Comments for Bent Notes http://barneyquick.net/blog Ruminations on music, culture, America and the world stage Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:58:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 Comment on It’s his entrails or yours, Senator McCain by Administrator http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/its-his-entrails-or-yours-senator-mccain/#comment-84679 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:53:35 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/its-his-entrails-or-yours-senator-mccain/#comment-84679 Those weren't some kind of new bonuses cooked up as a reward for screwing up. They were part of the existing contractual arrangements, golden parachutes if you will, which are a bargain for companies wishing to shed lousy managers. The amount involved is so miniscule relative to the losses involved as to not be relevant to the discussion. Those weren’t some kind of new bonuses cooked up as a reward for screwing up. They were part of the existing contractual arrangements, golden parachutes if you will, which are a bargain for companies wishing to shed lousy managers. The amount involved is so miniscule relative to the losses involved as to not be relevant to the discussion.

]]> Comment on It’s his entrails or yours, Senator McCain by Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/its-his-entrails-or-yours-senator-mccain/#comment-84648 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:20:51 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/its-his-entrails-or-yours-senator-mccain/#comment-84648 Not monitering things like this that we find out about after the fact. But, the rich are different from me, if not you, like, well, I guess they feel entitled. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_go_co/meltdown_lehman WASHINGTON - The now-bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers arranged millions in bonuses for fired executives as it pleaded for a federal lifeline, lawmakers learned Monday, as Congress began investigating what went so wrong on Wall Street to prompt a $700 billion government bailout. ADVERTISEMENT The first in a series of congressional hearings on the roots of the financial meltdown yielded few major revelations about Lehman's collapse, and none about why government officials, as they scrambled to avert economic catastrophe, declined to rescue the flagging company while injecting tens of billions of dollars into others. But it allowed lawmakers still smarting from a politically painful vote Friday for the largest federal market rescue in history to put a face on their outrage at corporate chieftains who took home hundreds of millions of dollars while betting on risky mortgage-backed investments that ultimately brought the financial system to its knees. Not monitering things like this that we find out about after the fact. But, the rich are different from me, if not you, like, well, I guess they feel entitled. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_go_co/meltdown_lehman

WASHINGTON - The now-bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers arranged millions in bonuses for fired executives as it pleaded for a federal lifeline, lawmakers learned Monday, as Congress began investigating what went so wrong on Wall Street to prompt a $700 billion government bailout.

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The first in a series of congressional hearings on the roots of the financial meltdown yielded few major revelations about Lehman’s collapse, and none about why government officials, as they scrambled to avert economic catastrophe, declined to rescue the flagging company while injecting tens of billions of dollars into others.

But it allowed lawmakers still smarting from a politically painful vote Friday for the largest federal market rescue in history to put a face on their outrage at corporate chieftains who took home hundreds of millions of dollars while betting on risky mortgage-backed investments that ultimately brought the financial system to its knees.

]]> Comment on Liveblogging the veep debate by Administrator http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/03/liveblogging-the-veep-debate/#comment-84580 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:52:28 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/03/liveblogging-the-veep-debate/#comment-84580 What is the proper classification for someone who thinks free-market economics is a failure? What is the proper classification for someone who thinks free-market economics is a failure?

]]> Comment on This is North Korea-type stuff by Administrator http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/this-is-north-korea-type-stuff/#comment-84574 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:32:49 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/this-is-north-korea-type-stuff/#comment-84574 At Culver they learn love of America and the honor of defending freedom, not cult worship of a Stalinist. At Culver they learn love of America and the honor of defending freedom, not cult worship of a Stalinist.

]]> Comment on It’s his entrails or yours, Senator McCain by Administrator http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/its-his-entrails-or-yours-senator-mccain/#comment-84573 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:31:06 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/its-his-entrails-or-yours-senator-mccain/#comment-84573 Please explain how free markets failed in our current situation. Please explain how free markets failed in our current situation.

]]> Comment on It’s his entrails or yours, Senator McCain by Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/its-his-entrails-or-yours-senator-mccain/#comment-84542 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:51:12 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/its-his-entrails-or-yours-senator-mccain/#comment-84542 God has damned my savings? God damn those who did. And that is not a military academy, that is a fat farm. God has damned my savings? God damn those who did. And that is not a military academy, that is a fat farm.

]]> Comment on Now we’re getting somewhere by Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/04/now-were-getting-somewhere/#comment-84539 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:43:43 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/04/now-were-getting-somewhere/#comment-84539 Never was good at financial figures. 80 Bil's a drop in da bucket. Try 800 Bil. If you counted one, two, three, four and so on, for an entire 80 year average lifespan, you would only get to 2.5 Bil. What is happening here, Mr. Free Markets, is that the fucks that fucked us are not going to suffer, though their imitators (those who wanted something for not much more than nothing) are indeed going to be at the behest of goons still wanting to throw the roofs off their heads and suck up a bargain. (Kinda like the goons waiting to throw your ass in jail and seize your property, say, if you grow a funny looking weed in your closet). The people you supposedly emulate and admire--those who are better than the rest of us and you say smarter and working harder--are not going to suffer. We have bailed them out. You know it's only a nose for money. As for broad categories, well, here we can only skim the surface, which, right now, is roiling with anger. There's a universe of information out there. But it is all so diffuse. Arguable too. We're simply fucked. And more fucked. Stay tuned. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_bi_ge/as_world_markets Never was good at financial figures. 80 Bil’s a drop in da bucket. Try 800 Bil. If you counted one, two, three, four and so on, for an entire 80 year average lifespan, you would only get to 2.5 Bil. What is happening here, Mr. Free Markets, is that the fucks that fucked us are not going to suffer, though their imitators (those who wanted something for not much more than nothing) are indeed going to be at the behest of goons still wanting to throw the roofs off their heads and suck up a bargain. (Kinda like the goons waiting to throw your ass in jail and seize your property, say, if you grow a funny looking weed in your closet). The people you supposedly emulate and admire–those who are better than the rest of us and you say smarter and working harder–are not going to suffer. We have bailed them out. You know it’s only a nose for money. As for broad categories, well, here we can only skim the surface, which, right now, is roiling with anger. There’s a universe of information out there. But it is all so diffuse. Arguable too. We’re simply fucked. And more fucked. Stay tuned. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_bi_ge/as_world_markets

]]> Comment on Now we’re getting somewhere by Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/04/now-were-getting-somewhere/#comment-84537 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:35:05 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/04/now-were-getting-somewhere/#comment-84537 We are bailing them out. They are crazy to get after the 80 Bil on their plates now that they have drained our retirement funds. Fuck them!! We are bailing them out. They are crazy to get after the 80 Bil on their plates now that they have drained our retirement funds. Fuck them!!

]]> Comment on This is North Korea-type stuff by Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/this-is-north-korea-type-stuff/#comment-84536 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:33:00 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/this-is-north-korea-type-stuff/#comment-84536 kinda reminds me of Culver Military. Where the rich still send their privileged ones. kinda reminds me of Culver Military. Where the rich still send their privileged ones.

]]> Comment on It’s his entrails or yours, Senator McCain by Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/its-his-entrails-or-yours-senator-mccain/#comment-84535 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:30:27 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/10/05/its-his-entrails-or-yours-senator-mccain/#comment-84535 It's Obama's to lose, sadly so, but the Repubbies deserve everything they are gonna get. None of it worked, dude. Especially your free markets. Of course they still aren't free enough. My core principles are peace, love, freedom. Aren't they yours too? It’s Obama’s to lose, sadly so, but the Repubbies deserve everything they are gonna get. None of it worked, dude. Especially your free markets. Of course they still aren’t free enough. My core principles are peace, love, freedom. Aren’t they yours too?

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