The metamorphosis continues.

Todays post is brought to you by the unemployment rate! Hooray for new data that shows the unemployment rate shrinking from 10.2% all the way down to 10.1%. Thank goodness for that! Oh, and i know what you're thinking, but it has nothing to do with the fact that there were more layoffs but the number of people who gave up looking for work they are qualified for and took part time work making minimum wage so that they could feed themselves slightly exceeded the number of people laid off. Also, i do not at all buy into the idea that large corporations have figured out that the unemployment report scares their customers into not spending money and in turn they have found ways to cut peoples hours/wages/benefits instead of laying them off. That's just silly. So here's to the 0.1% of people that are now un-unemployed and all the projections that show a major recovery so imminent that i can almost taste it.

Okay, so today i was listening to the radio on my way to buy a 89 cent burrito at Taco Bell (i was going to get a 99 cent burger, but i could only find 93 pennies under the seat in my car) and a guy who works for the "Mutual Fund Store" was telling his audience that mutual funds were a great place to invest their money right now and that the economy was going to rebound very soon and so would the market (ie. mutual funds). Really? That's like me telling you that it is a great time to invest all your money in tires for your car, and maybe some coolant flushes. I mean you can never have too many coolant flushes. Could the guy have made any more self-serving predictions? How about,  "I think that my personal checking account is a great place to invest your money"? I'm sure that the Fed's fiscal policy is just getting ready to fix the whole massive unpayable debt/ no jobs/ falsified earnings reports/ inevitable hyper inflation. So yeah ... go buy mutual funds.

In Florida news, Pasco County (for you non-Floridians that's like the New Jersey of Tampa Bay, well it's like New Jersey with more trailer parks and cows and less disgraced govenors and Trans-Ams) has announced that they have their third official death directly due to H1N1 this year. So directly means that the person died from H1N1 and that if it wasn't for the piggy-flu they would still be driving their pick up around Pasco county ... right? So the man was really healthy except for the H1N1 and the " ... multiple chronic underlying medical conditions." My heart goes out to the man and his family. That said, isn't this a bit like blaming the death of a 106 year old on blood thinners who has had 16 by-pass surgeries and two stokes on the flu. If the state of your health is best described using words like "chronic" and "underlying" with "multiple" thrown in for good measure can we really say the flu killed you? Or is it more accurate to say he died and ... by the way, he also had the flu?

In sports news, Florida lost to Alabama proving once and for all that Florida coach Urban Meyer's insistance that Tim Tebow include the other 10 players on the offense is a huge miscalculation. If only Tebow had been out there by himself the Gators would have rushed for 16,000 yards and Tebow would finally been able to prove that he can complete a "go rout" pass to himself like he claims. In other sports news England will be avenging that whole "uppity colonist" debacle from the late 18th century in March when they embarress their former posession on the "Football pitch" during the world cup's first round of play.

In celebrity news Chris Brown stated in an interview that he "never, ever had problems with anger." Which would be great if he hadn't beaten and choked his girlfriend because she made him angry. Well, i guess tecnically she was the one who had the problem with his anger, in this case the problem she had was breathing and seeing through her swolen eye. When is Chris Brown going to go away and just hide in the cave that Ike Turner spent 20 years in?

In closing i need some help coming up with a great Christmas present idea for my wife ... Angela don't read this part ... so if you have any ideas please share in the comments section. If you're thinking Rolex ... you probably need to think more Timex. Thanks.