THeRe Is No SuCH THiNG As Too BiG To JaiL...

"There is no such thing as 'too big to jail'...No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law."

--Eric Holder (May 2014)

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Holder is Too Big To Jail

As DOJ Head - He's a Fail

Watch Lanny Breuer

Emerge from his sewer

The air was undoubtedly stale

The Limerick King

Comments

[MedicalQuack]

Don't forget the PBS documentary "Too Big to Jail" the Untouchables..listend to DOJ Lanny whine and whine and whine as his body language says he's clearly over his head.  He resigned over this only to get a better paying job on the other side.

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.it/2013/01/the-untouchables-too-big-to-jail.html

[Comte d'herblay]

Are Neil Kashkari, and Peter Orszag under the ads?

Am I not seeing Jack Lew??  Gary Gensler?  Mary Shapiro?

[janus]

if'n we were gathered in a setting less virtual and more tactile, and janus stormed in outta the windy late-winter chill, peeled off his coat, settled into his easy chair, lit a cigarette, ordered a beer, sending the waitress off with a tender pat on her nimbus rumpus (you know, to encourage a bit of hustle), i've no doubt at least one of y'all would ask, "so, janus, how goes it, ole sport?  how's the wife, kids, etc.?  interesting weekend?"

yes Club Fight Club is a place i'd like to hang out.  and assuming at least one of you were suitably well-mannered and curious, i'd reply something like this, "well, there's weather movin in; so my lumbago's flarin up...the world's spiraling into satan's commode...my family all conspire ceaselessly against my happiness...a cape verdian ragamuffin just gave me the evil-eye -- and that can't be good -- i stubbed my pinkie-toe on the bed-frame first thing this morning...my father in law's in town...i think i may have developed an allergy to america...but things could be -- and often are -- far worse...i did, on the other hand, manage to survive yet another weekend, and have obviously lived to tell the tale."

without question, 'you' or few of you would demand that i indulge the surging curiosity and, well, tell the tale.  so here goes:

like i was saying, the janus father in law is in town from los angeles (actually, he just left).  and as those things go, it was a very pleasant visit.  in the course of chatting over subjects great and small, this world and all the ails that plague it came up.  amending all his flawed and ill-formed views was, for me, one part duty and two parts pleasure; and, besides, that's just what i do. and so it came to pass that the specific subject of popery came percolating up -- he being bred exclusively of papists (and fascists) going way-way back (the janus father in law is one part sicilian & one part german catholic (his grandfather was an SS captain (on the german side)).  he's not 'catholic' (in the sense that he doesn't go to church or believe in God), just 'catholic' insofar as his peoples suffer from protestant-envy.

now, before i relate the next part of this story, it's important to observe a few unalterable realities of this world in which we live: 1) having the pope on speed dial can come in mighty handy. 2) you get on the good side of a pope, and he's liable to crown you king...hell, sometimes if you just stay off'a his bad-side he'll make you a marquee, a dauphin, a viceroy...shit, bitchez, popes' got all kinds a titles to dispense at their pleasure.  

anyway, in the course of chatting with my father-in-law, janus asks, "BTW, don't you have an uncle or something that's like a priest or whatever?"

father-in-law replies, "yes." (he's not really the garrulous type)

so then, assuming he's some sort of third-rate vicar or a fancy incense fumigator, i say, "so, what's he some third-rate vicar or fancy incense fumigator."

father-in-law answers thusly, "no, he does some stuff with rome."

then janus is all like, "no shit, daddy-o, i mean, does the pope shit in the vatican?  like, duh!  all priests lead to rome...i was instead asking after his capacity within the church.  what does he 'do'."

father-in-law, "well, he's on the counsel of saints (or whatever they call the international body that decides on sainthood), he was in charge of the shroud of turin when that was all the rage...he does some other stuff, too."

janus wasn't sure he was hearing the ole father-in-law correctly, "am i hearing you correctly?" i was, after all, a bit dunder-struck, "what is he some kind of bishop or arch-diocese or some such fiddle-faddle?  is he like connected or something?"

"no, i'm not sure what rank he is, but the pope called him when my uncle died."  he said this with a casual and indifferent shrug.

"which pope, JPII, benedict, francis?"

"benedict."

i'll now move into the second part of my weekend adventures, but before i do, i wanted to say that i find this arrangement highly satisfactory.  my second cousin once removed has both popes' both ears.  shit, bitchez, he gets to decide who is and who is not sainted.  now, settle down, i know what you're all thinking.  sure, i agree that it's a pitiable tragedy rome hasn't yet seen their way to cannonizing poor ole janus...this whole five year after death waiting period is just plain arbitrary.  nowhere in Scripture does it say a saint has to wait on his death to be recognized as such.  all of which is why i'm now putting together a list of miracles for which i'm personally responsible, for to fill out my application for sainthood and have it expedited -- by my newest favorite cousin. i'm up to 32 so far; and if anybody knows of any janus-miracles i've ommitted, please send all fawning testamonies to "C/O the crusade for the sainthood of janus publicus, somewhere in cape cod massachusetts".  also, please make checks payable to "cash".  bless you all.

now, the second part of my weekend-saga finds me seated in the cab, staring up at a bright & starry sky, faintly dappled here and there with a puff of deep lavender, the darkness phazed by a silvery moon waxing crescent -- like a shiny hook snaring ole janus unto Destiny -- all while i digest the stuff of a very moving and meaningful conversation shared with a delightful couple from the lower east side (no, he was not in 'finance'...a surgeon).

so after depositing the delightful couple in chestnut hill's swankiest section (chestnut hill is an enviable zip code, bitchez), i counsel the waxing crescent, asking, "Dearest Maiden, what's all the madness of my life leading to; is there any point to this zany enterprise?"  the moon goddess gave no answer, but, as i pondered over these things, i saw the face of an angel invest the crescent's haze with its radiant form and sublime features; the moon itself being the pearly white smile of Destiny's surety.

here's the perfect White Stripes song for this point in the story...plus, janus needs a cigarette break:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF0gKvrKImE

okay, so, next thing you know i get a call to pick up in the same area there in chestnut hill.  i pull around the parking lot, and before i know what's happening, my cab is bubbling over with cutie-pies.  five teenage boarding school scions from some of this world's most influential families have crowded themselves into my cab...ahhh, moon-goddess, you sure do know how to cheer a fella up -- quick-like.

janus has these darlings giggling in no-time-flat; and i was luvin every minute of it!  now, after establishing the fact that they were all at least eighteen years of age (well, i didn't ask for ID or anything...but, at minimum, i wanted to give the impression that there was in me a great concern for propriety and whatnot).  they sounded VERY convincing about the over-18 thing...and so i accepted their word on the matter, and did then turn the flirting up a notch or two.

as we cruised west along boylston street, i inquired as to their names...i stopped on one of them, "that means queen in a 'certain language'".

one of the sweeties -- a sugar-plum from mexico city -- told me that that was nuthin...that i should be more impressed with the fact that i was now escorting the princess of thailand to her boarding school...that she was very much HRH, grand-daughter of the reigning king himself, and was now in my back-seat, wedged between two of her school chums.

i doubted them for a while, but then it became clear, with the addition of a few unassailable facts, that janus was now officially in the royalty business.

oh, moon-goddess, how very lovely of you!  i mean, a bushel full of teenage scions is one thing; but a bona fide HRH princess from a legit royal-line is quite another.  i love the smell of Destiny in the early evening...smells like Destiny!

the flirting continues apace...i make-like i'm nervous, about to commit an international incident with the smallest fender-bender...a porche carrerra keeps buzzing me on my starboard side, and i suddenly realize there may indeed be an international incident (porche drivers can be real ass-holes; especially when you wish you were the porche driver).  fortunately, the pesky porche driver turns north, and i get the girls to their dorm safe and sound.

okay, here's the best part.  as they're paying and exiting, i turn around to introduce myself to HRH...what a sweet, demure, shy and gracious princess.  janus gives the thai royal family a big thumbs-up...nice show in the princess department, your majesty!  so, naturally, i give her the full-charm janus smile and say something coy yet gentlemanly.

right, so, she blushes...but she cannot for this be blamed nor chastised; as she simply could not help it.  making princesses blush is well within my bailiwick and is included in my sanctioned duties as such.  it is just the janus-way -- the natural order of things.

so on this, el cinco de mayo, janus claims supremacy over the world's most interesting man ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU027Nob0_Q )...there are but a handful of gentlemen capable of bringing a teenage thai princess to blush; it is a most exclusive club -- hell, at this point, i may be the only living member.  nope, on second thought, i've heard that prince phillip has been known to conjure the rosy flush on an HRH's face now and again -- i mean, goddam, he seduced a queen.

okay, so, i'll make this legit:  dear thai royal family, janus asks the princess's hand in holy matrimony once she's (verifiably) over 18.  i expect i'll be hearing back on this any day now.

but, come to think of it, the best i could hope to gain from all this, assuming she's one day queen, is, like, prince consort or something.  i must say, this "king" title has a far superior ring to it.

so many popes; so many princesses; so many kingdoms...what's a poor boy like janus to do?

i suppose i should finish the book (the goddess did demand as much)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UygiBWXTO0

every minute after midnight, all the time i'm spending/

is for just working on my rewrite/

gonna turn it into cash,

janus

[Ghordius]

lol - rambling madness... and yet a good read! you are truly a wordsmith of artistic excellence, janus

btw, re "just 'catholic' insofar as his peoples suffer from protestant-envy"

... are you sure - particularly if you read your own text again - that it's not the other way round? ;-)

your cousin was a Monsignor, btw

basically, it's a priest that is taken into the pope's own household "like a son", a form of adoption that goes back to the ancient Roman times. it's separate from the proper "incardination", aka "pecking order" of the Roman Church, and properly speaking it's a good example on the differences between the Vatican "proper", to which only the Pope, the Curia and the Monsignori belong, and the Catholic Church "proper", which is Pope, Bishops, Priests, Congregations

[janus]

that really does mean an awful lot comming from you, Ghordius.  i read your posts carefully, seek them out and am truly a fan of your insights and thoughtful (and spendidly arranged) contributions to our beloved Hedge...i am not 'just saying so' -- nor do i ever. 

once, many moons ago, while working my way through the back-end of a twelve pack, i remember engaging you in a contrived tet-a-tet...i couldn't sustain the devil's advocacy, as i invariably agree with most everything you write -- and am impressed with the graceful composition.  more than anything, i suppose i was just greedy...trying to pump you for more insights and thoughts. 

and since you were polite about it, i'll do something to explain the madness.  first, these are fragments of scenes and ideas that are going into my little project.  i tinker with them here on WB's page, and then develop them more fully in my private laboratory.  secondly, whenever i write something like this, where i'm not really establishing any point relevant to anything in particular, it's just ole janus warming up for more serious writing.  (and, my friend, i just finished an hilarious chapter on terrorism).

also, thanks for the explanation of monsignoism and the rest.  and, yes, you've read my rambling aright.  i'm rather disgusted with protestantism...not that i'm bowled over by catholicism, but, all things considered, and on a relative basis, they're lookin mighty fine up against the baptists, methodists, presbyterians, etc.  plus, rome doesn't bitch and moan if you confess to smoking, occasional drinking and harmless flirting. 

additionally, i will be leaving amorica some time in the not so distant future...almost all of my preferred ex-pat destinations are catholic nations...one or two are orthodox...and, well, i have to say that england is still in play.  oh, lest i forget, thailand has made a strong showing of late.

i recall that you're european; if so, what's your advice on the continent?  i hear northern italy is heaven; southern parts of spain and france seem lovely; belgium is enticing; and, well, switzerland is awsome -- and obscenely expensive.  the nordics own my sustained respect, but i think i'd fit in more comfortably among a less 'precise' peoples.  i fear i may disappoint the germans with my aversion to obsessive punctuality.

now it's time for janus to smoke a bowl, listen to some tunes and sqeeze in a few hours of sleep.

a song for Ghordius:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5bUSYQ9c2Y&list=PL871E99B6D4C411C6

thank you friends/

i rejoice to the skies/

dear ones i do my best for you,

janus

[Ban KKiller]

  http://www.justice.gov.  Holder on vid.

[prains]

not sure you had to let that all out but you did....

[janus]

rest assured, i have my reasons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJbftrcn41c

tell me who's that rider,

janus

[prains]

i can tell you who its not, the Pfizer-man

[Son of Captain Nemo]

Once again Tyler a triumph!

You've outdone yourself yet again!!!!

[Bemused Observer]

Holder, you keep SAYING it, but you don't say HOW...

[dexter_morgan]

eric ho....lder

He's been a loyal and commited turd for lo these many years. Waco, Ruby Ridge, fast and furious, etc. Was he involved in Whitewatergate too?

[g'kar]

I always enjoyed Holder's days as a yoot.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/30/as-college-sophomore-eric-holder-parti...

[willwork4food]

Believing Eric Holder saying this is like believing Lady Gaga performs for family, born again Christians and unicorns.

[novictim]

Unfortunately Bonzai, all your great collages are cut off by the adds on the right side of the screen :-(

[janus]

yup, ad-blocker will work...but you have other options still.

"printer friendly version" is your best bet; especially if you, like janus, detest hassles of any kind.  i don't have enough patience to turn channels on television sets, much less download anything on the internets.

barring that, you can fly to hong kong and visit WildBill in person.  WB7 has an open door policy; so much so that one needn't bother knocking or abiding any other customs familiar to strangers.  WB7's home is su casa...just make yourself cozy.  i know i do.  every time i'm in hong kong, i swing by his pad (while he's out collecting inspiration) to see what's going on in the refrigerator, check his bank statements, see if any pieces of his wardrobe will work with my own, make sure all of his valuables are secured and not carelessly lying about(i'm thoughtful like that), complete my business with the high-end hussy i've charged to his credit card, guzzle all his left-over saki while reviewing the original files of his art.  WB7 is Mr. Hospitality (and, yes, that's the spelling he uses in the phone book...look him up).

you can do whatever you want, but as for janus, i vacate before WB returns...again, i'm just a good person, and refuse to wear out my welcome.  not wanting to interrupt the creative process, i slink out the window as soon as i hear his key jangle in the lock. 

so, WB, no need to thank me for the high-end-hussy.  it's the very least i could do.  after all, emily post would spin around like a whirring dynamo if'n i failed to leave my host with a gift.  in this world, etiquette is everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLf3EY_e_tU

french girls they want cartier/

italian girls want cars/

american girls want everything in the world you could possibly imagine/

english girls they're so prissy/

i can't stand em on the telephone/

...white girls they're so funny/

they nearly drive me mad/

black girls just wanna get fucked all night/

i don't have that much jam!/

chinese girls they're so gentle/

they're really such a tease/

...some girls they're so pure/

some girls so corrupt/

...let's go back to Zero beach/

i'll give em half of everything i own,

janus

[dexter_morgan]

adblock - use it.

[ebworthen]

Kids caught with a joint are jailed without bail,
Bankers robbing their parents are bailed & never jailed.

What a country.

[nmewn]

The Scrotum...very apt Banzai.

This thing, Robert "Scrotum" Rubin...held law on one side & Wall Street on the other, removed the condom of Glass-Steagall...and ejaculated all over us.

[blindman]

government and banking(money creation),
organized crime, mob rule law. what is
the difference if any?
ask the children but no one does

[blindman]

the iron curtain comes home.
sad day, happy tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkyX824YWGI&list=UULwXLS-KHDAABP02xEzplsg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KjRv9ynjVE&list=UULwXLS-KHDAABP02xEzplsg

[janus]

sad day, happy tune...that's a very good song, Blindman.  no, really, it's rather good.  i believe i remember this song from a couple years ago.  i went to your page on youtube a few times and i'm sure it was on there.  yup, just clicked over to look at the upload date -- 2011.  after i finish posting this note, i'm going to listen through a few more of your songs.  i recall you had a few others that were top-notch as well.  you have a great wilcoish vibe going in that tune:

the two-disc-set containing these songs are from one of the great -- and underappreciated -- albums from good ole twitty, "being there".  it goes really well with grade A indica.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYxn7ZG7dPQ&list=PLHm2_ek7Jy4v5KYnbWyV3A...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvnP6A-gR0I&list=PLHm2_ek7Jy4v5KYnbWyV3A...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roi9qFNtMCc&list=PLHm2_ek7Jy4v5KYnbWyV3A...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bniMd6wvXkg&list=PLHm2_ek7Jy4v5KYnbWyV3A...

but there's more to all this than the exchange of a few share-worthy songs.  you see, Blindman, i was thinkin about you the other day.  i have a problem; and i think you can help.

it's like this, lesbians hate me.  or at least i think they do.  i'd come to the point of conviction here concerning.  everytime i'd be of a mind to let bygones go their merry way...shazam!  yet another lesbian to assail my gentle equinamity.  they are a relentless tribe; no doubt about that.  but, again, i'm willing to let it all go; as i had an encouter with a couple of lesbians who were, no less, a couple.  at least, that was my assumption (and i'm pretty sure i'm correct in my assessment).  anyway, they were very nice indeed.  i couldn't detect a single vibe of hate from either of them.  and they had excellent taste in both movies and music.

so, Blindman, i need you to act as a sort of liason for me; in a certain manner of speaking, i'm begging you to be an ambassador to the lesbian community on my behalf.  tell them i want a truce, and that i am willing to negotiate terms.

i understand you live in new york; so you can't be too far from the UN (they have a MASSIVE delegation there).  i also understand that you have in the past enjoyed favorable relations with, or are at the very least on beneficent terms with, my former nemesises.  tell them i come in peace; but the jokes are often far too tempting to pass...but that i guess i'll maybe tone it down a bit.  

in exchange, i'd like my pick of lesbians (any ones i choose) to fly with me for a week in bermuda...i think i need a sensitivity course or something.  anyway, i figure we can save money by sharing a room...which reminds me: remind me to someday tell the story of my double-mint twins.  they're these two 23 year old blonde twins...they hate bras, and i love them for it.  they call me nearly every weekend for a ride into boston, and to pick them back up (when they're good and drunk) to tuck them in at night; man, oh, man, do i have a story for the ole book.  alas, they aren't lesbians, merely twin sisters...so they'll be of no use in bermuda. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xwnb3cymc  

love is blind/

you're far too kind/

don't ever let it show,

janus

[blindman]

you, janus, are too kind. thanks for listening.
the first thing that comes to mind i will share
with you but don't let on where you heard it, or that
you heard it at all other than from that voice
in your head that tells you where it is at.
if i get you right the thing would be rather
straight forward but might actually cause you
some discomfort and remorse later in life.
do you see where this is going?
one night you might appear among your "nemesis"
dressed as a fine lady of yesteryear , perhaps
looking a bit like mommy after a few drinks?
hey, don't blame me. i'm just thinking outside
the box here to help a brother out. plus,
the rock stars did it in the 70's and ...
do they still do it?
best to you and good luck.

[janus]

okay, i'm down with all of it -- only one small modification.  i come dressed as a grand patriarch from days of olde...you know, to resolve all their 'daddy issues' once and for all!  i can't but assume i'll become something of a cultural icon and heroic personage -- spoken of in hushed and reverent awe -- for lesbians everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaFvitDHMag

i don't know if you remember, but we traded lesbian songs a while back -- i was sorta referring to that episode of ours.  unfortunately, i don't forget much.  anyhow, i still think my lesbian beat yours. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhnFl3Y2FVI

i revenge myself all over myself,

janus

[blindman]

Loudon Wainwright III
category: Live Music Head Created on Saturday, 16 April 2011
http://www.notinhalloffame.com/blogs/live-music-head/293-loudon-wainwrig...
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".. And in Toronto this week, he performed it as an encore on the second of a two-night run at Hugh’s Room on Dundas St W...

“In Delaware when I was younger
They thought St. Andrew had sufficed
But in the spring I had great hunger
I was Buddha. I was Christ
You wicked wise men, where’s your wonder?
You Pharisees one day will pay
See my lightning, hear my thunder
I am truth. I know the way”" ...
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is this why he is not in the r&r hall of .....
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I Wish I Was A Lesbian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsr1Mix0R-I
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Loudon Wainwright III, A Hard Day On The Planet, Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmZNrgWAEvM
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Loudon Wainwright Red Guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SLrIQ5gcdc
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homeless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FlWsGgzfww

[blindman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3cwCxEwMz4
Loudon Wainwright - Dump the Dog and Feed the Garbage

[tom a taxpayer]

We need balls-to-the-walls prosecutions of the Bernanke Crime Family, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, credit rating agencies, B of A, Countrywide, the mortgage industry, the appraisers,Freddie and Fannie, Citi and the big bankster  Wall Street banks, AIG, and current and former federal co-conspirators at U.S. Treasury, SEC, OTS, Federal Reserve, especially FRBNY, and those members of Congress who aided and abetted the greatest financial crimes in U.S. history.

Justice demands these long-overdue prosecutions of overlapping RICO criminal enterprises. We need 20 years-to-life hard time prison sentences for the hundreds convicted. We need RICO confiscations of the hundreds of billions in illegal "profits" from the criminal enterprises of the banks, mortgage industry, and Wall Street Mafia.

Because of the huge backlog of RICO cases, the prosecution and the courtroom should be modified to process the mass trials in style of the Maxiprocesso (Maxi Trials) of the Mafia in Sicily during the 1980s that resulted in hundreds of defendants convicted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPEgV1oqX0

[cougar_w]

No no forget all that we need to feed these fucks to a tiger:

http://fedtoatiger.blogspot.com/2014/04/jon-corzine-is-fed-to-tiger.html

See now wasn't that simple?

[logicalman]

Why would you want to make a tiger puke?

[kurt]

Stale Air and A Shit to Sail

Air Foul Air Blows

                 Thar She Bellows!

                 All Hands on Dick!

[stant]

The hoes of walmart