Well, that does help the toilet paper problem. Until they carry it out, though, there are still Regnery books, which can usually be found in large amounts in wheeled bins outside the offices of right-wing donors. If they’d only leave them blank instead of putting all that ink on the pages, they’d be even better in just about every way.

and thank you for doing your job. teachers work hard.

But not for her team.

Apparently, millions of people worried about their jobs, mortgages & debts aren’t as eager as McNasty & Caribou-Klaus-Barbie to “turn the page on the economy” as a relevant issue. Excoriating the major media may not be so much of a genius move either (see Nixon, Richard).

The GOP must be be made up of scorpions, because regular humans would’ve run out of feet to shoot themselves in by now.

(In the second link, you can see the “break” – the goal of every pol in the endgame-phase of an election campaign – & if you’re on the wrong side of it, it’s political Armageddon: the longer it keeps splitting, the more dead in the water you are. It’s still growing & is likely to keep doing so unless Wet-Start pulls off a virtuoso performance in his next debate [LOL].)

I suspect Palin has by now received a sincere thank-you note from Obama HQ. Srsly.

Paul McCartney’s Comely Emmenthal Paprikash

Ingredients:
7 teaspoons pliable lemur, boundlessly buttered
1 Emmenthal, combatively dried
1 hissing Shropshire blue cheese, broiled
4 jars gazelle wing, swirled
1 pint pepper
1 bunch dill

That better be vegetarian lemur and gazelle. The hissing cheese, on the other hand, sounds awesome.

Oh no – they’ll stop buying doughnuts for McWorse?

Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness.

the campaign has reacted with recriminations (the St. Petersburg Times reported that the Florida Republican Party chairman, after questioning Palin’s aptitude, was told that he couldn’t fly on her plane) and now Palin’s rage.

They unfortunately haven’t learned you don’t piss off the MSM. You will go down if you do.

In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”

Palin, speaking to a sea of “Palin Power” and “Sarahcuda” T-shirts, tried to link Obama to the 1960s Weather Underground. “One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers,” she said. (“Boooo!” said the crowd.) “And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,’ ” she continued. (“Boooo!” the crowd repeated.) “Kill him!” proposed one man in the audience.

This is what happens when a campaign chooses an inexperienced ignoramus to do the dirty demogoguery work. Miss Alaska Runner-Up/One Heartbeat Away from the Presidency doesn’t understand that outside of Wasilla, Alaska, you don’t rouse the rabble unless you can control them.

The angry GOP vice presidential nominee even found a way to blame the market decline on the yet-to-be-enacted tax policies of the yet-to-be-elected Obama.

“If you turn on the news tonight when you get home, you’re gonna see that, yah, this is another woeful day in the market, and the other side just doesn’t understand — no!” she said at an afternoon fundraiser at the home of mutual fund giant Jack Donahue. “Especially in a time like this, you don’t propose to increase taxes. The phoniest claim in a campaign that’s full of them is that Barack Obama is going to cut your taxes.”

Of course, Obama never promised to cut taxes for people at $10,000-a-plate lunches in air-conditioned tents on waterfront compounds. And the crowd — among them New York Jets owner Woody Johnson — reacted without applause to Palin’s Joe Six-Pack lines. After they didn’t strike up the usual “Drill, baby, drill” or “USA” chants, Palin, rattled, read hurriedly through the rest of her speech.

It’s important to know your audience, too. Perhaps she still has time to fashion her pit-bull persona into something more poodle-ish for fundraisers with the totally non-elitist Rethug swells? That’d be interesting. Calling Henry Higgins!

So, I propose an alternative plan that would provide some options and flexibility for all you Captains of Industry:

1) Accept, for your total annual compensation and retirement package, what your average, non-management employee would get.

2) Receive an all-expense-paid, 20-year vacation in the beautiful, exotic “Gitmo Resort”.

3) Receive a full facial treatment and hairstyling at our exclusive salon so that your head will look simply fabulous while being displayed on the end of a pike in Battery Park.

Is that better for you?! Does that sufficiently clarify the new rules of the game?

For myself, I can’t imagine having that much in just one account in the bank. But I can imagine that some people, for short periods of time–like overnight until the bank opens in the morning and the person can open more accounts to deal with an inheritance or cashed-in something or other or before putting that down payment on a house–might have more than $100,000 in there. And even with housing bubbles bursting, I guess $250,000 isn’t such a bad number.

On the whole, it can make sense. And as long as regulations (ha!) require that the banks have some assets to offset the cost of going under (double ha!), they’ll never get in trouble. At least not until the next time.

But with the coming inflation (yeah! maybe we’ll be like Zimbabwe so I’ll be able to pay my student loans off in one or two paychecks!) $250K or $100K won’t make much difference.

If someone went around saying they were Attila the Hun, they’d get in trouble. If they apply his same principles to governance, they get to be a political party.

Some fiscally conservative people who are around retirement age did not have money in the stock market. They put it all in the bank. Since they are mostly retired, this is a lot of money. To reduce the runs on the banks by those people, the FDIC cap was raised. However, it was raised without increasing the cost of the insurance to the banks.

They’re generally repetitive, make a surprising number of specific predictions, and are never any closer to right than a well-trained monkey. Of course, the trained monkey would be less hilariously wrong and would be smeared in significantly less shit.

Way back in the day (late 70′s for me), it was suggested that that would be the way to improve the schools in the UK, i.e. ban private schools, so that the rich and powerful fuckers would have to improve the schools little Johnny went to. At the time (and perhaps i am kidding myself), it didn’t seem so bad a suggestion?

I know schoolteachers who keep a bottle in their desks.

I have been a schoolteacher that kept a bottle in my desk, and changed it often.

But Brad and Angelina chose to name their daughter Shiloh Pitt. Awesome.

“Last weekend, Wells was unwilling to buy Wachovia. That was before the tax law change went into effect,” said Guhan Subramanian, a professor at Harvard Law School. “Wells can justify a higher price now than they could a week ago because of the tax law change.”

The rule change could mean that Wells Fargo would potentially be able to recognize tax benefits of $23 billion over three years, compared with $3 billion under the old rules, Deutsche Bank analyst Mike Mayo said in a research note.