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Sleepmonger's avatar

Still waiting for "terrified" over here...

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Rooster Cogburn105's avatar

As if any Libertarians could calibrate avionics to permit level flight

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Bob_piper's avatar

I heard that stores like Target and Home Depot basically chartered their own cargo ships to ensure delivery of goods on time.

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Bob_piper's avatar

The problem isn't the numbers. The problem is once again a 24 hours news cycle that takes every piece of information as fact and sensationalizes it to get clicks and views. They do the same thing anytime anyone announces new medical research that is a decade away from human testing.

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noodles's avatar

A long time ago I read the numbers coming from the BLS were usually underreported for a rising economy and overreported for a sinking economy. What matters is the trend looking back three months. That is after the BLS revises the data of three months ago, if the revision is down bad news and if the revision is up good news. Instead of reporting the BLS reports of today the MSM should report the up or down revisions of three months ago.

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noodles's avatar

If you run out of unemployment benefits and still are not working you fall into the next lower bracket of the economy. There are like six different measures This is the best chart to look athttps://www.bls.gov/news.re...

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Cock Blockula the Original's avatar

Good chart. Thanks. I appear to be in all six tiers in one form or another.

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Goin Green's avatar

He had mustard on his tie... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Goin Green's avatar

Damn, we are really scaring these folks...

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deadjello's avatar

The GQP's sole strategy in governance seems to be to avoid setting the bar too high, dunnit?

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Notreelyhelping's avatar

Parasite paymasters? Are we getting out our Little Red Songbooks to play Joe Hill songs?

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deadjello's avatar

RIP Mia Zapatahttps://youtu.be/KKUwTNvzwAk

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PhoenixDogLover's avatar

Very old school, your former boss. :-)

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Rachel Book Harlot's avatar

Agreed!!

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Virginia Bee & Cat's avatar

Yeah sure. Everything is sweetness and light until a Bird of Prey shows up.

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rtpoeman's avatar

It won't be long before no one will be able to play this piece:https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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