by David Safier The Star got it seriously wrong this morning, writing, If you still have an early ballot in your hand on Election Day, you must drop it off at your assigned polling place. Wrong. On Tuesday, early ballots can be dropped off at any polling place. The online edition has the correction. But … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for Steve Benen's weekly fact check of the shameless shapeshifter and pathological liar, Willard "Mittens" Romney. "What a long strange trip it's been," as the Grateful Dead once observed. Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XLI: In a way, I blame my friend Greg Sargent. In the first week in January, … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Simpsons' evil archetype, Montgomery C. Burns, endorses Willard Mittens Romney in this promo for The Simpsons season premiere. Mr. Burns puts Seamus (Romney's dog) to the test of choosing between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Video below the fold.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Friday is the LAST day to mail your early ballots. Please remember to sign and date the affidavit envelope. Do NOT mail your early ballot after today. You will have to drop it off at any early voting location or any polling location on Election Day.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Someone tell BLS Truther Sen. Chuck Grassley (I.O.W.A. – idiots out wandering around) that the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its October jobs report on time as scheduled, despite Hurricane Sandy earlier this week.
Let the BLS Truthers freak out over today's new jobs report: the U.S. economy created 171,000 jobs in October, far more than expected, while American businesses created 184,000 jobs — the best month for the private sector since February. U.S. job growth accelerates, exceeds expectations:
The overall unemployment rate ticked slightly higher, to 7.9%, but that's the result of a positive trend — more Americans entered the workforce, which is exactly what we'd hope to see in an improving economy. [That would be the discouraged workers who have "given up" that we hear so much about.]
Even more encouraging, the new report revised job totals from August and September, and both were updated in a good direction, adding a combined 84,000.
For context, I'd note that so far in 2012 (which still has two months to go), the economy has created over 1.56 million jobs, which is already better than five of the eight years of the Bush/Cheney era.
Here's another chart, this one showing monthly job losses/gains in just the private sector since the start of the Great Recession. [There have been 32 consecutive months of private sector job growth.]