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2016 archive

The Victory Party Parties On 0

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Cabinet of Horrors 0

Will Bunch opens the door and takes a peek.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Yet more hate-full frolics.

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Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0

Sill under 300k (emphasis added).

Jobless claims increased by 17,000 to 268,000 in the week that ended Nov. 26 and included Thanksgiving, Labor Department figures showed Thursday in Washington.

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Jobless claims have been below 300,000 for 91 straight weeks — the longest streak since 1970 and a level typical for a healthy labor market. At the same time, other factors that have pushed claims down in recent years, including cuts in the duration of benefits and changes to claim-filing technology.

Estimates in the Bloomberg survey ranged from 245,000 to 265,000. The prior week’s reading was unrevised at 251,000.

The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits increased by 38,000 to 2.08 million in the week ended Nov. 19.

Wait six months. I predict the rate will Trumple.

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Goldman’s Sacks 0

Image One:  Alexander Hamilton saying,

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Changing the Subject, Reprise 0

Donald Trump, standing amidst bags labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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MIA 0

Remember all those teabaggers who demonstrated against the Affordable Care Act carrying signs that said, “Hands off my Medicare”?

Where are they now?

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QOTD 0

Victor Hugo:

God made only water, but man made wine.

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Awakening 0

TRUMPED – watch more funny videos

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Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0

Dick Polman.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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Keeping Up with the Times 6

Catherine Rampell suggests that college students need to change with the times.

What skills and disciplines should workers-to-be master to succeed in the 21st-century economy?

My answer used to involve programming, data analysis, creativity, empathy. Basically, skills that are complementary to rising automation and that will help workers invent new products or support those who do.

Today, my answer must change. In light of the regulatory vision being laid out by President-elect Donald Trump and his advisers, I’d recommend college students bone up on hustling and swindling instead.

Mammas, make sure your babies grow up to be con men.

Follow the link to find out why she says that.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Volunteer politely.

Attorney James Davis represents George Matis Jr., of Republic (Pennsylvania–ed.), who remained jailed on criminal homicide and reckless endangerment charges in the Sunday shooting of 16-year-old Parker Hess at the Republic Volunteer Fire Company.

Hess was shot when Matis removed his legally owned gun from a holster and it fired, striking Hess in the cheek, state police said in a criminal complaint. Investigators haven’t said whether the shooting was accidental, but Davis believes it was.

In related news, it must have been the little white tail, reprise.

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Truth in Labeling 0

Daniel Farmer reports that the Associated Press has issued guidelines that truthful reporting requires using truthful words. In his discussion, he gives some examples:

As (AP Standards Editor–ed.) Daniszewski described it (“Alt-Right”–ed.), “The movement criticizes ‘multiculturalism’ and more rights for non-whites, women, Jews, Muslims, gays, immigrants and other minorities. Its members reject the American democratic ideal that all should have equality under the law regardless of creed, gender, ethnic origin or race.”

It’s time to call such things what they are: racist.

If you say people of color are the enemy, as the governor (Governor LePage of Maine–ed.) has, you’re a racist.

Same thing if you lie and say that black people commit 90 percent of crime in the state when the numbers don’t back you up, if you encourage violence against black men, and if you say immigrants carry disease and are terrorists.

You’re not part of the “alt-right.” Let’s be precise: You’re a racist.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, for I have noted this constancy over my years: Except for a militant few, racists don’t like to be called “racist”; indeed, most will vehemently deny even to themselves that they are racist even as the crosses burn brightly behind them.

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Pay to Play 0

No surprises here.

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Swamp Things 0

Kevin Drum has been keeping track of the Trump’s swamp draining. It ain’t pretty.

Chart showing that Trump is


Click to see the original image.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

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QOTD 0

Barbara Brown Taylor:

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

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Changing the Subject 0

Thom discusses how our compliant corporate media run after shiny things and miss the stories that matter.

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The Galt and the Lamers 1

Return of the robber barons.

What’s next? Child labor?

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Dominance and Submission 0

Josh Marshall continues to explore Donald Trump’s desire for total victory, seeing hints of it in the current kerfuffle over Mitt the Flip as a possibility for Secretary of State (emphasis in the original). A nugget:

If you haven’t kept up on this little sub-drama in the Trump mega-drama, Trump staffers have been floating word for days that Trump will require Romney to publicly apologize if he wants to be Secretary of State – almost literally a ritual humiliation to enter the Trump inner circle. More pointedly, Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway – now some sort of senior advisor to the transition – has repeatedly said in public that if Trump chooses Romney it would be a betrayal of Trump’s supporters.

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