Employment: silver cloud, dark lining

Statistics, one of three kinds of lie:

James Pethokoukis: What the plunging unemployment rate really means for Obamas reelection. Those headline economic numbers are terribly misleading, hardly reflecting the devastation most Americans still see every day. An 8.5 percent unemployment rate? Please. If the size of the U.S. labor force [were] as large as it was when Barack Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 10.9 percent.

But since so many people have gotten discouraged and stopped looking for work and [were] thus disappeared by government statisticians the jobless number has been artificially depressed.

A better gauge of the jobs picture is the broader U-6 rate, which includes part-timers who would rather have full-time jobs. It stands at a whopping 15.2 percent. [Italics,
boldface added]

Statistics don’t lie, White Houses do. [Much
obliged, Instapundit]

Gay Catholics Plan Protest Against Cardinal Over Comparison to Ku Klux Klan

I refuse to believe that these creepy characters represent a main stream of same-sex-oriented people.

It’s the first time in his tenure that I have felt like going to the mat for, not with, Cardinal George, whose obvious main crime is not using the KKK word but in being outspoken about their behavior and violating the city’s smothering political correctness.

Advice to blacks about not being fooled by symbolists

Among whom is the current president of U.S.:

. . . please, stop thinking that the worst thing a white politician can do to you is call you a nigger . . .  The worst thing any politician can do to you is refuse to take your demographic seriously and thus . . . neutralize your political power.

The worst thing a politician . . . can do to you and me is saturate us with symbolism and starve us of substance, as is the case with our current President who sends us Christmas cards showcasing a beautiful black family, with few policy initiatives that actually support any black families other than his own . . . .

Writer has soft spot in heart for Ron Paul, whom she much prefers to Obama’s ” slightly more evil twin – Mitt Romney.”  Heh.