Gekko On The Rocks
The evil actors and corrupt cartoon characters at AIG are taking our money their bonuses whether Timothy F. Geithner, or anyone else— likes it or not.
Category: Economy
Pie in the Sky With Diamonds Savings
Where does your slice of the American Pie go? Finally. George Orwell‘s letters to his mistress are going on the auction block. But before I can fork over the moolas for one or more of them, a have a few other decisions to make about where my ever slender piece of the yummy munny pie goes. So listen up, wage …
Deep (And Disturbing) Thought
In his testimony before the US Senate Budget Committee this week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was asked by our favorite socialist Senator, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders, to identify the recipients of some $2.2 trillion of taxpayer guaranteed dollars to date (an amount that doesn’t include the $700 billion from Treasury’s TARP program). Bernanke refused to provide the names, claiming that would …
And They Call It Democracy
Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor. . .
Mister Jindal’s Neighborhood
Mister Jindal says, “Never throw a shoe at Mardi Gras.” NAWLINS — It’s a wonderful day in Mister Jindal’s Neighborhood, because, well, because Mister Jindal says so. But it seems some naughty boys and girls brought their personal firearms to the Mardi Gras parade, and shot some innocent boys and girls in the face, and a few other places. But. …
Rethuglican Hallucinations
From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale. In trying to account for the experience of color, neurobiologist Humberto Maturana decided to treat the nervous system as a closed system, depriving it of external sensory inputs. Incidentally, he found that deprived of such inputs, the nervous system can’t …
Bobby teh Beggar
Louisiana Governor Piyash Jindal begging for understanding in the Republican’t Marketplace of Ideas. (Original message) BATON ROUGE — The Republican party opened up another front on the War on Reality today with a bold assault on sanity by refusing an estimated hundred million dollars of United States government funds for the unemployed poor of Louisiana. Governor Piyash Insane Jindal, who …
