The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
Twice what gummint says.
Go, Obama. (Quicker the better):
(CNSNews.com) — Although the national unemployment rate for December was 4.7%, the real or total unemplyment rate — people who work part-time because of the economy and other marginally attached workers — was 9.2%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Source: Real Unemployment 9.3%
Hope and short change:
When President Obama took office in January 2009, 80,529,000 Americans were not in the labor force, the highest number on record. That number rose steadily during his two terms, reaching a record 95,055,000 in November 2016, then setting another record (95,102,000) in December.
80 mill to 95 mill, hmm:
Last month, a record 152,111,000 Americans were counted as employed, up 63,000 from November; and the number of unemployed stood at 7,529,000, an increase of 120,000 from the prior month.
But people who stop looking for a job are no longer counted as unemployed.
They don’t count.
In an interview with a Chicago reporter yesterday, Obama said he has done “an enormous amount” to create greater economic opportunity for Americans.
“I took an economy that was about to go into a Great Depression, and we’ve now had a little over six years of straight economic job growth, an unemployment rate that’s down below 5 percent, and incomes that have gone up and poverty that has gone down.”
And the reporter asked about the people who don’t count, as above. (Just kidding, OK?)
Source: Record 95,102,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Number Grew 18% Since Obama Took Office in 2009
342-80 vote.
“Do not be fooled,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a rare floor speech. “This U.N. Security Council resolution was not about settlements, and it certainly was not about peace. It was about one thing and one thing only: Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish, democratic state.”
Obama’s parting shot from the anti-Israel far left. Quite disgusting.
Source: House rebukes Obama, UN over Israel vote | Washington Examiner
The charged:
In Washington, White House press secretary Josh Ernest said the Facebook video demonstrated “a level of depravity that is an outrage to a lot of Americans.”
A lot?
Source: Facebook Live Torture Victim Was Friends With One Of His Tormenters – Hermosa – DNAinfo Chicago
The public will get to see an unclassified version of the intelligence community’s report on Russian hacking by early next week, the director of national intelligence said on Thursday.
President Obama had requested that the report, which is expected to give the public an idea of what influence Russia had on the U.S. election, be released before his term ends on Jan. 20, a deadline the intelligence community seems poised to meet.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the public version of the report from the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency will be released next week and briefed to Congress.
Clapper said he had four briefings planned for Congress next week, including meetings for the full House and Senate as well as closed sessions with the oversight committees to go into more detail about sources and methods.
While the unclassified report will not include sensitive sources and methods that could hurt the intelligence community, Clapper stressed that he is releasing as much as possible to the public.
Source: White House will release report on Russian hacking to public next week | Washington Examiner
. . . the larcenous trio had cased the place but left when chased by faithful dog.
Faithful dog
Another manager, on duty at that time, about not calling cops after they’d left,
“I was trying to give them [the teens] the benefit of the doubt,” a mistake she won’t make in the future, she said.
A little experience helps in these matters.
Source: Pet Store Manager Chases Down Lincoln Square Package Thieves – Lincoln Square – DNAinfo Chicago
. . . for arguing, no stating as obvious, what so obviously ain’t so.
New York Times columnist David Brooks writes: Donald Trump doesn’t think in that way, either. He is anti-system.
As my “PBS NewsHour” colleague Mark Shields points out, he has no experience being accountable to anybody, to a board of directors or anybody, to a board of directors or an owner.
Really? Hear the SmarterTimes man:
To say that Mr. Trump “has no experience being accountable to anybody” is a falsehood so blatant that if Mr. Trump himself had uttered it the Times itself would probably have inserted the words “falsely,” as it has taken to doing in an unusually aggressive attempt to fact-check the president-elect.
Etc. A takedown of echo-chamber blather.
Geriatric.
Face it, Democrats, where you are at the start of 2017 is not where you thought you would be.Just eight years ago you were looking at several decades of liberal governance under your very own Franklin D. Roosevelt, with united control of the federal government.
Now, as they say, you can drive to Utah from Florida without passing through one state that is not under unified GOP governance.
Your political leadership is now geriatric, and your candidate cupboard is bare.
And what set of miscreants brought this upon you? Look no further than your most recent two-term-winning presidents, so glib, so winning, and so very persuasive that they lured you out on a limb that they sawed off behind you, and left you to fend for yourselves.
Sad, but couldn’t have happened to a more deserving ideology.
. . . In fact, unlike the sage Michelle Obama and others, I am feeling hope today like I have not felt for a long time. Marty? Not so much:
For more than a year I engaged in the visual and oral analog to “fasting.” Fasters discipline themselves not to eat. I chose not to comment on the election campaigns.
A digital word-search will find no mention in 50 Monday Sightings of any presidential candidate or party.
The choice was an implicit protest against or retreat from the grossness, waste, distortion, and distraction in what elections have become.
He missed a chance for his own Journal of the Plague Year, I guess.
Source: Many Sightings of Hope | The University of Chicago Divinity School
. . . giving chapter and verse of his sterling character, among other features.
Petty political ploys are standard operating procedure back in the Chicago wards that spawned President Barack Obama’s career.
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has declined to retaliate against the U.S. sanctions over the Russian hacking during the election season.
With Putin, Obama’s actions smack of a jilted suitor, writes columnist Andrew Malcolm.
Blithe Spirit 