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Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein Reveals He Has Lymphoma

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A little over a year after Jamie Dimon said he has throat cancer, the "other" big bank CEO, Lloyd Blankfein just sent out a memo, in which he revealed he has too has cancer in the form of lymphoma, which however is "highly curable", and will continue "leading" Goldman during treatment.

The full memo:

To my colleagues, our clients and our shareholders,

 

Late this summer after several weeks of not feeling well, I underwent a series of tests, which culminated in a biopsy last week. After the biopsy, I was told by my doctors that I have lymphoma. Fortunately, my form of lymphoma is highly curable and my doctors' and my own expectation is that I will be cured.

 

My treatment plan will include chemotherapy over the next several months in New York. My doctors have advised me that during the treatment, I will be able to work substantially as normal, leading the firm. I will, however, reduce some of my previously planned travel during the treatment period.  I have discussed this approach with our Board of Directors and they are supportive.

 

There are many people who are dealing with cancer every day. I draw on their experiences as I begin my own.  I have a lot of energy and I'm anxious to begin the treatment.  I appreciate your support and good wishes.

 

Lloyd

So the two most important US bank CEOs both get cancer within a year of each other?

We wish Lloyd well - there are more appropriate venues to be held accountable (to both god and the people) than a hospital room.

 

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Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:48 | 6578364 Not if_ But When
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Yes and no.  With the "no" requiring too much internet/cloud space.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:49 | 6578376 jmcadg
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Morality? Just a small bit, is that possible, or is it just do whatever the fuck you can get away with?

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:45 | 6578341 alfred b.
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,,,,always assumed that God worked in 'mysterious ways'; but now it seems he's openly goin' after banksters with the cancer stick.....lol (ok, maybe lol was too much)

 

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:45 | 6578343 Heyoka
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How convenient.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:45 | 6578347 Cerulean
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Note the difference.                                      

Jackie Collins who passed away this week kept it veryquiet ( and she had it for 6 years) and only told her sister two weeks ago.

Blankfein tells the all world. Maybe because he is the CEO of a public company otherwise I really don't understand why the need for this disclosure

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:46 | 6578349 Not if_ But When
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In very general terms:

There is a great fallacy in religion about confessing one's sins and contrition and asking for forgiveness and and all that kind of stuff in order to pass through the gates of heaven or whatever.

I am not religious at all.  But if anyone is laboring under this opinion or belief - they are (dead) wrong.  I strongly believe it doesn't and shouldn't work that way.  If there is anything at all behind religion and this mode of thinking - one is simply ultimately judged by his actions and impact on others, period.   Last second begging for forgiveness at the end is fruitless, as it should be.

{{{  feel free to vociferously disagree  }}}

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:50 | 6578377 overmedicatedun...
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I am hoping the pharmacy makes a factor 10 dosing error, (as happens time to time to lower humans) ..reptiles however have amazing resistance to poisons.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:53 | 6578389 TrumpXVI
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It's a matter of genuine contrition, and no, simply saying, "sorry" doesn't count.  Study Matthew, can't quote you the exact chapter and verse.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:46 | 6578354 Zero-Hegemon
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It's articles like this that challenge my humanity.

"Feel the hate flow through you." ~ Darth Sidious

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:47 | 6578363 bluez
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The super rich never die of cancer. Just like all the Rockefellers he will live to be 300 years old.

Cancer death is for peasants.

I read that medical doctors refuse radiation and chemo. But they are not super rich. Merely "well-off."

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:53 | 6578397 _SILENCER
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Evil is a boomerang, Lloyd.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:53 | 6578400 khakuda
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Just God's way of warning him not to take credit for doing His work.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:54 | 6578402 lynnybee
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poor thing.   he's way too ill to endure a prison confinement.   

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:55 | 6578405 mijev
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Didn't the price of the latest cancer treatment go up 500% yesterday. Kharma's a biatch.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:57 | 6578426 The_Prisoner
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Nah, that was just another Jew playing the out-of-patent old drug games.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/ceo-raises-pills-price-from-us18-t...

I'm not making this up.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:51 | 6579017 Caleb Abell
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According to the article, the product has been on the market since 1962.  The patent is long expired, so why don't any of the other Pharma companies make a generic version?

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:55 | 6578414 behind the curtain
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Surely he is hedged, right .. ;)

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 08:57 | 6578424 Sturm und Drang
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For those of you torn between your humanity and your abject loathing of a vile insidious creature, welcome to your future.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:05 | 6578430 RighteousDude
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"You reap what you sow, more than you sow, and later than you sow."--   Rev. Charles F. Stanley

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:00 | 6578434 Brokenarrow
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im going to crack open a miny champagne and have breakfast. I hope this little bastard matastsizes and he dies an agonizing death. his ugly, mean, fay wife is probably counting the money already. she needs a real man for the evenings. now she can pay for one.

 

I never thought I had it in me to hate a group of people so much

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:02 | 6578445 kareninca
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Please, that was a good start.  But now Martin Shkreli (http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/21/drug-goes-from-1350-a-tablet-to-750-overn...).  Please, pretty please.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:04 | 6578449 pot_and_kettle
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[ fuck it, i can't say someone " deserves " that shit ]

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:54 | 6579042 HowdyDoody
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It's OK if you think it, when the someone is a malicious evil POS.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:03 | 6578453 djsmps
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Good

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:05 | 6578457 Son of Captain Nemo
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Would havew preferred throwing the motherfucker along with Dimon and Silverstein off of One World Trade Center!..

We can only hope the cancer is more angry than the millions of investors andcountries he's screwed!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:47 | 6578637 Son of Captain Nemo
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P.S. ...

I see a disappearing act in this man's future like brother Houdini could never accomplish!  if he's not cryogenically frozen and placed in a "pyramid" then he and George Soros will be camping out in the bunker 3 miles below sea level...

They really love their magic tricks don't they? And with good reason for the fucking crooks they are!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:09 | 6578460 Joe A
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God doing his work for Blankfein saying that he is doing God's work.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:06 | 6578465 astoriajoe
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So maybe california will label tbtf bank ceo positions as carcinogens. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:08 | 6578474 Oldballplayer
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I am no Bible thumper.  But I have read it.

When I heard this news, I first thought of the book of Ecclesiastes.

This douche is working to screw the little guy and the masses.  To what end?  As the good book says, when you are dead it all amounts to pissing into the wind.

I hope he learns his lesson, changes his way.  Or he is going to be one disappointed asshole when he finds out it meant nothing.

 

---Of course, I was shorting the market, so I am pretty chipper today!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:08 | 6578476 Praeda2
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God wills it xD. Happy, happy, joy, joy. Finally some good news today. NEXT ROUNDS ON ME CUNTS.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:09 | 6578478 bluskyes
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Trying to escape justice? I'm sure death will bring a more rapid, severe justice than he ever dreamed.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:11 | 6578487 rita
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And like him millions of people have Lymphomas  around the world and it does not make news!

But unlike him many will not have the money to cure it!Possibly these that will die were all their life honest people, unlike himself.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:12 | 6578500 SgtShaftoe
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There is a god!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:13 | 6578502 Jack Daniels Esq
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HRC diagnosed with a brain tumor - according to her private proctologist

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:59 | 6579434 Nobody For President
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Chuckle of the morning - took me a couple of reads to get that one...

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:13 | 6578503 doggis
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KARMA IS THE ARBITRATOR AND SENTENCER OF ITS OWN JUSTICE.

 

NO ONE IS EXEMPT.

 

love and peace to you!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:15 | 6578516 idontcare
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Hey God,  wouldn't the Ken Lay solution be more effective?

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:22 | 6578519 juicy_bananas
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My grandfather died of lymphoma.  I certainly hope this makes Lloyd see the light and turn from his evil ways.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 15:33 | 6580721 Comte d'herblay
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He's blind and cannot see.  Even if he were able to, he would still think he's doing god's work and never change.  He's likely working right now on some personal doomsday scenario that included screwing even more clueless pensioners, investors, and plastic blow up dolls. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:16 | 6578520 Downtoolong
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I’m not a doctor, but even I can find more things wrong with Lloyd Blankfein than a case of Lymphoma.

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:18 | 6578532 Nico Bellik
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Karma!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:21 | 6578548 mijev
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So the doctor calls in Lloyd and says, "look Mr Wankstain, there's some good news and there's some.... Ah fuck it, it's all good news."

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:22 | 6578555 cn13
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First Jaime and now Lloyd.

I KNEW there is a God. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:23 | 6578560 Itch
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Well the clocks go back in October, so he'll get an extra hour.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:31 | 6578597 bardot63
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Doctor says I have good news and bad news.

What's the good news?

You have one day to live.

What's the bad news?

I was supposed to tell you yesterday.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:29 | 6578587 bardot63
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Who honestly gives a fuck?  Why is this news? 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 15:30 | 6580705 Comte d'herblay
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All of those who know the control that this Zionist Jew has had over the FED, Treasury, and everything in between, to say nothing of the screwing that he engineered in MBS's against practically everyone in the world who once got a 5% interest payement from some of those AAA rated pieces of shit that he and his accomplices assembled and sold to pension funds, and others.

That's who gives a fuck.

Vengeance, however gained, is sweet.  One hopes that this human garbage suffers immensely.  There really is only one thing in this world that trumps all the billions he has fraudulently paid himself and that is good health.  Most seriously ill people would give up all their money,  if they could be cured and restored to reasonably good health. 

It's nice to know that a burden on our culture, country, and finances might just be gone in a few years, after being scared stiff, undergoing a variety of failed attempts to save his sorry ass. 

If I were a pray-er, i'd do so, but hoping is just as valuable. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:40 | 6578633 Meat Hammer
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I'm lying in bed, I open my eyes wondering what the new day will bring, reach over to my bedside table and grab my phone to see what's on ZH, and the first thing I see is a story about a soulless scumbag having a deadly disease. Woohoo!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:45 | 6578664 Brokenarrow
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business insider has a new trick: when they post a story about one of their heros they block the comments. they dont want the readers to see all that hate for lloyd. imagine how many people wish this man dead? im havih a mamosa right now in celebration. and, all that "curab;e" stuff lloyd is selling? i know a guy that was dead six months from diagnosis.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:49 | 6578686 Government need...
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Karma's a bitch.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:54 | 6578698 Raul44
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I am so full of joy today. First I read about Russians marching into Syria to help people, now this! See Lloyd, in the end you too are still only a man, if one can call you that. Doing god`s work doesnt mean he make you immortal. Beer on me for everyone!!!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:05 | 6579474 Nobody For President
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Thanks! But I'm having a nice glass of very local Savigon Blanc to celebrate. Wine on me for everyone!!!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 15:01 | 6580560 Raul44
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Here, try this Château d'Yquem...

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:52 | 6578701 Chad_the_short_...
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There is a god. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 09:54 | 6578709 Conax
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I saw a story a while back where they noted that the people are becoming aware of the bankster's villainy and scumbaggery.

Now this.

Stuff it Lloyd, you lying pig. 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:05 | 6578763 MsCreant
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That poor cancer! It has a bad case of Lloyd! Hope it can get rid of it.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:08 | 6578781 RabbitChow
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It's funny, i almost feel the same way i did when i discovered that David Rocker, aka king of the shorts, had leukemia.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:09 | 6578791 BernankeHasHemo...
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As he is dying and gasping for his last breaths, I would take a big runny diarrhea shit right into his face so that he is dying drowning in my shit. THIS IS WHAT HE DESERVES. I would torture him and cut off pieces of his face and cut out his bowels and let the dogs eat them while he watches. I would keep him alive for months so I could inflict every kind of pain imaginable on him. MAY HE ROT IN HELL.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:12 | 6578805 James .T .Bond
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wish  a.weber  Union Bk of Satan to get same present.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:03 | 6579456 JonNadler
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Satan may have a problem with his name being linked to Goldman

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:14 | 6578818 SirBarksAlot
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Here is a song dedicated to Lloyd.  "I Started a Joke" by the Bee Gees.  I hope it makes you feel better, Lloyd.

https://youtu.be/ZHTO_KGFlsQ

I started a joke which started the whole world crying

but I didn't see that the joke was on me.

I started to cry which started the whole world laughing

of if I'd only seen that the joke was on me.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:24 | 6578850 starman
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Die piece of shit!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:25 | 6578853 youngman
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I hope his Doctor is a ZH follower..may he will give him placebos instead...

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:32 | 6578887 RealityCheque
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Hope it hurts.

After sucking the blood from good people for your entire life, karma has seen fit to poison your own blood. She's a funny bitch like that.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:35 | 6578898 Badsamm
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God says hello

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:36 | 6578909 Lex_Luthor
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Is this bullish or not?

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:50 | 6579006 HowdyDoody
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"Lymphoma is the most common form of hematological malignancy, or "blood cancer", in the developed world."

Poor Lloyd. Even the mighty Chosenites are not immune to the most common disease classes.

Bibi is fucked over Iran, and is being fucked over Syria. Now this. God does move in mysterious ways.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 10:53 | 6579038 Arthur Schopenhauer
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Lloyd, a weird holy man who does God's work is coming to drop a cactus down your shorts.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:06 | 6579123 loveyajimbo
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HURRAY!!!  I am rooting hard for the lymphoma team... GO, team... GO!!!  And when you are done with the vile roach Blankfein, climb up the a-holes of Dimon, Rice, Holder, Hilly-roid, Harf, Cummings and Piglosi.  Oh yeah... and Brennan.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:08 | 6579140 The man with po...
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Fukushima anyone? If you're travelling to Japan and breathe in a hot particle... Well there's only a FUCKING TON of them after reactor unit 3 exploded and scattered spent, burning, fuel rods all over the plant.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:09 | 6579146 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Die, die, die, Blankfein, you pond scum effin' motherfucking piece of shit.

 

Thank you for answering my prayers, God. Now put it in gear, and finish this synagogue of Satan worshiping money whore off once and for all.

 

p.s. Chemotherapy is rough, Blankfein, take the easy way out and JUMP off of the roof of Goldman Hacks like a good Bankster should.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:17 | 6579200 Bill of Rights
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With his money Im sure the cancer cure will do its job, big money gets the real cure, not the fake radiation therapy us serfs have to deal with.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:30 | 6579265 mendolover
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There are forms of leukemia that you would never know someone had.  I call bullshit.  What?  The one truthful thing that comes out of his mouth in how long, and he's telling us he's got leukemia?  Same with Dimon.  And if it's so easily treated than why even announce it?

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:31 | 6579283 cluelessminion
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As someone who finished chemotherapy last year, it bugs me the way people talk about cancer.  Believe me you can do all of the right things and still get it.  I have nothing but sympathy for anyone dealing with this disease.  You guys need to chill on the "deserve" comments.  Lots of good people get cancer too.

 

Having said that, this announcement is not passing the smell test.  I too believe that he's packing his parachute.

 

Shit is about to get real.,

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:36 | 6579310 HowdyDoody
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Normal poeople have sympathy for normal people who get cancer. Blankfein is worthy of a much sympathy as he has for those he screws over.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:38 | 6579318 HowdyDoody
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Is it too late to take out life insurance on a certain very rich bankster?

 

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:50 | 6579377 hangemhigh77
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DIE MOTHERFUCKER !!! DIE!!!!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:51 | 6579385 hangemhigh77
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Hey Lloyd, here's to hoping you have a slow painful rotting death. Have a nice day motherfucker

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:53 | 6579394 hangemhigh77
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I certainly pray to God, any God that can hear me, please don't let him be cured. Please kill this asshole for the sake of humanity. Then if there is another world make him a peasant.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:01 | 6579444 JonNadler
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he better hope the doctor that operates was not invested in Timberwolf--you know that shitty deal

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:03 | 6579458 hangemhigh77
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Lloyd I have the cure for your ailment. Take a double barrel sawed off 12 gauge shotgun, put both barrels in your mouth. Now squeeze the trigger really hard. In s nano second you will be in the next world. Oh sorry, the cure I spoke of was for the rest of the world not you.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:12 | 6579526 0cool
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A speedy and easy recovery Lloyd. 

Am Yisrael Chai!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:12 | 6579527 0cool
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A speedy and easy recovery Lloyd. 

Am Yisrael Chai!

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:15 | 6579540 Nobody For President
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From Wikipedia, Prognosis:

"Treatment of Hodgkin's disease has been improving over the past few decades. Recent trials that have made use of new types of chemotherapy have indicated higher survival rates than have previously been seen. In one recent European trial, the 5-year survival rate for those patients with a favorable prognosis was 98%, while that for patients with worse outlooks was at least 85%.[30]

In 1998, an international effort[31] identified seven prognostic factors that accurately predict the success rate of conventional treatment in patients with locally extensive or advanced stage Hodgkin's lymphoma. Freedom from progression (FFP) at 5 years was directly related to the number of factors present in a patient. The 5-year FFP for patients with zero factors is 84%. Each additional factor lowers the 5-year FFP rate by 7%, such that the 5-year FFP for a patient with 5 or more factors is 42%.

The adverse prognostic factors identified in the international study are:

Well, he IS over 45 and male ...

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:36 | 6579674 Joebloinvestor
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I hope LLoyd makes it through 3 or 4 rounds of chemo before he expires like an option.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 13:11 | 6579895 ElectroGravitic
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Goldman says this is a $600 Trillion nut.
Actually it's bigger.

A misanthropic cabal has hidden cheap, clean energy from humanity for more than 100 years. Since the price of energy is embedded in everything from food to housing, this has caused damages in excess of $600 Trillion in addition to unnecessarily destroying our only planet. Put a price on that!

I hope he survives treatment, so he can stand trial.

Source: https://youtu.be/0gVLv5eg4Xg?t=5093

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 14:52 | 6580501 Demdere
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He should monitize his death, pay per view.  A new social form, death parties.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 18:37 | 6581600 Jam
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I wonder Lloyd is bullish on Platinum now.

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 21:40 | 6582248 Magooo
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Seeing as he was doing god's work --- then god must be a real cocksucker ....  maybe LB should take this to the labour board.

 

 

Wed, 09/23/2015 - 04:22 | 6582868 The Darwin Mode
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"We wish Lloyd well." --Tyler

I don't. Get that weak-ass token BS out of here...

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