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Unemployment: Propaganda vs. Fact; And Some Senatorial Chart Porn
In light of today's [abysmal|terrific] NFP report, it is probably not a bad idea to take on unemployment propaganda, but from a slightly different angle. Below, courtesy of madatoms, is a chart summarizing the truth and myth about unemployment.Of course if you are Obama, unemployment is really employment, which brings this chart to a whole new level of David Lynch appreciation.
And for those really bored on Friday night, here is a terrific chart (not sure these two words belong together in this context but whatever) of the chronology of the US Senate, as well as a timeline of key laws passed, and which Senators were responsible for said passage, courtesy of timeplots.
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thats good, tyler.
caught my eye, right away†
did lance do HGH or what! ;)
ok ok i know.....the first rule of cycling is you don't talk about hgh.....
I guess the real question is:
Who in the hell cares about cycling?
who in the hell cares about
Johnny Bravo
Not me for sure. JB can go... well, use your imagination. I know you're good at that.
Hey, put some clothes on woman! Or, post a link for the big picture, if you know what I mean. I just jacked that pic up with Irfanview too 300 dpi, the right one really is smaller.
deformed
i show it with pride though†
t r o u b l e
show da pu$$y
At least I bring some differing opinion to the site.
You're like *squawk, goled bitchez, squawk!*
So what can I do? Do what the sad, lonely old men do when they see drag queen velobabe's pictures?
Nah... my girlfriend's too hot for me to go to bed alone...
Oh no! A sixty year old drag queen with herpes and perpetually slutty avatars doesn't like me!~ Whatever will I do?
With that said, bicycling is gay, and even gayer are the people that dress up in spandex to go ride their bike at the park.
Do I put on a Peyton Manning jersey and football pads every time I throw the football around? No. So why do these gay bicyclers have to dress up like they're in the Tour De France, which nobody cares about, every time they ride their bike at the park?
lance is in deep doo doo.
greg lemond is going after lance and his fuckin yellow plastic wrist band†
No proof only his word. 0
Bicycling is the only sport more boring than Nascar, if that's even possible.
People that dress up in spandex to ride their bikes (and believe me that there are a ton in Colorado) are really gay.
Every time I go to the park there's 20 people racing around the trails like its race day in their spandex. It's embarrasing for us all.
Do I put on a michael jordan jersey and baskeball shorts every time I shoot some hoops? So then why do these bicycling "enthusiaists" do the same?
The rabbit got run over by a bike, right?
N O OOOO, you Cheshire Cat
i am a geisha tonight, but sometimes
i am alice {i w}
penny lane
maid marion
Hey, I like the new avatar.
When I pulled up ZH this evening, I said to myself, "Man, I really hope they have some Congressional Bukkake for me to peruse..."
Cheers.
Fed Chairman Ben Bukkake?
Touché
wow that is absolutely fucking hilarious and clearly i trade too much and watch too much porn... that i can appreciate that one this much.
Thanks Fred
Does it come with frosting?
Being unemployed and collecting benefits from the Feds is the equivalent of being employed by the Feds to remain idle.
Sorta like being employed by a Union to work the night shift and bringing your pillow to sleep on the job, except that this time you get to do it at home in your parents basement.
I really love that crack about doubling back for the rabbit, down in Texas armadillos provide tasty morsels of meat for the chilli pot.
I see a lot of dumpster divers and roadside aluminum can collectors. Still waiting for the apple and pencil sellers to show up though.
The general rule for roadkill is, it's fresh if you saw it happen
Thanks! Always learning new things on ZH.
I know this guy who has a paying job to pick up roadkill. I think it is some sort of rendering plant. Good work if you can get it.
If this plant also makes hot dogs, please don't tell me.
Just buy Nathan's...
In your head: you have a net worth of $300,000
Reality: For all these years, they were paying you in worthless paper to harvest your work product. Your biggest asset (your house) isn't worth the mortgage you have on it. And the only jobs are at MCD and WMT.
got gold?
I will take your "worthless paper" off of your hands at 50 cents on the dollar.
"got gold?"
You're gay.
You my friend are a worthless tool....and obviously not even programmed to fit into a corporate environment (calling someone gay won't get you very far!).
As far as worthless paper, do you know what's on the Fed's balance sheet?
DON'T FEED THE TROLLS!
Johnny, I'm surprised you even have 50 cents.
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Seems to me the zerohedgers have been the only people short the market since last March.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting on some serious coin by going against the advice of this site.
It paid for my entire college degree, even...
What's the best way for a zerohedger to get a million dollars in the markets?
Start out with 2 million!
LOL at zerohedgers, who are perpetually short the markets, and have missed the entire rally...
Johnny, it's funny you mention cents. Did you know pre-1982 pennies have a copper scrap value of 1.87 cents? http://www.coinflation.com/
A far as the ones made after 1982 they are 97.5% zinc coated with copper, and even with the zinc traded for copper - "As of March 2008, it cost the U.S. Mint 1.7 cents to make a penny, 70% more than the value of the coin"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin)
See if you can trade in your cents for some common sense.
1982 pennies are mixed.
Zinc ones have a mass of ~2.5g and Copper, ~3g
I've been going through old coin piles around the house and the copper pennies are around 15-20% of our stash.
Some day I might melt them down and make something out of them...
I stand corrected. I just did a quick look-up as I am Canadian and ours were changed in a different year. I looked into it a few years ago and figured the cost of gas or electricity to melt them down cancelled out any profit. Also, it is illegal.
Marla, wtf? You revoke my clickable link privs? Have I ever abused them?? If you're pissed at me please consider that I brought that thing up with you directly instead of in an open comment. Also, what I mentioned was arrived at about a month ago and I never said shit because I respect you and that other person enough to never blab, it was just a curiosity. I only brought it up because... well you know. Give me the privileges back.
dltd
frank i forgot to tell you something.
i was using the rhythm method the whole time and forgot to explain myself.
apparently it is back, come back, B I G with america young white woman.
who da think, probably doesn't have the frank owen seal of approval
but has the P O P E 's†
kiss kiss
Frank said "two rubbers." Statistically impossible - look elsewhere.
VB. I am single and over the last few years have had a ton of women just try to get on top and stick it in without any protection... it is a real turn off. I am aware of all the stds going around and am in no rush to get any. It always leads me to wonder how many other guys they have done the same thing with. It is tempting to give you a verbal beating but there is no sport in it - nobody here cares if you're "dumb" - keep reading and you'll keep learning. It is painful to hear you disrespect yourself by calling yourself such things. The thing is most of your comments seem to be about trolling for a manicorn, and I, and most here do not want to read crap like "Oh, that was great, stop by next time you're in CO and I'll blow you" - especially when you've said it to like 5 guys. I am slightly sick enough to read about the occasional Lindsay Lohan type train-wreck, but it's not why I come to ZH. How the hell can you not find someone to take care of your needs in "Woody Creek". Also, how do your comments/antics reflect on where you work? Not cool.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the occasional odd behaviour just like the next guy/girl, but this one has me a little stumped. She came on to the scene, relatively sanguine, but now - she is out to get someone. I smell trouble. Have to give props for the new avatar, VB.
Frank, you need to loosen up, son.
Actually, he is pretty spot on. Velobabe isn't a babe at all.
The people that drool over "her" are sure to need a buttplug after they meet "her."
LOL. Velobabe is in Colorado? That's hilarious! I should go check "her" out.
I'm still willing to bet that it's a fifty year old fat dude with a green, shirveled, penis.
Where you at velo? Applewood here!
Maybe if you learned how to trade instead of counting pennies, you wouldn't be counting pennies!
I don't care if you get two cents for every penny. I'm not going to spend all day going through pennies... what a waste of time.
That was funny. Laughed all the way through it.
Bob Janjuah thinks even these bad numbers are a joke are a farce.
http://twentypercent.tv/2010/06/04/bob-janjuah-on-anger-brewing-in-middl...
Why diss World of Warcraft. Blizzard has a brilliant business model where they convince the sheeple to part with FRN's for virtual baubles. They also enable resourceful asians inside and outside the US to trade virtual currency for FRN's. Now that I think about it, total black market on virtual currency sales too...Maybe the unemployed losers need to follow the chinese model :)
Don't forget the Slavs, Croats, Romanians that "level" up virtual personas for people. People actually PAY to have someone PLAY a game for them. Reality stranger than fiction.
"Change" 'Hope'. Its all good, cause Obama said so. Dont let your tawdry reality impinge on the new collective cosciousness
Right on! Be sure to check out Buzzsaw99 below.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nBTIOw6IjKo/SUmvpxsCLVI/AAAAAAAAAkI/BKPr5l6iktI/s400/obama-mad-magazine-cover-751229.jpg
Thanks for the hearty burst of laughter--on a Sat. morn. I gotta have one!!!!!!
Am I still logged in? Yea ok, good, it's getting to the point to where the higher paying jobs are nothing but bullshit consumerist cattle jobs, where the stimulus of their paychecks is way more important than the jobs they actually do.
Oh yea you are into marketing? I heard you just bought that new house and new car? I'm impressed! A counter terrorism expert you say? well buy American patriot, don't want the terrorist to win do we ? Joining the Army? shit man without you we wouldn't be able to sit here and claim we are fighting the good fight! Now head on overseas and kill suspected murderers for having the audacity to say sometimes murder is justified!
*** Does a ghost dance ***
There is some unique and intelligent thought behind your little rant. Keep it up.
http://www.make4fun.com/download/sounds/17332.mp3
Finally a topic Johnny knows something about -- unemployment!
Still pretty goofy on the whole gold idea.
Not as goofy as "if and when, if and when, if and when" gold to 50000!
I could be unemployed, since my money from trading has made me enough money to not even care about it...
How much money have YOU made trading?
*crickets chirp*
Zerohedger: "Well, errr... ummmm... I bought FAZ at 150, and well... ummm... you know..."
Propaganda indeed -- to keep us working while everyone else gets to enjoy funemployment!
speaking of the benefits of unemployment...
Rich Lawmakers Get Richer as Lobbyists
Posted by Ryan W. McMaken on June 4, 2010 08:08 PM
Politico has an article on how Wall Street now employs 73 former members of Congress to lobby for bankers and their allies. These days, most bankers and their friends would be much less rich than they are today if they weren’t repeatedly looting the American taxpayer, so they know the value of a good lobbyist.
But the lobbyists certainly benefit as well, and legislators who retire or who are thrown out of office, can find much larger paychecks as industry lobbyists. Bob Dole is certainly much richer for having lost the 1996 presidential campaign since he’s been a highly-paid shill for the AARP and others since his half-hearted final campaign.
I once endured a speech by a high-ranking elected official who put on a big show about what a martyr he was for choosing “public service” over the private sector. Dear reader, do you think that his earning power will be magnified greatly by his 8 years in office? The mid-to-high six-figure (or perhaps even seven-figure) salary he will command as a “consultant” after he retires should provide the answer.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/59129.html
Not just Wall Street but in almost every industry sector. The revolving door. Health,Food,Energy, ect.. the pattern is the same.
Updated DOW charts:
http://stockmarket618.wordpress.com
http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/latest-market-outlook-1
World of Warcraft FTW. 80 Rogue. Haven't played in months, though. Sigh. KEK.
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