CHEERS and JEERS for Feb 3, 2012!

[maxomai]

CHEERS to Jobs! Last month the US economy added 243,000 non-farm payroll jobs, bringing the U3 ("official") unemployment rate down to 8.3%. The more comprehensive U6 rate - which includes the underemployed and people who have quit looking out of frustration - is at 15.1% Nate Silver figures that Obama needs 150,000 jobs a month, minimum, for his chances of re-election to remain steady or improve. Less than that, according to Silver, and he's going to be in trouble.

FEH to Susan G Komen For The Cure, which issued an apology for cutting off Planned Parenthood's funding for cancer screening, and have agreed to resume working with Planned Parenthood. This is most definitely a case of "too little, too late" for SGK, who now have irrevocably inserted themselves into abortion politics for years to come; but, frankly, I don't see how they could have done more than this, once the decision was made in the first place. Stories like this one make it clear that there's still a lot more damage left to be done by this fiasco.

By the way, there's no way this was an "honest mistake." The evidence points to SGK's plan, all along, being to sever their relationship with Planned Parenthood. More here, with a side bonus here. It also bears mentioning that their policy didn't seem to apply to Penn State, which is still under investigation over the nonce Sandusky.

Meanwhile, my wife and I gave $100 to PP to help make up for the lost funds. If you can, please consider donating to Planned Parenthood.

EDIT This isn't going to help, either. And the timing for SGK couldn't be worse.

EDIT 2 I said that SGK had involved themselves in abortion politics irrevocably; the rage from the pro-life right just solidifies this point.

EDIT 3 And now we're being reminded that Karen Handel is also a screaming homophobe.

JEERS to Israel, which is making a renewed PR push for an attack on Iran. Come on, this is getting old.

Comments

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

All SGK has done is agreed to allow PP toreapply for the grant, not that they would get it. As long as that anti-choice twat is still in a position of power, their position is less reversible than a vasectomy.

[arkham4269.livejournal.com]

Better watch what you say about her or her minions with pink guns are going to take you out!

[maxomai.livejournal.com]

Not that I'd want to be on the wrong end of a .22 or any other gun, come on. A Walther .22? Feminine protection of that variety needs to begin with a .4. As in .40 S&W, .400 Corbon, .44 Remington Magnum, .45 ACP, .45 GAP, etc, up into the .5s. Women are smaller than weaker and are at a severe disadvantage against bigger and stronger men, and thus require bigger and more powerful bullets that will make bigger, bleedier, more painful holes. Yes, I'm a sexist pig.