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This is an absolutely brilliant, concise, and infuriating article on why the Enablers will get away with it. download Vamps Christian Blake video The Talented Mr. Ripley psp

Quite simply, our politicians are compromised, and any fact-finding information would point too many fingers back at them.  Some select quotes:

It’s probably not going to happen, though, in the comprehensive way that it should. The reason is that understanding our problems, this time around, would require our political leaders to examine themselves.

The crisis today is not solely one of bank misbehavior. This is also about the failure of the regulators — the Wall Street policemen who dozed peacefully as the crime of the century went off beneath the window.

We have all heard the official explanation for this failure, that “the structure of our regulatory system is unnecessarily complex and fragmented,” in the soothing words of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. But no proper Pecora would be satisfied with such piffle. The system was not only complex, it was compromised and corrupted and thoroughly rotten even in the spots where its mandate was simple.

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It turns out the world hadn’t changed much after all. But the Democratic Party sure had. And while today’s chastened Democrats might be ready to reregulate the banks, they are no more willing to scrutinize the bad ideas of the Clinton years than Republicans are the bad ideas of the Bush years.

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Dear Washington,

I don’t know how to say this… I don’t want to hurt you. But things just haven’t been the same between us since the 30’s.

You’ve become very overbearing and, at times abusive. I feel like it’s your way or the highway and like you don’t listen to me at all.

Your spending is out of control. I’ve tried to take the credit cards away from you, but you just went to China and talked them into loaning us more money. Money we don’t have. When I ask you where we’re going to get the money, how we’re going to pay back our debt, you tell me that *I’ll* just have to tighten my belt and call me names.

I’ve stayed with you for the sake of the children, but now you’re putting our debt in the children’s names and hurting *their* future. You’re teaching them that you’re the only one who loves them and that they will never be able to take care of themselves without you. This is abusive, manipulative behavior that I just can’t ignore anymore.

When I call you on your oppressive and abusive behavior, you call the cops on *me* and tell them that *I’m* the threat. I’ve never threatened you once and you know it.

I don’t feel like you’re even trying to protect me from the real threats. That you even care that there are people who want to hurt me. Heck, you’ve invited the most dangerous people into our home. You’re positively *friendly* with them.

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After all is said and done, what did these protesters accomplish? Maybe a lot. Maybe nothing. Probably something in-between.  How do these protests compare to the ones they tried to emulate during the American Revolution? Well, the original revolutionaries took risks. And they were HUGE risks.  These people were movers and shakers of their times, pillars of their worlds. They would be the Buffets, Gates, Pickens, Soros of their times. They had massive stakes in the game.  They new that if they gambled and lost, at best they would lose their entire livelihoods. At worst they would lose their lives.  THAT was risk. This isn’t.

Yet.

This is, as one dismissive online newspaper article put it, a “plastic pitchfork” movement.  We live in a generation that feels they’re “doing something good” when they forward an email.  That soothes their guilt when buying a Dell by clicking a checkbox that entices them that for a dollar more, Dell will plant a tree in their name.  That rationalizes the huge Al Gore house (http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

) by saying “well, he buys carbon credits to offset his waste, so everything’s OK with the world because he paid to even out the evil he does to the environment. That was his sacrifice.”).  We live in a generation with no knowledge of sacrifice. The protests yesterday were no sacrifice at all. But that doesn’t mean they were necessarily meaningless.  I’m not sure that they will just be forgotten after yesterday. They might. They might not. About a decade ago there were much more massive protests in Seattle over the meeting of the WTO. Days and days. Thousands. Then Tens of Thousands. Fury and rage.  But then the WTO left. And the protests ended. The WTO came and went, and carried on. Nothing changed.

But back in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, her arrest triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the US has never been the same since. So last night can just be forgotten. Or it can trigger something bigger. Or it will probably end up being something in-between.

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We have to remember that the original US Revolution came after many many years of frustrations and protests. After sending representative and representative to the crown, and having arguments fall in deaf ears.  And I think this is what is triggering much of this anger. I was watching FoxNews last night, waiting for Sean Hannitty to come on, since he was going to be broadcasting live from the Tea Party in Atlanta, and Bill O’Reilly was on. He said that the NY Times was totally ignoring the protests. I called bull, and went online. Sure enough, he was right. I kid you not, the leading story for the NY Times last night was whether psychologists thought that Bo, Obama’s new dog, “knew” he was a celebrity or not. Seriously. Link is right here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/fashion/16firstdog.html A Sound of Thunder download

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. And when they did finally include a “story” about it, late late last night, way down on the bottom of the political section, they said it was Americans venting “their frustrations over the sagging economy.”

I mean, seriously, how much more dismissed can you get?

But in the end, it may not matter. Bigger and better-organized movements have fizzled and failed.  Billions have been spent on similar ideas that have gone nowhere (both Forbes Jr. and Perot Jr. spent billions as Presidential candidates pushing a flat tax). I think only time will tell where they (and we) go from here.

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Sorry for the long delay inbetween posts to my readers (all 2 of you). Real life has kind of zapped my time right now, but new posts are coming!

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Barack Obama, concerned about offending Britain and Germany, rebuffed strenuous attempts by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to persuade the new American president to make a trip to Normandy last week.

“It wasn’t going to happen,” said an American official in Washington. “We went through the motions to placate President Sarkozy but giving special treatment to France was not on our agenda.

“During this trip, we wanted to maintain a balance between the British, German and France”. A White House spokesman in London declined to comment.
The French president tried unsuccessfully to meet Mr Obama before he was sworn in after the G20 summit in Washington last November, even stationing a French military plane on 24-hour standby nearby to whisk him to Chicago should the then US president-elect change his mind.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5096803/Barack-Obama-rejects-Normandy-trip-to-avoid-offending-Germany.html

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Very detailed an in-depth. My only thought is that one of the local papers should’ve been on this first.  Especially to report on this exchange:

Lucia Rottenberg, an Irving resident for almost 40 years, was upset in June 2007 when she stood at a City Council meeting in the amphitheater-like chambers at City Hall. Citing fears of crime, disease and economic harm to her city, Ms. Rottenberg called for tougher measures against illegal immigrants and bragged that her husband used his vacation time to volunteer with the Texas Minutemen, a contentious civilian group that tries to keep people from crossing the border illegally.

As she turned to leave the lectern, Mr. Gears leaned into his microphone and stopped her.

“I need to clear something up, because I was told something that was disturbing,” he said. “Were you at a meeting, a club meeting, where applause was given to the comment that anyone who comes over the border should be shot?”

Ms. Rottenberg, who has contributed to one of Mr. Gears’s campaigns and whom Mr. Gears said he considers a friend, confirmed she was at the meeting. “I don’t remember if there was applause or not,” she said, taken aback.

“Did you make that remark?” Mr. Gears asked.

“Yes, I did,” she admitted, her voice rising. “And my frustration is this — ”

Mr. Gears cut her short: “You don’t have to explain it to me. I understand.”

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