Archive for August 1st, 2012

Don’t call me “Dogg” … call me “Lion” … I’ve been reborn!

August 1, 2012

Breaking news …

Snoop Dogg wants you to know that he’s tired of hip-hop, is Bob Marley reincarnated and is embracing reggae instead of the culture of guns he once rapped about.

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Also, he’s got a new name: Snoop Lion

Snoop says he was was “born again” during a visit to Jamaica and is ready to make music that his “kids and grandparents can listen to.”

Snoop didn’t explain why he was switching from “Dogg” to “Lion,” but it’s likely a reference to  a religious symbol popular in the Ethiopian culture.

Lion has new reggae album coming in the fall along  a coffee table book about his rebirth.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

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Gallup reports unemployment rate increasing … what’ll the BLS say on Friday?

August 1, 2012

Fully expecting that the BLS will manage this week’s jobs and unemployment rate reports, I thought I’d peek at what Gallup is saying.

Well, the Gallup trend is up sharply since mid-July … up to 8.3%

My bet: BLS will find a way to report that the unemployment rate stayed constant at 8.2% in July.

We’ll see …

 

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Apparently young adults and Latinos didn’t get the memo …

August 1, 2012

A question in the most recent McClatchy poll caught my eye …

The question: Should Congress extend the Bush tax cuts to everybody or “only to the middle class”?

I always expect this question to come out 98% to 2% in favor of hiking taxes on the “other guy”.

So, I was surprised to see the overall count at 52% to 43% in favor of extending the current tax rates for everybody.

Gets even more interesting …

Latinos are 62% to 36% in favor of extending for everybody.

Young adults 18 to 29 weighed in 69% to 29% in favor of extending to everybody.

So, two of Obama’s key constituencies seem out of line with respect to the President’s line in the sand re: jacking up taxes on the rich.

Hmmm.

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