The fictional Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy has two words printed in large type on it's cover:

DON'T PANIC!

I think some need to make that understood and damned fast...

The long awaited Ethics Report from the bipartisan Alaskan Legislative Committee has been issued and made public after a long session in which the Committee discussed the 260+ page report. The conclusion: Palin had every right to fire Walt Monegan from his Public Safety post, but violated the ethics law of Alaska prior to the firing by using her office to pursue personal gain (the firing of her ex-brother in law).

I talk to a number of registered voters every week as a volunteer for the local Democratic Party. One thing that's pretty clear is that many of them really don't understand the mortgage meltdown or the broader financial meltdown. And in talking to these voters, it became clear to me that I didn't understand it all that well, either.

So I spent a little time trying to understand it better (I think a "thorough" understanding is beyond me, and may well be beyond any single person). This isn't complete, by any means, but here's some information that might help with the basics.

I talk to a number of registered voters every week as a volunteer for the local Democratic Party. One thing that's pretty clear is that many of them really don't understand the mortgage meltdown or the broader financial meltdown. And in talking to these voters, it became clear to me that I didn't understand it all that well, either.

So I spent a little time trying to understand it better (I think a "thorough" understanding is beyond me, and may well be beyond any single person). This isn't complete, by any means, but here's some information that might help with the basics.

I talk to a number of registered voters every week as a volunteer for the local Democratic Party. One thing that's pretty clear is that many of them really don't understand the mortgage meltdown or the broader financial meltdown. And in talking to these voters, it became clear to me that I didn't understand it all that well, either.

So I spent a little time trying to understand it better (I think a "thorough" understanding is beyond me, and may well be beyond any single person). This isn't complete, by any means, but here's some information that might help with the basics.

You don't have to be a lawyer to have an intuitive feel for what "charitable" means. And I'll bet that most people's intuition would say there's nothing "charitable" about trying to stop the Alaskan legislature's investigation into whether Sarah Palin abused her authority in what has become popularly known as "Troopergate" when she fired that state's top law enforcement official, Walt Monegan.

Heard the one about how Clinton monkeyed with the law and caused the housing/mortgage/credit/stock market crisis? No? How about the one where Jimmy Carter did the same thing, but like 20 years earlier? Hey, did you hear that? It's crap whizzing by at the speed of light. Let's see if any sticks. Did you hear the one about how the crisis all stems from the fed government making banks issue mortgages based on the applicant's welfare benfits and unemployment benefits?

Boy it's really "unfair" and "unbalanced" for Gwen Ifill to serve as moderator of tonight's Palin-Biden debate, huh? I mean, she must be horribly biased and prejudiced and untrustworthy to cause such an outcry from Malkin to Drudge, to produce so much discussion on Fox, to merit so many news stories on "can she be impartial" (see here, for example).

On Thursday I asked "will they [House Republicans] use this [bailout proposal] as an excuse to do away with still more taxes on rich folks?" Of course they will, or at least try until they're exhausted......

I thought both candidates were strong in last night's presidential debate at Ole Miss, but I'd give the edge to Barack Obama because he had more to prove and John McCain showed so much contempt for his opponent, a trait that's as attractive on him as it was on Al Gore in 2000. McCain avoided eye contact with Obama the entire debate and didn't express a single moment of good regard towards him, even when touting the importance of bipartisanship in solving the Wall Street banking crisis.

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