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October 27, 2008
Financial meltdown
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Comment by happyfeet on 10/27 @ 5:04 pm #
But first let’s put Ted Stevens in jail to where his corrupt bitch ass can die there in disgrace and then let’s go get Frank and Dodd and Schumer I think.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/27 @ 5:08 pm #
Also his wife and children should be shunned.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/27 @ 5:09 pm #
Don Young (R-Ak) should go right along with Stevens. A#1 Corrupt-o-Crats be gone! Murtha, out! Charles Rangel, vamoose! Name names. Get them all.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/27 @ 5:13 pm #
Don Young. I forgot about him. He’s disgusting too. Also Rangel and Murtha. There’s a lot of these fucks that need to be stripped of all human dignity and thrown into a hole I think.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/27 @ 5:13 pm #
AMEN!
(But lay off the black guys. Pointing out that they can be corrupt, too, is racist.)
Comment by Sdferr on 10/27 @ 5:15 pm #
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, flee for your life you greedy bastard. We’re coming to get you. And you, Sen. Chuck Grassley, with your stinking corn-ethanol scams, run and hide, your day is at hand.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/27 @ 5:17 pm #
Chuck Grassley is macabre how he takes peoples food and makes half-assed phony gas out of it what is only affordable if you take peoples tax monies and subsidize it. What a freaky corn-fetishizing ghoul.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/27 @ 5:18 pm #
Little Dicky Durbin, watch out! Your Trial Lawyers Association won’t be able to protect you from our pitch forks you cowardly pussy. Hie thee hence!
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/27 @ 5:26 pm #
Not to mention the little brown children who can’t afford food any more, ‘feets.
That’s some disturbing shit right there.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/27 @ 5:33 pm #
Oh, you are old Robby Byrd, but that doesn’t get you off the hook for your evil doings, you loathsome creep. Get out of the Senate! You pollute it! Just go.
Comment by Hubris on 10/27 @ 6:24 pm #
No mention of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000? The timeline doth omit too much, methinks.
Comment by cynn on 10/27 @ 7:05 pm #
I agree, #11. And funny, most of the people in financial trouble I’m aware of are whites. How’d that happen?
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/27 @ 7:31 pm #
You hang out with white folks, Cynn.
And I thought it was an article of faith that Gramm-Leach-Bliley was the maguffin here.
Comment by cynn on 10/27 @ 7:45 pm #
How the hell do you know who I hang out with? But the better question is what is a maguffin? Oh, I get it; I thought you were going for ragamuffin, not a golf term. Either way, the economy’s collapsed, and you guys are casting desperately about for cover. I don’t deny the left’s complicity here. Money to be made, you know?
Comment by cynn on 10/27 @ 7:47 pm #
Oh, and the white folks I hang with are semi-affluent. Gamblers, as it were.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 10/27 @ 8:03 pm #
Macguffin in this case, is a writer’s term, cynn.
Comment by cynn on 10/27 @ 8:15 pm #
In fairness, Jeff, I tried to make a post with a link and it disappeared. But I probably screwed it up.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/27 @ 8:18 pm #
cynn, sometimes the blog software eats posts with links. It might not have been your fault.
Comment by lee on 10/27 @ 8:24 pm #
Seman, feel better now?
There, there, dry your eyes and have a cookie.
Comment by cynn on 10/27 @ 8:26 pm #
I intend to make as generous a donation as I can on Friday, payday. I would just hate to see Jeff systematically zapping his detractors as a fundraising ruse. Sounds horribly familiar, according to your cadence.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 10/27 @ 8:27 pm #
She’s determined to earn her martyrdom.
Best thing for it, really. Her therapy’s going nowhere.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/27 @ 8:30 pm #
Macguffin in this case, is a writer’s term, cynn.
Thanks, RTO, I figgered I had misspelled it.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/27 @ 8:33 pm #
I have to laugh at ‘Cleo. Turn him into a mossback and have him post at Amanda’s and he’d last maybe 20 minutes, yet here he’s a martyr.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/27 @ 8:38 pm #
Who the hell is that?
Pandagon, bright boy, a port-side fever swamp. Go pretend to be a slightly right-of-center guy there and see if you last an hour. Or almost anywhere else on the sinistrosphere.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 10/27 @ 8:38 pm #
I’m curious as to why you decided to call a man you repeatedly depict as elbow deep in baby poo as Goldbrick.
Best pun you could come up with on short notice, or are the dictionaries the first thing the Republicans burned in your neighborhood?
Comment by happyfeet on 10/27 @ 8:39 pm #
When did you get so just rude? I miss the old Semanticleo.
Comment by B Moe on 10/27 @ 8:46 pm #
When did you get so just rude?
Acute stupidity often deteriorates into dementia, hf. I blame Bush.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/27 @ 8:47 pm #
When did you get so just rude? I miss the old Semanticleo.
It’s in all of them, ‘feet, it’s just looking for a crack to get out.
Comment by B Moe on 10/27 @ 8:48 pm #
Did you cut and paste your little tantrum in every thread, cleo?
Christ what a buffoon you are!
Comment by cynn on 10/27 @ 8:53 pm #
I noticed that too Moe B but I would be accused of war crimes with Everclear.
Comment by cynn on 10/27 @ 8:54 pm #
OOps, B moe! Got me!
Comment by cynn on 10/27 @ 9:12 pm #
Aside from that, Dan’s extenuation from poets to lawmakers overlooks the fact that lawmakers operate in the real world, and poets get to float.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/27 @ 9:18 pm #
Maybe he could have gone with Phaedrus instead, picking on Lysias as a sort of lawyer type, eh cynn? Would that do? As it is I think he got his point across pretty damn well.
Comment by cynn on 10/27 @ 9:28 pm #
No, I don’t think so. Lawyers are not poets. Maybe that’s the problem here; look to the effective; ignore the troublesome.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/27 @ 9:31 pm #
Orrin Hatch writes songs and stuff. He’s a lawyer person. He’s such a kook but for some reason I really respect him more than a lot of them. He’s a very grounded kook I think.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/27 @ 9:53 pm #
Lysias was no poet either, though he had a good deal to do with law making in the Athenian assembly, if not an entirely apt conversion from our modern idea of lawyer he comes pretty close. But if you don’t understand what Dan was getting at without imposing upon him your o’erweaning notion of poet, so much the worse for you, I think.
Comment by JHoward on 10/28 @ 6:14 am #
Look what being wrong all the time eventually did to thor. Although thor went all prosaically-off so there’s still minor entertainment value there.
Comment by thor on 10/28 @ 6:32 am #
The motherfuckin’ fuck, why’s my name always bouncing off the walls? I ain’t cleo, I ain’t datadave, I ain’t nobody but the Man.
Seven days until the Day of Gloat.
I wish Obama had a gang sign.
Comment by B Moe on 10/28 @ 6:55 am #
He does, thor
http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=2203
Comment by JHoward on 10/28 @ 6:55 am #
Gloating is a good thing.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 10/28 @ 7:25 am #
You’re Jack Albertson?
Comment by Obsteperous Infidel on 10/28 @ 7:36 am #
“I ain’t nobody but the Man”
Hey, you’re a populist revolutionary. You hate the Man. You’re a self loather. It all makes sense.
Comment by JHoward on 10/28 @ 8:07 am #
Chico, don’t be so disappointed, noo-ooo, ’cause The Man, he ain’t so hard to understand…
Comment by A Fellow Living Soul on 10/28 @ 8:52 pm #
There is a principle called Ockham’s razor which is attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham. It basically states that – “All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.”
The following are two simple ideas that effectively create the ideal social construct.
Simple Idea #1
1. Socialize ALL Land
2. Charge leases on ALL Land based on demand.
3. Return 100% of the resulting revenue to every man, woman and child in the form of a yearly dividend check.
4. Make the Universal Birthright of Land an Everlasting Standard in the education of every Child.
This effectively makes the average piece of Land Free for every Living Soul and restores our Natural Birthright as well as coupling our social construct to the Principles of Life.
Simple Idea #2
1. Remove ALL FORMS of taxation
2. Implement a Tax on ALL new goods based on the resources they contain and the resources they use in production and delivery (this can easily be implemented with the current barcode system used at the checkout)
3. Use this system to encourage/discourage various resource usages (High tax on non-renewable/ecosystem damaging products and low/no tax on renewable/ecosystem enhancing products) and to encourage purchasing of local products.
4. Use the resulting revenue to fund infrastructure expenses and the restoration of ecosystems..
This effectively encourages the creation/use of longer lasting, high quality products as well as encouraging recycling and reuse of existing products.
Idea #2 effectively constrains the ravaging appetite of the capitalistic consumer society within the Boundaries of Sustainability while Idea #1 effectively encloses both Sustainability and capitalism within the Principles of Life.
That’s it!!! The path to True Democracy – True Equality – True Unity. Simple and Effective
Comment by Sdferr on 10/28 @ 9:02 pm #
Step 1: Ignore Human nature
Step 2: State a Principle
Step 3: Contradict Step 2
Step 4: Slap self on back for sheer genius! Unity achieved!
Rinse, repeat.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 9:08 pm #
That was just dorkness at 44. For some reason it made me wonder what ever happened to the cast of What’s Happening!! cause whoever it is reminds me of Dee Thomas.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/28 @ 9:12 pm #
I be Roger Thomas. Which Doobie you be?
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 9:14 pm #
I’m Dwayne I think. Or a least I way bad would want his hair.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/28 @ 9:18 pm #
Damn I’ve missed an awful lot of americana livin in my stupid cocoon. Gotta get out more, or stay in, or — aw fuck it, I give. Somebody hand me another beer.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 9:20 pm #
tv as americana is something I recognize but struggle with
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/28 @ 9:26 pm #
1. Socialize ALL Land
2. Bury ten to twenty million people to make sure the land is nice and fertile.
3. Blame all the problems on “wreckers”, “kulaks”, and “counterrevolutionaries. Kill them all.
4. Die in bed if you’re lucky, or otherwise if there’s any justice.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/28 @ 9:27 pm #
I used to try to comfort myself with the thought that well ok I don’t know that tv show at all but does this cute girl know any Palestrina? Or yeah, I can’t say I’ve ever seen the Bradys but have you ever heard Messiaen’s Quartet for the end of time? Never worked.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/28 @ 9:27 pm #
Dwayne had awesome hair.
And I think Dee might’ve grown up to be Michelle Obama.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 9:27 pm #
Who else went straight for the otherwise link?
Comment by Sdferr on 10/28 @ 9:29 pm #
first one I looked at
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/28 @ 9:36 pm #
Awesome indeed.
Comment by Rusty on 10/29 @ 5:49 am #
#8
I got money on the street that says he won’t be returning to Washington.