July, 2016 archive
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Status quo ante:
The four-week moving average decreased to 257,750 last week, from 259,000, the report showed.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits fell by 25,000 to 2.13 million in the week ended July 9. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits dropped to 1.5 percent from 1.6 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
In other news of the Status quo ante, Bloomberg’s experts blew it ag–never mind.
The Count Counts 0
Ever optimistic, Shaun Mullen says, “Do the math.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get an unload of all the politeness:
State police Trooper Rob Hicks said the men were cutting wood in an area of Loop Road and one was unloading a pistol when the gun accidentally discharged.
Afterthought:
In that part of the world, having a gun can make sense. There may be rattle snakes about. Just don’t use your gun to cut wood. Or something.
Merchants of Death 0
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There Are None So Blind . . . . 0
Shorter Elie Mystal: “What you see is what you got.”
Move over Occam 0
Meet Trump’s razor.
Knee-Jerk Jerks 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Alan Caron takes on those who would defend the police against any charges of misconduct, regardless of how blatant and egregious and deadly–and of how captured in video–that misconduct may have been. A snippet:
Harmon did a good job representing the conservative ideologue’s response to race problems in America, which seems to mirror its response to climate change and income inequality. Dig a small hole. Put your head into the hole, and bury your eyes and ears. There, in the silence, racism will not exist. Climate change will be a myth. Income equally will not matter.
Here’s a link to Harmon’s column cited by Mr. Caron. (I glanced at it when it first appeared and decided it was the usual right-wing claptrap.)
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear points out that Donald Trump’s political success is built on decades of Republican lies. Indeed, Mr. Bear’s catalog of Republican lies rivals Homer’s catalog of ships. Here’s just a few from the list:
That’s just part of his list. Follow the link for the rest.
I do have one quibble.
I do not believe that “our media have failed to see” any of this.
I believe that our corporate media, with a few exceptions as unheeded as Cassandra, have actively chosen not to see it; they prefer horse-race coverage and the broadcast ratings it brings, false equivalences, made-up scandals such as Whitewater and Benghazi, and the on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand both-sides-do-it narrative to accuracy, principle, and truth.
Like little Beltway Pilates, they wash their hands even as they cash their checks.
American Taliban 0
Shorter Newt Gingrich: Sharia and Sharia alike.
