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    Posted 2010-11-26 20:10:00 on Holiday Bell: 11.26.10

    We celebrate how the handicapped turkey, "gobbles," managed to make it through the flaming hoop and save the 4th graders' show from the threat of being upstaged by the kindergarteners'.

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    Posted 2010-11-24 20:04:00 on Bloomberg Columnist Says Stop Being A Pussy About TSA Touching

    Onerous security lines can kill you. I don't know that anyone's life has EVER been saved by these 'security' measures. That would involving actually catching a terrorist, rather than letting the surrounding passengers do it once he starts fiddling with his shoes. OTOH, I am reasonably certain that these sorts of measures have cost lives. After all, air travel is not always (or even usually) a monopoly. Yes, if you HAVE to get from New York to Cali in a day, you have to fly it. But suppose you have a day to get from New York to, say, Baltimore. You might want to fly, as a mater of convenience and, yes, safety. But you don't have to. You could drive. The more onerous the security lines get, the more they scare people away who do have a choice, because they are going somewhere they could drive. It is a safe inference that this helps clog our roadways. And it is another safe inference that, by doing so, it leads to increased motor vehicle fatalities. So to the TSA and its apologists, I have to say: you don't occupy the moral high grounbd you imagine. This is not about inconvenience or embarrassment versus saving lives. Its about incovenience and embarrassment that almost certain kills.

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    Posted 2010-02-25 16:25:33 on Harry Markopolos Contemplated Killing Bernie Madoff And Blaming It On The SEC

    Marco Polo trying to get another 15 minutes?

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    Posted 2010-02-25 10:51:46 on Opening Bell: 02.25.10

    On this short sale stuff. If you lok at the February 2010 issue of The Federal Lawyer (the FBA monthly publication) you'll see a review of Sorkin's book. The reviewer, Christopher Faille, focuses on the short-sale ban re: the financial services industry announced during those hectic times, and what Sorkin tells us about it.

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    Posted 2010-02-24 10:41:47 on Opening Bell: 02.24.10

    Greek Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos. Whoa. Am I the only one who at first thought that last name was a reference to Candide's professor Pangloss??? Surely any default will prove to be for the best in this best of all possible financial worlds.

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    Posted 2010-02-22 19:59:06 on Caption Contest Monday

    "I hear role-playing could spice up our sex life. Here, I'm Hank Paulson, and you're Nancy Pelosi."

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    Posted 2010-02-18 15:37:04 on Matt Taibbi On Lloyd Blankfein’s Balls

    #56. Yes. Florida sucks. Georgia blows.

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    Posted 2010-02-16 10:27:32 on Opening Bell/Closing/Holiday Bell: 02.15.10

    #17, Really? You think that HP came out of the Year of Our Lord 2008 with any shred of credibility to "hammer" anyone on financial policy questions?

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    Posted 2010-01-29 11:49:54 on Barclays Banker Prevails: Son’s School Will Be Drag-Show Friendly Zone

    "Friedly Zone"??? Is that a misspelling for Friendly, or some very clever pun that has gone right over my head?

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    Posted 2010-01-29 08:58:25 on Help Name Charlie Gasparino’s New Book

    #44, FTW.

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    Posted 2010-01-26 18:48:31 on Write-Offs: 01.26.10

    Love the rapping economists.

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    Posted 2010-01-22 12:42:22 on Barney Frank Has Bigger Fish To Fry

    Acronym? Easy. Knotty New Obama Banks. (KNOB). As is: Can you really get syphilis from a KNOB?

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    Posted 2010-01-21 07:00:06 on Write-Offs: 01.20.10

    Boyd is too kind.

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    Posted 2010-01-15 05:28:20 on Opening Bell: 01.15.10

    #6, um, you are aware that JPM is not Morgan Stanley, aren't you?

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    Posted 2010-01-14 10:46:03 on Introducing: The Lloyd Face

    I'm a Broadway stage manager. Prop trading. Nay, we need our props.

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    Posted 2010-01-13 07:43:08 on Live-Blogging The Bankers

    Twin Sith Lords revealed. http://www.observer.com/2010/media/shooting-naked... Money quote, "But the juiciest part of the lore is that there’s a “Sith Lord,” like in Star Wars, at the center of the evil. The Sith Lord turns out to be Sith Lords. 'It’s Steven Cohen and Mike Milken, though I’ve never said that to a reporter,' says Patrick Byrne, Overstock’s CEO." Apparently, he has now. Anyway, the MM part is old news -- its an old Byrne family quarrel after all, and MM was one of the first names people speculated about. Cohen's name seems to have been thrown in to make this seem a tad less anti-climactic than it might otherwise be.

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    Posted 2010-01-08 12:14:06 on Tim Geithner Didn’t Try To Cover Up AIG Payouts, Says Tim Geithner’s Employer

    So the rumor that Obama is kicking Geithner to the curb and installing Dodd as the new Treas. Secy isn't to be treated as gospel either?

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    Posted 2010-01-08 06:48:13 on TCW Group Sues Former CIO Jeffrey Gundlach For Having Drugs, Pornos And 12 “Sexual Devices” In Office

    #33, FTW

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    Posted 2010-01-04 12:15:41 on The Extremely Responsible Government Of Dubai Would Like To Remind You That The Empire State Building Opened During The Great Depression

    When a giant ape climbs up the side of it, the analogy to the Empire State Building will be more exact.

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    Posted 2009-12-24 08:42:02 on Bernie Madoff Gets Sh*t Beat Out Of Him

    #2, draddle? Really?? Is that how you think it's spelled? That is too far wrong to be a simple typo. "Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made you out of clay...."