Robert Samuelson sez this depression recession is “egalitarian.”

It has been the most egalitarian of all the 11 recessions since World War II.  In various ways, it has touched every social class through job loss, pay cuts, depressed home values, shrunken stock portfolios, eroded retirement savings, grown children returning home-and anxiety about all of the above.

This graph of unemployment by income level sure the fuck doesn’t look “egalitarian:”

Booman “squats and leaves it:”  

It’s the pwoggies, the friggin’ pwoggies!  who are ruining the Democrats’ Pathocrats’ chances in November, by trying to subvert and de-motivate the base.

He’s terrified of the hardcore psychopaths come November.  And he should be.

That list is hardly comprehensive, but it does spell trouble for the Democrats pseudo-psychopaths.

Glad tidings, my fellow emotive and passionate brotherly investors!  The new World Wealth Report has been published by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch Wealth Management (pdf, free registration), and it is very, very good news indeed, so let’s cut to the chase:  My compassionate transnational brethren of High Net Worth Individuals, we are as rich as ever, and getting richer!

The world’s population of high net worth individuals (HNWIs) grew 17.1% to 10.0 million in 2009, returning to levels last seen in 2007 despite the contraction in world gross domestic product (GDP).  Global HNWI wealth similarly recovered, rising 18.9% to US$39.0 trillion, with HNWI wealth in Asia-Pacific and Latin America actually surpassing levels last seen at the end of 2007.

We have swelled the ranks of HNWI and our wealth surged in 2009.  Oh, the Blows of Chance, the Shocks of Time, we were hit particularly hard in 2008.  We have recouped our losses, while everyone else sucked on contaminated bilge water!  Time and time again, I don’t know how we do it, but we do.

This shows you how much Democrats of today suck the infected anuses (ani) of today’s Republicans.  It’s really quite shocking how far both parties, and the entire nation, have fallen.  I stole the entire blogpost below the fold from Shakesville:

Due to copyright infringement, we insists, we insists, on making money off people who insists, who insists, on making money off of us.

Sincerely,

Gollum

PS: God help us assholes (No, he won’t).

Break out the clown shoes and slapsticks:

“Fighting corruption and supporting the rule of law in Afghanistan are top priorities for this administration, and we will continue to assist the Afghan government in creating and sustaining the effective criminal justice system to which the Afghan people are entitled,” Mr Holder said in the statement from Kabul.

New York Observer (via ):

If you watch just one funny and handsome Marxist critique of the financial crisis, make it the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce’s animated version of David Harvey’s RSA speech “Crises of Capitalism.” It’s been making the rounds this afternoon, and for good reason: Mr. Harvey, a Marxist scholar who heads CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture & Politics, describes not just the failures that caused the ongoing fiasco, but the failure of how we’ve explained it.

Also, check out these superb illustrations.

Remember helplessly white-knuckling the back seat during the Bush years?

It seemed that every value we held dear was being trashed to the point where we wondered what life itself meant.  Those were the days, my friends.  Those were the days.

Perhaps, we all should have heeded Assrocket’s appraisal of Bush, who to his mind was:

A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

I hope Democrats enjoyed their brief ascendance, and that the Muslim-Socialist-Usurper has a few more pretty words left in his bag of tricks for his defense at impeachment, because I have a feeling we are going full-metal-jacket wingnut come November, regardless of whether the Gulf is still spewing oil or not.

Heckuva job.