Month: October 2012

Lord of the Ring: Obamas wedding band carries the first half of the Shahada.

“There is no God except Allah”

His “Christian” faith, a big haha.

The gold ring is the proof.

His profession a spoof.

Allegiance is with his mullah.

 

There has been much speculation about why Obama wore a golden ring on his wedding finger already as a student at Occidental. Later at his wedding, his bride gave him the same (or very similar) ring as a token. It carries the inscription: La Ilaha Illallah.

Egyptian-born Islamic scholar Mark A. Gabriel, Ph.D.  explained that on Obama’s ring, the declaration “There is no god except Allah” (La Ilaha Illallah) is inscribed in two sections, one above the other.

On the upper section, “There is no god” is written in Arabic letters, from right to left: Lam, Alif, Alif, Lam, Ha.

On the lower section is “except god,” written in Arabic letters from right to left: Alif, Lam, Alif, Alif, Lam, Lam, Ha.

In the lower section, the word “Allah” is written partially on top of the word “except,” noted Gabriel, the author of “Islam and Terrorism” and “Journey Inside the Mind of an Islamic Terrorist.”

It is common in Islamic art and Arabic calligraphy, especially when expressing Quranic messages on jewelry, to artfully place letters on top of each other to fit them into the allotted space.

Excerpt from http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/

The story made it to Al-Arabiya this morning: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/12/243401.html

It is common in the middle east to wear a ring with either a part of the Shahada or the full Shahada to protect against evil Jinns.

Unemployment rate down to 7.8% BLS own adjustments shows otherwise, but they report it anyway,

The good news yesterday was: Unemployment down to 7.8%!!!

In a month when nothing happened that could possibly explain this sudden and totally unexpected improvement, one has to ask: What happened?

I went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics official website: http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ces_cps_trends.pdf and picked up the real story.

In it they show that the payroll survey showed an increase of 114000 jobs and the household survey a giant one month increase of 873000 jobs, a number not seen since the Reagan recovery in the eighties.

The household survey yields a volatile number for a variety of reasons: It only samples 60000 households, and what constitutes employment is not well defined.

Aware of this, the BLS is developing an adjusted household survey employment number with the following definition: This is a research series created from household survey employment to be more similar in concept and definition to payroll survey employment. Household survey employment is adjusted by subtracting agriculture and related employment, nonagricultural self employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and workers absent without pay from their jobs, and then adding nonagricultural wage and salary multiple jobholders. The effects of population control revisions also have been smoothed out in the historical data in this series.

This adjusted number showed an increase of 294000 jobs, very good, but a far cry from the 873000 jobs the unadjusted survey indicated

The discrepancy is 579000 jobs, enough to state that the most probable official unemployment number should have remained at 8.1%.