HULK SMASH!!!
Book 'em, Danno!
New shit has come to light, man.
Dy-no-MITE!
indictment indicated.
NPR sez form Bear Sterns hedge fund managers were probably/will probably be indicted today.
-Atrios 16:37
bwahahahaha
So when do we indict the people who forced the bailout exactly?
Frog went a'marchin' and he did ride
Ah-um
Ah-um
'bout time.
Well there's a lot of folk just like this frog of mine;
Gets himself in trouble just to pass the time.
The devil always waits around tryin' to catch the kind
That never has nothin' else to do
I ran out of catch phrases. You got me late in the day.
Frog went a'marchin and he did ride
Team of lawyers by his side
Ah-um
Ah-um
Meanwhile, we're still paying off the Reagan/Bush1 S&L fiasco.
Give 'em the boot, since the foot is already missing.
Shall I pop some popcorn for this?
something about telling your clients that everything is fine while moving out $2M of your own money that makes folks suspicious.
Crowd o' investors after his hide . . .
Stick 'em with a stiletto and be done with them!
(Oh, sorry - that was the pun from the LAST thread.)
Hooray! All this and a full moon too. True cause for celebration.
Fall guys. Stooges.
something about telling your clients that everything is fine while moving out $2M of your own money that makes folks suspicious.
Enron II: Electric Boogaloo
Bear Sterns hedge fund managers were probably/will probably be indicted today.
Step slowly away from the monitor, sir.
$30 billion of your tax dollars to bail out BS shareholders. But $15 billion can't be spared to help hard working homeowners who are struggling.
No, really, this'll show them a thing or two, doggone it! About time those rascals learned that stealing millions of bucks is a mug's game!
something about telling your clients that everything is fine while moving out $2M of your own money that makes folks suspicious.
rootless-e
That's just good business sense... it's all this government regulation that makes criminals out of honest businesspeople.
ProfWombat, how is the weather at the Cape? Perhaps instead of being burnt to a crisp in the convertible, we should head down for fried clams and corn on the cob?
Is Brit Hume discussing investment opportunities in construction of federal penetentiaries?
Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see
That this wide, wicked world is a strange and funny place to be:
'Cause the gambling man is rich, and the working man is poor
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore
it's all this government regulation that makes criminals out of honest businesspeople.
SteveLG | 06.18.08 - 4:52 pm | #
true. if it weren't illegal, they wouldn't have to be indicted.
All this and a full moon too. True cause for celebration.
Or, in the words of CCR, "there's a bathroom on the right".
I just got the cutest Snorg girl ever!
Anyone know how high up are these guys?
Don't trust ANY of that family, Michelle:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/...Obama.The.View/
crime? on wall street?
unthinkable!
i wonder if their kids will get kicked out of the Y.
Far ouuuuuut . . .
I just got the cutest Snorg girl ever!
Professor Wagstaff
I think you're supposed to throw 'em back if they're too young.
They're all too young.
So when do we indict the people who forced the bailout exactly?
Windowdog | 06.18.08 - 4:46 pm | #
Let's have a conference about it
at the milken center
Angelo will be there
and Keating and his defender
Long Term Capital's gurus
and Enron's finance team
creative and creating
the American Dream
i wonder if their kids will get kicked out of the Y.
euphronius
Their kids wouldn't be seen anywhere as common as the Y.
I just got the cutest Snorg girl ever!
Jeez, how come you get snorgettes and all I get is is this boring ol' UAW convention in Atlantic City?
What does "in-dick-ted" mean?
Or, in the words of CCR, "there's a bathroom on the right".
Sufferin' Blessed Succotash
Have you ever seen Lorraine?
sallyh: funny you should ask: around 70 deg, with a nice onshore breeze. And I'd really, really like a bucket of clams and some pie...
i thought the Y in manhaten was the most prestigious childcare available?
Now we'll see who's a big shot!
(Jimmy Stewart/Stan Ridgeway voice)
Do you think when the trolls get Snorg girls, they reload until they get a McCain ad? Or better yet, Biggus Dickus, with his perpetual sadistic sneer giving a Nazi salute.
Have you ever seen Lorraine?
Noam Sane
Yes, she's in the bathroom on the right.
I mean, duh.
I just got the cutest Snorg girl ever!
Professor Wagstaff
The dark-haired one with the red retro lipstick?
To the republic for Richard Stans...
Innocent until proven guilty, bats.
lemme try that again...
Heh.Just interviewed Stein. The very first thing he says: "How's Halifax"
"It's raining," says I.
"Oh good!" says he. "You can send some of that water down to us in California!"
Those are, like, fighting words here in Canada.
I’m very concerned people:
Feeling the Pinch Nevada's brothels hit hard times...
Professor Wagstaff : I just got the cutest Snorg girl ever!
Is that the one with the bee-stung lips?
And yes, they're all too young.
~
'Cause the gambling man is rich, and the working man is poor
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore
ProfWombat | 06.18.08 - 4:53 pm
stuck in the middle with yoda...
i thought the Y in manhaten was the most prestigious childcare available?
euphronius
Oh, well, you'll have to ask one of those chi-chi Manhattanites, like res or watertiger.
I just work here.
The NYC Obama field representative in charge of his flock is fresh off a tour of duty in Iraq. We met a college student from Boston College, a journalist from Virginia, a retired teacher from CA, students from AZ, VA, CA and an ER doc. They look like the America I want to live in, white, African American, and Hispanic. They are not in Jackson County to fundraise for the Obama campaign. We can go to the Obama website if we are so inclined to donate they firmly explained. We were told to focus our fundraising on our local candidates, music to my ears since we are working hard to support Ms. Lynn Howe in her race for State Rep. in HD #6 in Medford. They are here to register new voters, hold house parties, and to build an even bigger group of Obama volunteers before they leave in six weeks.
http://www.blueoregon.com/2008/0...n-obama-
fe.html
There's also a baboon on the right, which you might want to avoid on your way down the hall.
Perp walk!
From Mother Jones 10/19/07:
Cioffi was able to set up two hedge funds on an extremely shaky foundation because they were getting results. It was a structure that was doomed to crash in any minor downturn in the market, as it was leveraged to the hilt with almost eight times as much money borrowed against what was invested, including $275 million in capital from Barclays. This meant that Barclays had the power to pull its capital from the funds at any time, which would collapse the structure. On top of that, only one percent of the total investment was kept as reserve cash, compared to the usual ten percent that hedge funds keep around for emergencies.
Christ talk about a house of cards. How do these fuckers build up this kind of cred?
I just work here.
Gummo | 06.18.08 - 4:56 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Commuter!!!
unclean!!!
more time russert coverage....please, for the love of heaven, can;t someone make them stop. it's gone on way too long and does nothing to honor the man. this is pure exploitation.
T minus 15 days and counting till vacation!
Innocent until proven guilty, bats.
Gomez
I'm not on the jury and can think and/or say whatever I damn well please.
The dark-haired one with the red retro lipstick?
Curse you. I refreshed to see what you meant, and I got dead-eye (and soul) Dick Cheney.
Or, in the words of CCR, "there's a bathroom on the right".
Sufferin' Blessed Succotash
Have you ever seen Lorraine?
Noam Sane | 06.18.08 - 4:55 pm | #
My favorite misheard lyric is still the Go-Gos.
"Alex the Seal."
Innocent until proven guilty, bats.
Not any more.
Orange jammies and glazed chicken for those doods.
There's your average YMCA. Then there's the 92nd St/Lex Ave YMHA (Hebrew, not Christian) in Manhattan, which is a remarkable place. Spent a lot of time there as a kid, swimming and woodworking. And a great concert venue...
oh YMHA.
well thats different.
What does "in-dick-ted" mean?
Holden Caulfield
Judge: Have you ever been indicted?
Moe Howard: (blushing) Not since I was a baby, Your Honor.
(THIS woman "gets" the Three Stooges.)
Roadmaster, FloodDetour,
Nope. Sultry blonde with a challenging (as in, "I dare ya.") expression.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys than the Bear Stearns crowd.
My favorite misheard lyric is still the Go-Gos.
"Alex the Seal."
steve hüssein® simels
"Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear" for you church-goers.
I like "Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza."
Never fear, they'll just leave sewercide notes in their cars on the bridge and we'll never hear from them again. It's the American way for the rich.
Innocent until proven guilty, bats.
Not any more.
Orange jammies and glazed chicken for those doods.
Sufferin' Blessed Succotash
Yep - give those fuckers the same treatment they gave the folks in Gitmo.
Let 'em see how it feels.
/. cross post:
Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces
"The document, which has been verified, is official US Special
Forces doctrine. It directly advocates training paramilitaries,
pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on
labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless
searches, detainment without charge and the suspension of habeas
corpus. It directly advocates bribery, employing terrorists, false flag
operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it
directly advocates the extensive use of 'psychological operations'
(propaganda) to make these and other 'population & resource
control' measures more palatable."
Dammit all I get is a vicious Al Franken ad.
White Collar criminal defense is going to be a growth industry.
more time russert coverage....please, for the love of heaven, can;t someone make them stop.
Agreed. I want to know about Tiger Woods. What is the circumference of his left testicle?
it's gone on way too long and does nothing to honor the man. this is pure exploitation.
Timmy's doing now what he's always done: sell Viagra and Pepsi.
My favorite misheard lyric is still the Go-Gos.
"Alex the Seal."
How 'bout
"i'd be safe and warm,
If I wanted a lay".
or
"Ain't no woman like the One-Eyed Gott!"
White Collar criminal defense is going to be a growth industry.
It's an ill wind . . . .
Dammit all I get is a vicious Al Franken ad.
bah
You're good enough, you're smart enough, and dog-gone it, I'm going to rip your intestines out and choke you with them.
3 Stooges are the holy trinity of sublety. Listen to the stuff they mutter while banging each other with hammers and stuff.
Or maybe it was the drugz.
Timmy's doing now what he's always done: sell Viagra and Pepsi.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
And light bulbs, lots of light bulbs.
Have you ever seen Lorraine?
Noam Sane
Yes, she's in the bathroom on the right.
I mean, duh.
Gummo
'cuse me while I kiss this guy!
Dammit all I get is a vicious Al Franken ad.
The only ad I've ever seen here is for climatecounts.org. Never seen snorg, or mccain, or anything else.
so i just typed my nym into youtube and discovered the band from glascow..they are pretty good, fairly progressive and experimental
excuse me while I kiss this huy is still my fav
Mme. Wagstaff has been writing children's stories. I may suggest "Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear" as a title.
I only Tim Russert had lived long enough to attend the US Open. He would have coached Tiger on how to golf without reinjuring his leg.
I had the Russert coverage on for only a short bit. Long enough to hear them talk about giving his son a job doing football coverage for them.
At first, I was like, "NOOOOO!!!" Then I remembered that NBC's only football coverage is Notre Dame so I didn't care.
guy even
"Ain't no woman like the One-Eyed Gott!"
Sufferin' Blessed Succotash
One of my favorite Four Tops songs.
And I'll never be able to listen to it again the same way.
Christ talk about a house of cards. How do these fuckers build up this kind of cred?
bah | 06.18.08 - 4:57 pm | #
Nobody wants to believe that historical performance is not an assurance of future returns.
so i just typed my nym into youtube and discovered the band from glascow..they are pretty good, fairly progressive and experimental
mogwai
funny, I thought that's where you got your internetty name from.
So you're a Gremlins fan then?
I’m very concerned people:
Feeling the Pinch Nevada's brothels hit hard times...
focus
Poor, poor brothel owners. Poor, poor customers who can't afford to "do" anyone but their wives.
Has the governor declared a state of emergency yet? Those poor women might have to go out and get actual skills, or something.
At first, I was like, "NOOOOO!!!" Then I remembered that NBC's only football coverage is Notre Dame so I didn't care.
Sunday Night Football.
3 Stooges are the holy trinity of sublety. Listen to the stuff they mutter while banging each other with hammers and stuff.
Or maybe it was the drugz.
B1 Bummer, Sgt. Unicorn
Most times I like subtlety.
Than there are times I like the Three Stooges.
Or the Marx Brothers.
How 'bout
"i'd be safe and warm,
If I wanted a lay".
Michelle Phillips never lacked for warmth when she so desired it...
Filed under 'stopped reading right there':
As many readers know, I recently wrote a column titled “Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound,” which explored the logical and philosophical case for the Divine. As I painstakingly pointed out in the column, all of the arguments hold true whether one believes in evolution or not.
Those poor women might have to go out and get actual skills, or something.
Willendorf Venus
Thank you!
Enron Redux.
How much of a scum-sucking piece of shit is Larry Sinclair? Well, he's been in jail longer than some of you have been alive...
http://www.politico.com/news/sto...0608/
11164.html
Sunday Night Football.
HoneyBearKelly, GrendelKhan
Only affects me if the Bucs are the featured game then.
How did they build their Rube Goldberg financial machines?
Let's ask Rick James!
"Cocaine is a wonderful drug."
BTW, it sounds like they defrauded rich people.
I'll try to build up some outrage.
3 Stooges are the holy trinity of sublety. Listen to the stuff they mutter while banging each other with hammers and stuff.
I highly recommend my never-published monograph entitled "Deconstructing Nyah Nyah Nyah".
So you're a Gremlins fan then?
Jay C., shamrockin'
Don't know why but that made a Bugs Bunny cartoon pop into my head.
Noam Sane,
During the Open, it was maddening that NBC would linger on shots of Tiger scratching his ass while golf was being played everywhere else. There were three or four of the top ten I never saw all weekend.
As I painstakingly pointed out in the column, all of the arguments hold true whether one believes in evolution or not.
I believe in devolution, and this post proves it.
The innocent people that lost their jobs I feel sorry for.
Holy crap! I thought a brothel was like, a place you get soup or something.
wt: sure; this crap never, ever stops. They were celebrating Enron as the next great business model right up 'til the end. Bear Stearns was a great place. And so on.
COuntrywide asks me twice a week if we want to refinance...
“Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound,”
Filed under "FTS"
Fuck That Shit.
I highly recommend my never-published monograph entitled "Deconstructing Nyah Nyah Nyah".
Why I oughta!!!!
Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
Guess I should have read the post. U can buy the manual at Amazon.
Professor Wagstaff
You get snorg girls, we get Tiger scratching his ass. Only fair, no?
BTW, it sounds like they defrauded rich people.
I'll try to build up some outrage.
Gomez
Depends. Some of the nonsense that went on with some of these hedge funds and the fixed income stuff was that they were telling pension funds that everything was investment grade and safe and blah blah blah. Some peoples' retirement money got put into that crap.
So you're a Gremlins fan then?
Jay C.
not really...i like the definition of gremlin and the weird 'asian' name used in the movie
Holy crap! I thought a brothel was like, a place you get soup or something
Ordered the bearded clam chowder.
Moe: rather than devolution, what I think is demonstrated is the lack of identity between evolution and progress...
Those poor women might have to go out and get actual skills, or something.
Willendorf Venus
Aw, they're more exploited than anything else. They're selling what they have been taught is a commodity. I've never felt anything but sorry for em.
I believe in devolution, and this post proves it.
Already proven by the last 40 years of Republican Presidents, from man to simian.
Moe: Want some ice cream?
Culy: Soitenly!
Moe: Five delicious flavors!
Whack!
I recently wrote a column titled “Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator
We were waiting for someone to get it right. Ten thousand years people were arguing about this shit, but now that some dude in the heartland figured it all out, we can move on to the unified field theory.
'You get snorg girls, we get Tiger scratching his ass. Only fair, no?
Willendorf Venus'
Agreed. I am not trading with anyone.
Holy crap! I thought a brothel was like, a place you get soup or something.
B1 Bummer
You can get soup, I'm sure, if that's the sort of thing you're into.
Some peoples' retirement money got put into that crap.
Florida
Not to mention state teacher and employee trust funds.
Potential mega-losses for the public sector retirees.
Woobwoobwoob!
Moe,
Have you interviewed that shank Stein yet?
Those poor women might have to go out and get actual skills, or something.
Willendorf Venus
Those aren't skills??
[ducks and runs]
Aw, they're more exploited than anything else. They're selling what they have been taught is a commodity.
I just hope they're saving every penny they make from this, because it won't roll in forever.
Moe: it's true, now that you mention it, that someone writing what purports to be a logical proof of the existence of God might find one or two of his arguments have been anticipated by prior commentators...
Some peoples' retirement money got put into that crap.
Florida
Not to mention state teacher and employee trust funds.
Potential mega-losses for the public sector retirees.
One might almost suspect that this was a well-oiled operation to redistribute money in favor of the rich.
seems that ms. malkin thinks that the ap owes her $132,125...
who'da thunk it?
At first, I was like, "NOOOOO!!!" Then I remembered that NBC's only football coverage is Notre Dame so I didn't care.
Sunday Night Football.
NBC has this year's Super Bowl.
Not to mention state teacher and employee trust funds.
Teachers and public employees aren't people.
the Three Stooges, by Faulkner:
"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will not attend President Bush's fundraising dinner for congressional candidates... ‘Maybe he found a better dinner?' Republican Study Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas), chairman of the event for the NRCC, said." [The Hill, 6/5/08]
I hear a Sonic's just opened nearby.
Potential mega-losses for the public sector retirees.
Roadmaster, FloodDetour
Lets see what they are accused of.
They could be throwing out sacrificial lambs.
no link! url is:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5497812/
One might almost suspect that this was a well-oiled operation to redistribute money in favor of the rich.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮
I would be in favor of a well-torched operation to re-redistribute money in favor of the working class.
One might almost suspect that this was a well-oiled operation to redistribute money in favor of the rich.
leibniz leibkins
Under a Republican administration? Unpossible!
'Holy crap! I thought a brothel was like, a place you get soup or something.
B1 Bummer'
Bringing to mind, of course:
"Escort: 'Happy birthday, I'm here to give you super sex!'
Old Man: 'Great! I'll take the soup.'"
Professor Wagstaff -- just now. He opened by insulting all of Canada.
I'll post the audio of the interview (and my review) on our website next week.
20,000 sad Swedes are now walking past my building back into town, much more quietly than when they marched out. I kinda feel sorry for them.
These guys will probably be pardoned by the Chimperor around 9 AM on 20 January 2009.
Aw, they're more exploited than anything else. They're selling what they have been taught is a commodity. I've never felt anything but sorry for em.
qlª
I feel sorry for them, too. I empathize with them, to an extent.
I have chosen a different field, but I work on defense/surveillance stuff that I have know way of knowing is being used ethically or legally. I made my calculation and chose to go for the $$$ just like sex workers do.
Just think of the possibilities if we were to privatize Social Security and put that money in the hands of Bear Stearns!
'I hear a Sonic's just opened nearby.
bah'
McCain is getting the Early Bird at Ruby Tuesday.
Under a Republican administration? Unpossible!
Florida
Which is why I'm a little suspicious.
These guys will probably be pardoned by the Chimperor around 9 AM on 20 January 2009.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
He'll be too busy giving himself a pre-emptive pardon.
He doesn't give a shit about anyone else, anyway.
‘Maybe he found a better dinner?'
Senior Sunday at teh local IHOP.
Potential mega-losses for the public sector retirees.
This does not make me happy. CalPERS lost 25% of its value with the Enron debacle.
I can't wait to see what happens next.
Moe,
I hope you called him a hoser for all of us.
Ha! I was just using Google translator to browse sewing books on Amazon's Japanese site--my two favorite translated titles so far:
Girls dressed like dogs
Underpants: the uncluttered look
He'll be too busy giving himself an Oval Office blow job.
fyt. It's what he's secretly always hoped for.
This does not make me happy. CalPERS lost 25% of its value with the Enron debacle.
I can't wait to see what happens next.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Similar shenanigans with the Florida pension fund (and other funds).
I'll give you three guesses as to the last name of the governor of the state at the time.
Don't you all just hate cluttered underwear?
Teachers and public employees aren't people.
That reminds me, I need to see how TIAA-Cref is doing...I have that along with the CalPERS.
It was all rather rushed.
As am I. Taking the lovely Mrs. Moe out for dinner (leather anniversary!) tonight. Later, all.
'I'll give you three guesses as to the last name of the governor of the state at the time.
Florida'
"Bring me... a shrubbery!"
Bush couldn't pardon himself. But he could resign in the AM of 1/20, get Cheney sworn in as President, then Cheney could pardon him.
Or maybe Dick would just say "what do you mean we, kimosabe?
I'm tempted to fill Maddy's wading pool, pour myself a giant iced tea, grab the trashiest novel I can find, and vegetate until it's time to babysit Maddy.
Don't you all just hate cluttered underwear?
Willendorf Venus
Depends on what's doing the cluttering. Or who, for that matter. 
Sufferin' Blessed Succotash,
They could manage sort of a 69 kind of pardon.
Sorry.
I have to get brain bleach fast.
Bush couldn't pardon himself. But he could resign in the AM of 1/20, get Cheney sworn in as President, then Cheney could pardon him.
Sufferin' Blessed Succotash
My most-feared scenario.
Would be a shame if there was a huge snowstorm or something and Cheney couldn't get sworn in.
I'm tempted to fill Maddy's wading pool, pour myself a giant iced tea, grab the trashiest novel I can find, and vegetate until it's time to babysit Maddy.
What's stopping you?
Good-looking boy's clothes in the world - from pants to skirts
Don't you all just hate cluttered underwear?
It reminds me of that children's book, "Winkie the Poo".
Leibniz, grading homeworks.
Once I finish those, I can head outside. Of course, it would help if I started grading first.
Sufferin' Succotash - first step has to be Bush pardoning Cheney, though.
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Moe,
Happy third. Mme. Wagstaff and I just had our wool (or copper, depending who you ask) anniversary.
sheets
Wha? Somebody finally got around to that whole proving the existence of god thing? Far out!
Obama was questioned about bin Laden after he met with a new team of
national security advisers. The meeting came after rival John McCain's
campaign said Obama had a pre-9/11 mind-set for promoting criminal
trials for terrorists.
"I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in the recent history of the United States," Obama said in opening remarks that in part referred to the Iraq war.That is how you do it.
"hedge fund managers are the real heroes"-Glenn Beck
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