Unemployment declines in NJ, but really, the numbers just suck

From the Star Ledger:

Economist says N.J. jobs market does ‘not have any momentum’

Despite the thousands of Atlantic City casino workers who lost their jobs last month, the unemployment rate in New Jersey ticked down slightly in September, according to preliminary federal data released by the state today, but still remained above the national average.

The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.5 percent in September from 6.6 percent in August, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development reported, above the national rate of 5.9 percent. New Jersey’s unemployment rate in July also stood at 6.5 percent.

A spokesman for Gov. Chris Christie noted in an e-mail to reporters that “at 6.5 percent, the unemployment rate remains at its lowest level since November 2008” and that the rate had fallen 1.4 percentage points year over year. In September 2013, the unemployment rate was 7.9 percent.

The state also added 600 jobs overall last month, driven by a bump in public-sector employment that state officials attributed to larger-than-expected seasonal hiring in the education field.

Patrick O’Keefe, director of economic research at CohnReznick in Roseland, said the monthly report brought to mind a line from the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: “Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.”

“That metaphor of a becalmed ship is really what occurred to me when going through it,” he said. “It’s good that we’re not sliding backwards but clearly we do not have any momentum currently in the state’s job markets.”

The preliminary data shows New Jersey lost 6,100 private-sector jobs in September following the closure of three casinos in Atlantic City, while the public sector added 6,700 jobs. The increase in government employment was due to “greater-than-expected seasonal hiring in the state education component,” according to state officials.

The state gained 6,700 jobs year-over-year, according to the report, with 7,000 jobs added in the private sector and 300 jobs lost in the public sector.

The state labor department noted that August’s employment numbers were revised in the report, “showing a gain of 2,900 private sector jobs instead of the originally reported loss of 800.”

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93 Responses to Unemployment declines in NJ, but really, the numbers just suck

  1. grim says:

    Nice piece from Michael Diamond at the APP, this should have probably been the headline.

    What comeback? Why NJ’s economy has tanked

    New Jersey’s economy is paying a heavy price for a decade of negligence.

    The signs of failure are all around us five years after the end of the Great Recession. New Jersey’s job growth rate — measured in fractions of a percentage point — is the second worst in the nation, just ahead of Alaska.

    New Jersey’s middle class has lost billions in income through layoffs, salary cuts and wage freezes. More than 100,000 job seekers have been unemployed for months on end. Thousands more have simply given up looking for work, relying on handouts, family and part-time jobs to make ends meet.

    And New Jersey remains a lost soul in the nation: It is one of just three states that saw more people falling into poverty than rising above it.

    The nation’s labor market has recovered, but not in New Jersey. From August 2013 to August 2014, a revised report released Thursday showed the state added 6,700 jobs, amounting to 558 new jobs a month. It is so few that it would take 44 years to find positions in the state for New Jersey’s 294,700 unemployed residents.

    The fall has been fast.

  2. grim says:

    Holy Jesus why are there so many idiots in the medical field.

    A Dallas Hospital Worker Self-Monitoring for Ebola Left Texas on a Cruise

    A Dallas hospital employee, described as possibly having come into contact with fluid samples from the deceased Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, left the U.S. on a cruise ship on Sunday, the State Department said early Friday morning.

  3. grim says:

    If they can’t legislate for rail cars carrying tar sands, what chance is there for legislation for an LM truck.

    I would think the safety of a pipeline is significantly higher than anything on rolling stock, but that too is taboo.

    Perhaps instead of trying to ban everyone who is delivering a product we are all clamoring to buy, we as consumers buy less of it? Ah shit, who am I kidding.

  4. Ottoman says:

    Good thing there’s no union in that hospital to coordinate and monitor safety and regulations in that blameless, privately run hospital. The free market will stop Ebola.

    grim says:
    October 17, 2014 at 6:22 am
    Holy Jesus why are there so many idiots in the medical field.

  5. Ottoman says:

    Those who question the merits of trickle down economics are losers.

    “And New Jersey remains a lost soul in the nation: It is one of just three states that saw more people falling into poverty than rising above it.”

  6. grim says:

    What exactly does an employees union have to do with enforcing protocol?

    Why don’t you let me know the next time the teachers union gets a poorly performing teacher fired.

  7. grim says:

    Or should we expect our Carla Katz and the Communications Workers of America save us all from Ebola?

  8. grim says:

    From the Record:

    Stile: Christie changes his tune with new jobless figures

    When New Jersey’s unemployment rate climbed close to 10 percent two years ago, a clearly annoyed Governor Christie complained about the way the U.S. Department of Labor arrived at the number.

    He called the rate “screwy,” and said the numbers “made no sense.” It was clear why: the nagging rate, higher than the national average, undermined his “Jersey Comeback” narrative.

    But there was no complaint with the most recent unemployment data released Thursday. In fact, Christie’s media department touted the news as a triumph. Even @GovChristie, the official Christie Twitter account, hailed the news that the rate dipped from 6.6 percent to 6.5 percent in September.

    “New job numbers out today: At 6.5 percent, the unemployment rate remains at its lowest level since November 2008 here in New Jersey,” the message read.

    Christie is hardly the first politician to have a love-hate relationship with the unemployment rate. He was part of a chorus of elected officials in the Northeast who had raised similar complaints in 2012. Yet, none of them lashed out with the same aggression and ferocity as Christie.

    And Thursday’s positive embrace also reveals a tactical side of Christie: He’ll bash the bearer of bad news who threatens to tarnish his record, but then become best friends when the news can boost his record and image.

    Christie mocked David Rosen, the chief legislative budget analyst, as the “Dr. Kevorkian of the numbers” when his economic forecasts contradicted the governor’s rosier comeback scenarios. But when Christie officials announced last month that the administration was switching the way it was reporting its annual revenue growth – a move critics say will make it easier for Christie to bury bad news – Christie officials said they were simply adopting the same method used by Rosen’s office.

  9. Juice Box says:

    Re:# 6 – yeah great way to start a stampeded. Let’s all find out what ship.

  10. Fabius Maximus says:

    #3 grim

    Does demand justify method?

    The problem here is the product. The is so much acid in the tar sands it is corroding the rolling stock. The Ethanol they are shipping has to go in heated cars. Heating a highly volatile produce and then moving it at speed through High dense neighborhoods. The funny part is that its probably safer than a pipe line. The viscosity of the tar sands means higher pressure in the pipeline. The amount of acid means the roiling stock will corrode out and be easier to replace.

    The Bergan Co mayors are starting to discuss this issue given the amount of traffic going down to the Linden refineries.

  11. Fabius Maximus says:

    Lib, the 20yr half life on the Fusion product means it is slightly easier to deal with. The Japanese will be experts in this field, given the amount being generated at Fcukedupshima.

  12. nwnj says:

    Well, in the lab worker’s defense I’m sure she bought the cruise months ago — forget about a refund — even if you tell them you have Ebola.

    And let’s not forget the Freiden and those losers at the CDC said that there is no risk. If it’s too much to ask Nancy Snyderman to eat take out food for a few weeks why should she cancel the trip?

  13. grim says:

    The Bergan Co mayors are starting to discuss this issue given the amount of traffic going down to the Linden refineries.

    Sorry, but the Bergen County Mayors are wholly unqualified to discuss such topics, and they will devolve into speculation and fear-mongering. Perhaps they should defer to the DOT and FRA, who are more suited to regulate this area.

    I don’t want to assign additional work for the Bergen Mayors, but perhaps they should consider focusing on bringing and keeping jobs here, and maybe a bit less on transportation policy. Seems they the politicians are going out of their way, at breakneck speed, to kill jobs in the state.

    What’s next, shutting down all the refineries in NJ? I’m sure PA would love to have them, they’ll stick them right on the edge of the Delaware.

  14. Fast Eddie says:

    New Jersey’s middle class has lost billions in income through layoffs, salary cuts and wage freezes. More than 100,000 job seekers have been unemployed for months on end. Thousands more have simply given up looking for work, relying on handouts, family and part-time jobs to make ends meet.

    It’s the reason why I can’t justify the 629K split level special equipped with avocado rugs and walnut paneling. The only thing out there in the desirable towns are estate sales and empty nesters ready to make a move.

  15. grim says:

    We need to eminent domain all the railroads with open space tax dollars and turn them all into bike paths. People need alternative transportation methods, and the investment in green alternatives will drive job growth in the state.

  16. grim says:

    Meanwhile, the tree huggers are proudly boasting about how much less carbon they are generating because they installed a new high efficiency condensing boiler in their house, to the tune of $10,000. They did their part, look at how green this is compared to the old 80% efficient boiler? Moral superiority, and spotlit with LED lighting (TM) to boot. They even have solar panels on the roof! Wow!

    But the natural gas being fracked and piped in, that powers their boiler, that heats their house, that cooks their food, that runs the power plants that generate the electricity to light their LED lights? That’s the f*cking problem? Hypocrites.

    You don’t want tar sand oil? Why are you not advocating for oil rigs off the NJ coast? They oil off the coast of NJ is significantly cleaner than the tar sands oil, and we could pipe it right into Linden without even touching a neighborhood, even a non-densely populated one. While we’re at it, how about you fight to kill the backlash against wind turbines off the coast.

    I understand NJ’s approach, it’s to stick our collective heads in the sand with regards to where energy actually comes from, and to perpetuate the myth that electricity comes from fairies hidden in the walls, because as long as we don’t actually see it, of the vestiges of the system that support it, it isn’t actually a problem.

  17. Godzilla does Jerzyconomics says:

    As much as everyone wants to bash one side or the other. The Jerzyconomics issue is that we are returning to the mean.

    For decades NJ & CT were 1 & 2 in income per capita. Both states benefited from big manufacturing, NJ had big pharma and big tech (Ma Bell), CT had big insurance, and both had resident that were employed in NYC’s multiple big everything.

    Well all those jobs are gone. NJ is doing like every state out there that now has to depend on McJobs, odd jobs, day laborer jobs, and assorted drug dealing and hooking.

    As such it always look bad when you go from driving the expensive topped out cadillac to basic no-frill chevy.

  18. Comrade Nom Deplume, a.k.a. Captain Justice says:

    I love this. Planning on shipping one to Fabian for his Pious.

    https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=809711225718332

  19. Fast Eddie says:

    Well all those jobs are gone. NJ is doing like every state out there that now has to depend on McJobs, odd jobs, day laborer jobs, and assorted drug dealing and hooking.

    Except in those haughty towns that are insulated, of course. It’s justified there and those folks are bleeding wealth.

  20. NJGator says:

    Juice 9 – Likely either the Carnival Magic or Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas…both have sailings from Galveston on Sundays. Both owned by Carnival. Short Carnival?

  21. Comrade Nom Deplume, a.k.a. Captain Justice says:

    [19] eddie,

    “Except in those haughty towns that are insulated, of course. It’s justified there and those folks are bleeding wealth.”

    Let’s not forget the guy from Wayne who is making a killing with his unicorn rides business. It’s the must-have for every Ellery and Graydon birthday party in PBC. I might buy a franchise.

  22. Fast Eddie says:

    It states, “Reasonable offers now considered.” Really? You mean 685K as opposed to the asking price of 689K? Hey seller muppet, a reasonable offer has a “5” handle attached to it.

    http://www.njmls.com/listings/index.cfm?action=dsp.info&mlsnum=1428425&dayssince=&countysearch=false

  23. Fast Eddie says:

    Nom,

    Unicorn rides are huge this time of year. Nothing says “we belong” like having a picture of Thatcher and Hadley riding a unicorn.

  24. Fast Eddie says:

    Inflation = need
    Deflation = want

  25. Grim says:

    The unicorn guy is from PA Nom.

  26. grim says:

    I’ll delete this in respect for the victims, but in my opinion parents, politicians, and media are doing these kids an injustice by turning this into a circus.

  27. Comrade Nom Deplume, a.k.a. Captain Justice says:

    [25] grim,

    Probably lives here to take advantage of the PA-NJ state tax compact.

    Did he have to catch the unicorn in PBC? Because we don’t have unicorns in much of PA, especially after deer season. Though we seem to have several sanctuaries of them here in Chester County, but if I said where, I am sure I’ll be killed.

  28. Comrade Nom Deplume, a.k.a. Captain Justice says:

    [27] redux

    Reminds me of meeting Shore Guy and when I asked him about his work, he refused to tell me anything.

    I said “I get it, if you tell me, you have to kill me, right?”

    Shore said “Oh, I won’t kill you. Someone else might but not me.”

  29. Fast Eddie says:

    New Jersey’s job growth rate — measured in fractions of a percentage point — is the second worst in the nation, just ahead of Alaska.

    Sell? Sell to whom? Geezus, I miss a BC Bob post.

  30. Comrade Nom Deplume, a.k.a. Captain Justice says:

    [1] grim,

    Good article, largely on point, but the writer is myopic on a few things, notably this one:

    “But since the recession ended, New Jersey has another problem on its hands: Some of its most prized employers are dropping everything and leaving for Massachusetts and California — states that are just as expensive but have powerful networks of academic research and investment capital that cutting-edge and high-paying companies crave, observers say.”

    Mass. and Cali? Relying anecdotally on Sanofi’s move misses the larger picture. I’d wager far more companies and jobs moved to either PA or to southern states like TX, NC, SC or GA.

    There are other myopic moments in the article but they don’t detract much from the message. Besides, I haven’t the time and don’t much feel like dissecting it.

  31. Bystander says:

    Fast,

    This market is really amazing..the delusion is so rampant it is mindboggling. And house strumpets will act like it is a good deal. By me, activity was decimated this spring and summer yet sellers won’t drop asking pricing sufficiently. 5k..drip by drip over 6 months. Wait for first 20 degree cold bite in the @ss next month or first foot of snow. These walking corpses thought they would be in sunny FL by now. Hate to say it but old people are the worst sellers on earth.

  32. phoenix says:

    2 grim,
    They probably told him that his quarantine was going to be taken from his PTO time.

  33. Juice Box says:

    Ship is the Carnival Magic, docked off the coast in Belize. The Belize coast guard is not allowing the ship to dock or its passengers to disembark.

    Carinval’s stock hasn’t taken a beating yet.

  34. Fast Eddie says:

    Bystander,

    Here’s the thing I noticed, too; a house priced at 579K is a 579K piece of sh1t. A house priced at 729K is a 729K piece of sh1t. It seems like every house I walk into, regardless of price, has major issues that I simply can’t live with. They’re just ugly, disconnected and piggish. The market is a f.ucking wreck and all over the place. I wish the FED would cut the cord completely and let nature take it’s course.

  35. Juice Box says:

    re # 34 – Eddie buy a lot already and build your barbie dream house.

  36. NJGator says:

    Juice 33- Carnival’s gonna owe a ton of money to the other passengers on the boat when no port on their itinerary lets them dock. Why aren’t any of these people smart enough to just stay home?

  37. phoenix says:

    37. Just bring the ship back to the USA. We will let anybody in.

  38. grim says:

    Short Carnival, I’ve posted a message to the Cruise Critic forums telling passengers on the Magic that I will pay them $500 in bit coin to a private wallet for each time they vomit in a public area and can provide me a photo with appropriate geotagging.

  39. NJGator says:

    38 – They quarantine folks for norovirus on ships. Can’t imagine the panic on that ship when people hear the word “Ebola” even if the person doesn’t actually have it.

  40. NJGator says:

    38 – LMFAO

  41. anon (the good one) says:

    hhahaha…

    The free market will stop Ebola.

    Ottoman says:
    October 17, 2014 at 6:28 am
    Good thing there’s no union in that hospital to coordinate and monitor safety and regulations in that blameless, privately run hospital. The free market will stop Ebola.

    grim says:
    October 17, 2014 at 6:22 am
    Holy Jesus why are there so many idiots in the medical field.

  42. grim says:

    Hilarious, Carnival loaded the couple onto a tender and tried to send them to port, Belize is refusing the tender, and Carnival is refusing to allow the tender to come back to the ship.

  43. Michael says:

    You are a sucker if you sell at the prices fast eddie and bystander are looking for. These muppets are smart not to sell when the economy is down. The economy will get better and that will be the time to sell. No reason to sell now unless you are forced to.

    Bystander says:
    October 17, 2014 at 10:27 am
    Fast,

    This market is really amazing..the delusion is so rampant it is mindboggling. And house strumpets will act like it is a good deal. By me, activity was decimated this spring and summer yet sellers won’t drop asking pricing sufficiently. 5k..drip by drip over 6 months. Wait for first 20 degree cold bite in the @ss next month or first foot of snow. These walking corpses thought they would be in sunny FL by now. Hate to say it but old people are the worst sellers on earth.

  44. Happy Renter says:

    [4] “Good thing there’s no union in that hospital to coordinate and monitor safety and regulations in that blameless, privately run hospital. The free market will stop Ebola.”

    Thanks for the laugh, Mo. As if the government employee-union @ssclowns have done anything to stop it.

  45. NJGator says:

    Belize website reported it as the person was exhibiting symptoms.

    From the comments:

    Reinhard Heydrich says
    October 17, 2014 at 6:02 am

    Sink the ship. It’s the only way.

    http://belizean.com/belize-confirms-patient-with-ebola-symptoms-on-cruise-ship-off-its-coast-1814/

  46. Happy Renter says:

    On an unrelated note, I was talking to friend who is looking to move out of Maplewood recently. He told me he’s sick of the libtard attitude of the people there. As an example, he pointed me to this thread on a local Maplewood forum.

    http://forum.maplewoodonline.com//discussion/110456/

    In brief, a Maplewood mom is ranting because her nanny quit and took a job with another family for more money. The mom thinks she is the victim of “class warfare” being waged by “the 1%” against her and her family.

    Yes, that’s right — some overworked, likely underpaid domestic worker dared to find a better job for more money . . . and it’s the fault of the greedy 1% and the Koch Brothers!

    Some choice quotes from said thread:

    “This is different. It just is. It’s more personal, it’s a mom undercutting another mom, and it smacks of class warfare. Direct quote: ‘What are they paying you? I’ll pay you more!’ . . . I still think poaching someone’s babysitter off the playground is a ****ty thing to do. And very 1%. . . . Being a working mom is hard enough without having to worry that another mom is going to cut you down.”

    The complete self-centered attitude, disregard for domestic worker, and instant resort to blaming “the 1%” (that she very well may be in herself) is almost a parody.

  47. 1987 Condo says:

    For Gary, new construction…guy bought a lot made 2 houses, sold first himself, supposedly asking $730 went for $760…now asking $799…

    http://www.coldwellbanker.com/property?propertyId=284254266&mode=detail&brandType=CB

    Around corner from me, figure it is a deal for someone selling attached house in Brooklyn for same amount.

  48. The free market will stop Ebola says:

    “A passenger died on a Nigeria-to-JFK flight after a vomiting fit Thursday — and a top lawmaker said officials gave the corpse only a “cursory” exam before declaring that the victim did not have Ebola.

    Rep. Peter King said in a letter to Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection that the handling of the remains exposed serious flaws in airport preparedness for an Ebola outbreak.”

  49. grim says:

    I don’t particularly care for the fact that you almost need to rappel down from your front door, but the photos show very well. I can’t imagine that would stay around long.

  50. Bystander says:

    Michael- the strutting c*ck whose granny put a golden egg under his @ss and now thinks he’s the goose.

    Most of the homes that I see are old crows whose next home will be a wooden box if they don’t sell soon.

  51. The free market will stop Ebola says:

    “For decades, people have been predicting how the rise of advanced computing and robotic technologies will affect our lives. On one side, there are warnings that robots will displace humans in the economy, destroying livelihoods, especially for low-skill workers. Others look forward to the vast economic opportunities that robots will present, claiming, for example, that they will improve productivity or take on undesirable jobs.
    The venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who recently joined the debate, falls into the latter camp, asserting that robots will save us from a future of high prices and low wages.”

  52. Libturd in Union says:

    I bet the buffet on the Magic is real popular these days.

  53. NJGator says:

    Eddie – Why don’t you just come here?….$185K for a 2/2 condo in Glen Ridge. $1,416/month in common charges. That includes utilities, but still. $17k/year and you still have to pay extra for parking!

    http://www.coldwellbankermoves.com/property/details/4219180/MLS-3178087/926-Bloomfield-Ave-Glen-Ridge-NJ-07028.aspx

  54. Libturd in Union says:

    Only the sick sheep Otto and Anon could find fault in the hospital because it’s not unionized. You guys truly have a sickness. Get out some time. It might do you good. So how do you two progressive brainiacs explain all of the faults with the CDC so far? Last I checked they were a government entity.

    6.6 billion budget. Nice job guys. Maybe we ought to let the free market contain Ebola?

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/16/cdc-blames-cuts-for-ebola-response-pays-millions-i/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

  55. Libturd in Union says:

    I wouldn’t want to be the one to have to clean the marine head in that tender.

  56. Toxic Crayons says:

    51 –

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  57. Ragnar says:

    Good thing Liberians don’t have greedy pharmacy companies ripping them off with Ebola cures to get rich.

  58. Ragnar says:

    Good thing that people in Africa don’t have greedy pharma companies enriching themselves by selling ebola cures.

  59. Toxic Crayons says:

    US Ebola Hospital Laid Off Staff Due To Obamacare, Now Has Staff Constraints
    Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=07c_1413493787#RBGeCoQY6PropeuL.99

  60. painhrtz - whatever says:

    Popping

    HAHAHA Carnival, speaking as someone who works with med techs they should be the last people exposed to an infectious disease as they do have protocols that they do follow. Otherwise they would already be walking corpses.

    As far as protocol for a highly infectious vector like Ebola, despite universal precautions you still quarantine staff for +14 days past possible incubation period just to be sure. You do not let them go home, especially don’t let them travel and most of all limit their exposure to the general population. If you don’t do those things you get the outright panic that is going on. Oh and you limit travel to and from those countries of origin until it burns itself out so you don’t have exposure risk.

    F*ck what do I know only studied infectious disease at a graduate level including vectors for transmission yada yada yada. government is full of idiots

  61. Juice Box says:

    re: “Carnival is refusing to allow the tender to come back to the ship.”

    Yeah the crew might like that too much, perhaps they will mutiny if they leave their fellow crewmen on a tender on the high seas.

  62. Statler Waldorf says:

    I read that Maplewood forum frequently and marvel at the narrow-mindedness of the participants. It’s a liberal echo chamber. There was a similar thread recently where someone sold their house due to bloated property taxes, and moved to North Carolina. There was shock and amazement that someone would consider leaving the utopia of Maplewood, especially to live “in the south.”

    “The complete self-centered attitude, disregard for domestic worker, and instant resort to blaming “the 1%” (that she very well may be in herself) is almost a parody.”

  63. Juice Box says:

    Sees the Belize news is old. Vessel Finder show Carnival Magic off coast of Cozumel.

    http://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9378486

  64. Juice Box says:

    From the Cruise Critic web site, ship is probably headed back to Texas now.

    “According to a FB friend that operates a business in Cozumel, the Magic has just left and did not dock. “

  65. Juice Box says:

    Nope did not dock in Cozumel Mexico either.

    Traslated.

    Here comes a cruise to Cozumel sick with Ebola course

    Port authorities have not allowed docking the floating hotel on the coast of the island.
    Today Friday, 17 October 2014 10:57
    SEND
    The boat is a mile and a half west of the coast of Cozumel. (Photo Context / Internet)

    The boat is a mile and a half west of the coast of Cozumel. (Photo Context / Internet)

    Gustavo Villegas / SIPSE
    COZUMEL, Q. Roo.- From 7 am on Friday, the cruise ship Carnival Magic arrived at Puerta Maya port which operates the Carnival coporations shipping, however, the port authorities have not allowed this boat docking on the coast of Cozumel, because of the possibility that one of the passengers infected with Ebola .

    So far the authorities have not issued any declación thereon; the floating hotel stays hove in the harbor of the island, about a mile and a half west of the coast; is unknown whether leave to dock the boat.

    Preliminary information revealed that the Carnival Magic, arrived at the island after a stop in Belize.

    Two boats docked in Cozumel Royal Caribbean in SSA dock, terminal operating company Royal Caribbean, both arrived without problems.

    http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsipse.com%2Fnovedades%2Fllega-a-cozumel-un-supuesto-enfermo-de-ebola-118124.html

  66. Fast Eddie says:

    Michael,

    These muppets are smart not to sell when the economy is down.

    They can’t sell, they’re not qualified sellers.

  67. NJGator says:

    Carnival can kiss next week’s revenue goodbye too . They’ll probably have to cancel the cruise on the 19th in order to fully disinfect it so people will be willing to get on it.

  68. All Hype says:

    Gotta love President Obola. We do not need physicians and scientists leading the fight against a level 4 infectious biohazard. WE NEED A LAWYER!

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-17/meet-americas-new-ebola-czar

    Hey anon and Ottoman, if this is not the single biggest example that the president cares nothing for the common citizen and only cares for his image and legacy then I do not know what it. This guy will be a good soldier and fall on his sword if things get out of hand. You can be sure he will protect Dear Leader at all costs.

    Let em channel Lib here, “Baa, Baa, Baa”.

  69. painhrtz - whatever says:

    Hype you really have to love this sh*t it is like the worst B-movie on an outbreak ever made. If Chairman O was white and republican the howling would be deafening.

  70. Fast Eddie says:

    68 & 69,

    It’s almost as if he’s playing a game to see how f.ucking outrageous he could be and still get away with it. I think he became president just to toy with people and f.uck around.

  71. Juice Box says:

    Ebola at the Pentagon?

  72. All Hype says:

    Using Obama logic, I look forward to a podiatrist taking the top job at the DOJ.

  73. grim says:

    72 – Given the choice between a politician and a podiatrist, I’d trust the podiatrist.

  74. AG says:

    It’s will be only a matter of days before Ebola pops up in New York. Then it’s game on mutha f-ckas! I hate Obama with a passion and I’m so suk of looking at his gorilla wife.

  75. painhrtz - whatever says:

    Wow AG racist much. Wookie I could agree with as she is likely to rip your arms off if she doesn’t like your menu choices but gorilla c’mon man.

    Grim I agree the podiatrist would be infinitely more qualified.

    Personally I look forward to them appointing an unladen European Swallow as the head of the department of transportation. As well As Bernie Madoff’s pardon and eventual appointment as head of the treasury. Wait he might be overly qualified.

  76. jj says:

    Is is the big gorrilla hands that turn your off? Luckily my massive girth even when in the hands of a big hand gorrilla girl still looks large. But I understand how some of the less “gifted”guys might be turnd off.

    AG says:

    October 17, 2014 at 2:31 pm

    It’s will be only a matter of days before Ebola pops up in New York. Then it’s game on mutha f-ckas! I hate Obama with a passion and I’m so suk of looking at his gorilla wife.

  77. lib (52)-

    Wanna hit those sneeze guards with a flamethrower every hour or so.

    “I bet the buffet on the Magic is real popular these days.”

  78. Ragnar says:

    Holy fudge, I just caught a glimpse of the face of the US Health & Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Dr Nicole Lurie. Right wing sites are noting how she is MIA regarding the Ebola topic which is right up her alley as some sort of health emergency czar. I don’t usually comment on looks, but she looks like a half-completed tranny with a big ole adams apple. Was she perhaps was hired to check some sort of diversity box? Google images for Dr Nicole Lurie, and brace yourself.

  79. Statler Waldorf says:

    test

  80. Statler Waldorf says:

    test 2

  81. Juice Box says:

    It’s a man baby!

  82. Toxic Crayons says:

    I’d bang her.

  83. The Original NJ ExPat says:

    Dr. Nicole Lurie says:

    “So , Come up to the lab,
    And see what’s on the slab.
    I see you shiver with antici – (Three seconds)
    pation.”

  84. So, we’re all gonna get Ebola now?

  85. Hughesrep says:

    86

    Just Republicans. Thanks Obama!

  86. Juice Box says:

    Yeah we are back to this..dead kids blood found in the cop car. He wasn’t attacking the officer right Rev Al?

    “FBI forensic tests showed the gun was fired twice in the car, with one bullet hitting Brown’s arm while the second one missed, the newspaper said.”

    “Separate federal and local investigations are still ongoing, but the government officials said the evidence so far does not indicate that the officer violated any civil rights, The Times reported.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/18/justice/michael-brown-darren-wilson-account/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

  87. The free market will stop Ebola says:

    that’s right out of Republican’s playbook.

    “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job,”

    one more retarded than the other

    All Hype says:
    October 17, 2014 at 2:13 pm
    Using Obama logic, I look forward to a podiatrist taking the top job at the DOJ.

  88. NJGator says:

    Interesting read…

    I’m a Hazmat-Trained Hospital Worker: Here’s What No One Is Telling You About Ebola

    http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5998486

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