I know exactly what you mean. I’m on the institutional sales side and have been all my career, mostly for regional firms. I took the Series 7 so long that I’m sure it’s quite different now, but yeah, none of it had much practical experience for doing what I did. Speaking of compliance, you just reminded me I’m overdue for a C/E requirement that my compliance officer keeps nagging me about because she knows what a procrastinator I am. Seriously, stick around.

Man, that was pathetic.

Not sure why RCP left this one out today, though.
From the collective here’s favorite economist:

The Worst is yet to Come: Unemployed Americans Should Hunker Down for More Job Losses
–Nouriel Roubini

Real Clear Politics Monday

Unemployment Off the Chart – Ross Douthat, New York Times

Has America Lost Its Mojo? – Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

How Washington Can Create Jobs – Alan Blinder, Wall Street Journal

Main Street Tells Wall Street, ‘Get a Real Job’ – Susan Antilla, Bloomberg

The American Dream Needs Repair – Clive Crook, Financial Times

Obama’s Malpractice – Robert Samuelson, Newsweek

Wrong Time to Be Pushing Health Reform – Michael Barone, DC Examiner

The End of Chimerica – Niall Ferguson & Moritz Schularick, New York Times

Today’s PC Army – Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

We Need a Civilian ROTC – E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

KSM Trial Will Be Intel Bonanza for Al-Qaeda – John Yoo, Wall St. Journal

Put Osama bin Laden on Trial – Paul Cruickshank, CNN

Government Health Fixes Will Leave Us Broke – Sally Pipes, RCP

Get Ready For the Third Intifada – Stephen Cook, The New Republic

Can We Get Gov’t Out of Every Moral Controversy? – Reihan Salam, Forbes

Govt Vaccine Development Puts Us at Risk – Peter Huber, City Journal

Obama Must Rethink Rethinking Afghanistan – Doyle McManus, LA Times

Media’s challenge: Making it look like the Democrats are not in trouble in 2010 …
… and 2012

To be sure. We all remember countless example of Clinton being called “Jefferson”. Johnson could hardly avoid being called “Baines”, and Truman was forever being called “S” (his middle initial stood for no name at all).
Who could forget all of the times Reagan was referred to as “Wilson” – nearly as often as Carter was called “Earl”. And Teddy Roosevelt actually had no middle name, hence the use of the common term “Blank” when referring to him. Likewise with Lincoln, which could get confusing, because calling Presidents by the their middle name is so common.

Seriously, Dennis…it’s not common. There is no “long history”, unless, like most wingnuts, you believe that history began on January 20, 2009.
Our last President was called “W” for two reasons: he called himself that incessantly, and to distinguish him from his father who had the same first and last name. And nobody commonly referred to him as “Walker”, which was your point, after all.

In short, no, he didn’t.

Nate Silver:
“So — is it time for Democrats to push the panic button? Or is this poll some kind of outlier?

Probably a little of both.”

Such a resoundingly definitive endorsement of your views, to be sure. IOW, “maybe”. He places his reason for concern on the poor economy, not anything done by the Tea Party adherents.

So, are we to believe that you accept Silver’s opinions to be credible in general, or is this a cherry-picked example? Because his opinions certainly contradicted a great deal of your assertions here over the course of the campaign. I certainly look forward to quoting Silver in the future when he contradicts you, because you obviously take his views very seriously.

Or are you perhaps assuming that Democrats share the “ditto-head” characteristic of the Right, and that we aren’t allowed to disagree amongst ourselves? If so, you mistake the “top-down” model of the Republican Party for the “coalition” model of the Democratic Party.

Wen? Be specific. Show your work.

LOL.

Dennis, the first step towards addiction recovery is realizing you have a problem.

“Dennis, turn off the computer-box! It’ time for Applebee’s!”

“Just a sec honey, haven’t finished typing what Sean Hannity told me to say on a liberal blog! I’m too much of a coward and a lightweight to actually get my own!”

Let us pause for a very brief moment while I give the tiniest of golf claps for the paroxysmic convolution that is this sentence.

Why the outrage by the left over Barack Hussein Obama, then? He’s used it to his advantage when the situation called for it. People on the left have talked about it glowingly when the they see fit and the situations to his advantage have called for it. There is a long history of calling politicians by their middle names for political advantage, both for and against the politician. But the left goes ballistic when anyone on the right called him by his middle name during the campaign.

How is that situation any different. You guys went far more ballistic over that term’s use by the right than people on the right are about the teabagger moniker.

O noes! What did those Big Meanies say? Please be specific. How do you know that they know the double entendre? Or that that’s their intention? Is it the same way you just know that Frank Capra cast Lionel Barrymore in a wheelchair to make him more evil or something?

Nice touch by Capra casting Mr. Potter in a wheelchair in a lame attempt to make him appear even more evil and scary. As if stealing $8,000 and trying to run the only bank competition in the town wasn’t evil enough, he had to make him a cripple, too.

“Sorry about the derogatory stereotype, all you handicapped people. ‘Hey it’s just a movie’. And he was a conservative, too, so what’s the big deal?”

And just so we’re clear: Saying “teabagger” makes the Baby Jesus Dennis cry, even though the Teabaggers dubbed themselves that. But saying:

“We are being told that we have to hope [Obama] succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles … because his father was black.”

makes Dennis adore Ol’ Rushie even more. (And boy does Dennis adore Rushie. Enough to, well, you know…)

Makes perfect sense. Or something.