BloggeRhythms

Lots of good news for the nation in general today regarding the economy and foreign affairs. Although the actual facts of the matters will surely upset those on the left and their flacks in the mainstream media whose entire platform rests on condemning Republican failures, real or contrived.  

To start, Jeff Cox reports @cnbc.com: “The U.S. job market roared back to life in June, with a better-than-expected 222,000 new positions created while the unemployment rate held at 4.4 percent, according to a government report Friday.”

With results far above predictions, Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said the report "is another illustration that the real economy is in good health,” although the “only disappointment is that wage growth still shows few signs of accelerating."

Additionally, May’s results were revised to 152,000 up from an initially reported 138,000, and April was revised upward as well, from 174,000 to 207,000.

“The labor-force participation rate edged higher to 62.8 percent.Those considered out of the labor force declined by 170,000 to 94.8 million while the labor force increased by 361,000 to 160.1 million. The employment population ratio rose to 60.1 percent, a full half percentage point above its level from a year ago.”

Another indicator of the economy’s building strength can be seen in a tilt toward full-time positions, which grew by 355,000, while part-time employment fell by 224,000.

And then, an interesting dilemma related to the left’s dearth of viable issues comes from a similar article by Patricia Cohen @nytimes.com.

Headlining her column “U.S. Labor Market Roars Back, Adding 222,000 Jobs in June,” Cohen quotes Jim O’Sullivan, chief United States economist for High Frequency Economics as saying: ”It’s pretty clear that the trend in employment growth is strong enough to keep the unemployment rate trending down.”

Next comes an observation from Diane Swonk, founder of DS Economics in Chicago, about the increase in professional jobs reflecting hiring of new graduates. “Finally the millennials are getting more jobs,” she said.

Which means that with more millennials employed, a significant leftist voter base will be greatly reduced in size as well.  

While the economy’s performance provides real-world evidence of improvement as promised by the POTUS, another leftist fabrication lost credibility as well. Although many celebrities vowed to move out of the U. S. if Donald Trump became president, none did. However, one who’d left before is now coming back.  

According to Daniel Nussbaum @breitbart.com: “Actor and immigration activist George Clooney will move to Los Angeles with his wife Amal and newborn twins Ella and Alexander due to security concerns at his England estate, according to a report.”

As reported by Life & Style magazine, Clooney will move to his mansion in Studio City, California because his 17th century mansion in Sonning, England is “not sufficiently safe for them.”

“His mansion in Studio City [Calif.] was deemed the most secure, and it’s within minutes of an LAPD station.”

The relocation decision’s most interesting because both Clooney's “have been among the most vocal and active celebrity advocates for open borders and the free flow of refugees between countries.”

“In February of last year, the actor met privately with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and praised the German leader’s acceptance of refugees from Syria and other countries. The same month, Clooney told Sky News in an interview that the United States is not doing “enough” to help Syrian refugees, and that 10,000 refugees per year was too low a figure to be admitting into the country.

“In an April 2016 interview with the BBC, Amal Clooney criticized then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s plans to build a security wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, telling the outlet that the plan does not represent “U.S. values.”

“George has also been an outspoken critic of Trump, telling The Guardian in a March 2016 interview that he believes Trump to be a “xenophobic fascist” and an “opportunist.” He previously described Trump’s immigration policy proposals as “idiotic” and “intolerant.”

“Clooney owns several homes throughout the world, including a massive estate in Lake Como, Italy. The actor has previously taken extensive security measures to keep his home in Italy private, and in 2015, local mayor Robert Pozzi reportedly imposed a $600 fine on anyone found trespassing near the actor’s property”

In summation, this writer’s intention was to make the point that Clooney is without doubt a premier example of hypocrisy at its very highest level. However, whereas the word “hypocrisy” is overused, an alternative was sought which revealed numerous results. And since all of them apply to Clooney and his ilk, here they are:  

Lip service, dissembling, feigning, pretense, pretence -crocodile tears, insincerity, falseness, hollowness,sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, smarminess, unctuousness, unction, fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, insincerity, pretence, deceit, deception, cant, duplicity, dissembling, falsity, imposture, sanctimoniousness, phoniness, deceitfulness, pharisaism, speciousness, two-facedness, and phariseeism.  

While Clooney’s decision to reside in America certainly refutes his globalist rhetoric, another of his utterings don’t seem to hold much water either. Clooney believes Trump to be a “xenophobic fascist” and an “opportunist.” He previously described Trump’s immigration policy proposals as “idiotic” and “intolerant.”

Although Clooney claims that Trump’s an “xenophobic fascist” and an “opportunist,” countless others around the world express a totally different opinion as can be seen in an article today by Rick Lyman and Joanna Berendt @nytimes.com, who write: “The crowd in Krasinski 
Square was loving it. “In the Polish people,” President Trump said, “we see the soul of Europe.”

Addressing Trump’s reception in Poland, the authors relate: “Cheers. Shouts of joy. American flags of red, white and blue waved with red and white Polish ones across the crowded square, the epicenter of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis in 1944 and the site of a revered monument to that battle. Aging fighters from Poland’s struggle against Communism stood alongside new mothers pushing baby carriages, and the crowd spilled into the narrow side streets on the edge of Old Town.

“If Mr. Trump was looking for a soft entry point for his second foray into Europe as president, after the stinging reaction of many European leaders to his first visit, he certainly found it.

“Poland is the first place in his foreign voyages where he can feel fully satisfied,” Janusz Sibora, an expert in diplomatic protocol, said in an interview with Gazeta.pl, a Polish website. “If he could, he would have taken this square back with him to Washington.”

As an example of pubic sentiment, the authors quote Polish citizen Slawomir Kaminski, who “had come with a big group on a bus from the eastern town of Pulawy.”

“I am here because the most powerful politician in the world is here,” Mr. Kaminski said, and because he agrees fervently with most of Mr. Trump’s views. “Look at him pressuring the NATO members to raise their military spending,” he said. “That’s what we need.”

“Mr. Kaminski shrugged off worries that Mr. Trump would follow through and establish friendlier ties with Russia, enabling President Vladimir V. Putin to reassert Moscow’s influence.”

And then, Mr. Kaminski offered a thought that while certainly applicable to Trump, fits Clooney and his cohorts quite appropriately too: “One should be judged by their deeds,” Kaminski said. “Not words.”

That’s it for today folks.

Adios