Brilliant.
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That is somewhere in my top 2 TV shows. 🙂
Oh come on, that’s just not realistic. There’s no way undecided voters would articulate a legitimate question.
I love Family Gus!!!
Love Family guy.
My fav scene is at the end of “Good Morning” when Stewie comes out to sing:
http://video.adultswim.com/family-guy/good-morning-to-you.html
I don’t watch that show but that was funny!!
Almost as funny –
Am I the only one on the left who doesn’t understand all of the fuss over this?
Well, I understand why there is a fuss. On the other hand, I don’t really have much to complain about with the results. I mean, I don’t like what happened and I’d like to see a lot of Goldman Sachs people turned into paupers, but it wasn’t Geithner’s job to exact punishment. His job was to keep us all from going broke.
I guess the Goldman Bashing Bandwagon isn’t as appealing to me.
I’d like to see our Democratic leaders be Goldman Bashers to get voters excited and to beat Republicans, but I don’t like populism in policy, so I am very much averse to it; it usually leads to bad “feel good” laws being produced. I like evidence based policy.
For once in a long time, though, I agree with Yves Smith:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/01/volcker-does-not-get-it.html
Ever since the crash I’ve thought of her as some conspiracy nut, similar to Matt Taibbi, but this one is accurate.
Still, there’s always room for debate 🙂 :
http://syntheticassets.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/missing-volckers-point/
in the transfer of nearly a trillion dollars in public funds to a private corporation, without conditions nor benefit to the public, so that the shareholders in that private company would not lose their invested money.
This makes it the greatest looting of a public treasury in world history, and it happened in plain sight.
The investors’ money was at risk in the first place because the bank had been running a system of Ponzi schemes–mostly centered around fraudulent mortgages–which went bad when the housing bubble burst.
This makes it the proximate cause of the Great Depression we are now entering.
So, yes, it is rather a big deal. To the thousands of people who have lost their jobs or been thrown out of their homes, it is a big deal indeed.
The smaller point is that the Federal Reserve is a system of private banks that pretends to serve the public interest, but actually serves private interests.
Don’t go all Ron Paul, please.
and you will never know what is happening.
Ron Paul is only half wrong. Which half? For the truly clueless, it will never matter.
But you are about 95% wrong.
All the counterparties received par, because only one of them expressed a willingness to negotiate and that was contingent on all other parties taking a haircut (which they refused to do). They had no choice. Scoring cheap political points is a Republican strategy that we ought not to amplify.
Win 🙂
Someone else who understands in the blogsphere, I’ll take it.
should pretty well finish the US left off all together.
I am not waiting around for that. I have other things to do.
It’s a bunch of bullshit. Marcy, who was happy to destroy the House HRC bill in order to do the bidding of the Pedophiles Conference of Bishops has zero moral grounds for this, no understanding of the mechanics, and apparently no compunction about falling for yet another GOP effort to blame Bush’s bailout on Obama. She’s really a dumbass.
Bam, you got it.
It’s why I got so pissed at Jane and Sirota for attacking him earlier. Way to fall right into the GOP’s hands.
So the Catholic Bishops Conference doesn’t like Tim?
Really the only flaw of it is that it’s so easy. Americans are simply idiots.
Marcy Kaptur captures no prisoners 🙂
Thanks for the clip