Tweet round-up: Unemployment numbers

http://twitter.com/#!/AP/status/178115477594320896

U.S. unemployment figures were released today. The jobless rate didn’t move: 8.3 percent. Economy watchers on Twitter weighed in swiftly. Here’s a sample:

Encouraging some jobs are being created, but unemployment remains far too high http://t.co/5d4y7A2n

— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) March 9, 2012

February jobless rate for whites dropped to 7.3% (down 0.1), but black unemployment rose to 14.1% (up 0.5). Hispanic at 10.7% (up 0.2)

— Sudeep Reddy (@Reddy) March 9, 2012

Why Didn't Unemployment Rate Drop? http://t.co/NSU2FjV7

— Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) March 9, 2012

The Part-Time Economy (Redux) http://t.co/zQPgCbMD

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 9, 2012

Although unemployment is unchanged @8.3%, Obama will still say it's good news…I SAY: wasn't stimulus going to keep unemployment below 8%?

— Joyce Pemsley (@pecansdownsouth) March 9, 2012

10.8%: the unemployment rate if labor force participation was the same as when Obama took office

— James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) March 9, 2012

And even if you factor out aging issue and normal cyclical LFP decline, jobless rate is 9.6%, via the CBO

— James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) March 9, 2012

8.3% unemployment extends longest streak of 8.0%+ unemployment rate since Great Depression

— James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) March 9, 2012

Why a rising unemployment rate could mean a real recovery: http://t.co/PKa5FYlW

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 9, 2012

Everyone's looking at the unemployment numbers like the guys on Apollo 13 looked at the CO2 reading. Just breathe normal.

— Nick Morgan (@NickBMorgan) March 9, 2012

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/03/09/10-tweets-unemployment-numbers/

‘Shut up, Wendy’! Davis still hell-bent on painting Greg Abbott as a racist

http://twitter.com/#!/conkc2/status/524602413219868672

Ugh. Wendy Davis. She just can’t stop herself:

Who’s asking that question? Oh:

You’re not fooling anyone, Wendy.

She should quit while she’s behind — before she falls even further behind.

We’re afraid to find out.

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‘You need to tell his poor wife!’ Wendy Davis’ race-baiting about Greg Abbott is an epic fail

That sneaky Greg Abbott! Is this behind Wendy Davis’ latest smear attempt?

‘LOL!!!!’ Ben Howe pulls some more wheels off the Wendy Davis train [Photoshop]

Wendy Davis’ mock-worthy attack on Greg Abbott triggers things #WendyDavisWontSay

Keep digging, Wendy! Tapped-out Team Davis reduced to playing the dildo card

‘Stick to food’: Andrew Zimmern swallows bizarre Wendy Davis propaganda

Full Twitchy coverage of Wendy Davis

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/10/21/shut-up-wendy-davis-still-hell-bent-on-painting-greg-abbott-as-a-racist/

Blagojevich’s release date set for May 23, 2024

http://twitter.com/#!/Ward_Room/status/180812121876086784

Here’s the report from NBC Chicago:

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich entered federal prison on Thursday at the age of 55. When he leaves, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons record, updated Friday, he’ll be 67 years old. The bureau has Blagojevich’s “actual or projected” release date list as May 23, 2024. That’s a little more than 12 years from now, and in line with federal guidelines which mandate he serve at least 85 percent — or 11 years, nine months — of his 14 year sentence.

If the release date proves to be true, it’ll mean that Blagojevich had spent 4,444 days at the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood in Littleton, Colo.

A lot can happen in nearly 14 years.There will have been three presidential elections. His daughters will be in their 20s. President Jimmy Carter will be 99 years old.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/03/16/blagojevichs-release-date-set-for-may-23-2024/

Stacey Dash makes special offer to Hillary, shows off her guns [pic]

http://twitter.com/#!/IngrahamAngle/status/448205275926122499

“Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson told Laura Ingraham he wants to take President Obama hunting and “find out what’s going on in his brain a little more.” “I’d like to get him out there with some camouflage and a gun, and we could sit out there and talk,” he said.

Actress Stacey Dash, who supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election, says that if Obama is up for that, she’s got big plans for Hillary Clinton.

http://twitter.com/#!/REALStaceyDash/status/448301014081634304

Cozy!

Of course, even an offer like that sent one lefty’s head spinning wildly out of control. Dash retweeted these loving, tolerant tweets:

http://twitter.com/#!/REALStaceyDash/status/448347639793201152

Dash also shared a pic of her guns (not to mention her firearm).

http://twitter.com/#!/murphfrommidway/status/448332393267855361

Amen to that.

Related:

Full Twitchy coverage of Stacey Dash

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/03/25/stacey-dash-makes-willie-robertson-inspired-offer-to-hillary-shows-off-her-guns-pic/