The fact is, these are the facts. Unless of course you are lazy or a classwarring liberal.

I believe that they are overrepresented in the media. On the other hand, I really enjoyed it when the guy with the question mark suit went from crowing about how you could swindle easy money from the government to waving the flag and proclaiming your patriotic duty to take money from the government.

That is really the only thing I liked about 9/11.

Isn’t there a term for this sort of thing? What is it?…..mmmm, oh yeah, Fascism.

I just hope bush isn’t watching Pakistan and taking notes this week.

Benazir Bhutto is under house arrest with razor wire in front of her house.

God, if only crystal meth had been easily available then.

Gibson is pretty much just talking to his target audience at this point.

You know, the stupid and the corrupt.

Be fair. The stupid and corrupt deserve fair representation in the media.

They probably just took the money out of my account to make up the shortfall. I always wondered where that money went.

Anyway, I was in the City of Angels for about a year, and I had me a bank account with one o’ them newfangled ATM cards. Time came to pack up and return to the Right Coast, and I closed the account. In person in the branch office of the bank. Got a cashier’s check for the full balance and walked out the door. On a whim, I popped my ATM card — which the teller had neglected to take from me — into the machine just outside the front door and punched the buttons for my maximum daily withdrawal. Just to see what would happen, mind you — a science experiment, if you will.

Sure enough, out popped the cash. $300, I think. Suddenly, I was very very nervous. Because I had just robbed the bank. I assume that the computer systems were not integrated completely or something like that, so the ATM network didn’t get word until later that my account was closed. Since it was Friday, I considered the possibility that the information might not percolate through the system until Monday, meaning I might could snag another $600 over the weekend… but I was already certain that the police and the black helicopters were closing in on me, so I decided against that course of action. I just checked over my shoulder for the rest of the weekend and left town on Monday.

Interestingly, about two months later, I got my final bank statement forwarded from my old address, and the bank had somehow reconciled everything to zero. I never did figure that out.

It was the nepotism that drove me out the door. Extreme professionalism and absolute deference to authority was required of everyone – everyone except family members of the owners, who were totally unqualified, yet free to be as petty as they liked.

I think they are indicative of the whole high class crowd.

So, what if they call when the person is at work?

You know, the stupid and the corrupt.

Brace yourselves, because you will too.

Wait for it…wait for it…..

They CALL PEOPLE and they ASK THEM if they HAVE A JOB!!!!!!!

Yes! That’s it!

They make random lists of phone numbers in targeted areas, call up and ask if the respondent is employed.

Of course, that begs the question of, uh…..like, a lot of people who don’t have jobs, also DON’T HAVE PHONES!!!!!!!

This almost beats the (true!) government tale of how they came up with 100% literacy: they sent out written questionnaires; everyone who filled it in and sent it back was cointed as (ta-da!) literate.

I’m just posting cause I tried to go to bed and I can’t sleep.

It’s really cold tonight and my feet are freezing. My spouse has a cold and it ‘s making him snore. And finally, the geriatric Rottweiler sleeping at the foot of the bed is farting. So – I’m being assaulted in three senses out of five.

I got up to put some socks on. I can’t do anything about the snoring and the dog-farts.

It ain’t fair.

And speaking of banking, g, mikey & John O.: Money transfer is almost immediate. A ten day hold is absolute bullshit, even w/ paper checks they scan the MICR #s on the bottom of the check & send the info electronically overnight. I’d imagine almost every check in the country clears (or doesn’t) w/in two days, & probably in the civilized world (Canada) as well.

And mikey & John, if you think it’s creepy that the Man @ Shitibank has an algorithim that knows how you should be spending your money, wait till the Nazi robots (or robot Nazis) are running everything on behalf of the Man.

Well, that’s the thing. It really wasn’t about “ManWorld” – it was their stupid rule that you had to be an employee of the group that the Credit Union was part of to be a Real Human Being.

But even though my rational self knew that, my inner feminist went crazy when they told me I wasn’t capable of conducting my own financial affairs without a man to authorize it.

If I had been the employee – or if our joint account was at the Credit Union associated with MY employer, I presume – it would have been my husband who was treated like a child.

That would be an interesting experiment. Almost worth opening up another account for.