Justice

[Ivytalk]

Let's see, now. Whom do we trust with our hard-earned money?

(1)The big, bad banks

(2)The full faith and credit of the United States guvmint (bonds, etc.)

(3) Wall Street

(4) Our socks, safes, mattresses or other repositories

(5) death dealer

[kalm]

Let's see, now. Whom do we trust with our hard-earned money?

(1)The big, bad banks

(2)The full faith and credit of the United States guvmint (bonds, etc.)

(3) Wall Street

(4) Our socks, safes, mattresses or other repositories

(5) death dealer

You are totally missing the point. This is about law enforcement, national security, the war on drugs, ethics, and who we entrust our ENTIRE economy with. JFC can you be thick.

And FTR, I would vote DD.

[Ivytalk]

Let's see, now. Whom do we trust with our hard-earned money?

(1)The big, bad banks

(2)The full faith and credit of the United States guvmint (bonds, etc.)

(3) Wall Street

(4) Our socks, safes, mattresses or other repositories

(5) death dealer

You are totally missing the point. This is about law enforcement, national security, the war on drugs,
ethics, and who we entrust our ENTIRE economy with. JFC can you be thick.

And FTR, I would vote DD.

It's about your corporatist fetish and a two-bit Internet hack who fancies himself a journalist. Nothing more.

[kalm]

You are totally missing the point. This is about law enforcement, national security, the war on drugs,
ethics, and who we entrust our ENTIRE economy with. JFC can you be thick.

And FTR, I would vote DD.

It's about your corporatist fetish and a two-bit Internet hack who fancies himself a journalist. Nothing more.

Nice dodge...for a sycophant...

[Ivytalk]

It's about your corporatist fetish and a two-bit Internet hack who fancies himself a journalist. Nothing more.

Nice dodge...for a sycophant...

Hey, Breuer is your guy, not mine.

Why is every thread you start like Groundhog Day? Picture Bill Murray as kalm, saying, "It's bash-the-banks day. Again."

[kalm]

Nice dodge...for a sycophant...

Hey, Breuer is your guy, not mine.

Why is every thread you start like Groundhog Day? Picture Bill Murray as kalm, saying, "It's bash-the-banks day. Again."

Nobody is my guy. Unlike you, I'm post partisan. Which is what's funny about this thread and the Taibbi bashing.

As for the banks and Wall Street, these really our the crimes of our time. Perhaps the biggest theft in history. Yeah, yeah...I know it's legal. But that doesn't make it right or represent the America I was brought up or raised to believe in.

[Ivytalk]

Hey, Breuer is your guy, not mine.

Why is every thread you start like Groundhog Day? Picture Bill Murray as kalm, saying, "It's bash-the-banks day. Again."

Nobody is my guy. Unlike you, I'm post partisan. Which is what's funny about this thread and the Taibbi bashing.

As for the banks and Wall Street, these really our the crimes of our time. Perhaps the biggest theft in history. Yeah, yeah...I know it's legal. But that doesn't make it right or represent the America I was brought up or raised to believe in.

Your argument's weakness is that you lump all financial institutions under one big category of thieves. AZGF runs a financial institution and he's as straight as a grizzly's dick. My son works for a trust company that has a sterling reputation and has generated good, safe returns for its investors without a bailout. You have to discriminate, kalm.

[kalm]

Nobody is my guy. Unlike you, I'm post partisan. Which is what's funny about this thread and the Taibbi bashing.

As for the banks and Wall Street, these really our the crimes of our time. Perhaps the biggest theft in history. Yeah, yeah...I know it's legal. But that doesn't make it right or represent the America I was brought up or raised to believe in.

Your argument's weakness is that you lump all financial institutions under one big category of thieves. AZGF runs a financial institution and he's as straight as a grizzly's dick. My son works for a trust company that has a sterling reputation and has generated good, safe returns for its investors without a bailout. You have to discriminate, kalm.

I do. Just didn't think neccessary in a thread about $60 trillion worth of suspicious banking regarding HSBC.

[Ivytalk]

Your argument's weakness is that you lump all financial institutions under one big category of thieves. AZGF runs a financial institution and he's as straight as a grizzly's dick. My son works for a trust company that has a sterling reputation and has generated good, safe returns for its investors without a bailout. You have to discriminate, kalm.

I do. Just didn't think neccessary in a thread about $60 trillion worth of suspicious banking regarding HSBC.

And you pulled that number right out of your azz.

[kalm]

I do. Just didn't think neccessary in a thread about $60 trillion worth of suspicious banking regarding HSBC.

And you pulled that number right out of your azz.

It was in the article. Do try and keep up.

[Baldy]

And you pulled that number right out of your azz.

It was in the article. Do try and keep up.

So you pulled the number out of Taibbi's azz.

I'm sure you knew exactly were it was.

[AZGrizFan]

It was in the article. Do try and keep up.

So you pulled the number out of Taibbi's azz.

I'm sure you knew exactly were it was.

[Ibanez]

Nobody is my guy. Unlike you, I'm post partisan. Which is what's funny about this thread and the Taibbi bashing.

As for the banks and Wall Street, these really our the crimes of our time. Perhaps the biggest theft in history. Yeah, yeah...I know it's legal. But that doesn't make it right or represent the America I was brought up or raised to believe in.

Your argument's weakness is that you lump all financial institutions under one big category of thieves. AZGF runs a financial institution and he's as straight as a grizzly's dick. My son works for a trust company that has a sterling reputation and has generated good, safe returns for its investors without a bailout. You have to discriminate, kalm.

I second the comment about Griz.

Not all financial institutions are equally criminal.

[Ivytalk]

And you pulled that number right out of your azz.

It was in the article. Do try and keep up.

Hey, Shlomo, Tubby says the alleged laundering was $9 billion. You multiplied that by a factor of about 6930. Or 6.93 X 10 to the third power. Mathematically impossible.

[AZGrizFan]

It was in the article. Do try and keep up.

Hey, Shlomo, Tubby says the alleged laundering was $9 billion. You multiplied that by a factor of about 6930. Or 6.93 X 10 to the third power. Mathematically impossible.

There's that number again.

[Ivytalk]

Hey, Shlomo, Tubby says the alleged laundering was $9 billion. You multiplied that by a factor of about 6930. Or 6.93 X 10 to the third power. Mathematically impossible.

There's that number again.

It's part of Aztec mysticism!

[AZGrizFan]

There's that number again.

It's part of Aztec mysticism!

Mayan. MAYAN. Get it straight, dammit.

[Grizalltheway]

It's part of Aztec mysticism!

Mayan. MAYAN. Get it straight, dammit.

Further proof the hardest part of an Ivy League education is getting in.

[AZGrizFan]

Mayan. MAYAN. Get it straight, dammit.

Further proof the hardest part of an Ivy League education is getting in.

Something neither you nor I could manage.

[Grizalltheway]

Further proof the hardest part of an Ivy League education is getting in.

Something neither you nor I could manage.

Hey, at least I graduated from the Harvard of the West.

[HI54UNI]

Further proof the hardest part of an Ivy League education is getting in.

Something neither you nor I could manage.

Don't be so sure. A gal in my high school class was accepted at Harvard. If they would take her their standards can't be too high.

[Grizalltheway]

Something neither you nor I could manage.

Don't be so sure. A gal in my high school class was accepted at Harvard. If they would take her their standards can't be too high.

I know the chances are slim considering it's Iowa, but was she, umm, melanin enhanced?

[HI54UNI]

Don't be so sure. A gal in my high school class was accepted at Harvard. If they would take her their standards can't be too high.

I know the chances are slim considering it's Iowa, but was she, umm, melanin enhanced?

Nope.

And its IOWA.

[SDHornet]

Anyone else notice these Kalm v Ivytalk banking spats are just a refined version of the JJ v D1B Catholic pedo threads?

[YoUDeeMan]

He's written dozens of articles taking the administration to task over lack of prosecution, regulation, and unkept campaign promises...suggested remedies too (as, btw, he did in this piece). Highlighting the irony between the war on drugs and multinational banksters enabling their financing while avoiding prosecution that two bit pot heads get sent to jail for is simply another angle in the greater story.

Keep swinging though!

You must be kidding.

Talibani's remedies:

1) Take ALL profits from the bank. But Taliman himself is not happy that ordinary folks have their money confiscated if it is suspected to have links to drugs (and, typically, Tabby never bothered to finish the story about the man who had his cash confiscated...oops) and even argued against the practice. So, even he is tactically admitting that is not a real remedy.

2) Criminally prosecute the bankers involved...but Taby doesn't bother to provide names or details, so it is more of a lazy statement than actual investigative journalism.

So, again, no real solutions...no "remedies". Tiebaby "attacks" the justice Department, but does not attack, or even directly mention, the one man who could use his power to CHANGE this silliness. Nope...just a one line mention of the "Obama administration" (which brings up a faceless image of some unaccountable press secretary). No call for readers to contact their elected leaders to hold an investigation...no calls for Obama to publicly answer why he is protecting the rich and their profits while telling the public he is, "on their side" against the 1%.

In other articles, he mentions the names of the bad guys...if they are bad guys he doesn't like. In this one, he does his best to avoid names, details, or solutions.

Sure, it makes for a somewhat fun opinion piece. But it sure as hell doesn't do anyone any justice.

As I said, he took the same road that the Justice Department took. He was lazy and he settled....and in the end he didn't hold anyone accountable.