Destroying Earth Through Meticulous and systematic deconstruction

LiveScience gives Dr. Evil (and all of those little and precious Dr. Evils to be) the top 10 ways to destroy the Earth. In #4, with tounges firmly in their cheeks, they suggest:

Basically, what we're going to do here is dig up the Earth, a big chunk at a time, and boost the whole lot of it into orbit.

...If we wanted to and were willing to devote resources to it, we could start this process RIGHT NOW. Indeed, what with all the gunk left in orbit, on the Moon and heading out into space, we already have done.

In a later section that discusses timeframes, they do admit that this plan has a downside:

Earliest feasible completion date: Ah. Yes. At a billion tons of mass driven out of the Earth's gravity well per second: 189,000,000 years.

I greatly admire their honesty.