Apocalypse Now!

These people scare the poop out of me. Almost as much as Sarah Palin does.

Cannot wait to see Bill Maher's movie Religulous. Spell check says yes, it is a made-up word, but it is a combination of Religious and Ridiculous. Which, Bill Maher thinks, are the same thing. The link above is a trailer. I suggest you check it out.

Other things that are bothering me this week: Congress. To think that Americans honestly thought bipartisanship would take a back seat to injecting capital into the economy - I know, right? Crazy! No way. Nancy Pelosi gives a speech much like any speech one would hear on the floor of the House of Representatives - passionate, accusatory, but correct - and the bill fails, with House Republicans blaming it on "partisan vitriol." Sure, blame it all on Nancy, not your petty middle school politics. They'd rather blame the woman than themselves, obviously. What's interesting to me about this situation, though, is that now Democrats have become the party of big business, voting mostly to bail out Wall Street. Now, this was not exactly the bill the President and the Secretary of the Treasury were hoping for, but still the basis was the same: give lots of money to banks and investment firms so they could continue to invest and grow the economy. Most Democrats voted for it, but Republicans renegged on their promise to do so, and suddenly the stock market tumbles.

Do you think those Republicans, who rely on large donations from Wall Street, are going to get those donations? Suddenly, even though 90 Dems voted against this bill, the Democrats are seen as the party looking out for the interests of Wall Street.

Don't ask me if it's a good bill or a bad one: I don't know anything about the economy. All I know is that it's tanking, something needs to be done, the people who ran the economy into the ground, including those in the White House as well as those on Wall Street, need to be thrown out of their private jets without a golden parachute and new people need to take the controls.