Clinton’s Blowjob: 5 Times More Important than the Wall Street Crash
Honest, I’m posting this video not for obvious affinities I have for Dylan Ratigan’s argument. But mostly because of the obvious suggestion, based on the resources we dedicate to investigating them, that Clinton’s blowjob was five times more dangerous for our country than the crash of our entire financial system.
Don’t let it go to your head.
Wait, that didn’t come out right……
LOL!!
“Top 10 banking stories of 2010 – in pictures” (The Telegraph (UK) – Finance, Feb. 2, 2011)
Hmmm … “Banker gets longest insider trading jail sentence” (The Telegraph (UK) – Finance, Feb. 2, 2011) { Angie does not look happy … }
Or, guaranteed to get fives times the ratings. Who wants to piss off advertisers by telling viewers about their economic betters defrauding the country out of trillions of dollars and then having to pay them for the privilege of being their marks?
Plus, I hear it’s fun to say blowjob on the TV…
One of the great moments on television.
you had someone in mind?
*g*
It would be irresponsible not to point out that those figures aren’t even adjusted for inflation.
So make that 6.8 times more important .
uggg
that sad fact eluded me
uggg
Ahh, what allan said.
Why do I always think of Cokie Roberts and “how would she explain ‘it’ to the children?” Frankly, I believe that Cokie & Company would have an easier time explaining a blowjob than spending time to understand the massive blowjob the big money boyz were allowed to give the entire global economy.
Expecting the Villagers to gave a damn about anything other than beltway cocktails-n-gossip is a fools errand.
Also, the clenis.
and three times more important then the attack on our soil in spite of precise intel telling us when, the cities, the target buildings, the weapons, the perpetrators, the methods
that blow job was three times more important
my frigging gawd
but now I have no where to go, the democrats are as corrupt, as corporate influenced as their counterparts
there is nowhere to go marcy
But, but, but…
Destroying Clenis was soooooooooooo much more important than exposing crooks in Wall Street and the Fed!
Sounds like Ratigan’s doing a preemptive strike against the kind of bullshit Darrell the Car Thief’s likely to pull.
A 40 million dollar blow job… And I’ll bet Lewinsky couldn’t get 15 dollars on the street for one…
Wow, what a scary, dangerous blow job. Do you think Monica Lewinsky was secretly an Islamofascist(TM) or something? That would explain things, yessirree Bob!
But of course the prez getting a hummer is way more important than Wall Street raping the American People… Oh yeah the Republicans want redefine rape… OMFG!! Petty little minded assholes…
Well, Deepthroat (ironically, in this discussion) apocryphally said “Follow the money.” In this case, not just the money, but the scale of the monies applied to a particular “problem,” certainly exposes the priorities of the PTB.
clutching pearls
is ratigan going to be banned from msnbc for being such a potty mouth?
/clutching pearls
What kind of pearls are you clutching? Because if it’s the ZZ Top kind of pearls, the irony would be almost as thick as they are…
my mama taught me to never clutch and tell…
Prude. ;)
made it a whole lot easier to pass a background check ;)
LMAO! No wonder I always have problems!
have i said lately how much i loathe these ahem…people
i really think they are polluted mollusks
and now we have Darrel Issa. Let’s how much he wastes on BS investigations.
Wall St. Bonuses Record $135 Billion for 2010 Wyatt Research Staff | The Daily Profit | February 2, 2011 4:10pm EST
Wall Street bankers are back to old habits with nearly $135 billion in compensation last year. But this time regular investors are poised for a payout, too.
Even after Wall Street’s greed nearly collapsed the banking system and forced hundred of billions in taxpayer-funded bailouts, bankers are still finding ways to line their own pockets.
I was trying to think of that hideous woman’s name thne other day and I couldn’t. Isn’t that frustrating? i was getting so pissed. then, BLAM! I got it!! Linda Fucking Tripp!! I know she got a face overhaul. But whatever happened to her?
I figure the Obama Birthplace Investigation should be worth $8-10 mil.
Is that what she got with all the snitch money she got from ken Starr? I’m going to zip my lip at this point because I don’t wanna reduce myself to that level. Oh but it burns…..
Maybe it was snatch money…what color dress was she wearing? She sure knew where the blue one was.
And I know where she got it, (K-Mart), because it was so cute, (cheap), and stylish, (cheesy).
The world has been a better place without Linda Tripp soiling the airwaves with her ill-gotten tapes.
A country of immature imbeciles.
Okay I know I’m gonna get grief from the Yankees over this but it never even got 30℉ today. Trust me, that’s almost unheard of for central Texas. I can count all the times it’s happened in my lifetime on one hand, with missing fingers.
That’s cold for Texas. Hope you have your warm jammies on.
Ha! Funny stuff if it wasn’t so pathetic. Our tax dollars at work.
Sen. Sanders: Pentagon paid billions to fraudsters
Edited on Wed Feb-02-11 08:59 PM by kpete
Source: Raw Story/Agence France-Presse
Sen. Sanders: Pentagon paid billions to fraudsters
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 — 5:36 pm
WASHINGTON — The US military paid $285 billion over three years to hundreds of military contractors that defrauded the Pentagon over the same stretch of time, a US senator charged Wednesday.
Brandishing a 45-page January 2011 US Department of Defense report on the issue, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders called for “far more vigorous enforcement” by the US military “to protect taxpayers from massive fraud.”
“The sad truth is that virtually all of the major defense contractors in this country for years have been engaged in systemic fraudulent behavior, while receiving hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money,” he charged.
Sanders underlined that the report, which his office made public, showed that from 2007-2009 the Pentagon spent $270 billion on 91 contractors involved in fraud cases that yielded judgments of more than $1 million.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/sanders-pentagon-bil… /
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REPORT:
http://sanders.senate.gov/graphics/Defense_Fraud_Report…
more info here:
Oh, Marcy, we know it was just because you wanted another opportunity to say “blowjob.” /s
I’m guessing it was way more than five times more fun, too.
1 more time
THE PERFECT BAILOUT: Fannie And Freddie Now Send Taxpayer Cash Directly To Wall Street!
THE PERFECT BAILOUT: Fannie And Freddie Now Send Taxpayer Cash Directly To Wall Street
Barry Ritholtz
As the terror of the financial crisis recedes, many folks have forgotten about the two huge taxpayer-owned mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
But they’re still there, money-manager Barry Ritholtz reminds us.
And they’re still sending billions of dollars of taxpayer cash directly to Wall Street, in what might be described as the “perfect bailout.”
How does this bailout work?
Fannie and Freddie got a “blank check” from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner at the end of the financial crisis. This blank check allows the housing giants to lose as much money as they want, with the taxpayer footing the bill.
Fannie and Freddie use much of this money to buy mortgages from Wall Street at what may be grossly inflated prices. This is a super arrangement for the banks, because they get to unload all their terrible mortgages at prices that won’t produce losses. And it’s fine for Fannie and Freddie because, well, because they have the blank check.
That sure could feed a lot of people.
Can I just say –
Blow Job.
Blow Job. Blow Job.
Blow Job. Blow Job. Blow Job.
Weeee!!!
You’re enjoying that just a little too much. Hope you have some tissues handy.
*snork* If you only knew…
From the wire – seems a judge noticed that those I got paid fairly by BP ads now on TV are a liitle premature – and that Obama’a independent is in bed with BP, just like Obama is:
“The administrator of BP’s Plc $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spill is not independent and the oil company must refrain from calling him “neutral,” a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
New Orleans Federal District Judge Carl Barbier ruled that BP must refrain from referring to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility or its administrator, Ken Feinberg, as independent.
Barbier also ruled that BP must tell claimants they have the right to consult an attorney and explain they have the right to join the hundreds of pending lawsuits if they do not accept a final settlement.”
Meanwhile in other news Bill Clinton had oral sex with a consenting adult.
Feinberg must be clutching his pearls. Another one of the notable U.S. scumbags to hit the face of the earth. Born-to-rape victims.
Perhaps Feinberg would be available for Obama’s jobs commission,along with GE’s Jeff Immelt.
From blow jobs ..to snow jobs…to no jobs.
OMG. She said blowjob on corp media, which daily rapes the public without such much as a by-your-leave.
Good evening ew and all.
Come on. It was more than one blowjob! Can’t compare one investigation versus several blowjobs! /s
Wonder how many presidents have had such fun in the Whitehouse…ah if the walls could talk, it’s probably x-rated.
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Over 1,000 new exoplanet candidates announced today, including five Earth sized in the habitable zone of their stars and one smaller than Monica Lewinsky.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh yeah, I went there.
But were any of them cigar shaped exoplanets?
The one named “Clintonia” is but I heard it had a bend toward the end…
Read that it had alot of harMonica distortion though.
Just for the record, I’ll note how the words blow job in the title of this post are leading to more than the usual % of sophomoric comments, present company included.
Sophomoric? Bring the tone down folks! Sophomoric is way too classy and mature.
A LOT of firing in Cairo now. Yikes!
Watching also.
You forgot to adjust for inflation. $40M 1999 dollars would be $52.35M 2010 dollars, which makes the Clinton blowjob worth over 6.5x the Wall Street fraud that brought the world economy to its knees.
Do the calculation yourself starting with the BLS’s inflation caluclator:
http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
See allan@5. He calculates it at 6.8 times more important.
emptywheel, don’t be shy. You started a trend– Ratigan just said “blowjob” on TV.
Are those figures all in 2011 dollars? or is the $40 million actually more in today’s dollars?
Laurastrand, It’s more like WE had to give a blowjob to Wall Street, and pay them a third of savings for the privilege.
You know, I struggled over who gave and received. From what I’m hearing about all the hurt feelings in the executive suite, the blowjob, the ongoing ‘privilige’ of paying for it, and the buyers remorse some of us are now expressing is causing them to believe that the ‘happy ending’ makes them not happy enough. Gaah!
The problem with the Clinton blow job was that it was manufactured to distract from other crimes. When you come to find out that Kenneth Starr, Bill Clinton, and GHWB were all CIA, then you begin to understand that there was no investigation at all. When you find out that Bill Clinton actively blocked investigation into CIA drug smuggling and that Clinton was just a stooge for GHWB, then everything begins to make sense. Guess what? They used the excuse of “national security” for CIA drug smuggling. Much was to come out about this because of the FOIA Act, but then 911 happened which put that to an end. The same people who were involved in the drug smuggling are now in charge of Afghanistan that since we’ve been there is now growing more drugs ever in their history. These same people also threatened the 911 Commission not to go too far and did not even allow them to interview any of the suspects.
It’s worth noting that the figure of $40 million for the investigation of Clinton-Lewinsky is conservative (ahem). The tangle of investigations that that lead up to Lewinsky cost at least $70 million and many observers at the time, including WaPo, CNN, etc. suggested that roughly $80 million might be a minimum figure for investigations into Walter Hubbell, Foster, Nussbaum, and so on.
Also it’s worth noting that the Smaltz investigation of Mike Espy ran about $30 million and the Cisneros investigation cost just over $20 million.
At the time, the GOP justified these expenses by pointing out that Walsh spent about $35 million on Iran-Contra. But, of course, Iran-Contra was a huge sprawling international mess compared to any of the above and resulted in a dozen or so convictions. (Though, of course, little real punishment came of the Walsh report and even less political, um, readjustment.) There were other investigations of GOP crimes besides the Walsh report but a (perhaps not) surprising number of them were dropped before much money was spent or investigation.
Never leave geeks unattended for longAn economist moves a step closer to implementing a new model for a (ahem)failed institution:A New [Charter] City in Honduras, from Paul Romer’s (no relation to Christina Romer) Charter Cities blog.
So, these REDs would be municipal creatures of the Congress of Honduras. I don’t know the form that federalism takes in Honduras, but one might want to contrast the results of RED amendment with the situation in this country, in which cities, towns, and other municipalities are pretty much creatures of the various States in which they are located.
Of the particulars Romer lists, three stand out to me:
The REDs would be areas with their own legal personality and jurisdiction, their own administrative systems and laws. An RED can also negotiate international treaties with partner countries or organizations. Congress would need to ratify these international treaties with a simple majority.
Judges for its judicial system will be nominated by the governing authority in the RED but subject to approval by a 2/3rds majority in the Congress. The judicial arrangement would allow the use of an external body that acts as the court of final appeal for judicial decisions from the zone.
Laws developed by the governing authority of the RED require a ratifying vote by the Congress. This vote would be a simple vote to approve or reject. Approval requires only a simple majority. (This is similar to the BRAC rules that govern military base closures in the United States.)
Romer’s 501(3)c organization Charter Cities will serve as an advisor to Honduras in the implementation of the new amendment. The true compensation for this role is the part Charter Cities, and the charter cities built as a result of the RED amendment, will have played in abating the crisis of the thousands of Hondurans who migrate north each year, in search of better economic opportunities. These migrants often find themselves buffeted by woes whose depth of agony is the mirror reflection of the heights of Frankfurtian panegyric Romer achieves in commiseration with their plight, and celebration of the boldness of the Hondurans in signing off on his idea on such a large scale.
Ironically, the person who had Clinton impeached was cheating on his spouse at the time. The one he married because he was cheating on his original spouse.
One-half of America , or more, cheats. Almost every president cheated. Much of the Republican party cheats, many who have been nailed (sorry) in the past couple of years. How is that worth a $40 Million investigation. We already know it!
“Crash” implies an accident. How ’bout ‘demolition.’
It was always clear that Ken Starr’s never-ending witch hunt had everything to do with politically neutering Clinton (to the extent that it could) and nothing to do with any justice.