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I’ve always appreciated South Park’s subtlety. (NSFW)

I really, really hate all of Will Ferrell’s movies.

Recursion in sex offender laws.

A 15-year-old Ohio girl faces felony charges and may have to register as a sex offender for allegedly taking nude photos of herself and sending them to her high school classmates.
Teen is now under house arrest and her cellular phone has been confiscated.

The girl, whose name has not been released, was arrested last week and charged in juvenile court with possessing criminal tools and the illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, said Licking County, Ohio, prosecutor Ken Oswalt.

Her alleged actions are part of what some in law enforcement say is a growing problem around the country.

During a court appearance this week, the teen denied the charges, according to Oswalt. The girl attends Licking Valley High School in the town of Newark. Her lawyer declined to comment.

So the laws that are in place to protect the minors as the victims can also punish said victim for making themselves the victim to begin with? Anyone else stuck in an infinite loop?

Obama weathered most of these attacks already during the primary from Hillary’s campaign so McCain’s strategy just seems stale at this point.

There’s a very slight chance that this is fake. Very slight.

Um, yeah:

NEW YORK (AP) — In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure. As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure — the “1″ in $10 trillion. It’s marking the federal government’s current debt at about $10.2 trillion.

The guys from NPR who did that tremendous episode on This American Life called “Another Frightening Show about the Economy” (Which I really can’t say enough good things about. Go and listen to it if you want a terrific primer on what’s currently happening with the economy including the Bailout and the Stock Injection plan that was put into the revised Bailout plan) have a blog and daily podcast called Planet Money.

Get your parachutes ready. Wall Street never reacts kindly to Mr. 25%.

WASHINGTON – President Bush is ready to make a statement to the nation about the crisis in the credit markets that has caused substantial sell-offs on Wall Street.

Bush a week ago signed a $700 billion bailout bill into law. In advance of what is expected to be reassuring words from the president, the Dow Jones industrials futures plunged 185 points ahead of the opening bell Friday.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said Thursday night that the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation all have the necessary tools to deal with the problem. Bush will deliver his remarks from the White House Rose Garden.

The Dow was down 1300 points at one point this morning.