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Month: September 2009

  • Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M. (The Onion)

    Experts predict that the penultimate catastrophe will occur at approximately 7:15 p.m. Thursday night, when the social networking tool Twitter will be used to communicate a series of ideas so banal they will instantaneously negate the three centuries of the Renaissance. via The Onion

  • Save the Tatas?

    I purely hate breast cancer awareness programs that trivialize and reduce women to a pair of mammary glands. What is important about breast cancer is that it kills women, not that it takes a pair of bewbies away from people who could be fondling them. Women have their health concerns made light of often enough […]

  • 24,992 People Making Money and 8 Guys Losing It

    “The story of Lehman Brothers comes down to this one sentence: There’s 24,992 people making money and 8 guys losing it.” This just goes to highlight how eight people can run amuck and go crazy with credit and ultimately lead to the demise of the firm. Lehman Brothers survived the Civil War, numerous World Wars, […]

  • DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT Act

    In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people’s homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn’t be tipped off that they’re under investigation. Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after […]

  • Banking CEOs Compensation Comparison

    From Reuters.com » Blog Archive » Graphic: Banking compensation | Blogs |.

  • Middle America, Moron America, Deliverance America

    I’m tired of ceding Middle America to these assholes. You’re Middle America, I’m Middle America (or, at least, my folks are and I was until I moved to the godless coast)—Obama won Middle America. She’s not Middle America, she’s Moron America. Hell, she’s so far out of America that you have to cross another country […]

  • Fed's Transparency and Disclosure Deadline Approaches

    The Fed has refused to name the financial firms it lent to or disclose the amounts or the assets put up as collateral under the emergency programs, saying disclosure might set off a run by depositors and unsettle shareholders. The Bloomberg lawsuit said the collateral lists “are central to understanding and assessing the government’s response […]

  • Indefinite Detention to Continue Under Obama

    The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely and without charge, according to administration officials. via washingtonpost.com

  • Burying CIA Crimes Hurts Cooperation with Foreign Intel Agencies

    The former directors argue, for example, that any reopened investigation would damage the intelligence community’s ability to obtain cooperation of foreign intelligence agencies.In fact, the opposite is the case. Foreign intelligence agencies have been holding back their liaison activities and their cooperation with the CIA because of the crimes associated with secret prisons, torture and […]

  • Best Air Travel Smackdown EVAR

    I was in first class, and we were on the tarmac waiting to take off. A woman, in about row 35 starting talking on her cellphone. No problem. Except she was speaking so loudly you could hear her all the way up front. Everyone started looking at each other and we were all thinking the […]