This is not how you run a business: WaMu gave mortgage brokers handsome commissions for selling the riskiest loans, which carried higher fees, bolstering profits and ultimately the compensation of the bank’s executives. The same seems to have been the case at Lehman Brothers and all the other institutions that we apparently MUST save from…
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CNN says the latest strategy to defeat the Taliban: the use of American military funds to purchase small arms, most likely AK-47 rifles, that will be given to local Afghans, according to a U.S. military official. That sounds like a great plan. More guns has always been a recipe for success in volatile places like…
Three-and-a-half years ago, one of the dirty fucking hippies who just happened to be right (and won a Nobel Prize to prove it) about everything wrote: “these days, Americans make a living selling each other houses, paid for with money borrowed from the Chinese. Somehow, that doesn’t seem like a sustainable lifestyle.” Like the rest…
You gotta love this whole Clean Coal bullshit hyped by the polluting powers that be and our new BFF, Obama hisself. Seriously, was there ever an oxymoron more obvious? Clean. Coal. Think about it, for a minute. It’s right up there with Safe Guns and Benign Cancer. It’s the environmental equivalent of waterboarding. And now…
You gotta love this whole Clean Coal bullshit hyped by the polluting powers that be and our new BFF, Obama hisself. Seriously, was there ever an oxymoron more obvious? Clean. Coal. Think about it, for a minute. It’s right up there with Safe Guns and Benign Cancer. It’s the environmental equivalent of waterboarding. And now…
What a surprising theme: at midnight Mass on Christmas Eve: “Pope urges end to ‘hatred and violence’ in Mideast.” Later in the same sermon, Pope Panzerfaust unsurprisingly urged an end to rain on weekends. “It just such a total bummer,” he said. C’mon, old man. If you’re as well connected as your followers claim, surely…
Yes, there’s something delightful about a man who will compare the love of his fellow human beings to incest and pedophelia. Delightful. In classic MSM fashion, asshats like Dionne help turn Warren’s outrageous positions into merely controversial points of view, nothing more, nothing less: If you’re on the left, how you view Obama’s move depends…
