Today's Headlines

Today's headlines from msn.com...
"Timothy Geithner's well-greased path to confirmation as treasury secretary is a sign of the severity of the recession and congressional willingness to give President Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt and look the other way..."In more quiescent times, he would have been thrown over the side," said Ross Baker...he suggested Geithner's nomination was helped by the deepening financial crisis, initial good will toward Obama and Geithner's reputation as a financial wizard...Baker cites historical precedent from the American Civil War in the 1860s: "Abraham Lincoln was willing to overlook Ulysses S. Grant's excessive drinking because he was a brilliant war commander.""
-Ok, I can understand the Abe Lincoln argument. But Grant was not trying to reign in all the alcohol in the free world. Geithner is the Treasury Secretary, and yet did not pay all his taxes in 2001 and supposedly made the same "innocent" error the next three years in a row. Financial wizard my foot. Either he really is a financial wizard because he almost got away with it and now he's full of crap with this "innocent mistake" business, or he's some schmo who can't even handle his own taxes and now he's supposed to handle the entire country's. Either way, it ain't good folks.
I also like the part about let's give Obama the benefit of the doubt and look the other way...good way to start things off.

With the clock ticking toward the Feb. 17 deadline for TV broadcasters to shut off their analog signals and go entirely digital, analysts say more than 6.5 million households are not ready. Now Congress appears poised to postpone the transition to June — but a delay could bring its own problems. To avoid blacking out TV sets in unprepared homes next month, the Obama administration is seeking the delay to give the government more time to fix a subsidy program that has run out of money for coupons that help consumers pay for digital converter boxes for older TVs. Senate Democrats late Thursday reached a deal with skeptical Republicans on a bill to push the digital transition to June 12 — setting the stage for a vote early next week. The House is likely to move quickly after the Senate acts.
-Really? This is why the economy sucks, because you people are sitting around worried about your stinking tv! If people haven't gotten a new tv by now, it's not your problem to solve it...what's the worst that will happen? Their tv shuts down and that weekend they buy a new one. Is is a government issue for us to miss one week of tv? Pull the cheetos out of your belly button and vote on something that matters.


The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation estimates that in an average year the adult entertainment industry — which is headquartered primarily in Southern California — registers total sales of $12.6 billion. Recently Larry Flyny and Joe Francis requested a $5 billion bailout from Congress...Paul Fishbein, chairman of AVN, is entering his 27th year in the business, “and this is the first time I can honestly say the adult business is not recession-proof. Everybody I’m talking to says the business is down anywhere from 20 to 30 percent,” he explained. “That’s in line with the rest of the economy. ...While the recession has something to do with it, Fishbein said, the availability of cheaply made adult fare online is cutting into the cash flow for traditional outlets and establishments. “There’s enough free porn on the Internet that, if you don’t care about quality, you can get what you want,” Fishbein said...What Francis is more upset about than the current economy is the frequent pirating that occurs with his product. “We’re facing what the music business faced a few years ago,” he said. “These sites are stealing our content. We want copyright laws enforced.”
-Excuse me while I say...boo freakin' hoo.