Dumping Grounds

• Let ‘em fail. http://tinyurl.com/4ulu6u #
• Yet another cry of “Let ‘em fail.” http://tinyurl.com/4z7klj #
• How did SMU escape this? http://www.sportsline.com/mcc/blogs/entry/9249838/10793592 #

• @gruber I think she was banned from the McCain plane. #
• Jason Garrett, meet Marion Barber and Felix Jones. They’re your running backs. #

Yahoo News Artice

“This bill failed because Barack Obama and the Democrats put politics ahead of country,” a McCain adviser said. A majority of House Democrats supported the proposal and the majority of House Republicans opposed it.

Can someone please explain the logic of the above? Anyone?

• @gruber C’mon, go see her. You know you want to. #

• Sarah Palin has so obviously been coached, and told NOT to vary from the supplied script… at all. The interview with Couric is painful. #
• @klamping I have yet to figure out what’s fake about @fakesarahpalin #
• Sarah Palin for GM of the Lions! #

• From @gruber, a series a really good questions about this "crisis" http://tinyurl.com/4auzrg #
• At least one person in Congress seems to mostly "get it" http://tinyurl.com/3t5ck4 #

• An explanation of the financial crisis that I understood, complete with suggestions: http://xrl.us/orumq #
• My house never looked this bad… or… why I won’t rent my house: http://tinyurl.com/3rgutw #

• I’m ready for the yellow pages to be declared illegal. What an amazing waste of resources. #

• For those who have been asking… nope, I don’t understand exactly what went wrong in the banking industry. I’ll try to read up. #
• Arrr… what do ye call 10,000 investment bankers walking the plank? A good start! Har har har. #
• (It’s “Talk Like A Pirate” Day) #
• Avast ye, fer lubbers that need’n some assistance in talkin like a pirate. http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html #
• Let’s assume “hundreds of billions of dollars” = $250 billion. That’s only 2.1 years of the Iraq war. See? It’s not so bad. #
• The previous tweet should have been wrapped in <sarcasm> tags, but I didn’t have enough characters. #

• Realtors (not mine) that lower my thermostat to 66 degrees and leave it that way win my “assholes of the day” award. #
• And realtors (not mine) that notice that the heat pump is frozen up AND DON’T TURN THE UNIT OFF qualify, too. #
• iPhone 2.1 seems to fix the “icons move to unpredictable places when updating” bug. #
• @gruber Agreed. Especially in printed form. Strangely enough, I really like the new “c” Microsoft fonts. #