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Agreed, and "Once unemployed workers stop looking for work, the government no longer counts them as unemployed" Lets hope the January figures do support a trend.

AP Breaking News WASHINGTON – The nation's unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent last month, its lowest level in 19 months. That was because more people found jobs, but also because some people gave up on their job searches. The Labor Department says employers added 103,000 jobs in...

PHOENIX (Reuters) – A planned Obama administration clampdown on Mexico border gun dealers which would require them to report multiple assault rifle sales has been delayed by the White House amid stiff opposition from the powerful gun lobby. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...

BBC News Jan 7 BREAKING NEWS:US unemployment fell from 9.8% to 9.4% in December, its biggest one-month fall since 1998 More on this story as it comes in

Now thats funny :D I nearly choked on my tea :D:p I agree, Spam is very annoying & you sure do get a LOT here - I would normally get one or two per day in England!

Good morning all from a very chilly Walmart car park :p I remembered to check the doppler this morning :D:D

Update Robert Butler used father's gun in Omaha school attack A US student who shot two school officials, killing one, had been suspended for 19 days just before the attack, officials have said. Robert Butler, who killed himself after the attack at his Nebraska school, had just been...

Found this but it wouldn't open ..... Judith Sheindlin: World News, Tweets, Pictures and Videos - Liquida Sep 17, 2010 ... According to the WSJ, the ruling, by U.S. District Judge Shira Sheindlin (apparently no relation to Judith "Judge Judy" Sheindlin), ... Judith Sheindlin: World News...

BBC News Dec 6 The terrorist threat level specific to major UK transport hubs has been raised from substantial to severe, the BBC understands. The move includes airports and London railway terminals, although there is no suggestion of any intelligence of an imminent attack. The threat...

England won the final Ashes Test in Sydney by an innings and 83 runs to wrap up the series 3-1 and secure their first win down under in 24 years. The Aussies began the last day in a hopeless position at 213-7, 151 runs behind, but Peter Siddle and Steve Smith kept England's champagne on...

Connecticut Yankee A Connecticut Folktale retold by S.E. Schlosser Now, here in the South, we all do not approve of your so-called Connecticut Yankee peddlers. So when one appeared in the yard of my tavern, I was not of a mind to give him room for the night. He was a scrawny...

OMAHA (Reuters) – Classes were canceled on Thursday at Millard South High where a suspended student shot and mortally wounded assistant principal Vicki Kaspar before fleeing and killing himself Wednesday. Robert Butler Jr., a 17-year-old senior who transferred to the Omaha school this fall...

Re: Jan Location Unloaded, waiting at the Walmart in Bluffton IN :p

NEW YORK (AFP) – A US federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging the wildly successful Harry Potter books were plagiarized from a story from a little-known British author. The suit filed in New York against the publisher of the J.K. Rowling books had argued the stories were inspired by Adrian...

BBC News Jan 6 Drunk US house breaker calls the police for help A man who broke into a house, got drunk and could not get out again called police for help, officers say. Police in Delaware state then arrested the man, who had drunk five bottles of spirits while staying in the...

Re: Jan Location Well I can tell you that it is quite unpleasant conditions near Seville OH area :( Snowing heavy now - can hardly see anything right now - so I guess we hit the middle of the storm now (well I hope its the middle)

A big thank you to your son, his unit and to all the many nations military personnel serving in Afganistan :)

its true - I put a thread on, not long back, on this very subject :D

What would you have called yourself? :D:p

A new Warning Sign (to me at least) Around Brockport PA - just saw a yellow warning sign stating... "Warning Convicted child molester ahead on left" Never seen that before