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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-08 11:42 PM
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Anybody think a mass murderer like Bush would pass on stealing $700 billion?
Oops. I meant $840 billion.
Or is it $1.4 trillion?
Or whatever it is before leaving office?

Of course not.



The guy looks up to whale turds. So does his BFEE master there, in the back.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-08 11:44 PM
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1. There is absolutely nothing I'd put past that psychopath and his criminal cabal - GOP ...
..BFEE and Wall Street and the corprats - whom we all exist for - so that they can scrape money off our backs to make themselves rich. It's the ownership society alright. They own us.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-08 11:50 PM
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4. Picked to direct the Wall Street bailout: Who is Neel Kashkari?
Yup. We the People, thanks to those you've mentioned, have become the United Slaves of America.

From my comrade-pals at World Socialist Web Site:



Picked to direct the Wall Street bailout: Who is Neel Kashkari?

By Alex Lantier
8 October 2008
wsws.org

On October 6 US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson named Neel Kashkari to head the Treasury’s new Office of Financial Stability (OFS). The OFS is charged with paying out $700 billion to Wall Street banks and other financial firms in exchange for their failed mortgage-backed assets, under the terms of the bailout signed into law by President Bush on October 3.

Kashkari’s identity is thus a matter of considerable public interest. Only 35 years old, Kashkari joined the Treasury in 2006 “as a Senior Advisor to US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson,” according to his official Treasury Department biography. At the time, Paulson was giving up his job as CEO of Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs to join the Treasury.

The biography continues, “Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Kashkari was a Vice-President of Goldman Sachs & Co. in San Francisco, where he led Goldman’s IT Security Investment Banking practice, advising public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions.”

Despite his high rank, Kashkari has only a few years of experience in finance. After initially studying aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois, he worked at defense firm TRW on contract projects from the US space agency NASA, before switching careers and attending the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia. He joined Goldman Sachs after graduating from Wharton in 2002.

CONTINUED...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/kash-o08.shtml



I think I'm paranoid. Manipulated.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:11 AM
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8. I heard about this on NPR. Paulson should not be in the position he is nor should
Kashkari. WHY are Wall Street tycoons running our Federal Treasury? And ROBBING it? How is this OK?
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-08 11:45 PM
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2. Looks like Dubya cut one, and Dickhead approved.
:D



:hi: Way'at Octafish! :toast:


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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 12:06 AM
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5. Mr. Apollo
That is art, Swamp Rat. Bravo!

Now here's a bit deserving of velvet color-by-number...



Mr. Apollo

I have seen Mr. Apollo
Uproot trees with his bare hands
I have seen Mr. Apollo's
Body building plans

He's the strongest man
The world has ever seen
And if you take his courses
He'll make you big and rough

Oh! And you can beat up bullies 'til they cry
"Oh lor’! Oh, crikey! Let go, you rotter! Don't punish me!"

When you're tough, you're very fit
Your voice is rough, it sounds like grit
You are so strong, and proud of it
Thanks to Mr. Apollo

Follow Mr. Apollo
Everybody knows
He's the greatest benefactor of Mankind

Follow Mr. Apollo
Everybody knows
That a healthy body makes a healthy mind

You know! You know he's the
Strongest man
The world has ever seen
And if you take his courses
He'll make you big and rough

Uh huh, and uh, ha, you can kick the sand
right
back, in their faces! Kick! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

When you're tough, you're very fit
Your voice is rough, it sounds like grit
You are so strong, and proud of it
Thanks to Mr. Apollo

Follow Mr. Apollo
Everybody knows
He's the greatest benefactor of Mankind

Follow Mr. Apollo
Everybody knows
That a healthy body makes a healthy mind

Follow Mr. Apollo
Everybody knows
He's the greatest benefactor of Mankind
Oh, yeah!

Follow Mr. Apollo
Everybody knows
That a healthy body makes a healthy mind
He can do it for you!

Follow Mr. Apollo
Everybody knows
He's the greatest benefactor of Mankind

Follow Mr. Apollo
Everybody knows
That a healthy body (oooh!) makes a healthy mind

Yes. Just give me 10 years of your life
and I'll trade in that puny flab for living muscles.
The physique you desire
Strong
Chusky shoulders to hold your shirt up

Five years ago, I was a four-stone apology
Today, I am two separate gorillas

No tiresome exedrcises
No tricks
No unpleasant bending

Wrestle poodles and win
Play beach ball
Shave your legs
Look over walls
Tease people
Brush them aside as if they were matchsticks
Impress your friends

-- Bonzo Dog Band

Que bueno verte, Compay Hermano. Como handan?
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pocoloco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-08-08 11:47 PM
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3. Or an election or two?
Or even three?
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 12:12 AM
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6. ''You don't steal elections to do good things.''
I remember first reading those words on DU, pocoloco.

What we've seen since then, eh?

International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity

Bush's High Crimes Against the Nation

The Bush Crime Family Tree
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 12:17 AM
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7. We need to keep a sharp eye on the entire Bush family and all his cronies
his father, his brothers, his many cousins all of whom seem to always pop up in shady positions like his cousin George H. Walker who has held major positions at Lehman Bros. and at Goldman Sachs. Away from the light of public scrutiny, I wouldn't put anything past this bunch, including an effort to try to leverage some kind of influence in the private sector in this bailout.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 10:35 AM
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9. Didn't GHW just get new gig?
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 10:42 AM
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10. he already didn't pass on it.
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