Posted on 06/03/2005 3:40:30 PM PDT by Pippin
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
I have so many wonderful pics on my hard drive....I just don't know how to post them?! ;-(
ODDS & ENDS . . .
MY TAKE ON JOBS [Larry Kudlow]
On the surface, today’s 78,000 increase in nonfarm payroll jobs looks weaker than expected in the May jobs report. But surface conclusions are often misleading. The household survey, from which the 5.1 percent unemployment rate is derived, supplied 376,000 new workforce entrants. Over the past three months the household survey has increased by an average of 444,000 per month compared to 158,000 for the established business count.
According to Bear Stearns economist John Ryding, on a payroll-adjusted basis (excluding self-employment and adjusting for multiple job holders), household employment rose 210,000 in May and has averaged 372,000 per month over the last three months. So there’s still a good deal of labor-market strength despite today’s headline weakness. Year-to-date non-farm payrolls are averaging 180,000 per month, on track to deliver 2.2 million new jobs this year, the same total as 2004. Households, on the other hand, are tracking year-to-date at a 2.6 million annual rise, much stronger than last year’s 1.7 million total.
Meanwhile, wage gains for non-supervisory workers have increased 2.6 percent over the past twelve months. However, worker earnings when measured more broadly are actually much stronger. Compensation per hour in the non-farm sector increased 3.9 percent over the past year. In the non-financial corporate sector, hourly comp registered a whopping 7 percent annual gain. Total wages and salaries from all sources are rising about 7.5 percent. So, at a low 5.1 percent unemployment rate, the U.S. workforce is experiencing significant income gains.
Though mainstream economists and reporters pay scant attention to the fiscal-policy influence on jobs and incomes, the fact remains that since President Bush’s supply-side tax cuts went into effect in mid-2003, non-farm payrolls have grown by 3.5 million with household employment gaining 3.9 million. Unemployment has dropped to 5.1 percent from 6.3 percent. Average quarterly growth in real GDP has advanced by 4.4 percent annually. The economic power of lower marginal tax rates on household incomes and capital formation is still misunderestimated, to re-coin a phrase.
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp
ANOTHER ARTICLE, SAME TOPIC (includes great graphics):
http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_buzzcharts/buzzcharts200506031253.asp
HE'S NOT WALKING LIKE A LAME DUCK
By Janet Hook, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — When President Bush first latched onto mountain biking as his favored form of exercise, he plowed over rough terrain with a distinctive technique: Even when he pedaled uphill, he refused to shift to a lower gear.
That is an apt metaphor for the way Bush is making his way through the second term of his presidency: No matter how steep the climb to his goals — to revamp Social Security, to win confirmation for his choice for United Nations ambassador, to bring stability to Iraq — Bush is pushing on, as if heedless of the enormous obstacles he faces in Congress, around the country and across the globe.
[I LOVE the bicycling metaphor!]
You can read the rest of the article at
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-duck3jun03,0,91171.story?coll=la-home-headlines
DEMOCRACY SPREADS: IT'S BUSH'S FAULT
June 3rd, 2005
“When the people realize they have the power to expose the deceit underlying a government prone to repression, it is the beginning of that regime's end,”
- Peter Ackerman, The Boston Globe
A resilient, yet experimental venture by the Bush Administration into uncharted waters has proven largely beneficial, as democracy sweeps several countries once occupied by tyrants. The winds of change are blowing across the world as jubilant demonstrators are taking back their God-given right to freedom once usurped by fascist dictators. An unshaken vision of international democracy in coordination with the deep desire of individuals across the world to be free has led to elections across the Middle East and the former Soviet Union.
You can read the rest of the article at
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4545
RASMUSSEN:
GWB JOB APPROVAL: 53% approve 46% disapprove (+7)
[According to Rasmussen, this is the President's highest job approval in 3 months! CAVEAT: We have now entered the 'summer season' -- polls are particularly volatile during this period, almost as volatile as key poll 'movers', e.g., gas prices, job reports, DNC/media manufactured controversies, and so on.]
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm
Oh, those are sweet too. Where do you find them all?
Well, I think I'll be another party pooper and log off tonight also. I hope you all have a great weekend. Jonny I hope you have a SUPER birthday!
Snugs, take care. :)
Are you signed up with a photo server on the web?
Good night
"Hiya, On one of the buses today some folks by
me going on about Bush and it is his fault for the war,
he is stupid, his father funded everything, on and on.
I don't sit there when I hear that crap.
By the time I was finished with them, they got a lesson
in history and current affairs.
This happens quite often on the bus and other public
areas."
GOOD FOR YOU!!
I do the same thing on campus . . . We must take advantage of 'teachable' moments whenever and wherever they appear!
No, sorry....I'm a bit "web-challenged". But, I'm willing to learn.
I've got five years of photos....and, I'd love to share them.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR JONNY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
[And MANY more!!]
Thank you for the links
Larry Kudlow...........SWOON!
You're welcome . . . And thank YOU for the great photos!!
Kudlow is one of my FAVES as well!!!!
We must take advantage of 'teachable' moments whenever and wherever they appear!
Absolutely! Many of these folks didn't know the
WTC was bombed in "93, etc.
They can only speak in left wing talking points.
Just checking out the great pictures between cooking and folding clothes . . .
RE: Teachable moments . . . I was in the car with my son today, and somehow the subject of Hillary and Laura Bush came up. Cody said, "I think Laura Bush would make a great president." And I said, "There are polls that say she would beat Hillary."
And he said (are you ready?) "But mom, who were they polling--was it mostly republicans? Because that would for sure make her win in the polls . . . "
I was sooo impressed,and that led to a discussion of some of the things you point out when you give us poll results--who was asked, HOW the questions were asked, etc. When I told him about how many polls skew it by asking many more Dims, he said, "REEEAAAALLLYY" . . . as in, "I get it mom--they cheat!"
So, THANK YOU for educating me, so I could educate my son! He's going to be much more skeptical about the results now, and know the questions to ask to see if theyr'e valid.
Everyone, have a great weekend! I"m off to, you guessed it, another cattle show. ;-)
You've got a VERY BRIGHT son . . . He obviously takes after his mother!!!
Enjoy your cattle show! . . . I hope the weather cooperates -- heat and humidity can be a NASTY combination at an open air cattle event . . . been there, done that!!
AWESOME article from BEN STEIN:
I DON'T FEEL FOR FELT
By Ben Stein
Published 6/3/2005 1:09:24 AM
Just a few more thoughts on the events of the day:
Now, we read that Mark Felt's family and Mark Felt put out their story solely to make money off it. So, this makes the family's karma even more unnerving. The father, patriarch, Mark, took out his anger and frustration for being passed over at the FBI, by ruining the career of the peacemaker, Richard Nixon. So, he condemned a whole subcontinent to genocide and slavery and poverty to please his own wounded vanity. (Maybe his nickname should be "sour grapes" and not "deep throat" because he has as much in common with that fox as with a porn star.) And, blood will tell, as the old saying goes: his posterity is now dragging out his old body and putting it on display to make money. (Have you noticed how Mark Felt looks like one of those old Nazi war criminals they find in Bolivia or Paraguay? That same, haunted, hunted look combined with a glee at what he has managed to get away with so far?)
You can read the rest of the article at
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8255
Thanks--I try every day to teach both kids about "real life."
Yep, the cattle show will probably be hot and humid. We're in for more storms, I think. Where have you been to cattle shows?
What exactly happens at a Cattle Show is there other things going about apart from cow related things?
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