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| 'Only thing between you and the pitchforks'; Obama tells bankers | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 4 2009, 04:12 AM Post #1 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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So.. what do you think? Is this strong leadership? Socialist meddling? I have to confess I rather like it if it's not just window dressing. http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090403/pl_politico/20871_2
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| George K | Apr 4 2009, 04:15 AM Post #2 |
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Finally
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 4 2009, 04:18 AM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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It is a little long on populist imagery, isn't it?
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 4 2009, 04:54 AM Post #4 |
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Cheers
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| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 4 2009, 04:54 AM Post #5 |
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Cheers
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| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| QuirtEvans | Apr 4 2009, 05:26 AM Post #6 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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About damn time. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Red Rice | Apr 4 2009, 05:48 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yada, yada, yada. Tough talk, but the Administration initially approved of the AIG bonuses... before it disapproved of them. And now: $210 million bonuses for Fannie and Freddie "This symbiotic and indeed corrupt relationship between Wall Street and Washington is the thing that is rotten at the heart of the United States, it is the principal explanation for this crisis, and that brings me to the key question you have to ask yourselves. Who has to defend the public interest? Is it the investment bankers, the hedge fund managers, or is it your elected representatives. Ladies and gentlemen, it is perfectly clear, that it is Washington that has failed to defend the public interest, and I fear, it is continuing to fail to do so."- Niall Ferguson "People on the other side have been saying that Wall Street took their checkbooks down to Washington and lobbied to get the regulation they wanted rather than stricter regulation. And actually said, therefore, Congressmen were the victims of this. I'm sorry, but Wall Street was not debauching a virgin, it was paying a harlot." – John Steele Gordon |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Ben | Apr 4 2009, 08:16 AM Post #8 |
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Senior Carp
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Finally, some encouraging news regarding Mr. Obama. He still has a long way to go, but this is a start (albeit a late one). |
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- Ben "Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing." - Duke Ellington bennieloohoo@gmail.com Or you can just PM me.
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| Mark | Apr 4 2009, 09:08 AM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Ugh. |
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