From the APP:
NJ jobs faltered in May: Spring slump or Trump tariffs?
New Jersey employers tamped down their hiring in May and are growing more pessimistic about their outlook, a series of reports released this week shows.
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development reported Thursday that New Jersey lost 7,600 jobs in May. Its unemployment rate dipped to 3.8 percent — the lowest level since April 2001. But the jobless rate’s decline was due in part because fewer people were in the labor force.
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And the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported that manufacturing sector’s growth in the region that includes southern New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania fell in June and showed muted optimism for the rest of the year.
Analysts hope it is simply a spring slump. But the state might be starting to feel the impact of higher tariffs.
New Jersey employers trimmed payrolls in May while the state’s unemployment rate edged lower to 3.8 percent, according to estimates produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Total nonfarm wage and salary employment decreased by 7,600 in May to reach a seasonally adjusted level of 4,193,800. The job contraction was concentrated in the private sector (-8,400) of the state’s economy.
Looking at the longer term, over the year, May 2018 – May 2019, employment in New Jersey was higher by 45,900 jobs, with gains recorded in both the private sector (+42,000) and public sector (+3,900) of the New Jersey economy. Since February 2010 (the low point of the last recession), New Jersey’s private sector employers have added 400,700 jobs.
Based on more complete reporting from employers, the previously released total nonfarm employment estimate for April was revised lower by 2,900 to show an over-the-month (March – April) increase of 8,900 jobs. Preliminary estimates indicated an over-the-month increase of 11,800 jobs. The state’s revised April unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.9 percent.
In May, employment decreases were recorded in seven out of nine major private industry sectors. Industry sectors that lost jobs were professional and business services (-3,500), trade, transportation, and utilities (-2,300), education and health services (-1,900), other services (-1,400), manufacturing (-500), leisure and hospitality (-300), and information (-100). Industry sectors that added jobs were construction (+800) and financial activities (+800). Over the month, public sector employment was higher by 800 jobs.
Or maybe these are layoffs in advance of the big hike in minimum wage?
Developers fighting over dirt in Edgewater. Using the government as a weapon.
https://twitter.com/johnstossel/status/1141738900521660417?s=21
Shocker.
Plenty of examples of this in NJ, where buildings were approved with exclusive contracts with real estate brokers affiliated with the people that approved the buildings. Hell, I even know brokers who are contacted by developers before they even approach the local government with a development proposal. You know, for consulting and expertise. Plenty of towns where it’s all about picking the right attorney to represent the project. A few years ago in Paterson, the local government recommended to me a set of preferred contractors who would ensure a smooth, quick project.
The video shows the explosion at the Philly refinery…
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Massive-Fire-Reports-of-Explosions-at-South-Philadelphia-Refinery-Philadelphia-Energy-Solutions-I-76-Closed-511615281.html
We sent a letter of concern to the DEP about a proposed development that was in or near a flood zone while I was on a 3 town regional flood board. I was hauled into that town’s office by the business manager and received a nasty note from the town attny threatening a lawsuit.
Turns out the family of the current mayor was the developer behind the complex.
Woops!
LOL. Quote from Rob Schneider on SNL and other late night comedy shows:
“Much late night comedy is less about being funny and more about Indoctrination by comedic disposition,” Schneider continued on Twitter. “People aren’t really laughing at it as much as cheering on the rhetoric. It no longer resembles a comedy show, it’s more like some kind of liberal Klan meeting.”
NJ fights Janus ruling for government unions, not the public
https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/editorials/nj-fights-janus-ruling-for-government-unions-not-the-public/article_ce33c889-648e-537d-b492-978d8c5158e5.html
“Democrats have enacted the anti-Janus law and are spending taxpayer money to help defend the unions in court not for the benefit of the public, but for their own political interest. Government-worker unions keep them in power and take priority over the public.
Unions can’t be blamed for seeking ever more for themselves and their members. Relentlessly pursuing self-interest is a common human behavior, one that society finds advantageous to curtail in many instances.
The problem is that many of the elected leaders tasked with keeping union self-interest reasonable are fully allied with the unions or even union officials themselves.
Democratic leaders, like any person, aren’t able to serve two masters. In New Jersey, it increasingly looks like they’re choosing their union allies over their citizens.”
Grim, would you please unmod my comment. Thank you.
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Yup. Again, it’s about who you know, not what you know. Obviously, you have to know what you are doing, but you are not going anywhere without knowing someone in any facet of life. Sure, there anomalies where someone becomes successful without knowing powerful people in their field or industry, but if you look over the data….connections. Networking is everything in life.
I don’t care what industry it is, there are barriers to entering the market as a new business. No one wants to let you into their market and will act accordingly. That’s why it isn’t easy to start a business ANYWHERE ON THIS PLANET.
You know this, look what loops you had to jump through to start yours..
grim says:
June 21, 2019 at 7:05 am
Shocker.
Plenty of examples of this in NJ, where buildings were approved with exclusive contracts with real estate brokers affiliated with the people that approved the buildings. Hell, I even know brokers who are contacted by developers before they even approach the local government with a development proposal. You know, for consulting and expertise. Plenty of towns where it’s all about picking the right attorney to represent the project. A few years ago in Paterson, the local government recommended to me a set of preferred contractors who would ensure a smooth, quick project.
Factory output is faltering in a number of key economies, darkening the outlook for the global economy and increasing the likelihood that leading central banks will respond with fresh stimulus.
Global industrial production has been weakening since the start of 2018. Economists are divided on whether the factory slowdown is largely a consequence of disruptions to trade and investment as a result of higher tariffs and uncertainty about where they will settle, or a more short-lived pause after a long expansion and some setbacks in particular sectors, such as automobiles.
Europe has suffered the sharpest downswing, and there is little relief in sight, according to a June survey of purchasing managers conducted by data firm IHS Markit that was released Friday.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/faltering-factories-cast-a-dark-cloud-over-the-global-economy-11561109006?mod=hp_lead_pos7
My son has grow about 5-6 inches in height in the last 6-9 months, but he still approaches the game more as the shooting guard/small forward he was, and not the power forward/center sized player he is. I keep telling him to stand in the paint on defense and disrupt, and also to focus more on driving and drawing contact on offense instead of settling for his stupid 3’s.
He watches too much NBA. The progame has degraded into dribbling out the shot clock and chucking 3pters from 4 ft behind the arc. Show him some videos of Hakeem Olajuwon or Chris Webber.
Stocks Are Sitting Pretty Heading Into Summer
S&P 500 is heading toward its best June since 1955; Dow Jones Industrial Average is on pace for its best June since 1938
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stocks-are-sitting-pretty-heading-into-summer-11561109403?mod=hp_lead_pos2
Nice Explosion in Philly and only 3.6 Rotogen, Not Great Not Terrible.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Massive-Fire-Reports-of-Explosions-at-South-Philadelphia-Refinery-Philadelphia-Energy-Solutions-I-76-Closed-511615281.html
“Despite the rosy stock market, investors are holding more cash than they did a month ago, which means there is still some degree of pessimism. They held 5.6% of their portfolios in cash in June, up from 4.6% in each of the past three months, the biggest one-month jump since 2011, according to the latest survey of global fund managers from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.”
“Much late night comedy is less about being funny and more about Indoctrination by comedic disposition,” Schneider continued on Twitter. “People aren’t really laughing at it as much as cheering on the rhetoric. It no longer resembles a comedy show, it’s more like some kind of liberal Klan meeting.”
Gee, what a shock. :-/ I hope they ramp it up. I want to see Trump do to Biden what Reagan did to Mondale in the election.
And school is less and less about education and more and more about indoctrination. Spend almost 20 years in the liberal education system, come out up to your eyeballs in debt with no marketable skills, and then blame the country or capitalism for your probalems?
How about blaming the indoctrinators who corrupted you with lies over your student lifetime.
Deep down, liberals are frustrated, angry and exasperated. They thought Obama was a savior and by the end of his autocracy, realized they can’t escape personal flaws and weaknesses. Nature seeks a semblance of conformity like water seeking a level plane. It kills them because they know they’ll need to adhere to organic tendencies, no matter how hard they try to alter the tide.
Ex Pat, Fast Eddie & GdBlsU45 are the conspiracy theorists of the blog. When do you get rid of your televisions and begin home schooling?
Do you know how to spot a fake subject in school? Progressives include the words science or studies in the title? Dead giveaway that it’s a propaganda course.
Tv, no. We’ll see what happens when Phil and Loretta’s lgbt childhood indoctrination plan ramps up.
Yes, a typical extremist pt of view from team red. If you spent 20 years in an education system and come out with no skills, who’s fault is that? Stop blaming the schools.
If you came out of school in debt, stop blaming the schools. Who told you to go away to school or attend a private school if you didn’t have the money? Public state schools all over the place that are affordable. Education is not cheap, but there are options available to leave you with minimum debt. Debt that should improve your life, not hurt it, if you did what you are supposed to do in school….work hard, learn, and NETWORK. You should be searching for relationships in your field all throughout college.
Don’t think the degree is going to do that for you, or you will be left with a feeling of being let down. The degree opens doors, but it does not get you through them, you have to do that.
GdBlsU45 says:
June 21, 2019 at 9:50 am
And school is less and less about education and more and more about indoctrination. Spend almost 20 years in the liberal education system, come out up to your eyeballs in debt with no marketable skills, and then blame the country or capitalism for your probalems?
20 years, practically unlimited resources, and you can’t produce a productive member of society? YOU failed.
I see the tin hat crew is at it again. You can’t win guys.
Gdblsu45, do you believe in conversion therapy for LGBTQ people? I am assuming you do because you believe education about LGBTQ issues can make your child gay. I am assuming you also believe the earth is flat.
Go talk to all the failing parents out there before you attack the school as some liberal propaganda machine. Such bs.
Like I said yesterday when ripping republican positions, they are crazy. You place all this focus on the individual in your defense of billionaires getting even bigger tax cuts, but you ignore the individual when it comes to schools. Somehow, schools are supposed to have a 100% effective rate. How is that even possible based on the amount of losers in our population? Kid drops out, blame the school. Kid does well, acknowledge the student. Your type always sh1ts on the schools.
The best part, this attack on schools has one source. Your taxes. That’s all you care about, that you don’t have to pay the bill for anyone else. You don’t have kids, right, or they graduated? So it’s your right to not have to pay for schools that help everyone in our society, correct?
How do schools help society? They teach people to socialize and follow rules on top of life skills. OMG, they are indoctrinating students to learn how to follow rules and socialize…god have mercy on us. Oh no, they are trying to teach people how to read, write, and communicate.. we are screwed! Silly positions to take.
GdBlsU45 says:
June 21, 2019 at 10:24 am
20 years, practically unlimited resources, and you can’t produce a productive member of society? YOU failed.
Gdbls’s head is flat. The red hat blog members answer to Blumpy.
I agree that identity politics is terrible,
But i’m Not the target for that type of sh”t.
The fact that we have an idiot an absolute joke at the helm terrifies most people though .
As for college. It teaches you to understand the source. It teaches you to objectively look at an issue and draw your own conclusion. Somehow this relates to liberal indoctrination. It’s funny, my one boy went to school for like 8 years (he couldn’t let go of the social life). He is the biggest trump supporter I know. That college did a hell of a job indoctrinating him. That worked..
The fact that we have an idiot an absolute joke at the helm terrifies most people though.
He’s going to be reelected.
Ironically Gay people can be very hostile to Bi people as they don’t believe being Bi is a real thing. It’s kind of ironic. I don’t think most people care if people are gay or bi or whatever at least in this part of the country. The only thing I question is how are Bi people discriminated against? Who would know?
Debt that should improve your life, not hurt it, if you did what you are supposed to do in school….work hard, learn, and NETWORK.
Did you make connections in college in your field? How much debt if any did you graduate with?
Fast Eddie, please explain organic tendencies. Sounds like a eugenics argument to me. Is that where you are going with that comment?
30 year
Who cares what I believe? You certainly don’t but we know progressivism is the religion of many on the left. If conventional religion can’t be taught in public schools why would atheistic be taught? After all these are all just lifestyle choices(ie indocrinatuon). There’s no educational value.
10:44 i’ve Said that too Eddie
Elections have a funny way of being unpredictable .
Let’s just pop some popcorn, turn on some sweet jams, and watch the fireworks.
10:50 separation of church and state.
It’s….um…. in the Constitution . Mate
The lgbt lifestyle IS a religion. The point is to recruit others to the cause. They can’t increase their ranks “organically”. These are unproductive lifestyles so they’ve got to indoctrinate.
https://njbiz.com/ny-nj-legislatures-approve-commission-oversee-gateway-tunnel-project/
Gdblsu45, you are just f#cking with me. It isn’t possible that you believe that stuff. You are a funny guy!
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday announced a plan to spend $1 billion on improvements to the PATH trains, a project it expects to dramatically expand capacity on a system struggling under an explosion in ridership.
The agency says it will install a new signal system and new rail cars, while also making modifications to PATH stations, all by 2022. The effort is expected to increase capacity by 40 percent on the Newark-World Trade Center line and by 20 percent on the system’s three other lines.
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2019/06/20/port-authority-to-spend-1b-improving-path-service-1068637
Why is it that so many union supporters are afraid of Bernie and the S word? Just saying?
I think the issues with our schools have nothing to do with indoctrination and everything to do with curriculum that is out of touch with how things are done today. I cringe, as I watch my 14 year-old son spend 8 hours memorizing Greek, Roman, and Indian gods. Yes, before google, memorizing such things were important. Today, complete waste of time. Another example is with my 6-year old, “D.” D’s brain injury has taken away his fine motor ability. He can’t write. They have spent the majority of the last two years in his special education classes trying to get him to do what he is physically incapable of doing. Two years later, he can now write an uppercase E and an L. Curves? Forget about it. Yet, with no practice whatsoever, he can type whatever you ask him too. He reads and writes at a 1st grade level. When I asked them to introduce an iPad or computer to adapt to his strengths, they said he’ll never be able to perform in the classroom if he can’t write. I told the teacher that the only time I write these days is to sign a check. The other 99.99% of my time, I type, albeit on a phone or a computer. And these are two simple examples. My kids are reading the same literature that I read 40 years ago. It’s as if there has been nothing written since the 30s besides science fiction. And the library? Just shut it down already.
LOL!!!! You can always tell when 30 year’s listings are stagnant. Just drop your prices and take the L(s)!
Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahhaa!
Ex Pat, Fast Eddie & GdBlsU45 are the conspiracy theorists of the blog. When do you get rid of your televisions and begin home schooling?
Murphy is so bad, god forbid he help this state. The fact that the established democratic politicians are all against murphy says all I need to know. Keep thinking he is a bad guy..
“Murphy convened a task force in January to scrutinize the tax breaks – and its 75-page report released Monday presented evidence on how businesses with close ties to South Jersey political powerbroker George Norcross crafted the Grow New Jersey tax breaks to unfairly win at least $500 million of awards, and by questionable means.
“As the allegations of wrongdoing continue to mount, we have the opportunity to pass an economic development package that will help boost communities and the people who live there, but instead, the Legislature has chosen to simply extend a program that we now know was designed to benefit a connected few without concern for taxpayers,” Murphy said.
Murphy said he would only sign the legislation if it contained “much-needed reforms”—chief among them a heavy cap of $400 million a year, something that has not gotten the support of Sweeney.
NJ Forward would replace Grow NJ and be capped at $200 million a year while NJ Aspire would replace the Economic Redevelopment and Growth gap financing program and be capped at $100 million a year.”
https://njbiz.com/sweeney-hints-skepticism-murphy-sign-tax-break-extension/
30 year,
Right, propagandists have never targeted children in the past. It won’t work. That’s just tinfoil hat stuff. Hilarious in fact.
You mean I’m not going to make a fortune with my degree in Latino gender studies in climate science?
At least I’ll have my realtor’s license to fall back on.
Hahahahahahahahhahahahahaaha!!!
Do you know how to spot a fake subject in school? Progressives include the words science or studies in the title? Dead giveaway that it’s a propaganda course.
Unions have collectively bargained benefits that may be upended (reduced) depending on what a nationalized health care and salary and pension reforms would look like.
Ex Pat, please explain how that has anything to do with what I called you out for. You argue on the level of a 2nd grader. Anyone who reads the blog knows this is true. Why don’t you amuse us with some story about your brilliant career or your investments. Perhaps something about one of your former girlfriends or your cars? Like anyone gives a sh*t. Maybe you could call me a cunt?
Not Bloom : Had not thought of that makes sense. I
Was looking at it from the perspective that unions are a n S word concept.
30 year tries to convert straight people into LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ’s, hoping they will buy in the shitty neighborhoods where he sells and gentrify the place so he can make a profit.
30 year realtor says:
June 21, 2019 at 10:30 am
Gdblsu45, do you believe in conversion therapy for LGBTQ people?
I love all of Murphy’s task forces. He creates a task force to investigate his handling of rape allegations. He creates a task force to investigate the hiring at the SDA. He creates a task force to investigate what’s wrong at NJ Transit. He creates a task force to investigate what to monetize. Yet he doesn’t do sh1t. NJ Transit is now worse than ever. WORSE THAN EVER!!! His report came out well over a year ago. He is inept and every elected official in the state knows it. He is spending his blood money playing governor. Mentally, he is a three year old. He is absolutely the worst governor this state has seen. All he knows how to do is to tax and expand government. Everything he is personally responsible for has turned into a giant flaming turd.
I am not surprised one bit that Pumpkin thinks he’s the next JFK.
Pumpkin,
Regarding the stock market, look at the % of volume currently is buybacks. That will tell you much about the current valuation. When it ends, who knows but when it does, it will be brutal.
30 year,
do you have data on home inventory, DOM, LP/SP? A couple of streets near me have tear downs and major renovations (builder owned) but the area is very modest. A few more for sale signs just popped up. Am thinking last portion of a good housing market winding down. Thanks,
That’s what you are, what am I? I’m rubber, you’re glue. Everything gay you say sticks to you.
Ex Pat, please explain how that has anything to do with what I called you out for. You argue on the level of a 2nd grader.
Yeah. Progressive indocrinAtors love to dress up their propoganda courses titles with science. There’s no science to be found. Actually they reject science such as biology. Avoid at all cost if you don’t drink the kool aid.
https://reason.com/2019/06/20/two-solar-companies-said-tariffs-would-save-their-businesses-they-went-broke-anyway/
Hoboken Terminal repair almost done. The accident occurred in OCR of 2016. It only took almost 3 years to repair!!
10:59 re: indoctrination – I think you are seeing behaviors and people are having conversations about a human condition that has existed from the beginning. It doesn’t mean its being prescribed. It may be part of a conversation that you don’t want to have. But it falls under the social sciences at this point. Reproduction is not the only form of “productivity” one can employ in this life.
NJ drivers are bad! Even worse in the rain!! No wonder insurance rates are so high here!
Yup. Engineer was sleeping. He had sleep apnea. NJ Transit tests for it, but with him, they conveniently didn’t. Because the government is completely unaccountable and should not be trusted to spend our money.
Agreed. Like I focused on yesterday, they never redistributed the money through raises or good jobs. A price will be paid for this. It will sap demand which will lead to less investment, and then recession hopefully not accompanied by deflation.
Doesn’t have to be this way, but people are greedy.
It’s a beautiful idea that Randians take, but it’s pure stupidity and rooted in greed. Their idea of putting most of the capital in the hands of the producers is so biased and short-sighted, but good luck trying to get them to understand. I waste my time on this blog trying to show people the light to no avail…just laughed off.
Nomad says:
June 21, 2019 at 11:27 am
Pumpkin,
Regarding the stock market, look at the % of volume currently is buybacks. That will tell you much about the current valuation. When it ends, who knows but when it does, it will be brutal.
Here’s something for 30 year the Science Queer:
That episode is about probabilities, not biology, and given that the gender-chromosome information is outdated, it’s not surprising that Netflix or the company from which it bought the rights to the show cut that segment.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kb4wqv/bill-nye-didnt-censor-gender-science-he-updated-it-because-thats-how-science-works
30 years got triggered when I called out the left for systematically destroying the education system. Which they are. Any successful school systems are currently successful in spite of the progressives best attempts to corrupt.
Look no further than deblasio and his big plans. Destroy merit based system and replace it with ethno soviet quota system. Sure to destroy anything in the way.
11:27 i’ve Seen nothing but volatility. No real gains.
Bouncing between 52 week averages.
Still think so?
3b says:
June 18, 2019 at 12:27 pm
Joyce No there is still some good discussions here from time to time.
Machine Fair point. But I would argue it’s gone to the extreme with all the new letters being added reflecting all the new identities people claim to have and by extension need some protections.
It’s smart phones and over population 3b. As you are driving down the highway, take a look at every driver you pass or that passes you? At least one quarter are either on their phone (not hands free), or outright surfing or texting.
11:37 the education system has more bright spots than you imagine.
sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous
/ˌsaNG(k)təˈmōnēəs/
Learn to pronounce
adjectiveDEROGATORY
making a show of being morally superior to other people.
“what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?”
synonyms: self-righteous, holier-than-thou, churchy, pious, pietistic, moralizing, unctuous, smug, superior, priggish, mealy-mouthed, hypocritical, insincere, for form’s sake, to keep up appearances.
This is how I see people like you.
Joyce: I acknowledge it is rapidly declining.
Joyce!
Lyrics coming : https://youtu.be/Mx6kzgIrxhY
Lib true. It’s frightening! I am home today and had an appointment early this morning and it was pouring rain and people were still incredibly reckless!! A 15 minute car trip each way and the a hole drivers dominated both ways!!
Stop, lib. The govt is no different than the private sector. Who was unaccountable during the last downturn in 2008? Who is responsible for every recession that has happened in the history of our country….yes unaccountable private sector that greedily overproduces wasting precious resources and ruining lives.
How about when they break an oil pipeline or dump millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico that we now get to eat.
How about the overfishing of our oceans? Accountability? Come on, this has nothing to do with govt and everything to do with human nature.
Libturd, seen crazy things done with ping pong balls. says:
June 21, 2019 at 11:37 am
Yup. Engineer was sleeping. He had sleep apnea. NJ Transit tests for it, but with him, they conveniently didn’t. Because the government is completely unaccountable and should not be trusted to spend our money.
With a side of narcolepsy?
Yup. Engineer was sleeping. He had sleep apnea.
Don’t worry, it’s the govt’s fault.
Better yet, it’s all the public school’s fault. They should have done a better job teaching these drivers..
3b says:
June 21, 2019 at 11:43 am
Lib true. It’s frightening! I am home today and had an appointment early this morning and it was pouring rain and people were still incredibly reckless!! A 15 minute car trip each way and the a hole drivers dominated both ways!!
I have narcolepsy, but it’s only triggered when I accidentally read one of Nimfy’s posts.
AOC instructing Trump to negotiate with Iran I guess diplomacy is another area she is quite familiar with. AOC is an embarrassment just like Trump!
The real topic for today is how to get rid of those concentration camps Trump implemented on the southern border!
AOC is the poster child for progressive indoctrination. 20 years, hundreds of thousands of public funds, degree from prestigious school.
Produced a half wit only qualified to mix drinks.
This country is racist and capitalism is evil!
At least she’ll be dead in 12 years.
Essex is good sport. He sent me some of his custom ping pong balls.
https://www.amazon.com/Graphics-More-Heart-Novelty-Tennis/dp/B01L89KT3E
Who was unaccountable during the last downturn in 2008?
Speak to the government officials that declined to prosecute anybody.
They’re called “American Opportunity Centers” or AOC for short.
Fast Eddie says:
June 21, 2019 at 11:57 am
The real topic for today is how to get rid of those concentration camps Trump implemented on the southern border!
Go after trump the same way you do with Murphy. Murphy wasn’t even involved with the act..so by defending trump, you are doing the same thing you are attacking Murphy for…looking the other way.
“The cover story New York published this morning details an encounter the writer E. Jean Carroll had over two decades ago with Donald J. Trump, in which the then–real-estate mogul allegedly assaulted her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in midtown Manhattan.”
https://apple.news/AnIiNiD1xTpaTZzL8h1nvMg
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Speaking of concentration camps the Chinese government apparently has one million ethnic Muslim Turkmen in camps in northwest China. They are attempting to make them ethnically Hans and get rid of the religion. Not a peep from the west.
Biden’s gotta be asking himself why the f.uck he’s associated with a party that’s been hijacked by a warped, twisted, depraved and angry bunch of misfits. I bet he regrets it and doesn’t know how to back out of it. And if tax dollars go towards funding ab0rtion, then what’s next on the list?
Biden was unfairly criticized yesterday by the others running for President. The Dems keep this up and Trump will be re elected.
No difference from US colleges.
Speaking of concentration camps the Chinese government apparently has one million ethnic Muslim Turkmen in camps in northwest China. They are attempting to make them ethnically Hans and get rid of the religion. Not a peep from the west.
I’m pretty sure Biden will win if he’s the nominee. Polls back that up.
And here’s the beautiful irony that’s lost on all of them. The other candidates were taking Biden to task for speaking favorably about…wait for it…Democrats!
Biden was unfairly criticized yesterday by the others running for President. The Dems keep this up and Trump will be re elected.
And here’s Obama speaking at a Klan funeral. And who is the dopey blonde behind him? Gillibrand, of course!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuKjYe-C_iQ
You can’t make this stuff up!
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/06/robert-byrd-was-an-exalted-cyclops-in-the-ku-klux-klan-what-does-that-mean.html
Yep. CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS…sure they are all fake news…but at least their polls are always true!
How many lead-filled ping pong balls did you take to the head(s)?
I’m pretty sure Biden will win if he’s the nominee. Polls back that up.
I’m pretty sure Biden will win if he’s the nominee. Polls back that up.
Sure, just what the progressive crowd wants.. an old guy out of his league, way past his prime who speaks in forms of dementia. Then again, they’ve been so thoroughly abused for the last 10 years, they’d vote for a piece of limestone if it was up against Trump. Eight years of disappointment by a smooth-talking, big-eared sham followed by the big heist in 2016 and the misfits are fit to be tied.
This opinion piece is pretty good. This guy gets it. That’s how I feel, I feel like I have been abandoned by current politics. They don’t care about centrists anymore, only care about extremists on their team.
“One of those core beliefs is that no one should be discriminated against because of his race. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream—that every person be judged by the quality of his character rather than the color of his skin—resonated with the experience of my own Jewish forefathers, who had come to this country seeking an equal opportunity to compete, to learn and to find work. At some point, however, the liberal ideal of equality of opportunity gave way to a progressive program to give certain historically disadvantaged groups overt preferences in education and employment. This is the opposite of judging people based on their character. Liberalism somehow made a U-turn when it morphed into contemporary progressivism.”
“My first reaction to the #MeToo movement was satisfaction that victims of sexual harassment could feel safer about speaking out. Then, during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, “women deserve to be heard” transformed into “women deserve to be believed.” A presumption of guilt replaced the presumption of innocence, and progressives seemed unconcerned. I can imagine a #MeToo version of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” with Mayella Ewell as the heroine, Atticus Finch condemned for “toxic masculinity” and the lynch mob cheered as an engine of popular justice.
Another tenet of American justice that inspired me to lean left was the idea that every defendant, however unpopular, is entitled to legal representation. Here my childhood heroes were lawyers like William Kunstler, who defended politically unpopular leftist clients, and the American Civil Liberties Union, which defended clients of every stripe when their constitutional rights were threatened.
This year, however, Ronald Sullivan, a Harvard Law School professor, became the object of student protests after joining disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s defense team. The protests led Harvard to fire Mr. Sullivan and his wife as faculty deans at Winthrop House, a campus residential college. The right of an unpopular defendant to counsel, it seems, is no longer a progressive value.
Another of my core values is free speech. In the McCarthy era, one often heard of professors and screenwriters being forced out of their jobs for expressing far-left views. Today it’s conservative professors that are an endangered species on campus. Progressive students have become expert at forcing the dismissal or resignation of professors who allegedly display insufficient sensitivity about racial or gender issues. All too often, such students are able to keep anyone they disagree with from even speaking on campus. Once again, progressives have become the most visible enemies of a core “liberal” value.
I know that young people are often idealistic and attracted to anything that seems like a fight against injustice. But progressives today are riding roughshod over much of what liberalism once stood for. I hope that old 1960s liberals like me will stand firm, not be shamed into silence, and call out those who challenge our core values, whether from the left or the right.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/liberalism-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-11561069996?mod=hp_opin_pos1
Punkin wrote: “they never redistributed the money through raises or good jobs.”
I thought you claimed that the labor inflation situation is great and that you “called it”.
Just because you don’t get raises and are stuck in a dead-end job doesn’t mean that your betters haven’t been getting them.
All this complaining about how the rich aren’t redistributing their wealth to you so that you can boost your consumer spending which you incorrectly believe will boost the economy makes me think you got passed over for promotion for the 10th straight year. Now tell me again how you don’t want that promotion because you’re preserving your great “lifestyle” rather than wasting it by studying or improving your skills. Instead you keep hoping your “connections” will land you a better job than your incompetence deserves.
My wife once managed a guy that in some ways reminds me of you. He was a “financial analyst” too. He got an accounting degree but was too dumb or lazy to put in the accountancy work and test prep to get a CPA. He was basically a gofer in the department. He could generally do routine work that he was instructed to do. But he couldn’t figure out that much for himself. He was ok working with Excel, but never invented any improvements. So he was ok doing manual type work that smaller offices do, but my wife had worked at the bigger firms before that and she knew he could never learn to work with more advanced systems or deal with more professionally run firms. Thus he would forever be trapped in this firm, and yet he got married, has some kids, and his expenses keep going up, so he tries to get a raise or a promotion to keep up with the bills, but he’s incompetent to manage people, so there’s not much hope for a real promotion. He’s just kind of stuck. He still calls my wife for advice, but he’s already ruled out the stuff that could have put him on a promotion track. She doesn’t know how he can get out of this bind.
The one thing everyone is overlooking is Biden is hung like a horse and internal man energy batteries are calibrated far better than Trump. Trump knows this and it makes his tiny fingers tremble. I can’t wait til they debate and Trump succumbs to Biden’s superior gene formulation. And collapses on the floor in the fetal position.
First off, I’m good. I’m happy. I want it to stay that way. So I hope the rich can get some money down to the consumers or risk taking this into a recession or worse.
It speaks volumes that you make the claim that a redistribution of capital from the top to the bottom can’t grow the economy. You really didn’t mean this, did you? Otherwise, I have no respect for you opinion on the economy. You are basically taking the position that you can’t grow the economy by flooding the bottom with capital that gives them the ability to drive the need for investment growth.
Since you took this position, I assume you will make the claim that tax cuts can’t boost the economy. So why exactly are you crying about high taxes on the rich? On the simpleton belief that you earned it and it’s all yours?
Fyi, your post assumes I’m a loser and fool, which I am neither.
No One says:
June 21, 2019 at 2:52 pm
Punkin wrote: “they never redistributed the money through raises or good jobs.”
I thought you claimed that the labor inflation situation is great and that you “called it”.
Just because you don’t get raises and are stuck in a dead-end job doesn’t mean that your betters haven’t been getting them.
All this complaining about how the rich aren’t redistributing their wealth to you so that you can boost your consumer spending which you incorrectly believe will boost the economy makes me think you got passed over for promotion for the 10th straight year. Now tell me again how you don’t want that promotion because you’re preserving your great “lifestyle” rather than wasting it by studying or improving your skills. Instead you keep hoping your “connections” will land you a better job than your incompetence deserves
Machine,
Lol! That was good!
Fyi, I ain’t dumb too
Fyi, you ain’t smart too
PumpkinFace says:
June 21, 2019 at 3:16 pm
Fyi, I ain’t dumb too
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Absolutely…… it is stunning…..
3b says:
June 21, 2019 at 12:31 pm
Speaking of concentration camps the Chinese government apparently has one million ethnic Muslim Turkmen in camps in northwest China. They are attempting to make them ethnically Hans and get rid of the religion. Not a peep from the west.
30: I agree with your point. However, my biggest concern is normalizing something that is a sophisticated adult determination and presenting it to individuals that are at the beginning of forming their identities. In the same way you need to monitor internet exposure, kids need to understand what is vanilla ice cream, before heading off to strawberry and Cherry Garcia.
In a tangential point, I was trying to help my wife locate some summer school resources for her to enhance her background for the 2019-2020 academic year…… check out the fcuked up sh!t here….. totally shocked and stunned….. you understand that these events can be submitted to school districts for reimbursement under “professional development”.
https://www.njea.org/event/examining-power-privilege-gender-and-race-in-a-global-context-ends-jul-21/
https://www.njea.org/event/preserving-african-american-and-gullah-history-ends-aug-1st/
30 year realtor says:
June 21, 2019 at 10:30 am
Gdblsu45, do you believe in conversion therapy for LGBTQ people? I am assuming you do because you believe education about LGBTQ issues can make your child gay. I am assuming you also believe the earth is flat.
Maybe if the rich understood this, our country wouldn’t be going down hill for the majority of our citizens. It’s all about the “me.” What am I getting out of it? That’s why they cry about their civic duty to pay taxes and help society out. Btw, the author is 3 for 3 with raising her children, think she knows what she is talking about.
“They tend to focus on money, because they think it will make them happy and fulfilled. It’s the American idea: Get rich, then do nothing. Sit on a beach. Go out for an expensive dinner. Go to Las Vegas. But these kinds of pursuits turn people into narcissists and thrill addicts.
There seems to be a number of them here in Silicon Valley, people who worry about themselves before anyone else. They don’t prioritize the good of the community, they don’t fight for social causes and they aren’t pursuing a life of meaning and purpose.
As a result, they often end up isolated and depressed. I’ve met lots of unhappy millionaires and even some unhappy billionaires. A lot of them probably started out as directionless kids.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/08/i-raised-2-successful-ceos-and-a-doctor-here-is-one-if-the-biggest-mistakes-parents-make.html?fbclid=IwAR3sY0VMvhyZw_oXG7jk7DtNFPZy4ev58QdofUKbxb5gmjp4wBvLdvTCehs
“It’s rather strange to be a “famous” parent and have your family profiled on the cover of magazines. I certainly don’t claim all the credit for their successes, but all three have turned out to be accomplished, caring and capable people.
Susan is the CEO of YouTube, Janet is a professor of pediatrics, and Anne is the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe. They rose to the top of ultra-competitive, male-dominated professions.”
These are the wealthy we need. Not the scumbags dodging their tax bill and hiding it in off shore accounts because god forbid he help anyone else.
Chicago, sensitive discussing sexuality with children. The curriculum should be appropriate. Of course this is a rational discussion unlike the hate and denial expressed here by others.
I am all for rational discourse and fully against hate.
We need wealthy ping pong players
Chifi, the NJEA constantly puts out pamphlets aligning with the progressive doctrines of today. Fortunately, at my two schools I worked at, they never pushed this. However, they do push it at my son’s elementary school. I was very annoyed. One of his assemblies was “women in science” where they encouraged girls to go into science. My son left it thinking science is not for him. My wife, who is a woman with multiple Chemistry degrees was even more annoyed.
I’m willing to bet that both my son and daughter end up in science or engineering, but I don’t need a leftist moron to try to push her into it.