[cranked]

LIE House spin machine: “unexpected”...”inherited”...”could have been worse”....”shovel-ready jobs”...”it’s all about jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs”.... /s =.=

[screaminsunshine]

Wow. Buy Stock. The market should soar on this news the way it has been going.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Can you imagine what the MSM would do with numbers like this if Bush were still president, or if any Republican were in the White House?

[Lazamataz]

Unexpectedly, I unexpectedly unexpected this unexpected article to unexpectedly unexpect unexpected facts unexpectedly. Unexpecting the fervently unexpectations of true unexepectedness, and unexpected cermoniously unexpectations all unexpected unexpectedly, unexpecting before the unexpected public of unexpected unexpectations in an unexpected way.

Unexpected.

[rockabyebaby]

ah yes, UNEXPECTEDLY, good Lord these people are idiots, they can’t seem to put two and two together.

[Hodar]

Ah has been surprized by this unexpected turn of events, each and every month, for the past 20 months. Maybe if we raise taxes ..... < /sarcasm>

[Roccus]

I wish I could access a list of the weekly new claims AND their subsequent “revisions.” ICBW, but it seems that EVERY week the previous week’s numbers are revised UPWARD.

[Carley]

Quite the accomplishment. We went from 780,000 jobs lost the last MONTH of the Bush administration to TWO MILLION jobs lost each month during the Obamao administration.

Way to go!

[Reagan69]

DOW will soar.

[skimbell]

"...to a higher-than-expected 462,000 in the latest week...

I believe that this then counts as an "unexpectedly expected expectation*".

*Government Talk

[GeronL]

Unexpected-O’s for breakfast, AGAIN!

[skimbell]

What's really a pizzer is that in spite of the nearly two million unexpected first time jobless claims that have been filed during the past four weeks, the unemployment rate will hang in there at 9.5%.

Who'd a thunk it?

[jersey117]

Obama: Stick with me... we’re not where we want to be yet!

Not even close idiot.

[griswold3]

unemployment insurance rose to a higher-than-expected 462,000 in the latest week

NOoooooooooooo!

[massmike]

"UNEXPECTED"

Everyone drink!

[andy58-in-nh]

I see they buried the real story again: last week's unemployment numbers (the ones used to goose the stock market into paroxysms of joy) were once again revised upward - this time from 445,000 to 449,000. That makes 24 out of the past 25 weeks that the previous week's jobless claim numbers have been revised upward instead of downward by the Department of Labor. Anyone want to calculate what the odds are assuming an equal chance of either outcome or of no change? Hint: there are a lot of zeroes involved.

[Talf]

more victims of 0bamadon

[Canedawg]

Oy.

[Personal Responsibility]

Unexpected!

[SeekAndFind]

I have been looking at this weekly initial jobless claims numbers from 2008 and I notice a few things :

1) It has NOT dropped below 450,000 for the past 15 months.

2) The initial jobless claims are often REVISED a week later, and NEVER DOWNWARDS.

We will know that a small corner has been turned only if we see those numbers drop below 400,000 and any weekly revisions are DOWNWARDS but not until.