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Feb 3, 2012
 
The Komen Foundation has done the same as the Donald.

Pressure was applied, and the crumbled.

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RayOne wrote:
The Komen Foundation has done the same as the Donald.
Pressure was applied, and the crumbled.
Pressured was applied by antiabortionists, Shug.

First.

Do try to pay attention.

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Yeah, he was going to in the same way that you were going to post on topic one of these days.
And all of USA was surprised when the most famous philanderer got an endorsement from the 2nd most famous philanderer...
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The total number of unemployed fell below 13 million for the first time since February 2009, while the total amount of employed Americans rose to 141.6 million, an increase of 847,000 from December.

The unemployment rate was last this low in February 2009 as well.
The closely watched labor-force participation number, which can skew the unemployment rate, was unchanged at 63.7 percent.

Unemployment for blacks plunged from 15.8 percent to 13.6 percent, while the rate for Hispanics fell from 11.0 percent to 10.5 percent. The teen unemployment rate rose one-tenth to 23.2 percent.

The so-called real unemployment rate, which measures discouraged workers as well and is referred to as the U-6, nudged lower to 15.1 percent.

Long-term unemployment, though, remains a problem, with the duration dropping from a near-record 40.8 weeks to 40.1 weeks.
Also, the level of discouraged workers surged, rising 7 percent to its highest level since December 2010.

Job growth remains one of the two missing pieces of the recovery puzzle, even though the rate has been on a steady trek lower

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Le Jimbo wrote:
<quoted text>The total number of unemployed fell
Not particularly caring about the numbers you post, Dumbo.

Here is what the DoL says:

"Friday's Department of Labor report showed that 243,000 jobs were added last month, and that the unemployment rate dropped from 8.5% in December to 8.3% in January — the lowest level in almost three years. Still, GOP leaders were critical."

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Not particularly caring about the numbers you post, Dumbo.
Here is what the DoL says:
"Friday's Department of Labor report showed that 243,000 jobs were added last month, and that the unemployment rate dropped from 8.5% in December to 8.3% in January — the lowest level in almost three years. Still, GOP leaders were critical."
Bureau of Labor Satistics refute you crap. Have you bought that tent yet, don't get the ones with the wide strips for your dress, they will make you look fatter.......

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Le Jimbo wrote:
<quoted text>Bureau of Labor Satistics refute you crap.
Funny how **I*** keep posting the link to Depart of Labor (et al.) and you keep creating fiction.

Here you go,m DUMBO!
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Payroll employment rises 243,000 in January; unemployment rate decreases to 8.3%

Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent. Job growth was widespread, with large gains in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and manufacturing.

http://www.bls.gov/ <----source.... you won't find on Dumbo's posts
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#218
Feb 3, 2012
 
LOL, the end result is that UPS the company has the right to free speech and that right to free speech cannot be usurp by an employee on company property who speaks out of turn about the company or other political matters making it seem as if that person is a spokesperson for the company.
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Great, you finally came to your senses once the drugs kicked in.
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LOL, the end result is that UPS the company has the right to free speech and that right to free speech cannot be usurp by an employee on company property who speaks out of turn about the company or other political matters making it seem as if that person is a spokesperson for the company.
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barefoot2626 wrote:
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Pressured was applied by antiabortionists, Shug.
First.
Do try to pay attention.
The DNC play book was effective, it shares the tools of the other organization, BHO reports to them.

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Funny how **I*** keep posting the link to Depart of Labor (et al.) and you keep creating fiction.
Here you go,m DUMBO!
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Payroll employment rises 243,000 in January; unemployment rate decreases to 8.3%
Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent. Job growth was widespread, with large gains in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and manufacturing.
http://www.bls.gov/ <----source.... you won't find on Dumbo's posts
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Sure, just like two days ago, Obama had to adjust the December numbers down by 100,000 and yet now we are showing a drop. Obama's water carriers report 8.3% Unemployment but America dropped 1.2 million jobs between December and january......best guess, they are hidding numbers until the weekend as usual. The Bureau of labor say 15.1% counting all unemployeed.......Heck folks, thats only 10.5% more than under Bush's best numbers.........that is CHANGE.

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Le Jimbo wrote:
<quoted text>Sure, just like two days ago, Obama had to adjust
More cross posted, off topic DUMBOSPAM.

WAH WAH WAH! obama fudged the numbers WAH WAH WAH! The government is lying to me! WAH WAH WAH!

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More cross posted, off topic DUMBOSPAM.
WAH WAH WAH! obama fudged the numbers WAH WAH WAH! The government is lying to me! WAH WAH WAH!
If you would take Obama's winky out of your mouth, you could say more than Wah Wah.......is swallowing you new contraception or the is the morning after pill in supository form now.

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<quoted text>If you would take Obama's winky out of your mouth, you could say more than Wah Wah.......is swallowing you new contraception or the is the morning after pill in supository form now.
Sexual slime anyone???

Pot meet filthy trolling kettle

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<quoted text>If you would take Obama's winky out of your mouth,
WAH WAH WAH! POOR DUMBO, Gingrich does a face plant and the only thing Dumbo has left is thinking about is sucking winkies.

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10398848-american-airlines-emp loyee-expects-firing-over-paro dy-videos

By Scott Gordon, KXAS

A longtime American Airlines flight attendant said the company threatened to fire him on Friday over parody videos poking fun at company executives that he posted to YouTube, NBCDFW.com reports.

"You know what? It gave everybody at American a laugh that we so needed," said Gailen David of Miami, who has worked for American for 24 years.

In one of the videos, "Aluminum Lady" — a parody of the movie "Iron Lady," about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher —he dressed as a female executive and held a toy airplane.

"We can run each one of these aircraft with about three less flight attendants," he joked. "It looks like it's perfectly doable."

In another video, he posed as an actual American executive and mocked a recent letter that she wrote to employees.


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"I thought,'You know what? I'm going to dress up and get in front of a camera and read this letter how they really meant it,' " he said.

American declared bankruptcy in November and announced this month that it planned to cut 2,300 flight attendants.

David said his bosses demanded that he remove the videos and summoned him to a disciplinary meeting on Friday that he did not attend.

"I'm not taking them down because too many people are enjoying them right now," he said.

He said his supervisor told him he would be fired for insubordination if he didn't go to the meeting, but he had not received official word he had been terminated.

In a written statement, company spokesman Bruce Hicks said David's videos crossed a line.

"We expect our employees to treat one another with respect," he said. "While we recognize our employees' right to express their viewpoints, we have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to attacking or harassing other employees."

David said he has received an overwhelmingly positive response from co-workers.

"I have to do what I have to do," he said. "They may fire me for it, and that's going to be OK."

The American Association of Flight Attendants is supporting him.

"Anybody who can get us to smile under these circumstances, I applaud," said Laura Glading, union president. "American has completely overreacted. We support Gailen."

David said he figures he would lose his job in the airline's bankruptcy whether or not he posted the videos.

"We all have tried to deliver such great customer service," he said. "And in return, it feels like we keep getting kicked in the gut, so this was a time for me to do something to make us all laugh for a change and really say what needed to be said."

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WAH WAH WAH! POOR DUMBO, Gingrich does a face plant and the only thing Dumbo has left is thinking about is sucking winkies.
Founded by Brock in 2004 as a liberal counterweight to “conservative misinformation” in the press, Media Matters has in less than a decade become a powerful player in Democratic politics. The group operates in regular coordination with the highest levels of the Obama White House, as well as with members of Congress and progressive groups around the country. Brock, who collected over $250,000 in salary from Media Matters in 2010, has himself become a major fundraiser on the left. According to an internal memo obtained by TheDC, Media Matters intends to spend nearly $20 million in 2012 to influence news coverage.

Donors have every reason to expect success, as the group’s effect on many news organizations has already been profound.“We were pretty much writing their prime time,” a former Media Matters employee said of the cable channel MSNBC.“But then virtually all the mainstream media was using our stuff.”

The article is worth reading to the end.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/inside-medi ...

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<quoted text>Founded by Brock in 2004
WAH WAH WAH! All Dumbo, all the time, DumboSpam Channel Crappolla!

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barefoot2626 wrote:
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WAH WAH WAH! All Dumbo, all the time, DumboSpam Channel Crappolla!
What childish dribble.....this folks is an Obama voter.
conservative crapola

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Feb 14, 2012
 
"Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1980.(The U.S. Department of Transportation calculates that a 14-car train traveling at 80 miles per hour gets 400 passenger miles to the gallon. A 1980 auto carrying an average of 2.2 people gets 42.6 passenger miles to the gallon.)

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<quoted text>What childish dribble.....this folks is an Obama voter.
Off topic, cross posted DUMBOSPAM... this from a Cain Supporter.

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