Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., March 19 & 20, 2011
No... he's not Sinatra... but man... this guy could sing!
You know he still does a concert in Florida every year...?!
I've probably noted this before, but I'll say it again... YouTube is one hell of a resource!
I hope you guys often do what I do and just browse YouTube occasionally. There's some really great old stuff on it.
History... the context of our lives...
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2011-03-18-metro-unemployment.htm
ReplyDeleteUnemployment rose in nearly all of the 372 largest U.S. cities in January compared to the previous month...
* THE OBAMA "RECOVERY" CONTINUES!
* YET...
Nationwide, the unemployment rate dropped to 9% in January from 9.4% the previous month. It ticked down to 8.9% in February.
(*SMIRK*) OF COURSE IT DID... (*SNORT*)
* RETURNING TO REALITY...
The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate rose in 351 metro areas, fell in only 16, and was unchanged in 5.
(*RUEFUL CHUCKLE*) (*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD AT THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL*)
[N]ational data is seasonally adjusted, while the metro data isn’t...
* AS I WAS SAYING... (*RUEFUL CHUCKLE*) (*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD AT THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL*)
A high foreclosure rate and falling home prices are contributing to sky-high unemployment in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif. metro area. Its unemployment rate of 14.2% was highest in the nation among cities with populations of 1 million or more.
The second-highest was Las Vegas, with 13.7%.
* LET'S ALL CHANT IT TOGETHER: "HAR-RY REID...! HAR-RY REID...! HAR-RY REID...!"
(*SMIRK*)
* THERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS, THOUGH...
Chrysler is investing $600 million in an auto plant near Rockford, which will start building smaller Fiat models in 2012. That’s giving a boost to construction jobs, though it isn’t clear if the expanded plant will add permanent workers.
* HEY... DIDN'T CHRYSLER GET BAILOUT FUNDS...??? (OH... NEVERMIND....)
The unemployment rate in Rockford, Ill., fell 5.3 percentage points in the past year, to 13.7% from 19%. That was the steepest drop in the nation.
* THE FEBRUARY UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS FOR ILLINOIS SHOW 8.9% UNEMPLOYMENT STATEWIDE. (I CAN'T FIND THE U6 DATA.)