If they do the wand thing and lift up his pant leg, that would have shown he wasn't hiding anything. But that's just not enough for the Nazi war criminals running the airports these days.

Of course considering the government is run by a bunch of Keynesians, it would make sense to say that. Keynes was a paranoid moron who suggested that recessions were caused by excessive savings and that the best way to get out of a recession was to have the government deficit spend it's way out. It's a lot like saying that we should just charge up our credit cards until we're rich again.

Recessions are part of the business cycle. Trying to have the government stop them won't work because it's like delaying the inevitable. Eventually, there will be a market correction that will change the way the market works. Recessions are usually deeper and longer if the government's raising taxes, raising spending and going to war with half the world. I think the best example of market correction was back in 2000. During the late 90's there was a lot of Venture Capitalist money being thrown at new Internet Companies. The Internet was still pretty new back then and everyone wanted in on the next big thing, the next Yahoo! or Amazon.com or eBay. Some of these companies got millions of dollars and hired offices full of people, but didn't accomplish much of anything. Eventually companies that weren't doing anything or providing a useful service were shut down. Thus, the market corrected problems that existed from easy money being thrown around at questionable businesses.

Really the best way to fix the economy is to cut spending, cut taxes (both by about 95%), bring all the troops home from overseas (not just the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan, but in military bases around the world), cut tariffs, open up to more free trade, allowing more drilling for oil in the US, and real deregulation. In other words, let people have their money and spend it, save it or give it away as they see fit.

That would be part one of fixing the problem. The second part should be the disbanding of the Federal Reserve and the restoration of the gold standard in the US Currency. The fact is that without something to give the money value, inflation will continue on until a cup of coffee and a donut will cost us $150. The truth is that gas and food prices haven't gone up as much as the value of the dollar has gone down.

So to sum up:
1. The government should stop spending so much fucking money
2. The government should get out of the way of the market.
3. The government should stop pissing off most of the world and bring our troops home, then establish good trade relations with the rest of the world.
4. The government should restore value to the money we use...

The first reason was there was a new, great episode of Bullshit. In the past, I've sort of felt like they kinda went off topic a bit too much and at times seemed to lack focus. But this season, they are really on fire. I mean, tonight it was about Sleeping. Specifically all the bullshit that's supposed to make us sleep better. Like pills that do nothing except kill people...like Heath Ledger. There was one lady selling these heating pads for $4200. Holy shit, you could buy a car for that much and if you wanted you could probably get just as good of a sleep in the car. And in the morning you can wake up and drive to work. Then there were bed salesmen who made the insomniac try out their beds. The insomniac guy was a riot. This guy is complaining he doesn't get much sleep. He spends a lot of time drinking and eating big meals a few times. No wonder he isn't sleeping well. At the end of the episode they gave us the obvious advice for sleeping well: go to bed at the same time every day, have a routine, don't nap during the day, don't eat and drink alcohol right before bed. Ya know, the stuff I do every day for the most part. Today is an exception and I feel sorta bad about it.

So in the big fucking news, I saw The Dark Knight tonight. It was so worth it too. It's a movie that exceeded every high expectation I had when I walked in. The first half hour is spent setting everything up. After that, the movie doesn't let up until the very end. It's just an amazingly tense and thrilling movie. I can't say more than that without giving too much away.

So in conclusion, I offer this little bit of Bat-History: