ok so gas is $4/gal and we're gonna bomb Iran and Syria. does that mean since Orange Juice is also $4/gal we're gonna bomb Florida? should orange growers in California be worried?

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 21:41 | 2187432 nmewn

No worry for California orange growers, the subsidy checks will clear for any federal "collateral" damage that happens.

Probably be a UN Resolution for it too filled with strongly worded statements.

Florida growers are not in the socialized loss game, so we will be treated like the poor juice exporters we are...a sheet of orange glass ;-)

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 20:48 | 2187226 margaris

Bagman Bob: "I love my life!"

(His voice would sound like the bitch at 0:04 in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKDfyFjQtc )

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 20:15 | 2187121 Overdrawn

Monetary Benny "QE5 isn't on the table"

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 20:11 | 2187103 nmewn

Reporter: Any truth to the rumor that the vaunted Workers Guard Brigade has been destroyed in position?

Baghdad Benny: Absolutely not! We are in constant contact with our commanders in the field. They inform us they have decimated the First Armored Deflationary Division as it crossed our border (praise be to Inkjet, most Merciful) and are now conducting mop up operations. We promised the sands would turn green with the blood of the infidel Golden Horde (praise Inkjet) and as you can see it has!

There is no truth in anything said here.

Next question...

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 19:48 | 2187023 MrBinkeyWhat

Beatings will continue until morale improves!

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 19:43 | 2187002 Sathington Willougby

"American and British gold is backed by nothing. Nothing, and anyone who professes otherwise will get to feel our shoes."

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 19:40 | 2186996 jack stephan

Hell you still got me thinking about killer uteruses, it looked like a early frazetta painting.

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 19:21 | 2186911 Tompooz

...and with Timmay in the role of Chemical Ali, The show must go on.

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 18:00 | 2186548 JohnKozac

Bob Cratchit: Mr. Scrooge?
Ebenezer: I'm busy.
Bob Cratchit: Well, it's about Mr. Marley, sir! He's dying!
Ebenezer: Well, what do you want me to do about it? If he's dying, he's dying.

Scrooge, 1951

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:59 | 2186544 Roark12

Everyone knows that Gold is not Money

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:43 | 2186485 Fix It Again Timmy

For more comic relief, don't forget to watch tonight's last Republican debate between the three stooges and the wise man.

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:34 | 2186447 Jason_1sandal

And now a special report from Bagman Ben:

"Comrades, Consumers, and Taxpayers, all your money are ours. You are required to buy stocks, and US Treasuries. All infidels buying the barbaric gold will be severely punished..."

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:24 | 2186403 tony bonn

xoxoxxoxoxo

your favorite fan,

baghdad bob

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:14 | 2186352 blu

Bahgdad Ben: "You will see a strong dollar tomorrow morning! They are not weakening our dollar no, and we will strengthen the dollar anyway if they do if it is Gods' will! But they cannot. Their gold is meaningless! We have already taken their gold and they never had any gold anyway, those are stupid rumors. Our policies will triumph over barbarity like that! They are scattered upon the sands of debasement, their entrails will dry in the sun like fresh printed fiat. May all savers be punished on zero interest rates, for ever, God praise our victory. Keynes be praised! May God spare him. May God strike the infidel from Zerohedgistan, who should know better than to go against The Fed who is God's servant. They will be beheaded and their phyzzical scattered like their entrails for God blessed Keynes who is Gods prophet be he praised to Heaven. We have already won praise God! The dollar is stronger than it has ever been and stoxx are a great investment. All your money supply are belong to us."

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:11 | 2186339 dexter_morgan

"We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Keynsianism. We say this so no one will think that Europe or America is capable of breaking the will of the Keynsians with its weapons."

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:08 | 2186321 dexter_morgan

"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:06 | 2186310 Piranhanoia

"I just couldn't stop Anonymous from wiping out all the debt for every banker freund in the US"

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:06 | 2186307 dexter_morgan

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:05 | 2186301 Vampyroteuthis ...

Money for nothing and checks for free.......

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 21:07 | 2186299 tamboo

Oybama Heads to AIPAC to Kiss Ass Before Receiving marching Orders on Iran War

Alex Jones' Jewish Advertisers

Destabilizing Syria( for joo know who)

Ex-Mossad Chief Sees Opportunity In Syrian Crisis

Writing On The Wall - Israel And Its Christians

Zio Press Chatters Of EMP Burst Attack

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:00 | 2186277 cherry picker

While good old greenbacks are flying off Benny's chopper blades, filling the ground with a thick green carpet of "money", most of the world is discovering that this paper is only suited to wipe rear ends after bowel moments and nothing else can be usefully done with it as there is way too much of it.

It is only a matter of time before people will realize there is another use for it, as fuel in fireplaces. :)

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 20:42 | 2187198 engineertheeconomy

idealy what we want to do is print so much money that gas is $10, $20 or $50 a gallon. that would be ideal. burns much hotter in the fireplace than mere paper bills

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 16:47 | 2186238 Sleepless Knight

Life is a shit sandwich - the more bread you have the less shit you taste. Simple enough.

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 16:48 | 2186218 ebworthen

"Yes my friends, there is no inflation. I can assure you there is NO inflation whatsoever, or currency debasement. We have pushed dem bahk! Those selfish savers are being pooshed bahk into the desert of thee mahkets!

Fools! We pay them only 0.5% on their money; and lend to the banks at daht rate! Ha, hah...hah.

Whatever...um...I can tell you they run like rats when they see our dollars, like snakes! They run and slither away to piggy banks and hoard their barbarous relics of Gold and Silver.

We are in control!"

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 16:39 | 2186199 lasvegaspersona

The point was made yesterday on ZH that the USG borrows so much of our needs that taxing the population now is mostly for political reasons (keep the fires of envy stoked with "tax the rich" war cries.) Could someone call Ben and ask if it would be OK to skip paying taxes for a little while? ....say just until the borrowing goes down to 20% of the spending. I just feel that my tiny contribution really would not be missed.

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 16:30 | 2186177 Wakanda

Sing along with me campers!

I've got the whole world in my hands

I've got the whole wide world in my hands...

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 16:14 | 2186098 Convolved Man

Muh-Muh-Muh Moneaaaaay...

If I don't have it, you don't need it.

-Easy Money Ph.D.

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 16:39 | 2186200 dontgoforit

Like I always tell my kids: money's no problem until you don't have any. Or as I have heard, "Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery a lot easier to take!"

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:49 | 2185999 Frastric

Seriously Bernanke is more dangerous than Gaddafi, Kim Jong-il and Saddam Hussein combined. Thanks to QE2, Bernanke caused rising food prices, squeezed the livihoods of billions of poor people, and inadvertantly trigged off the Arab Spring, which has inflamed all the crazy shit happening right now in the Middle East.

Insane...

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 16:02 | 2186070 WALLST8MY8BALL

They bombed Libya and put up a WALMART
With a blue and yellow sign, a clothes rack, and a Swedish crock pot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They bombed Libya and put up a WALMART

They’ll take all the Gadhafi’s, and put em in a Libyan Hole

Then they’ll take all the crude oil on a boat with all the gold

No, no, no
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They bombed Libya, and put up a WALMART

Hey Obama you Bomber, Bomber, put away your F16’s
Don’t kill all the folks,
And the Ostrich’s and sand fleas!
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They bombed Libya and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they bombed Libya to put up a WALMART
Why not?

Listen, late last night, I heard the Humvee door slam
And the big yellow truck took Muamar away – Hey!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They bombed Libya and put up a WALMART
Well, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They bombed Libya to put up a WALMART
Why not?
They bombed Libya and put up a WALLMART
Hey hey hey
We Bombed Libya and put up a WALLMART

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:38 | 2185956 crzyhun

I remember that guy, what was his name there in Irak?

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:45 | 2185982 williambanzai7

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:37 | 2185944 metastar

Attention Capitalist Pigs. I have rendered your currency worthess. Your Unconditional Surrender is kindly requested immediately. Submit or die.

Allahu Akbar!

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:30 | 2185905 Gully Foyle

‘Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.’ (Benny Hill)

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:28 | 2185891 john39

shouldn't he be in an IDF uniform?

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:28 | 2185887 resurger

lol

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:27 | 2185880 Bunga Bunga

Isn't Photoshop terrorism yet?

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:26 | 2185874 Gully Foyle

williambanzai7

Ever consider adapting some Ralph Steadman?

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 13:14 | 2185252 WALLST8MY8BALL

Bennie and the Ink Jets

Hey kids, shake them ink hoppers
The printers hitting empty
fiat is fading on the paper
We'll kill the fatted buck tonight
So stick around
You're gonna hear electric buzzing
of another printing round

Newt, Ricky and Romney, have you seen them yet
But they're so sold out, Bennie and ink Jets
Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful
Oh, Bennie He’s really keen
He’s got his jack boots, in police suits
You know I read it in Time magazine(not)
B-B-B-Bennie and ink Jets
Hey kids, unplug the Printotronix
Its time to occupy
But Bennie makes them wageless
We shall survive, let us take ourselves along
Where we fight
Our Patronizers out in the streets
To find who's right and who's wrong
B-B-B-Bennie and ink Jets