Catherine

“What are the odds Kerry will come up with a bold, imaginative approacah to winning the election?”

Quite good after they impound all the voting machines. Not imaginative, but surely bold.

Terrye

“Gale lost his job October 2000. After his unemployment ran out he went in business for himself. And he has one part time employee [who wants to be part time]. According to the stats both these men are unemployed. ”

I think at least Gale would show up in the Household Survey though. Which noone pays any attention to…only the Payroll Data Survey is ever reported in the news. There are reasons, many of which have been addressed in the last few months, but the resistance to accepting Household data will persist for a long time yet. Hobbsonline was doing a lot of work explaining the issues with Household survey a couple months past. I did some reading on the issue myself and made a couple of posts over there. I’ve forgotten most of it though. I’m really aging faster than I would like.

But while the Payroll survey had jobs last month at 32,000, the Household reported over 600,000 (according to Fred Barnes, I stopped looking up the data myself once job growth in the Payroll survey started to take off.)

That’s an amazing discrepancy.

And demonstrates there’s an underlying structural change in our economy.

All

“triggered by the public release of a new message from Osama bin Laden”

“chatter dropped off again”

This fits the pattern and we just went through this a few months ago. Lots of chatter. News that an attack will be triggered by video. Chatter drops off. Video comes out. We hold our breath. And either something bad happens or we’ve somehow stopped them. I don’t think grounding all those flights around the holidays was for nought.

I rarely read Debka, Memri, or LGF anymore. I just got myself worked up when there was nothing I could do about it.

All I can do is live my life and support Bush. I’m doing what I can.