Crap.  I don’t have another scheduled blog post for 58 days.  I guess I better get on that.

At least if McCain - Palin win in November, we can look forward to more Tina Fey -

It’s kind of hard to tell which is the parody:

Here’s the actual Palin - Couric transcript:

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more, and put more money into the economy, instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade — we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.

Hat Tip: Pharyngula, Dispatches

This week’s Monday Mosquito Eater feature… Me and a Mosquito Eater.

1. Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
2.  We A Guh Some Weh (Ziggy Marley)
3. Pictures of Lily (The Who)
4. Being Simple (Judy Bats)
5. Coin Operate Boy (Dresden Dolls)
6. People Are People (Depeche Mode)
7. Sanctified (NIN)
8. Waiting for the Night (Depeche Mode)

What ELSE could you buy for $700,000,000,000?

•  30 Million Toyota Prius - enough for one in ten Americans to have one.
• NASA’s budget for the next 20 years, including a sizable increase each year.
• Somewhere between 14 million and 28 million home solar arrays  - big arrays that would power whole houses.
• 350 Solar Power Plants with the capacity to power 131 Million homes (I don’t think there are 131 Million homes in the US, since there are only 300 Million people, so this is essentially enough money to make all electricity in the US come from solar).
• Just about pay off every credit card for every American.
• Another Iraq sized War.
• 350,000 more teachers for the next 20 years at a $100,000 year/teacher.

I intentionally keep library books past their due date so that I can pay fines and therefore support the public library system.

1. Parrrh-fect Fit (Dresden Wenches) — Perfect Fit (Dresden Dolls)
2. Near’n the border (Camp-arrrhh van Black Beard) — Borderline (Camper van Beethoven)
3. Ye be wily (Ned’s Cannon Poopdeck) — Your Complex (Ned’s Atomic Dustbin)
4. I melt with ye (MEST) — I Melt With You(MEST)
5. To Arms (Cure) — Fight (Cure)
6. Arrrr, Enough It Be Not (Cure) — Never Enough (Cure)
7. In Davy Jones Locker (Giants They Be) — Dead (They Might Be Giants)
8. Maties be Maties (Depeche Mode) — People Arrrr People (Depeche Mode)
9. Right wing scurvy dogs (Milkmen walking the plank) — Right Wing Pigeons From Outer Space (Dead Milkmen)
10. Wenches and Blaggarts (Giants They Be) — Women and Men (They Might Be Giants)
11. Some Scurvy Dog’s Salty Wench (Pirate Island) — Somebody’s Baby (Phantom Planet)

Since I neglected bat’s mosquito eating ability for so long, I figured that they could be the Monday Mosquito Eater two weeks in a row.  Plus the I liked both pictures.

Via: Green Harvest.