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Offline Veras

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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4755 on: April 29, 2014, 11:05:23 am »
To be fair, both sides do it.

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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4756 on: April 29, 2014, 04:57:29 pm »
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4757 on: April 29, 2014, 05:40:04 pm »


44.5% unemployment rate up from...40.5% in 2007!

As for the President playing golf thing...where were these knuckle-dragging cretins when Bush did the exact same thing?
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4758 on: April 29, 2014, 06:21:00 pm »
Quote from: KZN02 on April 29, 2014, 04:57:29 pm


If he had had gun then he would be unable to draw it in time, and if he did one of the two would have ended up dead. Here he'll just describe the man who mugged him without a mask in broad daylight to the police.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4759 on: April 29, 2014, 11:24:27 pm »


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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4760 on: May 01, 2014, 11:23:16 am »
Quote from: mythbuster43 on April 29, 2014, 05:40:04 pm


44.5% unemployment rate up from...40.5% in 2007!

As for the President playing golf thing...where were these knuckle-dragging cretins when Bush did the exact same thing?

That chart doesn't show the unemployment rate.  The highest unemployment rate under Obama was 9.9 percent, which happened in November of 2009.  Whoever made that chart is either stupid, lying, or both.

Here is the real unemployment timeline from the exact same source:  http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNRATE

Oh, and the unemployment rate during the Depression was well over 20 percent.  Saying that Obama oversaw Depression-era levels of unemployment is grossly inaccurate.  Saying Reagan-era levels would be more accurate (unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent in December 1982, the highest that it has been since the Depression).
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4761 on: May 01, 2014, 11:26:39 am »


He's half right.  There's a surprising amount of Anti-Semitism among African-Americans.  However, this is a reason to both address problems African-Americans face as well as Anti-Semitism in their communities.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4762 on: May 01, 2014, 11:54:32 am »
Quote from: Veras on May 01, 2014, 11:23:16 am
Quote from: mythbuster43 on April 29, 2014, 05:40:04 pm


44.5% unemployment rate up from...40.5% in 2007!

As for the President playing golf thing...where were these knuckle-dragging cretins when Bush did the exact same thing?

That chart doesn't show the unemployment rate.  The highest unemployment rate under Obama was 9.9 percent, which happened in November of 2009.  Whoever made that chart is either stupid, lying, or both.

Here is the real unemployment timeline from the exact same source:  http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNRATE

Oh, and the unemployment rate during the Depression was well over 20 percent.  Saying that Obama oversaw Depression-era levels of unemployment is grossly inaccurate.  Saying Reagan-era levels would be more accurate (unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent in December 1982, the highest that it has been since the Depression).


The copy above is the closest I could get the interactive Federal Reserve economic Data graph to match the OP's version. He/she must have input more data sorts than I did, possibly the "16 and older" sort, which I did not find after a very brief look-see,  Or, as I strongly suspect as does everyone else here - it's a piece of photoshopped bullshit.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4763 on: May 01, 2014, 03:55:45 pm »
The graph that conservativeamericans.org only excludes active duty military personnel and people who are imprisoned.  The unemployment rate should also exclude everybody who isn't actively seeking a job, such as retired people, full time students, disabled people, homemakers, and so on.  It's entirely possible that it's real (though I couldn't find it either), but even if it is, it is extremely misleading, as it includes people who are not even part of the labor force.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4764 on: May 01, 2014, 04:08:03 pm »
Quote from: Veras on May 01, 2014, 03:55:45 pm
The graph that conservativeamericans.org only excludes active duty military personnel and people who are imprisoned.  The unemployment rate should also exclude everybody who isn't actively seeking a job, such as retired people, full time students, disabled people, homemakers, and so on.  It's entirely possible that it's real (though I couldn't find it either), but even if it is, it is extremely misleading, as it includes people who are not even part of the labor force.

The unemployment rate is pretty arbitrarily defined anyway...


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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4765 on: May 01, 2014, 06:01:18 pm »
Very true, but that's not the issue here.  As flawed as the definition of unemployment is, it still has a real definition that actually means something.  When they claim that there is a 44.5% unemployment rate, their intention is clearly to mislead people.  If they were being honest, they could have showed this chart, which combines the unemployed; the underemployed; and people who are want jobs and are capable of working, but haven't actively looked in the past four weeks.

This more reasonable unemployed/underemployed measurement still only peaked at 17.2 percent, which is about 2/3 of the Great Depression level unemployment (and unemployment alone) that the cartoon claimed existed.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4766 on: May 01, 2014, 09:50:36 pm »
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4767 on: May 02, 2014, 01:24:07 am »
Am I the only person unable to tell any but the most stereotypical-looking Jew apart from someone of European descent?
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4768 on: May 02, 2014, 01:34:57 am »
Quote from: R. U. Sirius on May 02, 2014, 01:24:07 am
Am I the only person unable to tell any but the most stereotypical-looking Jew apart from someone of European descent?
No.

And if they are dressed like a rabbi or Orthodox jew then how do I know if they converted into Judaism or if they are an "ethnic jew?" (Or if they're dressed for halloween for that matter.)

Well, maybe if they have the most stereotypical jewish nose in the history, but that would still be an assumption.
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Re: Worst Political Cartoons
« Reply #4769 on: May 04, 2014, 10:29:54 am »

Um, no.  Muslims consider Jesus to be one of the great prophets.
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