Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has told one of its subsidiaries to stop insuring bank deposits above the amount guaranteed by the federal government, dealing a fresh blow to the financial-services industry as it tries to assuage anxious customers.

If you needed an OMG! moment, there it is. Katie bar the door.

Berkshire, in Blow to Banks, Reins In Its Deposit Insurer - WSJ.com

Mort drops the bomb about what this means and why it needs to happen.

Mort Zuckerman: What Fannie and Freddie mean

The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law

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Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech with reporters outside the House chamber and was asked to compare her with Michelle Obama.

"Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said.

Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”

That would be Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland. I suppose on the bright side he left out the normal noun that goes with it.

TheHill.com - Westmoreland calls Obama ‘uppity'

Getting these guys together has been an absolute riot. More!

Brian Williams | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

I'm not sure how to say this, but I've decided Clooney is about the coolest guy working movies today. It's just a random paparazzi shot on a boat and he still looks cool. Damn.

Clooney channels Cary Grant

While it would strengthen provider conscience rights, the proposed regulation would in no way restrict health care providers from performing any legal service or procedure. If a procedure is legal, a patient will still have the ability to access that service from a medical professional or institution that does not assert a conflict of conscience. For example, the proposed regulation does not affect the ability of private clinics to provide abortion services in accordance with the law.

This is of course, a steaming pile of crap. Having read the actual rule change, if you (meaning hospitals, doctors offices, clinic, whatever) receive funding from the government, be it research grants, medicare/medicaid payments, VA payments, or whatever, and ANY of your employees challenges on moral/religious grounds, you have to either cease whatever it is they object to, or lose funding.

And I mean ANYTHING. They took out the abortion parts people complained about making it now apply to EVERYTHING.

And I mean ANYONE. They make a point to mention even janitors as someone included.

This "administrative change" amounts to the complete elimination of federal funding for any and all health care.

And if you don't believe that, ask this; What happens when there is a Christian Scientist, who you can't discriminate against hiring because that's religion, working as a hospital janitor or secretary, who objects because they believe medicine is working against God? This isn't about abortion anymore, this is about medicine.

Regulation Proposed to Help Protect Health Care Providers from Discrimination

Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped "Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J."

The Bulwer-Lytton 2008 Results

In their cardboard version of realpolitik George Bush's "Axis of Evil" is reduced to a spinner in the middle of the board, which determines which player is designated a terrorist state.

That person then has to wear a balaclava (included in the box set) with the word "Evil" stitched on to it.

Kent police said they had confiscated the game because the balaclava "could be used to conceal someone's identity or could be used in the course of a criminal act".

I'm not sure if this qualifies as funny or stupid. I'm going to go with asinine.

War On Terror board game seized by police - Cambridge News