already we have aaron, bilbo, carlito and deidre. and now we're sitting in the middle of the sequester thing, which i declare it will no longer be called the sequester. let us call it earl. it starts with e. the half the fact that nobody cares is nobody can remember the word sequester. and half the people who cannot remember sequester cannot spell it and the other half cannot define it. the sequester crisis? no wonder nobody cares. hence it is political storm earl, the fifth storm of the season. earl is expected to be a damaging storm. economically, earl is expected to cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, jobs in every state in the nation. so far the republican position on earl is that it is going to be devastating. and also, woo! let's do it, bring on earl. look at this press release from the republicans' reelection arm in the house, the nrcc. you see that they refer to earl as a storm that will, quote, cut devastating segments of our economy. it is a devastating sequester if you ask the republican party, if you ask the nrcc. at the

just bilbo baggins' sword over there. two grown men with a hobbit's dagger; wouldn't we look silly?t's go for it. oh, i see you guys have found my little treasure. yeah. it's okay, i guess. okay? it's magnificent. buh-buh-buh-buh! what do you want for it? oh, it's hard to put a price on something that's a copy of something that was on pay cable. but for my friends let's say 250? oh, that's pretty steep. well, it's a limited edition. they only made 8,000 of these bad boys. only 8,000? we're wasting precious time. buy it. hang on. can you do any better? are you kidding? i'm already giving you the friends and family discount. oh, did you hear that? we're getting the friends and family discount. we are honored and we will take it. slow down. two hundred. what are you doing? 250 is already the discounted price. will you shut up? tell you what, i'll go 235. nope. maybe another time. okay, 225-- my final offer. take it, take it.