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Guest Post: And The Douchebag Of The Year Award Goes To……
Submitted by Mark McHugh from Across the Street
And The Douchebag Of The Year Award Goes To……
Unless February 29th is the new April Fool’s Day, I’m pretty sure Alan Dlugash locked up DOTY with this remark:
People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress. Could you imagine what it’s like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?”
Dluglash is describing the horror of scraping by on $350,000 a year. Really. How could you lucky bastards ever understand?
Ordinary Americans, with their fancy foodstamps and foreclosure notices, are increasingly turning a blind eye to the plight of the people who outsourced their jobs. You just don’t get it, do you? These people are light years smarter than you, and they work really hard. Now things are so dire, some are actually considering sending their kids to school with your germy kids. It’s bad.
Some have even been forced to shop for discount Salmon. How could people who enjoy cat food ever understand that kind of humiliation? If someone doesn’t halt this death spiral soon they may have to settle for Microsoft products (which even poor people hate).
This is all a joke, right? Cause if it’s not, wait ’til they find out about Walmart….
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Clearly many people will want to help him with his problem.
Perhaps he should pick one of those "care-free" people to favor by trading burdens.
Let him eat cake!
let him eat fist!
Let him eat Rand.
Couldn't stop myself.
Let him rot homeless.
Whatta douchewoggle. I suppose he'd also be offended if he was noosed with just average hemp.
did you guys see that tim tebow is dating taylor swift...
oh wow...now THAT's news. can we get a 24/7 coverage of this? americans NEED this sort of shit, err, i mean news.
i was just trying to the steal away the douchebag of the year award...
It's tough times, even for The Onion. Real life satire is just too good anymore. Why read The Onion when the regular news is funnier.
And Snooki's pregnant.
The end is nigh.
And the Daydream Believer is dead. And so goes Pleasant Valley Sunday.
If he said "fuck" more publicly, he would still be alive. At least that's my theory. Fuck.
Really !!!
C'mon, these people aren't the haves. They're above average in terms of income, but not wealthy.
The haves are the ones who make that in a month, or a week. Some of them legitimately obtain such money because they work hard, providing a service or good that's in demand, and they have figured out an efficient, profitable way to satisfy that demand. Others who generate this type of income are Crony Capitalists (which is essentially the same thing as anti-capitalists), or people who inherit such income streams or lump sums of wealth in the 8 or 9 or 10 figure range (and these people are merely lucky, but unlike the Crony Capitalists, they haven't manipulated the system or cheated anyone - those who showered them with such wealth may have, however, and thus they're as tainted as the cheater, under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine).
The wealth divide in the U.S. is (I believe - correct me if I'm mistaken) greater than any other developed nation. I don't mind a wealth divide, but the problem I have is the manner in which that wealth divide occurs. Many, many, many of 'the haves' (I'll call them people who earn 500k+ a year and/or who have 10 million+ of liquidity, ranging all the way up to the true haves, who have income of tens of millions per year and net wealth of the hundreds of millions) have come into such a position through not what, but who, they know, and not by the fruits of their talent or labor, but the creativity and ingenuity of their scheming.
Many CEOs of large corporations do make 300 to 500 times the pay of the average employee at the company they are managing, which is far higher than the 30 to 40 times a Japanese CEO would make, or the 80 to 100 times a typical, similarly situated German CEO would make. Is this unjust? I can't provide an absolute answer as there are so many variables.
[I have a seperate opinion about this as it relates to part of a greater equity market investing scam, IMO, however. Without getting into the other details about how things such as index rejiggering/survivorship bias, failure to account for adverse tax consequences of anything other than long term buy&hold, etc., alter the REPORTED HISTORICAL performance of equity market investing by people like Jeremy Siegel, too many publicly traded corporations today are lying when their management claims their goal is to maximize shareholder value. In fact, it can be proven through actions and numbers that the publicly traded corporation, more often than not, is a vehicle by which upper management can bleed incredible amounts of money from the company, like a parasite on a host, through the use of exorbinant and lavish perks like use of jets and massive housing stipends and expense accounts, golden parachute retirement packages, exorbitant pay and benefits, etc.]
Crony Capitalism is the real problem.
A classic example of the Crony Capitalist in modern day America is some guy who lands the administration of a city's pension fund because he went to school with a high ranking official in that city who has the authority to mete out such contracts, and who provides all kinds of kickbacks to that high ranking official and their family and friends in order to ensure continuation of that contract; or a defense contractor who similarly lands a contract providing products (maybe even shoddy products) to the government/military, not because they are providing the best products at the best price, in a true competitive process, but because they know someone or even a group of people (or politicians...awww!) who have the authority to award the contract(s).
Speaking of Crony Capitalists who cheat the system, rob people blind, and are pond scum, generally speaking:
#WhereIsJonCorzine
as a comedian once explained the difference between being rich and being wealthy.goes like this:
Shaq,the player,makes 41 million$ a year.he plays 82 basketball games a year.that's 500,000$ a game.that man is RICH.the man who signs his paychecks is WEALTHY!
True wealth is having a lock on a segment of a vital means of production or supply of services, which guarantees an income stream of massive proportion for life (and beyond). Think Getty. Carlos Slim and Lakshmi Mittal are there (major control of large segments of global production of cement and steel, respectively).
What many people think of as wealthy is what you're referring to by way of Chris Rock's comments, which rings true. Look at all the entertainers and athletes who once were worth many millions and are now bankrupt.
I believe Mike Tyson literally burned through 360 million dollars.
The same Getty that wouldn't sum to jack squat without the copyright lobby? You need a better example.
J. Paul Getty the oil magnate.
Copyright lobby?
One of us is missing something. It could be me. If so, let me know.
Getty Photo's. I think owned by a Getty trust capitolizing on the various pictures and art work Getty aquired. Just the rich getting richer.
Getty is an exellent example. He was a college educated wildcatter who got very lucky (by his own admission) and who was stubborn enough that he would never sell out to standard oil. He ran Getty oil his whole life, costing him numerous wives. He lived to work, and when he was gone, the family(s) shred Getty oil.
Exactly. This is the profound state of pathological entitlement that drives the wholesale siphoning of public corporate assets by a class of sociopaths who have built a business culture which actively supports and promotes it.
I think we blur the role of this dynamic in our various attributions to, e.g., "the banks". The genuine needs and interests of "the banks" and other large corporations are quite different from those of the pirates who run and plunder them. The most obvious example is reserves for mortgage related and other losses that are lowballed on balance sheets in order to show "profits" that recklessly place the survival of the corporation itself at risk in order to allow outsized bonuses.
Hobart Very good sir, very good. Oh, there's some charity people
here to see you sir.
Navin Mo, send them away! There's a lot of people more deserving
than me.
Hobart Ah, but these people want you to give.
Navin Oh, o.k.
- The Jerk
nice ref!
his three kids are training to be douchbags too
he should really consider downgrading from 3 maseratis to 2. times are hard and we all need to sacrifice.
in a similar vein http://books.google.com/books?id=u0W4zg1OzBEC&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=brok...
I quit working for him at least 10 times in my life. With style.
The Big Ching-aso said:
Andrew Schiff, Douchebag of the Year: "Wait a minute, this noose isn't silk! And just look at that lamp post - it doesn't even have brass fittings!"
I read the article and Peter Schiff's brother was crying about this also, what a bunch of fakes!
so much for a political career
The synopsis is somewhat inaccurate.
The person complaining about not getting by on $350,000 is not Dluglash, but Andrew Schiff, brother of Peter Schiff, who works as director of marketing at Euro Pacific Capital.
The fellow Dluglash is a financial planner for the wealthy, and he's making a sort of suppositionary statement about the kinds of things that his clients might and will say in light of their smaller paychecks.
One of Schiff's quotes:
“I wouldn’t want to whine,” Schiff said. “All I want is the stuff that I always thought, growing up, that successful parents had.”
There are bigger douches in the article, like "Wall Street headhunter Daniel Arbeeny," who "...drove to Fairway Market in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn to buy discounted salmon for $5.99 a pound."
Or this other guy, Richard Scheiner: "Scheiner said he spends about $500 a month to park one of his two Audis in a garage and at least $7,500 a year each for memberships at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester and a gun club in upstate New York. A labradoodle named Zelda and a rescued bichon frise, Duke, cost $17,000 a year, including food, health care, boarding and a daily dog-walker who charges $17 each per outing, he said."
Or this guy, Hans Kullberg:
Hans Kullberg, 27, a trader at Wyckoff, New Jersey-based hedge fund Falcon Management Corp. who said he earns about $150,000 a year, is adjusting his sights, too.
After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, he spent a $10,000 signing bonus from Citigroup Inc. (C) on a six-week trip to South America. He worked on an emerging-markets team at the bank that traded and marketed synthetic collateralized debt obligations.
What little pity I can muster for other human beings is normally reserved for children born with terminal diseases, people who have been unjustly incarcerated, people attempting to escape from terrible governments like Communist Cuba, Stasi Germany, and maybe a few others. Dopes that get involved in financial douchebaggery trading derivative-upon-derivative products that they probably don't even understand, all because their Pavlovian desire to acquire fiat $$$ has overridden all sense of morality and rationality, will get none from me. They deserve to bear the brunt of the consequences for their "thintelligent" behavior - mastering details of high finance, but utterly failing to grasp the larger picture of the rise and fall of all empires.
All that stuff that Schiff and the rest of these loons wants - material possessions - was only made possible by American Empire; just like massive country houses and servants were only made possible by British Empire. These guys probably watched too many movies as children and bought it into the glamorous, Madison-avenue manufactured lifestyle being shown. They felt entitled to the "good life." Now that it seems to be slipping through their fingers, they get to complain about it on Bloomberg.
What most Ayn Rand worshiping douches don't understand is that their lifeboat has a hole in it. They can pull up the ladder all they want on the help who jumped in after them, but they will be drowing right along with them when the hole gets big enough. Meanwhile, the owner of the White Star line will call up the insurance company and report his claim on his way to the Club.
Having read your stuff over the past several months, it has become ever more clear to me that you have never read a word by Ayn Rand. Or if you did, you are too shallow and myopic to see the myriad issues she confronted, brought to the table, and hashed out in broad daylight. Were I so inclined, I would school you, but I honestly dont think you want to know or understand some of her prescient brilliance. Was she right all the time? No. Was she right about everything? Not even close.
Did her entire philosophy revolve around a self-centered, uncharitable, "I got mine, so fuck you" existance. Not by any stretch.
Grow the hell up and think for once.
I was gonna bring up Rand, so this looks like the place...
I read The Fountainhead a long long time ago and one of the clearer memories was a character complaining that because he was born rich, unlike Roark, he never had a chance to prove himself by climbing out of adversity. For this, he held Roark as having an unfair advantage over him.
I remember at the time thinking Rand was maybe fudging just a little to make her case seem stronger than it really was. Felt the same way when I read AS as well.
Anyway, isn't it amazing to see real life people uttering things just as ridiculous as her "evil" characters did?
On an unrelated note in the late 90s a Canadian politician once said high taxes were a benefit to people because the govt was helping people to become more efficient with the money they were allowing us to keep!
Was she wrong all of the time? No. She certainly was correct that competing simplistic ideologies such as communism are incredibly destructive and unworkable. But she was a narcissist who created her central philosophy -- openly -- based upon pure self-interest and personal greed. If you don't see that, you are the one that needs to reread her.
ok - prove it. Cite one reference that PROVES your idiotic rant. Go ahead, we're babes in the woods waiting for your enlightenment
IDIOT!
Forget about trying to reason with him..., the dickhead isn't worth the effort.
Wake up!
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/09/ayn-rand-leading-light-for-generation.html
this reference seems relevant.
ayn rand, who let me, when i was fourteen, see the value of reading books as a way of understanding the world, rather than as mere entertainment or facts, does not, imo, stay as persuasive as one ages. absolutes, like living for oneself, don't seem as convincing after (step) grandchildren. selfishness, like automatic weapons, is a resource best used with utmost discretion. clearly those in the article above (and the crony capitalists broadly defined) have been engaging in some poorly planned drivebys.
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
-John Rogers
History. All of it.
Just what I thought. Your sub-chimp IQ couldn't come up with any examples. Quit your whining, you worthless sack of shit parasite. Just kill yourself to take your family out of it's misery of living with a douchebag like you
Ya know, that's some really lame shit your shoveling, dim sun.
You lame brains deserve lame shit. Shove it up your ass, sonny boy.
You want an example?
Here you go: http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/09/ayn-rand-leading-light-for-generation.html
Even Jesus of Nazareth couldn't please everyone, get over it.
. "Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values." -Ayn Rand. What is Ayn's baseline for moral integrity? What does Ayn consider her happiness? According to Ayn's own words, she only answers to her own moral integrity. Being an atheist, she has rejected the Creator's moral authority and substituted her own. She epitomizes the delusion of the goodness of man and is another great example of false humility. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is more deceitful than all else and in desperately wicked; who can know it?
You want proof?
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/09/ayn-rand-leading-light-for-generation.html
Hard to argue with, no?
She defeated this argument herself on Phil Donahue. You can find it on youtube. Of course, the audience wouldn't listen, much like LetThemEatRand.
Philosophies based off the self interest and greed inherent in humanity are the only ones that are SUS-TAIN-A-BLE.
Agreed. but greed needs to be held in check by rules that apply to all and personal risk. The US has removed both through it's crony capitalist system and bailout mentality.
Personal greed needs no rules UNLESS that greed impinges on the rights of other individuals....Those rules are basic natural laws that most people would agree with and, through the years of human history, have encompassed what is known as 'common law'...
And they will, everytime. Common law or common sense doesn't work for the 1%. If you allow them to be above the law you get... well you get the current US situation. I agree that we don't need the 10's of thousands of regs currently on the books because all they do is effectively state "you are not allowed to do such and such, unless...(enter exception clause(s) here)" The Founders were well aware that lady justice must be blind.
That's where the socialists and big brother types are wrong. Anybody is free to make as much money as they want as long as they do not steal from others. Where is the crime in starting a business and making huge profits by selling a legitimate product or service? Only the 0bama types think that profit is a crime, unless they profit off crony capitalism
That's where social injustice comes into play. They select a group they think has been wronged, coincidently this is usually their voting base, and set about to correct it. As a resu;t we get more regs and the noose of big government gets tighter around our necks. And of course, they just flat out pander to the Wall Street types.
Where did 'common' or 'natural' law come from? Are you regulating that greed by your own moral compass? If you agree with Ayn on self-regulating personal greed, then you must conclude there is a principle of goodness in yourself, thereby eliminating the need for God. Good luck with that.
I happen to find Taoism quite the contrary...
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
~Lao-tzu
LOL.
How about this example of self interest and greed?
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/09/ayn-rand-leading-light-for-generation.html
I've often wondered if George Orwell would have written a sequel to Animal Farm had he lived to see the publication of Rand's work. I suspect he would have done so.
Thank you.
What most Ayn Rand haters don't understand is that more regulators and other gov't bureaucrats are not going to save them. In the best case they will sue the owner after you have drowned, and add 200 pages of legislation on lifeboats.
Wrong. Ayn Rand haters think that there is a whole world out there beyond government regulators and fucking douchebag narcissists. Ayn Rand worshipers think there is a Bentley dealership with their entitlement car waiting for them.
Why do fucking douchebag cocksuckers like you care what others do? Why don't you pissbags complain about the corrupt government regulators who refuse to enforce the law? Instead you fascist cocksuckers keep bitching about people who are successful on their own without handouts from the government.
I haven't seen you comment about John Corzine and what your precious regulators have done. I haven't seen you comment on the douchebag obama's proclamation that no crime was committed at MFG. What do you think about that situation?
You hate this guy who makes $350K per year, how about the guy who stole $1.2 billion and the DOJ that refuses to bring any charges? How about the douchebag president who greedily accepted tens of millions bundled up by Corzine?
I once was smitten by Ayn, but then I grew up
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/09/ayn-rand-leading-light-for-generation.html
ahh, such clear thinking in your words r00t61 - great post!
not enough acknowledgment that amrkn "lifestyles" have come on the back of those nationstates occupied by corporate military making the space "safe" for big business, sucking up resources, and humans, in the name of "humanitarian regime change" - all of this allowed amrka to "prosper" over the decades. . .
and now that corporations are looking elsewhere in their race to the bottom, with the highest positioned reaping huge multiples of the lowest paid wages, all pretense at benevolence is gone, and we are left listening to the wails of the wealthy - "but but - we deserve better! and more!"
says who?
He can eat ya darling but first which union is in your shop?
Yes, unfortunately for Randistas we're individuals condemned to live in groups. Thus nobody gets it all their own way all the time. I think the current state of the global economy indicates something inherently wrong in simplistic notions of mere self-interest being sufficient to organize populations of millions or more. But that's just me, ya'll are free to do your thing anyway...
Rand should be thrilled to participate in the Market by letting herself be eaten.
I would've thought Corzine qualified as the Douchebag of the Year. Who knew?
Let him be fisted...............
A mouthfull of bloody Chicklets for him.
Cake or death is a very easy question to answer now isn't it. Well we are all out of cake, so choose.
FYI.....he's already eating cake....but what IS wrong with him is that he wouldn't know the difference between cake and a bale of hay!
...elitous douchebag!!!
Cake in this context may not mean what you think it means..
dont let him eat
I saw the article on Yahoo today and couldn't believe it. But then I was distracted by more important stuff like Snooki being pregnant.
Baaaaaaa.
Good for you, way to focus on what's important. A model for all of us, I say...
Davy Jones is DEAD!! No more Pleasant Valley Sundays!
I would have thought Corzine would be the hands down Douchebag of the Year award winner. Who knew?
Ben Bernanke
I was thinking Bumma, an obvious candidate as it's now crystal clear the biggest suicide socialist spending orgy in global history did fuk-all for the US economy last year and won't arrive this year either
But Bubble Ben must run him a close 2nd given evey 'solution' (QE1, QE2, QE-Lite, QE-Twist, QE Under-the-Table, QE Back-Door and soon QE-Toxic-Mortgage) has failed requirng yet another fuking misguided program
as failures go these two losers are historic epic figures
How can you say they are failures? If their goal is to destroy the USA then they are succeeding beyond any historic measure. They have accomplished what no other adversary has in almost 250 years. (Just a matter of perspective, that's all.)
Fuck, there goes my self-imposed ban on posting. Made it 2 days...
Junk? Guess I should have put the /s tag on. Thought it was obvious.
i admire your self-discipline not to post
lasted 2 days you say? ....formiddable... my 'No Popcorn' diet collapses in under 5 hours usually
It is all relative...until you get a pitch-fork shoved in your douchebag ass.
Honestly I hope these idiots get more coverage. Time for a revolt. Tired of being paid for my labor in fraudulent money and my asking prices suppressed by global cartels. Time for some assholes to get tapped and capped.
This is a popular comment? Bravado by yet another internet tough guy?
You want to impress me pal. Tell me something you have done this week to be generous and supportive of someone in your immediate community. I didn't think so.
i'm an internet tough guy and i fucked a chicken
..and no i'm not triyng to impress you, i'm trying to depress you
BTW before you write "I didn't think so" again give the guy a chance to respond (and get his dick out the chicken)
Don't black people resent white trash acting black? I would.
you've a fantastic imagination ...you've easily impressed me internet tough guy
now go fuck a chicken
It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast.
Keep fuckin' that chicken.
Tough as nails.
Ok, this week? Not much. This last year:
Community clean-up organized.
Helped 4 people change their eating habits.
Helped 2 people through divorces.
Helped my nephew with college after he returned from duty in Iraq.
Donated to USO, Ron Paul, Red Cross.
Volunteered at the Library.
Donated to womens' shelter (several times).
Donated to earthquake relief for Japan.
Hired several people in my business paying good wages (6 figure) instead of off-shoring.
Attend community crime watch meetings.
Not a saint, but not a douche-bag like you.
For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf (timeline thing again), and our iniquities, like the wind,take us away. Isaiah 64:6 (I added the parenthesis)
Go forth, alleviate some suffering: htpp://www.worldvision.org
Somewhere in the World, a child needs yer help for around $35/month.
So now we're going after people who make $350K per year? While I feel no sympathy for him, he is nowhere near filthy rich, especially if he lives in NYC or SF. Half the people at Google make more than that. Maybe they should all be strung up too.
0bozo and his class warfare rhetoric has gotten to you. The people we need to target are the bluebloods, billionaires and multi-national corporations that are using their wealth to loot the nation through bribing politicians and regulators.
Notice that the class warfare cretins never talk about the crony capitalists and bailouts. The useful idiots only target small and medium businesses and successful professionals with more regulations and taxes, when they were not the ones that looted and bankrupted the world. The class warfare cretins are the tools and mouthpieces of the wealthy elites that control the world and are trying to deflect attention away from their masters.
Divided and conquered we are, hmmm.
Clearly he is an optimistic leader. He needs a promotion and bonus.
Jesus Fucking Christ is about all I have to say about that. Wow. I hope someone tosses a pie in his face or even KO's the dickhead.
It's hard to offend me. Impressive.
so you're hard to offend but easily impressed
Are you VP Joe Biden durimg his socio-economic friendship/courtship/love-affair with Jon Corzine?
You're not special. A lot of stupid people make no sense.
i didn't claim i was special ..you've got ahead of yourself.. check if your heads up your arse
Easy. You say, "kids, welcome to the Newark Public school system. This is your new warden. Say Hi to Principal Knuckles."
Reminds me of Latrell Sprewwell who once turned down a three-year,$21 million contract extension saying, "I've got my family to feed,"
And he never played in the League again.
Patrick Ewing supposedly once said:"Yeah we make a lot of money, but we spend a lot of money."
That's different. Professional athletes are supposed to be douchebags.
Meh. I still say the douchebag of the year goes to Ben Bernanke. Or Tim Geithner. Or Jose Barroso. Or...
The difference is, those guys Know they're DBs...and they revel in it. This cat hasn't got clue one how douchey he sounds.
He has a job, his employer is willing to pay him $350K to do that job--that's their own business, none of my concern. And sure, if he makes that for so long, him and his family are used to a certain lifestyle. Good for them. Sure, the picture of his stupid mug makes me want to punch him in the face, but that's my issue.
Bernanke, Geithner, et al., are willingfully fucking the financial lives of millions and millions of people all over the fucking world, with the same tired, old and failed policies, flushing more of our taxpayer money and utility value of the cash I already have, down the proverbial toilet
Makes them bigger douchebags in my book. Fuck them all.
Good point. Criminality is distinguished by the concept of 'malice aforethought'.
Focus people.
John Corzine. Fucking douch has 1.2MM of MY MONEY. Sonofabitch.
A dark alley is all I wish for.
i would have said hello by now
Yes....Corzine has my vote for king of the "D"
Frankly I'm shocked that none of the people who got MF'd by Corzine have either the rage and/or the skill set to visit some vigilante justice upon that bastard.
I am shocked as well, but I'd also presume that he's well protected and likely keeping out of range. I also wouldn't be surprised if there was an uptick in the usual law enforcement "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" entrapment ads to snag people thinking in this way. I'd much prefer he get a nice long prison sentence to set an example, rather the vigilante justice. I think that scares banksters more.
There is more than enough money at play here that he shouldn't let his bodyguard's contract lapse any time soon. Anyone who didn't grow up in the priveledged elite reality bubble would be scared shitless about snipers -- of course, that might actually help TPTB as it would eliminate a key player with knowledge of both what happened, and more importantly, who ordered him to do it.
The more I think about it, the more I think Corzine should have a raging case of insomnia, if he were sane.
On the plus side, it took Ben himself to take out gold today, and we've already covered $30 from the low; I take this as a sign that they don't have many more Corzines in the wings, and thus running low on human assets and losing control of the big game.
'A nice long prison sentence...' dream on my friend, dream on. One of th benefits of being part of the ruling class is that you're not beholden to the rules that govern the great unwashed. Corzine's only worry would be that his 'friends' throw him under the bus and make him part of said 'unwashed underclass'.
It's Jon. Just in case you go looking for him.
don't forget that the court still addresses him as the honorable.......what a joke of a system that is!!
Apparently you haven't seen this:
and further on:
quotes from:
Doubtful Signs of a Criminal Case Against MF Globalhttp://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/doubtful-signs-of-a-criminal-case...
Yeah...that one was pinged around on Twitter today. Totally disgusting. The fellow should climb aboard a net jet and get the fuck out of here.
However, I'm going to stick with B. Bernanke from today's HH testimony FTW: "We are not spending anyone's money."
I thought his best remark was:
[Looks over his shoulder]
[Looks back over his shoulder]
[Looks back over his shoulder]
And this after last year's winner:
Really? Is he really this dumb? Or does he think we won't remember when he lies and acts stupid?
I wondered if anyone else caught that moment...
How did you like the Bernank smirk just then?
Yes, he's really that dumb. The people in offices with official titles are subjected to an IQ cap. IMHO. Like cops. Dumbest fuckers you want to meet these days.
...wrong, and maybe you will agree, they are evil. The reason why I say this is because, for some strange reason, which is now clear enough, I kept crossing paths with a brain surgeon, in the span of about three weeks or so, right when his new book about himself came out. Guys name is Ben Carson.
...so I listened to this awesome story, as Dr. Ben, the Brain Surgeon spoke it in person in front of me. This guy separated twins connected at the brain. He did it in South Africa at a lesser Hospital there. The White nutballs there rejected his request to use the best South Africa had to offer. The kids are normal teens now, running around perfectly normal. Anyway, so then I saw the guy again and that is when I found out he just wrote a book about it all. That was a weird coincidence. After that, I'm sitting and checking out what's on CSPAN, there he is again ...doing a signing in D.C. and CSPAN is there live, if I recall. I never knew or even heard this guys name, muchless saw him before or after this. Who shows up at the signing? The other Ben. Now there are two Dr. Bens, one that I though was a smart guy and the other an evil dipshit. So I'm listening and Chairsatan walks over and Carson starts talking, and kills my image of him, and says something so evil. He said people making 60 grand should not be so stupid to think they could afford a $350K house. Not sure now if that was the exact amount he said at the time, have to try to find the video on CSPAN again, but, it was something like that number. They laughed and I just wanted to puke where I sat.
...would you call the offer of temptation evil? or is everyone in this case stupid including me? I mean wow, and this week I saw Rosemary's Baby using scripture, about being your brothers keeper, and wanted to puke again. These boys are some twisted sisters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De47fjH6RKY
Oh yeah I forgot...
How about the part where the Bernank says:
I believe that was about the time of the smirk I referred to above...if I remember correctly.
No wonder our world is as screwed up as it is.
Imagine, most of our politicians are cut from the same cloth as this fella. No wonder Dr. Paul is ignored by the MSM. They have all lost touch with reality.
...Cherry, Benny and the 911 Jetsetters know exactly what they are doing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIeY4S1h79Q&feature=related
I hear you. It does sound foolish. But our realities are all relative as opposed to absolute. As they will be going forward which is why Ive surrounded myself with farmers and teachers instead of real estate brokers and traders.
Attention all Executive Secretaries...hide your purses.
That is all.
I first read that as hide your pussies.
The way these guys rape & pillage it wasn't far off.
Doesn't sound like he will do so well once the current paradigm implodes and he has to deal with a new reality involving less privilege in his life. I'm guessing quite a few folks will have a harsh awakening at that point in time.
Some of the most entitlement minded people I know are millionaires, including those who inherited their wealth. Human nature, I think.
No, it's not human nature.
It's just a typical Republican.
You, of all people, would love the book Pity the Billionaire, by Thomas Frank. Next time you're in Barnes and Noble, take a look.
Max Fischer, Civis Mundi
It's the hypocrisy that really gets me about the Red Team, but I have seen plenty of entitlement philosophy on both teams. Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll check it out.
Yeah. Typical Republican 1%-ers, like Jon Corzine, George Soros, various Wall Street CEOs, all of Hollywood, etc.
Such douchebags, these Republicans.
Get a clue...
ITT tards think Republicans read or understand Rand.
ITT tards think THEY understand Rand.
ITT tards think that free men worship Rand.
ITT tards think there is a difference between their team and the other team.
ITT tards in general.
Tmos. read my comment above and get back to me.
Thomas Frank = Moron = Max Fisher
If the Fed keeps printing up Bennies like Zimbabwe $350,000 will be the qualifying income for food stamp participants.
The government has spent 6 TRILLION in 4 years. How do you think this shit ends as the pattern continues?
Deflation!!! What do I win?!?!
As biggie smalls once crooned..... Mo money mo problems....
Diddy
This ass clown will be much worse off than all of us zerohedgers in a short time. I actually pitty people like this as they know nothing of gold, silver, food storage, fishing, hunting, etc. People like this have no skills except for hoarding dollars. The illusion of wealth is about to come to an end.
Well they won't have to worry about toilet paper...
So how is he gonna wipe his ass with 0s and 1s and a debit card? 'Splain yourself Lucy.