There is good news from the Bureau of Labor Statistics! Why do I think this is only going to be good news for those of us based in objective reality? (Which is to say those who are centrist and to the left.) How long will it be until the right wing alternate universe reality tried to deny the new numbers, or spin them backwards like an old Beatles record, seeking hidden messages seeking hidden messages that Paul is dead, and references to Satan, and other silly cryptic nonsense?
From MSN news: Jobless claims fall to lowest level in nearly 5 years
Although the election is over, the right is still eager to see the president fail, eager to see the country fail in the hopes of bolstering their own ideology. I think that not only underlines heavily how failed the right wing economic and taxation policies have been, as well as BOTH their foreign and domestic policies generally, but also how genuinely un-patriotic they are in what they wish for the country. So I'm anticipating that like clockwork, we will be seeing new wild right wing spinning of these numbers too - spinning backwards, spinning counter-clockwise, trying to stop us moving forwards, like those who did so with the Beatles old vinyl records on their turntable.
Remember when all those Republicans were running around wailing and gnashing their teeth and denying polling numbers for the elections were correct? I particularly remember a certain right wing blogger friend of my co-blogger and I who went to great lengths to contrive convoluted reasons that numbers he just didn't like were wrong.......except they were in fact pretty accurate, as we later saw, and not some silly elaborate left wing conspiracy theory to alter the outcome of the election. We didn't WANT to alter the outcome of the election; it was going well and tampering is something we reject, unlike the right.
Are you optimistic as we approach the final days and hours of 2012 that the right will prove they are better, saner, more patriotic than that? Remember Ham Rove, er, Karl Rove, denying the numbers on election night coming out of Ohio? Rove had a little meltdown on air, when the numbers were not what he wanted to hear. His behavior was so odd, that it led some people who were familiar with the alterations made to the electronic voting machines in previous elections won by the GOP with Rove running the show, and that were attempted in the 2012 election to suggest that maybe ol' Ham Rove was expecting this election to be tampered with as well by the right, given how strenuously he was sure of data that no one else had. Numbers are not the friends of those who rely on Republican math, which replaces factual numerical values with ideology driven fantasy values.
Here is Ham Rove, having his little pout as he realized that he paid to much, and still failed to buy another election.
The right tries to distort and contort every aspect of reality into some delusional alternate world. Our same right wing blogger friend has been putting hours and hours and hours he will never get back into trying to find ways to claim that one of his idols, Bruce Springsteen is actually conservative. No, but maybe our right wing blogger friend is returning to his liberal roots? We can hope that he stops wasting his time trying to turn white into black, blue into red, and up into down, and left into right soon, for his own well being and for the mental health of those who live in a delusional right wing fantasy world.
Maybe we shouldn't tell the right wing extremists about these latest numbers either; I'm not sure they could handle that much reality in one sitting.:
Most recent polls for President Barack Obama:
From MSN news: Jobless claims fall to lowest level in nearly 5 years
The weekly level of new unemployment claims have dropped to the lowest level since the beginning of the recession.
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment aid fell last week to nearly its lowest level in 4 1/2 years, a sign that the labor market is healing.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 350,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The prior week's figure was revised to show 1,000 more applications than previously reported.
After spiking in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, which ravaged the East Coast in late October, the weekly levels of new claims have now dropped to their lowest levels since the early days of the 2007-09 recession. The four-week moving average fell 11,250 last week to 356,750, the lowest since March 2008.
That suggests the surge in layoffs since the recession may have run its course, although companies still are adding to their payrolls at a lackluster pace.
The report included a caveat, at least for the latest week. President Barack Obama declared Monday a holiday for federal workers and many state offices followed suit and were unable to provide complete data for last week's jobless claims. Data for 19 states was estimated, a Labor Department official said. Fourteen of those states submitted their own estimates, which tend to be fairly accurate because the state officials work with a significant amount of data, the Labor Department official said.
Besides the federal holiday, there were no special factors influencing week's claims data, the department official said.Remember all those Republicans running around with their hair on fire, claiming that the numbers had been tampered with from the Bureau of Labor Statistics when the right just didn't like them? No one tampered with the numbers; the numbers turned out to be in fact under-reporting the good news not exaggerating them. Oh! the howls and moans of despair over that good news!
Although the election is over, the right is still eager to see the president fail, eager to see the country fail in the hopes of bolstering their own ideology. I think that not only underlines heavily how failed the right wing economic and taxation policies have been, as well as BOTH their foreign and domestic policies generally, but also how genuinely un-patriotic they are in what they wish for the country. So I'm anticipating that like clockwork, we will be seeing new wild right wing spinning of these numbers too - spinning backwards, spinning counter-clockwise, trying to stop us moving forwards, like those who did so with the Beatles old vinyl records on their turntable.
Remember when all those Republicans were running around wailing and gnashing their teeth and denying polling numbers for the elections were correct? I particularly remember a certain right wing blogger friend of my co-blogger and I who went to great lengths to contrive convoluted reasons that numbers he just didn't like were wrong.......except they were in fact pretty accurate, as we later saw, and not some silly elaborate left wing conspiracy theory to alter the outcome of the election. We didn't WANT to alter the outcome of the election; it was going well and tampering is something we reject, unlike the right.
Are you optimistic as we approach the final days and hours of 2012 that the right will prove they are better, saner, more patriotic than that? Remember Ham Rove, er, Karl Rove, denying the numbers on election night coming out of Ohio? Rove had a little meltdown on air, when the numbers were not what he wanted to hear. His behavior was so odd, that it led some people who were familiar with the alterations made to the electronic voting machines in previous elections won by the GOP with Rove running the show, and that were attempted in the 2012 election to suggest that maybe ol' Ham Rove was expecting this election to be tampered with as well by the right, given how strenuously he was sure of data that no one else had. Numbers are not the friends of those who rely on Republican math, which replaces factual numerical values with ideology driven fantasy values.
Here is Ham Rove, having his little pout as he realized that he paid to much, and still failed to buy another election.
The right tries to distort and contort every aspect of reality into some delusional alternate world. Our same right wing blogger friend has been putting hours and hours and hours he will never get back into trying to find ways to claim that one of his idols, Bruce Springsteen is actually conservative. No, but maybe our right wing blogger friend is returning to his liberal roots? We can hope that he stops wasting his time trying to turn white into black, blue into red, and up into down, and left into right soon, for his own well being and for the mental health of those who live in a delusional right wing fantasy world.
Maybe we shouldn't tell the right wing extremists about these latest numbers either; I'm not sure they could handle that much reality in one sitting.:
Most recent polls for President Barack Obama:
| Polling Group (Reverse Chronologically) | Date | Approval | Disapproval | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RealClearPolitics.com Average[2] | December 5-21, 2012 | 54.0% | 41.6% | +12.4 |
| Rasmussen Reports[3] | December 19-21, 2012 | 57% | 42% | +15 |
| Gallup[4] | December 18-21, 2012 | 58% | 36% | +22 |
| CNN[5] | December 17-18, 2012 | 50% | 45% | +5 |
| ABC News[3] | December 13-16, 2012 | 55% | 42% | +13 |
| CBS News[3] | December 12-16, 2012 | 57% | 37% | +20 |
| Fox News[3] | December 9-11, 2012 | 48% | 46% | +2 |
| Bloomberg[3] | December 7-10, 2012 | 53% | 44% | +9 |
| NBC News[3] | December 6-9, 2012 | 53% | 43% | +10 |
| Pew Research[6] | December 5-9, 2012 | 55% | 39% | +16 |
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