$$$ Dutch Banks Agree To Limit Bonuses [NYT]
$$$ Greenspan Apology: Still MIA [FS]
$$$ Know your eligible princes. [Cityfile]
$$$ Live-blogging the Lehman made for tv movie on BBC– Dick Fuld choked a teddy bear a few scenes back.
$$$ Pic of the Day. Berns’s throne room:
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And the exer-bike is directly in front of the shitter & poop-chute washer why???
@1 who calls it an “exer bike”?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aHSxuqWrbWVw
“Lehman Brothers Collapses All Over Again in BBC Drama: Review”
“Fuld leaves no stone unturned in his rush to stay afloat. We see him court Bank of America Corp., and hold out eagerly for Barclays Plc. He even calls Paulson, who replies, “The money was on the table, Dick. Only you never thought it was enough.””
Was the bald sturrering when he said this?
the tv
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mq34n/The_Last_Days_of_Lehman_Brothers/
the deadly toy gorilla punch occurs around 10 minutes in. other parts a little unrealistic as k to the l lewis not shown sipping the boones and hot bod dimon portrayed by some old and un-sexy dude.
Have they gotten to the scene where Dick makes Bush’s cousin call George up to ask for some presidential pressure? Just askin’
How is my Pacino?
Pacino:
You know, when people tell me they hate the government, that the government never does anything right, that they wish the government would just leave them alone, I tend to wonder what fucking planet they live on.
Government is what cured polio. Government is what puts roads in your neighborhood. Government is what puts aircraft carriers on the Atlantic and Pacific and everywhere in between. Government is what keeps the godamned mongolian horde from your doorstep. Government is what puts police, on your street. Government is what puts firemen, in your burning house. Government is what provides teachers to teach your children things that weren’t even godamned known a decade ago. Government provides the paramedics, that bring you back to life. Government is what keeps missiles in the silos and boots on the ground so you and your children can grow up safe. Government is what cleans the shit that you defecated into the sewer system.
Hell, Government will even listen to your grievences. Government, will even let you VOTE.
And you tell me you want Government to leave you alone? To fend for yourself? You tell me you want Government to just go away? Who the fuck do you think you are? Living in the richest, most powerful, and wealthiest country that’s ever existed in the history of MANKIND and you have the fucking nerve to tell me that Government hasn’t done shit for you?
Well, FUCK YOU.
Pacino, out.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/fortune/0909/gallery.witnesses_meltdown.fortune/15.html
“The firings affected me, too. I knew a lot of them. They came to me every day. It seemed to last about a month, reporters coming and going. There was one who was nice. I don’t know where she was from, but she gave me some money — maybe $100 — and told me to buy coffee for any of the employees who were laid off. So I gave them free coffee. It was the least I could do.”
http://dealbreaker.com/2008/09/coffee-cart-man-doesnt-think-w.php
I would do unspeakable things to that bathroom.
@8 wins.
I’m Republican, firmly against big government. Don’t like Obama & don’t like his stupid health reform. But I may actually reconsider that view after that Pacino tirade.
@8 God Bless America
@8
Government is also responsible for the holocaust, most wars and tons of other terrible shit that no one has heard about.
There’s good and bad. Balance is key.
@13. well no shit.
-8
@8 Well said my son. I have a seat reserved for you at my table.
WTF? Does he hop on his exercise bike right after taking a shit? Wiping optional?
@14
In that case I’ll change my position to your original post:
Thank you captain obvious.
@8
Pacino is a knee jerk liberal – didn’t see him shouting “rah rah Uncle Sam” when Bush was around.
Govt sent both grandfathers to WWII. And provided for them social security. Which is a fucking ponzi scheme which you and I will never see.
Govt sent my dad to vietnam. vietnam helped make LBJ and his heirs some money… those steaks from Kings Ranch were mighty tasty for the officers in vietnam. govt also helped out on a little something call agent orange.
Govt keeps the mongolian horde from door step? Ever seen the fucking problem with illegal immigrants and violence?
Govt keeps the armed forces up? yeah, if we’re at war, otherwise ask Webb about a Navy that works.
Govt keeps my roads up? What about selling off turnpikes to Macquarie and ports to Dubai?
Gov’t listens to my grievances and voice or the PAC that provides him/her maritnis and whores?
Govt protects my right to free speech? Look at the case of “Hillary: The Movie” and tell me about free speech.
Protect me from my government!
Noticed the bidet too? He liked to water ‘em
Robert Mugabe has negative feelings towards all of you.
@18 kill yourself already
@18: cliffy get back to work
21 and 22
Entertain me fools…
@21 – I don’t want to die yet and neither does your mother.
@24 – weak.
Hey guys, Tucker Max here, I think @24 should see my movie first and then die. What’d ya think?
I’M IN THE DARK HERE!!!!
Lovin it STRONG!
Tucker Max, go F yer self.
@Tucker Max – agreed
I’ll give you military and roads. Other than that leave me the fuck alone. Or at least make the other 50% kick in something besides their lifestyle induced-money-sucking diseases and fat ass offspring. Jonas Salk was smart enough to know public school was shitty and that’s why he went to NYU.
I think my state can run its shit just fine…sorry Cali, get fucked.
Oh, and Albert, Pacino pre-1998 called, he wants to know what the fuck you’ve been doing with the talent he gave you. Also, he’s tired of fucking a fat ass version of the formerly-hot Mrs. Griswold.
@8, Please remove Bahwney Fwank’s dick from your ass. I gotz to meet with that mofo in the mornin about this damn healthcare shizzle.
@8
I was going to say how those are all valid points, but the depth, breadth, and completely clusterfuck that is modern government is just no way to go about accomplishing the goals the original visionaries (whoever you want to lump in that boat) imagined. Sure we have a military, rife with bureaucratic bullshit and garbage money pit, unsafe and unneeded projects like the Osprey.
Sure we have schools but 1/2 our teachers are dumb as a sack of bricks and are union-leeches.
Sure we have roads, where speed limits are intentionally reduced so local cops can pad their municipality’s budget shortfalls, often created by idiotic or lack of planning.
Almost all the “good” things government “provides” could and should be done better, but that’s the thing with Government; once the ball gets rolling down the hill its virtually impossible to stop, a certain Sisyphean task even for the most optimistic reformer.
How many blumpkins did BM get in that throne room?
Awesome. The fact that in one room you could:
1) get a workout,
2) watch porn,
3) bathe,
4) take a dump, and
5) have your *ss washed
is what it’s all about.
@33 – take your poli-sci/philosophy major from your mid-tier liberal arts college, drop in the garbage, and bring me my coffee. Now.
@8 I prefer no government intervention. That’s why I’m moving to Somalia! I heard the government basically lets you alone there and lets the free market decide. Plus its sunny!
Good luck in Somalia!
@38
Are you kidding? Somalia is the libertarian paradise. Problem is, especially for the Ron Paul libertarians, is that it has too many black people.
@25
Indeed that was weak, but so were 21-22. the “Go Kill Yourself” line is older than toothie ruthie.
@8
you are right, but you have only described 25% of the total government budget. After next year, you have only desciribed 14% of the total government budget.
Why are we paying for the other 75%?
Tucker is no Yuppie Douchebag-
I stop reading the moment some tool mentions Bush, Obama, Clinton, Nixon, Democrats, Republicans, etc.
Govt is your shit sandwich. Tastes good is filling.
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace – shut up!
Reg: There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.
Dissenter: Uh, well, one.
Reg: Oh, yeah, yeah, there’s one. But otherwise, we’re solid.
@41
We are paying for social security so your gramdma doesn’t have to sell herself in servitude. Which is a shame really, cause I got a straw mat next to my back door she can sleep on.
@36
Majored in Finance and it wasn’t at a lib arts school, but try again. Some of us actually study things other than whatever it is you do (bitch*moan about things that are beyond your knowledge/comprehension level).
What would be truly awesome is inventing a exer-bike/bidet combo. No more worries about finishing the workout with a sweaty satchel.