Priceless!!!Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Re: Kim Jong Il Dead
Priceless!!!
"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
Don Vito Corleone: The Godfather, Part 1.
"Then wait for them and swear to God in heaven that if they spew that bull to you or your family again you will cave there heads in with a sledgehammer"
Strike for the South
Re: Kim Jong Il Dead
Did anybody else see Margin Call? If it was even remotely accurate, I may have to do my part to go Occupy something myself.
I've been angry at the MBS swaps and the subsequent bailouts since they were originally proposed. Capitalism means that when you fail, you fail. Game over. No mulligans. I know what people say about global meltdown, I don't care. Hank Paulson & Timothy Geithner robbed the American people (and US creditors) for no other reason than to keep all their buddies swimming in personal cash. The subsequent bonus payouts prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
What allowed me to tamp down my rage enough to keep from boiling over was my belief that through it all that the original Lehman & Goldman traders that started the mess were pretty ignorant of what they were doing themselves (or started believing their own hype). Frankly, I naively never even considered that the entire crisis was orchestrated, to help one trading house cover its losses in full knowledge of the ramifications.
"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
Don Vito Corleone: The Godfather, Part 1.
"Then wait for them and swear to God in heaven that if they spew that bull to you or your family again you will cave there heads in with a sledgehammer"
Strike for the South
Re: Occupy Wall Street
Occupy represents something: people do not park in the streets for "comfort". Whether the collective angst ever rises to a defined, organized and effective statement of what that angst is... .
Look at it this way, Leviathan pours a trillion doggie treats down a rat-hole for its favorites while pontificating about "belt-tightening" for the rest; no laws were broken-if you want welfare you'd best be "too big to fail".
That strikes me as a reasonably clear summation of the event and the fall out; it does not evoke a clear path for response though. From one view, what do you do when the institution which is supposed to defend your interests is paralyzed by fear of the bully?
(or bought and paid for, depending on your approach to the issue)
Last edited by HopAlongBunny; 01-09-2012 at 10:31.
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Re: Kim Jong Il Dead
And Roswell. Don't forget Roswell!
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pinten
Down with dried flowers!
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
The CIA was giving away crack?
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
Not even the CIA is that stupid. They were selling it for $10 a vial.
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Re: Kim Jong Il Dead
I did. I'm pretty sure it was called "Active Measures" at the time; Right up there with nuclear winter.
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
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Down with dried flowers!
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