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Title: Company Payrolls Rose by 71,000 in July; U.S. Jobless Rate 9.5%
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URL Source: http://www.bloomberg.com
Published: Aug 6, 2010
Author: Timothy R. Homan
Post Date: 2010-08-06 08:34:10 by war
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Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Companies in the U.S. added workers in July for a seventh straight month at a pace that suggests the labor-market recovery will be slow to take hold. Private payrolls that exclude government agencies rose by 71,000, less than forecast, after a gain of 31,000 in June that was smaller than previously reported, Labor Department figures in Washington showed today. Economists projected a 90,000 rise in private jobs, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey. Overall employment fell 131,000 and the jobless rate held at 9.5 percent. The economy has been slow in recouping the 8.4 million jobs lost since the recession began in December 2007, keeping consumer spending from accelerating. While growth has slowed and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has described the outlook as “unusually uncertain,” financial markets have rebounded: the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index last month climbed the most in a year and commodities rallied. “The most likely outcome is moderate private-sector hiring and income gains through the rest of the year,” Aaron Smith, a senior economist at Moody’s Economy.com in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said before the report. At the same time, he said, “job growth is insufficient to lower the unemployment rate.” Total employment fell a revised 221,000 in June, today’s figures showed. Payroll estimates in the Bloomberg survey of 84 economists ranged from a decline of 160,000 to a gain of 10,000 after a previously reported loss of 125,000 jobs in June that was led by census dismissals. Manufacturing Gain Private employment in July was led by gains in manufacturing and education and health services. Estimates in the Bloomberg survey ranged from increases of 20,000 to 150,000. Economists surveyed forecast the jobless rate would rise to 9.6 percent last month from 9.5 percent in June. The July unemployment figure reflected a decrease in the size of the labor force. Joblessness, which reached a 26-year high of 10.1 percent in October, will take time to recede as the number of previously discouraged jobseekers returning to the labor force exceeds the number of available jobs. The Census Bureau said it let go about 144,000 of the people conducting the decennial population count from mid-June to mid-July. It still had about 200,000 temporary workers on staff as of July 17, indicating additional cuts to come that will keep distorting the payroll figures for months. For that reason, economists say private payrolls will be a better gauge of the state of the labor market for much of 2010. Auto Workers Manufacturing payrolls increased by 36,000 in July, more than the survey median of a 13,000 increase and reflecting a 21,000 rise in employment in the motor vehicle and parts industry. Those factory gains may slacken as the industry leading the U.S. economic expansion cools. A report this week showed manufacturing expanded in July at the slowest pace of the year as orders and production decelerated. Employment at service-providers fell for a second month. Construction companies cut payrolls by 11,000 after reducing them 21,000 in June. The number of temporary workers decreased by 6,000, the first drop since September. Average hourly earnings rose 4 cents to $22.59 in July, today’s report showed. The average work week for all workers increased to 34.2 hours in July from 34.1 hours the prior month. Government Employment Government payrolls decreased by 202,000. State and local governments employment declined by 48,000, while federal government jobs dropped by 154,000. The so-called underemployment rate -- which includes part- time workers who’d prefer a full-time position and people who want work but have given up looking -- held at 16.5 percent. Delta Air Lines Inc. and Ford Motor Co. are among companies adding to payrolls. Delta, the world’s largest carrier, plans to hire 1,000 workers at its 25 biggest U.S. airports to help with planes that are flying with near-record percentages of seats filled and cope with weather disruptions, Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson said last month. Ford, the second-largest U.S. automaker, said this week it plans to add 27 percent more UAW positions at its U.S. plants than originally planned. Ford agreed to add 1,975 jobs, 416 more than it originally intended, by 2012 to do work traditionally done by suppliers. The jobs at nine U.S. plants will be filled by a mix of idled current Ford workers and new hires, Jennifer Flake, a spokeswoman, said in an interview. United Technologies United Technologies Corp. said July 26 it expects restructuring actions from the first half of the year to result in job cuts of about 2,400 hourly and salaried employees. The maker of Carrier, Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky products, had eliminated 900 jobs as of June 30 and is targeting most of the rest of the reductions for 2010 and 2011. Prices for industrial raw materials are signaling the global economy will avoid falling back into recession, according to Edward Yardeni, president and chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research Inc. in New York. The Commodity Research Bureau/Reuters index of 13 materials for immediate delivery, which Yardeni last month said was among the best gauges of the economy’s current condition, has climbed 5.8 percent since reaching an almost four-month low on June 7. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz said the U.S. still faces an “anemic recovery,” requiring another round of “better designed” stimulus measures from the government. Stiglitz on Economy “The recovery is so weak that it is not strong enough to generate new jobs for the new entrants in the labor force, let alone to find jobs for the 15 million Americans who would like a job and can’t get one.” Stiglitz told Bloomberg Television in an interview in Sydney yesterday. The jobs report may help determine whether the Fed takes any new measures aimed at boosting growth or sticks to its outlook that the “extended period” of interest rates close to zero and a near-record $2.3 trillion balance sheet will eventually bring down unemployment. “We have a considerable way to go to achieve a full recovery in our economy,” Bernanke said in a speech this week to southern U.S. state lawmakers in Charleston, South Carolina. Still, “rising demand from households and businesses should help sustain growth,” and consumer spending “seems likely to pick up in coming quarters from its recent modest pace.” Options outlined by Bernanke last month include enhancing the low-rate commitment, reducing the 0.25 percent rate the Fed pays on banks’ reserve deposits and maintaining or expanding the amount of assets on the balance sheet. The policy-making Federal Open Market Committee next meets on Aug. 10. November Elections The economy, jobs and the budget deficit are likely to be top issues in November elections that will decide control of Congress. Heading into the campaign season, the Obama administration is facing public pessimism about the direction of the economy. More than 7 out of 10 Americans say the economy is still mired in recession, and the country is conflicted over how to balance concerns over joblessness and the federal budget deficit, according to a Bloomberg National Poll. Americans are torn about whether the federal government should focus on curbing spending or creating jobs, the poll conducted July 9-12 showed. Seven of 10 Americans say reducing unemployment is the priority. At the same time, the public is skeptical of the President Barack Obama’s stimulus program and wary of more spending, with more than half saying the deficit is “dangerously out of control.” Support for Obama has fallen as the jobless rate has been slow to retreat. His job approval over a three-day period ending July 31 was 44 percent, compared with 54 percent at this time last year, according to a Gallup poll.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Prior month revisions are FUGLY...
I'm not sure we're out of your hero's Depression yet. The stim may have given off a false positive.
Nancy Pelosi is your hero.
...he sputtered oafishly...
I'm sorry, but Obama PROMISED that he could do a hell of a lot better than Bush. Obama PROMISED us his "Stimulus" would bring back better days. It didn't.
Being a Democratic shill means you check your humanity at the door.
You posted a chart which showed that it did. And he has...
You posted a chart which showed that it did. I'm sorry, but Obama PROMISED that he could do a hell of a lot better than Bush. And he has... The thing about history? It may not repeat but it sure does rhyme-Samuel Clemens We're at 1970-72(History repeating also compresses the mistake/timewall). 1970: 1) Russian Crop Fail 2)US Peak Oil Domestic This lead to the date that Tyler Durden singles out here: The administration thinks it can pull a fast one by pretending the unemployment rate is better when millions of people are allegedly leaving the labor force in droves? That's fine - however, there is nothing Christina Romer's replacement can say to put lipstick on the below piggly chart. The ever critical ratio of civilian employment to population is now at 58.4%... It was last this low (to the upside) in October of 1983. At least in one way Obama has caught up to the Reagan administration. 1983 followed the Greenie Commodities Act of 1982 which has now brought us to $1.5 Quadrillion in Derivative CDO horse race tickets (race over) bets. Today(with NONE of the problems from 1970 til now solved, just covered like the Macondo) we have this: a) Russian Crop Fail b)Russia Peak Oil Domestic And we've now done the Great Grain Robbery with China and Soy. We have zero. A repeat of last year's Sep to Nov Floods will trigger worldwide pogroms. And of course exacerbate the ongoing depression. buckle up. This isn’t a functional market, where buyers and sellers are efficiently determining prices by their activities. This is machines juggling chainsaws.
Overall Jim, a very lucid post. Congrats!
Being a Democratic shill means you check your humanity at the door.
Well, there is what you say, what I say and what the voters on election day will say. I say let the ultimate poll on election day decide which of us is right and which is wrong.
Being a Democratic shill means you check your humanity at the door.
Poor, dumb Obama. His "stimulus" has driven us down to 1983 levels.
Being a Democratic shill means you check your humanity at the door.
The voters don't know what they want.
Learn how to post an image... throw this on the end of your tag... height="400" width="600"
Its amusing these putz's desperately want to blame Bush. Owe-bama's 'stimulus' failed, there is no spinning it.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
The bad thing is that if the GOP retakes Congress, I believe the business mood will greatly improve, and the economy will take off. Of course, then the Kenyan will be given credit for it, leading to his reelection.
'Mood' does not trump 'math' nor generally accepted accounting practices. The fact is the GOP won't be in a position to overide Owe-bama's veto's. So they have to dig in, find some balls, and 'just say no' to any new spending. Owe-bama will be a one term failure. Mark it down. Its the economy, stupid...as the saying goes. He's and this particular congress have done NOTHING to alleviate the economic crisis we are in today. They've made it worse.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Yeah, right. Sure. Whatever. When Democrats win big in '08 it sure what the voters wanted, but a bad day for them in '10 is "they don't know what they want." The intellectual bullshit you guys have to keep saying to yourself is unfuckingbelieveable.
Being a Democratic shill means you check your humanity at the door.
throw this on the end of your tag... height="400" width="600" Thanks. Any idea how to post a .png?
Being a Democratic shill means you check your humanity at the door.
Hey! Just wait til you can figure out the rest of 'em. Then it'll be on to Post Grad for you! Life is like a box of chocolates,.... 8D " Utah is seriously considering eliminating the 12th grade, or making it optional. And it was announced this week that "Camden [New Jersey] is preparing to permanently shut its library system by the end of the year, potentially leaving residents of the impoverished city among the few in the United States unable to borrow a library book free." Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street lights -- or once it chooses not to be able to afford those things in pursuit of imperial priorities and the maintenance of a vast Surveillance and National Security State -- that a very serious problem has arisen, that things have gone seriously awry, that imperial collapse, by definition, is an imminent inevitability?"
Are you saying we sold all our grain?
The cupboard's bare. And worse, Last year was the Worst US Harvest since 1970, at least. http://www.soystats.com/2010/Default-frames.htm We have less than 3 MMT. And X amt of that is needed to keep the pipeline full and make it to when Sep beans arrive. There is a Neg $1 basis. Crushers are paying that to get beans in. 9 of 10 times, the basis is positive. The farmer pays to ship.
Is this "peak wheat" mcclown? /chuckle!!!!!!
Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street lights -- or once it chooses not to be able to afford those things in pursuit of imperial priorities and the maintenance of a vast Surveillance and National Security State -- that a very serious problem has arisen, that things have gone seriously awry, that imperial collapse, by definition, is an imminent inevitability?" Utah is correct to do so. 12th grade is, for most students, a waste of time. The sooner these students are out working and paying taxes and creating wealth the better off society will be.
Being a Democratic shill means you check your humanity at the door.
Any fool knew the Dem candidate was going to win in 2008 before the end of 2006. But the voters look like they may turn them out and put the same assholes who were there in 2006 back in. I stand by my statement.
Utah is correct to do so. 12th grade is, for most students, a waste of time. Then the Entire US Ed System is a waste of time. Beneficial Only to Empire which is collapsing as we type. "The sooner these students are out working and paying taxes and creating wealth the better off society will be." "The sooner these slaves are out working and paying taxes and creating wealth the better off society will be." There. Fixed it. ;}
Beneficial Only to Empire which is collapsing as we type. And where do our doctors come from again? And why were they on the other side of the world? Two American and six German doctors have been killed in northern Afghanistan, police said. The bodies of the foreign physicians, along with that of an Afghan man, were found in Badakhshan Province, AFP reported. "The bodies were found in the forest in the Kuran wa Minjan district," said the province's police chief, Aqa Noor Kintoz, on Saturday . He added that based on the testimony of a sole Afghan survivor, the group came under attack by armed men in a densely forested part of the province. A spokeswoman for the US embassy in Afghanistan also confirmed that "several" American citizens were believed to be among the dead without giving further details. "We are actively working with local authorities and others to learn more about the identities and nationalities of these individuals," the spokeswoman said.
Rand Paul, Sharon Angle etc weren't there in 2006.
I'll guess that they were US contractors.
"Lets [sic] rent a room." ~ Jethro Tull to Rotara
With EIGHT doctors? You better believe it. Or. If the Docs were with the Sans Frontiers Group, the Mercs/Contractors were the ones doing the killing. I'm waiting on Taliban notification. ;} When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can't easily be justified or explained away, when logic doesn't help much, the current crop of American political leaders turns to what is now the old reliable: 9/11. We have to fight in Afghanistan because ... somehow ... it's tied into what happened on September 11, 2001. Here's Vice-President Joe Biden: "We know that it was from the space that joins Afghanistan and Pakistan that the attacks of 9/11 occurred."1 Here's Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC): "This is the place [Afghanistan] we were attacked from 9/11."2 Rep. Mike Pence, the third-ranking House Republican, asserted that the revelations in the Wikileaks documents do not change his view of the Afghan conflict, nor does he expect a shift in public opinion. "Back home in Indiana, people still remember where the attacks on 9/11 came from."3 Here's President Obama a year ago: "But we must never forget this is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans."4 -W Blum
Taliban kills 10 aid workers in Afghanistan Los Angeles Times They were some sort of volunteer medical group...I saw their name...just a sec... The dead were believed to be medical workers on an eye care mission from International Assistance Mission (IAM), a Christian charity specialising in health and economic development. A statement from IAM said: "We have been informed that 10 people, both foreign and Afghan, were murdered in Badakhshan.
"Lets [sic] rent a room." ~ Jethro Tull to Rotara
Thanx, but that's still using the 'Pat Tillman' sources. Like the Budweiser Black Man murders, there's more to this. Warnings were given. Ignored. Christian charity flouting earlier prohibitions. Prosyletizing. Armed escort. Who knows. But thanx. Waiting for Taliban. Should come soon.
Good point.
"Lets [sic] rent a room." ~ Jethro Tull to Rotara
;} It'll come out.
Confirmation on the Taliban providing aid. The ONLY ones doing so. As well, the 12 million figure only includes two provinces. Gen Nadeem Ahmed, of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), said that figure only covered Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces. The full figure is likely to be much higher, with at least half a million evacuated in Sindh. It has emerged that a charity connected to a group with alleged al-Qaeda links (Read Taliban-these guys can't help but smear;}has been providing flood relief. "In my opinion, when assessments are complete, this will be the biggest disaster in the history of Pakistan," he told a news conference in Islamabad on Friday. … The Other side of the coin: The Russian news agency Interfax quoted an anonymous "informed" source as saying Moscow's mortality rate for July had risen by 29.7% directly as a result of the "catastrophic heat and smog". When the agency's correspondents phoned the city's morgues to obtain a clearer picture of mortality rates, only a few responded, it said. At one of them, the agency was told that the situation in July had been "twice as bad". At two others, medical staff were so busy, they had no time to speak to journalists. …
That's a significant rise.
"Lets [sic] rent a room." ~ Jethro Tull to Rotara
That's a significant rise. ;} And I've always thought, like Dmitry Orlov, that Russia is AHEAD of Werstern Civilization with what's coming. People on the Gulf can now expect death with every Cat 3/5. The Us turning into a 1989 USSR with cover up after cover up for the short while it/the Empire can maintain. BP Says It Just Might Drill And Produce At Macondo Again... Fuckers. via NPR BP said Friday that it might someday drill again in the same undersea pocket of oil that gushed millions of gallons of its crude into the sea, crushing livelihoods and fouling beaches and wildlife habitat along hundreds of miles of Gulf of Mexico shoreline. "There's lots of oil and gas here," Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said at a news briefing. "We're going to have to think about what to do with that at some point." The vast oil reservoir beneath the blown well is still believed to hold nearly $4 billion worth of crude. With the company and its partners facing tens of billions of dollars in liabilities, the incentive to exploit the wells and the reservoir could grow. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the spill, said he had no information on BP's future plans. I said MONTHS ago that these BP bastards would use the Relief Wells as Production Wells. Here we are. These BP Execs deserve to be hauled out back and given 'two under the hat' each. Nothing less will equal Justice, if they decide to re-drill this site for production. I look forward to reading their obits. The whole lot of the rancid bastards, should they decide, once again, that their greed trumps the health and safety of the Gulf of Mexico, and the people who live and rely on it. They deserve a solid curb-stomping as it is right now. Humanity, and this poor, abused Earth, have no place for Sociopaths of this scale anymore. Just like we have no place for rabid animals in our Society. The only thing to do with either is to apply the "Ol' Yeller" solution. Frankly, I'd rather have a rabid animal in my backyard than these BP motherfuckers. The rabid animal will die quickly, and ultimately cause less damage. Those BP Executives are a fucking MENACE.
LMAO Speaking of Mississippi Red Necks. Go here: And he's exactly right about Memphis. Basically my Hometown. LMFAO But I need to meet him. Show him around. How the Black Folks do it. Ans there's a reason that this area (my 3000 people hometown 2nd only to Clarksdale;} is THE Capitol of R&B, the Blues. Cause it takes pain to make the Good Stuff. You gotta act like water. Moving around the obstacles until you get what you want. 8D Lots and lots of Electronic Voting Machine irregularities prevented over 5,000 people County-wide from voting. "Somehow," some of last election's voter tallies "accidentally" ended up being downloaded onto the Machines poll-books, causing them to show a "You have already voted" error and preventing voters from exercising their rights. Fancy that the vast majority were in strongly Democratic Precincts. One more reason why I rarely, if ever post about Memphis-area politics-- it is just mind-boggling embarrassing to even look there. My own County is as red as can be, I have no representation. Frankly, I don't even know why I bother to vote. Just to be a spoiler, I suppose. I wish there was even one tiny reason to be proud of where I am forced to live, but sadly, there is none. I despise it down here. I fucking hate the South. I said MONTHS ago that these BP bastards would use the Relief Wells as Production Wells. Here we are. These BP Execs deserve to be hauled out back and given 'two under the hat' each. Nothing less will equal Justice, if they decide to re-drill this site for production. I look forward to reading their obits. The whole lot of the rancid bastards, should they decide, once again, that their greed trumps the health and safety of the Gulf of Mexico, and the people who live and rely on it. They deserve a solid curb-stomping as it is right now. Humanity, and this poor, abused Earth, have no place for Sociopaths of this scale anymore. Just like we have no place for rabid animals in our Society. The only thing to do with either is to apply the "Ol' Yeller" solution. Frankly, I'd rather have a rabid animal in my backyard than these BP motherfuckers. The rabid animal will die quickly, and ultimately cause less damage. Those BP Executives are a fucking MENACE. http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/
Good stuff. He tells us how he really feels.
"Lets [sic] rent a room." ~ Jethro Tull to Rotara
And this is the keeper. I remember climbing Pinnacle Mt (a tall hill outside Little Rock. Looks pre historic from the Arkansas River Bridge/You can look about 35 miles to the South) and watching a hurricane come in. You could see the Counter Clockwise Rotation even. And feeling that we really are connected to the Gulf. And then MF types this: " I am still enjoying the last of last year's Sunflower seeds. Yummy! As you all can tell, I am slowly working back to my usual bloggy boringness of Food Preservation, Gardening, and Permaculture self-sufficiency, and emergency preparedness. My main interest in the Oil Disaster is quite simple-- Southwest Tennessee's weather is 100% controlled by the Gulf of Mexico. We're at the outer edges of it's convection currents. It's why I have oil sheen in any vessel that holds water outdoors. It gets hauled up the air currents in the Gulf, transported up and Northward, until it gets heavy, and settles. My gardens are in a tough state right now. I'll have to do a lot of work this weekend to try to get things right out there. Since the sheen started raining on my area, everyone I know around here are complaining of weird crop damage. Everything is in distress from the heat and mystery illness. I am probably going to rip up most of the garden beds this weekend, and replant for Autumn and Winter. I'll need to add lots of fresh composts and soils. Also, I have LOTS of friends on the Gulf Coast, and because I have ample space, I opened my place to them in the event that everything went to shit, and they needed to bug out. I still recommend they leave. That water, and everything that is still living in it is going to remain toxic for years. Personally, I won't ever eat Gulf Seafood ever again, I suspect. In twenty years, I'll be 62. Perhaps I'll think about it then. Nail meet Hammer. 8D
Update 6:37 PM EST August 5th, 2010 BP has tweeted they have completed cement operations at 3:05 EST but the oil is still leaking from the sea floor. BP_America Update: #BP completed cementing operations of oil well @ 2:15 CT. Monitoring of well is underway to confirm effectiveness. #oilspill about 1 hour ago via web As I previously stated filling the well with cement while oil was still leaking from the well was another potential disaster in the making. Now that the well is full of cement and it is clearly still leaking through the sea floor this could become quite a nightmare to stop from leaking. …. Well almost 48 hours have passed since cement was first pumped into the well and the leaks on the sea floor are getting worse. Here are videos recorded from the BP Oil Spill ROV Feeds over the last 12 hours show methane and oil leaks coming from a variety of places around the BP Gulf Oil Spill Well. http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/08/07/oil-methane-continues-leak-sea-floor-48-hours-cement-pumped-bp-gulf-oil-spill/
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#2. To: war (#0)
#3. To: no gnu taxes (#2)
#4. To: war (#3)
I'm not sure we're out of your hero's Depression yet.
#5. To: no gnu taxes (#4)
#6. To: war (#3)
I'm not sure we're out of your hero's Depression yet. The stim may have given off a false positive.
#7. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#6)
(Edited)
Obama PROMISED us his "Stimulus" would bring back better days. It didn't.
I'm sorry, but Obama PROMISED that he could do a hell of a lot better than Bush.
#8. To: war, Nebuchadnezzar, All (#7)
Obama PROMISED us his "Stimulus" would bring back better days. It didn't.
#9. To: mcgowanjm (#8)
This isn’t a functional market, where buyers and sellers are efficiently determining prices by their activities. This is machines juggling chainsaws.
#10. To: war (#7)
And he has...
#11. To: war (#0)
#12. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#10)
...what the voters on election day will say.
#13. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#11)
#14. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#11)
#15. To: Badeye (#14)
#16. To: no gnu taxes (#15)
The bad thing is that if the GOP retakes Congress, I believe the business mood will greatly improve,
#17. To: war (#12)
The voters don't know what they want.
#18. To: war (#13)
Learn how to post an image...
#19. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#9)
Overall Jim, a very lucid post. Congrats!
#20. To: mcgowanjm (#8)
And we've now done the Great Grain Robbery with China and Soy.
#21. To: A K A Stone (#20)
Are you saying we sold all our grain?
#22. To: mcgowanjm (#21)
And worse, Last year was the Worst US Harvest since 1970, at least.
#23. To: mcgowanjm (#19)
" Utah is seriously considering eliminating the 12th grade, or making it optional. And it was announced this week that "Camden [New Jersey] is preparing to permanently shut its library system by the end of the year, potentially leaving residents of the impoverished city among the few in the United States unable to borrow a library book free."
#24. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#17)
When Democrats win big in '08 it sure what the voters wanted
#25. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#23)
#26. To: All (#25)
Then the Entire US Ed System is a waste of time.
#27. To: war (#24)
#28. To: mcgowanjm (#26)
A spokeswoman for the US embassy in Afghanistan also confirmed that "several" American citizens were believed to be among the dead without giving further details.
#29. To: Fred Mertz (#28)
#30. To: mcgowanjm (#29)
A British doctor, Dr Karen Woo, was among ten aid workers ambushed and shot dead by gunmen in a remote area of northern Afghanistan, it emerged today.
#31. To: Fred Mertz (#30)
#32. To: mcgowanjm (#31)
Thanx, but that's still using the 'Pat Tillman' sources.
#33. To: Fred Mertz (#32)
#34. To: Fred Mertz (#32)
#35. To: mcgowanjm (#34)
..."informed" source as saying Moscow's mortality rate for July had risen by 29.7% directly as a result of the "catastrophic heat and smog".
#36. To: Fred Mertz (#35)
#37. To: Fred Mertz (#35)
That's a significant rise.
#38. To: mcgowanjm (#37)
The only thing to do with either is to apply the "Ol' Yeller" solution. Frankly, I'd rather have a rabid animal in my backyard than these BP motherfuckers.
#39. To: Fred Mertz (#38)
Good stuff. He tells us how he really feels.
#40. To: Fred Mertz (#38)
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