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Here ya go: </snip> Each year, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey employment estimates are benchmarked to comprehensive counts of employment for the month of March. These counts are derived from state unemployment insurance (UI) tax records that nearly all employers are required to file. For national CES employment series, the annual benchmark revisions over the last 10 years have averaged plus or minus two-tenths of one percent of total nonfarm employment. The preliminary estimate of the benchmark revision indicates a downward adjustment to March 2019 total nonfarm employment of -501,000 (-0.3 percent). </snip> Not sure where the 20% in that article came from. That Bureau of Labor Statics graph the story linked to showed that the government adjusted data showed some of the benchmark revisions were up, some were down. (I could be reading it wrong, but that was why I quoted that 0.3%.)

Dink and Dunk 2.0. A dilemma: boring, but winning football, or exciting, possibly winning, hero football?

Hmmm well, that would suck. Still do a trust for asset protection, delete all social media accounts, decline all media attention (if forced to a press conference, a burqa would work), etc.

Set up a trust in either New Mexico or Wyoming to own the winning lottery ticket (big privacy states). The trust cashes the ticket, and the trust can be made known. $10M wouldn't change my lifestyle. A $100M lottery win means I'd never, ever, EVER fly commercial again. ?

U.S., Japan agree in principle on trade deal worth 'billions and billions' Trump highlights benefits for American farmers The U.S. and Japan have agreed in principle on a trade deal worth “billions and billions of dollars,” President Trump said Sunday. Mr. Trump said parties will likely sign the deal around the U.N. General Assembly in September. Japan will buy up America’s corn surplus as part of the deal. Some tariffs on Japanese goods will be removed, though existing levies on autos will remain. “It’s a very big transaction, and we’ve agreed in principle. It’s billions and billions of dollars. Tremendous for the farmers,” Mr. Trump said in an impromptu session with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Group of Seven summit in France. </snip> U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Japan is the U.S.’s third-largest agriculture market. He said the deal will open up markets for $7 billion more in U.S. beef, pork, wheat, dairy, wine, ethanol and other products. </snip>

Mostly replacement work, but some new, never had a fence there before, work is also starting. Work on more border wall starts in Arizona, New Mexico Work crews in Arizona and New Mexico forged ahead Friday with construction of taller border fencing funded through a national emergency declaration by President Donald Trump. The work on his hallmark campaign promise involves mostly replacement fencing along a 46-mile stretch of desert west of Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and on 2 miles of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona. </snip> The administration has awarded $2.8 billion in contracts for barriers covering 247 miles (390 kilometers), with all but 17 miles (27 kilometers) of that to replace existing barriers instead of expanding coverage. Various forms of barriers already exist along 654 miles (1,046 kilometers) — about a third — of the border. The construction comes as immigrant apprehensions have fallen sharply over the past two months due to the summer heat and a clamp down in Mexico. </snip>

Bad week for the global warming crowd, I guess. The post below is loaded with links to click: Michael Mann, creator of the infamous global warming ‘hockey stick,’ loses lawsuit against climate skeptic, ordered to pay defendant’s costs Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the “hockey stick graph” that appears to show global temperatures taking a noticeable swing upward in the era when humanity has been burning fossil fuels and dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. The graph was first published in 1998, prominently featured in the 2001 UN Climate Report, and formed part of Al Gore’s 2006 movie, An Inconvenient Truth. The graph’s methodology and accuracy have been and continue to be hotly contested, but Mann has taken the tack of suing two of his most prominent critics for defamation or libel. One case, against Mark Steyn, is called by Steyn likely to end up in the Supreme Court. But another case, against Dr. Tim Ball was decided by the Supreme Court of British Columbia, with Mann’s case thrown out, and him ordered to pay the defendant’s legal costs, no doubt a tidy sum of money. News first broke in Wattsupwiththat, via an email Ball sent to Anthony Watt. Later, Principia-Scientific offered extensive details, including much background on the hockey stick. </snip> Dr Mann lost his case because he refused to show in open court his R2 regression numbers (the ‘working out’) behind the world-famous ‘hockey stick’ graph (shown below). </snip>

Court rules Obama EPA violated law on Waters of the United States Rule More than nine months after the last hearing in the case, and nearly nine months to the day of the briefing deadline for that hearing, U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood handed a victory to the state of Georgia and nine other states that sued the federal government over the Obama administration’s 2015 Waters of the United States Rule. Wood stated that the rule, which was intended to provide better protection of the nation’s water, violated the Clean Water Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, and she remanded it back to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers for further work. </snip> The ruling only affects the states that are parties to the case, where an injunction was already in effect — Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia. Wisconsin was a party to the suit but dropped out in April. </snip>

Former Kirsten Gillibrand staffers want senator to quit presidential campaign It’s time for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s sputtering presidential campaign to call it quits, a friend of hers and two former aides told The Post. “It would be best if she decided that this was not her time,” said one longtime Gillibrand fundraiser, who claimed the Democratic contender’s well-heeled supporters want her to remain in the US Senate. “Most people that I talk to are very happy with her as their senator and don’t want her to give up her Senate seat and don’t see any realistic traction for her.” As Gillibrand struggles to get 130,000 individual donors to qualify for the third Democratic debate in Houston next month, it’s unclear if she’s hearing the message from those who have worked with her. “I don’t know that anyone even wants to see her on the debate stage. Everyone I have talked to finds her performative and obnoxious,” said a former senior staffer in Gillibrand’s Senate office. [ whoa ] </snip>

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LOL the G7 has two of 'em this year, so talks are a bit different:

I am so sorry for your loss, @LewPort71. Pets are family and it is awful to lose one. ?

Try Black Rifle Coffee for a darker roast (they also have an extra dark roast + pods). Bonus for the men on this sub-forum, they run pervy guy-centric commercials and are vets. For myself, I love Jamaican Blue. Mmmmm coffee. ☕

Almost 2.5M people still tune in to watch Rachel Maddow? After she lied to them for years about Russia! Russia! Russia!?

I'm not sure which RBG thread I should be posted in. {insert dazed and confused emoji} Analysis: Justice Ginsburg’s “Bile Duct Stent” – A Treatment Typically Used in Advanced Cases to Provide End of Life Care </snip> (the statement put out) This is important because a biliary stent is only installed if a tumor was large enough to cause blockage of the bile duct from the liver to the intestine. It is typically performed in cases where the patient has cancer on the duct itself and often predicates liver cancer. Again the stent is typically only used in advanced cases and often only surgery is done for early cases: </snip>

Not mutually exclusive. (italicized) editing to add: If US consumers are going to buy a lot of useless crap, I'd prefer they bought useless crap made in the USA. (which I have also stated before) You are correct about other countries spying on us. Just as we spy on other countries. However, read up on Huawei. So, you feel that our trading partners should not try and reduce illegal drugs that come into the United States? I'm not sure you really mean that.

If this is close to accurate, they did it to themselves:

I think you need to read a little closer. What goes up, must come down, has been said (or inferred) a lot in this thread. The question is when, and by what method. If I, or anyone, could predict what the economy is going to do, I'd know when exactly to invest in property, gold, new business (and what business!), etc. That would be some skill to have! You seem to think because people disagree with you, and find the MSM disingenuous, that somehow means "Trump is right in all things!" People have explained to you that is not correct, but for some reason you are stuck on that thought. I do think he is correct on China. Something should have been done long ago. If there is short-term pain for long-term gain, so be it. As I said in this thread before: how many TVs does anyone really need? And Nikes are no cheaper made in China than a sneaker made in the United States (some New Balance still are). And do we really want China to continue to spy on us? And steal US intellectual property? And dump fentanyl on our streets? If you believe those are good things, again, we will disagree.

This may sound odd... my brother works in a steel mill. For the last 10-12 years, I could tell you what the economy is going to be doing in two quarters based on what they are rolling 180 days out. They are running three lines and all the OT anyone wants right now.

Clearly Facebook is unbiased, and clearly CNBC is fair and balanced, too. Everyone seems to be trying to discredit The Epoch Times. I wonder why that is? Facebook bans ads from The Epoch Times after huge pro-Trump buy Facebook has banned The Epoch Times, a conservative news outlet that spent more money on pro-Trump Facebook advertisements than any group other than the Trump campaign, from any future advertising on the platform </snip> The Epoch Times’ new method of pushing the pro-Trump conspiracy ads on Facebook, which appeared under page names such as “Honest Paper ” and “Pure American Journalism, ” allowed the organization to hide its multimillion-dollar spending on dark-money ads, in effect bypassing Facebook’s political advertising transparency rules. Facebook’s ban will affect only The Epoch Times’ ability to buy ads; the sock-puppet pages created to host the new policy-violating ads were still live at the time of publication. </snip>

He made it up to 22 RTs. LOL