2 Responses to Interesting Slant

  1. Span Ows says:
    March 9, 2015 at 9:18 am

    we all know not to trust the BBC on any USA news, the economic figures this week were a case in point, in fact there was one phrase so contorted I couldn’t understand it:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31768388
    “US economy adds 295,000 jobs in February”

    At the end of the section it has the paragraph:

    “The labour force participation rate fell to 62.8% from 62.9%, as more people made themselves available for work.”

    That just sounds so odd…maybe I’m not understanding the English. However, more interesting is reading what that meant in a non BBC world:

    “Prior to that, the last time the rate was below 63 percent was 37 years ago, in March 1978 when it was 62.8 percent, the same rate it was in February.”

    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/628-labor-force-participation-has-hovered-near-37-year-low-11-months

    …looking at the graph on that page it seems GWB in his 2nd term kept the Labour force pretty stable despite even the financial crisis.

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  2. Owen Morgan says:
    March 9, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    The DoJ statement was deliberately designed to encourage the second headline. For one thing, the admission that Officer Darren Wilson has no case to answer wasn’t exactly phrased that way:

    “There is no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely to disprove Wilson’s stated subjective belief that he feared for his safety.”

    “…to disprove Wilson’s stated subjective belief…” That phrase reads like a whole sackful of weasels. In other words, “Don’t worry: we’ll get the next one.” Just to make sure there will be a next one, the statement went on to depict the Ferguson PD as a hotbed of racism, on the basis of a handful of e-mails. (Interesting to note that some branches of the American government do promptly provide e-mails when requested to so.)

    This is a blatant effort to keep the racial pot stirring, with the connivance of leftist “news” outlets. I’m not surprised in the least that the beebyanka took the hint.

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