NYT: Terrain Shifts in Challenges to the Health Care Law

". . . the courts have never addressed whether Americans can be penalized for not buying something . . . "

kk so like when babies are born and stuff (EWWW!!!) there's like doctors and nurses and epidurals (PUSH!!!!!) and stuff and like bright lights and baby medicines. and then if you step on a nail they give you booster shotzzz and you get a cookie from the freezer if you hold still. and like, later, if you smoke cigarettz (BAD!!! BAD!!!) then you get lung cancers and maybe they need to lock you up or something, i don't know (i think they putz you in the microwave mebbe?). anywayz its like, you can't NOT BUY healthcarez, izz ma pointzz (LDO!!!), its just like, you can buy it before or after. so, yeah.

just bee tee dubs.

John Cassidy: Wall Street isn't Doing God's Work if it isn't IPO'ing Things

"Yet Wall Street’s role in financing new businesses is a small portion of what it does. The market for initial public offerings (I.P.O.s) of stock by U.S. companies never fully recovered from the tech bust. During the third quarter of 2010, just thirty-three U.S. companies went public, and they raised a paltry five billion dollars. Most people on Wall Street aren’t finding the next Apple or promoting a green rival to Exxon." - John Cassidy in the New Yorker, here

like, so companies go broke and stuff, and then like, they need like financing, but it's like, an IPO wouldn't really make sense cause like they already HAS a stock, so like they do this thing called "restructuring," and that's like really, REALLY hard work for all these bankers and they did like 21 rights offerings to fund reorganizations in 2010 (ref: The Deal Pipeline) which is like up 50% from 2009, sooo . . . yeah that's really hard. You couldn't do it.

ZOMG LDO.

hey matt drudge: GDP, immigration, and population are . . . linked. just btw.

stupid drudgereport headline:

"PEOPLE: 308,745,538
DEBT: $13,868,461,000,000"

you know cause like people working and making stuff, that makes GDP. it's like, number of people, times stuff each one makes, equals GDP, so like, yeah, and so you have more immigrants and then it's like, hey! these people are making stuff too! like yay! "but its like, whoa, no immigration, we are conservatives and we haz fear of mexicanz!!" but like, wow, the tax base is like all these people who make stuff, too, so cause like, we let them emigrate here, instead of like, making stuff in mexico that we just buy instead. so then taxes is like, we haz more!! so why borrows stuff?

ZOMG LDO.