With roughly 39 or 40, or whatever, million people and growing, and with all the fret, fret, fretting every stupid year if we're going to get enough snow pack in the Sierras to avert yet another disaster, this crash and burn business should be a cakewalk and a bit of old news to California. Mudslides, anyone?

How many miles is it to Malibu?--

Threescore miles and ten.

Can I light it with matches or an incendiary device?--

Yes, from Malibu to Maliburn to Malimud and back, again.

If your tires are nimble and gas-peddle light,

You can burn California with just about anything, alright.

Citigroup: they liked it so much, they had to rescue it twice.

San Francisco's own Tom Ammiano has a truly sensible idea. God!! I'm beginning to LIKE this economic meltdown. Times they are a changin', and I can smell it in the air. YeeHaw!!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/23/BAO416354C.DTL&tsp=1

I'm still pinching myself with disbelief. Not to hear the voice of the last eight years; not to be condescended to by that hideous smirky, winky-winky piranha-snapping turtle-angry-rabid ferret faced cretin...

...And to know this presidency is not going to be an abject failure outa' the gate. *Whew! Have mercy.*

Obama: the man's got gravitas.

I'm still pinching myself with disbelief. Not to hear the voice of the last eight years; not to be condescended to by that hideous, angry, smirky, winky-winky, piranha-snapping turtle, rabid ferret-faced cretin...

...And to know this presidency is not going to be an abject failure outa' the gate. *Whew! Have mercy.*

Poor kid, she looked as shocked as much as the Republicans looked, well - we all know how the Republicans looked like.

I would a least given poor TySheoma a Xanax or Valium, or something. Don't you think?

They're Moonies!! *nano-nano*

Howard Kurtz, of the Washington Post nails it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030300931.html

The economy is not the only thing that's imploding.

No (fancy, star-studded) charity (fund raisers).

Republicans: *rolls eyes*

Citigroup: "Too big to fail" - sounds like a simply perfect extortion gambit. *rolls eyes again*

The meltdown: I can see it coming now... Mortgage holders with negative equity who purchased their houses in the 90s. Come on, now, you just know it's coming.

Is going to be very difficult.

Last night I listened to an interview on Terry Gross' program, Fresh Air, with Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor... Wow! And to listen to her speak about the looming massive default in personal credit was staggering. I highly recommend a listen:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101611260

My latest prediction: The appearance of negative equity in home mortgages purchased in the 90s by the end, or beginning, of next year. Shall we place bets?

No I wouldn't, and neither would you. The man is an absolute sociopath, does his thinking in a completely poisonous vacuum and uses polemics to rationalize anything and everything. John Yoo is probably the nicest guy who's humanity is powered by a mechanical cherry picker.

So, it take a really nasty economy to make everybody - including guys in Learjets - run to Mommy and Daddy? Cool! Now we can get a whole lot of really needed stuff done, like eliminating the giant social abortion called the drug war.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/14/portugal/index.html

Room, doom: both will pretty much work to describe this fine mess.

Obama is playing this for all it's worth. These fat AIG bonuses smell Republican, walk Republican (Heck, they even quack Republican!) and therefore are being cleverly pinned on the Republican party itself...And it's working.

Poor Karl Rove, I'm sure he's poopin' in his pants right now; it's all out of his playbook.

Hmmm... Maybe because bonus is the singular for bona. Well, whatever, it sure is going down like one, huh?

...*face turns scarlet red*

But, so does the lowest common denominator; just like rotting cadavers in water.

Or just tons of Confucian relativism, the Chinese neither suffer nor need to appease a bunch of silly Republicans - it's that simple. The Chinese would certainly know how to deal with them, that's for sure.

Fair is fair.

Bonuses that aren't really bonuses? Ill gotten gains? Bullshit. The Treasury Department blew it.

If these AIG people, with their bonuses, can convincingly argue their case in the court of law, then these are not ill gotten gains whatever their being called.

Oh, right, I get it, if their is an inconvenient thing called the law, then we publicly chastise (and scapegoat) these people and then send the I.R.S./Gestapo after them.

Sounds like something something Cheney or Rove would do.

One other thing: More I get to know of him, the more Chuck Schummer is coming across like a bully and a hypocrite.

Monkey see, monkey do, all watching themselves watching themselves on television while killing their precious time, too.

...And now (if you dare) take a good hard look at how women are routinely depicted. *yuck* It's getting more and more like Telemundo or Univision. Pathetic.

Nobody seems to know the answer to this that I can see. And even if all goes through with this stimulus package, the answer to this question seems to be beyond any of the economists grasp. Will it all work?

Prices go up and we get screwed. Prices go down, same. It just seems with every passing week there's another jaw-dropper to absorb and process. I don't know, but now I've become totally convinced that no one else does either. It sure is going to be interesting to see how the year ends.

With Republicans you'd think Pelosi was the queen stealth operative of the Symbionese Liberation Army. HA! No Way. Nancy is California's designated junior stealth Republican; DiFi is the senior other.

Republicans: poor little darlings, they're so severely encephalorectalicated they can't tell a pimple from a belly button. Poor things.