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New U.S. jobless claims
jump 38,000 to 368,000
Market Watch, by Jeffry Bartash
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 1/31/2013 8:50:48 AM
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| WASHINGTON - The number of people who filed new applications for U.S. unemployment benefits climbed 38,000 to a seasonally adjusted 368,000 in the week ended Jan. 26, putting them at a one-month high, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch expected claims to climb to 355,000. Initial claims have returned to a level that prevailed through the later stages of 2012 after touching a five-year low earlier this month. Claims are often extremely jumpy in January after the end of the holidays and the start of a new year. Companies let go of temporary hires
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Comments:
Another surprise, surprise, surprise, from the Gomer administration.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
raphaela, 1/31/2013 8:57:20 AM (No. 9150136)
They shouldn´t be figuring temp hires into the job numbers anyway.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
tren9, 1/31/2013 9:00:13 AM (No. 9150142)
The January jitters are accounted for in the phrase ´seasonally adjusted.´
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 1/31/2013 9:03:09 AM (No. 9150146)
If seasonal adjustments occur 12 months a year then what, exactly, is the baseline if it exists at all?
Government measurement of its own performance is beyond a joke. It´s akin to giving an NFL coach the controls for the scoreboard and telling him to ´keep it close.´
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 1/31/2013 9:08:04 AM (No. 9150162)
After yesterday´s report, I am sure this was totally unexpected. Come on, the goobernment can no longer hide (nor does it care to hide now that Da Won is coroneted) the awful truth about our economy. Something most of us knew from living in the really real world.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 1/31/2013 9:10:17 AM (No. 9150169)
Fox News, talk radio and Repubs are to blame for this. If that lie doesn´t work, try "I need 8 years to clean up he mess left by Boooosh."
Fore!
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sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 1/31/2013 10:09:31 AM (No. 9150304)
The media will report this as a sign of stability. In the backward wired brains of democrats where ´FOREWARD´ is backward ,this news will be accepted as proof that Obama is making progress.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 1/31/2013 10:15:09 AM (No. 9150317)
What a difference a day makes. Baselines are for the baseball stadium. Time to bring out the bats.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 1/31/2013 10:28:38 AM (No. 9150350)
Oh, my - - this was so surprising!
I´m at a loss for words.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
djcdjc, 1/31/2013 10:34:44 AM (No. 9150366)
Is Dem progress adding 150k jobs a month to a 368k jobless a week recovery.....?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
montanabound, 1/31/2013 10:36:36 AM (No. 9150374)
Unexpected, too!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 1/31/2013 11:17:36 AM (No. 9150487)
More hope and change turning into fear and loathing
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/31/2013 11:19:19 AM (No. 9150491)
Bring on the amnesty. How much higher will that unemployment rate rise? The GOP and DNC are two-timing the working class.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jimmyfoxhound, 1/31/2013 11:24:40 AM (No. 9150510)
This is the most stunning and unexpected news that I have ever heard in my entire life!!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 1/31/2013 4:47:30 PM (No. 9151070)
Why on earth aren´t Republican think tanks, PACs, money groups out there organizing marches for the masses who are being laid off every day? COME ON!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
KTWO, 1/31/2013 4:57:48 PM (No. 9151092)
#3 I like your scoreboard analogy. IMO this administration systematically lies about everything just to keep in practice.
The monthly adjustment would be based upon how much the same month has gone up or down in previous years.
I watch these initial claims because they come in from state governments and Washington can´t fiddle with them very much. Even so I think they conveniently left out California a few months ago.
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/9/2013 6:35:41 PM
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SAN FRANCISCO — California lawmakers are considering taking some tax exemptions away from youth groups that do not accept gay, transgender or atheist members — a move intended to pressure the Boy Scouts of America to lift its ban on gay Scouts and troop leaders. Some cities have withdrawn free rent and other subsidies from the Boy Scouts over the years, but legislation introduced by state Sen. Ricardo Lara would make California the first state to target the Scouts for its anti-gay policy. The Long Beach Democrat´s bill, SB 323, is scheduled for its first committee hearing on Wednesday.
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A retired man has fallen victim to a pet poodle hoax after his local veterinarian uncovered he had been sold two giant rodents pumped up with steroids. Bargain hunters rummaging around Argentina’s largest flea market, La Salada, have been duped into spending hundreds of dollars on what they have been told is the dog of their dreams. In reality, they’ve just been sold what locals call the ‘Brazilian rat’ – a ferret pumped up on steroids and groomed to resemble a fluffy toy poodle. The retired man was initially fooled by the $75 price tag for a pet
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NATO airstrike said to kill
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/7/2013 4:20:41 PM
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed 11 civilians, 10 of them children, in addition to the Taliban militants it was trying to hit, Afghan officials said. The strike late Saturday in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province near Pakistan was called by coalition forces after they and their Afghan counterparts came under an attack that killed one American advisor and badly wounded four Afghan troops. The American death was reported on Saturday, but details of the alleged civilian casualties only surfaced Sunday. Wasifullah Wasifi, spokesperson for the governor of Kunar province, said the strike
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Look Out Below, The
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US delays missile test to avoid
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Police in eastern Idaho
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/6/2013 8:59:21 PM
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BOISE, Idaho — Authorities in eastern Idaho are investigating the shooting deaths of two men and a woman whose bodies were found in a home that contained a marijuana grow operation. The deaths took place sometime between Thursday afternoon and evening by someone who had some type of relationship with the victims, the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office said. The bodies were discovered Friday outside Holbrook, a town of about 400 people just north of the Idaho-Utah state line. Authorities said a 2-month-old was found under the arm of one of the victims — 27-year-old Yavette Chivon Carter.
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NEW YORK -- In case Americans want to scarf down their fast-food even faster, KFC is stripping the bones out of its chicken. The fast-food chain says it´s introducing deep-fried boneless chicken pieces on April 14 as an alternative to its traditional breast, thigh and drumstick pieces. The new offering reflects the growing popularity of nuggets and strips that are easier to eat on the go, as well as Americans´ seemingly endless desire for more convenient foods. KFC says nearly four out of five servings of chicken sold in the U.S. are now boneless. Based on customer trends
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone
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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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White House: Planned GOP
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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Special ops veterans’ group
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping,
Leaping, High-Kicking Martial Artists
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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Gay Connecticut couple accused
of raping adopted children
will face trial
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....
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