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Holy Trinity Caption Contest: Bernanke, Paulson, Geithner
If anyone's bucket list includes hearing, and seeing, the unholy trinity of Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner whose actions have pretty much doomed America, today is your lucky day, because as part of the lawsuit brought on by former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg, the three legendary statists will field questions from prominent, and very flamboyant, lawyer David Boies. As has been reported previously, Maurice “Hank” Greenberg is challenging the terms of the 2008 bailout for the company he built into a global financial-services powerhouse before being pushed out in 2005. He is not challenging the bailout which prevented AIG from liquidating as a result of selling billions of default protection on worthless companies, and which avoided the all out, and much needed, purge of trillions in bad debt and just as worthless equity.
The testimony has the potential to be “exciting...this is the first time they’ve had people at this level in the witness chair,” said John Alan James, a professor at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business and chairman emeritus of its Center for Global Governance, Reporting and Regulation. Mr. James said he expected Mr. Boies to “drill” the witnesses and force them to answer difficult questions. “There’s going to be a major effort [to] get admissions of things that are revealing.”
The effort will fail. Some other details:
Starr’s suit alleges that the government went beyond the Federal Reserve’s legal authority in taking a 79.9% equity stake in New York-based AIG, and in doing so violated shareholders’ constitutional right to just compensation. In the deal, the government demanded the equity stake in exchange for providing an $85 billion emergency loan, which charged a minimum of 12% annual interest and was collateralized.
The suit also alleges that the government unlawfully was penalizing AIG, a point Mr. Boies hammered at in his opening statement last Monday. “There is simply no authorization in the statute to give the Federal Reserve the roving permission to try to find people that they want to penalize and then use its lending authority to extract those kinds of penalties,” he said.
The government maintains it acted within the law, with terms aimed at protecting taxpayers from the risk of loss. It says it set stiff terms out of policy concerns, seeking to avoid creating a moral hazard in which other firms might take risks on the assumption they, too, could get easy credit from the Fed, government lawyer Kenneth Dintzer said in his opening statement.
Protecting taxpayers? Avoiding moral hazard? Uhhh... what?
The Starr court filing, for instance, asserts that the government didn’t undertake any investigation or analysis to determine whether AIG or its shareholders should be penalized and, if so, how. It quotes Mr. Geithner as saying in his deposition for the case that the government “had no basis of having any direct knowledge of the nature of the risks they were taking.”
The filing indicates Mr. Bernanke also will be used as a source on this point. The depositions remain largely sealed.
Well, Geithner had no knowledge of anything, so that is hardly grounds for a lawsuit.
So in retrospect, the hearing will be a total waste of time because nothing and nobody will be allowed to provide a revisionist perspective on a chain of events that will inevitably end in the biggest market crash in history.
So, to help infuse at least some humor in what is otherwise a very tragic outcome, here is today's caption contest.
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We the jury find the defendants....
"Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Don't Know Shit"
You mean Holy Blasphemy
this should be the lineup for public execution by guillotine.
this is what happens when you let a gay couple adopt..
Too bad they don't belong to Jihadi John.
TIMMAY!!
"Damnit! Corzine is late for the photoshoot....again!"
Ben: "I can't believe the people actually rose up and petitioned for our arrest on charges of High Treason"
Hank: "so this is what the inside of a Courthouse looks like"
Tim: "Wake up, wake up, please, wake up"...
If Paulson had bangs, they'd be a perfect match for the Three Stooges.
JMafia boys, I hear they like get together and play the fiddle.
"We now reveal our true selves to our true God, The Holy Bomb."
(Turbo Tax Timmeah Geithner is still a 'choir boy', but the male apes will break him in just fine)
Thanks to Pierre Boulle, and the 'Planet Of the Apes' novels.
EDIT:
"MOE! LARRY! THE CHEESE!"
"Easy, boy! take it easy... just relax..."
'Moe' Bernanke bends Timmy over, and the taller of the two, 'Larry' Paulson, slips his smaller penis in slowly...
..maybe it's just me, but I see denizens of the 9th ring down in that pic.
We guarantee to make your money worthless no matter what happens
the smeller's the feller
Bagels, we need bagels, Oy.
One of us forgot to grab our crotch!
or
Hey Timma, hide that tent your pitching or they might see how excited we are and queer the deal.
Too bad Christ is not around. I sincerely feel that instead of overthrowing the desks of these scumbags he would instead take out his 44magnum and shoot each one of these aholes twice in the chest and once in the head.
(Jesus, praying in the Mount Of Olives)
'Is it all right, dad?'
(reply)
'Sure, son. I saw what you did in My Temple with those moneychangers. Go with it!'
The night passes...
'Well, do you feel LUCKY, PUNK?'
(the sound of gunfire...)
Yes, the greatest con artists/enablers in history.
When asked if they would "directly monetize the debt" Ben Bernanke replied "we would never do that", yet that is exactly what he was doing. Audit and end the Fed already. Then execute these guys and all the bankers/financial fucks they worked for. Just follow the freshly printed paper (that's why you still need to a FULL audit).
..the Turbo-Tax marketing team.
+1
And let's not forget Hank "The Hammer Paulson" lobbying the SEC to change leverage rules on derivatives in 2004-5, creates the world crisis almost single handedly and then mouths off that the crisis was solely because "American's spent beyond their means"(Little Timmay and Little Hoss Ben would parrot the same". But the shadow banking with up to 300:1 leverage, that's okey dokey.
WB7 This is Sick!! Love It.
His tits are too small, WB.
I thought you were good at 'cut-and-paste' 'paint' programs!. PHD CHICKS make enough to 'enhance' themselves, you know. (sarc tag obligatorialy put here)
Maybe little Bennie Shalom really is having a hard time getting a mortgage, but Papa Greenshpawn has taken a second on the house In The Hamptons out so that his darling can get all the proper parts in all the proper places (wink wink).
The Argument FOR EUTHANASIA
Damnit I was going to say, "Hear no evil, see no evil, dur whut?"
How about dumb, dumber and dumbest
Introducing our newest American Gladiators (pictured left to right): Hankster, Chopper, and Turbo
...GUILTY. Off with their heads!
Alright, group mug shot over, now send them to Supermax prison.
Prison? I kind of had another 'holding' facility in mind for them. One with some made up history.
"We the jury find the defendants"
To all be tribe members!
Aka.....CHEESEPOPES!
Live with it Bitchez!
The 300 Thieves or was it 6 million. I cant remember, but its something about a well organized clique.
The genius looks aweful young to be Brooksley Born.
This is the last photograph of all three alive......before they were taken out and summarily executed.
I thought there were supposed to be four horsemen
The fourth horsemans running late
Paulson: man I would like to punch the beard.
Bernanke: man I gotta do something about my credit score, I can't even get a mortgage.
Geithner: Hi I'm Timmy.....and I'm stupid.
Drs. Strangelove: We'll meet again, don't where don't know when...
3 Fucking Stooges. Nuff Said.
3 STOOGES OF ECONOMY!
what happened to curly? Haven't heard much from him anymore...
There really isn't anything funny about what these traitorous scums did. They wittingly conspired to blow up the entire economy, possibly for good, at the expense of everybody else.
Round up Greenspan too, and throw them all in the Lake of Fire. The world would be much better off.
"What time is lunch?"
FUCK YOU BERAULSTHNER
I am worth $300 Million, I will be worth $300 Million, I can't figure out what I am worth, damn software!
The focus of evil in our world while being proclaimed as heroes by Wall Street.
Obama is second most admired man in this world in a recent poll despite bombing seven Muslim countries and illegally droning women and children and wedding parties.
Truly, we live in Orwellian times - our finest criminals are heroes.
What an interesting coincidence that they posed in front of a background colored gold and silver, as if they intuitively felt it would give them a sense of legitimacy.
the olygarcs of armageddon
Speaking of Dick Chaney... I think he wants to come back.
He was mouthing off last month and has Installed his Daughter in the Cartel.
- Sandy Weil
- Jon Corzine
- Richard S. Fuld
- Leo Dennis Kozlowski
- Jeffery Spelling
- Albert Gore
- Hillery Clinton
- John Kerry
- Don Rumsfeld
- Paul Wolfowitz
- Frank Carlucci
- Jeb Bush?
Nice list!
CHEESEPOPES AND SHABBOS GOY!
I tired of this shit,I need to deal with my own problems. got pretty messed up last night and passed out. The problem is I have to be at wokr tonight at 7:00 but how am I going to sleep ? I think I'll have another beer.
Dumb, dumber, the dumbest.
Dumb like foxes
Tools of mass destruction
Unholy Trinity of money changers.
If you think these guys are worried....dont be...they have it all under control...and they do control it all...we are not in their league....
Just need one more horsemen of the apocalypse.
Stanley Fischer should be in that picture. Because we all know old Yeller is just the mouthpiece.
she isn't a slam piece...to be passed around?
Great I just threw up. Now I'm going to be quarantined for Ebola. Thanks!
Hemmoroid cluster.
Why does the GOV not just reimburse Greenberg and the other shareholders? I mean, just a few billion dollars moar of QE-like free money. Who cares? ... Somehow Greenberg seems to have pissed off some powerful people.
"We are gathered here today to pay homage to our dear departed friend the US economy."
Moe. Larry. Curly.
The first 3 inhabitants of "Murderers Row"
Slow roasting in hell is to good for these 3 criminal assholes!
All 3 of those faces look GUILTY AS SHIT! Look closely at their facial expressions.
Who farted?
Waiting to see the Dean
Dean Vernon Wormer: Here are your grade point avarages. Mr. Kroger: two C's, two D's and an F. That's a 1.2. Congratulations, Kroger. You're at the top of the Delta pledge class. Mr. Dorfman?
Flounder: [drunk] Hello!
Dean Vernon Wormer: 0.2... Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Mr. Hoover, president of Delta house? 1.6; four C's and an F. A fine example you set! Daniel Simpson Day... HAS no grade point average. All courses incomplete. Mr. Blu...
[sees Bluto with a pair of pencils in his nostrils]
Dean Vernon Wormer: Mr. Blutarsky... zero... point... zero.
[Bluto shrugs]
What funeral was this taken? OH. Yeah ours
Before, during, and after a sex change
I can see that, spun, but is it F>M or M>F left to right ?!?
"I am Sparticus!" "No I am Sparticus!" "Yes they are Sparticus!"
"What punchbowl?"
There are lots of insider leaks that Bernanke was basically clueless.
Geithner was the one giving orders around and now it's Lew giving orders around, not Yellen
They are all the disciples of Stanley Fischer, who is pretty much flat out running shit now.
Fischer is man, yes, he has international connections.
Discipleship matters nothing any longer. Each on his own.
Still, Treasury has decision power over Fischer via state of emergency order
Congress rules the Fed legally.
Odd that Geithner would call out the "arsonists" then...
All of these fucks and their puppet masteres need to be hunted down and executed, period. They have pushed it to this point, there is simply no other way now because of the moral hazard that has been unleashed on the masses now.
Bank lobby called in Stanley Fischer from Israel, since he is the only one with international connections.
The rest are just corner office academics, except for Richard Fisher, but he is just one. Also, Dudley of NY Fed runs the PPT. He knows stuff
Still, US treasury and congress rule over them, regardless
You really don't think Dick Fisher is in on all this?
No, he is not.
He even outted Warren Buffett in a radio interview months ago.
He said that Fed bailed out Warren Buffett.
Richard Fischer is Oil Lobby's man, just one though.
eh whatever man. Good luck with the predictions. We shall see what does or does not shake out from all of it.
Hank Greenberg won two MVPs and posted a 57.5 WAR over 13 years. What did Bernanke ever do?
"Any last words, gentlemen?"
"Riots!" exclaimed Hank.
"Contained!" said Ben.
"Uh, what?" mumbled Timmy.
"Ready. Aim. FIRE!"
Well then we know they weren't executed in New York, because their police department yells Ready, FIRE!, aim.
Looks like money can't buy happiness. But it can buy coke!
So it is the Father(Ben), Son(Timmy) and Holy Ghost(Hank) of Corrupt Monetary Policy!
Paulson: I have big ballz
Bernanke: Paulson has big ballz
Geithner: Yeah, Paulson has HUGE ballz
The Real ISIS (IS mine, IS not yours) Terrorists!
They just heard the snap of the latex glove behind them.
Grandmotherfuckers.
"Now, half turn to the left"
The alchemists of bailouts.
The alchemists of bailouts.
Paulson: "Timmy, it's a free kick from the markets with Yellen in goal, for god's sake cover your privates with both hands !"
Tim: "Not an issue for me"
Ben: "Yeah, we know . . ."
The Bother, The Pun, and The Pillar to Post.
Hey Ben and Timmy, can I recuse myself again?
Or Damn Ben and Timmy that is one huge debt ceiling
"We see NOTHING! We know NOTHING!"
Schultz: [Klink is in prison awaiting a possible execution] I have some good news and bad news.
Col. Wilhelm Klink: This time tell me the good news first.
Schultz: You are going to be executed in the morning.
Col. Wilhelm Klink: Then what's the bad news?
Schultz: They aren't giving you a blindfold.
Hey now! Don't besmirch my good name just because I was following orders. That's what Paulson, Geithner, and Bernanke will say also.
Ok guys let's stand here and pretend we don't know each other. Conspriracy, what conspiracy?
Nyuk, nyuk.
P: Not my problem if they didn't see it coming...
B: Dear god, help me, they start to see through the scam...
G: Fuck, why did you make me do it Ben...?
HP: That blade sure looks sharp.
BB: So that's where my head's gonna fall. I wonder if I'll feel it.
TG: Please, someone, honest, I didn't know what they were doing. It wasn't me!
Paulson: Thank God I bought the prosecutor off.
Bernanke: I sure hope I get my golden parachutte and a nice Deans position.
Geitner: I don't want to to be a prison bitch. I don't want to to be a prison bitch. I don't want to to be a prison bitch.
"We were all appointed by a democratically elected leader for the benefit his campaign contributors."
Jesus H Christ himself would weep, said a shifty looking Paulson, to the Bernsplinks.
Jeethner chipped in, 'No wonder the world thinks we are nation wrecking, self-serving, filthy, greedy cunts'.
Paulson exclaimed in rebutall, 'Thats cos, we are!'.
Cunts, who should be hanged till dead.
:-)
A Day at the Range!
100 Yd Target
200 Yd Target
300 Yd Target
Forget the caption. I've never seen 3 more worthy targets lined up in a row like this.
Except maybe that cute photo of Obama, Kerry, and his holiness the Pope, protector of child molestors.
He who dealt it, smelt it.
Now once upon a time not too long ago
A bernanke like myself had to strong arm a hoe
Jump Bankster Jump
metastasis
In Unison... now, Man I can't believe somebody made me stand Next to these two Bums
Paulson: "I wonder if these sheep know I got a BAZOOKA in my pocket?"
Bernanke: "I don't understand gold."
Timmay: "Taxes are for the common man."
"three legendary statists"...from Goldman Sachs....now is GS a statist organisation or a Private sector organisation?
An Opus Dei of the new Inquisitorial private Oligarchy age; that manipulates the State--whom it is supposed to serve via the FED-- and its symbolic God : the Greenback !
Starr? Clinton's cousin Starr?? Suckers
OH LOOK ! ITS THE PRESIDENT!
If you look closely at Paulson's head you can see his horns.
The Undertakers... GFC Paulson looks like the funeral director from Phantasm.
If Paulson's looking for work he should audition for the next James Bond bad guy. He's got the perfect look.
Just give him a a white cat and start the camera rolling.
[This is the image on all our computer screens: Paulson, Bernanke, Geithner. The Zero Hedgers debate.]
Laws of Physics: All right, we got seven canisters of CN-20. I say we roll them in there and nerve gas the whole fucking nest.
Headbanger: That’s worth a try, but we don’t know if it’s gonna affect them.
Million Dollar Bonus: Let’s just bug out and call it even, man! What are we even talking about this for?
Tyler: …I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I know nothing, I see nothing and I heard nothing...in that dis-order.
Yeeeeellleeen! The fourth horsemans late again.
Their expressions say, "boy are we fucked." We did it. We know we did it. And people are figuring it out. FUCK, now what Bob Rubin? You promised us that we would be protected. This is humiliating.
If there ever is a reckoning Rubin will have long fled Dodge with his saddlebags bulging. But you know that already, don't you?
Ready
Aim
Fire!!!
"Foaming the Runway"
Addams family on a weekend at Bernies...
TAX FREE, TAXER OF FUTURE GENERATIONS, TAX EVADER
The THREE STOOGES!
"The Committee To Save The World: Part Deux?"
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19990215,00.html
Paulson and Bernanke react to Geithner's offer of free lifetime memberships in Hair Club for Men if they agree to go along with his "story".
In a nod towards keeping up with the times, the Executive Bathroom at the Fed goes unisex.
"Wonderful news! The murdered girl was Jewish!"
Captain (Paulson), First Mate (Bernanke) and Purser (Tiny Tim) of the Titanic?
Target practice.
Criminals.
For all of the Jewish members on ZH that called for the Muslims to handle the radicals in their community I beg you to please start handling your radicals. You can start with these 3 assholes.
This weekend I got to thinking about Ashkenazi dominance in banking, Wall St., judgeships, and DC US positions and junctions of power. Then it hit me: Name one person of Arab, or even just Muslim, descent in a position of power in the government, finance, Wall St., banking.
There may be some, but you'd have to look, and look hard.
And yet, we are supposed to believe that they are the enemy.
But then the propaganda media is not owned by Arabs, Muslims or non "return" able Americans either.
An non "return" able American, not US subject.
Bit out of date, but sobering: http://thezog.wordpress.com/who-controls-the-economy/
How about Neil "Cash carry".
I frequently call out excessive Jewish influence but in fairness neither Paulson nor Timmy are of the Tribe. Still, the fact that they were allowed to play at such a rarified level must mean they've made some Faustian Pact along the way.
An American, not US subject.
"Gill, O'Tine & Hed"
Paulson - Goldman Sachs..... Treasury Secretary who rammed through the bailout for the banks. And no one went to jail, unlike in Iceland.
Bernanke - well, you saw the drunken Bernanke video.
Geithner - Tax Cheat (Turbotax screwed up) who ran the Treasury after Paulson. Now works for................Warburg, Pincus private equity firm. Making gazillions. Warburg (Paul, I believe) was instrumental in the creation of.............THE FED, way back in 1913..
THERE IS A REASON THEY DON’T TEACH HISTORY ANY MORE.
Not exactly what comes to mind when I hear the phrase, "Blonde High-Dollar Whores" but still very appropriate when applied to this picture...
My mind went there too. I went to Rhyme zone and looked up hookers and whores to see if I could come up with something that looked like he following for a caption:
"I ordered three hookers, not three_______" or "I ordered three whores, not three_______"
The best I got was bankersters, but, you know, that doesn't rhyme.
"Three nooses!?! What could they be for???"
Mr. Bernanke: "Did I say 'billion'? I think I meant 'trillion'".
Mr. Paulson: "No. You said 'trillion'. I think you meant 'billion'"
Mr. Geithner: "Billion. Trillion. Whatever."
Morticians With a Difference
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Then We Bury You
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