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http://www.thedailyshow.com/

What an interview! I guess it made some headlines. My goodness Jon really grills the guy (business talk show host I never heard of before), and it is delightful. Someone needs to publicly grill ALL THOSE F&*kers who got rich and walked out in the last year. And start holding them responsible for SOMETHING. Stewart gets this guy by showing video clips that he can't be happy to see aired. Journalism at its best. Oh, I notice in the article that Stewart has won six consecutive Emmies for best variety, comedy or music series. So he already got a prize. Right on.

Oh, HERE'S the LA Times article ABOUT the interview.... they write it up nicely.
Interview date was 3/12, Thursday.
Jim Cramer:
--"Mad Money" guru on CNBC's line-up of financial commentators
--implored investors to stock up on Bear Stearns just it plunged

This is the age of irresponsibility. There are moments when it seems as though every figure who waltzes across the public stage is a cheat, a fraud, a liar, or a failure. Child abuse scandals have tarnished the image of Catholic bishops and priests. Steroid scandals have racked Major League Baseball, the Tour de France, and the Olympic Games. As the men who brought the financial system to the brink of collapse were cashing in and remodeling their offices, the executives and union officials who bankrupted the American automobile industry were begging the public sector to give them aid. On any given day, any public figure might be arrested, assaulted, admit to infidelity, go bankrupt, or break down emotionally in front of television cameras. There are no consequences.
--Matthew Continetti in The Weekly Standard

Guilty and getting away with it--Madoff knew he had madeoff (hands in pockets, hat brim lowered):

( a few more )

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
It's an op-ed piece by Frank Rich, replete with interesting links and a straight-on look at what we have allowed to happen in our nation. The reconstruction of Iraq cost $117 billion that went....where? Into Cheney's pocket? A few others must have gotten rich too. I was a stockholder in Haliburton for a while, and kick myself sometimes for getting out. It just seemed so immoral to keep making money off the taxpayers. Madoff only made off with $50 billion, and it was investor money, not taxpayer money.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/11/17-1
Everybody wants a pardon.
Bush already pre-pardoned himself for all his past, present and future crimes back in the Spring of 2008.

Nice bit of work here, with some funky music and groovy graphics inspiring you to vote, and then some snippets from the news in Florida (in 2000) and Ohio (in 2004) and elsewhere, from actual elections here in America that were obviously FUBAR. Worth a look, I think, just to keep in mind that it is not our imagination that there has been foul play with our elections.

Video the Vote

Our voting machines are owned and operated by Republican corporations.
It has already begun with the early voting in West Virginia.
http://www.drudge.com/news/113878/west-virginia-voting-machines-prefer-mccain
http://www.newshounds.us/2008/10/19/west_virginia_voting_machines_flipping_obama_votes_to_mccain.php
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-mckay/voters-in-wva-say-electro_b_136332.html
http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/electronic-voting-machines-still-switching-votes/
http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/wv-voting-machines-switched-vote-from-democrat-to-republican/
The question is, are we going to do anything about it?
Is this a democracy, or is it government by the corporations, for the rich, and the people stay apathetic until they all loose their jobs?

They finally came out and said that there was a critical programming error in voting machine software for the last DECADE. The company is also changing its name----to Premier Election Solutions. The irony is bottomless.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/23/diebold-comes-clean-admits-that-its-e-voting-machines-are-fault/

Those naughty scientists have been having a big old party on the taxpayer's dime. I wish they wouldn't. The anti-intellectualism is already mighty thick around here.
Why can't we bust more feds for this same kind of behavior???
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/06/eveningnews/main4161345.shtml

Impeach 1) Gonzales 2) Cheney 3) Bush
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However it was funded by the federal government, and comes to predictable conclusions.
These guys checked it out:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/220607study.htm

INTERESTING TIMES

are better than no times at all.

Entries tagged with corruption

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