It appears that members of the adult entertainment industry, including Larry Flynt, are looking for a federal bailout.
I think that they should just become a bank holding company.
They could give out something much more interesting than toasters to new account holders.
Courtesy of The Big Picture
On face the nation, Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), said the following, “You know, Rembrandt was a great artist. His brother Murray, on the other hand, Murray Rembrandt wouldn’t paint a house”
Well, it appears that David Vitter has been doing celebratory dances about his role in killing the auto bailout, and some people beg to differ:
“I don’t know what Sen. Vitter has against GM or the United Auto Workers or the entire domestic auto industry; whatever it is, whatever he thinks we’ve done, it’s time for him to forgive us, just like Sen. Vitter has asked the citizens of Louisiana to forgive him, ” said Johnson [Morgan Johnson, president of the UAW local for GM in Shreveport], president of Local 2166. Otherwise, Johnson said of Vitter, it would appear, “He’d rather pay a prostitute than pay auto workers.”
Sponsor an executive, The money you give won’t just save a life, it’ll save a lifestyle.
Courtesy of, “This Hour Has 22 Minutes.”
It’s a picture postcard from 1905, and as the folks at Lolcat so ably note, “The differences are clear. Proper grammar and a more formal tone was in vogue back then. But the similarities to modern-day kitten struggles and lolcats are amazing. ALL CAPS is still cool, but most importantly, she also no can has cheezburger. More than a hundred years later, all that’s changed is the spelling.“
Of course in the days prior to high speed film, the aftermath was of dressing up a cat and putting it in a high chair can only be imagined.
The blood stains are probably gone now.
So, he shows Stephen Hayes from CNN, and says that for the economy, losing the auto industry would just be like losing a foot, but then he continues:
Right…it’s just a foot. If we had let the banking industry fail we would have lost our assholes.
2:50 on this vid
Yeah, I know, small data set, but still, this is just too good not to share:
According to the source (at link), this is not a joke.
I support the auto bailout, because the consequences would be too dire, but I also agree with this, and it’s funny enough to suspend my usual #@$ing of swear words:
A cat. A roomba.
….And they have a plan.
The ever entertaining Barney Frank:
“I’m a great fan of the president-elect, but I think it’s probably the case that he’s going to have to be more assertive than he’s been,” Frank said, addressing the Consumer Federation of America’s annual financial services conference. “And I know what he says is ‘Well, we only have one president at a time. My problem is, at a time of great crisis and [massive] mortgage foreclosures. … I am afraid that overstates the number of presidents.”
(emphasis mine)
I need to clean my screen now.
No, it wasn’t a Republican being rude. She thought that Obama, and later Emanuel were pranking DJs trying to punk her.
I really don’t blame Ros-Lehtinen, but it is way too funny not to mention.
Full disclosure: I have not read Atlas Shrugged. I do not intend to do so, The Virtue of Selfishness in high school was enough unpleasantness for me.
All I have read is the Wiki, and a few excerpts.
That being said, this made me laugh to hard that I think that I broke something.
Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current Financial Crisis.
BY JEREMIAH TUCKER
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“Damn it, Dagny! I need the government to get out of the way and let me do my job!”
She sat across the desk from him. She appeared casual but confident, a slim body with rounded shoulders like an exquisitely engineered truss. How he hated his debased need for her, he who loathed self-sacrifice but would give up everything he valued to get in her pants … Did she know?
“I heard the thugs in Washington were trying to take your Rearden metal at the point of a gun,” she said. “Don’t let them, Hank. With your advanced alloy and my high-tech railroad, we’ll revitalize our country’s failing infrastructure and make big, virtuous profits.”
“Oh, no, I got out of that suckers’ game. I now run my own hedge-fund firm, Rearden Capital Management.”
“What?”
He stood and adjusted his suit jacket so that his body didn’t betray his shameful weakness. He walked toward her and sat informally on the edge of her desk. “Why make a product when you can make dollars? Right this second, I’m earning millions in interest off money I don’t even have.”
He gestured to his floor-to-ceiling windows, a symbol of his productive ability and goodness.
“There’s a whole world out there of byzantine financial products just waiting to be invented, Dagny. Let the leeches run my factories into the ground! I hope they do! I’ve taken out more insurance on a single Rearden Steel bond than the entire company is even worth! When my old company finally tanks, I’ll make a cool $877 million.”
Their eyes locked with an intensity she was only beginning to understand. Yes, Hank … claim me … If we’re to win the battle against the leeches, we must get it on … right now … Don’t let them torture us for our happiness … or our billions.
He tore his eyes away.
…..
There is more, go read.
I am starting to get the sneaking suspicion that the same people who planned the war in Iraq and the occupancy are now hard at work, planning for the Federal credit crisis bailout . . .
Doesn’t anyone remember what happened the last time Palin was in close proximity of a large turkey?
Palin giving a post turkey pardon interview while other turkies are slaughtered behind her.
I didn’t want to post this, but the peer pressure from the liberal blogosphere proved too strong.
Damn you John Aravosis!
Truth be told, I also saw this on MSNBC Countdown, where they blurred out the nasty bits, and supplied some very amusing headlines to go along with it. (click on picture for full size)
The original is here.
