While you’re hearing today about the “$3 trillion deficit-reduction plan”, here’s the NYT chart from a week ago showing the (largely unpaid) costs of Bush and Obama policies. Just by coincidence, the wars and Bush tax cuts top $3.2 trillion.

…might as well cat blog.  How about a palate cleanser of a Daily Kitteh to take our minds off of the mayhem just inflicted upon 98% of this country, thanks to spineless Dems and pathologically insane tea baggers?  Say hi to Pippa, gang!

Title: “Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown”

Authors: David Wiedemer, Robert A. Wiedemer, Cindy S. Spitzer

Rank: 47

Blurb: “Recovery? What Recovery?”

Review: “Good read but much of the information contained within is now a little outdated. For example, one of the suggestions is to move investments to Europe but those markets have crashed as well.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Coming Economic Armageddon: What Bible Prophecy Warns about the New Global Economy”, by David Jeremiah

Footnote: The world is never lacking for financial-calamity books, but this one happens to be officially published August 2…

Aftershock [Fuck Amazon]

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In a week where we’ve seen Idiocracy referenced even more than usual, it’s fitting that MTV has released a preview for the return this fall of Mike Judge’s original idiots, Beavis and Butt-Head. Cowacornhole, dude!

[via Comics Alliance]

While the rest of America has been fretting about, um, real issues — or at least made-up issues with very real consequences — WorldNetDaily has remained steadfast in its investigation of the Kenyan Usurper:

Computer scanning expert Doug Vogt and typesetting expert Paul Irey say they will accompany attorney Orly Taitz when she presents to the Hawaii Department of Health a subpoena that should allow her to examine Barack Obama’s original 1961 typewritten birth certificate.

If you recall the knee-jerk reaction after Barack Obama released the long-form certificate — you’ll be forgiven if you’ve forgotten, since he took out Public Enemy #1 a few days later — it was provided to the public as a PDF file, which Birthers rushed to inspect and deconstruct.

And in the same manner that folks proved that the Dick Tweet couldn’t possibly be Weiner’s wiener, Digital Experts have declared that the PDF is a malicious construction, rather than containing simple scanning artifacts.

WND has provided screaming headlines about this daily, which we’ve been ignoring, because sometimes you just have to let go. But now that America’s Favorite Demon Dentist is on the case, it might be worth microwaving some popcorn. Lord knows we could use the distraction right about now.

The birth certificate please! Subpoena to be delivered [WND]

You know how when the press shows up at the front door when you’re trying to scrub the hard drive of incriminating evidence and goes all like — Gotcha! how annoying that can be?

Turns out…

I can’t. This is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever heard of. I can understand how it could happen. It explains the hair.

Here is the Guardian’s account.

You can find the BBC radio report here.

Leave aside the politics this is how Murdoch’s paper used for its own purposes a woman whose daughter had been abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered. Note to Americanski readers: ‘Sara’, the mother’s name, is lower class. On the BBC tape her words are read by an actress.

In the UK class is race.