Open Thread - Friday, October 2, 2015

Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 6:13am

How's the weather?

You know what else blows? All the fat old privileged white dudes trying to dismantle Planned Parenthood. Conservatives never acknowledge the legitimacy of people they disagree with. Planned Parenthood is a 100% legal and ethical business that serves and under served constituency. A bunch of ideologues, with no skin in the game, are victimizing people who lack the political power to fight back. What a bunch of bullies.

So these politicians are the same people who fund the MIC. The most efficient killing machine on the planet. Sanctity of life my ass!

It is harassment, plain and simple.

WTF, US bombing Syria is good? Russia bombing Syria is bad? Hint, all killing is bad.

African point of view ->

I wish I had more time to get my rant on. It helps with the blues.

Try to stay dry.

Peace.

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Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 9:12am
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A low pressure front, along with gulf moisture will deliver 5"-10" of rain to the Piedmont of NC between now and Monday. The front is also keeping Joquian offshore.

It is a shame. This weekend is the IBMA World of Bluegrass Festival. The festival includes a street party, but all the events have been moved inside. I like drinking beer outside.

It is in the 50's and the furnace did not kick on this AM. Mine is outside and the relay for the igniter sticks from non-use corrosion. Last years festival ->

How are things in your world?

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Submitted by mimi on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 9:42am
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I am really amazed about the beauty of the piece "This is your new world". You said it. In so many ways.

Have all a good day. Yesterday night I thought I should get flood insurance. This morning I thought that the weather people in TeeVee are nuts. Well, I am not the only one who is going insane. That's at least a consolation. I am not alone in the asylum for the crazies.

Good day.

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Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 9:45am
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A transplanted Brazilian, is fantastic. I really like his stuff.

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Submitted by LapsedLawyer on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 9:34am
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Which means the September jobs numbers are out. And they don't look so good. September jobs at 142,000 (economists were looking at 215,000) and July and August were revised downward. Wages aren't growing (surprise, right?) and the labor force participation rate fell (people aren't looking for work that isn't there).

Ah, well. Still a pleasant morning here in Hoosierville, and I've been wanting to post this for a while....

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUiqjjetUg]

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Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 9:43am
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Coltrane is from High Point, NC. There is more jazz on the Triangle airwaves than there was in Pittsburgh.

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http://www.shawu.edu/wsha/Home/Default.aspx

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:01am
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Obviously, the rain here in western NC has not stopped.

I love his voice.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5djzzeA3M]

Thanks for the Open Thread and the music, Tim. Smile

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Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:09am
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Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:12am
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He is big on the beach music circuit.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:17am

not good

When the U.S. jobs report is released each month, there's typically enough nuance to offer something for everyone — the good and the bad. Today proved to be a feast for the bears.

"When you look through all the details of the data, there just isn't anything good to hang your hat on," said Thomas Simons, a money-market economist at Jefferies LLC in New York. "It's been years since we've seen such an unambiguously bad report."

Silver linings were tough to come by in the September jobs data. Payrolls came in at a much-weaker-than-forecast 142,000, while August and July figures were revised down. Wage growth was nonexistent for the month, with average hourly earnings actually falling by a penny on average.

"While it's always important not to overreact to one single data release, we'll make an exception in this case," Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics NA Ltd. in Toronto, wrote in a note to clients. "Aside from manufacturing, the slowdown in employment gains is most notable in business services and education and health, which are not the sectors most prone to cyclical swings."

Even a small positive in today's report — a sharp decline in the ranks of the underemployed — must be taken with a grain of salt, economists said. It came alongside a plunge in the labor force participation rate to the lowest level since October 1977, suggesting some of those people may have simply given up looking for work.

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Submitted by dkmich on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:24am

There is no doubt our kids are in trouble.

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Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:40am
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Unemployed and not seeking work. Mitt, Jeb and their ilk can go F' themselves! They never worked! Sure they sat on board of directors, did leveraged buyouts and stole pensions. How many times do you think they handled a shovel, hammer, lathe or cash register?

I am determined to transition directly from care giver to retired. Wish me luck.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 11:11am

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 11:21am
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Holding the line on wages is keeping the lid on, right?

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Submitted by hecate on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:27am
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The fat old privileged white dudes believe all the lady parts belong to them. That's just the way they roll. Fatly.

As for "WTF, US bombing Syria is good? Russia bombing Syria is bad?," well, Russian apologia, of course, proceeds precisely the opposite. As in US bombs are all wicked and nasty and wrong, while Russian bombs are righteous and holy and Good.

Four legs good, two legs bad. Four legs good, two legs better!

We also get to hear now from Russia blithe US-style expansions of the definition of what is a "terrorist."

Lavrov added: "If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?"

Then there's the dueling banjos from Vladimir Bush:

"We are committed to defending the nation. Yet wars are not won on the defensive. The best way to keep America safe from terrorism is to go after terrorists where they plan and hide."

and George Putin:

More than 2,000 fighters from Russia and ex-Soviet republics are in the territory of Syria. There's a threat of their return to us. So instead of waiting for their return, we are better off helping Assad fight them on Syrian territory.

They always say such shit. Killers. When they're about their killing.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ZeJvXTL68]

So yeah. What you said: "Hint, all killing is bad."

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Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:46am
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Submitted by mimi on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:28am
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even when they had to wait their whole life for it or never got it.

I think this is a first: Delayed Justice: Trial Against Ex-Chad Dictator a Legal Milestone

The trial taking place in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, this fall is an historic one: For the first time, an African despot is being tried in an African country, after the African Union (AU) gave its blessing to the special tribunal. It was a decision nobody had expected. The organization, after all, includes several dictatorships whose rulers are themselves at potential risk of prosecution.

No Jurisdiction

Furthermore, the relationship of many African states to the International Criminal Court in The Hague is irreparably damaged: They consider the ICC to be a racist institution of the West that has it out only for Africans. Alleged criminals like Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta refuse to cooperate with the global court and in June, the South African government blocked the extradition of Sudanese head of state Omar al-Bashir, who has been on the ICC wanted list for years because of the mass killings in Darfur.

But the international court has no jurisdiction for the crimes in Chad. The ICC did not take up its work until 2002 -- after the massacres took place. For this reason, the AU has now decided to take its own legal path: In Senegal, Africans are going to pass judgment on Africans for the first time. The trial could even serve as a model for other countries looking to clear up past crimes.

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Submitted by mimi on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:42am
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Sabah Alnasseri, but know that I would do so later. VIDEO: ‘Days of Revolt’ With Chris Hedges: ISIS, the New Israel

Hedges begins by pointing out how the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, responsible for “carving up the Middle East and turning countries into protectorates,” has been changed only twice—once with the Israeli independence and now with Islamic State.

As Hedges put it, the tactics used to redraw the map in the Middle East are both effective and familiar, including the “use of foreign money, use of foreign fighters, tactics of ethnic cleansing and terrorism and this mythical vision—in the case of Israel, the recreation of Judea and Sumeria from the Bible, and in the case of ISIS, the recreation of the seventh-century caliphate.”

Alnasseri agrees, opening his response with the observation that “to understand the pheonomenon of ISIS, we need to contextualize it within the setbacks and counter-revolution against the Arab revolutions.“

In case you are interested:

[video:https://youtu.be/Go5vYcrwlOM]

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 11:15am
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cool ass opposed to dry and hot.

Nice weather tunes - thanks for perking up the morning.

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Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 10/02/2015 - 1:03pm
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