Another MAGA Jobs Report

Another very encouraging jobs report, with just one quibble - if the job market is so tight, why aren't wages rising? One factor - formerly discouraged workers are re-entering the work force (good!) but that holds down wage increases and actually raised the reported unemployment rate this month.

Tick tock. Democrats hoping for a bad economy to bolster their inevitable Blue Wave might want to start working on a fresh fantasy.

Comments

[Captain Hate]

Foreigner's one of those group who made me roll my eyes but when their songs would come on the classic crock stations in my car I wouldn't automatically hit another preset.

[Captain Hate]

So that's where the blue note catalog comes from.

They've been bought and sold many times. I don't know if they're putting out new stuff now because I think the last time I bought a new record from them was in the 90s.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

Some idiot decided last year to change the AAA team in Gwinnett county (ATL suburbs - other side of town from the big boy stadium) from the BRAVES to the Gwinnett Stripers as they are close to Lake Lanier. WTF do fish have to do with Braves?

One casualty is no more tomahawk chop at the AAA franchise. I'm betting the next move will be to change the "Braves" name to something similar so they can 'retire' the chop w/o causing a furor. F'n libs.

[Captain Hate]

Even Hanoi Jane briefly did the chop when she was hitched to Ted.

[GUS]

Steph, my best friend from High School lives in Gwinnett. He LOVES STRIPPERS. I think his fave is STORMY something or other.
DACULA is his hometown.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

I don't care enough about Foreigner, Boston or Journey to pay to see their concerts. Journey was here playing at the Big boy Braves stadium this week with Def Leopard, but $99 a tix and still a NOPE from me. We went to a Journey cover band concert last Friday for $80 for a table for 4 with excellent craft beer, no lines for the bathroom and no drunks barfing or weed smoke to deal with. Close enough for me.

BTW the craft beer Creature Comfort was so excellent I went for a beer at the club last night instead of my usual scotch. Got the beer itch back again.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

LOL Dacula is about 15 minutes from me. Excellent golf course up there. Trophy Club of Apalachee.

Hole #5 is lovingly referred to as the Great Wall of China as you tee off from the women's tees at the base of the cliff and it's about 85 feet uphill to the hole and a cliff face and stream if you miss the green. The drop zone is about 10 feet right of the women's tees so not really any relief. I saw a HS chick get a 19 on that par 3 one time. Yike!

[Strawman Cometh]

Going through my LPs prompted me to find that and put it up, but I recall the Neil Young quote "Listening to digital music is like viewing a masterpiece painting through a screen window". Myself, I don't have the ear to know if that is true. My youtube feed is putting up some great stuff behind Dave Mason, including Prince's While my Guitfiddle is triggered. I remember DOT posting that one.

[narciso]

Well the red skins were once the Boston braves, so there is always potential for microagressions, why so the fish get the hook anyways.

[Captain Hate]

Steph, do you know which specific beer you had?

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/34456/

Those ratings are pretty high so obviously Creature Comforts is a fave of my fellow sots.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

I had a pro organizer in last month to assist with cleaning out clutter and toss stuff out, and she had the gall to ask if I wanted to keep my LPs. Almost tossed her then!

Some of those suckers are worth $$ in vinyl shops. Don't listen to them, but they are in pristine condition as are the covers.

[GUS]

Steph, Journey and DEF ZEPPELIN played here at SUMMERFEST, the biggest music festival in the WORLD a few days ago. I've seen them for free and actually been on the bill with one or the other a couple times. How do bands like that command headline status for 30,000 at RIDICULOUS PRICES, after years in the wilderness.

IN OTHER NEWS. Cheap Trick plays SUMMERFEST, on the second biggest stage tomorrow night at 10:30.

I'll be there. I don't have to pay.

[Captain Hate]

Neil Young is very nutty about sound. Even my buds with high end systems think he's lost his marbles.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

Reclaimed Rye. Loved it.

I've never really paid attention to what beers taste like x or y or z (pilsner v ale v porters etc), but have always liked lagers and ales over others. My go to used to be Sam Adams if there were no craft beers available, but their politics sux so been scouting for a new choice. Now to find some craft beer places in our neck of the woods. Out here the consider Blue Moon and Sweetwater 'craft beers.'

[Strawman Cometh]

Hey, Dave Mason is one of ours and is touring:
https://www.davemasonmusic.com/tour

[GUS]

Tomorrow I get to see CHEAP TRICK with my son. It will be my 75th time seeing Cheap TRICK, as best that I can account for. We are backstage, as guests, and my Son, will be reaquainted with the guys in the band. The show is LATE...10:30 PM.
We went to MASS today at 4:30, and life is good.
This coming week at work is AWESOME. I'm getting some contracts signed and some BILLS paid.

LIFE IS GOOD.

I prayed for TK, and for SBW and for virtually every on here on JOM at Mass tonight.

I mean it. God bless all of you.

[Captain Hate]

Reclaimed Rye must be popular because there are at least two variants of it (those places are notoriously bad at updating their websites). Glad you found something good.

[Strawman Cometh]

Love ya, Narc, not sure what you are communicating at 12:45

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

Awesome Gus!

I've found over the last few years I can't abide big concerts as I'd prefer the fans all 'get off my lawn!' Too many idiots!

Good friend of mine from HS (he was my assigned football player for locker decorating, TP rolling of his house and stuff for cheerleading/drill team) is/was a tour manager or some such title, and he flew all over the world working Aerosmith, Lady GaGa, Prince, and other big names.

He'd do the entire tour with them and has the most fabulous pics with the members from Australia, Germany Japan, etc. He retired when he and his wife were flown home from the Aerosmith tour when she got sick... she died two weeks later from cancer and all the Tyler's turned out for her funeral. Stu Baby still has the contacts for concert tix if I want to go, but I'd rather avoid the crowds. Just getting too old I guess.

[narciso]

Changing the name, won't end the agitation, even to the bassomatic 76ers.

[GUS]

Strawman, Dave Mason, is worth seeing. His own personal guitar skills and talent are worth the price of admission.

[Captain Hate]

The Boston Braves are now in Atlanta after a stop in Milwaukee.

[GUS]

Thank you Steph. My son is a music FIEND. He works at his music every single day.
Sound like his DADDY, when I was his age.

Good to see you Steph, GOD BLESS YOU.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

Yep. And the big boy Braves are playing a series with Milwaukee this weekend. 1/1 split so far I think.

The triple A team is in last place while the big boys are in first, but the big boys have been poaching all the best players so far this season, so whatcha gonna do?

[Captain Hate]

Time for bed.

Nytol.

[GUS]

Yes CAPN, a STOP in Milwaukee and a WORLD SERIES WIN vs THE YANKEES. IN 1957. WORLD SERIES again in 1958. LOSS. By 1965, even despite the best attendance in baseball, they MOVED TO ATLANTA.

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

Good to see you too, Gus.

Might actually play some golf tomorrow if the weather holds. It's been 2 1/2 years since I touched a club, but I'm trying to get back into shape after that awful surgery mess and recovery and need to do something to start back to getting in some semblance of shape.

Niteall!

[GUS]

Steph, the MILWAUKEE BREWERS are in 1st place in the NATIONAL LEAGUE CENTRAL.

[GUS]

Thank you for your kind words Steph. I hope you are well healthy and strong. My life is good and I've loved golf my entire life.
Sweet Steph, I will never admit anything that could slow me down. I love the obstacles that I must endure. I think you are likewise.
NEVER LET THE SEE YOU SWEAT. Whatever does not KILL ME, merely makes me STRONGER.

God bless you Stephanie.

[GUS]

One more time on WJOM/KJOM.
The ZIPLOC bag o'ROCK N ROLL PICKS.

JY from REO SPEED WAGON.
James Young.

[GUS]

There is a story on the net tonight, THAT RODHAM is going to run again.

PLEASE DO YOU INCOMPETENT SHREW. Run. Please do.

[Another Bob]

GUS, the woman is mentally ill. And not just with sociopathy,

Trump better get off his ass and get moving in dismantling the infrastructure she’d put to use, stat.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Hillary will NEVER be president.
Moreover, I doubt she could even get the nomination next time around.

[daddy]

House Speaker Paul Ryan called the recent allegations raised against Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, "serious" in a statement on Friday.

"These are serious allegations and issues," a spokesman for Ryan told USA Today in an email. "The university has rightfully initiated a full investigation into the matter. The speaker will await the findings of that inquiry."

Anyone know how soon Ryan is leaving?

[Davod]

The ratbags want to take Jordan out of the picture, much like they did with Nunez. The ROPe will never fail the ratbags in its willingness to use morality and ethical concerns to neuter ionvestigations.

[Davod]

Shuold read 'concerns'

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

The Monkees and Seinfeld. Mickey and I are closing a bar in Boston... a night of great stories. pic.twitter.com/oGfv3jp3Fx

— John O'Hurley🎄❄️☃️ (@ImJohnOHurley) July 8, 2018

Photo at the link.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/07/07/devin-nunes-evidence-underlying-carter-page-fisa-warrant-was-fraudulent/

Interview video at link. I haven't listened to it, just posting.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/is-hillary-clinton-secretly-planning-to-run-in-2020/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

[قیمت میلگرد میانه]

In a month Trump's approval rating among hispanics shot up 10 points!"

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

They have begun the rescue of the boys in the cave. The rescue is supposed to take up to 2 days. 17 divers have gone in according to the Australian papers.

This is a gal in New Zealand who will have links to Australian and New Zealand papers which are closer to the Thai time zone.

https://twitter.com/GodlessNZ

I am offering prayers for both the boys and the rescuers.

[Davod]

The Thai cave system where the players are trapped is between 2600 and 9000 feet below the surface.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/07/asia/thai-cave-rescue-intl/index.html

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Davod,

I am extremely claustrophobic. Thank you for that information, because I can hardly read about it.

I am praying for all involved.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I am going back to bed for a bit.

Back later.

[Kevlar Kid]

CH:

that Dave Mason LP is "Alone Together", came out in 1970 during freshman year of high school.

his rythm guitar on the studio version of Hendrix' "All Along the Watchtower" brought him to my attention... fifth or sixth grade...i was taking lessons back then.

my favorite by him: Baby Please

saw this done live at Keystone in Berkeley. Gerald Johnson sat in. Back in 73. they tore it up and closed with a 20 minute rendition of BP. Dave brought 2 young guitar players out for solos. no one wanted to go home. Chuck Rainey plays bass on the studio cut (LP: It's Like You Never Left-- Leon Russell and S. Wonder appear on a cut "The Lonely One").

i'm into Mason a lil ;) as for Winwood, "I'm a Man" broke into my brain in 67 (age 12)... Traffic's "Welcome to the Canteen" was a staple vinyl spin during after study midnight smoke outs in college.

my favorite rendition of a Winwood tune that somebody here at JOM spun one night not too long ago, featuring Clapton and Derek Trucks:

Can't Find My Way Home

here's a Blind Faith live version some great early Clapton on here. Ginger Baker on drums: Live "Can't"

that is all LOL

Kev

[Kevlar Kid]

Good roundup and more links to the Devin Nunes' call up of 42 "names" for congressional testimony on FISA. Includes names and their Deep State job assignments.

https://themarketswork.com/2018/07/06/the-nunes-list-forty-two-names-referred-growing/

[Kevlar Kid]

A timeline for the back and forth between Nunes and Rosenstein.

https://themarketswork.com/2018/07/05/devins-journey-rule-of-law-cold-anger/

[daddy]

Via Clarice's live link posted a few hours back on the Thai Rescue we are told that the possibility of any sort of drilling as a means of rescue has been ruled out.

[daddy]

18 divers entered the cave 30 minutes ago, 5 Thai divers and 13 International divers.

[Pinandpuller]

GUS

Artemis Pyle and his band are playing at The City Winery sometime soon.

How much of a band can you replace before it's not really that band anymore? It's like any given Paul Newman race car is maybe 10% OEM.

[Pinandpuller]

It's like the World Diver's Cup. Hasn't anyone ever heard of Oak Island?

[Pinandpuller]

Do you want to be an unpaid stringer for the WaPo?

https://i.redd.it/rhjecgz41l811.png

[Pinandpuller]

Mickey Kaus
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More Mickey Kaus Retweeted Jonathan Martin
This is really happening. At last minute, McConnell is pushing the TWO WORST CANDIDATES on immigration, Kethledge (awful) and Hardiman. Maybe call McConnell's office to tell him what you think. 202 224 3121 ask for Majority Leader's office.

[Pinandpuller]

Spicy

Will Westcott
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World’s smartest man had his Facebook suspended for this post explaining why we should accept Gorillas as refugees instead of Somalians.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhhSUOzUYAACo4A.jpg:large

[Pinandpuller]

I think his point is why should we import people with put on a sweater IQ's?

[hoyden]

Good morning, JOM.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/exalted_righteousness_tawdry_methods_lead_to_walk_away.html

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

hoyden,

Good morning and thanks for posting Clarice's Pieces, which is exceptionally good this week!

[Pinandpuller]

Voice of Europe 🌐
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@V_of_Europe
12h12 hours ago
More Voice of Europe 🌐 Retweeted Voice of Europe 🌐
Muslims attacked Christian refugees in Greece for holding a bible study. This is what the EU is importing by the thousands

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/07/haiti-protests-leave-us-church-youth-groups-stranded-in-caribbean-nation-as-violence-roadblocks-continue.html

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://themindcircle.com/daughter-teaches-father-selfie-pictures-best-ever/

Nothing of importance, except to start your day with a smile.

[Pinandpuller]

George Webb worker in Milwaukee, Wisconsin punched by man who went behind counter

https://youtu.be/yTFK6DeEbIc

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1015863295742480385.html

This is a detailed set of posts about money laundering and evidence the Clinton Foundation and certain financial institutions were involved.

[hoyden]

You're welcome, MM. I've been up for 2 hours and caught up with reading. There are two joyful periodic net events for me: Pieces and TWIP. Both are outstanding this week with the authors providing insight and humor.

This morning plan to depart Glacier for Seattle environs with a three hour flight. The group will arrive Everett and I will continue on to Bellingham. Weather is good.

Yesterday we did a day at Glacier Park. Incredibly beautiful. The Going to the Sun Road up to Logan's Pass and Jackson Glacier Overlook.

Time for my third cuppa.

[Pinandpuller]

https://twitter.com/jaredbeck/status/1014304977253208067

This is the prosecutor who let Imran #Awan skate today. And his wife. Look at those blank fluoride stares.

[Pinandpuller]

Wat

https://www.yell.com/biz/martin-luther-king-adventure-playground-london-7568878/

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://pagesix.com/2018/07/07/drama-behind-the-miss-america-organization-continues/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Looks like Gretchen Carlson is having some difficulties as chair.

[Pinandpuller]

This guy...he rides a bike to work!!! JK

Adam McKay
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@GhostPanther
Jul 6
Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and FOX News pulled off.
They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps. It’s truly remarkable.

[Pinandpuller]

Working white people are dumb, if they buy any of your schtick. Did you and Mikhail Moore ever have a schlub off?

[rse]

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/08/tham-luang-cave-rescue-begins-what-we-know-so-far

Thinking about the families too of those international divers who have volunteered their considerable expertise for this very dangerous mission. Usually a family would not know beforehand that a loved one is on a dangerous mission, but this is not a matter of national security and this time they will.

[rse]

This has some excellent graphics. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/08/rescue-thailand-cave-operation-boys-begins-divers

[rse]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-08/thai-cave-rescue-what-we-know-about-the-divers/9953482 is also quite interesting.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Aha! I wondered why Macron had suddenly become the Invisible Man in the press. I believe I have the answer.

https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/08/video-frances-macron-tells-africans-to-stay-and-succeed-in-africa-reduce-birth-rate/

[rse]

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/thailand-cave-rescue-timeline-firms-for-evacuation-operation/news-story/e1ef8baa5c8d967c64a8d62392041f3a is just full of info and collateral stories including pictures of the monsoonal rains now flooding area where the media is.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/I-66-Rosslyn-Virginia-Crash-Secret-Service-487593821.html

This is mysterious and a little alarming. Not much information yet.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

BREAKING: First two boys RESCUED from Tham Luang cave: https://t.co/eTPqHl5nmR#ThailandCaveRescue #ThamLuang #thailandRESCUE #thailand #thamluangcave pic.twitter.com/rTIZejhYeY

— Thaivisa (@georgebkk) July 8, 2018

[Jane]

Hallelujah!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/this-army-veteran-is-proving-patriotism-sells/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

According to my friend in New Zealand, it took almost 8 hours to get those two boys out.

Continued prayers for everyone out there!

[Jane]

Clarice's Pieces: #Walkaway

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/exalted_righteousness_tawdry_methods_lead_to_walk_away.html

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/what-really-happened-when-gop-senators-visited-moscow?platform=hootsuite

For some reason the Examiner has an automatic video of news stories at the top of this article. You will have to mute it as I couldn't figure out how to close it without closing the entire article, which is by Byron York.

[Jane]

MM they predicted it would take 11 so it's pretty amazing.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I am going to get some work done.

The cave rescue thing is giving me a bad case of nerves and I think it better to occupy myself elsewhere.

Back later.

[clarice feldman]

Thanks. Good morning, JOM!

[Extraneus]

Founder Of Movement For Disillusioned Democrats Refused Service At New York Electronics Store

The #WalkAway guy.

[narciso]

Mckay had one shtick with farrell, in anchorman, his branching into punditry is tiresome,

[clarice feldman]

Now SIX boys out of the cave!

[Man Tran]

Hoyden,

In case you didn’t know, there is a big fly in at KAWO this weekend. Pretty busy if you go straight up to KBLI. Ten minutes extra to swing by here. :)
Whidbey approach is your friend in any case.

[James D.]

"These are serious allegations and issues," a spokesman for Ryan told USA Today in an email. "The university has rightfully initiated a full investigation into the matter. The speaker will await the findings of that inquiry."

Has this jackass EVER had a single word to say about the Awans stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer property and shipping g off God only knows how much classified information to Pakistan (or wherever) from dozens of Dem congresscritters?

Ha cannot leave soon enough.

[Davod]

Another suggestion as to why the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death - The MIG 15.

Taken from this great July 8, 2018 American Thinker article 'America's Junk Weapons'
By J.R. Dunn:

"...It was all a mirage. The simple truth was that all the “science” and “technology” embodied by the MiG-15 came directly from Western sources. That outstanding engine was the Rolls-Royce Nene, built under a license granted in a fit a suicidal madness by the Atlee Labour government. And the rest…

The rest was a gift to the comrades by the Rosenberg spy network. Along with data on the Manhattan Project, Ethel and Julius also sent east anything else available. One member of the network was William Perl, a physicist and aeronautical researcher for the National Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of NASA. Perl was the source of all kinds of swell material, including the full developmental data on the P-80, the first U.S. jet, but even more important, the wind tunnel data for the F-86.

This was nearly as important as the A-bomb material. In fact, it may have killed Ethel and Julius. Judge Irving Kaufmann, who handed down the death sentence, was beside himself over the fact that Americans were being killed in Korea using information turned over by the Rosenbergs even as the trial proceeded. This could only have referred to the F-86 data. (Perl himself lucked out, serving only two concurrent five-year terms for perjury...)"

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/americas_junk_weapons.html#ixzz5KfVEvBAH

[henry]

New thread

[Davod]

PS. Same article, but about the shooting down of Gary Power's U2 (I heard this many years ago during a lecture by Gary Power's):

"The B-70 went through an immensely successful test program. The USAF had an epoch-making aircraft on its hands, one that would render every other bomber immediately obsolete as soon as it was operational.

No matter – on March 28, 1961 the program was “reoriented” toward testing and development – a sneaky method of cancelling it without saying so.

The ostensible reason was that the downing of the U-2 over the USSR on May I, 1960 demonstrated that it was too vulnerable to Soviet SAMs. (In fact, it wasn’t until years later that the public learned the Gary Powers’ U-2 had flamed out at its cruising altitude of 70,000 ft. and had glided down to 40,000 ft. before is was struck by a SAM)..."

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/americas_junk_weapons.html#ixzz5KfZOoeKr

[Davod]

PPS:

Francis Gary Powers Jr. Spent many years talking about his father and the Cold War in general. He never stopped pushing to raise funds for a Cold War museum.

A Cold War Museum is now located at Vint Hill, Warrenton, Virginia. The museum has an interesting lecture program.

http://www.coldwar.org/

[Davod]

From the previous thread (one of three)

Another suggestion as to why the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death - The MIG 15.

Taken from this great July 8, 2018 American Thinker article 'America's Junk Weapons'
By J.R. Dunn:

"...It was all a mirage. The simple truth was that all the “science” and “technology” embodied by the MiG-15 came directly from Western sources. That outstanding engine was the Rolls-Royce Nene, built under a license granted in a fit a suicidal madness by the Atlee Labour government. And the rest…

The rest was a gift to the comrades by the Rosenberg spy network. Along with data on the Manhattan Project, Ethel and Julius also sent east anything else available. One member of the network was William Perl, a physicist and aeronautical researcher for the National Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of NASA. Perl was the source of all kinds of swell material, including the full developmental data on the P-80, the first U.S. jet, but even more important, the wind tunnel data for the F-86.

This was nearly as important as the A-bomb material. In fact, it may have killed Ethel and Julius. Judge Irving Kaufmann, who handed down the death sentence, was beside himself over the fact that Americans were being killed in Korea using information turned over by the Rosenbergs even as the trial proceeded. This could only have referred to the F-86 data. (Perl himself lucked out, serving only two concurrent five-year terms for perjury...)"

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/americas_junk_weapons.html#ixzz5KfVEvBAH

[Kevlar Kid]

"Has this jackass EVER had a single word to say about the Awans stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer property and shipping g off God only knows how much classified information to Pakistan (or wherever) from dozens of Dem congresscritters?"