Maybe this chart would explain…
Author: Ezra Grant
I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!
Newly released reports state that the labor market added 223,000 jobs last month, making this the lowest the unemployment rate has been in 7 years.
The unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent, the lowest mark in seven years, but the decline reflected a wave of Americans who either retired or abandoned their job hunts.
The latest jobs data from the Department of Labor comes amid a spike in global economic volatility, the result of high-wire negotiations between a near-bankrupt Greece and its European creditors. Though the United States faces little risk from the chaos across the Atlantic, its own economy is fighting through a soft spot after an encouraging period of growth in 2014.
Thursday’s numbers point “to an economic recovery that is good, but not good enough,” Bill Spriggs, a chief economist at the AFL-CIO, wrote in an e-mail.
As I write this ISIS is terrorizing other religious sects in the middle east, destroying religious artifacts of other faiths simply because those faiths are not Islam and also because ISIS is pure evil. And as I right this, there are some in this country being terrorized at their places of worship by America’s own home bred terrorists, operating under the hateful mantle of racism.
A predominately black church that was once the target of the Klu Klux Klan in Greeleyville, South Carolina was in flames on Tuesday night, making it the seventh to burn in the past week in an increasingly worrisome list of church fires across the South.
The fires, six of which are now under investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, have raised questions of racial targeting in the wake of the Charleston church shooting that left nine black churchgoers dead and sparked a debate over the role of the Confederate flag in public life.
Arson is suspected in relation to at least three of the fires. A federal law enforcement source told the AP that preliminary indications are that the fire at the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville was not intentionally set and was not arson. However, the fire is still under investigation, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
If Donald Trump is not a racist, he definitely has racist tendencies. That may explain why he said those racist things about Mexican people causing Univision to cut ties with him and the Miss USA Pageant. But in addition to his racist tendencies, Trump is sometimes a sore loser, and has filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision over the network’s decision to cut ties with the Miss USA pageant.
The Blaze reports that Univision, which was under contract to air the pageant live in Spanish, said it would no longer do so after Trump’s controversial comments on those illegally entering the USA from Mexico.
Trump, however, contested Univision’s claim, contending the network’s move was really aimed at silencing his freedom of speech as he begins his presidential campaign. Trump said in a statement that nothing he has said was different from what he has been saying for “many years.”
“I want strong borders, and I do not support or condone illegal immigration,” Trump said. “There is a high level of crime occurring in this country due to unchecked illegal immigration. This is a major security issue for the United States.”
“Additionally, the terrible trade deals our government is routinely entering into with Mexico are causing great financial harm to our country,” he continued. “We are losing a huge number of jobs, manufacturing opportunities and money due to poorly negotiated trade deals, a fact that is indisputable. That won’t happen if I become president – this disturbing trend will end and it will end quickly.”
Trump said that he has “great respect for Mexico and love for the Mexican people,” contending his comments have been manipulated by the media to frame him as a racist.
Somebody in the Santander Bank on Broadway near 37th Street in Queens New York needs to be fired… or arrested. I think they were in on this holdup.
A man, armed with nothing but a note drove his getaway ride – a wheelchair – right up to a teller at the Queens bank, showed his note demanding cash and made his getaway – in the wheelchair – with $1200.00
Police are looking for the man… wearing a gray hoodie. Apparently, once he made his way out of the bank, he just blended in with the crowd. I’m wondering if someone helped him with the door.
The robbery happened in broad daylight, around 2 pm on Monday. The man is still on the run…um…on a roll that is!
With his surge in the recent 2016 polls – just a few points behind Hillary Clinton – the great liberal voice, Bernie Sanders is getting attacked by other candidates for President. On Sunday, Sanders went on ABC’s This Week and spoke with George Stephanopoulos.
Asked about a recent ad affiliated with a SuperPac supporting Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley suggesting that Sanders has the support of the NRA, Sanders answered with a smile and stated that he has “a strong record” voting against NRA promoted bills, also saying that in every single race he has run “with the exception of one,” the NRA has supported his opponent. Sanders also quoted his rating with the NRA – “somewhere between D and F!”
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With former husband Nick Cannon out if the way, Mariah Carey is showing off her new boyfriend, wearing him on her arms like an ornament.
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President Obama rose to the occasion once again in today’s eulogy for the pastor of Emanuel AME in Charleston South Carolina, Rev. Clementa Pinckney, calling Pinckney a “good man,” who was “full of empathy and fellow feeling.”
“We are here today to a remember a man of God who lived by faith, a man who believed in things not seen, a man who believed there were better days ahead off in the distance,” said the president, holding back no emotion, in beginning the eulogy for the service at the TD Arena in Charleston, S.C. “He believed his efforts would deliver a better life for those who followed.”
And then, the President of the United States broke into a rendition of “Amazing Grace!” Simply amazing!
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The terrorists in our midst are not ISIS, but racists calling themselves white supremaists, or to speak in lament terms, ignorant white people who think they are better than the rest of us.
Since the gruesome killing of 9 people at a South Carolina black Church a week ago, at least two more predominantly black Churches have suffered the same type of hate historically associated with these ignorant people. One Church in Georgia and another in North Carolina.
In Georgia, God’s Power of Christ Church in Macon was set on fire early Tuesday morning. Macon county fire chief Ben Gleaton, told local media that as per investigators, the fire was intentionally started. And in Charlotte North Carolina, firefighters there are calling another fire at another black church an intentional act.
Amazingly, the same folks who think they’re superior to everyone else, are the same folks committing these neanderthal acts.
Absolutely Mr. President. And if I wereyou, I would have added, “… and if you don’t shut up, I’ll just run for a third term!” He would get my vote! 🙂
You go Mr. President!
As Obama was speaking at a White House event honoring LGBT Pride Month on Wednesday, an accented voice rang out from the crowd. Obama wasn’t amused.
“Shame on you,” he told his heckler, who was protesting deportations under the Obama administration.
Obama responded, “Listen you’re in my house … it’s not respectful.”
The interruption persisted, however, and Obama asked for the heckler to be removed from the East Room.
“As a general rule I am just fine with a few hecklers. But not when I’m up here in the house,” he said, as Vice President Joe Biden clapped him on the back.
Obama said later if guests are “eating the hors d’oeuvres and drinking the booze,” they’re typically expected to listen respectfully.
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He didn’t use these words, but his message was the same – Obamacare is here to stay!
Warning – This Knick fan is very, very unhappy. There are a lot of F*Bombs used.
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Knicks fans hurt 
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