A welcome reprieve to the financial news was the intro-skit for SNL, Saturday Night, no less.  Poehler and Fey do such a wonderful job with their impersonations, I was practically rolling on the floor laughing hysterically at their impersonations of Couric & Palin, without having seen the actual interview.  I paused, as Poehler/Couric asked Fey/Palin how she deemed herself worthy of participating in foreign policy and her answer was that Russia was a neighbor by water.  My breath is still stuck and I am still shaking my head after having seen the REAL interview.

Ms. Palin, let me respond to your principles of being able to participate in foreign policy by having foreign countries as your neighbor.  I may be a neighbor by simple virtue of having people live next door, but that doesn’t make me neighborly.  To be neighborly, I must engage with my neighbors.  I should help keep an eye on their property, as a courtesy, listen to their stories, and occasionally ask them for favors, like a cup of sugar when I run low.  As Ms. Couric attempted to point out in the interview, Ms. Palin has not clearly negotiated anything with her foreign neighbors.  McCain/Palin then pointed to the inexperience of Reagan and Clinton before they took office.  I suppose we should hearken back to the 1988 V.P. debate between Quayle and Bentsen.

I wonder, because it seems so ridiculous to me that McCain would ask Palin to be his running mate, even under the supposed Maverick title.  I wonder, is it all a ploy?  Do we live under one giant conspiracy?

A friend of a friend had a prediction in 2001 after 9/11 that right before the 2008 election something disastrous would happen and the Bush Administration would declare Marshall Law and suspend the elections.  How does this financial crisis relate to that prediction?  Does it at all?  How does Marshall Law compare to $700 billion dollars?

Many people, it seems, are angered that our representatives would consider such a plan.  Why bail out Wall Street when the money should be directed to Main Street, read many headlines.  Numbers have been thrown around that that amount means $2 mil per person in the U.S.  I hear a figure for the Iraq War, and this amount is close to the amount spent on the war.  Why is liquidity important?  Why are we a WORLD run on credit instead of what we own since we value property so much?

I can’t answer some of these questions because I don’t understand economics.  But, I had Excel do some math for me.  According to the Census, we have over 305 million people in the U.S. (I thought it was closer to 250 mil).  So, I created a table to compare some values, and the values I got were no where close to the values thrown around.