It is Good Friday and Christeeans worldwide,and those of us raised as Christeeans, celebrate the day.  I didn't do too good in Sunday School so as I sit here now decades later I misremember why we Christeeans celebrate the day that Christ was crucified.  This was the day, right?  Easter, I can understand. Christ rose from the dead, that's never happened before--or since.  Maybe it would be more accurate to say that we "observe" today but when I googled "Good Friday" images and procured the Signorelli at top Google prompted me with the suggested search "Happy Good Friday."  Maybe it would be more accurate to say that Jews "celebrate" today and Christeeans "observe" it but that always infuriates Jews and makes them paranoid and makes them go hide under the bed so we won't say that.

However all that may be it is not a good Friday for Americans, especially American Democrats whether Christeean or Jew.  Since it is the first Friday of the month this is also the day that the Labor Department releases it's monthly jobs report. They did that at 8:30 today and told us that 120,000 jobs were added in March. Consistent with our monthly practice, 120,000 is the size of the city of Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston take a bow,

thank you, and that SUCKS!  Charleston won't cut it, they're still in the horse-and-buggy era as we can all see. No, 120,000 is too little, we need at least Chula Vista or at the very, very least Garland, to be able to say that the recovery is really continuing, and we ended up with dang Charleston. We economics scholars were predicting Chula Vista or Garland also and so there's the additional, dreaded "adverse psychological effect" attendant to unmet predictions confidently made.

What really sucks is that, according to the New York Times, the Federal Reserve Bank (the "Fed," to us insiders) believes that even a Chula Vista per month is too anemic for a "recovery" after 2 years of stimulus. Interest rates are about as low as they can go, have been about as low as they can go for some time, that's been the Fed's strategy to stimulate the economy, and so when the Feds met this week, before the Charleston disaster,  they asked themselves the question, "What do we do if we don't start seeing Chula Vista+ numbers?"  According to the Times the Feds were going to consider redefining what "full employment" meant and raise interest rates. ? It seems to us here at Public Occurrences that the Feds need to have another meeting.

On the other hand Mitt Romney had an orgasm today.