overlords

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 07, 2016 01:07 PM (ZVpek)

261 talking global warming is like talking real unemployment ... the media has lied so long that many can't see past the narrative.

Yellin helped Hillary by keeping rates down, and the big players that can influence markets won't want to tank it for their gal in DC. Too bad so many use the DOW as their gauge on the economy. We've been anemic, propped up by zIRP and QEs, but no one knows what that shit is.

They should understand that open borders means a growing cheap labor pool, but no to worry, golden welfare and free healthcare, maybe even free internet and Hillary phones are just around the corner.

Free Shit America, why work?

Posted by: illiniwek at October 07, 2016 01:07 PM (n6rAX)

262 Beef + carrots = stew

Posted by: weew at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (6EH85)

263 THERE ARE GODDAMN CARROTS IN THE CHILI!

--------------

No jury would convict you - well none in Texas.
Posted by: SH
------------

The Carrot Cabal Conspiracy proceeds apace.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (9mTYi)

264 I haven't read all the comments so forgive me if this is a repeat.

Zerohedge has an article up that states since 2014 America has added over 500,000 waiter and bartender jobs and lost 30,000 manufacturing jobs, or something to that effect.
Posted by: Country Boy

All you need to know about our economy you can glean from looking at Food Stamp recipients.

We have like double the amount of food stamp recipients from 2008. But we're totally in roaring times, ask Lester holt.

Posted by: Maritime at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (hm8zK)

265 >.I am fixated on the notion that Wells Fargo had nigh upon 6,000 people
engaging in admitted identity theft and, so far as I know, not a single
person will be charged with anything.

Meh, ID fraud is not really a crime anymore, is it?
Reminds me of a rare local news report on identity theft: I live in a "sanctuary city", where a 5 year old girl (w/a Hispanic name) had her identity used by someone to get a few jobs, an apartment (left debt behind). They interviewed the girl's mom, a former employer, and someone from the state's Labor department about it. How, oh how, could this have happened? 6+ minutes of hand-wringing about it.

Never mentioned? Her ID was most likely stolen and used by an illegal immigrant.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (NOIQH)

266 There's a very interesting class action suit that was filed a few weeks ago against Wells Fargo by people who were fired because they didn't hit the targets as they refused to engage in false business practices.

I have no idea the validity of the claims

#NoStanding

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (Bd48Y)

267 "THERE ARE GODDAMN CARROTS IN THE CHILI!"

Not a carrot. That's my finger that was chopped off by that meany Donald Trump. It hurt me so much I became a liberal and write for HuffPo. Sniff.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (OD2ni)

268 I honestly thought Bezos would have been a sort of LIBERALtarian that at least would have been more pro market than some of his peers, but the Washington Post just seems to go further and further left.

Posted by: Maritime

At some point it's advantageous for a large company to encourage an all-consuming, transnational government.

It helps kill off competition and installs a source of permanent income.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (V3IFq)

269
It turns out that Goldilocks is real: the labor market is not too hot and not too cold. In September the U.S. economy produced 156,000 new jobs, with increases in both the goods and services sectors. More importantly, average hourly earnings grew at an annual pace that approaches 2 % very solid. Hours ticked up somewhat as well, so the foundation of income growth was solid.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

GOPe coat-holder. Chief economic policy adviser to United States Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. Big wheel in the #NeverTrump community.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (kdS6q)

270 The Dark Hand of Cochran reaches far.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 07, 2016 01:05 PM

His arm has grown long...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (bzd8I)

271 The only way to make a salad worse is to add carrots.

Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (gmeXX)

272 261,
Gibbons covered this...

History will repeat.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at October 07, 2016 01:09 PM (C9pBZ)

273 These Carrots are making me thirsty!

Posted by: Kramer at October 07, 2016 01:09 PM (wq2/T)

274 The Carrot Cabal Conspiracy proceeds apace.

You left out "Cochran", which you will note preserves the alliteration.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 07, 2016 01:09 PM (mgbwf)

275 Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 01:06 PM (mf5HN)

Thank you!

Posted by: Mandy P. (Not Patinkin), lurking lurker who lurks at October 07, 2016 01:09 PM (KkVB6)

276 OT: Brunswick, GA hospitals are securing and deferring patients to Jacksonville, FL.

Posted by: Country Singer (gab @BertG) at October 07, 2016 01:09 PM (GUBah)

277 "So they all got the memo to say "solid."
Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (O2RFr)

unbelievable
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 07, 2016 12:54 PM (qCMvj)"

--------

Just because we found out about the JournoList doesn't mean they stopped using it.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 01:10 PM (8zHLN)

278 These carrots.... ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY!!

Posted by: George at October 07, 2016 01:10 PM (6EH85)

279 "His arm has grown long...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState"

STOP TEASING ME!!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 07, 2016 01:10 PM (OD2ni)

280 I'm pretty certain that putting carrots in chili is a death penalty offense in Texas.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2016 01:10 PM (4ErVI)

281 The Dark Hand of Cochran reaches far.

Posted by: Bandersnatch

His arm has grown long...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The chair is against the wall....

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 01:11 PM (Bd48Y)

282 280,
Nah, we'll just send it to Oklahoma

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at October 07, 2016 01:12 PM (C9pBZ)

283 To its partial credit, NPR did mention that the jobs number was "disappointing".

Posted by: chemjeff at October 07, 2016 01:12 PM (gXKl3)

284 Carrots in chili are a filler. Like grocery stores sell a 14oz pound of bacon now. It's to fool you into thinking you're still getting the same value.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 07, 2016 01:12 PM (oNNJp)

285 OT: Brunswick, GA hospitals are securing and deferring patients to Jacksonville, FL.
Posted by: Country Singer
--------------

Unpossible. Shep told me that Jacksonville would be destroyed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:12 PM (9mTYi)

286 The Dark Hand of Cochran reaches far.

Posted by: Bandersnatch

His arm has grown long...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The chair is against the wall....

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 01:11 PM

The carrots are in the chili. I say again, the carrots are in the chili.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 07, 2016 01:13 PM (bzd8I)

287 283 To its partial credit, NPR did mention that the jobs number was "disappointing

They obviously didn't get the memo...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:13 PM (O2RFr)

288 My mom put carrots in my chili once.

Once.

Posted by: Danny Vermin at October 07, 2016 01:13 PM (TqXWc)

289 If you have s kill, other than bitching, then the world is WIDE open to you.

If all you can do is bitch and moan and complain? You will default on your student loans, or be a lawyer fighting shitty laws, or a public oppressor, not servant, oppressor, who makes lawyers necessary, or the dictator of a cleptocracy.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 07, 2016 01:13 PM (CIpNU)

290 You're not unemployed, you're part of the pool of available labor. And thin as it is, we could use a lot more like you. Them maybe there would be some hiring.

Posted by: Michael at October 07, 2016 01:13 PM (KClXw)

291 I call on President Obama to arrest Bush now for all the problems and screw-ups while Obama has been President. Obviously this is Bush's fault and also Bush hates blacks too because he is from a Ex-Confederate State (TEX-ASS). Bush did nothing to stop the war between the states during the 1860's !!! They obvious question is why Bush never did anything about stopping this war !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 01:13 PM (NuElX)

292 283 To its partial credit, NPR did mention that the jobs number was "disappointing

They obviously didn't get the memo...

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They did say it in a very soft, whispering voice.

Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:13 PM (gmeXX)

293 Danny wins the reference contest.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 07, 2016 01:14 PM (CIpNU)

294 Hey! Bezos! You know what else is SOLID right!!??

Right!!

**

And I have no issue with carrots in chili.

Just sayin.

Posted by: dananjcon at October 07, 2016 01:14 PM (NpXoL)

295 "if you don't have Prime, Amazon is utter shit now.
It's okay for Kindle of course, but for physical goods I'll buy from
absolutely anybody else.

Posted by: Chupacabra

I have Prime, but I can sometimes find the same item direct from China for like 30% less ... it takes a week or more, but that is no real issue. I even bought 25 Trump hats from China for like $3.50 each, with lots of embroidered stuff (no Trump name on them tho, just Make America Great Again, flags, ) ... to give away. I got two from Trump for like $70.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 07, 2016 01:14 PM (n6rAX)

296 To its partial credit, NPR did mention that the jobs number was "disappointing".

Posted by: chemjeff at October 07, 2016 01:12 PM

Translation: These numbers do not help elect Hillary. Beyond that we don't care.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 07, 2016 01:14 PM (bzd8I)

297 At some point it's advantageous for a large company to encourage an all-consuming, transnational government.

It helps kill off competition and installs a source of permanent income.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 07, 2016 01:08 PM (V3IFq)

There's a very interesting discussion as to whether or not there is a responsibility to shareholders for a public company to rent seek.

After all, there's a non-delegable duty to maximize return to shareholders. Thus, if you can engage in regulatory capture, there's a solid (heh) argument to be made that you are required to do so.

That's akin to how I get confused when people are all omg omg omg Business A is trying to put Business B out of business! Yes. Yes, they each are doing that. That's how that works, that's how all of that works.

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 01:14 PM (mf5HN)

298
TheStreet.com: Non-farm payrolls came in at a very solid 156,000

The Atlantic: September's Encouraging Jobs Report

Newsday: U.S. stocks down despite solid employment report

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2016 01:15 PM (kdS6q)

299 Remember when, if a man had tools and knew how to use them he'd never go hungry?

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 07, 2016 01:15 PM (oNNJp)

300 Didn't read the rest of the comments, but checked the U6 measure this morning no D of Labor site- 9.7%.

U6 being the measure that doesn't magically remove people that have given up looking for work from the equation.

Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk, Deplorables Division at October 07, 2016 01:15 PM (TSJEX)

301 People without jobs are trying to make our President of Color look bad and should be arrested for crimes against Person's of Color !!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 01:15 PM (NuElX)

302 "292 283 To its partial credit, NPR did mention that the jobs number was "disappointing

They obviously didn't get the memo... "

They'll be getting a call from Psaki.

Posted by: Benji Carver at October 07, 2016 01:15 PM (OD2ni)

303 Why "solid"?

Easy, to provide 'gravitas' to the headline.

Power through, my friends.....

Jinx

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 07, 2016 01:16 PM (TnUKj)

304 Hurricane Matthew will stimulate the economy! You'll see!

Posted by: Economic Liberal's Broken Window at October 07, 2016 01:16 PM (V/f/L)

305 Solid is a term best reserved for bowels.

Posted by: JEM at October 07, 2016 01:16 PM (tHj/E)

306 How long until the MSM are replaced by bots?

Somebody is paying waaay to much to have these bloated sacks of protoplasm parrot one another.

Posted by: TexasDan at October 07, 2016 01:16 PM (TqXWc)

307 Amazon still does that different prices for different users shit, too.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 07, 2016 01:16 PM (oNNJp)

308 There's a very interesting discussion as to whether or not there is a responsibility to shareholders for a public company to rent seek.

-----------

I'll offer a counter point from a shareholder (and rent-seeker hater) point of view. Rent-seeking is a short term solution, and those companies that rely on it will ultimately be surpassed. Patent protection is not rent-seeking IMO (carry-over from last thread).

Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM (gmeXX)

309 "bezos is shaping up to be a bond villain. he needs to get some hot girl or boy to help him blow off his stress and quit trying to make a real live moonraker."

------

I bet every one of the Silicon Valley billionaires fancies himself as a god.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM (8zHLN)

310 "299 Remember when, if a man had tools and knew how to use them he'd never go hungry?"

Related is the fact that the unemployment rate for hot chicks is 0.

Posted by: Benji Carver at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM (OD2ni)

311 Chili has a long moustache...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM (C9pBZ)

312 It's still true Chupacabra.

But there aren't that many men, let alone who know how to use tools without wimpering, or give a damn, because government keeps them from going hungry.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM (CIpNU)

313 Because you people use more then one sheet of TP to wipe your ass is why we have this Hurricane !!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM (NuElX)

314 Ah, yes. The rising unemployment rate is certainly a definitive indicator of thinning of the deep labor pool.

Congratulations to the 156,000 new baristas and part time stock clerks! You will certainly find your new occupations more rewarding than your former full time employment. It will give you more time to ponder how your existence oppresses women and minorities and find ways to atone for your inherent racism!

Posted by: Damiano at October 07, 2016 01:18 PM (71OEY)

315 Last night Zeke Emanuel blamed Ted Cruz for Obamacare's solid abysmal performance. You couldn't make this stuff up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:06 PM (9mTYi)

CNBC just had a segment blaming the election for crappy retail sales.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 07, 2016 01:18 PM (493sH)

316 suspect that a team of forensic accountants could be kept busy for the rest of their lives trying to figure out what the real state of the economy is.

++++

Jobs program right there

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at October 07, 2016 01:18 PM (W653s)

317 Good, solid landing for the Hindenberg today.

Posted by: WaPo headline, circa 1937 at October 07, 2016 01:19 PM (yPugS)

318 Newsday: U.S. stocks down despite solid employment report

Sure is a lot of use of the word solid... What a coincidence...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:19 PM (O2RFr)

319 The word "turgid" also comes to mind.

Posted by: Hypatia Lee at October 07, 2016 01:19 PM (NpXoL)

320 There's a very interesting discussion as to whether or not there is a responsibility to shareholders for a public company to rent seek.

--

My contribution: review the history of the Northern Pacific Railroad versus the Great Northern Railroad. Long term, rent seeking kills the company.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 01:19 PM (7ZVPa)

321
Today's weak September jobs report confirmed what people feel -- that the Clinton-Obama economy is failing them. Americans desperately need more jobs and new economic policies, not the same-old, same-old offered by the Clinton campaign

David Malpass, Senior Economic Advisor

www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/september-jobs-report-statement

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2016 01:19 PM (kdS6q)

322 Over at instapundit, Stephen Green reports that Donal Trump has NOT received a single endorsement from any of the major newspapers.

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 01:19 PM (JBggj)

323
I'll offer a counter point from a shareholder (and rent-seeker hater) point of view. Rent-seeking is a short term solution, and those companies that rely on it will ultimately be surpassed. Patent protection is not rent-seeking IMO (carry-over from last thread).
Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM (gmeXX)

yep. even worse once you become dependent upon government lagesse and or corruption, the government owns you. you are not simply made less competitive, you are enslaved.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:19 PM (cPsPa)

324 NPR said it was a good jobs report because it showed that previously discouraged workers who had given up looking for work are now actively seeking employment.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 07, 2016 01:19 PM (IqV8l)

325 My contribution: review the history of the Northern Pacific Railroad versus the Great Northern Railroad. Long term, rent seeking kills the company.

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VN - that was sort of my counter-point. I offer this example. Apple grew into the biggest company in America under Jobs - who did not engage in rent-seeking. Things are not looking good for Timmy who seems to be more open to the idea.

Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:20 PM (gmeXX)

326 Tornado warnings for the Savannah, GA area at this time.

Posted by: Country Singer (gab @BertG) at October 07, 2016 01:20 PM (GUBah)

327 322 Over at instapundit, Stephen Green reports that Donal Trump has NOT received a single endorsement from any of the major newspapers.

Nor will He...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:20 PM (O2RFr)

328 It's good having more waiters...

/lesterholt

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at October 07, 2016 01:20 PM (C9pBZ)

329 Chili has a long moustache...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM

Obviously waaaaay past its sell-by date, then.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (bzd8I)

330 I'll offer a counter point from a shareholder (and rent-seeker hater) point of view. Rent-seeking is a short term solution, and those companies that rely on it will ultimately be surpassed. Patent protection is not rent-seeking IMO (carry-over from last thread).
Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM (gmeXX)

That's a very fair counterpoint and that gets in my whole rant about how the focus on quarterly stock gains to the exclusion of nearly all else has destroyed the ability of companies to make reasoned calculations of risk/reward on long term investment and R ampersand D.

Patents are not rent seeking.

Disney making sure copyright laws get changed every single time Mickey Mouse is about to go into the public domain? That's rent seeking.

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (mf5HN)

331 Related is the fact that the ~~unemployment~~ bar tab rate for hot chicks is 0.

Posted by: Benji Carver at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM (OD2ni)

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Country Singer (gab @BertG) at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (GUBah)

332 "A once-deep pool of available labor has grown thin"?

Right, we've all been snapped up by those luscious part-time jobs.

Posted by: Miley's Deplorables at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (L2UGl)

333 It's good having more waiters...

---------

It actually is.

Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (gmeXX)

334 As much as I hate to say...Amazon's music app is pretty badd-ass. lots of free tunes for prime members on an easy to us platform.

Posted by: dananjcon at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (NpXoL)

335 Newsday: U.S. stocks down despite solid employment report

--

People who own stocks have money in the game, they don't have the luxury of believing the unbelievable.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (7ZVPa)

336 It's good having more waiters...

I'm surprised they need more... Who can afford to go out to eat?

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (O2RFr)

337 Amazon still does that different prices for different users shit, too.

+++

I'm expecting them to accept EBT any time now

Posted by: Bigbys other phone at October 07, 2016 01:22 PM (W653s)

338 Northern Pacific Railroad versus the Great Northern Railroad.

Heh.
"James J. Hill, Empire Builder."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 07, 2016 01:22 PM (H5rtT)

339
Sure is a lot of use of the word solid... What a coincidence...
Posted by: deplorable donna

Looking over the time line, it looks like the "solid" phrase of the day went out before daybreak to the scribblers, even before the bankster mentioned above used it.

So, yeah -- not a coincidence.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2016 01:22 PM (kdS6q)

340 "Over at instapundit, Stephen Green reports that Donal Trump has NOT received a single endorsement from any of the major newspapers."

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Did Green naively expect any of them would?

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 01:22 PM (8zHLN)

341 There's a FB meme going around ... picture of a closed Borders bookstore "the only borders Obama has closed"

the screwy thing about easy money and manipulated markets ... Amazon could coast on stock money, and lose money on every book, just to acquire market share. Hard to compete in brick and mortar (and employees) when the competition sells at a loss for 20 years.

I guess they finally showed a profit, and robots are taking over their warehouses. We'll have to get back to "buy local, buy American" as partly a patriotic thing, maybe.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 07, 2016 01:22 PM (n6rAX)

342 >>Over at instapundit, Stephen Green reports that Donal Trump has NOT
received a single endorsement from any of the major newspapers.

Huh. Didn't even notice that. probably because I have never cared about a newspaper's endorsement. Only other news outlets care about this because it is "news".

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 01:22 PM (NOIQH)

343 From the raging idiots at Yahoo:

The headline number for the jobs market came in as a big miss, with US companies adding just 156,000 jobs. Economists were looking for 172,000. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate ticked up from 4.9% to 5.0%.

The report, however, reflects underlying economic strength.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 07, 2016 01:22 PM (493sH)

344 Hey what's this a new Godzilla flick?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgyq6YKeIms

You're welcome.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2016 01:22 PM (4ErVI)

345 Disney making sure copyright laws get changed every single time Mickey Mouse is about to go into the public domain? That's rent seeking.

------------

Agree on that. Just as I don't what the appropriate length of time for patent protection is, I don't really know what it should be for copyrights. Gets even harder when it is a company v. an individual.

Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:23 PM (gmeXX)

346 Does Stephen Green expect me to give a shit?

Posted by: Weasel at October 07, 2016 01:23 PM (6xtq3)

347 holy shit, is wicked pinto back?

Does this me we will get some of those focused and serious posts soon?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 07, 2016 01:23 PM (LWu6U)

348 That mushroom on your pizza? Very solid.

Posted by: MSM at October 07, 2016 01:23 PM (RD7QR)

349 People who own stocks have money in the game, they don't have the luxury of believing the unbelievable.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (7ZVPa)

not necessarily a sign of the unemployment numbers. lousy numbers are usually taken a s a signal that there will not be an increase in rates and the game will continue.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:23 PM (cPsPa)

350 336,
Well, Nats park is pretty full...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at October 07, 2016 01:23 PM (C9pBZ)

351 Over at instapundit, Stephen Green reports that Donal Trump has NOT received a single endorsement from any of the major newspapers.

I'm taking that as a rather solid endorsement for Donald Trump.

Squeal like pigs you Archaic Wood Pulp Boys!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 07, 2016 01:24 PM (0cMkb)

352 Bullshit (not bulls hit, spellchunk) was always kinda runny. The more the State-run media tries to shovel, the more it just splatters.

Posted by: 5% my ass at October 07, 2016 01:24 PM (Ha9W6)

353 It's good having more waiters...

---------

It actually is.
Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (gmeXX)

well, if they are good waiters.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:25 PM (cPsPa)

354 "Disney making sure copyright laws get changed every single time Mickey Mouse is about to go into the public domain? That's rent seeking."

-------

To be fair it's the only edge they have on the Chinese.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 01:25 PM (8zHLN)

355 The headline number for the jobs market came in as a big miss, with US companies adding just 156,000 jobs. Economists were looking for 172,000. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate ticked up from 4.9% to 5.0%.

The report, however, reflects underlying economic strength.

Solidly.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 01:25 PM (Bd48Y)

356 Over at instapundit, Stephen Green reports that Donal Trump has NOT received a single endorsement from any of the major newspapers.

------------

When's the last time a major newspaper has ever endorsed a Republican candidate?

Posted by: josephistan at October 07, 2016 01:25 PM (7HtZB)

357 They did say it in a very soft, whispering voice.
Posted by: SH
--------

Followed by poignant music.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:25 PM (9mTYi)

358 322 Over at instapundit, Stephen Green reports that Donal Trump has NOT received a single endorsement from any of the major newspapers."

Does anybody give a rip besides the newspapers themselves? Who is swayed by them?

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 07, 2016 01:25 PM (u0lmX)

359 yep. even worse once you become dependent upon government lagesse
and or corruption, the government owns you. you are not simply made
less competitive, you are enslaved.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:19 PM (cPsPa)
--Too long a parasite and you cannot exist without a host.-- Frank Herbert

Posted by: Department of Education Civil Rights Division at October 07, 2016 01:26 PM (3DSAh)

360
When's the last time a major newspaper has ever endorsed a Republican candidate?

Actually Romney got some...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:26 PM (O2RFr)

361 What? No update on the jobs that continue to be "Saved or Created" by the ONE TRILLION DOLLARS of "investment" debt we took on?

*scribbles on napkin, carries the two...*

Huh... something must be wrong with my math. It says here that removing a trillion dollars plus compound interest from the economy over 30 years, then "investing" the borrowed money in paying down GM benefit debt and solar companies that go out of business in less than a year results in... nothing.

Surely taking on a trillion in debt to make payments on debt and invest in bankruptcy and unicorn farts should yield something, right? I mean, it's a trillion dollar investment! Right?

Posted by: Damiano at October 07, 2016 01:26 PM (71OEY)

362 When's the last time a major newspaper has ever endorsed a Republican candidate?

Actually Romney got some...

-----------

He got a lot. There are a few major newspapers that generally endorse GOP presidents. Dallas Morning News comes to mind.

Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:27 PM (gmeXX)

363 "Disney making sure copyright laws get changed every single time Mickey Mouse is about to go into the public domain? That's rent seeking."

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To be fair it's the only edge they have on the Chinese.

Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 01:25 PM (8zHLN)

If they had named him "Lickey Louse" they wouldn't have to worry about the Chinese.

Poor planning on Disney's part.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 07, 2016 01:27 PM (zc3Db)

364 When's the last time a major newspaper has ever endorsed a Republican candidate?
Posted by: josephistan
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Just before it was acquired by Gannett or McClatchy

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:27 PM (9mTYi)

365 No endorsement by a newspaper is a "Positive" for Trump...

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 01:27 PM (NuElX)

366 357 They did say it in a very soft, whispering voice.
Posted by: SH

The normal NPR voice in other words. It's like any male announcer there has to take a pair of pinking shears to his balls in order to get hired by them.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 07, 2016 01:27 PM (u0lmX)

367 Considering the vast majority of newspapers are owned by a few monopolistic media companies, color me surprised.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2016 01:27 PM (4ErVI)

368 Copyright? I would give you 20 years to make your cash. Then it goes into public domain.

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 07, 2016 01:27 PM (ZVpek)

369 Where is the more important news such as "How is Obama's Golf game recently" ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 01:28 PM (NuElX)

370 309 "bezos is shaping up to be a bond villain. he needs to get some hot girl or boy to help him blow off his stress and quit trying to make a real live moonraker."

------

I bet every one of the Silicon Valley billionaires fancies himself as a god.
Posted by: Decaf at October 07, 2016 01:17 PM (8zHLN)

Why would you think such a thing?

Posted by: Larry Ellison at October 07, 2016 01:28 PM (RD7QR)

371 you know what really converts into nice condominiums? old newspaper offices and printing plants. especially printing plants, super heavy construction.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:28 PM (cPsPa)

372
Where is the more important news such as "How is Obama's Golf game recently" ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 01:28 PM (NuElX)

Solid, like the jobs number

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 07, 2016 01:29 PM (493sH)

373 315 Last night Zeke Emanuel blamed Ted Cruz for Obamacare's solid abysmal performance. You couldn't make this stuff up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:06 PM (9mTYi)

CNBC just had a segment blaming the election for crappy retail sales.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 07, 2016 01:18 PM (493sH)

NPR blamed the lousy NFL ratings on the election.

Posted by: josephistan at October 07, 2016 01:29 PM (7HtZB)

374 Over at instapundit, Stephen Green reports that Donal Trump has NOT received a single endorsement from any of the major newspapers.

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 01:19 PM (JBggj)

#whatsamajornewspaper

Posted by: BurtTC at October 07, 2016 01:29 PM (TOk1P)

375 So do you think the FBI will do a Friday news dump?

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:29 PM (O2RFr)

376 No one has mentioned: "biosolids"?

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at October 07, 2016 01:29 PM (B11vO)

377 >>>THERE ARE GODDAMN CARROTS IN THE CHILI!<<<

It's even worse when there are carrots in the spaghetti sauce. Mama Mia!

Posted by: Fritz at October 07, 2016 01:29 PM (cyoBN)

378 Paul Krugman told us 300K/month was a minimal definition of success.

"Anything less than that, and it's bad news."

Posted by: Billy Dale at October 07, 2016 01:30 PM (x4zgf)

379 I suspect that the newspapers that traditionally supported the GOP nominee must have supported one of the 15 other Republican candidates during the primary season. Sore losers who hate their readers.

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 01:30 PM (JBggj)

380
353 It's good having more waiters...

---------

It actually is.
Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (gmeXX)

well, if they are good waiters.
Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:25 PM (cPsPa)

-----------------

More waiters means more spit in the mashed potatoes.

Posted by: Soona at October 07, 2016 01:30 PM (Fmupd)

381 379 I suspect that the newspapers that traditionally supported the GOP nominee must have supported one of the 15 other Republican candidates during the primary season. Sore losers who hate their readers.
Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 01:30 PM (

Yup...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:30 PM (O2RFr)

382 Solid?

like a good BM?

Posted by: Hillary! at October 07, 2016 01:31 PM (/CIN4)

383 More waiters means more spit in the mashed potatoes.
Posted by: Soona at October 07, 2016 01:30 PM (Fmupd)

heh

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:31 PM (cPsPa)

384 "pool of available labor thin"? We have 94 million people not in the work force. How is that "thin"?

Posted by: LDavenport at October 07, 2016 01:31 PM (fu53r)

385 Remember to only cut and paste text from Wordstar, Peachtext or Enable

Posted by: minuteman at October 07, 2016 01:31 PM (+QSAy)

386 353 It's good having more waiters...

---------

It actually is.
Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:21 PM (gmeXX)

well, if they are good waiters.
Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:25 PM (cPsPa)

You know, I felt better off in the olden times when I waited an extra minute or two to receive a correct, well prepared order delivered by a somewhat harried yet courteous waiter vs. the the current situation of waiting 20 minutes for the waiter with the Masters Degree in 18th Century Wimmez Studies to complete their mental wellness break in the mandated safe space and come lecture me about the evils of the steak I ordered... and still not bringing my food.

Posted by: Damiano at October 07, 2016 01:31 PM (71OEY)

387 When's the last time a major newspaper has ever endorsed a Republican candidate?
Posted by: josephistan at October 07, 2016 01:25 PM (7HtZB)

Was watching Fox this morning and according to their two Female media experts, there is no media bias because Trump keeps saying things they MUST Fact check... because he is always telling lies...

/jaw hit the ground...

Posted by: Don Quixote at October 07, 2016 01:32 PM (qf6WZ)

388 "pool of available labor thin"? We have 94 million people not in the work force. How is that "thin"?
Posted by: LDavenport at October 07, 2016 01:31 PM (fu53r)

underfed

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:32 PM (cPsPa)

389
Sen Dianne Feinstein
Strong September jobs report out this morning.

Steven Rattner
SOLID jobs recovery

Michael Madowitz*
This is actually fantastic. Solid wage growth, more jobs, more people in the labor market!

*Left-wing Center for American Progess

Ben Casselman*
Job growth has slowed from its 2014 pace, but it remains solid.

*Five-Thirtyeight. Hates Trump with the fire of a thousand suns.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 07, 2016 01:32 PM (kdS6q)

390 375 So do you think the FBI will do a Friday news dump?
Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:29 PM (O2RFr)
===

Oh they'll do a dump alright. All over the American people.

*comedy drumroll*

Posted by: Independent George at October 07, 2016 01:32 PM (BDZWU)

391 Actually Romney got some...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:26 PM (O2RFr)

The Provo Bee doesn't count.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 07, 2016 01:32 PM (TOk1P)

392 Rhetorical question, no doubt, but I'll take a stab at the obvious just to vent. It takes a strong negative for the Obama (soon to be Clinton) politburo and spins it into a positive.

Phrasing it this way puts it into context for the reader. and makes a low number seem, well, solid. Like saying Joe MLB player posted a solid .205 batting average. If you don't know something about major league baseball, maybe it sounds ok to you as opposed to the reality of it brushing the Mendoza line and being a ticket to the minor leagues.

And adding the explanation of the purported thin labor pool makes a na�ve reader feel, "Gee, Obama's doing better than I thought. There must not be too many unemployed people out there if the labor pool has dwindled so small under his vigilance."

Above all else, Obama is always our Lord and Savior, and must always be portrayed thusly. So sayeth the Ministry of Truth - today's media.

Posted by: RM at October 07, 2016 01:32 PM (U3LtS)

393 "you know what really converts into nice condominiums?"

Yo Mr. Gazzo, I don't use then.

Posted by: Rocky Balboa at October 07, 2016 01:32 PM (OD2ni)

394 >>
It's good having more waiters...

All well and good until the $15 minimum wage is implemented in their city.
Now *that* is a waiter/waitresses job killer.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 01:32 PM (NOIQH)

395 Was watching Fox this morning and according to their two Female media experts, there is no media bias because Trump keeps saying things they MUST Fact check... because he is always telling lies...

------------

Not that they are, but both could be true.

Posted by: SH at October 07, 2016 01:33 PM (gmeXX)

396 Obama gets the soft prejudice of low expectations

Posted by: undocumented analysis at October 07, 2016 01:33 PM (e8kgV)

397 Hey what's this a new Godzilla flick?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgyq6YKeIms

You're welcome.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 07, 2016 01:22 PM (4ErVI)

Toho, baby, Toho.

*devilhorns*

Posted by: alexthechick - The Exalted Reverend Doctor Architect Darth Sugartits, JD at October 07, 2016 01:33 PM (mf5HN)

398 Actually Romney got some...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:26 PM (O2RFr)

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One thing Mormons excel at.

Posted by: RioBravo at October 07, 2016 01:33 PM (NUqwG)

399 Considering the vast majority of newspapers are owned by a few monopolistic media companies, color me surprised.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis
----------

I post here again, a list of locals grabbed off by the propagandists/apologists:

McClatchy (some have been sold)

The Beaufort Gazette (Beaufort, South Carolina)
Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, Illinois)*
The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Washington)*
The Bradenton Herald (Bradenton, Florida)*
Centre Daily Times (State College, Pennsylvania)*
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina)*
Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, Georgia)*
The Fresno Bee (Fresno, California)
The Herald (Rock Hill) (Rock Hill, South Carolina)
The Idaho Statesman (Boise, Idaho)*
The Island Packet (Hilton Head, South Carolina)
The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri)*
Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky)*
Merced Sun-Star (Merced, California)
The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida)*
El Nuevo Herald (Miami, Florida)*
The Modesto Bee (Modesto, California)
The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina)
The Olathe News (Olathe, Kansas)*
The Olympian (Olympia, Washington)*
The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, California)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas)*
The State (Columbia, South Carolina)*
Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi)*
Sun News (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina)*
The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington)*
The Telegraph (Macon)* (Macon, Georgia)
The San Luis Obispo Tribune (San Luis Obispo, California)*
Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, Washington)
Wichita Eagle (Wichita, Kansas)

------

Gannett:

USA Today (Tyson's Corner, Virginia)

Alabama

Montgomery Advertiser

Arizona

The Arizona Republic, Phoenix
Tucson Citizen

Arkansas

The Baxter Bulletin

California

Redding Record Searchlight
The Desert Sun, Palm Springs
The Salinas Californian
Tulare Advance-Register
Ventura County Star
Visalia Times-Delta

Colorado

Fort Collins Coloradoan

Delaware

The News Journal, Wilmington

Florida

Florida Today, Brevard County
Fort Myers News-Press
Naples Daily News
Pensacola News Journal
Tallahassee Democrat
Treasure Coast Newspapers
The Stuart News, Stuart
Indian River Press Journal, Vero Beach
The St. Lucie News-Tribune, Fort Pierce
FSView & Florida Flambeau
Central Florida Future
Seminole Chronicle
Pensacola News Journal

Guam

Pacific Daily News, Hagatna

Indiana

The Indianapolis Star
Journal and Courier, Lafayette
The Star Press, Muncie
Palladium-Item, Richmond
Evansville Courier & Press

Iowa

The Des Moines Register
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Kentucky

The Courier-Journal, Louisville
The Gleaner, Henderson

Louisiana

The Town Talk, Alexandria
The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette
The News-Star, Monroe
Daily World, Opelousas
The Times, Shreveport

Maryland

The Daily Times, Salisbury

Michigan

Battle Creek Enquirer
Detroit Free Press
Lansing State Journal
Times Herald, Port Huron

Minnesota

St. Cloud Times

Mississippi

Hattiesburg American
The Clarion-Ledger

Missouri

Springfield News-Leader, Springfield

Montana

Great Falls Tribune

Nevada

Reno Gazette-Journal

New Jersey

Asbury Park Press
Courier-News, Bridgewater
The Courier-Post, Cherry Hill
Home News Tribune, East Brunswick
Daily Record, Morristown
The Daily Journal, Vineland
Ocean County Observer, Toms River
Suburban Trends, Butler
The Record (Bergen County), Hackensack

New York

Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton
Star-Gazette, Elmira
The Ithaca Journal
Poughkeepsie Journal
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester (original flagship newspaper)
The Journal News, Westchester County

North Carolina

Asheville Citizen-Times

Ohio

Newspaper Network of Central Ohio
Telegraph-Forum, Bucyrus
Chillicothe Gazette
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Coshocton Tribune
The News-Messenger, Fremont
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette
Mansfield News Journal, Mansfield
The Marion Star
The Advocate (Newark), Newark
News Herald, Port Clinton
Times Recorder, Zanesville

Oregon

Statesman Journal, Salem

Pennsylvania

Lebanon Daily News
Public Opinion
York Daily Record

South Carolina

The Anderson Independent-Mail
The Greenville News
Link (magazine)

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Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:33 PM (9mTYi)

400 "once deep pool of available labor has grown thin"

LOL.

Aside from the poor mixing of metaphors ... Do they mean the people who are still looking for jobs or the real pool of available labor who have just decided to leave the workforce, altogether, and collect government checks for eternity? I guess anything less than 100 million available (in addition to those actively seeking) is a shallow pool ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 07, 2016 01:34 PM (zc3Db)

401 Oh, yeah... Wall o' Text Warning....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:34 PM (9mTYi)

402 "Over at instapundit, Stephen Green reports that Donal Trump has NOT
received a single endorsement from any of the major newspapers."

and besides being part of the MSM, they know SJWs are easily "triggered" and would drop their subscription, and probably picket the place, or worse. Too bad I don't get any paper, so I can't drop it.

Reasonable Trump backers are more rational, and don't try to destroy a business of leftists ... though those days may have to come.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 07, 2016 01:34 PM (n6rAX)

403 "pool of available labor thin"? We have 94 million people not in the work force. How is that "thin"?
Posted by: LDavenport

94 million out of 330 million is solid!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2016 01:34 PM (Bd48Y)

404 371 you know what really converts into nice condominiums? old newspaper offices and printing plants. especially printing plants, super heavy construction.
Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:28 PM (cPsPa)

Wow... business idea...

We have huge closed down printing plant here... used to do Sears Catalogs and TV Guides....

Its just sitting there.... empty....

Posted by: Don Quixote at October 07, 2016 01:34 PM (qf6WZ)

405 SEE! I told you this hurricane would be devastating! THERE ARE GODZILLA SPAWN ON THE BEACHESOMGHUMANITY IS DOOMED!

http://tinyurl.com/jt7b82f

Posted by: Shemp Smith, reporting LIVE! From the Glory Hole at October 07, 2016 01:34 PM (GUBah)

406 398 Actually Romney got some...

Posted by: deplorable donna at October 07, 2016 01:26 PM (O2RFr)

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One thing Mormons excel at.
Posted by: RioBravo at October 07, 2016 01:33 PM (NUqwG)

Once you go Mormon you get the performin'.

Posted by: Some Mormon Guy at October 07, 2016 01:35 PM (RD7QR)

407 >>>375 So do you think the FBI will do a Friday news dump?

Friday news solid.

Posted by: wooga at October 07, 2016 01:35 PM (CYxjF)

408 That was a real solid bowel movement you had this morning.

Solid, very healthy. Bowel movement.

Same thing.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at October 07, 2016 01:35 PM (RFeQD)

409
Its just sitting there.... empty....
Posted by: Don Quixote at October 07, 2016 01:34 PM (qf6WZ)

where?

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:35 PM (cPsPa)

410 So the people waiting in dentist waiting rooms will read the newspaper endorsements of Hillary and associate that with a dental drill. Well played, Trump team, 'cuz I don't know anyone who gets the morning fishwrap anymore.

Everybody I know just reads Breitbart or Drudge.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 07, 2016 01:35 PM (hqZPQ)

411 Oh, yeah... Wall o' Text Warning....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:34 PM (9mTYi)

Too late. Come hither.

Posted by: Teh Bare Roll at October 07, 2016 01:35 PM (TOk1P)

412 IT'S AS SOLID AS JEFF BEZOS' DILDO!

OR SO I HEAR!

[ROBOTIC CACKLE]

Posted by: Hillary! and her rainbow exoskeleton at October 07, 2016 01:36 PM (rUc9h)

413 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:33 PM

--

What is even more shocking is that so many newspapers are still in existence.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 07, 2016 01:36 PM (7ZVPa)

414 "It's like any male announcer there has to take a pair of pinking shears to his balls in order to get hired by them."

Truly classic comment. Still laughing.

Posted by: RM at October 07, 2016 01:36 PM (U3LtS)

415 Won't Janet Yellen use this as an excuse to keep interest rates at 0%

Posted by: Jean at October 07, 2016 01:36 PM (ngn8T)

416 We have huge closed down printing plant here... used to do Sears Catalogs and TV Guides....

Its just sitting there.... empty....
Posted by: Don Quixote
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Gannett closed the local printing plant for our paper. It's now delivered from Greenville, SC, 80 miles away.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:36 PM (9mTYi)

417 Obama has created more jobs than Bush. Fact is post Reagan, Clinton and Obama created more jobs than the 2 Bushes.

Why should anyone who wants a good economy vote Reoublican? Democrats oversee better economic times. Hillary will continue the economic progress started under Obama.

Posted by: Salvatore at October 07, 2016 01:37 PM (BPKQi)

418 All of the Quantitative Easing. The Fed buying up equities.

Also I read an interesting article at the Conservative Tree House that correctly states there has not been a budget passed since the TARP bailouts so every year another 700 billion are handed out to the banks to distribute money globally to prop up the economy. Passing a budget would end that yearly free cash handout.

Explains why both parties refuse to pass a budget.

Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (0wm3C)

First a technical point. The Fed is not buying equities. They are legally prohibited from doing that. Quantitative easing occurs when they purchase new issue Federal debt, i.e. monetizing the deficit. This has the effect of keeping interest rates low, which in turn props up equity markets by making fixed income instruments less attractive.

Second, if someone is telling you that TARP funds continue to be disbursed, they are wrong. That program wrapped up on schedule, and money is no longer being appropriated for it. It was not a cash handout, either. Money was spent to acquire difficult-to-value debt instruments with additional guarantees from the sellers in the form of equity warrants, Total expenditures were in the neighborhood of $426 billion, and revenues (from the sale of the warrants and re-valued assets once the valuation crisis was over) were around $441 billion. Last sale of assets, wrapping up the program, was in 2014.

Posted by: HTL at October 07, 2016 01:37 PM (on1DJ)

419 So the people waiting in dentist waiting rooms will read the newspaper endorsements of Hillary and associate that with a dental drill. Well played, Trump team, 'cuz I don't know anyone who gets the morning fishwrap anymore.

NOT in my waiting room

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 07, 2016 01:37 PM (zp+j1)

420 Thanks to viagra, I too, Bob Dole, have something solid.

Posted by: Bob Dole at October 07, 2016 01:37 PM (ZVpek)

421 384 "pool of available labor thin"? We have 94 million people not in the work force. How is that "thin"?
Posted by: LDavenport at October 07, 2016 01:31 PM (fu53r)

Well, most of them are white male oppressors who are too ignorant to be part of our new labor force. The ignorant bigots would just keep going on about costs being less than revenues and greedy profits or somesuch nonsense anyhow.

What is important is that the correct thinking people have good paying jobs in our exploding government workforce, unions, higher education sector, and part time burger flippers now make a government mandated $15/ hour in many cities.

Posted by: Damiano at October 07, 2016 01:37 PM (71OEY)

422 Too late. Come hither.
Posted by: Teh Bare Roll
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No way, Jose. That was not a formatting error. No HTML screw-ups there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:38 PM (9mTYi)

423 So the people waiting in dentist waiting rooms will read the newspaper endorsements of Hillary and associate that with a dental drill. Well played, Trump team, 'cuz I don't know anyone who gets the morning fishwrap anymore.

NOT in my waiting room
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 07, 2016 01:37 PM (zp+j1)

your clients can't read?

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:38 PM (cPsPa)

424 What is even more shocking is that so many newspapers are still in existence.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada

Print is dead.

Posted by: Egon Spengler at October 07, 2016 01:38 PM (RFeQD)

425 Here's a new boob and buttalicious anime:*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WCXdZmhoqo

Your welcome!

*I doubt this is NSFW but, hell, who knows these days.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 07, 2016 01:38 PM (0cMkb)

426 " And, jokes fly here and there about this kinda stuff, but it really is very scary the way the "news" business has evolved into a 100% in-the-tank Democrat apparatus. Absolutely incredible."

In all seriousness, yes, it is.

Posted by: RM at October 07, 2016 01:39 PM (U3LtS)

427 116 Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 12:45 PM (0wm3C)

That's an absolute lie. Conservative Tree House are just a more polite version of inforwara and stormfront out together.

Posted by: Salvatore at October 07, 2016 01:39 PM (BPKQi)

428 >>Was watching Fox this morning and according to their two Female media
experts, there is no media bias because Trump keeps saying things they
MUST Fact check... because he is always telling lies...

Brit Hme got the true definition of "fact-checking" from a panelist right before the 1st debate. Here's how the conversation approximately went (from memory):

Hume: "What do you mean by 'fact-checking' during the debate?"

Female Panelist: "Well, if Trump siad one thing 10 years ago, and he says the opposite tonight, the moderate should challenge him."

Hume: "Trump's opinions might have changed over time, that's not a factually false statement. I would think fact-checking would be verifying the information the candidates say, like numbers, etc."

Female Panelist: "Oh, the moderator can't do that! He wouldn't have the time to check all that detail..."
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"Fact checking" = finding inconsistencies in Trump's statements, real or manuafactured

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 01:39 PM (NOIQH)

429 I am very disappointed their have not been any stories by the News Channels that this is Bush's fault and how we must love our Black President for just existing and even talking to us nabobs and peons !!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 07, 2016 01:40 PM (NuElX)

430 NOT in my waiting room
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 07, 2016 01:37 PM (zp+j1)

your clients can't read?
Posted by: yankeefifth

Trump voters (giggle)

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at October 07, 2016 01:40 PM (RFeQD)

431 rm,

over at reddit, they are posting that prez shit-head "created 15 million" jobs. to the kids and idiots that read reddit, that sounds high, but when you count the population growth you understand why you need double that number just to keep even.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 07, 2016 01:40 PM (LWu6U)

432 your clients can't read?
Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:38 PM (cPsPa)

They all seem to feign ignorance until they get their bill?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 07, 2016 01:41 PM (zp+j1)

433 I think more people know who Kim Kardashian endorsed than the NYT or WashPost*.

*Though they could guess quite easily

Posted by: Lizzy at October 07, 2016 01:41 PM (NOIQH)

434 And, jokes fly here and there about this kinda stuff, but it really is very scary the way the "news" business has evolved into a 100% in-the-tank Democrat apparatus. Absolutely incredible."

In all seriousness, yes, it is.
Posted by: RM at October 07, 2016 01:39 PM (U3LtS)

well, yeah but it is the same scenario as businesses becoming dependent upon government. the mfm has become dependent upon one set of readers / viewers and it is ruining them.

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:42 PM (cPsPa)

435 nood

Posted by: Dead Parrot Society at October 07, 2016 01:42 PM (AJeMv)

436 THE HURRICANE WILL DESTROY FLORIDA! YOU WILL DIE! YOUR CHILDREN WILL DIE! EVERYONE YOU KNOW WILL DIE! THE ENTIRE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES WILL SLIDE INTO THE SEA! THIS IS NOT EXAGGERATION! THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE! IT WILL BE LIKE A GIANT DILDO CRUSHING THE SUN! DREAD CTHULHU WILL RISE FROM THE DEPTHS! AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Shemp Smith, Voice of Authority and Shit at October 07, 2016 01:42 PM (rUc9h)

437 409
Its just sitting there.... empty....
Posted by: Don Quixote at October 07, 2016 01:34 PM (qf6WZ)

where?
Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:35 PM (cPsPa)

Merced CA... a place with a HUGE unemployment rate... and fairly low cost of living (compared to other places in CA)...

But hell... we've still got most of an old shut down Strategic Air Command Base that is sitting vacant...

Counties largest employer??? Prisons... (no, I'm not kidding).

Posted by: Don Quixote at October 07, 2016 01:42 PM (qf6WZ)

438 Rub out teh Reoublicans! I got mah job, and its hear!

Posted by: Salivatore at October 07, 2016 01:42 PM (hqZPQ)

439 They all seem to feign ignorance until they get their bill?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 07, 2016 01:41 PM (zp+j1)

heh

Posted by: yankeefifth at October 07, 2016 01:42 PM (cPsPa)

440 Evan Thomas' comment about a 15-20% edge to the Democrats due to media bias was back when John Kerry was running. My guess is that it is significantly higher now.

Posted by: RM at October 07, 2016 01:43 PM (U3LtS)

441 "It's like any male announcer there has to take a pair of pinking shears to his balls in order to get hired by them."
---------

Waaaaay back, when AOL was just becoming popular, I got into an online shouting match with one of the NPR commentary people. Can't recall his name. For some reason, when I called him "An NPR flack", he became exercised.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2016 01:43 PM (9mTYi)

442 but when you count the population growth you understand why you need double that number just to keep even.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest

1) population growth
2) new people coming into the work force (HS grads, college grads, immigrants)
3) what about people retiring? How do we count their replacements?
4) And how do they count "jobs lost" when the factory down the road closes, 300 people are laid off and the same factory then opens up in Monterrey, Mexico so Jose can do the same job for $15/day?

Labor participation rates are down significantly from 2006-2007. Not just a little, quite a bit.

All this "job creation" is just so much horse manure. Sure, there are always "new" jobs created, but are they exceeding "jobs lost".

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at October 07, 2016 01:46 PM (RFeQD)

443 Holt and Clinton both claimed stop and frisk was unconstitutional ... both wrong.

Holt (probably after the advice from his earpiece he wasn't supposed to have) said Trump backed the Iraq War, as fact. He knew Trump denied that ... but didn't even state it as questionable ... but as fact. dick

Hillary never gets "fact checked" except by Trump.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 07, 2016 01:46 PM (n6rAX)

444 #148

That's solid North Korean-level propaganda, there.

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2016 12:51 PM (JBggj)

If you ever seen NK news, the lady who breathlessly tells you the news, like she is having an orgasmic over what she is reading....always fun to watch on YouTube.

Posted by: Colin at October 07, 2016 01:46 PM (du8ty)

445
Merced CA... a place with a HUGE unemployment rate... and fairly low cost of living (compared to other places in CA)...

In fairness the employment figure doesn't take into account those employed at the meth labs

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at October 07, 2016 01:48 PM (lKyWE)

446 First a technical point. The Fed is not buying equities. They are legally prohibited from doing that. Quantitative easing occurs when they purchase new issue Federal debt, i.e. monetizing the deficit. This has the effect of keeping interest rates low, which in turn props up equity markets by making fixed income instruments less attractive.

Second, if someone is telling you that TARP funds continue to be disbursed, they are wrong. That program wrapped up on schedule, and money is no longer being appropriated for it. It was not a cash handout, either. Money was spent to acquire difficult-to-value debt instruments with additional guarantees from the sellers in the form of equity warrants, Total expenditures were in the neighborhood of $426 billion, and revenues (from the sale of the warrants and re-valued assets once the valuation crisis was over) were around $441 billion. Last sale of assets, wrapping up the program, was in 2014.
Posted by: HTL at October 07, 2016 01:37 PM (on1DJ

I'm on a cell phone with dial up speed. It was within the 4 years I believe from zerohedge that the Fed was beginning to buy up Equities and putting them on the balance sheet.

As far as the Bailouts since their has been no budget passed since bailouts, the Omnibus spending bill is based on a percentage increase of spending year after year including the Bailouts. While it is obviously not listed or reported, it could be legal.

I'd search for the links but I'm crawling at dial up 28k speed right now.

I'm so damn cynical about our lying criminal government, taut I would not be surprised by both of these stories because both involve accounting trickery and both match the MO.

Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 01:49 PM (0wm3C)

447 446 First a technical point. The Fed is not buying equities. They are legally prohibited from doing that. Quantitative easing occurs when they purchase new issue Federal debt, i.e. monetizing the deficit. This has the effect of keeping interest rates low, which in turn props up equity markets by making fixed income instruments less attractive.

Second, if someone is telling you that TARP funds continue to be disbursed, they are wrong. That program wrapped up on schedule, and money is no longer being appropriated for it. It was not a cash handout, either. Money was spent to acquire difficult-to-value debt instruments with additional guarantees from the sellers in the form of equity warrants, Total expenditures were in the neighborhood of $426 billion, and revenues (from the sale of the warrants and re-valued assets once the valuation crisis was over) were around $441 billion. Last sale of assets, wrapping up the program, was in 2014.
Posted by: HTL at October 07, 2016 01:37 PM (on1DJ

I'm on a cell phone with dial up speed. It was within the 4 years I believe from zerohedge that the Fed was beginning to buy up Equities and putting them on the balance sheet.

As far as the Bailouts since their has been no budget passed since bailouts, the Omnibus spending bill is based on a percentage increase of spending year after year including the Bailouts. While it is obviously not listed or reported, it could be legal.

I'd search for the links but I'm crawling at dial up 28k speed right now.

I'm so damn cynical about our lying criminal government, taut I would not be surprised by both of these stories because both involve accounting trickery and both match the MO.
Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 01:49 PM (0wm3C

I just searched Fed buying equities and within the past 10 days the FED says it would be a good idea and is likely to pursue it in the future. (There was speculation it was being done a few years ago)

Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 01:53 PM (0wm3C)

448 I can see The New York Post eventually endorsing Trump. I know it's Murdoch, but they are generally brutal on Hillary and I can't see how they would endorse her--especially since their readership hates her. They would lose readers if they endorsed Her.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 07, 2016 01:58 PM (Gu19u)

449 I just searched Fed buying equities and within the past 10 days the FED says it would be a good idea and is likely to pursue it in the future. (There was speculation it was being done a few years ago)

Posted by: Pepe, the Irredeemable at October 07, 2016 01:53 PM (0wm3C)

You need to stop getting your information from conspiracy-minded, panic-mongering websites. Here is a direct quote from Janet Yellen a few days ago when she testified before Congress: "Well, the Federal Reserve is not permitted to purchase equities."

And you are simply wrong about TARP. The program isn't there anymore. People who suggest otherwise (not you, but your sources) simply do not understand the process, and/or have not bothered to look at the specific legislation passed since then.

For one thing, a budget was passed in May of 2015 for the 2016 Fiscal Year. For another, money for TARP (which was limited to purchasing certain 'troubled' classes of debt and for a limited period of time) has not been appropriated for years. Appropriations bills follow the budget and are where the money is actually spent, and TARP isn't in there. Furthermore, all of the TARP debt (and equity warrants, which were a form of guarantee given by the banks in addition to handing over the debt) were sold years ago.

All of this is a matter of public record. There simply is not a $700 billion annual slush fund out there. The fact that TARP was scaled back and never exceeded $430 billion ought to give you some indication that your sources are taking some liberties with the truth, as would a review of the subsequent legislative record.

Posted by: HTL at October 07, 2016 02:32 PM (on1DJ)

450 "It's like we're living in a Soviet Five Year Plan or Mao's Great Leap Forward. "

Exactly right.
Not to sound like someone WFB would have considered deplorable or anything, but they are all working from the same playbook.

Posted by: the deplorable sock_rat_eez, stay calm and carry on at October 07, 2016 02:38 PM (Z8DIA)

451 Isn't the rock-bottom number needed just to break even somewhere around 200-225,000 jobs added? Anything less used to signify a shrinking workforce.

But that was before Obama eradicated "trickle down" and brought us into this burgeoning growth period, where misery is shared equally among the lower classes.

Posted by: red speck at October 07, 2016 03:39 PM (RcEOo)

452 The counter-narrative is being crafted in real-time on Twitter. Look for Media spin that includes the phrase, "Freelancers not properly counted."

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at October 07, 2016 04:04 PM (Rtyzj)

453 It took a solid crap!

Posted by: Zeeman at October 07, 2016 04:04 PM (0o0IW)

454 I give myself a solid B+... Buh-Rock O-bah-mah

Posted by: Fundamentlly Transforming America into Venezuela at October 07, 2016 04:05 PM (ndGCC)

455 Actual unemployment rate 42.1%, roughly 106M fellow Americans.

Posted by: setnaffa at October 07, 2016 06:45 PM (iDxq/)

456 This is quite soft--is it seersucker or gabardine?

Posted by: The Leg-Humping Media at October 07, 2016 07:27 PM (Ndje9)

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