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• FishTX Super Moderator Posts: 9,006 Senior Member

  October 2011 #2

  Disgusting is all I can think of. I'd wish Karma would visit them, but then I'd be no better than they are.

  "We have to find someone who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner."
  
  Crooow:This music would work better with women in bikinis shaking all over the place. I guess that's true of any music really.

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• ouzelpro Senior Member Posts: 5,361 Senior Member

  October 2011 #3

  Go see Margin Call. Excellent cast, excellent movie.

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• George K Super Moderator Posts: 11,690 Senior Member

  October 2011 #4

  FishTX wrote: »

  Disgusting is all I can think of. I'd wish Karma would visit them, but then I'd be no better than they are.

  
  I believe the Tejas expression that is most appropriate is "scum suckin' dogs". Er, pond scum that is.

  The GOP big tent now is the size of a pup tent, its floor splattered with guano.

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  October 2011 #5

  True Republicans no empathy.

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• TimD Senior Member Posts: 906 Senior Member

  October 2011 #6

  fishingcomic wrote: »

  And the ****ers are winning.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/what-the-costumes-reveal.html?_r=2

  
  Chris,
  
  Here is a piece from Thomas L. Friedman. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/sunday/friedman-did-you-hear-the-one-about-the-bankers.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB
  

  This gets to the core of why all the anti-Wall Street groups around the globe are resonating. I was in Tahrir Square in Cairo for the fall of Hosni Mubarak, and one of the most striking things to me about that demonstration was how apolitical it was. When I talked to Egyptians, it was clear that what animated their protest, first and foremost, was not a quest for democracy — although that was surely a huge factor. It was a quest for “justice.” Many Egyptians were convinced that they lived in a deeply unjust society where the game had been rigged by the Mubarak family and its crony capitalists. Egypt shows what happens when a country adopts free-market capitalism without developing real rule of law and institutions.
  
  But, then, what happened to us? Our financial industry has grown so large and rich it has corrupted our real institutions through political donations. As Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, bluntly said in a 2009 radio interview, despite having caused this crisis, these same financial firms “are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they, frankly, own the place.”
  
  Our Congress today is a forum for legalized bribery. One consumer group using information from Opensecrets.org calculates that the financial services industry, including real estate, spent $2.3 billion on federal campaign contributions from 1990 to 2010, which was more than the health care, energy, defense, agriculture and transportation industries combined. Why are there 61 members on the House Committee on Financial Services? So many congressmen want to be in a position to sell votes to Wall Street.
  
  We can’t afford this any longer. We need to focus on four reforms that don’t require new bureaucracies to implement. 1) If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big and needs to be broken up. We can’t risk another trillion-dollar bailout. 2) If your bank’s deposits are federally insured by U.S. taxpayers, you can’t do any proprietary trading with those deposits — period. 3) Derivatives have to be traded on transparent exchanges where we can see if another A.I.G. is building up enormous risk. 4) Finally, an idea from the blogosphere: U.S. congressmen should have to dress like Nascar drivers and wear the logos of all the banks, investment banks, insurance companies and real estate firms that they’re taking money from. The public needs to know.
  
  Capitalism and free markets are the best engines for generating growth and relieving poverty — provided they are balanced with meaningful transparency, regulation and oversight. We lost that balance in the last decade. If we don’t get it back — and there is now a tidal wave of money resisting that — we will have another crisis. And, if that happens, the cry for justice could turn ugly. Free advice to the financial services industry: Stick to being bulls. Stop being pigs.

  
  Free market? Sounds like it has been bought and paid for. The only disagreement I would have with Friedman is that the balance has been lost over the past three decades - not just the last one.
  Tim

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  October 2011 #7

  fishingcomic wrote: »

  And the ****ers are winning.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/what-the-costumes-reveal.html?_r=2

  
  
  ahhh ... when all else fails simply play, 'da liburrl media is da debbil' card, that way you aren't overly delayed for getting out to the Hampton's for the weekend dinner parties

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  October 2011 #8

  btw
  
  the women in that photo are the epitomy of Can't Understand Normal Thinking

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• fishingcomic Senior Member Posts: 26,564 Senior Member

  October 2011 #9

  

  'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  October 2011 #10

  git a jerb ... Hippy!

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