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- ukit0
Yeah, haha, very funny.
You know of course that in addition to the terrorists who should be detained, there are innocent people who got swept up in the whole thing stranded out there who have no way to challenge their imprisonment.
Great stuff though, let's make a T shirt and laugh about it.
- Innocent people always lose during wars. They are referred to casualties.********
- ... it's very sad. Yes.********
- Next, I'll design a Pro-Obama shirt, o.k.?********
- Innocent people always lose during wars. They are referred to casualties.
- utopian0
As the Republican Party condemns what they call the Democrats' 'march to socialism', a new national poll indicates that most Americans believe President Barack Obama's policies would move the country in the right direction.
- ********0
Just heard Rush suggest that Obama is going to bail out California— "too big to fail". Taxpayers will own CA's debt, etc., etc. This is an incredible concept, and I can actually see this materializing.
Now THIS would be some ultra, industrial-strength, scary-ass shit.
- TheBlueOne0
Ah, good times. I remember just a few weeks back when GetRefresh said he didn't listen to fox news, etc. In the 12 hours he's referenced Hannity, Fox and Rush. Dance puppet...
- TheBlueOne0
You've got to be shitting me: "Banks are using a little-known tactic to help pay bonuses, deferred pay and pensions they owe executives: They're holding life-insurance policies on hundreds of thousands of their workers, with themselves as the beneficiaries."
- TheBlueOne0
For those w/o a wsj subscription:
"Banks took out much of this life insurance during the mortgage bubble, when executives' pay -- and the IOUs for their deferred compensation -- surged, and banking regulators affirmed the use of life insurance as a way to finance executive pay and benefits.
Bank of America Corp. has the most life insurance on employees: $17.3 billion at the end of the first quarter, according to bank filings. Wachovia Corp. has $12 billion, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has $11.1 billion and Wells Fargo & Co. has $5.7 billion. (Wells Fargo acquired Wachovia at the end of last year.)
The insurance policies essentially are informal pension funds for executives: Companies deposit money into the contracts, which are like big, nondeductible IRAs, and allocate the cash among investments that grow tax-free. Over time, employers receive tax-free death benefits when employees, former employees and retirees die.
Though not improper, the practice is similar to what is known as "janitors insurance," an insurance-on-employees technique that has long been controversial. Critics say the banks' insurance contracts are a way for companies to create tax breaks for funding executive pensions. And some families have complained that employers shouldn't profit from the deaths of their loved ones."
Fuck. Stay classy finance industry.
- ukit0
Anyone watching Obama's speech?
- robotron3k0
um, goddamn he's taking no prisoners. amazing speech.
- TheBlueOne0
Ah..tuning in now...
- designbot0
link?
- ukit0
And now Cheney will make a speech defending torture...
Working title "If I did it"
- robotron3k0
damn! hereeeee Dick!
- robotron3k0
damn! hereeeees Dick!
- robotron3k0
damn! hereeeees Dick!
- robotron3k0
damn! hereeeees Dick!
- ukit0
*Cheney approaches podium*
"Go fuck yourself."
*Leaves*
- robotron3k0
damn, this is gonna be good, Barrack vs. Dick on a Thursday morning... who'd a thunk it.
