Knock, Knock. Who's There?

From The Times Online:

One investor told The Wall Street Journal: “This is going to kill so many people. It’s absolutely awful.” Ira Roth, from New Jersey, said that his family had $1 million invested, and that he was in a state of panic.

Ira Roth? As in Roth IRA? In an article about hedge fund investing?

This has to be a copy editor's idea of a joke, right?

Quotes We'd Like To Read*

"Jesus was a community organizer, Rod Blagojevich was a Governor".



*(apologies to MAD magazine)

Coming Distractions

I need this kinda lifeline...every time something uncomfortable, suspicious, potentially damaging, possibly damning comes up..I'll dismiss it as a distraction.

Then, my camp followers will pick up on it and preempt me from even having to say it, thus keeping my halo centered around getting back to the work of offering Hope and Change to the American people...err, at least 52% of them.

My latest misspeak will occur in 10,9,8,7,6... Oh...sorry, Axe....he didn't speak directly to Blagojevich, as in "spoke over the phone"? Spoke via surrogates? Nice...what IS the meaning of the word "is"?

This kind of parsing is no Change from the infamous tactics of the original Man From Hope.

Grope. Change.

Head Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau (NOT the always funny, sometimes beefy one) parties on with a cardboard Hillary, showing his boss how one properly puts their hand over their heart during the National Anth...what...hey, that's not her heart!

James Carville's evil spawn guffaws it up at the table, Fred Durst in an aptly titled t-shirt plants a kiss and a frustrated female pouts akimbo. It's practically a Progressive Norman Rockwell moment.

The blow-up Nancy "Gump" Pelsoi ("I got shot with the Bo-tox)" doll was busy in the back room, apparently.

Oh, and he's sorry, too - and ready for his job in the State Department.

O.J. (Orange Jumpsuit) Simpson Guilty

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice rendered is justice applied.

(See, that rhymes, so it must be true!)

In other news, the search for the "real killer" is also over.