Typical of this administration, 288k new jobs in June

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

I dont mind bias, I do mind stories being invented. Thats why I always seek.confirmation when fox.breaks something.
Like the study showed, people are less informed if they watch fox than if they watch no news at all.

And high unemployment is the.new normal, too much automation and too many jobs going overseas.

People accuse the unemployed and underemployed of being lazy or stupid...the facts are we dont have enough jobs, and more are going to college than ever. But degrees dont equal jobs these days.

I looked at that second link of Rupert's, and not only do many of the quotes have nothing to do with whether journalists are personally liberal in their views, four of the quotes are from Mark Halperin, who is notorious for following the money in the course of his career. Not to mention, a bunch of quotes doesn't exactly count as research. As they say, the plural of anecdote is not data. So you're right; beaucoup de bias.

As for the Quinnepac poll, it's bad polling, for a number of reasons, the big one being that Presidents experience an upswing in favorability after they leave office (call it the nostalgia effect). In a poll run during GW's administration, he was regarded as the worst, by about the same percentage (34 percent GW to 33 percent BO). If Quinnepac runs the same poll five years after BO's Administration is over, it's unlikely he'll get the "worst" rank; it'll either be whoever is in the WH, or GWB. Because he really was the worst.

I'm going to try to attach a Gallup poll jpeg of the difference between "in office" ratings and retrospective ratings for the Presidents since Kennedy.

[Danzig]

yeah, with polls being low across the board, it's no surprise obama's is down-i can only imagine would bush jr's would be right now!

not happy right now. we came up to our property on the lake for the wknd, and someone has stolen some gear.
some people are such aholes.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

yeah, with polls being low across the board, it's no surprise obama's is down-i can only imagine would bush jr's would be right now!

not happy right now. we came up to our property on the lake for the wknd, and someone has stolen some gear.
some people are such aholes.

Oh that sucks. I'm really sorry. Yes, people certainly can be. One of the dads at my son's birthday party in the park last week had to make an unplanned run around the park after some kid came up and stole a scooter belonging to a 5-year-old guest. He found the perpetrator, thank goodness (not cool stealing from children. Not cool stealing from anybody, but especially not cool stealing from kids).

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Oh that sucks. I'm really sorry. Yes, people certainly can be. One of the dads at my son's birthday party in the park last week had to make an unplanned run around the park after some kid came up and stole a scooter belonging to a 5-year-old guest. He found the perpetrator, thank goodness (not cool stealing from children. Not cool stealing from anybody, but especially not cool stealing from kids).

That's crazy. Then again, years ago tony was doing electrical work at a school, a Jr high....and one of the students ran off with his makita drill! He got it back, kid got in all kinds of trouble.
A fifth grader stole my sons bike, everyone saw him ride off with it. Some people are just crazy

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

That's crazy. Then again, years ago tony was doing electrical work at a school, a Jr high....and one of the students ran off with his makita drill! He got it back, kid got in all kinds of trouble.
A fifth grader stole my sons bike, everyone saw him ride off with it. Some people are just crazy

I think I mentioned here before, I had my phone stolen out of my hand by a teenager in Central Park. I chased after him (carrying my lunch carton in my hand the whole time) yelling at the top of my lungs, until he finally dropped the phone, terrified, I think, by my ability to run full speed, carry lunch, and shriek at the same time. In this case, it wasn't the thief who was the crazy one.

Had I managed to catch up with him before he dropped the phone I would have advised him to stay in school, as he was terrible at profiling targets. I was wearing running shoes, for chrissake.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I think I mentioned here before, I had my phone stolen out of my hand by a teenager in Central Park. I chased after him (carrying my lunch carton in my hand the whole time) yelling at the top of my lungs, until he finally dropped the phone, terrified, I think, by my ability to run full speed, carry lunch, and shriek at the same time. In this case, it wasn't the thief who was the crazy one.

Had I managed to catch up with him before he dropped the phone I would have advised him to stay in school, as he was terrible at profiling targets. I was wearing running shoes, for chrissake.

Lol. Geez. My favorite stories are when punks target old guys who turn out to have been marines.

When my boys bike got stolen we called the police, who went, asked the boy if he took it, and he said no. They were about to leave when I showed up. They said he doesn't have it, I said there was a crowd of folks who saw him take it. Sure enough, he had it, was already removing stuff to put on the bike frame he had.
The police in this little town are a joke.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

The police in this little town are a joke.

Not just in your little town:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...dead-yard.html

(This particular story has really p*ssed me off this week.)