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Brightstar 2 - The Resurrection

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 01:23 PM

Do any of these rich assclowns EVER generate any wealth

or do they just ride societies, clean them of their assets and break their spirits?

IS this the REAL terror target Bush should be pursuing and punishing then?

Is there a HELL far enough down for people like this?

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 01:52 PM

Better yet

use the $700 billion to create a new set of banks, operated like Credit Unions and owned by every person in this country, based on how much they paid in in taxes.

These banks have the power to buy, sell, renegotiate terms on properties.

But do not give this money to the evil crooks who CAUSED this crisis in the first place.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 01:54 PM

Now, kidlets

do you remember when you sniffed at the conspiracy theorists who told you it was a bad thing that the Federal Reserve came into being? Remember dismissing those who said it was bad that America came off the gold standard?

Were they right or were they wrong?

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 02:01 PM

I was just reading the Brooks article 2day

until I reached the part where he proposed the same old crew as the new crew and I stopped there and went on to read something useful.

I just pity the rest of the world being dragged down into hell these next four years based on the evil at the top of our food chain.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 02:03 PM

new boss

same as old boss

literally

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 02:05 PM

enough pitchforks

They're friggin' robbing my family! I've reached my "pitchfork moment".

aaaaarrrrrggghhhh!

and you have a movement.

Ron Paul still wants to be president.

That, or simply do not vote ANY incumbents back in, not even your favorite politician. Scare them all.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 04:09 PM

This is SOOOO interesting!!!

Tell me more!!!

By the way, Anne Heche was 'once' gay?

But if it was an ADAM Heche instead, you can bet his prior gay exploits would paint him as always gay, even if he only dated women the rest of his life.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 04:28 PM
Original article: Show me the sexism!

Anti male bias

I find the ratio of anti-male bias vs anti-female bias in the media, academia, organizations of about 9 to 1. Occasionally you will see somebody in the media shorting women, but nine out of ten times, it is men being dissed.

And it is not limited to liberals, conservatives have their own hatred of men to flog thru their outlets, from portraying all men as football watching blockheads who are obligated to fight on behalf of the country to treating them like emotional midgets who cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

One example that particularly sticks in my craw over the years.

The early articles contending that the small male Y chromosome means that men are devolving. Later research that showed the chromosome to be missing a lot of the redundant and relatively useless DNA material typical to most chromosomes (to fundamentally be a more efficient dataset) and the finding that the chromosome is mirrored and thus self-checking were not reported as widely. Thus, it is still widely considered that men are supposedly 'devolving'. This hurts me greatly, since I consider men to be evolving and indeed SUPERIOR to women. ;p

Imagine if the first article about the male chromosome instead had said that men's genes are more efficient because they have superior organizational attributes. This would never have gotten into the media and published. Thus, I say there is an inherent anti-male spin to everything in the PUBLIC REALM, not just the media and academia.

Men have been trained quite effectively FROM BIRTH and largely BY WOMEN to wince at any mention that they are not despicable. Do you know what sort of a damning effect this has on the souls of young sensitive men in particular?

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 04:45 PM

Wait a sec

Paulson, as head of Goldman Sachs, caused part of this problem..

"I share the outrage that people have," Paulson said. "It's embarrassing to look at this. I think it's embarrassing to the United States of America. There is a lot of blame to go around."

A LOT OF BLAME TO GO AROUND??@?@?

Why is he not saying this from a jail cell while in handcuffs?

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 07:52 AM

New impetus for anti-incumbency?

New impetus for anti-incumbency?

Flush out Washington like the sewer that it is in November. NOBODY who is an incumbent must be left to stand.

And do not think YOUR incumbent is somehow better than the others. oust him or her or else face final armageddon level crises in this country.

As for Wall Street? Start a $700 billion bank owned and run by the people. Much better use of money than handing it to evil pirates.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 09:20 AM

If we handed over $1 trillion to the criminals, all we would do

is to buy a few months' or at most a year of extra time, after which the same crap will come back EIGHT times as hard.

The US needs to be brave and take the hit. Wall Street will survive without their robbery stash from us.

The US will be much stronger several years hence once the crap is flushed out of the system.

And more importantly, Wall Street will be forced to be on the defensive as regulations are put into place to prevent another future disaster.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 09:34 AM

I'm with Nils

make it a high interest loan, payable within 360 days in full, at MOB rates of interest.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 09:36 AM

Michael Savage has it right

WHERE, oh where is our PUTIN? The guy to defeat the oligarchs and save us from this treachery?

A bunch of mandarins in Washington, playing with OUR money.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 09:39 AM

The poor, POOR human populace

7 BILLION peeple being manipulated like marionettes by a few hundreds twits.

do they still make hangman nooses?

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 09:43 AM

These man gods

are telling us how much we all are worth.

they are saying we are good to be manipulated into handing over all our wealth AND control to them, NO BETTER than that.

if people were not so dunned, they might be offended by the generous offer our so called leaders keep trying to extend to us.

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