UNEMPLOYMENT IS THE

LOWEST SINCE APRIL 2009

The unemployment rate is now 9.0%. There was a .4% in the rate in just one month, which you rarely see. Were it to continue we'd be back to normal within a year or two, which the experts say won't happen. I'm not sure what the Republican response is to these numbers and 36,000 new jobs added. Somehow they are going to try and put a negative spin on it. Of course Obama is doing a lot of things wrong and among them is ignoring our trade situation, ignoring establishing some kind of quotas for percentage of US made goods in government contracts, and he is also re-inflating the financial bubble so we will soon have an identical situation to what we had in 2007 and 2008. You would think the President would have learned his lesson not to trust people from Wall Street, but apparently he hasn't. He's putting all his eggs in the basket of the 2012 election and all he cares about is getting the numbers up for two years from now.

In terms of the situation in Egypt there is still no definitive news. President Mubarek is still holding on. Apparently a number of ruling party officials were let go but this hasn't helped ease tensions in "Liberation Square". Two days ago those hired thugs on camels with baseball bats were beating up protesters. But now it's safe for news reporters to walk about again. It seems that Egypt has at least some internet back. They are telling us a spirit of harmony has pervaded the protestors as the army is keeping the pro Mubarek thugs away from the rest of the protesters. People from the right wing such as Glen Beck and World Net Daily are predicting the worst. Whatever happened to that sunny optimism Ronald Reagan was noted for. These would be heirs to the Reagan legacy have less and less in common with him with each passing day.

John Boehner now has a new problem. He has been caught by the National Enquiror having affairs with two different woman both with the initials of L. L. So either he's into Linda Lovelace, or he has some Superman fixation and the L L is Lois Lane. At any rate the most intrusive the Enquirer has ever been was the near CIA tacticts they used to track down John Edward's affairs. They were like a dog with a bone in that case and wouldn't let go. I don't know if any political bias has crept its way into the Enquirer but those Edwards revelations did a lot of damage to the political health of America. I hope they're happy. Why don't they investigate George Bush? It's hard to say how revealed sexual pecadillos will play with the hard right. They say they back Christian morality but I suspect it's more of a come on phrase than actual reality, used to attract people to the tea party movement who otherwise would never join it if they knew what it was really all about and how it's leaders are mere tools of Wall Street.

Back in June of 2006 I made certain statements saying I didn't believe in predestination and I didn't believe in the Big Bang. So have I changed? Even back then the way I phrased it was "I believe it's mentally unhealthy to believe in predestination, even if it turns out to be true". As to the matter of the big bang it's based on the assumption we really do have an expanding universe, because without that the whole theory collapses, if you know what I mean. We are assuming that light encounters no "drag" factor caused by ether viscosity or anything else. Yet the Astronomy Cafe people say that "empty space is not really empty". It's one of their major points. I also said then and still believe that the idea of "the theory of evolution is impossible" becomes a whole lot harder to assert if you really do have an infinite ammount of matter, an infinite ammount of space, and an infinite ammount of time. I spoke then of people's desire to see a "beginning" and an "end" of something. But I also said that as a kid in grammar school I more or less assumed that all these things were infinite. Now they are discovering all these new planets. This rocks one of their most tightly held "religious" assertions that We on Earth are the Only Life in the Universe. If we turn out not to be then Christianity becomes a whole lot more complicated.