Thursday Night Randomosity

• The market had a real chance to hurt the bulls, but the late day rally was positive.  $$
• Marketwatch blamed job losses and European debt.  Investors received evidence of just the opposite as the Labor Department said that weekly jobless claims unexpectedly surged last week by 22,000 to 496,000, their highest level in over three months.
• CA faces over a $20B deficit. Meanwhile, in more important matters, the Assembly passed a bill declaring a cuss-free week. Amid the ongoing — and occasionally tense — debate over how to clean up California's budget mess, lawmakers have taken time out to tidy something else almost as unmanageable: our language. This morning, the Assembly approved a ceremonial resolution turning the first week of March into "Cuss Free Week."
• I work for a living, so I missed the health care summit.  Looks like everyone agreed to disagree, and it’s off to raise some funds for the November elections!
• More oil in North Dakota!  We need the stuff.  Drill baby, drill.
• I think the top 24 in American Idol are some of the worst ever.  But they all sing way better than I can.  Liked Ellen initially, but now she seems out of place.
• I feel bad for the family and friends of the person killed training the Killer Whale.  It is a wild animal, you know.  I generally feel sad for caged up animals.  I’m glad they’re sparing the orca. "We have every intention of continuing to interact with this animal, though the procedures for working with him will change," SeaWorld wrote in its blog Thursday.