Unemployment Is Still Here, Wall St.

U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS HAVE AVERAGED 439,000/WEEK FOR
THE PAST MONTH, a continuing very high figure indicating a
continuing dismal state of mass unemployment. Stanford economics
prof Ed Lezear, in the Wall Street Journal, wrote that there is
no recovery in employment, but a "statistical illusion." "The
rate of new hires is virtually flat, at about the same level as
when the economy touched bottom in early 2009.... When an economy
has reached bottom and has already shed much of its labor,
layoffs slow. But that doesn't mean that the labor force is
recovering."

U.S. HOUSING MARKET HAS AGAIN SHRUNK STEADILY FOR 9 MONTHS
since the final end of Obama's "home buyers tax credit" for
speculators last Summer. April existing home sales were
"unexpectedly" down 0.8% from March, which was revised down. And
prices, even in the National Association of Realtor's highly
suspect "median figure," were down another 5% from April 2010;
and one-third below new home prices, making new home sales almost
impossible. Some 17 million households are underwater on their
mortgages.

MORE BANKER SEX: A Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord Oakeshott,
revealed in remarks on the floor of the British House of Lords,
that Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the
Inter-Alpha Group's Royal Bank of Scotland, obtained a
super-injunction to hide details of an alleged affair with a
senior colleague. Lord Oakeshott took the occasion of the
ongoing House of Lords debate on "super-injunctions" taken out by
celebrities against reporting of scandals, to spill the beans, on
the logic that "... every taxpayer has a direct public interest
in the events leading up to the collapse of the Royal Bank of
Scotland." (Telegraph) They sure do!

The Simpsons Homer the Great

Thanks for the post from Darrick Moreno

Homer the Great is an episode of the Simpsons television show better known as the Stonercutter's episode. This episode can be seen on the premium networks of satellite tv from DIRECTSTARTV.COM and is one of the best out there. The episode seed Homer realize Lenny and Carl have better chairs, parking space, and belong to a secret society.

The stonecutters are supposed to be a reference to the Freemasons, but even one with limited knowledgeable about them can find utmost hilarity in this episode. Before Homer finds out about the secret society the episode features a hilarious back and forth from Lenny and Carl. Homer asks a question to which Lenny replie! s "It's a secret", to which Carl interjects "Shut up." At one point Homer asks Lenny something when only he is around and Homer tells him to shut up.

This secret society has Mr.Burns as a subservient member to Lenny, which amazes Homer. Homer is going to be banished from the group for being slovenly, but when he is stripped nude they find a birthmark indicating that he is their chosen one. Homer changes the group so far that all of the members from a "No Homer's" club.

The stonecutters devolves into Homer and several chimps until Marge convinces him to leave saying he's a member of the Simpsons and it's good enough. The family then proceeds to paddle and initiate him like the stonecutters had previously done.

Happy Death Day, Osama

Listening to the radio, I was surprised that people or announcers did not just break out into a chorus of "Happy Death-Day to Osama." This whole Osama-Death mania seems a bit gory. After all, at best, Osama was an aging bad guy, being safehoused by the Pakistani intelligence survey, until he was found by the US-CIA, or given up by the Pakistani ISI. Some big deal? Maybe for the desperate US Pres. Obama, who needs the rhyming Osama's body to boost his ego. Otherwise, Obama is not in good shape politically at all.