Friday stuff

Lovingly stolen from John Cole because its so true:

“The best way to understand the financial crisis is to understand the meltdown at AIG. AIG is what happens when short, bald managers of otherwise boring financial bureaucracies start seeing Brad Pitt in the mirror. This is a company that built a giant fortune across more than a century by betting on safety-conscious policyholders – people who wear seat belts and build houses on high ground – and then blew it all in a year or two by turning their entire balance sheet over to a guy who acted like making huge bets with other people’s money would make his dick bigger.”

<——————————————————————————————————————–>

If Sarah Palin is upset-then Obama talking about the Special Olympics is probably a good thing.

Seems she  is in a snit today:

Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican candidate for vice president in 2008 and the mother of an infant with Down syndrome, said in a statement on Friday, “This was a degrading remark about our world’s most precious and unique people, coming from the most powerful position in the world.”

Maybe the President should talk about forced teen marriages and how successful abstinence only education is then? You know-something she is familiar with? By the way, maybe she would like to explain why she turned down money to help special needs children while she’s at it. Since she loves them so much and all.

(NOTE: I am aware that her daughter did not go through with the marriage. Smart boy not to marry into that family).

<———————————————————————————————————————>

You know, the same people who are so up in arms about Obama saying his bowling was lousy, are just as quick to say something stupid themselves.  Its a sad commentary in general on the level of public discourse in this country. That’s what happens sometimes. We should all just lighten up.

<——————————————————————————————————————>

Sam Kinison used to do a routine about how there was no substitute for women. But as he said, ” I guarantee you there are some scientist somewhere working on the artificial p**sy.”

He may have been right:

Think of the business from truck drivers alone!

<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------->

Seeing her made me think of the last BSG episode that I watched tonight. See the part with all the robots at the end? Maybe the Cylons are closer than we thought……