In an attempt to stave off the COMPLETE AND UTTER DESPAIR induced by Bush's thoughtful precis on the current international financial crisis, I offer the cutest ever picture of Matilda.

Best cure for presidential idiocy ever! What a smile Matilda has! It's amazing because whenever she is in a picture with Hec, she looks so much like him, but when she is in a picture with you, she looks so much like you.

I offer the cutest ever picture of Matilda.

Oh dear me, that IS just one of the cutest pics ever. And the Owen cuteness is killing me ded as well.

Shrubwit I would just like to beat senseless with a flaming spear. askye, you going to the game tonight?

I offer the cutest ever picture of Matilda.

Ded of cute, again. This IS one of the cutest pics, ever.

hee! Love the hairdo.

Also, as usual even when Bush decides to take action he gets it wrong.

Duncan Black (Atrios) and Dean Baker (two very smart economists) make the same point. The whole bailout is being structured on the premise that this is a liquidity problem - that the assets really are worth close to what was loaned on them, that if the Government buys them at close to valuation, this will stop people from panicking. The problem is that there are not just a few problem loans. It was not just a matter of subprime - that was just the canary in the coal mine. Loans are outstanding economy wide with a balance far greater than the value of the assets that secure them. Buying up a trillion in financial toxic waste at a multiple of its value won't solve the problem.

I am going to the game! I'm excited too. Since it's a night game (which all football games should be) and a team that will actually test us.

hmmm... I should go do laundry.

Matilda is the cutest!!

I got an Evan update -- he's losing his hair on top so he's got an old man baldspot going on, and the nightgowns that were so cute and fit just right on him when I visited now go to his knees. Except for the smallest one, it's more of a miniskirt.

I am going to the game!

:Jealous: Have a great time tonight,askye! I did wear one of my FSU shirts today to show 'Nole pride.

Also the gas situation is still really bad here, because of that panicked people driven run on gas a week ago ,and then people topping off when they have almost a full tank, we still don't have the regular levels of gas and people are having to drive around to find stuff.

According to the paper the town managed to suck up a weeks worth of gas in a matter of hours that Friday. And it keeps getting sucked up, it has nothing to do with the hurricane or the fuel supply, just people driven panic.

Thank heaven for Owen and Matilda, is all I have to offer today. Just...thank goodness for them, and for all the beautiful, brainy, and wonderful Buffista sprog. They're my only hope.

I'm drinking one of Tom's organic saison noir beers and ignoring the Bush fool as usual. Mmm, delicious denial...