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  • May Jobs Report Adds 339k Jobs, But Unemployment Rate Rises To 3.7% (Avg Hourly Earnings Cool To 4.3% YoY, Too Bad Core Inflation Still Sizzling At 5.5%)

    06/02/2023 6:03:57 AM PDT · by Kaiser8408a · 5 replies
    Confounded Interest ^ | 06/02/2023 | Anthony B. Sanders
    The May jobs report is out and, under normal circumstances, would led The Fed to raise rates. But these are not normal times, my friends. The US economy (allegedly) added 339k jobs in May. That is the good news. The bad news? While US average hourly earnings YoY cooled to 4.3%, inflation is still roaring at 4.9% (headline) and 5.5% (core). So Americans are still losing ground to inflation. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% in May while the underemployment rate rose to 6.7%. With unemployment rising to 3.7%, the Taylor Rule implies a Fed Funds Target rate of 10.12%....
  • Shasta County's new CEO begins this week; responds to recent controversy

    06/02/2023 6:01:31 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 4 replies
    KRCR news ^ | Thu, June 1st 2023, 3:51 PM PDT | by MIKE MANGAS, ADAM ROBINSON
    Fresh from Winnebago County, Illinois, he seemed to take it all in stride. "Well, in Illinois, I served as a public official for 22 years, as the tax collector and treasurer, so I have a fairly thick skin and dealing with constituents, and working with them, is something that comes second nature to me. I hope to work well, even with the people that have very strong opinions out here also," Rickert told KRCR. " ... He should be up on the dais for next week's meeting. Again, he is not related to Supervisor Mary Rickert.
  • Trump the COVID Cuomosexual

    06/02/2023 5:49:18 AM PDT · by lasereye · 84 replies
    NY Post ^ | June 1, 2023 | Post Editorial Board
    Who says bromance is dead? Our ever-fickle ex-prez Donald Trump has found a new fave in an old enemy: disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on whom he basically showered praise from his Truth Social account for his handling of New York’s COVID crisis by contrasting it favorably with that of chief GOP rival Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis. And Cuomo, a founding member of his own fan club, kindly reciprocated, tweeting that “Donald Trump tells the truth, finally. New York got hit first and worst but New Yorkers acted responsibly. Florida’s policy of denial allowed Covid to spread and...
  • By Sheer Coincidence, Biden’s DOJ Goes After Likely Senate Candidate

    06/02/2023 5:46:51 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 6 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 1 Jun, 2023 | Daniel Greenfield
    If you thought election interference was bad in 2016 and 2020, just wait. In free societies, you just read the newspaper. In unfree ones, you understand that the meaning of one story can only be found by cross-cutting it with a seemingly unrelated story. Let’s play. Justice tops Manchin by 22 points in new poll on Senate race – The Hill – 5/31/2023 DOJ sues Jim Justice’s coal empire over unpaid fines for mining violations – Politico – 5/31/2023 Sheer coincidence. And if you think it’s not, you’re a conspiracy theorist, election denier, DOJ denier and a spreader of disinformation...
  • Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem(6/2/23)[Prayer]

    06/02/2023 5:46:08 AM PDT · by left that other site · 16 replies
    The Holy Scriptures | 6/2/23 | left that other site
    Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 11 Jesus and Beelzebul 14 Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed. 15 But some of them said, “By Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons.” 16 Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven. 17 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: “Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall. 18 If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom...
  • 'Stop yelling': Top Chechen fighter scolds Russia's Wagner chief

    06/02/2023 5:42:21 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 14 replies
    Reuters ^ | 6/1/2023 | Guy Faulconbridge
    One of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's close allies on Thursday publicly criticised Russia's most prominent mercenary, casting Yevgeny Prigozhin as a blogger who yells all the time about problems, drawing a stern rebuke from a top Wagner fighter. Addressing Prigozhin in a video message using the diminutive of "Zhenya" and the familiar Russian form of you ("ty"), Adam Delimkhanov, a close ally of Kadyrov, told Prigozhin: "If you don't understand, then you can contact us and tell us the place and the time, I we will explain to you what you don't understand," Delimkhanov said of Prigozhin. "You have become...
  • Redfin Weekly Update: Median mortgage payment on median-priced home reaches record high ($2,651) - 41% of median household gross income

    06/02/2023 5:34:40 AM PDT · by millenial4freedom · 10 replies
    yahoo! finance ^ | 06/01/2023
    Homebuying demand has dipped over the last month due to elevated mortgage rates and a scarcity of homes for sale. Average weekly rates hit 6.79% this week, their highest level since November. That has priced many people out of the housing market; the typical U.S. homebuyer’s monthly housing payment hit a record high of $2,651 this week, up roughly $350 from a year ago.
  • There's an AOC Parody Account, and Some in the Liberal Media Can't Handle It

    06/02/2023 5:14:59 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 35 replies
    Townhall ^ | Matt Vespa
    It’s hilarious, and the Left can’t cope. Even NBC News devoted an article to a parody account on Twitter. If you haven’t seen it, please check it out, and if you’re on Twitter—give it a follow. The handle is @AOCPress, called “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody).” It’s riddled with non-stop hilarity, with some tweets that you have to do a double-take because it's content that you could see the real New York socialist parroting on the platform: [...] It's humor that the liberal cannot shake or understand because it exposes the absurdity of their politics. The account has blown up,...
  • British PM Rishi Sunak says Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO

    06/02/2023 5:06:05 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 81 replies
    CNBC.com ^ | June 1,2023 | Karen Gilchrist
    U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Thursday that Ukraine’s “rightful place” is within the NATO military alliance. Sunak said he agreed with comments made earlier Thursday by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that Ukraine is on the path toward NATO membership. “I agree with the NATO Secretary-General: Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO,” Sunak told CNBC’s Silvia Amaro. Britain’s prime minister said that allied nations were sending a “strong signal” to Russian President Vladimir Putin that they would safeguard Ukraine’s security arrangements for the long term. “We want to make sure that we put in place security arrangements for Ukraine for...
  • All-American Rejects: The Left's Racist War on Meritocracy

    06/02/2023 5:02:10 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 8 replies
    Townhall ^ | Mia Cathell
    Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue rulings in a pair of landmark cases Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) has brought forth against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, alleging that their race-based college admissions practices actively discriminate against high-achieving students who don't fit the woke mold, often Asian American applicants. Townhall has conducted a series of sitdown interviews, in the lead-up to the much-anticipated SCOTUS decisions, with Asian American community members outraged over the Ivy League's racial gatekeeping and affirmative action's trickle-down effects, now seeping into suburbia. As an affront to the race-obsessed Left's...
  • Fashion magazine cover featuring pregnant transgender man Logan Brown sparks outrage: ‘Could not sink any lower’

    06/02/2023 4:57:15 AM PDT · by Labyrinthos · 65 replies
    New York Post ^ | June 2, 2023 | Yael Halon
    A topless pregnant transgender man featured on the cover of Glamour U.K.’s June issue ignited a fierce reaction from online critics Thursday. Author Logan Brown, a 27-year-old who was born female but now identifies as a transgender man, posed as the cover star of British Glamour Magazine’s digital issue celebrating Pride Month in a painted-on suit, showcasing a large baby bump. Brown unexpectedly became pregnant with partner Bailey J Mills, a non-binary drag performer in the U.K., while taking a break from testosterone treatments due to health reasons, the fashion magazine said... Brown, who is writing a children’s book called...
  • THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG: Three Unsuccessful Assaults upon the Enemy’s Works; REGULAR SIEGE OPERATIONS COMMENCED (6/2/1863)

    06/02/2023 4:53:37 AM PDT · by Homer_J_Simpson · 8 replies
    WASHINGTON, Monday, June 1. Up to 11 o'clock to-night, no additional intelligence had been received from Gen. GRANT'S army later than the previous dispatch of the 28th, when it was stated that Gen. GRANT'S forces were progressing as favorably as could be expected, and Gen. GRANT had no fear of the result. CINCINNATI, Monday, June 1. The Gazette has advices up to the 27th of May, through a Staff officer of one of Gen. GRANT's Generals, who left for Washington last evening. Three assaults had been made by our forces upon the rebel stronghold, in all of which we were...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 2-June-2023

    06/02/2023 4:49:21 AM PDT · by annalex · 10 replies
    Friday 2 June 2023Friday of week 8 in Ordinary TimeChurch of Saint Erasmus of Formia in Barwałd Dolny, PolandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 44:1,9-13 ©Let us praise illustrious menLet us praise illustrious men, our ancestors in their successive generations.Some have left no memory, and disappeared as though they had not existed,they are now as though they had never been, and so too, their children after them.But here is a list of generous men whose good works have not been forgotten.In their descendants there remains a rich inheritance born of them.Their descendants stand by the covenants and, thanks...
  • Trump's Attack on Kayleigh McEnany Costs Him an Endorsement

    06/02/2023 4:39:25 AM PDT · by Erik Latranyi · 115 replies
    Newsweek via MSN ^ | 1 Jun 23 | Aila Slisco
    Former President Donald Trump has lost a 2024 endorsement to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over his attack on Kayleigh McEnany. Trump lashed out at McEnany, his administration's White House press secretary, in a Truth Social post on Tuesday. The former president called McEnany "milktoast"—an apparent misspelling of "milquetoast," an insult for a timid or bland person—and insulted her current job as a Fox News host after she suggested during a broadcast earlier in the day that DeSantis could be "closing the gap" in Iowa's GOP primary race. On Thursday, James Spillane, a New Hampshire Republican state representative, told NHJournal that...
  • Receiving the Word - Protestant Caucus/Devotional

    06/02/2023 4:37:18 AM PDT · by metmom · 3 replies
    Gracetoyou.org ^ | May 8, 2023 | John McArthur, Grace Community Church
    "This you know, my beloved brethren. But let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. Therefore putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls" (James 1:19-21). True believers receive God’s Word. The key word in today's passage is "receive" (James 1:21). Believers are to receive God's Word. That's what distinguishes them from unbelievers. Jesus said to a group of religious unbelievers, "Why do you not understand what I...
  • J6 Footage Shows Camera Rolling as Pelosi Made Her ‘Insurrection’ Exit

    06/02/2023 4:32:40 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 24 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 1 Jun, 2023 | Julie Kelly
    Unseen footage released today by Just the News founder John Solomon shows a “Hollywood movie set” escape for Pelosi and her filmmaker daughter. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) began January 6, 2021, by mugging for the cameras—more specifically, a camera operated by her filmmaker daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, who just happened to record every moment of her mother’s movements on what would become one of the most infamous days in American history. As a clearly tense Pelosi prepared to convene the joint session of Congress during which Republican members of the House and Senate planned to debate the Electoral College...
  • War disrupts Ukrainian-Russian mafia bond

    06/02/2023 4:32:33 AM PDT · by FarCenter · 16 replies
    Odesa (Ukraine) (AFP) – Sitting at a cafe in the Ukrainian port of Odesa, a local smuggler drew on his cigarette as he explained how the war has disrupted long-established underworld ties between Russia and Ukraine. "The vast majority of Ukrainian criminals took the side of Ukraine," said 59-year-old Kirim, who spoke on condition that he be given a pseudonym. "But there are also those who continue to cooperate with Russia," he noted, speaking only once a waiter had delivered the coffees and left. The cross-border network of drugs, guns and people trafficking that developed between Ukraine and Russia from...
  • Florida: Loading & Carrying a Firearm on Private Property is NOT Use of Deadly Force

    06/02/2023 4:22:46 AM PDT · by marktwain · 44 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | May 31, 2023 | Dean Weingarten
    On May 24, 2023, a three-judge panel of the District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida, Fourth District, which includes Broward County, found the circuit court judge, Michael I. Rothschild, to have egregiously misread Florida law. The three-judge panel, consisting of judges Artua, Ciklin and Conner, unanimously found loading and openly carrying a firearm in a person’s own yard is not use of deadly force and is protected conduct under both Florida law and the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. Richard Burns engaged in a verbal confrontation with a five-man tree-cutting crew in his front yard. A...
  • White House Elevates Kamala Harris Amid Concerns About a Second Biden Term

    06/02/2023 4:14:53 AM PDT · by Libloather · 24 replies
    US News via MSN ^ | 6/02/23 | Susan Milligan
    She's the back-up who is almost always standing right next to the president. She issues her own statements on major issues and has been tapped to deliver domestic and foreign affairs speeches typically reserved for the commander in chief. On the day Kamala Harris became the first female to deliver the commencement address at West Point military academy last week, the White House tweeted out a black-and-white photo of a contemplative Harris with the not-so-subtle reminder, "The first woman Vice President." The underlying message was one that puts President Joe Biden's campaign in an awkward quandary. The 80-year-old president insists...
  • ‘Pride’ is Nothing to Celebrate

    06/02/2023 4:11:05 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 23 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 2 Jun, 2023 | Trevor Thomas
    In his seminal work Mere Christianity, the great Christian apologist C.S. Lewis describes “pride” as “the Great Sin,” “the essential vice,” “the utmost evil.” Lewis concludes, Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison; it was through Pride that the devil became the devil; Pride leads to every other vice; it is the complete anti-God state of mind. Thus, I suppose it is rather fitting that the “official” celebration of the evil LGBT agenda is called “Pride Month.” Few things today more encompass the wretched display of pride than what is exhibited when those under...