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S.E.C. Sues Goldman Over Housing Market Deal
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/1…
- fooler20
driving home from work yesterday I saw a bunch of teabaggers protesting tax day on about 4 or 5 overpasses. These idiots were holding up signs saying "NO TAXES" and "RE ELECT NO ONE".
"NO TAXES"? Get the fuck off my over pass that I payed for with my taxes and is inspected by a government run D.O.T."
Thanks for slowing down freeway traffic, making it take twice as long for all these tax paying hard working people to get home from work.
I hope you enjoyed me flipping you the bird out of my sunroof when I passed all of you tax dodgers.- adjusted for inflation these people payed $1k to $1,500more in taxes under Reagan.Mimio
- Re Elect no one makes no sense, that's just some chump trying to look cool, like the hipsters that voted for BO.********
- Apparently there are 68,724,397 hipsters in America. Huh. More than teabaggers. Must suck to be you.********
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Recalling ’95 Bombing, Clinton Sees Parallels
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/1…
With the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing approaching, former President Bill Clinton on Thursday drew parallels between the antigovernment tone that preceded that devastating attack and the political tumult of today, saying government critics must be mindful that angry words can stir violent actions.
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Senators Pushing Gas Tax Increase
http://www.latimes.com/news/nati…Lindsey Sham (R), I mean Graham, on the forefront of taking Lieberjew's place as "pay me the most for my vote."
- although that F*ck Specter is running a close second.********
- although that F*ck Specter is running a close second.
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Full Text of Letter from Ronald S. Lauder to President Obama
http://worldjewishcongress.org/e…
Dear President Obama:I write today as a proud American and a proud Jew.
Jews around the world are concerned today. We are concerned about the nuclear ambitions of an Iranian regime that brags about its genocidal intentions against Israel. We are concerned that the Jewish state is being isolated and delegitimized.
Mr. President, we are concerned about the dramatic deterioration of diplomatic relations between the United States and Israel.
The Israeli housing bureaucracy made a poorly timed announcement and your Administration branded it an “insult.” This diplomatic faux pas was over the fourth stage of a seven stage planning permission process – a plan to build homes years from now in a Jewish area of Jerusalem that under any peace agreement would remain an integral part of Israel.
Our concern grows to alarm as we consider some disturbing questions. Why does the thrust of this Administration’s Middle East rhetoric seem to blame Israel for the lack of movement on peace talks? After all, it is the Palestinians, not Israel, who refuse to negotiate.
Israel has made unprecedented concessions. It has enacted the most far reaching West Bank settlement moratorium in Israeli history.
Israel has publicly declared support for a two-state solution. Conversely, many Palestinians continue their refusal to even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist.
The conflict’s root cause has always been the Palestinian refusal to accept Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. Every American President who has tried to broker a peace agreement has collided with that Palestinian intransigence, sooner or later. Recall President Clinton’s anguish when his peace proposals were bluntly rejected by the Palestinians in 2000. Settlements were not the key issue then.
They are not the key issue now.
Another important question is this: what is the Administration’s position on Israel’s borders in any final status agreement? Ambiguity on this matter has provoked a wave of rumors and anxiety. Can it be true that America is no longer committed to a final status agreement that provides defensible borders for Israel? Is a new course being charted that would leave Israel with the indefensible borders that invited invasion prior to 1967?
There are significant moves from the Palestinian side to use those indefensible borders as the basis for a future unilateral declaration of independence. How would the United States respond to such a reckless course of action?
And what are America’s strategic ambitions in the broader Middle East? The Administration’s desire to improve relations with the Muslim world is well known. But is friction with Israel part of this new strategy? Is it assumed worsening relations with Israel can improve relations with Muslims? History is clear on the matter: appeasement does not work. It can achieve the opposite of what is intended.
And what about the most dangerous player in the region? Shouldn’t the United States remain focused on the single biggest threat that confronts the world today? That threat is a nuclear armed Iran. Israel is not only America’s closest ally in the Middle East, it is the one most committed to this Administration’s declared aim of ensuring Iran does not get nuclear weapons.
Mr. President, we embrace your sincerity in your quest to seek a lasting peace. But we urge you to take into consideration the concerns expressed above. Our great country and the tiny State of Israel have long shared the core values of freedom and democracy. It is a bond much treasured by the Jewish people. In that spirit I submit, most respectfully, that it is time to end our public feud with Israel and to confront the real challenges that we face together.
Yours sincerely,
Ronald S. Lauder
President
World Jewish Congress- This letter is sadly ridiculous and disappointing. Israel is blameless, Palestinians are 100% to blame.luckyorphan
- What a joke.luckyorphan
- ukit0
Dear JazX:
We are concerned and deeply offended by the use of the term "Lieberjew" in your second to last post. We look forward to your apology, which we are sure will be forthcoming.
Yours sincerely,
Ronald S. Lauder
President
World Jewish Congress- hahahaaDrBombay
- Hyper senstive liberal fucks can get the gasface.********
- Gasface? That's highly offensive to the Jewish people. Sincerely, Ronald Lauderukit
- Did I offend you because you're a jew or because you know BO doesn't give a f*ck about Israel?********
- "Gas"face is, reminds him of Auschwitz no?********
- Well played, ukit.luckyorphan
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Actually isn't this better?
- ukit0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politi…
Nick Clegg has surged into contention as a potential prime minister, according to a Guardian/ICM poll carried out following last night's TV leaders' debate.
A quarter of voters who watched the three leaders on the ITV programme say they will switch their vote, with most changing to the Liberal Democrats.
Clegg emerges from the telephone poll as the overwhelming winner, with 51% who watched saying he came out on top. David Cameron and Gordon Brown trail in far behind: 20% say Cameron won and 19% Brown.
The poll, based on a sample of 505 voters who had previously told ICM how they would vote, found Conservative and Labour supporters also thought Clegg won the event. While 44% of Tories thought Cameron won, 46% thought Clegg did. Among Labour voters, 43% said Brown won, and 44% Clegg.
- and the Consvervatives there hired Anita Dunn, BO's former communication director!********
- the woman who claimed that Chairman Mao was one of her heroes. yeahhhhhhhhh nice..********
- So what? So did David Rockefeller.Mimio
- Interesting turn of events.luckyorphan
- As in a Rockefeller Republican? That was Nelson I do believe.********
- As in David Rockefeller, NEw World Order, World Bank and IMF and Chase Bank.Mimio
- and the Consvervatives there hired Anita Dunn, BO's former communication director!
- BonSeff0
Dear JazX:
We are concerned and deeply offended by the use of the term "Lieberjew" in your second to last post. Considering you chose a polish girlfriend picture to manifest internet credibility, it would seem you could have a modicum of respect. e look forward to your apology, which we are sure will be forthcoming.
Yours sincerely,
Ronald S. Lauder
President
World Jewish Congress- and you can eat a bag of shit along with the rest of the lunch room Lenins********
- you're a punkass racist fraud, hold on tight to your november delusions fuckface.BonSeff
- hahah, BO will lose by the same method that he road in on, "CHANGE" LMAO!********
- and you can eat a bag of shit along with the rest of the lunch room Lenins
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- luckyorphan0
Letters:
A Portrait of the Tea Party Supportershttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/1…
"To the Editor:
“Discontent’s Demography: Who Backs the Tea Party” (front page, April 15) sheds some welcome light on the racially tinged and hypocritical tenets of this political movement. What we see here is a group of free lunchers who want less government spending as long as their own federal entitlements (Social Security and Medicare) are unaffected.
These antigovernment zealots fail to see how the last three decades of greedy excess and laissez-faire deregulation worsened the income inequality in our society and led directly to the recent financial debacle. Without the strong actions of the federal government in the last 18 months, we would now be mired in a second Great Depression.
The Tea Party movement should be openly challenged and exposed as the obstacle to progress that it represents.
Lloyd Binen
Bayside, Queens, April 15, 2010"
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Obama’s False Promise on Offshore Drilling
http://content.usatoday.com/comm…However, the plan is defined more by what it restricts.
The announcement signifies:
* No drilling in the Pacific Ocean.
* No drilling in a large portion of the Atlantic Ocean.
* No drilling in some of the most promising areas of the Gulf of Mexico.
* No drilling in much of Alaska.In other words, BO wants to force Americans to take the blunt of a massive new energy tax before we'll reap the benefits from offshore drilling.
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- Victoria Jackson always seems so intelligent with her little baby voice.fooler2
- I love the way the Right villifies Hollywood, but the minute even a minor celebrity farts in their direction...********
- they become the best thing since sliced bread. Reagan, Schwartenegger, his airhead.********
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BonSeff I am with you. We are dealing with pure evil, pure delusion and pure brainwashism and most importantly frauds.
It is going to be a bumpy ride!
PS. I created a new term for people like Jazx and the others.
Terror-O-Bloggers
- Jeez man, I went through all that trouble to write many posts to you and you can't challenge any of them...luckyorphan
- ...guess I expected at least an effort. You've got such gusto.luckyorphan
- "McWoozy" is just another QBN regular too pussy to post under his own name and defend his conservative viewsukit
- mathinc0
I'm so happy that the SEC is finally doing something about Goldman Sachs.
SEC charges Goldman Sachs with fraud
http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/16/…Not sure if any of you listen to NPR's This American Life but they just had a great episode about CDO's and some of these fuckers who created intentionally risky CDO's just to bet against them with Credit Default Swaps.. I hope all these cocksuckers get locked up.
- luckyorphan0
@ mathinc, re: SEC
Would it be out of the question to suggest that the SEC's behavior embodied the general conservative ethic of limited regulation and oversight?
- Not likely. All of government failed us on the exotic financial deals created in the last decade. Congress had a chance to requiremathinc
- require that investors making Credit Default Swaps actually had the money to back their bets, instead they decided against addingmathinc
- adding that requirement.. since it was brought to vote on a Friday before a break. The SEC is routinely lethargic and reactionary.mathinc
- reactionary instead of actually recognizing the shenanigans going on all around them and stopping them before they blow.mathinc
- Typical government lethargy and ineffectiveness. The SEC is the lame, deaf, narcoleptic dog guarding the hen house.mathinc
