MiSleading National ( socialist workers party ) Broadcasting Network isn't even on my TV anymore. Or Clinton News Network, ( aka the Cannibal's are coming while I hide on my Bison farm ) or Faux.
I do still get Propaganda Broadcasting System, where they are convinced Stalin could have made a go of Communism if only he'd been as smart as they are.
Gotta love a company that thinks getting paid to tell people how evil Jews are is a good thing.
Nat Hentoff, a noted and respected Liberal, is calling for the impeachment of Obama. When Liberals dare to tell the truth, then you know we have a criminal occupying our White House.
Here’s to hoping you enjoyed your long Independence Day weekend. I sure enjoyed mine, because it wasn’t until today that I looked past the touchy-feelgood headline numbers in the June jobs report. 288,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 6.1%, the lowest it’s been since before the beginning of the Great Recession. Even the figures for April and May were unexpectedly revised upwards. Helping to keep that good mood humming along was the big increase in auto sales, which “shattered expectations.” Sales were so hot that even beleaguered GM, which in recent months has announced recalls for seemingly every car and truck sold since the Truman administration, saw a modest increase. And let’s ice that cake with the good news from Bloomberg that after a slow (and cold!) winter, pending home sales jumped 6.1% in May. That’s the biggest increase in four years.
Jobs, cars, and homes make up the bulk of the value of most Americans’ incomes and possessions, so happy days must indeed be here again, right? Wrong. I looked beneath the headline numbers, and now I’m sorry we don’t all have Monday off from work, too.
You might want to get your boss on speed dial and prepare to call in “sick of all this” while I show you the real picture.
Are you ready?
The United States lost over half a million full-time jobs just last month. 523,000 full-time positions eliminated. We haven’t seen that kind of shrinkage since the dark days of 2008-09. This might be why Neil Irwin, writing for the New York Times, cautions readers to “hold the fireworks.” He cautions:
For example, if you wanted a reason to be skeptical of the June jobs numbers, you could point out that the bad winter weather forced many schools to remain open later into June than usual, resulting in more teachers and administrators being on payrolls in the middle of last month than the seasonal adjustment procedures would account for. Private educational services jobs rose by 5,000, while local and state government jobs added a combined 20,000. There is a good chance those jobs will “disappear” in the July numbers, even if it remains just a continued after-effect of the bad winter.
Nobody wants to look for reasons to be skeptical, or as I said of the headline number on Thursday, “I’ll take it!” But it doesn’t take a skeptic to look beneath the headlines to figure out where the 288,000 net figure came from — and it came from a surge in part-time employment, which surged by nearly 800,000. An almost equal number of workers — 676,000, not seasonally adjusted — became “discouraged” and left the labor force and are no longer considered by the BLS to be unemployed. Teenage unemployment shot up again, to 21% from 19.2%. The labor force participation rate held steady, but is down two-thirds of a point from a year ago, meaning that job growth isn’t keeping up with population growth. The number of African Americans in the labor force is a similar story — better than last month, worse than last year.
We should cheer that the total number of Americans with jobs is going steadily up, but those cheers should be muted by the tough reality that when it comes to creating jobs, the Obama economy isn’t quite treading water.
A Constitutional professor who either knowingly subverts the Constitution or who is dumber than a box of rocks. The head of the Harvard Law Review who never wrote a law review.
This is the deliberate result of a planned leadership vacuum. We are not far from a shooting war which I abhor. The criminality of the White House and the DOJ is plainly evident for even an idiot to see.
Report: 300,000 Central American immigrants heading to U.S. posted at 7:21 pm on July 7, 2014 by Noah Rothman
excerpt: This is… troubling.
The ongoing and apparently worsening calamity at the southern border as protected individuals like Central American women and children stream across the border is not merely a humanitarian and political crisis but a health crisis as well. While the influx of immigrants is not being curtailed, the health risks associated with that inflow are apparently being mitigated.
“It’s getting better,” said U.S. Border Patrol Council Shawn Moran in an interview with San Antonio’s WOAI. “Everyone is being screened and receiving medical care.”
That’s nice, but buried at the bottom of that report was a deeply disturbing revelation that the federal government estimates approximately 300,000 prospective illegal immigrants are currently on their way to the American border.
Calling people names is more evidence of zero leadership.
Biden: ‘Tea Baggers’ Preventing New Gun-Control Laws By Andrew Johnson July 7, 2014 4:41 PM
excerpt: Vice president Joe Biden has disparaged gun-rights advocates as “tea baggers,” CNN host John Walsh told reporters today. Walsh, the former host of America’s Most Wanted, recounted that he bonded with Biden over the need for more gun control and their distaste for the National Rifle Association..
Rein its a forgone conclusion that the pResident should be removed, Biden is also incompetent [ just joe is an insurance policy better than a flack jacket ]
I am wondering how much longer this will go on, and will the law enforcement community and military fire on the civilians that may attempt to effect the change if it comes to it,
This groups actions are no longer political in my view but reflect a total disregard for the constitution that gives them any authority, They appear to be attempting to set up one party rule, with these acts
wreck the currency/economy disarm the populace disregard the laws that prohibit their actions
etc etc etc ....
I fear what may come next
The time for the endless talk is over Our other elected officials need to take action, and..
Secure the borders Either Enforce ACA or abolish it and if in place NO Exceptions. Stop the global warming nonsense. {there is no sound proof ....} Stop the ruin of our military Honor our promises to our vets Re structure the IRS Flat tax Get government spending down, and get the debit paid off,
obama has demonstrated his inability to lead, furthermore he has shown a tendency to be destructive. As a president he is an abject failure, as an attempted destroyer he has succeeded admirably
I know the federal government won't do it but can the states that expend resourses caring for illegals sue to recover damages?
Why do we as tax payers have to fund this assault on our borders? Isn't the governments of the source countries responsible for their own citizens? I know I'm not expressing myself well but I say send those countries a bill. Or maybe take it out of what we send them as foreign aid.
take it out of what we send them as foreign aid) ... is the only solution. I don't think they will want to pay for the welfare of the people leaving their country.
I believe the majority of these folk just want better lives. Some of our most poor are doing better than those coming over. If we do not help them in some way now,... more will come and end up living in crowded homes hiding and with that more crime will come.
We need to give them some type of living permits, with a regulated path to long term visa's with path to permanent visa/ID. Must be regulated and not unfair to the 1,000's who do it the right way every week. And if they do not follow these rules ... then deport them as we have been. It may not be perfect but better then doing nothing.
How about we annex Central America? Then they can stay home and come to America at the same time. Oh, and Bonus, it'll give Venezuela something legitimate to bitch about wrt America's "Imperialism".
The preceding was not meant as a serious suggestion.
I don’t know if we sufficiently understand how weird and strange, how historically unparalleled, this presidency has become. We’ve got a sitting president who was just judged in a major poll to be the worst since World War II. The worst president in 70 years! Quinnipiac University’s respondents also said, by 54% to 44%, that the Obama administration is not competent to run the government.
Like the derelict in Coleridge’s poem the Ship of State careens around, never making port, as if on some three hour cruise destined run for 98 actual weeks on TV. Yet the weird thing, Noonan says, is that even as Obama’s ship draves on, there is no apparent object to its wanderings. It seems driven by some malignant compulsion:
But I’m not sure people are noticing the sheer strangeness of how the president is responding to the lack of success around him. He once seemed a serious man. He wrote books, lectured on the Constitution. Now he seems unserious, frivolous, shallow. He hangs with celebrities, plays golf. His references to Congress are merely sarcastic: “So sue me.” “They don’t do anything except block me. And call me names. It can’t be that much fun.”
In a truly stunning piece in early June, Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown and Jennifer Epstein interviewed many around the president and reported a general feeling that events have left him—well, changed. He is “taking fuller advantage of the perquisites of office,” such as hosting “star-studded dinners that sometimes go on well past midnight.” He travels, leaving the White House more in the first half of 2014 than any other time of his presidency except his re-election year. He enjoys talking to athletes and celebrities, not grubby politicians, even members of his own party. He is above it all.
Perhaps the adjective Noonan is looking for is “artistic”. She writes, “you get the impression his needs are pretty important in his hierarchy of concerns. All this is weird, unprecedented. … He’s waiting for history to get its act together and see his true size.” This is reminiscent of another great man. When Nero’s end came his judgment of himself was “qualis artifex pereo” — ‘what an artist dies in me’.
Noonan notes that Obama seems to himself too great for his country, too great for the world, too great for the Age.
“The world seems to disappoint him,” says the New Yorker’s liberal and sympathetic editor, David Remnick.
That’s what it looks like from inside the White House. Nikolas K. Gvosdev, a professor at the Naval War College, describes what it resembles from outside the Oval Office. He calls it “The Stumbles Doctrine”: the process of getting into trouble, “hold my beer” style without the slightest coherent idea what you’re doing.
The problem, in the end, is that the United States appears to be stumbling into a policy of confronting and containing Putin’s Russia without the necessary commitments or frame. If this was a deliberate choice—and over the past several months, the Obama administration seems to have embarked on an ambitious program of “triple containment” (Iran, China and Russia)—then it does not seem to have made adequate preparations. If, on the other hand, this is an unexpected and unwelcome development, then it does not seem to be doing all that it could to indeed provide Russia with the “exit ramp” from the crisis. Without knowing how we got into this imbroglio, it may prove all the more difficult to find a way out.
A Red Line with Russia here, a Red Line with China there and pretty soon you could be talking real Red Lines. It’s so eerie that Noonan actually seems scared. So she’s going around telling the story of the albatross to anyone who will listen.
There's been a lot of talk about "this is 1938 all over again" or 1914, or 1917.
Yes, some who look at those dates see "ancient history" or don't have a clue what happened those years.
I don't know what "year this is like" at this point.
Before WW1 the US had a tiny Army, and a small, but decent Navy. ( Teddy Roosevelt's legacy ) When war came, there was a flood of volunteers to fight.
The arsenal of Democracy produced millions of guns, shipping them across sub infested waters to our allies in England. Planes? not so much, the Europeans had much better and more advanced gear. When we got there, we bought French planes. Tanks? Brit. But we had eager young men, and rifles. It is generally believed the infusion of manpower, turned the tide.
Before WW2 the US had a tiny Army, ( smaller and weaker than Poland ) and, again, Americans lined up to volunteer to serve.
The Arsenal of Democracy, again, made millions of rifles, and hundreds of thousands of planes, ( this time ours were just as good ) and ships on a scale not seen , ever.
Again, we shipped rifles, shells, planes, etc. by the megaton across sub infested water, and this time even built ships faster than the U-Boats could sink them.
In WW2, we were directly attacked, and fought a difficult and costly defensive retreat in the Pacific. For Years. Today, children are not taught how close it was, how many died. Without that bravery, without the allies in England and Australia, German would be the language of one Hemisphere, and Japanese the other.
Today.... The President want's a leaner, smaller Army, and he has good points. But when he's done we will again not have the ability to project power, to save our allies.
Today, I doubt we'll have long lines at the recruiting centers to volunteer to save the world.
In 1940 with war raging in Europe, North American aviation was able to design and build a new fighter in a third of a year, and in 2 more years was sending them by the shipload overseas. England needed more fighters, and asked NA to make Curtis P-40's, NA refused, and asked if they could make a better plane. 102 days after the contract was signed, they rolled out the first P-51. ( It took another month to get an engine delivered )
Today, That is unthinkable. Some years back Grumman tried to sell a few more F-14's to the Navy. The lead time for landing gear struts on an already proven design was over a year longer than it took the P-51 to go from a handshake to flying machinery.
So while the fools in D.C. may indeed be leading us into the next World War from behind, on the golf course, the parallels to past wars are not all that accurate.