This from the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/follow-jesus-like-nazis-f_b_158295.html

Pastor Warren asked his followers to be as committed to Jesus as the young Nazi men and women who spelled out in mass formation with their bodies the words "Hitler, we are yours," in 1939 at the Munich Stadium, were committed to the Führer of the Third Reich, a major instigator of a World War that claimed 55 million lives.

With more than a hint of admiration in his voice, pastor Warren described how in 1939 in a packed Munich Stadium before the leader of the Third Reich, young brown-shirted men and women spelled out in formation, with their bodies, words in German which read "Hitler, we are yours."

"And they nearly took the world, " pastor Rick told the stadium crowd. He moved on to quote another inspirational example from the 20th Century, Lenin, who said 'give me 100 committed, totally committed men and I'll change the world.' Once again Warren observed, "They nearly did."

Having cited dedication and zeal of young Nazis and the efficacy of Bolshevik Revolutionaries, Warren moved on to describe how the sayings of Chairman Mao, printed up in the "Little Red Book", had helped propel the revolutionary fervor of the Chinese Red Guard who had carried out the violent, anarchic revolutionary spasm known as the Cultural Revolution.

With those examples fresh in his audiences mind, Rick Warren instructed the crowd of his thirty thousand to hold up pre-printed signs, within their programs, white letters against a red background, that said "Whatever it takes."

A hole is a hole is a hole. If you can fuck a woman up the ass and get off on it, you can fuck a guy. Just takes a little imagination, which can be fueled by drugs, by money or other incentives.

Or by Viagra if those all fail.

There are areas of the country where unemployment tops 20%

Um, been to Michigan lately? There are plenty of areas of the United States where unemployment tops 20% - more, if you counted unemployment the way they do in France.

Actually, that's not even true. Citi is less than worthless. I've been saying for months that their liabilities exceed their assets by hundreds of billions of dollars, and today Krugman said as much in the pages of the New York Times.

It needs to be shut down, its shareholders need to be wiped out (they invested their money poorly, without looking under the hood - hey, look ma - no engine!), and its toxic debt transferred to something like the Resolution Trust Corp. It can then reopen under government management, until the Feds can stabilize what's left and sell it off for some kind of profit.

Oh, and Shitty's execs need to go to jail for the rest of their lives. All of them. And the government also needs to carefully preserve their e-mail records and any other electronic records, so that civil lawsuits can pick their remaining estates clean. Anybody connected to these crooks needs to be left penniless and homeless - unless their home is a jail cell, in which case they can earn their keep making license plates until they drop.

No more "bailouts" for criminal fatcats.

Bank of America will be the next to implode.

The guys over at Wells Fargo must be laughing their asses off. They'll probably emerge from this debacle as the biggest bank in America. Here's hoping the clowns at BofA feel every bone in their bodies break as the Stagecoach mows them down.

Who should have been aborted.

It is not that he has cheated on his taxes every year for the past 8, it's that his last job was overseeing Citibank, you know the company run by that God of Democrats, Rubin. As we now know Citi is insolvent. What was this guy doing the whole time?

Helping to drive Shittybank off of a cliff. One more reason - in addition to his being a serial tax cheat (the IMF warned their employees - repeatedly - that no taxes were being withheld from their income) - for the Senate to kick Geithner to the curb.

Of course they won't. They're all bought and paid for by the financial services giants, and Geithner is one of the financial services elites. A cozy little kleptocracy we've got there in Washington, D.C.

What a silly question! He'll manage it for the exclusive benefit of his fellow rich tax-dodging crooks, of course!

It gives them a nationwide reach, which in the mid to longterm will be worth far more than the toxic debt they inherited will cost them. And they've got the loan loss reserves and asset base in place to cover it all without tanking.

In contrast, BofA made a lot of bad loans themselves, and invested in a lot of bad mortgage instruments, before gobbling up ML and Countrywide. Merrill Lynch's obligations alone dwarf anything Wells inherited from Wachovia.