According to the Associated Press, unemployment rose from 9.7 to 9.9% as a result of a strengthening economy.

The economy got what it needed in April: A burst of hiring that added a net 290,000 jobs, the biggest monthly total in four years. It showed employers are gaining confidence as the recovery takes deeper root.

But people who had given up on finding jobs are gaining confidence, too, and are now looking for work. That’s why the unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent to 9.9 percent and will likely go higher.

Unemployment edges near 10% after we have pumped hundreds of billions of dollars (money that we did not have) into the economy, an act that was supposed to keep unemplyment from topping 8%, but don’t worry – the AP reports that Happy Days Are Here Again!  Rising unemployment is a good thing, don’t you know that?

It doesn’t bother me that the AP and the rest of the establishment media are shills for the Obama Administration in particular and the Democrat party in general.  That’s not revelatory.  What bother me is that they think we’re as dumb as a box of rocks.  They really think we’re stupid.

UPDATE

Mark Levin devoted his entire opening monologue this past Friday to this contralogical statist propoganda put out by the AP and others that rising unemployment in a good thing, in the face of

• massive national debt imposed on us by the Obama regime
• the impending collapse of the Euro with Greece as the proverbal canary in the coal mine
• looming oppressive taxation to support the most massive entitlement (Obamacare) in American history
• inevitablity of some form of cap-and-tax scheme to smother the last vestiges of free market capitalism in this country
• instability of the stock market, as evidenced by the DOW’s recent 1,000 point plunge last week
• government takeover of the world’s largest auto maker
• government takeover of student loans
• government takeover of the home mortgage market
• government takeover of the financial markets

…and on and on and on.  The statists are trying to convince us that down is up, loss is gain, and bad is good.  It’s almost as though they believe words have a magical power all their own, that all one needs to do is say that such-and-such is, and -voila! – it happens.  All Obama has to do is say that rising unemployment is a good thing, and – voila! – it is.

Everybody SING:

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So let’s sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again!

-Chris

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By Lloyd Marcus

I am so sick of the Left being allowed to make the rules. Imagine the absurdity of a competition in which one side is allowed to set the rules against their opponent. The Left tells us what is racist. The Left tells us what we can and cannot say. The Left published a cartoon depicting former black Secretary of State Condolezza Rice as an Aunt Jemima; another depicted Rice as a huge-lipped parrot for her Massa Bush. Neither were considered racist by their creators or publishers, or even widely condemned on the Left.

In opposition to black Republican Michael Steele’s campaign to run for U.S. Senate, a liberal blogger published a doctored photo of Steele in black face and big red lips made to look like a minstrel. The caption read, “Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house”. Not one Democrat denounced these racist portrayals of black conservatives.

The rules set by the Left are extremely clear. Racist images of black conservatives and negative images of Bush are fair game. Even a play about murdering President Bush was called “harmless art”. Meanwhile, all unflattering images of Obama are racist, and constitute dangerous, potentially violent hate speech.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called Congressman Joe Wilson a racist for saying, “You lie” to president Obama. Using her psychic powers, Dowd said Wilson was really saying in his mind, “You lie, BOY!” And yet, liberal commentator Julianne Malveaux, saying she hopes black conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife “feeds him a lot of fatty foods so he will die early from heart disease like many black men”, was not considered racist. I am a black conservative singer, songwriter, entertainer and columnist. Liberals have posted comments all over YouTube and C-SPAN freely using and calling me the “N” word. Because they are libs and I am an uppity, off the liberal plantation, run-away black, all tactics to restore me to my owners are acceptable.

Here is another example of the Left setting the rules. “Take Back America!” is now on their list of racist terms we protesters are not allowed to use. Again using their psychic powers, the Left claims the protesters are really saying, “Because the president is black, lets take America back”! This is totally absurd. “Take Back America” refers to the hijacking of our freedoms, liberty and culture by an out of control administration.

I was asked to perform at a tea party event. The organizer informed me, “I want to get away from calling the rally a “Tea Party” because the liberal media have made the term negative”. I said, “Does this mean you do not want me to sing my “American Tea Party Anthem”? Then, why am I here?” Politeness to my host prevented me from saying, “News flash, pal! The media is going to trash us regardless of what we call our rallies. It’s what they do. They are not on our side. Should we keep changing what we call the rallies in hope of finding a name which will cause the media to give us fair coverage”? A million people showed up in Washington DC for the September 12^th Taxpayers Rally. The media reported 70,000.

I was interviewed on CNN. During the pre-interview by the young black producer over the phone, he asked me, “Is there any part of Obama’s health care plan you like”? I replied, “No”. He was stunned. With great shock and disbelief in his voice, the producer repeated my reply with a loud “NO?”. Then he abruptly said, “I’ll call you back”.

News1News posted my CNN interview on YouTube with the following caption, “African American Right Wing (Obama Hating) Singing Tea Bagger, Lloyd Marcus”. Folks, I am a Christian and hate no one. But, this is what the media does to those who disagree. All who oppose Obama’s agenda are either racist, redneck or stupid.

Folks, the stakes are far too high to allow the Left to continue setting the rules of engagement. The far Left and Obama administration have a vision for America different than our Constitution. As patriots, it is our duty to just say, NO!

My black 82 year old dad told me he has seen the reports on TV how a lot of people at the rallies want Obama dead. I said, “I bet you saw that on CNN”. Dad said, “Yes”. It infuriates me that CNN is selling the lie that the Tea Party Movement is all about racism and hatred for a black president. While my dad never said anything out loud, I thought, “What must he think of me? Why is his first born siding with these evil white folks against a fine fellow black man?” I replied, “Dad, try watching Fox”.  

Lloyd Marcus, Black Un-hyphenated American!

The main stream media have added to their already legendary disgrace by ignoring the Van Jones story and allowing the President to have the holiday weekend to bury it. This is another example of the press working to support the Leftist takeover of America.