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    Posted 2009-04-05 09:48:23 on “Stop Bailing Out Billionaire Bankers!”

    Readers of this blog seem so wonderfully smug, standing at their windows, pissing down on the peasants who dare to protest. It is a bit reminiscent of the Russian upper classes as the Bolshie Rabble rousers tried to stir up the masses. They too were so sure of their natural superiority, of their place guaranteed among the elite. It didn't quite work out the way they expected, now did it? Watch this space!

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    Posted 2008-12-31 04:16:36 on Madoff To Use Same Defense As Certain Mustachioed Austrian

    What is truly wierd is that he knew the wolves were circling, yet he sat there, passive, waiting for them to bite. He had money - he could have made a run to someplace without an extradition treaty. Plastic surgery. A canoe in the amazon. He obviously got trapped into his own game, and had no exit strategy. Did he hope the grim reaper would take a swipe at him before the investors wanted out? Surely, this is some suggestion of madness in all of this (though a sense of unreality is not a legal defense)

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    Posted 2008-12-31 04:09:05 on Richest Man In Mexico Hating On Gates, Buffett and Santa Claus

    Ya, the Russian oligarchs made lots of money off of good old fashioned hard work. Never got any benefit from political connections, sweat-heart deals, suspension of anti-trust regulations (or misuse of such regulations against their competitors). Isn't free market capitalism glorious? Just ask Bernie...

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    Posted 2008-12-31 03:39:40 on Dear Fairfield Sentry Investor

    The Buddha is infinitely merciful, but in your particular case, he may make an exception

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    Posted 2008-12-21 05:51:01 on Write-Offs: 12.19.08

    @5 could have applied for a Papal dispensation.