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American Idiot

So, I was in the gym minding my own business when this little dude (shorter than I, so yeah, little) walks up to the woman working out next to me and I can't help but over hear him prattling on about how he is going to set up tables at an old folks home and get medicare to pay for his 'services.' I assume he's a massage therapist or worse, a chiropractor. I don't pay it much mind, but then he launches into a mini-diatribe toward his clearly uninterested friend about how Obama is going to ruin the health care industry in his first year in office, and blah, fucking, blah, fucking, yada , yada . I sighed loudly and rolled my eyes. He turned to me, and asked me what I thought since I obviously didn't agree. I told him that I thought if we could borrow what works from European and Canadian models I think we could seriously reduce the cost of health care (which is the highest in the world, yet we have a much higher mortality rate anyway) and provide coverage for many

39 billion? 25 billion? How about just, 14?

House approves $14 billion rescue bill for U.S. automakers I mean seriously, this is just fucking surreal. All of a sudden, after giving Paulson and the Wall St. banks a $350 BILLION blank check (with another already signed for another cool 400 Bill), they are getting chintzy with US companies that actually make shit and employ millions of people, you know, American people? The freaking nerve, eh? I know that the big 3 ain't all that popular, but still... letting them go under during this downturn, is like telling someone who is having a heart attack that they should perhaps, go on a diet or something.

Clearly, Obama should already resign!

[snark] Barack Obama got his political start in Illinois. So, since the current Governor of Illinois, who is, by the way, bat-shit crazy or incredibly, incredibly stupid, but, yet, somehow cynically cunning, this then means Obama is clearly unqualified to assume office. Even though Obama's campaign scrupulously and overtly avoided the Governor at every turn. Nevertheless, President-Elect Obama is connected, closer than Kevin Bacon for sure, and should spare the United States any further embarrassment and ask Bush to stay on until 2012 at least, perhaps until 2016 even. [/snark]