Moody's lowers August 2012 US job expectation to 140,000 from earlier 150,000-LA Times

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Previous week claims 'revised upward' enabling this week's headline trumpeting claims 'unchanged.' Moody's lowers August expectation to 140,000.

8/30/12, "Jobless Claims in U.S. Unchanged Last Week at One-Month High," Bloomberg, Woellert

"More Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign that progress in the labor market is faltering amid a slowing economy.

Jobless claims were little changed at 374,000 in the week ended Aug. 25, matching the upwardly revised figure from the prior week, the Labor Department reported today in Washington. The median forecast of 50 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News called for 370,000. The four-week moving average, a less volatile measure, climbed to a six-week high."...

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8/30/12, "Jobless claims unchanged last week at 374,000," LA Times, Jim Puzzanghera

"Initial claims for unemployment benefits were unchanged last week at 374,000, slightly higher than analysts had expected, indicating jobs growth was still sluggish.

The four-week average for jobless claims ticked up to 370,250 from the previous week's revised figure of 368,750, the Labor Department said Thursday. Seasonally adjusted initial claims have been slowly increasing since the week ending July 21, when the number was 357,000.

The data point toward little movement in the unemployment rate in August, which the government is scheduled to release on Sept. 7....

Friday's figures on initial unemployment claims led Moody's to lower its expectation for August job growth to 140,000 from an earlier projection of 150,000, he said.

The unemployment rate was 8.3% in July, when the economy added 163,000 net new jobs."...

If Obama had sons, they'd all look like these young men seeking construction jobs at a New York job fair, ap photo via LA Times, 8/30/12.

3/23/12, "Obama: "If I Had A Son He'd Look Like Trayvon"," Buzzfeed, Zeke Miller

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Packed house greets Romney and Ryan in Jacksonville Landing, Florida, Sept. 1, 2012

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9/1/12, "Reader: “At huge Jacksonville Landing Romney-Ryan event – place is insanely packed”," Legal Insurrection, William A. Jacobson

More photos at link

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Buddha-like Obama monument partially washed away by rain in Charlotte

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9/1/12, "Rains wash away Mount Obama in Charlotte, N.C.," Washington Times, S. Dinan, photo by S. Dinan



The Great Buddha, India


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Republicans in America 10 yr. high in August 2012, 37.6 Rep., Dem. 33.3, Rasmussen

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9/10/12, "Partisan Trends, Number of Republicans in America Reaches Record High," Rasmussen

"After falling for two straight months, the number of Americans who consider themselves Republicans jumped nearly three points in August.

During August, 37.6% of Americans considered themselves Republicans. That’s up from 34.9% in July and 35.4% in June. It’s also the largest number of Republicans ever recorded by Rasmussen Report since monthly tracking began in November 2002. The previous peak for the GOP was 37.3% in September 2004. See History of Party Trends." (below)

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Party Affiliation, Rasmussen

Rep., Dec., Ind.:

"Nov. 2006 31.4-- 37.5-- 31.2

Nov. 2008 33.8--41.4--24.7

Nov. 2010 36.0--34.7--29.3

Nov. 2011 34.3--34.9--30.8

Aug. 2012 37.6--33.3--29.2"

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Ed. note: The Republican nadir of Nov. 2006 shows the effectiveness of parasites like Karl Rove and Ed Rollins. They're not quite done destroying the GOP and the country. Rove, Rollins and the Bushes aim to finish the job:

Ed Rollins attacks Rush Limbaugh but not Obama:

8/31/12, "The Obama Good Guy/Bad Guy Debate," Rush Limbaugh transcript

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Ed Rollins exemplifies failed, irrelevant GOP's "vanity and egotism" trying to "reassert the Republican establishment over the tea party revolution."...(begin parag. 11)

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11/4/10, "Ruling Class GOP declare war on country class conservatives, " Rush Limbaugh transcript

"Apparently the establishment Republicans

• will fight harder and more viciously to stop conservatives

• than to stop Obama and the left. "...(2/3 down page).

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Country Club GOP fighting to the death--not against Obama, against the Tea Party:

7/13/12, "George Shultz Endorses Carbon Tax – You Were Surprised?" GlobalWarming.org, Marlo Lewis

"But there has always been a wing of the GOP — the “establishment,” “Country Club,” or “Rockefeller” Republicans — who care more about controlling the party than about advancing liberty or even about winning elections....AEI’s Ken Green (a colleague of Hassett’s) hits the nail on the head. In a story on Shultz’s endorsement of carbon taxes, Green told Climatewire: (subscrip):

“I think this is mostly vanity and egotism on the part of these people who are coming forward, to try and reassert the Republican establishment over the tea party revolution,” he added. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we have more of these guys weigh in.”"...(begin parag. 11)...

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Above cartoon notes historic Nov. 2010 elections when the Tea Party gave life to the nearly extinct GOP it didn't deserve. Since GOP 'leadership' and its parasite consultant class are worse today than ever, one must conclude improved Republican poll numbers are a result of extremely unhappy democrats and independents.


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Vernon Parker wins GOP primary in new Arizona 9th district, will face democrat Sinema

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8/29/12, "Parker wins GOP primary in new 9th District," Arizona Daily Sun

"Former Paradise Valley mayor Vernon Parker has won the Republican nomination in Arizona's new 9th Congressional District.

Some early ballots remain to be counted but results Wednesday with all 141 precincts reporting show Parker with an 800-vote margin over Wendy Rogers, with a total of more than 38,000 votes cast in the seven-way GOP race.

Parker will face former state Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in the general election. She won the district's three-way Democratic primary.

The 9th District takes in much of Tempe and parts of Phoenix, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Mesa and Chandler." via Free Republic. photo PhoenixBusinessBlog, April 2012

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Twin suicide bombings by Obama peace partners in Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, civilians murdered-BBC

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9/1/12, "Deadly suicide blasts near Nato Afghan base in Wardak," BBC

"A twin suicide bombing near a Nato base in central Afghanistan has killed at least nine civilians and four policemen, officials say. The attack, in Wardak province, destroyed much of a local bazaar, eyewitnesses say.

The first attack was carried out by a militant on foot; then an explosives-laden lorry was detonated....The first suicide bomber targeted the local governor's office in the district of Saidabad, officials say.

A number of shops and houses were destroyed in the truck bomb explosion that followed.

At least 47 people were wounded. No staff from the Nato base were killed, said officials from the US-led force.

"A suicide bomber on foot detonated near the gate of the base in Saidabad, Wardak province, opening the way for a truck suicide bombing that followed him," provincial spokesman Shahiddullah Shahid told the AFP news agency."...

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AP says Obama 'angling for aura of leadership, turn will come.' Obama had 4 yr. 'turn' & sycophant media to get 'aura'

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AP: 'Obama's turn coming...angling for the aura of leadership'... AP acknowledges that in 4 years Obama has failed to lead and his only 'chance' to get re-elected is to put on a good act at the democrat convention:

8/31/12, "Now comes Obama's turn; tight campaign at a pivot," AP, Ben Feller, Matthew Daly

"His convention turn coming fast, President Barack Obama on Friday began sprinting toward one of his last, best shots to win over voters, ready to promise better days even for those who do not feel better off. Rival Mitt Romney, flush with confidence after his party's convention, declared: "We love this country and we're taking it back."

Both angling for the aura of leadership, Romney swooped in on rain-drenched Louisiana....Obama, too, will visit storm-battered Louisiana on Monday, a move the White House said was decided before Romney revealed his plans."...via Lucianne

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Ed. note: Wow! Obama is "ready to promise better days," per AP.

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Head of US Joint Chiefs says US not in mortal danger, Israel is, but US won't be involved

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8/31/12, "Head of Joint Chiefs Abandons Israel," Breitbart News, Bigelow

"Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of U.S. armed forces, said on Thursday that he does not wish to be “complicit” in any Israeli strike on Iran. Today it was reported that Benjamin Netanyahu, frustrated with the lack of support from the Obama Administration, told U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro that time was running out.

Just last week, Dempsey bluntly said that he wasn’t as concerned about Iran as Israel was because the United states was not in mortal danger, while Israel was. Speaking of conversations he had with Benny Gantz, his Israeli counterpart, Dempsey said,

We compare intelligence, we discuss regional implications, and we've admitted to each other that our clocks are turning at different rates … Israel is living with an existential concern that we are not living with.

Dempsey then said that he didn’t know Iran’s nuclear intentions.

That may have been true a week ago, but not now: a report in the Wall Street Journal yesterday revealed that the man who is the Robert Oppenheimer of Iran’s nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, has suddenly reappeared and is back at work helping to prepare the way for nuclear weaponry.

There are those who doubt Iran’s desire to destroy Israel first and then the West, but their history is clear, and they are not bluffing about wishing to eradicate the Jewish state and murder Americans as well.

For Dempsey, who not coincidentally was appointed by Barack Obama to head the Joint Chiefs, to publicly abandon Israel in its time of crisis because America may have a little more time to wait is repugnant. But he has already shown he is a good soldier for Obama; he criticized the former CIA agents, Navy SEALs and other military veterans who lambasted Obama for his security leaks. And Obama didn’t even give him thirty pieces of silver."

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P.S. Obama has long sought the destruction of Israel. This has nothing to do with Iran or nukes. Obama's top advisor Samantha Power long ago said a massive military force was necessary to get rid of Israel. Obama's chief even says Israel at this moment faces an existential threat. That was the plan.

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7/28/12, "Carney and WH Web Site 'Follow Up' Won't Admit to What the Law Dictates: Jerusalem Is Israel's Capital," NewsBusters, Tom Blumer

"One of the most embarrassing yet telling exchanges (using the term loosely, as will be seen) in the history of presidential press secretaries occurred on Thursday. Connie Lawn, described here as longest-serving White House reporter, asked Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney what should have been a really easy question: "What city does this administration consider to be the capital of Israel -- Jerusalem or Tel Aviv?"

Carney wouldn't answer it."...

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