We don't need more kittens in the world. Too many already. I have seven cats, all adopted from the pound, or strays who've adopted us, or been given to us. To breed your cats to make more cats is just dumb. There are too many cats in the world that need homes.

That guy sounded like Sean Hannity! You just say something, and say it again, and then say it some more, and then some more again it say, then it again say more some, and and and point your fingers, or,

OR--!!

the special Sean Hannity point-both-fingers-up-and-hold-them-beside-your-face-thing as you say the same shit again and again and again.

I wonder how many of these teabaggers who were calling Obama a socialist back in October when Palin was using the term are now calling him a fascist because someone blew the dog whistle and started saying "fascist"?

"Meeting terrorist demands just gets you more of the same, while meeting the threat of further escalation with overwhelming force sends a clear message not to do it again."

Yeah, QM, how well has that message gone over with the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan? We bombed the everloving shit of them and now, seven years later, they control more of the country than the allied forces there.

Regarding the pirates and their stronghold, that is not just the U.S.'s problem, but the world's problem. Let the Chinese bomb the Somalis. They've got some ships there. Let them fuck up some Moslems, instead of us, and take some of the heat. Why should we be the only ones poking Moslems in the eye?

Another consequence of Bush's ineptitude. We blaze into Afghanistan, drive the Taliban into the mountains, let them escape into Pakistan, install a corrupt government, then divert resources to Iraq, ensuring that both Afghanistan AND Pakistan are now threatened with dissolution. Nice! And it only cost a trillion dollars.

Well, I reckon he's just speaking to his base. Morans Against Science!

What a mess to clean up afterward--all those guys with their peckers in their hands coming all over themselves and each other.

But wait, how can we "make the welfare of his fellow man our first concern" when private property and the profit motive are the first two pillars supporting the American System? How, Professor Ganus, how??? And why weren't any of the young ladies allowed to answer any questions? And where are my Negro friends? Oh, they are getting a separate but equal lecture? Oh, that's fine, then.

"The people rule," except for Negroes, Mexicans, homosexuals, and women.

I love how the young woman who is egging him on--"set it on fire!" is the one who is so loudly screaming at the end. he he he

AND the Carol Burnett Show and Flip Wilson and Richard Pryor (for one season) and Tom Jones

AND ANOTHER DAMNED THING!! This doesn't cover ARMs or the interest only loans or the minimum payment loans. The videos "cute" little graphic makes it seem as if it was only the unwashed, working class purchasers of subprime mortgages (cigarette smokers, parents of multiple children; gee, why didn't they just shade them in to make them Black and/or Mexican??) who caused the problem, not the yuppie flippers or the innumerate (numbers equivalent of illiterate) middle class home-aspirants. Plenty of middle class folks have gone down the shitter through this arrangement, not just the "poor."

Now that I look at it again, this video leaves out not only the credit default swaps, but the flippers AND the builders who overbuilt areas, like in Merced County, CA, where I grew up, and which is now the epicenter of foreclosures and defaults. All these houses were built for the SF Bay Area market--two hours away by car--and the county, and others like it, were just saturated with homes, I mean, INFESTED with new developments. When my mother died in October, 2004, I put her 50yr old house on the market immediately and sold it within two weeks. This was a 1200 sq ft. house originally purchased for $16,000 in 1971 that was now "worth" $225,000. I got my check in Dec. and the market peaked in Jan. 2005. Now no one in that county can sell their home for anywhere near what it is "worth" because the market has completely collapsed.

I think we have to look at this in a utilitarian light: the greatest possible good for the greatest possible number. Bailouts, stimulus packages, etc., piss some/many people off, but it helps a greater number than it hurts. Any single person who stands to lose in this scenario will oppose it, even if it means that a million will gain. Many times we can't see beyond our own circumstances. The truth is that we've never, ever had a free market system, not with the involvement of governments, or the existence of monopolies, etc., so making free market arguments is a little inaccurate. SHOULD we allow businesses to go under all over the board, in effect, invoking a free market principle when, in fact, the reason those businesses even exist may be in part because there hasn't been an exatly free market to begin with? I don't know. I think that no one really knows because the whole system has reached a state of complexity that it can't be properly be understood or figured out. I'm reading Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near, and one thing he mentions is that we reach a point where our knowledge base exceeds our ability to comprehend it, hence the need for computers that are smarter than we are to help us. I think we've reached that point right now, but we don't have the computers capable to help us think this one through. There will be lots, LOTS, of gnashing of teeth in the outer darkness before this is all over. And really, how will we know when it is over? When did the Depression really end? With WWII? That was kind of artificial, wasn't it? And then didn't the country enter a recession at the end of WWII?? So, when did the Depression really, really end? In the mid 1950s??

The optimism keeping these realtors and builders from leaping off the top of one of their buildings is that the Ponzi scheme of the rich fleecing everyone else will keep on keeping on just as soon as they figure out a way of putting the train back on the tracks. What if that assumption is deeply flawed? What if things aren't mendable in the way they would like? What if the 99% of the planet that isn't filthy rich wants a new world order of their own? THEN what?

Yay, humanoids! Most excellently tasty.