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Falling gas prices doesn't take into account all the cars who have given up looking for cheaper gas.

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Turd Nugent <a href="http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/05\/04\/nugent-romney-camp-expressed-support-after-anti-obama-tirade\/" target="_blank">did</a>. Well, maybe not "women", just a specific woman in his case, for the horrible crime of being a producer while a journalist asked him questions.

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<blockquote>And some analysts (o.k., moi, at least) will point out that thanks to the warm weather (which has nothing at all to do with global warming, or the fact that spring is showing up an average of 10 days earlier), normal seasonal adjustments for the winter are a bit "off". </blockquote>

The effect of this is that more construction happens over the course of the season, and that temporary workers in that sector earn more this year. From a strictly employment-related perspective, this is not a bad thing, and ignoring it would create a false impression.

BTW, seasonal adjustments don't explain why the revisions have been positive for 10 consecutive months, nor why the number of people out of work but who say when asked they want a job (regardless of whether they're actively looking) has declined since April 2011 even in the face of employment-age population growth of over 3.6 million.

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Except gout.

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It's like those bozos in Waco who walked out the other day on Bill Nye the Science Guy when he said that the moon was a reflector, not a light as it is described in Genesis. Teh Stupid, it burns.

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Obligatory link to Scanners.... <a href="http://tinyurl.com/34vazd" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://tinyurl.com/34vazd">http://tinyurl.com/34vazd</a>

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The BLS household survey.

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*Facepalm*

I guess they boycotted <em>The Wall</em> too. I suppose it's the devil's music anyway.

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You do realize that all those numbers are (gasp) <i>Arabic</i>.

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DO NOT WANT!

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Back to the Romney Reeducation Kamp for you, Mr. Stein. BTW, what kind of name is Stein and do you have your papers?

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He better start shopping his resume because fact-based reporting like that isn't going to keep him at NRO for long.

So far I like him much better than Ben.

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so today i think i'm just going to go with posting:

god we are stupid.

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