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Flap’s Links and Comments for July 18th on 11:20
These are my links for July 18th from 11:20 to 18:54:
- Dilbert July 18, 2011 – More Efficient? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Dilbert July 18, 2011 – More Efficient? #tcot #catcot
- Video of the Day: I Will Tear Off My Clothes for Putin | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Video of the Day: I Will Tear Off My Clothes for Putin #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: The Daily Extraction: Lower Right Third Molar With an Elevator Only – The Daily Extraction: Lower Right Third Molar With an Elevator Only
- Poll Watch: American Unemployment at 8.9% Mid-July With Underemployment at 18.3% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Poll Watch: American Unemployment at 8.9% Mid-July With Underemployment at 18.3% #tcot #catcot
- IN-Sen: Richard Mourdock’s June Swoon a Boon to Sen. Richard Lugar? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – IN-Sen: Richard Mourdock’s June Swoon a Boon to Sen. Richard Lugar? #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 18th on 03:03 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for July 18th on 03:03 #tcot #catcot
- The Demise of the Conservative Blogosphere – John Hawkins Edition | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – The Demise of the Conservative Blogosphere – John Hawkins Edition #tcot #catcot
- Day By Day July 18, 2011 – Storyline | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day July 18, 2011 – Storyline #tcot #catcot
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Dilbert July 18, 2011 – More Efficient?
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Video of the Day: I Will Tear Off My Clothes for Putin
Called “Putin’s Army”, it features a video of a blonde student called Diana who struts along Moscow’s streets in high heels and a black suit before scrawling “I will tear my clothes off for Putin” on a white top in red lipstick and starting to undo her clothesFor an old POL and Cold Warrior, former Russian President Vladimir Putin sure knows how to appeal to the youth vote.
But, what happens if you don’t vote for him?
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Poll Watch: American Unemployment at 8.9% Mid-July With Underemployment at 18.3%
According to the latest Gallup Poll.Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, is at 8.9% in the middle of July — up from 8.7% at the end of June. Unemployment was at 9.3% at this same time a year ago.
The percentage of part-time workers who want full-time work is 9.4% in mid-July — down from 9.6% at the end of June. However, more Americans are working part time but seeking full-time work in mid-July 2011 than was the case in mid-July 2010 (9.0%).
Underemployment Shows No Improvement
Underemployment, a measure that combines the percentage of unemployed with the percentage working part time but wanting full-time work, is at 18.3% in mid-July — precisely the same as at the end of June and in mid-July 2010.
The chart:
So, what does this all mean?
American unemployment will continue to dog the Obama administration throughout the summer. The job situation is about the same as last year and there appear to be no help on the way.
Gallup’s modeling of its most recent unemployment results suggests an early July deterioration in the U.S. jobs situation. This may be partly a lagged effect of the economic soft patch during the first two quarters of 2011. It may also be a sign that many employers are pulling back on their hiring intentions, as slower-than-expected economic growth has reduced their sales and revenue expectations for the second half of the year.
Company hiring may also be suffering from the political rhetoric surrounding the debate over raising the federal debt limit. There seems to be a lack of clarity about exactly what would happen if the federal government is temporarily unable to pay its obligations — although everyone knows such an outcome would not be good. In addition, there are uncertainties on Wall Street, financial problems in Europe, and a sharp drop in economic confidence on Main Street. It is hard to hire when business prospects become so much more uncertain than usual.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in his testimony before the Congress last week, repeated his view that the weakness in today’s economy is temporary and that economic activity will pick up in the second half of 2011. At this point, the lack of job growth as reflected by Gallup’s unemployment, underemployment, and job creation data does not support that assessment. Instead, Gallup’s survey results tend to imply that the current economic soft patch may be somewhat less transitory than the Fed chief hopes.
The chart as to how Gallup’s unemployment rate differs from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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IN-Sen: Richard Mourdock’s June Swoon a Boon to Sen. Richard Lugar?
Lugar’s political bulwark is his home city of Indianapolis. Within a two-mile radius just south of downtown you can find three stadiums — including NFL and NBA venues — two major interstates radiating out across the compass, critical Internet and cyber optic terminals, and one of the largest insulin manufacturing sites in the world. A cataclysmic nuke strike in Lugar’s backyard would devastate the American security psyche.
The rap on Lugar that prompted a Tea Party-induced rebellion at what many believed would be his valedictory political run into the defining realm of statesmanship was that his globe-trotting had eclipsed his domestic political operations back home. They want Lugar at Lincoln Day dinners instead of seeking security solutions to padlocked anthrax labs in Kampala and Nairobi, or securing Soviet-era nukes and sarin that could destroy our cities.
Mourdock told The Hill early this month, “People in Indiana want to see fiscal controls, they want to see someone who’s with them regularly back there, not just someone sitting in Washington, D.C., thinking about the lofty issues of foreign affairs.”
Mourdock’s problem today is that at a time when he needed to stand and deliver, his second quarter FEC report turned out to be a political nuke.
Heading into the June 30 FEC deadline, the conventional wisdom is that he needed to report somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million to get into the money game and attract national support. But what happened to the Mourdock campaign in June is as potentially devastating as Jill Long Thompson’s extremely low profile after she won the Indiana Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2008.
Mourdock’s June swoon went like this: On June 8, seven of 10 members of the Indiana Republican Central Committee who endorsed Mourdock were replaced during reorganization. His chief of staff, Richard Bramer, lost a race for 8th CD vice chair, and his field coordinator, Diane Hubbard, lost her bid to be 9th CD chair.
Senator Richard Lugar has delivered the goods to Indiana and if Mourdock does not raise the funds will be re-elected to another 6 year term at age 80.
Dick Lugar’s demise may have been exaggerated.
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Flap’s Links and Comments for July 18th on 03:03
These are my links for July 18th from 03:03 to 11:16:
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: The Afternoon Drill: July 18, 2011 – The Afternoon Drill: July 18, 2011
- Injectable Polymer Gel Mimics Properties of Human Vocal Cords – Medgadget.com — Internet Journal of Emerging Medical Technologies – Injectable Polymer Gel Mimics Properties of Human Vocal Cords – Medgadget.com — Internet Journal of Emerging Me…
- President 2012 South Carolina GOP Poll Watch: Mitt Romney 25% Vs.Sarah Palin 16% Vs. Michele Bachmann 13% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 South Carolina GOP Poll Watch: Mitt Romney 25% Vs.Sarah Palin 16% Vs. Michele Bachmann 13% #tcot #catcot
- foursquare – Last run/walk in Indianapolis (@ Starbucks w/ 5 others)
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-07-18 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-07-18 #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 17th on 19:02 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for July 17th on 19:02 #tcot #catcot
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The Demise of the Conservative Blogosphere – John Hawkins Edition
The demise of the independent conservative blogosphere is simply overestimated by John Hawkins. In other words, John boy has it wrong.
Most bloggers are not very good at marketing, not very good at monetizing, there are no sugar daddies giving us cash, and this isn’t the biggest market in the world to begin with. In other words, this is a time-consuming enterprise, but few people are going to make enough money to go full time. How many people can put in 20-30-40-50 hours a week on something that’s not going to ever be their full time job? Can they do it for 5 years? 10 years? 15? 20? This is the plight that 99.9% of serious, independent conservative bloggers face. This has already created a lot of attrition and over the next few years, as people realize that their traffic is more likely to slowly, but surely significantly deteriorate rather than explode, you’re going to see a lot more people give up.
Bloggers have asked me: So what’s the strategy to deal with this?
Really, it’s simple: Get big or go home.
Find a way to dramatically increase the size of your blog, expand into multiple websites that together are big, hook up with someone who’s already big, or accept that there isn’t much of a future in a small, niche market for you. Maybe that sounds a little grim, but unless something changes, independent conservative bloggers who haven’t already made it big don’t have a bright future.
No, I cannot agree. There is more to life than traffic to blogs for the conservative world. There is Twitter which has jump-started the Tea Party and to a lesser extent there is Facebook where conservatives can more socially interact. Google Plus has just started and there will be a place for conservative bloggers there as well.
The blogosphere and social media are interconnected and it is far better for the smaller, independent blogger.
When I first started this enterprise over five years ago, nobody knew who the hell I was or cared. The large blogs (the ones with the most traffic) linked within themselves. Nobody gave a rat’s ass about the upstarts in the sphere. But, with Twitter and Facebook, content and opinion hit the internet without the filter of Instapundit or Powerline. Traffic to the independents grew and so did modest ad revenue.
Power in the blogosphere shifted to the small, independent blogger who might cover more, especially in their own locale. Commentary was not limited to large blogs comments sections but to Twitter and Facebook.
So, with these changes, why would anyone quit?
In the era of the grass-roots Tea Party, it is time to get started.
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Day By Day July 18, 2011 – Storyline
Day By Day by Chris MuirFool me once, shame on you.Fool me twice, shame on….. well, you know the story.
The old Saul Alinsky tactics are easily recognized and defeated in an internet age. This does not mean the LEFT won’t continue to use them, however.
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President 2012 South Carolina GOP Poll Watch: Mitt Romney 25% Vs.Sarah Palin 16% Vs. Michele Bachmann 13%
According to the latest ARG Poll.
But, with Texas governor Rick Perry soon to enter the race and Sarah Palin continuing to be undecided, this result is very fluid.
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Flap’s Links and Comments for July 17th on 19:02
These are my links for July 17th from 19:02 to 19:02:
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 17th on 11:02 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for July 17th on 11:02 #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 17th on 11:02 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for July 17th on 11:02 #tcot #catcot