A picture that sums it up nicely

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/09/ST2008060900950.html

Where does YOUR family fit on the scale?
Note that 60% of families are cramped into the bottom 3 categories.
Under Obama, our taxes will drop about $290 more than under McCain. Okay, it's not amazing, but I don't sneeze at nearly $300.

The overall average cut looks better under McCain, until you realize the lion's share is going to those making over $600,000.

When you put money in at the top, they sit on it or invest it overseas.
When you put money in at the bottom, they buy stuff and create a demand.
This is basic econ 101.

My sister has a cold

My younger sister (the one who is not jlm121) has a cold.

This means, she takes lots of chemicals, goes to work, goes to school, gets her kids around and manages some housework. When it goes into bronchitis, she goes to the doctor on her day off and gets an antibiotic. And, on her way home from the doc, stops off at Kinkos and picks up some printing I sent her.

This is where I'm on the phone with her. And she said, "If this were my husband, he'd take a day off to recover and be under my feet all day. Why are men such whiny babies?"

The question was something my mother or grandmother or the women I grew up around would have asked. It was the perpetual lament of women pressed into service by men who were old enough to wait on themselves but just didn't feel good.

So, I found myself explaining male privilege and doing a lousy job of it.

Later in the week, Mudd had a temper-tantrum. I got it by phone, since I wasn't home to deal with the situation. The man does not cope when a plan gets altered by forces outside his control. So naturally, he yells and swears a lot and looks for me to make it better.

And I realized how endemic it is.

At this point, I'm wondering why I'm still heterosexual. Because to me, manhater=returning the favor.

There, fixed that for you

From the Wall Street bail-out.
"Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."

Shorter:
"It is by my order and for the good of France that the bearer of this letter has done what he has done."

There, fixed that for you.

yep that works

My Indian name is She-who-has-an-evil-heart.
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Figures

Sarah Palin received the blessing of Kenyan witch-hunter and exorcist, Thomas Muthee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8twqZpUT2NQ

She apparently forgot, and Muthee never told her, was that to witch-hunters there are only two types of women: Witches. And those who don't yet know they are witches.

TLAPD winners!

Our own Jack Sparrow picked a random number from the total pool of entries.

dakiwiboid gets a copy of Kestrel on the Horizon and kitzheng gets "Talk like a Pirate Day."

Those are on their way to your mailboxes now.