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Sept 6, 2013 20:09:23 GMT -5
Post by Tails82 on Sept 6, 2013 20:09:23 GMT -5
www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/09/06/Santelli-What-are-we-A-banana-republic
CNBC’s Rick Santelli, reacting after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that U.S. employers added only 169,000 jobs in August “I just think it’s absolutely horrible that we — that we’re in a marketplace where we get a lousy report, 35 years since we’ve seen these participation rates,”
“And listen, you know, you can’t hide the spread of four to four-and-a-half percent between the advertised unemployment rate and what it would be should you go back a few years on that participation rate.”
"See, those people aren’t working. They’re not buying houses. They’re not buying cars. They’re using services. They may be using entitlements or welfare. You can’t hide those millions of peoples forever...you can’t play this three-card monte game for long.
“And to see the stock market rally,” he added, “on crappy data, to me, is just a horrible dynamic. What are we? A banana republic?”
Carter levels.
www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/09/06/drive_bys_turn_on_obama_economy
Reuters: "US Job Growth Misses Expectations, Offers Cautionary Note for Fed." Now, what they're doing, the Federal Reserve, if you've noticed, the stock market...was down a lot yesterday, trickling down, because the Federal Reserve is talking about no more quantitative easing, which is no more stimulus. And the people in the markets know that the only reason the stock market's been going through the roof is because the Fed has been buying stock, not people. Short version of the truth. That's the simplified version here. And if the Fed starts talking about no more of that, panic sets in.
So right to the rescue rides Reuters: "US Job Growth Misses Expectations, Offers Cautionary Note for Fed." What Reuters is saying: don't you dare stop priming the pump. Don't you dare stop spending money and printing it, stock market or anywhere else, because the jobs market is precarious. We're witnessing a tectonic shift in reporting on the economy. We really are. And it's all about politics. It's not about the media trying to get it right. Obama and the Democrats and their minions are deathly afraid that the Federal Reserve is going to look at the lowering unemployment rate and end quantitative easing. They're scared to death, this is an amazing thing, too, because the unemployment rate went down to 7.3% not because a bunch of new jobs are created; it's because even more people left the workforce.
If the same number of jobs that existed in 2009 existed today, the unemployment rate would be 10.8%. It's not 10.8%; it's 7.3 because those jobs are gone. They don't exist. They're not even available to be filled. It's called the labor force participation rate. You add that people, when they stop looking, they are no longer counted as unemployed. Go figure. They have looked and looked and looked. They've been on unemployment 99 weeks or more. They finally have given up. They're no longer counted...the Democrats know that if the Fed stops printing, it's actual digital transfers, folks, they're not actually printing hard currency for all of this. They're just digitizing, just adding money to a computer spreadsheet, essentially.
They're doing this to the tune of $85 billion a month, right into the financial markets. The money that they're printing, digitizing, is being used to buy securities and stocks, and the Democrats know that if that stops, if the Fed stops injecting $85 billion play dollars into the financial markets, they're just gonna collapse. You saw an indication of it earlier this week when the market was down 130 points in a couple minutes on a rumor that Bernanke was through with quantitative easing.
I find it funny, actually, how Obama and the Democrats believe in trickle-down economics when it comes to quantitative easing. Oh, of course they do. Why, the Fed puts $85 billion in the stock market, and what happens to it? Why, it trickles down to other aspects of the market. It's trickle-down in a way. It's artificial, but it still is trickle-down.
And then, ladies and gentlemen, here is Ben Casselman, economics reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Get this statistic. "For the 40th consecutive month, more unemployed workers left the labor force than found work." For the 40th consecutive month. That's over three years, for those of you in Rio Linda. That would be three years and four months in a row more unemployed workers left the labor force, gave up looking for work than found work.
Not only that, previous numbers were revised downward, big. June, for example, revised down 172,000 to 188,000. Last month, August was revised sharply, 162 to 104,000. This is ominous. This is being reported from Texas, 152,000 new jobs, there were 180,000 expected. And the numbers in the previous months have not been right. They've been made worse. That's what the "revised downward" means.
www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/06/Christian-Airman-Punished-by-Lesbian-Commander-Now-Charged-with-Crime-for-Talking-to-Media-Court-Martial-Possible
Updating our earlier report on Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk, a Christian serving in the Air Force whose unit is now commanded by a lesbian: according to Monk’s complaint filed with his superiors, he was relieved of duty for refusing his commander’s order to say he supports gay marriage.
Now the Air Force has taken the first steps to criminally investigate Monk for talking to the media about his situation. Despite the fact that earlier this year the Obama-Hagel Pentagon said they would never court-martial a service member for their Christian faith, they have taken the first steps to possibly court-martial Monk.
Monk was advised that he is being investigated for committing a crime by the U.S. military for making a false official statement, that he has the right to remain silent, and that he has the right to an attorney. The Air Force then assigned military defense counsel to him and is deciding whether to formally charge him with a crime, at which point Monk would either have to admit guilt and accept further punishment or face a court martial.
Monk is being investigated and might be formally charged for violating Article 107 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), which makes it a crime to make a false official statement. But Monk’s explaining his situation to the media is not an official statement.
More than that, another element of this alleged crime is that Monk must be making a statement he knows is false or that he reasonably should know is false. All Monk is saying is that he believes he’s being punished because of his traditional Christian beliefs.
Monk explained in a statement to Breitbart News, “I immediately got the sense that this was a retaliation against me for coming forward with my religious discrimination complaint.”
On Monk’s situation, Gen. Boykin says:
"We now see what is happening to Christians under President Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. This appears to be an intimidation tactic to send a message to other Christians in the military that you better not speak up when we violate your religious liberty. A statement to the media is not an official statement, so it’s absurd to consider charging him with this crime. The Obama-Hagel military leadership is not officially court-martialing Christians for sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, but you will be punished and might even face a court martial if you stand by the principles of your Christian faith when you are serving in uniform."
www.ncregister.com/daily-news/hotel-chain-cuts-pornography-tv-channels-to-fight-human-trafficking/
Citing connections to human trafficking, a major Scandinavian hotel chain has announced that it is eliminating pornography television channels from its hotel rooms.
“The porn industry contributes to trafficking, so I see it as a natural part of having a social responsibility to send out a clear signal that Nordic Hotels doesn't support or condone this,” said Petter Stordalen, the owner of Nordic Hotels.
A Norwegian billionaire and philanthropist, Stordalen announced that he is removing pay-per-view pornography channels from his chain’s 171 Scandinavian hotels and replacing them with contemporary art.
He said he decided to stop selling the material after he started to work with UNICEF’s campaign to help the child victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, who number over 1.2 million annually, The Guardian reports.
Stordalen said the move may seem “shocking and unusual,” but he compared it to the initially unpopular ban on smoking.
“We were the first hotel chain in the world to ban smoking, and people thought we were crazy. Now it's totally normal for public spaces to be smoke-free,” he said.
The move was applauded by Princeton law professor Robert George and prominent U.S. Islamic scholar Hamza Yusuf.
“The pornography industry is corrupt through and through — inherently so,” George and Yusuf said in a Sept. 4 essay for Public Discourse.
“It should come as no surprise that it is connected to something as exploitative, degrading and dehumanizing as human trafficking,” George and Yusuf stated. “Bravo to Petter Stordalen for refusing to continue profiting from peddling the industry’s wares.”
Pornography policies in U.S. hotel chains vary. Omni Hotels and Resorts stopped selling pornography in 1998. Marriot has said it is “phasing out” pornography sales, while the Hilton chain has defended its continued sales.
George and Yusuf are now calling on all U.S. hotels to follow Stordalen’s lead.
“If Nordic Hotels can demonstrate this kind of moral and social responsibility, then there is no reason that Hilton Hotels and the other large chains cannot,” they said.
George and Yusuf said, “Let them stop trying to deceive the public –– and perhaps even themselves –– with rhetoric about respecting or even protecting their customers’ liberty. Pornography is a social plague with horrific real-life consequences for real, live people –– addicts, spouses, children, communities, girls and women trafficked into sexual servitude.”
washingtonexaminer.com/post-fact-check-columnist-obamas-red-line-comments-arent-pinocchio-worthy/article/2535339
Post Fact Check columnist: Obama's red line comments aren't 'pinocchio' worthy
In a genuinely baffling article, Washington Post fact check columnist Glenn Kessler argues that while, yes, President Obama and his administration officials have attempted to rewrite history on his Syria and chemical weapons "red line" comments, this doesn't amount to an untruth.
That's because Kessler is pretty sure Obama meant to say something slightly different in the first place. Something along the lines of what they're saying now -- that it was never just Obama's red line. Obama merely "bungled" the language. So his latest red line comments deserve no rap on the knuckles.
Public policy issues can be tangled and complicated but this would appear to be an example of when things are cut and dried: Obama clearly said he was staking out a red line on Syria and chemical weapons. Syria then crossed that very line. Under pressure, Obama and his officials are now trying to claim he never said it was his red line despite a historical record that clearly contradicts that.
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324577304579057241124523908.html
One political party is proving especially troublesome for President Obama in his quest for congressional authorization to strike Syria. Its members are trashing his strategy and priorities. One congressman calls the situation "embarrassing"; another vows to "vote and work against the president's request"; still another has launched "dontattacksyria.com." The party's outside partisan groups are mobilizing against an affirmative vote.
Yes, this is the Democratic Party.
Over in the House, Democrats are far and away the most actively hostile. Many have already openly declared opposition to the president's resolution. To add insult to injury, their stated reasons for opposing Syria action deliberately mirror President Obama's own (prior) views on foreign policy.
Some Democrats question the legitimacy of Secretary of State John Kerry's WMD evidence. Others insist (as Mr. Obama has in the past) that the U.S. obtain international blessing. Yet others are adopting the Republican argument that Mr. Obama has not provided a strategy coherent enough to merit their support. Privately, Democrats gripe that Ms. Pelosi, after years of making her party's opposition to the Iraq war a defining contrast with Republicans, is now blurring that line.
Further fueling discontent were Mr. Obama's Wednesday comments that Congress's "credibility" is at stake. Democrats were already frustrated that Mr. Obama had demanded they share his red line. It is one thing for a president to ask his party to support him in a tough moment, but it is quite another for that president to tell voters it is congressional Democrats — not him — who now own his foreign-policy mess. The steam was practically rising from Capitol Hill.
This is Obama's vote of no-confidence. He can't lead a coalition, he can't lead a country, he can't lead his own party, despite all the verbal diarrhea from the greatest orator/teleprompter reader the world has ever seen. What a pathetic little turd.
CNBC’s Rick Santelli, reacting after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that U.S. employers added only 169,000 jobs in August “I just think it’s absolutely horrible that we — that we’re in a marketplace where we get a lousy report, 35 years since we’ve seen these participation rates,”
“And listen, you know, you can’t hide the spread of four to four-and-a-half percent between the advertised unemployment rate and what it would be should you go back a few years on that participation rate.”
"See, those people aren’t working. They’re not buying houses. They’re not buying cars. They’re using services. They may be using entitlements or welfare. You can’t hide those millions of peoples forever...you can’t play this three-card monte game for long.
“And to see the stock market rally,” he added, “on crappy data, to me, is just a horrible dynamic. What are we? A banana republic?”
Carter levels.
www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/09/06/drive_bys_turn_on_obama_economy
Reuters: "US Job Growth Misses Expectations, Offers Cautionary Note for Fed." Now, what they're doing, the Federal Reserve, if you've noticed, the stock market...was down a lot yesterday, trickling down, because the Federal Reserve is talking about no more quantitative easing, which is no more stimulus. And the people in the markets know that the only reason the stock market's been going through the roof is because the Fed has been buying stock, not people. Short version of the truth. That's the simplified version here. And if the Fed starts talking about no more of that, panic sets in.
So right to the rescue rides Reuters: "US Job Growth Misses Expectations, Offers Cautionary Note for Fed." What Reuters is saying: don't you dare stop priming the pump. Don't you dare stop spending money and printing it, stock market or anywhere else, because the jobs market is precarious. We're witnessing a tectonic shift in reporting on the economy. We really are. And it's all about politics. It's not about the media trying to get it right. Obama and the Democrats and their minions are deathly afraid that the Federal Reserve is going to look at the lowering unemployment rate and end quantitative easing. They're scared to death, this is an amazing thing, too, because the unemployment rate went down to 7.3% not because a bunch of new jobs are created; it's because even more people left the workforce.
If the same number of jobs that existed in 2009 existed today, the unemployment rate would be 10.8%. It's not 10.8%; it's 7.3 because those jobs are gone. They don't exist. They're not even available to be filled. It's called the labor force participation rate. You add that people, when they stop looking, they are no longer counted as unemployed. Go figure. They have looked and looked and looked. They've been on unemployment 99 weeks or more. They finally have given up. They're no longer counted...the Democrats know that if the Fed stops printing, it's actual digital transfers, folks, they're not actually printing hard currency for all of this. They're just digitizing, just adding money to a computer spreadsheet, essentially.
They're doing this to the tune of $85 billion a month, right into the financial markets. The money that they're printing, digitizing, is being used to buy securities and stocks, and the Democrats know that if that stops, if the Fed stops injecting $85 billion play dollars into the financial markets, they're just gonna collapse. You saw an indication of it earlier this week when the market was down 130 points in a couple minutes on a rumor that Bernanke was through with quantitative easing.
I find it funny, actually, how Obama and the Democrats believe in trickle-down economics when it comes to quantitative easing. Oh, of course they do. Why, the Fed puts $85 billion in the stock market, and what happens to it? Why, it trickles down to other aspects of the market. It's trickle-down in a way. It's artificial, but it still is trickle-down.
And then, ladies and gentlemen, here is Ben Casselman, economics reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Get this statistic. "For the 40th consecutive month, more unemployed workers left the labor force than found work." For the 40th consecutive month. That's over three years, for those of you in Rio Linda. That would be three years and four months in a row more unemployed workers left the labor force, gave up looking for work than found work.
Not only that, previous numbers were revised downward, big. June, for example, revised down 172,000 to 188,000. Last month, August was revised sharply, 162 to 104,000. This is ominous. This is being reported from Texas, 152,000 new jobs, there were 180,000 expected. And the numbers in the previous months have not been right. They've been made worse. That's what the "revised downward" means.
www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/06/Christian-Airman-Punished-by-Lesbian-Commander-Now-Charged-with-Crime-for-Talking-to-Media-Court-Martial-Possible
Updating our earlier report on Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk, a Christian serving in the Air Force whose unit is now commanded by a lesbian: according to Monk’s complaint filed with his superiors, he was relieved of duty for refusing his commander’s order to say he supports gay marriage.
Now the Air Force has taken the first steps to criminally investigate Monk for talking to the media about his situation. Despite the fact that earlier this year the Obama-Hagel Pentagon said they would never court-martial a service member for their Christian faith, they have taken the first steps to possibly court-martial Monk.
Monk was advised that he is being investigated for committing a crime by the U.S. military for making a false official statement, that he has the right to remain silent, and that he has the right to an attorney. The Air Force then assigned military defense counsel to him and is deciding whether to formally charge him with a crime, at which point Monk would either have to admit guilt and accept further punishment or face a court martial.
Monk is being investigated and might be formally charged for violating Article 107 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), which makes it a crime to make a false official statement. But Monk’s explaining his situation to the media is not an official statement.
More than that, another element of this alleged crime is that Monk must be making a statement he knows is false or that he reasonably should know is false. All Monk is saying is that he believes he’s being punished because of his traditional Christian beliefs.
Monk explained in a statement to Breitbart News, “I immediately got the sense that this was a retaliation against me for coming forward with my religious discrimination complaint.”
On Monk’s situation, Gen. Boykin says:
"We now see what is happening to Christians under President Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. This appears to be an intimidation tactic to send a message to other Christians in the military that you better not speak up when we violate your religious liberty. A statement to the media is not an official statement, so it’s absurd to consider charging him with this crime. The Obama-Hagel military leadership is not officially court-martialing Christians for sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, but you will be punished and might even face a court martial if you stand by the principles of your Christian faith when you are serving in uniform."
www.ncregister.com/daily-news/hotel-chain-cuts-pornography-tv-channels-to-fight-human-trafficking/
Citing connections to human trafficking, a major Scandinavian hotel chain has announced that it is eliminating pornography television channels from its hotel rooms.
“The porn industry contributes to trafficking, so I see it as a natural part of having a social responsibility to send out a clear signal that Nordic Hotels doesn't support or condone this,” said Petter Stordalen, the owner of Nordic Hotels.
A Norwegian billionaire and philanthropist, Stordalen announced that he is removing pay-per-view pornography channels from his chain’s 171 Scandinavian hotels and replacing them with contemporary art.
He said he decided to stop selling the material after he started to work with UNICEF’s campaign to help the child victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, who number over 1.2 million annually, The Guardian reports.
Stordalen said the move may seem “shocking and unusual,” but he compared it to the initially unpopular ban on smoking.
“We were the first hotel chain in the world to ban smoking, and people thought we were crazy. Now it's totally normal for public spaces to be smoke-free,” he said.
The move was applauded by Princeton law professor Robert George and prominent U.S. Islamic scholar Hamza Yusuf.
“The pornography industry is corrupt through and through — inherently so,” George and Yusuf said in a Sept. 4 essay for Public Discourse.
“It should come as no surprise that it is connected to something as exploitative, degrading and dehumanizing as human trafficking,” George and Yusuf stated. “Bravo to Petter Stordalen for refusing to continue profiting from peddling the industry’s wares.”
Pornography policies in U.S. hotel chains vary. Omni Hotels and Resorts stopped selling pornography in 1998. Marriot has said it is “phasing out” pornography sales, while the Hilton chain has defended its continued sales.
George and Yusuf are now calling on all U.S. hotels to follow Stordalen’s lead.
“If Nordic Hotels can demonstrate this kind of moral and social responsibility, then there is no reason that Hilton Hotels and the other large chains cannot,” they said.
George and Yusuf said, “Let them stop trying to deceive the public –– and perhaps even themselves –– with rhetoric about respecting or even protecting their customers’ liberty. Pornography is a social plague with horrific real-life consequences for real, live people –– addicts, spouses, children, communities, girls and women trafficked into sexual servitude.”
washingtonexaminer.com/post-fact-check-columnist-obamas-red-line-comments-arent-pinocchio-worthy/article/2535339
Post Fact Check columnist: Obama's red line comments aren't 'pinocchio' worthy
In a genuinely baffling article, Washington Post fact check columnist Glenn Kessler argues that while, yes, President Obama and his administration officials have attempted to rewrite history on his Syria and chemical weapons "red line" comments, this doesn't amount to an untruth.
That's because Kessler is pretty sure Obama meant to say something slightly different in the first place. Something along the lines of what they're saying now -- that it was never just Obama's red line. Obama merely "bungled" the language. So his latest red line comments deserve no rap on the knuckles.
Public policy issues can be tangled and complicated but this would appear to be an example of when things are cut and dried: Obama clearly said he was staking out a red line on Syria and chemical weapons. Syria then crossed that very line. Under pressure, Obama and his officials are now trying to claim he never said it was his red line despite a historical record that clearly contradicts that.
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324577304579057241124523908.html
One political party is proving especially troublesome for President Obama in his quest for congressional authorization to strike Syria. Its members are trashing his strategy and priorities. One congressman calls the situation "embarrassing"; another vows to "vote and work against the president's request"; still another has launched "dontattacksyria.com." The party's outside partisan groups are mobilizing against an affirmative vote.
Yes, this is the Democratic Party.
Over in the House, Democrats are far and away the most actively hostile. Many have already openly declared opposition to the president's resolution. To add insult to injury, their stated reasons for opposing Syria action deliberately mirror President Obama's own (prior) views on foreign policy.
Some Democrats question the legitimacy of Secretary of State John Kerry's WMD evidence. Others insist (as Mr. Obama has in the past) that the U.S. obtain international blessing. Yet others are adopting the Republican argument that Mr. Obama has not provided a strategy coherent enough to merit their support. Privately, Democrats gripe that Ms. Pelosi, after years of making her party's opposition to the Iraq war a defining contrast with Republicans, is now blurring that line.
Further fueling discontent were Mr. Obama's Wednesday comments that Congress's "credibility" is at stake. Democrats were already frustrated that Mr. Obama had demanded they share his red line. It is one thing for a president to ask his party to support him in a tough moment, but it is quite another for that president to tell voters it is congressional Democrats — not him — who now own his foreign-policy mess. The steam was practically rising from Capitol Hill.
This is Obama's vote of no-confidence. He can't lead a coalition, he can't lead a country, he can't lead his own party, despite all the verbal diarrhea from the greatest orator/teleprompter reader the world has ever seen. What a pathetic little turd.
Spinning round and round like the deadly hands of a radium clock. 
