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Saturday, May 9. 2015

Saturday morning links



Headline at Drudge:



Record 93,194,000 Americans Not In Labor Force...
Record 56,167,000 Women Not Working...
APRIL UNEMPLOYMENT:
5.4%...
+223,000...
Most gains go to immigrants...
100% of job gains among women...



UN: We should switch to eating insects


Are lobsters insects?


What Did the Ten Commandments Look Like? And How Were They Arranged?


Re Chomsky: Against Conversation - When language itself becomes a political battleground, it’s time to stop talking



Read it, and Chomsky’s technique becomes obvious, a three-step bit of linguistic legerdemain that begins by emptying words of their meaning, continues by assigning them some random and temporarily advantageous value, and ends with accusing anyone who questions the new meaning as a depraved monster oblivious to the misfortunes of others.



Check your mascot — where does the diversity drive end?


Weather report:  Be afraid, be very afraid!!!!


Prediction: No commencement speaker will mention this – the huge ‘degree gap’ for the Class of 2015 favoring women


Brown: The Most Diversity Obsessed University in America?


UNC: Republicans and conservatives can effect change at universities: Here’s proof!


A Legal Immigrant Testifies: America is a tolerant nation, but immigration is not a right, it is a privilege



40% of Food Stamp Recipients Are Obese


De Blasio tells Rolling Stone New Yorkers don´t appreciate him


Only 16% of Baltimore Teens Raised With Married Parents


Baltimore Public Schools May Suck, but They Are Well-Funded And Have Well-Paid Teachers


French Mayor Counts Noses, Finds 65 Percent of Town’s Pupils Are Muslim


All 8 Women Fail To Advance To Next Phase of Ranger School


As did a lot of guys


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QUESTION: Are lobsters insects?
ANSWER: Close enough!
#1 Papa Buckland (Link) on 2015-05-09 07:56 (Reply)
I guess that includes crabs, shrimp, and crawfish. Count me in too!
#1.1 mudbug on 2015-05-09 08:34 (Reply)
QUESTION: Are lobsters insects?

No, but they are both arthropods.
#1.2 Zachriel on 2015-05-09 10:52 (Reply)
Uh, Zach. We're not interested in biological distinctions. We're trying to save the planet!!
#1.2.1 mudbug on 2015-05-09 11:00 (Reply)
Why did 'diversity' become so important? Probably a naturally diverse staff suggests that the cultural systems are working well, but forcing diversity does not cause these deeper issues to be any better, any more than setting your alarm clock earlier produces an earlier sunrise.

If pressed, diversity advocates will point to the usefulness of diversity in nature. But diversity in nature is a life and death competition, between species, between groups, between genes. The best adapted win at the cost of others. I suspect that's not what they are picturing.
#2 jay on 2015-05-09 08:03 (Reply)
RE: Harris/Chomsky

"Harris, ignoring the miraculous appearance of Israel in a debate with which the Jewish State had absolutely nothing to do, replied..."

That was his mistake.
#3 forest on 2015-05-09 08:15 (Reply)
I just thought Chomsky was an asshole. I never knew he was Jewish.
#4 Randy on 2015-05-09 09:29 (Reply)
Redefinition of words worked the Nazis, worked for the Communists, and it will work for their intellectual and moral descendents.
#4.1 ErisGuy on 2015-05-10 09:52 (Reply)
re unemployment at 5.4%

My economics profs taught that 5% unemployed signaled 'full employment', meaning that everyone who wanted a job, had one. The 5% represented people "in between jobs" either looking for something better or different. It also signaled that there would be rising wages as employers bid for scarce workers.

Does that sound like the 5.4% unemployment we have today?

In Jan 2012 the unemployment rate was 8.3% At the rate the unemployment rate is falling, one wonders if the BLS will be penciling in a 4.3% unemployment rate by Nov. 2016?

Happy Days are here again! I am just to feeble minded to see it.
#5 feeblemind on 2015-05-09 10:44 (Reply)
CO2 at 400 PPM is closer to normal and desirable levels. It is better for plants, forests, food crops, etc. Even 1000 PPM would be good and within historic norms.
#6 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-05-09 16:44 (Reply)
Unemployment is a useless number.

I'm having a lot of difficulty finding employment numbers that are actually useful - I suspect they're obtainable though the IRS, but no where else that I can find (and the IRS isn't likely to publish the numbers)

From FRED (federal reserve economic data) workforce employment in 08 63% and unemployment was 5.8% and the in 2015 the workforce employment is 59% and we're back to 5.4 - we seem to be missing 4% - The problem is that none of these numbers tracks part time and underemployment.

workforce employment has only gained 1% since Jan 08.

What I really need is a source of hours worked for hourly/part time. and numbers of salaried employees. You might think they just don't want us to actually know those numbers.

Anyway - just ignore Unemployment - it means nothing, their inflation numbers don't mean anything either.
#7 vince on 2015-05-10 00:14 (Reply)
You should ignore all the numbers since Obama shifted the task of compiling labor statistics to the thoroughly corrupt Census Bureau (and from the mildly corrupt Labor Dept). The data on unemployment released just before the 2012 election was completely bogus.
No Surprise.
#7.1 John the River (Link) on 2015-05-10 08:04 (Reply)

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