Toejam sent me this one.

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Header was stripped off the cartoon sent me. I reposted to ensure everyone knew it was a Hope n’ Change cartoon by Jarlsberg.

Dear Union Workers,

On this Labor Day, I have a question for you. Why do you support Dimocrats? I can understand gummint unions supporting the Dims, but you public sector workers surprise me. You support the party that favors open borders and unlimited immigration, including illegal immigration. Don’t you booger eatin’ moh-rons understand that these illegal workers are driving down your wages? Why pay union wages when you can get an illegal dude to do it for half what it costs for a union dude?

Here’s another question. Bill Clinton passed NAFTA. Ross Perot was correct about that giant sucking sound. Why build an auto plant in Detroit when you can build one in Mexico where labor is a lot cheaper? Trump wants to repeal or renegotiate NAFTA. Crooked Cankles likes the status quo. So why are you in favor of shipping your jobs to Mexico?

Howza ’bout the Keystone pipeline? That was gonna produce a lot of union jobs. Prez Hussein was against it. Thunder Rodent Thighs is against it as well, but you are still gonna vote for her. I don’t know Trump’s position but since he is a builder, I would bet that he is for it.

For the last fifty years, Dimocrats have been screwing blacks. Blacks did a lot better under Reagan and both Bushes than they have under the Obamessiah, but they still continue voting for Dimocrats. You union workers are getting the shaft as well but you still keep pulling the lever for Dimocrats. We are currently in a depression, yes, a depression and the PIAP wants to continue the same policies that has kept us in one.

The only jobs Crooked Cankles has created are special prosecutors and investigators into her illegal operations. Trump, on the other hand, has actually created real world jobs. Dontcha think that you would want to vote for the jobs creator?

Anyway, Happy Labor Day.

Bill Quick at Daily Pundit (Link not working at this time. He changed hosting services and is having problems. Should have gone to my provider, Hosting Matters. Fantastic tech support!) has been writing for quite some time that we never came out of the Great Recession and in fact, we are currently in a depression. Over at Zero Hedge, there is proof.

On this Labor Day, labor, meaning jobs, is suffering.

The most blatant attempt by the ruling class to subvert the truth regarding our ongoing depression is the despicably absurd propaganda churned out by the government apparatchiks at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With a working age population of 253.9 million people and only 151.6 million of them employed (27 million part-time, 15 million self-employed, 7 million working multiple jobs and worst of all 22 million government workers), the BLS has the gall to report only a 4.9% unemployment rate. There are 102.3 million working age Americans not working, but only 7.8 million of them are unemployed according to the highly educated establishment lackeys at the BLS. The other 94.5 million non-working Americans must be frolicking in the surf, sipping margaritas and counting the millions they’ve made in the rigged Wall Street casino.

Would the labor participation rate and employment to population ratio be hovering at levels last seen in 1978 if the jobs market was booming? And don’t blame it on Baby Boomers retiring. With 28% of people over 55 years old with no retirement savings and the median retirement savings of those 55 to 61 years old of $17,000, few Boomers can afford to retire on $12,000 of Social Security per year. The percentage of those over 55 years old working is at an all-time high, while the percentage of men 25 to 54 (prime working years) working is at an all-time low. Since 2007 the country has added 5.6 million mostly low paying service jobs, while 15.7 million Americans have supposedly left the labor force of their own free will, and the unemployment rate is virtually the same. Only an Ivy League educated economist or highly paid CNBC pundit would believe such malarkey.

If job growth was as strong as government and corporate media proclaim, how could weekly wages be growing by only 1.5% annually today and averaging only 2% over the last five years. When inflation on things you need to live (rent, healthcare, energy, food, education, autos) tallies in excess of 5% annually, you’re earning .25% if you have any savings and your wages have been going up at less than 2% per year, your daily existence is depressionary. Real median household income is lower than it was in 1989, even using the hugely understated and manipulated CPI.

Back before seasonal adjustments, birth death model phantom excel spreadsheet created jobs, pretending working age people weren’t in the workforce and the existence of government bureaucrats whose job it was to paint a rosy picture, we had actual unemployment figures. Every able bodied American was in the labor force during the Great Depression. The true unemployment rate fluctuated between 15% and 25% during most of the 1930’s. They had to stand in line for their relief checks and food. It wasn’t wired into their bank accounts or downloaded onto an EBT card.

The government approved false unemployment rate (U3) regurgitated by the corporate mainstream media with no qualifications or clarifications is 4.9%. The U-6 unemployment rate is the broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment. It stands at 9.7%, almost double the mainstream media reported rate. You never hear this figure mentioned by the compliant lackey media.

But, if you want the true unemployment rate you must adjust the government figures for the misinformation which began in 1994. Long-term discouraged workers were defined out of official existence in 1994. If you stop looking for a job because there are no jobs available, the BLS pretends you no longer exist and you are dropped from their unemployment calculations. John Williams at Shadowstats rightfully adds these discouraged workers, who are willing to work, back into the calculation and surprise, surprise, the real unemployment rate in this country has been between 18% and 23% for the last seven years. Those rates are identical to the worst years of the Great Depression.

He also points out that there are no lines at soup kitchens because now people are getting Food Stamps which, by the way, are at an all time high. Without them, there would be lines of hungry people.

But what about the stock market? He points out that during the Depression, the stock market actually outperformed today’s stock market. “… the stock market soared by 260% between 1932 and 1937, making the current cyclical bull seem puny in comparison.” The fat cats got richer while the rest of the people didn’t.

The growth rate during Obungler’s recovery has actually been less than the rate during the Depression. It has not cracked 3% any year. It was better during the Depression.

Again, we refer to the entire 1930’s as the Great Depression despite the fact real GDP surged by 40% between 1933 and 1937. If today’s mainstream media existed during the 1930’s they would have been proclaiming the “tremendous” GDP growth and “spectacular” stock market gains. They would have really boosted the spirits of the millions receiving government relief and standing for hours waiting for a cup of soup and some stale bread. The real GDP in this country has grown by a pathetic 15.4% since the 2009 low. Using a true measure of inflation reveals we’ve essentially been in recession since the early 2000’s, with a depression since 2008.

Yet every summer during the Obumbler regime, the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party has been churning out garbage like “green shoots” and “recovery summer” and it has been nothing but bullshit.

I’ve been ignoring the fact that we are in a Depression because I’m doing well. I saved and invested my money and grew a pretty substantial nest egg and it has continued to grow since I’ve retired. I’ve lived well but never beyond my means. As a result, I have a nice income and no money worries. I’ve seen ROI on electric utility stocks drop from 8% to 3% which sucks but I still have enough money invested to get a nice income. Same with bonds.

I feel sorry for seniors who do not have enough money to survive on these rates. Many of them invested in CDs but the Fed has lowered interest rates so much (so the gummint could borrow money cheaply to implement failed Keynesian policies) that they are getting nothing from them. The current Depression is hitting many seniors hard who only have their Social Security checks to live on. And while Congress gets a cost of living raise every year, seniors on Social Security don’t. They didn’t get one this year and I’ll bet they don’t get one next year. A nice growth in the economy and reasonable interest rates would solve this problem but the current bunch in DC, meaning all of the Dimocrats and at least half of the Republicans, have no ideas to get us out of this mess. I’d say a nice war might do it since that usually gets us out of depressions, but we’re currently fighting two of them.

Anyway, read the entire article. This is only part one. I look forward to part two.

Another one from Pastis.

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I’ve never been much of a Rod Stewart fan but I did like some of his stuff with The Faces. This was my favorite. Love the slide guitar and the electric piano. Saw them at the same concert that I saw Cactus.

I was only gonna post the Prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite Number 1, but came across Ana Vidovic playing the entire suite. So here it is.

Some yellow thunder from AlphaDelta. (more…)

I could give it to the principal at the South Carolina school who banned the American flag at football games because it offended a school with a large Latino enrollment. Once again, if the American flag offends you, you are in the wrong country.

Which brings us to Colon Kaperdick. The Star Spangled Banner offends him. He’s in the wrong country. Find a country where blacks are treated better. Then move there. He’s a dooshbag and an asshole.

Not sleeping well so I’m behind. Here’s another guest post from Ron.

Ever since I was a kid back in the 40s I heard that rats can sense when a ship is sinking and get off any way they can before it goes under. Well, that’s what the Dyslamic rats are doing now that their beloved Caliphate is sinking like the Bismarck or the Yamato after Allied attacks wore their asses out.

So . . . what’s gonna happen? Well, it’s already begun in Europe, where “refugees” have infiltrated and are wreaking havoc, and it’ll be here next. Bank on it. We’re about to witness a mass migration, a global diaspora, a “Run for your lives! The dam has busted!” flood of brainwashed savages intent on pulling kamikaze attacks on infidels.

And what are we doing about it? Not a helluva lot that I can see. My problem is that I can’t find much distinction between the mindset of the jihadi suicide bombers and the Japanese suicide bombers. I mean, the idea certainly isn’t alien to ‘em – it’s precisely what Atta and his crew did on 9/11, right?

Now . . . how friggin long do we have to wait for the “moderate” Muslims of the “Religion of Peace” to convince their dedicated brethren to find more socially acceptable ways of resolving conflicts than beheading, raping, and sacking ?

How did we handle it in Germany or Japan in 1945? Did those Bomber Command pilots of the 9th Air Force over Germany or LeMay’s B-29 crews over Honshu worry about collateral damage? HELL no. It was carpet bombing. And eventually it took nuclear weapons to convince the Samurai mindset that the war wasn’t winnable.

MANY more civilians died in those German and Japanese cities than uniformed troops on the battlefields. So why the hell are we pussyfooting around with ISIS and tryin so damned hard to avoid “civilian” casualties when we KNOW that if “moderate” Muslims don’t necessarily want to kill you, they’ll be glad to see radical Muslims do it for them.

Why are we even considering surgical and tactical strikes in Raqqa and Mosul? Flatten them, dammit. When you’re fighting a suicidal enemy which is supported by a great percentage of the civilian population, you must be willing to throw everything you have at him and then kick him when he’s down. Kill ‘em all; let Allah sort ‘em out.

We can no more negotiate with ISIS or ISIL or DAESH or Al Qaeda or Madrassas than we could with Hitler or Stalin or Mao or Tojo. They understand nothing but victory or death, and the death they seek is OURS, although their own is O.K. as a backup plan because the myth of unrestrained sexual reward in the afterlife is very attractive to frustrated young men who aren’t even allowed to LOOK at girls.

It’s coming, boys and girls . . . infiltration, rape, terrorism, destruction, loss of freedom – and we’re doing basically nothing to keep it out of the US. Remember, the lone terrorist has to get it right only once to make life miserable for hundreds or even thousands of people, but the cops and other security forces can’t make even one mistake. Figger the odds. You have a better chance in a rigged crap game.

Who says you can’t bomb an ideology!! Why the hell not? We bombed the Bushido ideology into unconditional surrender, a concept not even in their vocabulary. And we bombed Nazism into unconditional surrender though it was designed to last for a thousand years.

Another thing I heard when I was growing up: Nice guys finish last. Well, maybe I’m just old fashioned, but somehow I don’t think that should be our long-range strategy. Hey DingleBarry — how’s that “winning the hearts and minds of the people” over there workin out for ya?