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All Kooked Out

More on the Kerry smear campaign. I think this should settle it.

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/08/25/report/index.html

Here's some food for thought from Karen Kwietkowski:

http://www.militaryweek.com/kk081604.shtml

How do we work to get more accountability in our leadership? Reading Kwietkowski's article, you'll find a big reason why I won't vote for Bush. I never thought I'd actually say that if given a choice, I'd prefer Bush Sr. or Ron Reagon to this clown.

I have been reading a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I haven't had time to re-read the report, but it looks like despite our non-payroll job growth of 600,000 plus people, our population also increased such that in terms of percentage of population working, we're not really better off than we were four years ago.

Also, the survey sample size of the non-payroll workers is only 60,000. Apparently the payroll survey is relatively huge. Interesting prompts for a future post.

In other news, I'm expanding my music collection into the jazz area. I acquired three CDs:

Coolin' Off, by Galactic
Crazyhorse Mongoose, by Galactic
All Kooked Out by Stanton Moore

Stanton Moore and Galactic were recommended to me by my drum instructor. I may even explore Garage-a-trois. Stanton is drummer for both, apparently.

In other news, I am ready to go home. Hmmm...1.6 hours to go.

Household employment

I acquired this from the Bureau of Labor Statistics site discussing employment trends. The household employment rate was said to increase quite a bit, according to some sources. Here's what they say when discussing the increase in the household employment rate:

The upward trend in household employment since the end of the 2001 recession has been largely a
function of the estimated growth in population. That is to say, the household survey has not shown an
increase in the proportion of the population that is employed. In fact, the employment-population ratio
has declined since 2001: it was 64.3 percent at the start of the recession (March 2001) and 63.0 percent
at the trough. The ratio declined further in 2002 and 2003. In recent months it has edged up, reaching
62.5 percent in July. (See additional information on the recent household survey population control
adjustments below.)


That's a little interesting.