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Former Countrywide Financial loan officer Robert Feinberg says Mr. Dodd knowingly saved thousands of dollars on his refinancing of two properties in 2003 as part of a special program the California mortgage company had for the influential. He also says he has internal company documents that prove Mr. Dodd knew he was getting preferential treatment as a friend of Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide’s then-CEO.

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I am not making this up.

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Hey, one of these babies can save your life….

Jerry Pournelle has a premonition of what National Health Care will be under the Democrats.

That was with Kaiser, which is an extraordinarily well run organization — at least in my experience — and staffed with some of the most pleasant and just plain nice people I’ve ever run into. Now imagine this experience when it has all be nationalized and there’s a big national health care system. I can hardly wait.

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Unfortunately, everybody seems to be caving. Boy, that will really discourage them, won’t it?

Vote to Save the Planet: Your Guide to the Issues That Matter Jeff Schweitzer / Rvive Books / $7.95 / 9781935073000 / 1935073001 / Political Science / Political Process / Elections / Trade Paper / On Sale: Oct 01, 2008

Dr. Schweitzer, a former senior science advisor in the Clinton/Gore administration, well-respected speaker, and Huffington Post blogger, pulls no punches in making the case that we must vote for Presidential Candidate Barack Obama to SAVE THE PLANET.

All this for only $7.95. What a bargain.

This comes from the “Drop-In Titles” service of the Unshelved comic strip, which is very funny so long as you remember that, like most public employees, they’re tofu-brained socialists.

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Imagine employers scanning people’s brains to choose more or less risk averse depending on job needs.

Uh, no thanks. Imagine the potential for workplace violence.

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Sometimes you beat the bear….

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Wonder if they’re related to the giant catfish that guy caught in Spain.

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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Jeebus….

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My question is whether the display is too small to be useful. I don’t know many people who spend a lot of time looking in the rear-view.

“First rule of Italian driving — what is behind me is not important.”

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And think of the repair bill you’d face if (when?) it falls over.

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But the kids are alright.

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The one with the hat is the human.

Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Some good news on the language front.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California.

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Good ol’ Unintended Consequences strike again.

This is such an absurd idea I’m surprised the Europeans didn’t think of it first.

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What if somebody way back when changed their name?

Be ready for some surprises….

David Friedman, son of Milton, who has forgotten more about economics than all four of the current candidates ever knew, explains it in simple terms.

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Call me when they install the mind-control lasers.

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Some people just have no sense of humor.

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Good thing he’s not a Mormon or he’d be in real trouble.

Megan McArdle has some of the soundest advice you’ll read anywhere.

Don’t look.  Seriously, don’t look.  I have no idea what’s going on with any of my equity investments, because that is not short term money that I need to keep my eye on.

Preach it, sister.

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I have a question: Why did we have military ties with a COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP in the first place?

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Certainly there are enough Democrat blowhards in Illinois and Michigan to power the country for centuries.

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Hey, don’t laugh, this is serious business for the readers of the Washington Post.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Will they take the hint? Probably not.

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Nowadays, an artist behind enemy lines is more likely to be drawing stuff for their side.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Reefer Madness, part deux.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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A very entertaining explanation of fractional reserve banking and why it’s so fragile.

This illustration is a microcosm (with very conservative levels of lending) of what happened before the banking world stopped turning. In the same way that Bank A borrowed £1,000 from Mr P and turned it into £2,600 of spendable cash for the other people in the chain, so when banks borrow millions they turn it into many millions more of lending. Any snapshot of the amount of money in the world economy reflects not just the real money but also the additional money “created” by commercial lending.

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In the past several weeks, the shift of press-corps sentiment against McCain has been stark and undeniable, even among heavies such as Matthews long accused by the left of being residents of the Arizonan’s amen corner. Jonathan Alter, Joe Klein, Richard Cohen, David Ignatius, Jacob Weisberg: all former McCain admirers now turned brutal critics. Equally if not more damaging, the shift has been just as pronounced, if less operatic, among straight-news reporters. Suddenly, McCain is no longer being portrayed as a straight-talking, truth-telling maverick but as a liar, a fraud, and an opportunist with acute anger-management issues.

Could it be that it’s because he’s actually running against a Democrat? Could it be that he’s no longer bashing his fellow Republicans? (Or, at least, not so much.) Did anybody truly not expect this? I know for a fact that Rush Limbaugh predicted precisely this when McCain ran against Bush in the Republican Presidential primaries.

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Note that it isn’t a huge publicly-funded university, but a smaller private college, that is leading the charge here.

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Better make those compact fluorescents, though, or the Thought Police will be after you.

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How useful.

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They’ve destroyed their own country, they’re a bunch of genocidal maniacs, and it’s our fault.

Associated with an “aid agency” ought to be an indictable offense.

Megan McArdle explains it all to you.

Is by looking at another kind of crash:  exploding Space Shuttles.

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Well, I guess that makes it official. Pretend is just as good as reality.

I think I’ll run for something as Barack Obama. Hey, I can dress up like him.

(Oh, and you might want to avoid the state of Georgia until further notice.)