Links for Monday

I really hate beggars. Something needs to be done about them. Perhaps more laws against their presence in public coupled with more rehabilitation and job training dollars. Atlanta just installed little banks on the street in which to give money to support the needy instead of giving directly to the homeless. Seattle and Portland NEED to do this.

Atlanta Cracks Down On Panhandlers – NPR

Nutjob Critic Roger Ebert Answers Your Questions About Creationism (Hilarious)

Baskin Robbins Heath Bar Shake has 2,300 calories (92% of the RDI for men, 115% of the RDI for women), HALF A POUND of sugar (SERIOUSLY), 3 times the recommended daily intake of saturated fat. Call it the Death Shake?

Baskin Robbins Death Shake Has 2,300 Calories – Consumerist

Point-Counterpoint

How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis – Bloomberg (Great Read)

Loan titans paid McCain [campaign manager] nearly $2 million – IHT

Lesson: Both major political parties are responsible for the banking mess, as are the investment banks who sold the securitized mortgages, as are the real estate investment promoters on late-night tv who sold the public on the home price boom, as are the banks for buying the sludge, as are the people who bought the homes they really couldn’t afford.

Edit: John McCain denies that his campaign manager received money from Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae, noting that Mr. Davis left his former firm in 2006 and has not received a penny in distributions from the firm in that time, nor does he hold an equity stake.

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