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BUBBLY  Fat AND annoying. Tries to make up for her ample size by being the life and soul of the party and fails in all respects.

That it was suppressed, however, is a feature/bug of current copyright law. The video is making a powerful (if wrong, imho) argument about the source of responsibility for this financial mess.

Economy sheds most jobs since 2003, more cuts seen

We contacted Esquire for comment, and spokesperson Rhett Usry was shocked by the rumor. “Absolutely not true,” he told us. “There is no interview with Anne Hathaway at all in the upcoming issue of Esquire.”

Biden asserted - repeatedly - that the US spends more money on three weeks’ combat in Iraq than it’s spent in Afghanistan since the war began.

That claim’s only remotely intelligible if he limits Afghan expenditures merely to US rebuilding efforts - and even then, he’s off by a factor of three, according to State Department numbers.

THE MYTH: “She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay. And made a profit!” — John McCain, at a campaign stop in Wisconsin

THE FACTS: No one bought the jet online. It was eventually sold through an aircraft broker — at a loss to taxpayers of nearly $600,000.

George Bush put more deliberation into invading Iraq than McCain did into his own reckless invasion of the delicate Congressional negotiations on the bailout plan.

“Before the election, I plan to sit down and take a full day to do research before I decide who I think would make best president,” he said.

But he’s looking for a good leader, not a good speller.

“I don’t believe in the Democrat and Republican labels,” he said. “I just care about who would be the best person to run the country.”

The second problem with early voting is that one of its supposed benefits is actually a subtraction from civic health. The benefit is that it makes voting easier—indeed, essentially effortless. But surely the quality of the electoral turnout declines when the quantity is increased by “convenience voting.”

The two candidates were nearly even in total number of words spoken. The normally voluble Biden restrained his tendency to ramble by uttering just 5,492 words during the 90-minute debate, versus 5,235 for Palin, Payack said.

Here’s a number to savor: 2^43,112,609-1.

Its size is mind-boggling. With nearly 13 million digits, it makes the number of atoms in the known universe seem negligible, a mere 80 digits.