This should work about as well as, say, the way he fixed Afghanistan, or the way he fixed Iraq, or the way he fixed terrism, or the way he fixed the economy or, or... just about anything else he fixed in the past eight years?

Is he going to start by building a museum so people will be able to go see what cars, and jobs, and America, used to look like, first?

Then what? Go fishing with Poppy and admire his legacy?

This would be testing my faith, if I had such a thing.

If the managers of banks and companies hold pessimistic views about the future, they will raise the price they charge for "giving up liquidity," even though the central bank might be flooding the economy with cash. That is why Keynes did not think that cutting the central bank's interest rate would necessarily -- and certainly not quickly -- lower the interest rates charged on different types of loans. This was his main argument for the use of government stimulus to fight a depression. There was only one sure way to get an increase in spending in the face of an extreme private-sector reluctance to spend, and that was for the government to spend the money itself. Spend on pyramids, spend on hospitals, but spend it must.

This, in a nutshell, was Keynes's economics. His purpose, as he saw it, was not to destroy capitalism but to save it from itself. He thought that the work of rescue had to start with economic theory itself. Now that Greenspan's intellectual edifice has collapsed, the moment has come to build a new structure on the foundations that Keynes laid.

According to Brad Friedman:

But while the chances of the problem that occurred in Humboldt are actually very high, the chances of discovering the failure are low, unless the ballots are rescanned or recounted by an alternate system that actually works, like the one created by citizens, for free, on open-source software in Humboldt...

The guy?  A former DoJ attorney whose family was all high-ranking FBI. As a kid, he crawled around Hoover's desk.

Oh, yeah.  Inside DoJ, "they knew it was illegal" ... this could be the time that "the AG gets indicted."

And, it appears part of the beef which almost led to the mass resignations in the Spring of 2004, and to Card and Gonzo trying to get Ashcroft to recertify STELLAR WIND while in his hospital bed stemmed from DoJ trying to launder information obtained illegally through STELLAR WIND into ordinary FISA applications, and possibly also into criminal cases.

The first time they tried it, Lamberth told them to stop lest he rule the program illegal/unconstitutional.  They stopped, then he stepped down as chief judge.  Kollar-Kotelly took over as chief judge and they tried it again.

I don't mind a little clean up, but the strangest part of the Jessica Alba CGI job to me is the Barbie doll pelvis.  It makes me wonder if there isn't a sophisticated piece of software that you just drag and drop onto an image and then just answer "yes" or "no" to suggested changes.  A kind of idealized female body - narrower waist, more generous mouth, perkier bosom?  Just give the command!