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Entry: Carl Icahn: Obama Would Be A Terrible President
posted by Random Banker
May 22, 2008 4:21PM
@ 4:10
YOU don't get it. I'm not making the case for Obama.
I like my candidates to lie. The reason I support Hillary Clinton is because I think she is very good at lying and cheating. Look guy, I have a side, this is a culture war. I don't care what my side has to do as long as it wins. If that's vote fraud, lying, character assassination, blackmail. whatever it takes man.
@ cluzo:
Eh, I wouldn't put it past our government. Obviously Tuskegee, the Japaneses interment camps, segregation, slavery. I mean really this country has done some fucked up shit. I'm not sure infecting people with HIV is really that far out there. Now of course its ludicrous because you don't want to let lose a virus in your own population. But its not ludicrous because its inconceivable.
Entry: Carl Icahn: Obama Would Be A Terrible President
posted by Random Banker
May 22, 2008 4:49PM
@4:28:
I wouldn't advocate a military intervention if they tried to get 100 either. I think demonizing a country for trying to get nuclear weapons when he have enough to blow up the world many times over is silly. Now I do agree, again, strategically it is not in our interesting for them to have nucs. What I disagree with is the best way eliminate Iran as a potential threat. I think slowly westernizing them through an exchange of culture and opening them will be a far more successful strategy to neutralizing them than using an overly aggressive policy. By driving the iranian people away from us we greatly increase the threat to us should they have get nukes. If chinese cruise missiles started falling in the US because they didn't want us to develop some new weapons system, would be listen to them about their reasoning? No we'd just hate them and vow revenge.
Also China is the real threat to this nation anyway, if someone wants to pose a strategy for a successful military preemption in China, I might be willing to listen to that.
Entry: Carl Icahn: Obama Would Be A Terrible President
posted by Random Banker
May 22, 2008 5:10PM
@4:58:
China is a threat precisely because they've westernized, now they're going to supplant us. Iran doesn't have a large enough population to be a threat to us economically, the way the chinese are. Iran's population is all nice and liberal now, but once McCain starts sending cruise missiles the size of telephone poles through the sides of their houses, they're going to become real unenlightened real quick.
Entry: 2008 Bonus Payouts?
posted by Random Banker
May 23, 2008 2:56PM
Are you sure those aren't the '07 numbers?
P.S. Chipwich
Entry: Your Summer Share: It's Not Too Late!
posted by Random Banker
May 23, 2008 3:10PM
east egg was Great Neck
Entry: Write-Offs: 05.23.08
posted by Random Banker
May 24, 2008 8:52AM
I'm no fan of Waters, my inclination would be in crease gasoline taxes to remove our dependence on foreign oil. Though i do think the lack of new US refineries is a boondoggle. I certainly don't agree with nationalizing anything.... well medicine, but that's because i think people have a right to health care but not to cheap gasoline.
Now, is anyone working on the AB InBev defense? Why don't you guys just do a hostile counter offer for InBev, their market cap is only like $7 billion more than BUD's. Warren, friend of the Busch family, would happily make nice with the financing to put together another Wrigley-Mars style transaction in the beverage space. Just a thought.
Entry: This Changes Everything
posted by Random Banker
May 28, 2008 7:13PM
Shoulda gone with "when mookses fail"
Entry: Ask An Expert
posted by Random Banker
May 29, 2008 2:24PM
I'm quite sure Bess meant Mono not Mano, Mono y bicicleta makes perfect sense.
Entry: Rupert Murdoch Says Obama Will Win, Icahn Will Lose, And US Economy Is In Trouble
posted by Random Banker
May 29, 2008 2:37PM
As I said the other day Icahn is Ivan Boesky with better lawyers.
Anyway, if Rup really wanted Obama to win he'd have Ailes call the dogs off over at Fix Noise.
posted by Random Banker
May 29, 2008 4:12PM
It wasn't a mistake in that it was accidentally included, but it was a mistake in that it took all incentive away for Bear shareholder's to approve the deal. In that sense it was a loophole.
@Dave Chappelle, its funny that you say that "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good narrative." applies to those who want to get out of Iraq and not those who got us into it in the first place....
Entry: Why Don't The Airlines Hedge More?
posted by Random Banker
May 30, 2008 1:05PM
Its too late to hedge now, geniuses. The time to hedge was when Oil was at $10 a barrel. The real problem is that there is too much competition in the industry so they can't pass through the costs to their customers effectively. That should be the real question you're asking: why are there still so many airlines? The answer is that the government and AIG and GE keep bailing them out with cheap airline leases and subsidies. The government because, they're retarded, and AIG and GE because they make a mint by charging high financing fees to customers with few other options.
Entry: Why Don't The Airlines Hedge More?
posted by Random Banker
May 30, 2008 3:26PM
Oh 1-2, you are as tender hearted as you are tender headed. No wonder girl loves you. Happy Friday!
Entry: All The Ex-President's Men
posted by Random Banker
Jun 02, 2008 4:03PM
@ 3:16: Why exactly is it that the president is supposed to be held to a higher standard? I never really understood that.
Entry: You Have No Idea How Lucky You Are
posted by Random Banker
Jun 02, 2008 4:38PM
Chicago is a slightly more sophisticated New York (lest you forget, staten island), with better sports teams, lower rents, and more robust financial institutions. Anyway, isn't girl from Chicago, where is she on this?
Entry: You Have No Idea How Lucky You Are
posted by Random Banker
Jun 02, 2008 4:46PM
Nah, plus New York has NJ. Its not even close, plus the wisco cheese heads don't think they're sophisticated, unlike the population of murray hill.
Entry: You Have No Idea How Lucky You Are
posted by Random Banker
Jun 02, 2008 4:48PM
Luna Park, blnde banker, ham, anyone?
Entry: You Have No Idea How Lucky You Are
posted by Random Banker
Jun 02, 2008 5:06PM
girl, obviously, all the suburb aren't winnetka, I think they were referring more to the hill-jacks in Aurora or up around gurnee. Speaking of chicago not bening a walking town, how do people get from one part of the city to another? i always, drive... when i'm there... i guess people take the El or what?
Entry: You Have No Idea How Lucky You Are
posted by Random Banker
Jun 02, 2008 5:10PM
P.S. girl, i've seen no evidence that women in new york are actually more attractive but rather simply think that they are.
Entry: You Have No Idea How Lucky You Are
posted by Random Banker
Jun 02, 2008 5:28PM
uh, IC, my bad dude. I haven't been there since I was an intern, I was just trying to match the poor party theme. As for staten, its clearly part of the city of New York as is the bronx and queens, You can't cherry pick what is and is not part of their city. Well sure if you take the nicest part of new york and compare it to all of Chicago then its is going to seem better.
Entry: Carl Icahn: Obama Would Be A Terrible President
posted by Random Banker
May 22, 2008 4:11PM
@4:00.
I'm really a very Machiavellian guy. I have no problem with us manipulating other countries or engaging in any number nefarious deeds. I just don't think we should be seen to do, because the act of doing it undermines our main objective. I think we'd be better off with out Iran having nuclear weapons. But I also think that Iran with 1 weapon is not worth the cost to us of having air strikes. How if the iranian nuclear facilities were to suffer catastrophic failures which could be attributed to no nation in particular, that's a different story.