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It appears the answer is yes, and the shutdown stretches as far as the White House.
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911? There is a black man trying to break into our house
someone call the cops. omg lolololol
No time for that. Someone call Zimmerman, quick!
Now I see how he kept Romney out of the White House.
he looks like treyvon's son.
He's gonna drive me insane!
Do you mind if I inject some common sense into this discussion? I have a question for zerohedgers: why do we actually need a debt limit? Businesses borrow every day in order to invest in ventures to boost their revenue. If businesses can borrow what they need, then why can’t our government?
http://accredited-times.com/2013/10/01/is-it-time-to-eliminate-the-debt-...
You should have asked, "If the government prints its own money, why do they need to borrow any?"
How about you remove my debt limit too!! I'll pay it all back someday. Or actually never! You can lend me your money first MDB!
This gif is like an aquarium, I could spend hours watching and being mesmerized...
DaddyO
Shutdown of non-essentials.
"Go away, BAITIN'"
I finally figured out why the country is broke.
Look at what's going on...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/contingency-plans
+1 must see, i love that list
That gif needs a "Sorry, we're Closed" sign in the window.
Now that the WH is closed, Obama goes to live in Chicago for a while?
In today's "New Normal" there are a few Departments that seem completely unnecessary - e.g. Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Commodity Futures Trading Commission for starters.
Just think how many comfortably paid "specialists" were employed to draft, revise, then authorise all those .pdf files - consider this an example of "your Taxpayers' Money being Well Spent" (!!!)
and they say, we need government to provide those services that the free market wouldnt provide. i.e. Army....fine
but what is the government doing proving services that arent essential in the first place.
where is my government supplied shaving cream. it should be mandataed as part of obamacare along with the women's products.
I did not realize there were so many doors in that place. Or that he would try every damn one of them...
GIFLOOPS FOR THE WIN!
Don’t be facetious. The government has to compete on the international bond markets like any business trying to borrow money. All they want is the right to borrow what they need to keep kids in school and make social security payments. Nobody is asking for handouts.
http://accredited-times.com/2013/10/01/is-it-time-to-eliminate-the-debt-ceiling/
Ahhhh.. MDB providing that refreshing post which perfectly walks the line between intentional ignorance or trolling genius....
That's what I'm sayin'. It seems to be a minority opinion around here, but I think the guy usually has very entertaining posts.
<-- intentional ignorance
<---trolling genius
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Robert Hanlon
Sorry, but with pols, crats and banksters it is, "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice."
Interesting factoid: The guillotine has been providing retribution for over 200 years.
Just think of the children.
Man, you are worthless.
I simply wonder, if we are not increasing our spending why do we need to increase the credit limit.
See, there's this entity called the Federal Reserve, that is engaged in a practice called Quantitative Easing.
Because THEY do not have to pay it back, I do.
"All they want is the right to borrow what they need to keep kids in school and make social security payments.
That would imply they don't have a "right" wouldn't it?
"Nobody is asking for handouts."
Exactly correct, its called extortion/theft. If you or I stole money to put my kids through school or feed my starving grandmother we would be criminals, wouldn't we?
But they're a "special type" of bandit aren't they?
But thanks for the chuckle ;-)
Government is just a name for the things we steal together.
Or, "If the government prints its own money, why do I have to pay taxes?"
Go peddle your worthless blog at Daily Kos MDB.
Your schtick is worn out
how did that asshole get to vote u down 3 times
ZH'ers are very protective of their trolls and character actors.
MDB is nothing short of an artist.
MDB is nothing short of an artist........with retinal failure
Not to worry, the fifth column is still hard at work.
http://americandictators.blogspot.com/2013/10/despite-government-shut-do...
I mind.
Does your credit card have a maximum limit? Thought so.
Yes, but that limit is decided by the banks who set rates according to credit ratings. Our creditors are lending to us at record low rates, which proves that our government is solvent and creditworthy.
http://accredited-times.com/2013/10/01/is-it-time-to-eliminate-the-debt-ceiling/
"....which proves that our government is solvent and creditworthy."
Or that we have bigger guns than them and are willing to use them.
Works until the rest of the Playground decide enough's enough, then all of a sudden it's a case of crying all the way home to Mum and Dad.
The recent distinct lack of enthusiasm fro Mr Obama's attack(s) on Syria might hint that finally everyone else is fed up with the Big Bully, and the nest time the US tries to beat up the poorly defended, those poorly defended might find that all of a sudden they have "acquired" very useful friends . . . . .
So banks = government, eh? Interesting.
Burn it all down - and let's do MDB first!
burning the short bus is really bad form
Our creditors are lending to us at record low rates, which proves that our government is solvent and creditworthy.
So, your argument is that because the creditors are willing to lend to us, they are essentially verifying our solvency? As in, they are smart enough to have done the due dilligence and can certify long-term solvency.
So, then, how do you explain the housing meltdown wherein the lenders were crucified. Their assessment of that situation wasn't so accurate! Why trust lenders' judgements now.
In fact, many lenders were classified as "predatory", making loans knowing full-well the loans were bad for the borrower. So why can't that be true of foreign lenders that lend to the US as an attempt to undermine our sovereignty? (China lends to us, we default, and to make it up we give them our house i.e. land, poperties, assets, etc.)
Right! I'm sure the US is 100% solvent!
The Fed is lending bank notes it creates out of thin air. It costs them NOTHING to lend, they can't loose, they can only win. But when Hyperinflation kicks in, you'll be crying.
I'm already crying!!! They have destroyed almost everything that was ever good about this country.
Ha, credit ratings. When the government controls the ratings companies and prosecutes them if they downgrade.
Haha!
The best satire, isn't satire.
MDB's posts are like pop quizzes from Tyler. The standard Krugman talking points are lobbed like softballs for astute ZH'ers to knock out of the park. Instead we're hitting lazy ground balls and pop flies.
speak for yourself I'm swinging 255 with the decimal to the right, MDB is lite speed bag work just to keep the timing fresh
Dude, when you say "us", of whom are you speaking?
"we" aren't borrowing here. "they" are murdering thieves, stealing from us, and when they borrow, they must steal and murder more .
Do not make the mistake that "we" are the government, or such drivel. They are not us, they see us as the enemy, as is evident by the relentless spying, stealing and murdering.
Peace.
Why don't you lone some money to Detroit and tell us about it?
i would think his instincts would kick in and he would jimmy a window....
Do Kenyans have windows?
Zimmerman: "This guy looks like he’s up to no good... [selective NBC edit] ... He looks Kenyan."
Kenyan Looties, yes he has cousins.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/30/20760521-kenyan-soldiers-responding-to-mall-attack-looted-stores-owners-say?lite
Businesses don't enslave taxpayers by borrowing, but I can see why folks ask this question.
Since it seems as though the business of our government is to enslave the people, it makes perfect sense to grant the government an unlimited ability to borrow.
moobacca caught him outside smoking and locked his ass out...
Mooo-chelle !
Big cow gives out a massive moo - 22 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMPyriqNS-4
McMolotov writes:
"...Since it seems as though the business of our government is to enslave the people"...
This is the key. When, and only when the somnambulent sheeple awaken to this reality will there be any pushback to enforce the respect of our inalienable right of freedom.
Businesses borrow based on their credit worthiness. The government flat out steals through inflation and devaluation.
What are you? Dumb? You lack the common sense you claim you possess.
Businesses are subjected to stringent credit criteria where ability to repay, profitability, cash flow are all assessed.
The government is bankrupt, now would you let a bankrupt borrow money?
Dimwit.
No, actually. Businesses aren't able to borrow all they want. Generally they have to have assets, a good credit rating, a sound business plan and a way to pay the money back. The U.S. government doesn't have any of those things, unless you consider creating money out of thin air to be a sound business plan.
Well, MDB, it could be because they take out the debt in YOUR name and you have to pay it back. Everywhere else this is called identity fraud and is illegal. Furthering the analogy, how much restraint do you suppose a thief or even another person would use if they could stick you with infinite debt and not be personally on the hook for it?
Don't worry, they tell us we can afford it and the money taken from our accounts will be used for our good. I sleep better.
MDB, actually, your suggestion makes sense. I down-arrowed you, though, out of respect for tradition.
"..why do we actually need a debt limit? Businesses borrow every day in order to invest in ventures to boost their revenue. If businesses can borrow what they need, then why can’t our government?"
Hey MDB that's a pretty fucking STUPID QUESTION. Let me see if I can help...
The gov needs spending limits so they can't spend our money keeping themselves in office, plus about a million other obvious reasons. Businesses can borrow because they then become liable for it (except when they get bailed out). When politicians borrow the unborn become liable.
MDB U SUCK TODAY
I sure hope that the comments on accredited-times are sarc also. If not there are some pretty fucking stupid people out there.
My money is on "Stoopid"!!!!!!!!
DaddyO
We don't need a debt limit because our government has indeed been able to borrow whatever it needs.
Businesses borrow to INVEST in projects with an ROI, they don't bowwor to pay expense accounts. I down-voted you too.
The Congress was tired of issuing project specific bonds. That is why. Next question.
Epic downvoting, BTW. Tradition demands it, though. Whatwith the uppity intro to the question and all.
I have a question for zerohedgers: why do we actually need a debt limit?
to MDB
wow.... what a moron.... (intentional idiocy ?)
if such is "common sense" no wonder the usa is so screwed up...... idiocrazy is here already indeed
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
h.l. mencken
Borrow from WHOM you fucking idiot ? Do you have any clue about the size of the debt you're talking about ? The reason they are printing half or more of it now is the world is tapped out when it comes to US debt.
Borrow from WHOM you fucking idiot ? Do you have any clue about the size of the debt you're talking about ? The reason they are printing half or more of it now is the world is tapped out when it comes to US debt.
That would make him a son of a Bitch
Steam roller midnight shoulder, what they're sayin' must be true
Dudes.......NOT FUNNY!
Dammit.....and I was trying to act all bad and everything!
Iv'e got my Keltec 9mm ready
Someone call Zimmerman, quick!
You mean The White Lantino!
Hahaha
That's why I keep my doors locked, so people like him can't get in.
By people like him, I mean people who want to rob me.
Look your phone, laptop and bank accounts, too. They are coming in that way, too.
zorba....
unfortunately, it is too late, (assuming you live in the usa) he is already stealing "we the people" blind....
and destroying the formerly greatest country on earth in the process.....
normally i find racist humor insulting...but something about your comment is too funny.
How, exactly, is it racist?
Because he's only half black?
Then it should only be half as insulting.
Which half is the insulting half? I laughed at both halves and am searching for the insult in between my chuckles.
To which race?
Black is Black, and White is White. What he is, is called Mulatto: half white +half black. Nothing racist about it.
Hmm. Your comment, like the .gif is humor, not per se racist. But it's the follow on comments, not yours, the history that exists and finally, that I can't read your mind (not that I want too). So the presumption is your white, you made a funny but when and where it matters you hang around your other white buddies (at a campfire, swilling beer after a hard day of target practice and burying your gold) and it is as much belief as it is a joke. I elaborate too much. I think you jest and perhaps do see the other side.
Anyway. Whatever. No down arrow from me. At the Comedy Factory would not even think twice about it. Here, I'd like to think I'd be welcome and comfortable at your campfire. LOL. Not to the the Zimmerman comment by another, poor comic there.
Nonsense comments like this are made possible by the contrived nature of the word "racism" itself. The word was not invented until the 1920s, when a Marxixt ideologue juxtoposed the suffix "ist/ism," which means (loosely) one who does, is, or practices something, onto the noun "race." The purpose was to create in America 1) a feeling of animosity among blacks, who could cause enough domestic problems to distract America from her Communist enemies abroad, and 2) an overpowering sense of guilt and spiritual malaise among the white population, who would lose motivation to act on their own tribal survival instincts.
On its face, the word means nothing. So it may be used to mean anything. (Anything Jesse and Al don't like?) And conservative white politicians spend an exhorbitant amount of time defending themselves against allegations of this made-up thing. The Trent Lott affair is a great example. The best defense against the culture destroyers is to simply ignore them whenever they utter "racism."
Out of curiousity and at the risk of dragging on something that will go nowhere and change nothing. First, thanks for the education on the term 'racism'.
Am I to operate here and in life that the banter here means nothing other than expression of humor and disdain for various government members? That there is not a feeling of animosity, or at least a feeling of condescension of one race towards another? Forgive me, I can not ask you to speak for others. I ask the question of yourself. As an individual do I really represent a destroyer of culture? Whose culture?
In closing, my comment has nothing to do with the term it has to do with attempting to understand a sentiment and whether it is catergorical. I guess I know by the up/down arrows. With regard to philosophy on government, fiat currency systems, etc I am pretty certain I am much like most posting here, but that probably doesn't mean a thing to most here.
it's not, i was attempting to pile on to the humor...
I applaud your honesty and humility.
Peace.
Barry!! Try the doghouse!!! Hurry!!
Is that where Michello sleeps at night?
That would be the wookie nook.
Hope the cops don't act "stupidly" when they show up.
i would call him a rothschild honky.
a cia mild control clown.
he is an undercover blackman mainly white.
you dig?
No, I'm not Hip to the Scene.
http://trololololololololololo.com/
You made my day!
Besides the shithead house servant trying to find an open door -probably locked out by his owner(s) Rothschild and Rockefeller, I've been trying to find this video for months.
Thx
Looping is good touch ... left it on all day
He's not the first man of his race to find himself locked in because of his poor choices.
Nah, he is just a Gates crasher. Grin and beer it.
I...need...unguent
Black Man ... White House ... must be racist place
Let me back ins! For reelzies!!
Our (Iranian) President Jarrett locked him out.
So no one who was actually born in the USA, runs the USA and the media never says a peep.
Actually, she has a better claim to "natural born citizen" than Obama does. During much of the 1800s, it was interpreted as having 2 American citizens as parents. Read Minor v. Happerset.
If only it were that easy.
I think it should stay closed.
Top GOP aide now says shutdown could last more than a week
If it lasts more than 3 weeks, then we will have zero debt and no fiat (anymore). 21 days...and all these agendas and issues go away, really.
Release the Kraken.
Ring the door bell, dummy.
He does'nt have a clue...or a key.
Park police dispatch to all units....be advised of 1 chalky black male trying to break into the White Hizzy...
I believe the term is "Ashy"
"Waz sup Chalky?"
Fantastic gif
I thought the age of gifs was over in the 00s - was clearly wrong. This is monumental.
Dumb Fuck keeps walking around in circles trying locked doors
15 minutes later, he still hasn't found an open door
ROFLMAO!!!!!
let me make sure everything is locked, then i can go to my vacation house.
These things have to be staged, I remember it happened to Bush too. I'd think there would be a team of 40 people there to ensure doors were unlocked for a Rose Garden speech.
it's a looped video. Excelllent.
Um....thanks?
Or not. watched again and now I don't know. More likely an old clip that some genius recalled...
The one teeny tiny small faction LOCKED YO ASS OUT????
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" ... Shutdown is the best news in years
He walks like such a "panzi ass". He looks like he soiled his diapers!
He's probably got 'the itis'....have to look that one up. Usually attributed to eating too many BBQ ribs or battered and fried foods.
lol!
De niro responds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm81LSKJC2k
Watched it for 7mins and the fucker still hadn't found an unlocked door....
I hear there is a trap door on the floor just around the coriner.
Double Post
+1 - Funniest post of the day.
The police should be there in another hour or two.
Nevermind, the police are furloughed too.
I thought the CFTC "closing" was today's humor.
So...the security detail wasn't sure which door he was going to try to open? Sloppy!
Or...was it the ghost of Winston Churchill having a laugh?
If he's as narcissistic as some claim, someone's gonna get quite chastized over this one.
FUCK the United Nations...hypocrites!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWXYrbUEMQ (3:13)
Fuck the United Nations #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZwFUUFLNAc (6:54)
Fuck the UN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoejekUxk9Q (2:52)
I hear you knocking....but you can't come in
Goddamnit, that fucking Michelle locked me out again!
The W.H. clearly needs all the doors to have i-locks. (thumbprint activation)
Should've been locked from the outside. Now the lunatics are on the loose.