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Meanwhile In The Senate...

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Three explanations have been provided for this peculiar exhibit of "spilled" cash in the Senate's Hart Building:

i) Step aside "Bernanke chopper"; presenting the "Yellen briefcase"

ii) Debt ceiling compromises don't come cheaply

iii) A Senator just cashed out of their SPX calls

All are equally likely, although perhaps what is saddest is that nobody even wants to pick it the strewn "reserve" currency.

 

 

 

Update: turns out it is iv) Crony Capitalism Protesters, in this case well-funded anti-Monsanto activists:

 

And the sad conclusion:

 

Finally, and most importantly: have the protesters been hired by the Fed yet?

 

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Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:29 | 4042029 CPL
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You can tell it's all worthless because no one is sure if they want to pick any of it up.  So it's on the border of money or another mess to clean up.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:30 | 4042035 Dr. No
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Not true.  Its just that the people know whos money it is...They dont dare touch it.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:33 | 4042055 Enslavethechild...
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Images of Germany 1923

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:37 | 4042073 Stackers
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Making it rain !!!!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:46 | 4042112 knukles
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OK
Riddle me this.
How the fuck did a bunch of Protestors (aka like no official ID's) get past security (Like nobody checked them or their belongings... What the fuck woulda happened if I'd tried that at the airport/) of checked what was in the bag?

Our protections are obviously not for our protection.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaraghhhhhhh!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:48 | 4042128 NotApplicable
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Applying logic to political operations will get you nowhere in life, knuckles.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:52 | 4042157 knukles
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Troof, brother.  Dat be dah troof.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:11 | 4042205 Pladizow
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"The quickest way to devalue a currency is to stop believing in it." - Kai the hatchet wielding hitch hiker while on jimmy kimmel live.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:19 | 4042225 FEDbuster
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I like the use of a broom, now where is the wheelbarrow?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:32 | 4042258 Cacete de Ouro
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When I see US government 'cop' type officials in black / navy uniforms, like in these photos, it gives me the creeps, since it reminds me of TSA officials at US airport (outboard or internal), and other 'boarding' areas like European airports (inbound to US), who act, without exception, like nasty ignorant fuckers, and are generally obese...!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:43 | 4042315 chumbawamba
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This episode meshes seamlessly with yesterday's article disclosing that Americans are dumber than average.

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:57 | 4042354 TeamDepends
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Fool me once, shame on me.  Fool me once, wait...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:15 | 4042414 max2205
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Ben was 'visiting Shumer and lost the brief case he was dropping off for him.....

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 16:13 | 4042634 Things that go bump
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Since I never go near an airport, the only time I ever saw a TSA agent was when I was in a local store. Usually when you see someone so unkempt they are wondering around the skyways downtown having loud arguments with themselves. His uniform looked like he'd slept in it. His shirt was partially untucked, probably because he couldn't reach around back to tuck it in, and his belly hung so far down I frankly don't know how he reached his dick to pee. 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:44 | 4042317 Pairadimes
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I just assumed somebody had tripped a lobbyist.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:05 | 4042386 Bobbyrib
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He is in jail in NJ now. Just so you know.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:01 | 4042159 Oh regional Indian
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Well, one thing's for sure, it is MONOPLY money...!!!!

;-)

ori

https://vimeo.com/76587148

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:28 | 4042267 Boris Alatovkrap
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LOL! You are very smart funny! Monsanto is form of monopoly for food product, so protest money is monopoly. Boris wonder if radical protester actual use real money...? Wonder why filthy greedy senator is not dog pile to scavenge money on floor...?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:34 | 4042285 lunaticfringe
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Good to see ya Boris, I ve missed ya!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:30 | 4042488 Blano
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Geruda was being a really shitty Boris for a day or two, FYI. 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:54 | 4042164 robilla
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I worked at the Hart Buiilding years ago... it's not a secure sight. You just go through a metal detector and the usual bag scan.

Constituents are there all the time for tours and the like. It's not like you're in the Capital Building or the White House.

People come and go.

Wouldn't be hard to smuggle in a bag full of paper.... what are you gonna do, give people paper-cuts?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:10 | 4042200 TeamDepends
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Hey, a paper-cut might cost you a few $Million under ObamaCare.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:32 | 4042272 bonderøven-farm ass
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Seems security is all too familiar with bags of cash..errr...paper passing through detectors.  Nothing to see here...move along.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:41 | 4042531 SAT 800
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Apparently you never heard of Nitro-Cellulose; "special paper".

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:08 | 4042199 Crash Overide
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How did a 9 year old board a plane by himself without a ticket?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:13 | 4042213 TeamDepends
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Because Obama?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:04 | 4042380 knukles
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Because he was gonna be late for the warthouse tour?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:11 | 4042208 HelluvaEngineer
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I'm sure the guards assumed it was a bribe drop-off.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:14 | 4042218 wagthetails
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you make the mistake of assuming that someone bringing a briefcase filled with money into the Senante isn't a daily occurance. 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:34 | 4042279 lunaticfringe
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Knuckles, I have never heard of one injury or death caused by paper currency- at least not in the sense of it as a weapon. I guarantee, if you have 500 dollars in one dollar bills- you too can walk thru any metal detector anywhere.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:42 | 4042300 Mesquite
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Naw, they're used to people bringing in big quantities of cash...

Probably just thought another lobbyist ..

After all, there're are SO MANY...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:51 | 4042344 kralizec
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Good thing they didn't dare come across armed NPS brownshirts and try that stunt at the WWII memorial!!!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:34 | 4042504 odatruf
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The Hart Senate Building is open to the public. The lobby, where this shot was taken, is fully open for anyone to walk in. Yes, you do get scanned, but those machines are looking for metal and electronics. They have the PTN wipes too, but they are never used.

Bundles of paper wont' trip any alarms. The number of people who come in with stacks and even boxes of documents would preclude paper being a problem.

The glass door in the second image is the entrance to the Senate Credit Union, which is what I thought this was related to until I read further in the story. There is also a Caulder mobile exhibit in the lobby if you like that sort of thing.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:43 | 4042115 Joe Davola
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Considering the billions that Barry and Ben have brought into existance, that's more like "making it sprinkle"!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:50 | 4042146 DaddyO
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Speaking of the Monsanto behemoth, it pales in comparison to this place.

http://www.cimmyt.org/en/

This "research lab" was founded and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1940's and they have singlehandedly destroyed any semblance of modern grains to heritage grains.

Eat them and die...

Rock on Monsanto!

DaddyO

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:55 | 4042167 Jim in MN
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Meanwhile in the real world....

 

 

Radiation levels near damaged Fukushima reactor hit two-year high

 

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201310100095

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:00 | 4042179 Running On Bing...
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Oh now Jim. We don't want to hear anymore of this Gloom/Doom while we're talking about the confetti-prime.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:23 | 4042248 FEDbuster
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The protestors should have brought in and tossed a sack full of Monsanto GMO Castor beans on the Senate floor.  Then they would have made the nightly news.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:42 | 4042307 AGuy
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" tossed a sack full of Monsanto GMO Castor beans on the Senate floor."

That had already happened, when Snowden spilled the beans on the NSA.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 16:45 | 4042740 halfawake
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"A TEPCO spokesman said the sudden spike in radiation was caused by construction work near the No. 2 building. ... Radiation from water leaking from the facility is mostly confined to the harbor around the plant, officials have said."

 

ug. assurances like this make my stomach churn.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:05 | 4042075 sunaJ
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Uhh, rather than this situation seeming to make an outlying or otherwise manufactured point, it appears that we are staring at a true reflection on the capitol floor of the state of our politics.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:38 | 4042076 Grande Tetons
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If it would have been gold coins you would have seen a spotless floor. 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:10 | 4042201 socalbeach
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Not so sure about that.

Mark Dice tries to sell 1 oz Canadian gold coin for $25.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndshbH3qZ6Y

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:38 | 4042293 jballz
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really when some idiot shoves a giant microphone in my face on a street corner with a camera filiming it trying to get me to buy anything, I would say no. First thought is this is one of those yotube jagoffs trying to make people look stupid on the internet. Second thought would be this is some jagoff the coin shop hired to fence bad coins on their last day in business, etc etc.

If a person without a mic in my face offered me gold I would take it. Under these cirumstances, just another fucker selling amway is really the meta message.

Stupid pr gimmick. He should be executed.

 

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:37 | 4042077 StacksOnStacks
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Reminds me of this!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:58 | 4042173 Running On Bing...
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Or a sack of this:

NASIRIYAH, Iraq — At least $4 million in counterfeit U.S. currency has flooded into Iraq since December, and U.S. and Iraqi officials are trying to determine how much of the counterfeiting is purely criminal and how much might be an Iranian attempt to influence Iraqi politics.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:47 | 4042549 SAT 800
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Let me get this straight; if it's an Iranian attempt, it's not "purely criminal"? and what do the mean counterfeit; more counterfeit than usual? Every dollar of it is always counterfeit and always an attempt to influence politics; whether Iraqi or US or European, or whomever.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:37 | 4042088 SheepRevolution
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They are Federal Reserve notes = can not be redeemed for physical. So why bother picking it up?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:46 | 4042127 General Decline
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The coin shop down the street from me still does. Why? I'll never know.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:55 | 4042163 DaddyO
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Your wit is admirable!!

A big greenie from me...

DaddyO

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:37 | 4042091 McMolotov
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Proof of money-shitting unicorns? We're saved.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:49 | 4042141 Stoploss
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Standing around it like it's radioactive or something. 

LOL!!

 Thst's what a drop in the bucket looks like. Eh, Jan.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:03 | 4042189 Jim in MN
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The cash could be dosed with skin-penetrating truth serum. Can't be too careful these days.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:30 | 4042042 earnyermoney
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LOL Gotta make sure the cameras are off before they pick it up.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:32 | 4042060 Non Passaran
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And that the notes aren't fake or marked... Never steal unless you think you can get away with it!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:35 | 4042072 TeamDepends
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$2 Billion NSA Spy Center in Flames

Maybe there is a God?


Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:45 | 4042120 W74
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So glad there are still patriots left in this country.  Burn it all down boys.  If you're on the inside and you know about the bullshit that's going on....take it out if you have access and means to do so.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:00 | 4042182 Herd Redirectio...
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It sure would be a shame if a wrench were to fall down there...

Oh shit!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:57 | 4042355 W74
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Hmmm, this distribution box requires a 100 amp breaker in this particular slot.  Let see what a 50 does.  Too F-ing Easy!!!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:14 | 4042412 James-Morrison
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NSA building burned down in order to build a LARGER one!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:23 | 4042447 Anusocracy
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They didn't have a problem until Homer Simpson transferred there.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:34 | 4042064 AlaricBalth
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Obviously a banking sector lobbyist from K Street was a little clumsy as he was heading for Harry Reid's office.  Didn't bother to scoop it up and ran like hell out of there.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:38 | 4042084 holgerdanske
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connedFEDty

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:43 | 4042109 world_debt_slave
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those in the know that this is worthless fiat currency, but the majority of sheeple don't know.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:06 | 4042384 azzhatter
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payday for Graham and Mcshitstain from their MIC contributors

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:30 | 4042030 SimMaker
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America is soooo soooooo fucked.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:31 | 4042037 Jena
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A photo op no one wanted to to take part in?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:32 | 4042038 SheepDog-One
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WHAT IN THE FUCK???

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:32 | 4042061 Cdad
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Beat me to it, Dog.  Now...can't wait for The BlowHorn [CNBC] to not report on the story...and for the "explanations" to come from the rest of the MSM.

Good grief...how obvious does it all have to get?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:52 | 4042039 moonstears
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Wish that'd happen on my floor(wait, are those Canadian dollars?)!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:32 | 4042040 Charles Bishop ...
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HAHAHAHAHA.talk about PERFORMANCE art...

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:32 | 4042041 pragmatic hobo
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oops ... looks like some senator will not get his payment today ...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:30 | 4042043 Everyman
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Looks like somebody's bribe and payola got spilled and dirty.  Nothing worse than money that has touched the floor and is "soiled".

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:00 | 4042174 tenpanhandle
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Damn, it's gotta be relaundered.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:34 | 4042044 Cognitive Dissonance
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Someone dropped the modern day version of Thirty Pieces of Silver.

<Hurry Scurry if you can.>

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:31 | 4042046 venturen
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Obama, "That isn't your money"

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:33 | 4042047 Cdad
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WTF?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:31 | 4042050 TheLooza
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It's just the remnants of a bernanke shart. A "stanky bernanke" as its known by staffers at the fed....

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:33 | 4042054 Byte Me
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Now, if that had been a case of Krugers....

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:34 | 4042056 thatthingcanfly
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It was Al Qaeda. Shelter in place!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:32 | 4042058 LawyerScum
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Helicopter Ben is getting a few runs in before his retirement for old times' sake.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:39 | 4042089 Eternal Complainer
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That must be Bernanke showing old Yeller how it's done!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:35 | 4042062 Dr. No
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No one will pick it up.  They know their hands will get cut off with a skill saw.

"Do you know who this bookies belongs to?"
Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:07 | 4042192 eftian
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+1 for snatch reference

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:33 | 4042063 Tenshin Headache
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Looks like somebody is not going to get paid for their vote.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:35 | 4042065 Eternal Complainer
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Isn't like a terrorist act to be carrying such large amount of cash like that?
Joe public would get incarcerated and sent off to Guantanamo.

Is that bribe money? Hush money?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:38 | 4042099 W74
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Business Owner taking home more than a grand after a slow night at the register?  Drug Dealer!!!  Terrorist!!!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:36 | 4042067 drink or die
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It was people protesting Monsanto.

 

Update: 3 arrested after dropping large amount of cash on Senate office building floor as part of protest against Monsanto 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:45 | 4042124 GeezerGeek
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If they'd dropped the cash on some senator's desk they wouldn't have been arrested.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:34 | 4042068 williambanzai7
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TOTUS CABARET

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:46 | 4042122 akak
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Yes, waiter, please pour me a glass of caberet --- this pinochet (semi-)noir has gone bad.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:33 | 4042281 Fedaykinx
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i see what you did there!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:37 | 4042292 Ness.
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If they want to drink Merlot, we're drinking Merlot.

 

 

No, if anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I am NOT drinking any fucking Merlot!

 


Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:34 | 4042070 Fogey
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I see dead paper bills.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:36 | 4042079 moonstears
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Relax, it's just some of that cash missing at the first of the "2003 'short' Iraqi invasion" dealeo???

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:38 | 4042081 SubjectivObject
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Briefcase fail, payoff bail, NSA won't nail.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:38 | 4042082 Bastiat
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My first thought was that the latch failed on the briefcase of a lobbyist.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:42 | 4042107 Jena
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Mine too!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:17 | 4042223 Unprepared
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Was yours full of dollar notes as well or gold coins?
Sad!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:38 | 4042083 W74
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They're just waiting for the Janitor with a TS clearance making $150,000/year to come by with a broom.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:49 | 4042132 GeezerGeek
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Re the capitol cop sweeping up the cash: we'd all be better off if he would sweep the trash out of the House and the Senate. All 535 of them. Then he could proceed to clean out the White House.

Oh well, back to reality....

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:38 | 4042087 arkel
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Good. Now one less politician getting bribed which results in one less regulation / stupid law.

But seriously, that is crazy. I initially thought this was some type of Yellen joke.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:37 | 4042093 Quinvarius
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I will give them 1 loaf of bread for all of that.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:39 | 4042096 paint it red ca...
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No need in crying over spilt bribes, er milk.

Didn't mean to spill the bribes, er beans?

Always throw a spilt bribe, er salt, over your left shoulder.

You know these fuckers are breaking new ground here for dumbass.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:38 | 4042097 moonstears
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Monsanto has an interesting way of making payoffs. 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:39 | 4042102 giorgioorwell
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Haha, that's good.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:39 | 4042103 fonzannoon
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Wait till the light those protesters up with several hundred rounds of ammo. Then claim they were a severe threat. 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:40 | 4042104 Fogey
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You know a currency is dead when people hesitate to even look at it.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:40 | 4042105 MyBrothersKeeper
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Making snow angels in the cash pile....priceless!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:45 | 4042110 One And Only
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Why Jefferson said revolt against the government was necessary. Is that bribe worth the cost of your life? We have the opposite today. Government today spies and infringes on our liberty which is why if it feels like you are living under tyranny it's because you are

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:55 | 4042161 Dr. Engali
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There will never be a revolt against the government. There are too many iSheepl who rely on the governent teet. If anything all this will eventually lead to a uncivil war.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:43 | 4042119 _SILENCER
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Obama walks by:

 

"You didn't drop that."

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:45 | 4042123 Fogey
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Lol.

 

NO

 

He says

 

Uh!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:45 | 4042126 Fogey
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Capitol police now sweeping up all the money  - with GLOVES put on.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:51 | 4042143 NotApplicable
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Well, like with every piece of unofficial paper around there, they have to beware of the anthax bogeymen working for the CIA.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:48 | 4042134 SoulOfSilver
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You didn't print that!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:50 | 4042136 polo007
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http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/pages/debtlimit.aspx

Debt Limit

The debt limit is the total amount of money that the United States government is authorized to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations, including Social Security and Medicare benefits, military salaries, interest on the national debt, tax refunds, and other payments. The debt limit does not authorize new spending commitments. It simply allows the government to finance existing legal obligations that Congresses and presidents of both parties have made in the past.

Failing to increase the debt limit would have catastrophic economic consequences. It would cause the government to default on its legal obligations – an unprecedented event in American history. That would precipitate another financial crisis and threaten the jobs and savings of everyday Americans – putting the United States right back in a deep economic hole, just as the country is recovering from the recent recession.

Congress has always acted when called upon to raise the debt limit. Since 1960, Congress has acted 78 separate times to permanently raise, temporarily extend, or revise the definition of the debt limit – 49 times under Republican presidents and 29 times under Democratic presidents. In the coming weeks, Congress must act to increase the debt limit. Congressional leaders in both parties have recognized that this is necessary. Recently, however, a number of myths about this issue have begun to surface.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:51 | 4042138 Frank N. Beans
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that's the money I lost today in the market

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:52 | 4042147 alangreedspank
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What's that story picture ? Lemme click on it...

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:51 | 4042151 rlouis
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The insanity is telling - what it's telling I don't know. 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:51 | 4042152 Fix It Again Timmy
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It's paper with ink on it - that's valuable stuff!

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:54 | 4042158 grunk
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Janet Yellen confirmation process.

 

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:53 | 4042162 akak
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Oops!  No tanning booth visit for Boner today.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:59 | 4042171 Fogey
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You know what I am saying?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:13 | 4042211 Iam Yue2
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Now that the Silk Road is down, it's strictly cash.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:21 | 4042233 Unprepared
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A failed OTF (Over The Floor) transaction?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:22 | 4042234 Fogey
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There are more credits than cash present.

You know what I am saying?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:19 | 4042226 SoNH80
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Decadence is phun.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:31 | 4042275 Son of Captain Nemo
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..."perhaps what is saddest is that nobody even wants to pick it the strewn "reserve" currency."...

What a fitting epitaph this is to this Country and it's leader(s).

Destination unknown.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:40 | 4042303 Dr. No
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Why does a guy need rubber gloves to hold a broom?

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:57 | 4042358 F.A. Hayek
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He's a sanitations engineer - it's to show respect for the level of professionalism of his predecessors.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:39 | 4042304 Anonymouse
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Some senator was incensed.  "You call this a bribe?  Come back when you have some real money and we'll talk!"

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:48 | 4042332 yogibear
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The Federal Reserve wants to go the route of the Weimar Republic. Keep devaluing while people ignore it. Eventually other countries (happening now)  will refuse to take it.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:52 | 4042349 deerhunter
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Gloves for dirty money,,,, HA,  they would all be wearing them,,, ALL as in 535 of our Congress Critters,  so sad.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:58 | 4042366 Invisible_Khore
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The CNN journalist who wrote this article must have dropped her bribe on the floor...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/10/opinion/ghitis-janet-yellen/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

 

It was so far out there I had a hard time determining if it was actually satirical.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 16:59 | 4042783 shovelhead
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A masterful display of girl on girl analingus.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:00 | 4042369 Burticus
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Arrested for what...littering?

Followed by another demonstration of selfless heroism by the Capitol POlice, almost as courageous as their gang-murder of an unarmed young mother after she made a wrong turn in a strange city avoiding the barracades everywhere.

I am eagerly waiting for the update showing the non-furloughed CONgressional doorman handing out more valor buttons and the unanimous standing ovation by the elephant & jackass sock puppets between Kabuki theatre acts.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:08 | 4042399 whoopsing
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Well, after all it is fall in the land of the money trees

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:24 | 4042451 Quantum Nucleonics
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Monsanto?  Really?  Come on, it's a $55 billion market cap company.  It's certainly not a monopoly.  All the morons arrested probably had iPhones allowing Apple, the NSA, and every marketing analytics firm in the world tracking their every move.  Dorks.  If you really want to crush Monsanto, repeal the idiotic ethanol mandate.

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 15:57 | 4042591 Clowns on Acid
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Now if they had thrown silver coins in the air......

Thu, 10/10/2013 - 17:45 | 4042894 ThisIsBob
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Apparently there is no problem getting wads of money through security and into the building.

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