Every time a good unemployment rate was reported for Bush (which was for all but about a year of his term), the media relentlessly claimed the numbers were far higher when one considered "discouraged workers."
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Well, we finally have a bit of data on the real unemployment rate under President Jesus H. Executive, and it's a doozy."If one considers the people who would like a job but have stopped looking -- so-called discouraged workers -- and those who are working fewer hours than they want, the unemployment rate would move from the official 9.4 percent to 16 percent, said Atlanta Fed chief Dennis Lockhart.
He underscored that he was expressing his own views, which did "do not necessarily reflect those of my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee," the policy-setting body of the central bank.
Betsy has something nice to say about Ted Kennedy -
During the 1970s, Kennedy was instrumental in deregulating the interstate trucking industry and airline ticket prices, two innovations that have vastly improved the quality of life in America even as—or more precisely, because—they pushed power out of D.C. and into the pocketbooks of everyday Americans. We are incalculably richer and better off because something like actual prices replaced regulatory fiat in trucking and flying. Because they do not fit the Ted Kennedy narrative preferred by his admirers and detractors alike, these accomplishments rarely get mentioned in stories about the late senator. But they are exactly the sort of legislation that we should be celebrating in his honor, and using as a model in today's debates about health care, education, and virtually every aspect of government action.
Doesn't do a whole lot to change my opinion of the man but sometimes you have to give the devil his due
Hot Air - Townhall article: What really happened in the Franken-Coleman recount
In this case, it appears that both campaigns understood the parameters of action, but Coleman’s team simply didn’t want to avail itself of the entire range of action allowed by Minnesota statutes. They trained their recount volunteers to engage only on the most obvious cases and to refrain especially from giving the appearance that the Republicans wanted to invalidate ballots on a massive scale.
Predictably, this led to many missed opportunities for Coleman challenges. Because of the training received, the GOP volunteers assumed that many of the Franken team’s challenges in the precincts were invalid and would be tossed out by the Canvassing Board, the bipartisan panel that ruled on each challenged ballot. They were shocked to see the types of challenges later upheld by the panel, and they lamented the passive manner of the Coleman team’s recount effort, especially in the opening days. One volunteer estimated that he could have produced between 10-20 ballot challenges himself that the Canvassing Board would have upheld, based on their later rulings.
So once again GOP passivity leads to a stolen election. One of these days people will learn that bringing a knife to a gun fight doesn't really do you any good.
Just One Minute - Enhanced Interrogation -
Shorter Newsweek - if you ignore the parts of the reports that say that enhanced interrogation was effective you are left unsure as to whether enhanced interrogation was effective.
Patterico - Obama Still Reading Book He Read a Year Ago
This might not be a fair criticism. I re-read books all the time. On the other hand I doubt he is reading it at all. From the various reading lists I have seen for President Obama I think the press secretray just grabs the first book off of 3 or 4 best seller lists so everyone will feel happy. He is probably reading kids books to his daughters
Aardvarks and Assshats - “…And Lightning Shot Out Of His Ass!” -
some journalists are off in Mongolia chasing the maybe-myth of the Mongolian death worm!
...The worm has never been documented but some Mongolians are convinced it exists. They call it Allghoi Khorkhoi, or “intestine worm” because it resembles a cow’s intestine and is about 1.5m long.
The worm apparently jumps out of the sand and kills people by spitting concentrated acid or shooting lightning from its rectum over long distances, NZPA reports. (Seriously.)
OK that one made my day
Horsman, Pass By! Has a list of worthwhile reads. More importantly the post has a link to a new online book resource. It has Machaivelli's Discourses on Livy and Art of War, which are hard to find locally so I am happy!!!
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