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THE NOSE PICKERS
Tapsearcher rates PolitiFact Ohio fact finder :
In the computer industry, we used the old adage to test
processes and facts as "Garbage in and Garbage out." This
means if you input doubtful facts you end up with the same as output.
Our city newspaper the Cleveland Plain Dealer features a fact
finder called PolitiFact Ohio. I questioned its veracity before and wonder
about the quality of their research and perspective.
For example, today they headline their PolitiFact fact finder with a universal
statement -
" Actually, Ohio sees small job gains."
As sources, they use Candidate for U.S. Senate Robert Portman's campaign and news releases; the Bureau of Labor Statistics; Ohio Department of Jobs an Family Services Labor market data as interpreted by Portman and an
interview with Benjamin Johnson, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Jobs
and Family Services.
All of these sources remain questionable
as to their own perspective and are not objective resources. They are good
resources but do not match up with the branded headline
" Actuallly .Ohio sees small job gains."
The main source is apparently the Bureau of Labor Statistics which I have questioned for years. Their methodology is suspect and the results to no match up with the real world on the streets as people live through experiences caused by the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history including the Great Depression.
I have tried for years to get to the bottom of our
unemployment statistics. They certainly can not match up with the
past when primarily only full time fourty hours a week jobs were
counted. Today, we have a mix of part-time, contract,
casual labor and temporary jobs. The temporary job offices have grown
tenfold in recent years and there is no possible way to adequately report
the number of workers looking for real jobs obectively and when
underemployment is really unemployment. Even a single mother making
only a hundred dollars a month is considered employed these days. The
Bureau of Labor Statistics plays with these numbers and have about six
ways they collect the data. Primarily, they use the numbers coming
from their statistical analysis in which they call 50,000 households a
month. They ask the person answering the phone if they were looking for a
job in the previous month. If the person says no, they are then
considered employed. If a person says they are looking for work but are
working in a family business or on a farm for no pay while they are
looking, again they are considered employed.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics does contrast this with another method where they contact employers but these employers represent a segment of the whole. The reporting does not include all small businesses.
There is no way to really understand their reporting since only
about 38 percent of all American workers qualify for unemployment
insurance. This means that 62 percent of all workers are missing in action
from any real kind of reporting. It means that in this large group there
are millions who do not work long enough at any one job or make enough
money in any given period to qualify for unemployment insurance. So, the
real unemployment rate remains a mystery. About one third of men between
the age of 55 and 65 have disappeared from the work force. About one
half of young blacks in our inner cities have no jobs.
Getting America Working reports that about one half of our human
resources are not being used. So any "actual" unemployment rate
is unknown but be can calculate that the rate is far from what the Bureau
of Labor Statistics says it is and using a universal phrase like the
PolitiFact finder uses - "Actually, Ohio sees small job
gains." is not only ludricrous but should be considered
shameful by any interpretation of the facts.
Furthermore, we find Portman a tool of free trade and globalization being the
U.S. Trade Representative under former President Bush. Not until we tell
the world and report the facts that free trade and globalization are the
cause of our economic crisis and our vast unemployment and underemployment, there is little reason to even have something called a PolitiFact finder.� It is just another device that covers the real issues of our
times and it operates without using any disclaimers as noted above.
In one of my first jobs after high school, I called on some of the
largest advertising agencies in Cleveland getting approval or revisions of
artwork. In one situation, a very large manufacturer of material for
windows, revised a image of a window and knocked out the proper
perspective of the window. This artwork was scheduled to be a large
centerpiece ad in a major magazine. I took it back to the studio and the
artist became very upset. He was one of the best artist in doing
perspective art. No one knew what to do and so the art director had
to call the agency to confirm the revision. They did. This showed me that
even reality can be altered for particular reasons for the sake of an illustration looking good out of perspective rather than in perspective
After college, I was an insurance investigator for a time and remained one for
several years on a contract basis. I had to have at least three
valid sources on each report and the sources had to be good ones because
I knew any negative report would be contested. Some involved
millions of dollars in insurance policies and both sides had strong
reasons for getting a good report. However, I was not paid enough or given
more money to defend any contested report and eventually quit this
endeavor. But, it did show me how your sources of information have to
be right on and the pressures of all interested parties wanting to control the
facts no matter what.
As a history major I spent a semester writing history and this proved to be a very difficult task. Here you had to have at least three good sources of
information with about three confirming sources for the first three
sources and sometimes it became an endless stream of needed confirming sources on sources
I spent most of my working life in the computer industry and became a specialist in disk storage and wrote on error recovery codes since most disk storage devices had many correctble errors. Following this I became a
trouble shooter supplyer for major manufacturers who did not know how to
deal with foreign components that were constantly revised without any
notice. I had to research the specs over and over again to make sure these
products worked or at least provide my clients with the proper evaluation
for them to make their decision. This experience showed me how much
things have to be compromised for the sake of survival in a globalist free trader world.
One time the outcome became a comedy. A very large corporation called me
to see what went wrong with their whole disk storage library. The whole
library of disk storage crashed in a domino fashion. I brought in my
disk pack inspection device and had to check every platter visually
looking for clues. I finally found a dried clear sticky substance on
some of the platters that infected other disks in rotation. I
scraped up some of this sticky substance and I knew immediately that the
computer operator who was in charge of changing the disk packs was a nose
picker. He had picked his nose and transferred the gook from this nose to
the disk packs and infected the whole library of about 100 large disk pack
storage devices and crashed the whole data center.
For me, most of the fact finders and reporters in most major news channels are nose pickers who compromise their ideals and what they learned in journalism class for the sake of survival.
President Wilson used government money to hire 75,000 men who were called
the "4 minute me." They would pass on Wilson's propaganda
in 4 minute sessions on stages and in the new movie houses back then
describing how the murdering "Huns" would rape and murder
civilians. The Germans were called the "Huns" who supposedly did all this
carnage.
The "4 minute men" accomplished their mission and
World War One came. They were so successful that not even Wilson
could reverse the story after the war and this eventually set the stage
for Hitler.
And this is why I doubt the worth of things like
PolitiFact fact finders. They hide the real issue of our times.
Ray Tapajna
Cleveland Ohio
newsworld@fastmail.net
THE NOSE PICKERS
Tapsearcher rates PolitiFact Ohio fact finder :
Cleveland Plain Dealer PoliticFacts finder
In the computer industry, we used the old adage to test
processes and facts as "Garbage in and Garbage out." This
means if you input doubtful facts you end up with the same as output.
Our city newspaper the Cleveland Plain Dealer features a fact
finder called PolitiFact Ohio. I questioned its veracity before and wonder
about the quality of their research and perspective.
For example, today they headline their PolitiFact fact finder with a universal
statement -
" Actually, Ohio sees small job gains."
As sources, they use Candidate for U.S. Senate Robert Portman's campaign and news releases; the Bureau of Labor Statistics; Ohio Department of Jobs an Family Services Labor market data as interpreted by Portman and an
interview with Benjamin Johnson, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Jobs
and Family Services.
All of these sources remain questionable
as to their own perspective and are not objective resources. They are good
resources but do not match up with the branded headline
" Actuallly .Ohio sees small job gains."
The main source is apparently the Bureau of Labor Statistics which I have questioned for years. Their methodology is suspect and the results to no match up with the real world on the streets as people live through experiences caused by the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history including the Great Depression.
I have tried for years to get to the bottom of our
unemployment statistics. They certainly can not match up with the
past when primarily only full time fourty hours a week jobs were
counted. Today, we have a mix of part-time, contract,
casual labor and temporary jobs. The temporary job offices have grown
tenfold in recent years and there is no possible way to adequately report
the number of workers looking for real jobs obectively and when
underemployment is really unemployment. Even a single mother making
only a hundred dollars a month is considered employed these days. The
Bureau of Labor Statistics plays with these numbers and have about six
ways they collect the data. Primarily, they use the numbers coming
from their statistical analysis in which they call 50,000 households a
month. They ask the person answering the phone if they were looking for a
job in the previous month. If the person says no, they are then
considered employed. If a person says they are looking for work but are
working in a family business or on a farm for no pay while they are
looking, again they are considered employed.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics does contrast this with another method where they contact employers but these employers represent a segment of the whole. The reporting does not include all small businesses.
There is no way to really understand their reporting since only
about 38 percent of all American workers qualify for unemployment
insurance. This means that 62 percent of all workers are missing in action
from any real kind of reporting. It means that in this large group there
are millions who do not work long enough at any one job or make enough
money in any given period to qualify for unemployment insurance. So, the
real unemployment rate remains a mystery. About one third of men between
the age of 55 and 65 have disappeared from the work force. About one
half of young blacks in our inner cities have no jobs.
Getting America Working reports that about one half of our human
resources are not being used. So any "actual" unemployment rate
is unknown but be can calculate that the rate is far from what the Bureau
of Labor Statistics says it is and using a universal phrase like the
PolitiFact finder uses - "Actually, Ohio sees small job
gains." is not only ludricrous but should be considered
shameful by any interpretation of the facts.
Furthermore, we find Portman a tool of free trade and globalization being the
U.S. Trade Representative under former President Bush. Not until we tell
the world and report the facts that free trade and globalization are the
cause of our economic crisis and our vast unemployment and underemployment, there is little reason to even have something called a PolitiFact finder.� It is just another device that covers the real issues of our
times and it operates without using any disclaimers as noted above.
In one of my first jobs after high school, I called on some of the
largest advertising agencies in Cleveland getting approval or revisions of
artwork. In one situation, a very large manufacturer of material for
windows, revised a image of a window and knocked out the proper
perspective of the window. This artwork was scheduled to be a large
centerpiece ad in a major magazine. I took it back to the studio and the
artist became very upset. He was one of the best artist in doing
perspective art. No one knew what to do and so the art director had
to call the agency to confirm the revision. They did. This showed me that
even reality can be altered for particular reasons for the sake of an illustration looking good out of perspective rather than in perspective
After college, I was an insurance investigator for a time and remained one for
several years on a contract basis. I had to have at least three
valid sources on each report and the sources had to be good ones because
I knew any negative report would be contested. Some involved
millions of dollars in insurance policies and both sides had strong
reasons for getting a good report. However, I was not paid enough or given
more money to defend any contested report and eventually quit this
endeavor. But, it did show me how your sources of information have to
be right on and the pressures of all interested parties wanting to control the
facts no matter what.
As a history major I spent a semester writing history and this proved to be a very difficult task. Here you had to have at least three good sources of
information with about three confirming sources for the first three
sources and sometimes it became an endless stream of needed confirming sources on sources
I spent most of my working life in the computer industry and became a specialist in disk storage and wrote on error recovery codes since most disk storage devices had many correctble errors. Following this I became a
trouble shooter supplyer for major manufacturers who did not know how to
deal with foreign components that were constantly revised without any
notice. I had to research the specs over and over again to make sure these
products worked or at least provide my clients with the proper evaluation
for them to make their decision. This experience showed me how much
things have to be compromised for the sake of survival in a globalist free trader world.
One time the outcome became a comedy. A very large corporation called me
to see what went wrong with their whole disk storage library. The whole
library of disk storage crashed in a domino fashion. I brought in my
disk pack inspection device and had to check every platter visually
looking for clues. I finally found a dried clear sticky substance on
some of the platters that infected other disks in rotation. I
scraped up some of this sticky substance and I knew immediately that the
computer operator who was in charge of changing the disk packs was a nose
picker. He had picked his nose and transferred the gook from this nose to
the disk packs and infected the whole library of about 100 large disk pack
storage devices and crashed the whole data center.
For me, most of the fact finders and reporters in most major news channels are nose pickers who compromise their ideals and what they learned in journalism class for the sake of survival.
President Wilson used government money to hire 75,000 men who were called
the "4 minute me." They would pass on Wilson's propaganda
in 4 minute sessions on stages and in the new movie houses back then
describing how the murdering "Huns" would rape and murder
civilians. The Germans were called the "Huns" who supposedly did all this
carnage.
The "4 minute men" accomplished their mission and
World War One came. They were so successful that not even Wilson
could reverse the story after the war and this eventually set the stage
for Hitler.
And this is why I doubt the worth of things like
PolitiFact fact finders. They hide the real issue of our times.
Ray Tapajna
Cleveland Ohio
newsworld@fastmail.net
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