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10 Greediest People of 2009
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Has picking a year’s greediest "top ten" ever been easier? We don't think so. We could, this year, fill an entire top ten just with bankers from Goldman Sachs -- or JPMorgan Chase or any of a number of other Wall Street giants. All sport executive suites packed with power suits who fanned the flames that melted down the global economy, then helped themselves, after gobbling down billions in bailouts, to paydays worth mega millions -- at a time when, in over half our states, over a quarter of America’s kids are living off food stamps.
Now that’s greed. But that’s also not the whole picture. The Great Recession’s greedy don’t just sit on Wall Street. They occupy perches of power throughout the reeling U.S. economy. So we’ve tried, in this our latest annual ranking of avarice, to survey that bigger picture.
Where does all this greed come from? We humans have always, of course, had greed among us. But levels of greed vary enormously from one historical epoch to another -- and from one society to another.
What determines which societies see the most greed and grasping? In a word: inequality. The more wealth concentrates, the more greed grows. The United States remains the most unequal nation in the developed world. Next year, we suspect, will bring us still another bumper crop of greedy.
10: Richard Anderson
America’s airlines have been flying, for the most part, under the media radar ever since the nation’s banks went into meltdown mode, and that suits Delta CEO Richard Anderson just fine.
Delta, now the world’s biggest airline, has been richly rewarding Anderson ever since he became the airline’s top exec in September 2007. If folks were paying attention, they might wonder why. Delta, after all, lost $8.9 billion in 2008. In 2009, Delta and other U.S. carriers, says the International Air Transport Association, will likely lose a combined $1 billion.
Passengers are certainly feeling this red ink. Delta and other carriers have been trimming seating capacity, a move, notes the Orlando Sentinel, designed to “enable them to raise ticket prices more often.” Delta is also squeezing passengers with airport bag fees. In August, the airline’s bag charges bounded to $20 for the first bag and $30 for the second.
Anderson and his family, meanwhile, don’t just fly free on Delta. The airline also pays the taxes due on Anderson’s free tickets -- and lots more, too.
For agreeing to become Delta’s chief, 28 months ago, Anderson picked up $8.5 million in stock awards. Seven months later, another $3.4 million. Six months after that, to celebrate the Delta-Northwest merger, more options to buy Delta stock, worth $7.3 million, and more actual shares, worth $6.1 million.
With all those rewards, Anderson must be devoting every waking hour to making Delta soar, right? Well, almost every waking hour. Anderson has been spending some of his precious hours serving on the corporate board of Medtronic, a medical tech firm. In 2009, from the good people at Medtronic, he’ll pocket $188,000 for his directorship services.
9: George David/Marie Douglas-David
This power couple hit the headlines last March, with a nasty divorce trial. We tried to pick the most greedy of the pair. We failed. Here’s why.
The 67-year-old George David, the former CEO of defense contracting powerhouse United Technologies, comes with impeccable greed credentials. In the four years after the 9/11 attacks, David hauled home bigger paydays than any other defense executive, over $200 million in all, including $88.3 million in 2004, a sum that made him that year’s top-paid CEO.
Taxpayers, noted the Institute for Policy Studies Executive Excess CEO pay report in 2006, provide a third of United Technologies annual operating income.
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Posted by: mmckinl on Dec 22, 2009 12:55 AM
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Am I missing something here?
Find your local Green Party
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» RE: Amazing Greed ...
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» Lets see, compensation based on performance, right? Bad performance = reward...hmmmmm
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» RE: Amazing Greed ...
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» Actually, its happening as we speak.... here, let me show you...
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» RE: Amazing Greed ... and the Dems ?
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Posted by: The_Lazy_Left on Dec 22, 2009 1:22 AM
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Fact is, Americans like taking it "up the ass."
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» Speak for yourself, Punky...
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» Right, that is why a record number of guns have been sold since Dec of 2008.
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» To use the vernacular, "Chuck you Farley".
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Posted by: denisaf on Dec 22, 2009 2:14 AM
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» RE: reality will hit the greedy
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» Maybe they can't sleep at night, but its not from their behavior, rather the record guns purchases,
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Posted by: outlook on Dec 22, 2009 2:29 AM
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» RE: No mention of overpaid, over revered 'celebrities'
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» In other words, they are BAD CORPORATE CITIZENS OF THE NATION.
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» TROLL ALERT!!!!
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» Why outlook a troll?
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» RE: Outlook is a lady
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» RE: Outlook is a lady
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» Everyone who you disagree with is a troll?
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» Agreed, but don't blame Gore
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» RE: I Agree, but don't blame Gore
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» RE: I Agree, but don't blame Gore
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» RE: Agreed, but don't blame Gore
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Posted by: Lese Majeste on Dec 22, 2009 2:29 AM
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Do you know how much it costs to buy, staff and maintain a Manhattan penthouse, a Connecticut mansion, an Aspen ski condo and a 4,000 sq. foot beach 'house' in Aruba?
I thought not.
And we have to travel in style to our holdings, so that means our own private jet and Rolls-Royce limos.
When we travel, we like to sip on $30,000 bottles of French wine and the finest Beluga caviar.
So stop bitching and be thankful you were able to contribute to our "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous."
After all, you might be polishing our silver some day cretin.
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» The French Revolution
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» True, and if your planning a crash and destruction of an economy, then you need to prepare by .....
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» You forgot the $40,000 per night prostitutes and drugs they take, and 1/2 million dollar resort....
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» Looking at your rating Lese, it seems that sarcasm was again lost on the internet.
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» Well, I gave her a five cause I caught the sarcasm quickly, it was great.
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» RE: Looking at your rating Lese, it seems that sarcasm was again lost on the internet.
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Posted by: Purple Girl on Dec 22, 2009 3:10 AM
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Thus making it a Non Free Market. To have such exclusivity to this access means others were denied, some mechanism granted priviledges not afford the majority.Thus not all Are Created Equal.
A Free Market was not about Deregulated, but about Accessibility. Logos dominate our Market as Family Crests did in old europe.
Lobbiest,acting like Nobles brandishing a Crest, have run rough shod over the will of the People- thus nullifiying our Democratic process. Not to mention our Mission statement to Humanity.
Greed in a Free Market Democracy is not only Unethical and Immoral, it's treasonous.
It is not just the 'titan of industry' that determine what constitutes (and generates) a Free market- it is the consumer, the Laborer and the taxpayer. Who are all one in the same- Living breathing Citizens.We have those birth certificates, Incs do not. We've not only become caged consumers, abused labor and swindled taxpayers, we are also excluded as merchants. Who the hell says 'WE the People' can't offer healthcare insurance to our fellow citizens- let alone be a beneficiary of one being offered in the Market? FYI, 'We the People" is the Original Incoroporation in this country. We are the Multinational conglomerate which all others who wish our graces pledge their allegience to, first and foremost- even before a ensigna.
This healthcare debate has not only exposed the utter corruption of DC, but the level of cold hearted disdain many of them have for US.
Let's take a peek- a Red Coat hiding under that Armani Suit? The Neo Cons, and their Corp buddies, have re created the socio economics of 'Merry Ol England' and they should be charged accordingly. High Treason.
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» Yaaaaahhhh, welcome back, Purple Girl, great post indeed.
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Posted by: Ishmael1 on Dec 22, 2009 3:37 AM
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Of course, it wouldn't be me who actually iced the SOB. It would be the Samuel Brannan Memorial Committee of Vigilance.
San Francisco Committees Of Vigilance
I grew up in the SF Bay Area and I echo the cry of my fellow Brothers of Equal Indignity of the Ancient & Honorable Order of E. Clampus Vitus:
Hang The Bastard!
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» NOW you can do anything you want. Have at it. All options are now open to level the playing field.
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» RE: Hey! My Name Is Richard Scott Too. Can I Kill Him And Assume His Identity?
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Posted by: weathered on Dec 22, 2009 3:38 AM
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Indict him, he's dirty.
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Posted by: Ishmael1 on Dec 22, 2009 3:41 AM
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» Now this is why I truly love this site. I had no idea this existed.
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» RE: The worshippers of the State.
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» Notice what you did! You only addressed "profits" and nothing about the method of obtaining those
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» A worshipper of the corporate and plutocratic oligarchy.
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» Why not let people get rich?
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Posted by: Wayne Etheridge on Dec 22, 2009 5:07 AM
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» First of all socialism as we have seen it makes corruption easier for those controlling.
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» RE: First of all socialism as we have seen it makes corruption easier for those controlling.
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» You can run but you can't hide. This, my friend is global, and if you think the system works, then
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» RE: You can run but you can't hide. This, my friend is global, and if you think the system works, then
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» Try Reading Jeffersons quote again.... you forgot the part that I put up that addresses that.
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» You just proved why I have to capitalize my letters, its for idiots like you who can't or won't read
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Posted by: Prophit0 on Dec 22, 2009 5:19 AM
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You are getting "FACISM MIXED UP WITH CAPITALISM" and thus ill defining a free market.
When the CORPORATIONS TELL YOU WHAT YOU "CAN" BUY INSTEAD OF HTE MARKET CONSUMERS SAYING WHAT THEY "WANT" TO BUY, THEN ITS A CLOSED FIXED AND HIGHLY CONTROLLED MARKET.
So, educate yourself before pontificating from on high.
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Posted by: Tweck9 on Dec 22, 2009 8:18 AM
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Thanks.
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Posted by: Quist on Dec 22, 2009 10:54 AM
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Your, along with many other Americans, ignorance of economics and economic history is pathetic and dangerous.
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Posted by: undrgrndgirl on Dec 22, 2009 6:56 PM
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Posted by: wagner on Dec 22, 2009 5:17 AM
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» Wow, living proof that MKL mind control works... lol
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» Oh, I get it, your on the wrong site, The White supremecist site is elsewhere.... google it and go.
Posted by: Prophit0
» don't you really belong on a foreign country site where you belong??? Your not American.
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» Simple minded thinking. No one is railing against being rich, but if your void of any kind....
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» Oh, your country??, are you Cambodian? Well that explains it all.
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» RE: Simple minded thinking. No one is railing against being rich, but if your void of any kind....
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» Yeah, there are plenty of rich people that we USED TO ADMIRE, in this country.
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» RE: How many times...
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» RE: Simple minded thinking. No one is railing against being rich, but if your void of any kind....
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» RE: Hypocrisy in action - NOT ALL OF US ARE HYPOCRITES
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» This is just a straw man argument from someone who keeps "believing" in the "greed is good" mantra.
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» Straw man?
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Posted by: bigbrother on Dec 22, 2009 5:43 AM
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If it was really a list of the most greedy where is hollywood? Al Gore (making hundred of millions off his man made global warming scam), Bil Clinton? Barack Obama? (shady land deals) while his Chicago constituents lived in poverty.
Most of congress especially Pelosi who just received millions in support from one of the largest Insurance groups for dropping pressure on the public option.
THESE are the real greedy!
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» Funny how you didn't mention Bush and his drugrunning mafia???
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» RE: Funny how you didn't mention Bush and his drugrunning mafia???
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» Oh, you are comparing a union worker faking an injury to $12 trillion dollar rip off by banks???
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» RE: Oh, you are comparing a union worker faking an injury to $12 trillion dollar rip off by banks???
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» Again...again...it amazes me how so many people attack one corrupt group, but apologize for another.
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» RE: Again...again...it amazes me how so many people attack one corrupt group, but apologize for another.
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Posted by: chlamor on Dec 22, 2009 6:04 AM
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What is usually espoused is essentially the narrative of industrial society; examining the situation with the sort of blinders that every culture employs in order to perpetuate itself. These values and understanding of history, these thought patterns all reflect the world view of homo industrialis.
Mainstream Western thinkers from Adam Smith to Freud and today's academics tend to universalize what is in fact Western or industrial experience. Explicitly or implicitly, they assume that the traits they describe are a manifestation of human nature, rather than a product of industrial culture. This tendency to generalize from Western experience becomes almost inevitable as Western culture reaches out from Europe and North America to influence all the earth's people.
We see this echoed in the putrid world of the self-help industry, another cog in the machinery of the industrial corporate mentality.
Every society tends to place itself at the center of the universe and to view other cultures through its own colored lenses. What distinguishes Western culture is that it has grown so widespread and so powerful that it has lost a perspective on itself; there is no "other" with which to compare itself. It is assumed that everyone either is like us or wants to be.
No wonder so many people who are libertarians turn aside any of the larger questions about institutional injustices and power relations and simply foist all the blame, and/or credit, upon the individual. It's more of the same bullshit that says, "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" conveniently ignoring that someone took the straps and makes you pay rent for the boots.
Serving the Master by perpetuating his myths. The Horatio Alger myth of America lives on.
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This from Vandana Shiva:
"If we are serious about ending poverty, we have to be serious about ending the systems that create poverty by robbing the poor of their common wealth, livelihoods and incomes. Before we can make poverty history, we need to get the history of poverty right. It’s not about how much wealthy nations can give, so much as how much less they can take."
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And, I think to myself of what Capt. Brown said, and think that they have forgotten it:
"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."
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Posted by: X-POLYGAMIST WIFE on Dec 22, 2009 6:09 AM
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BANKING ON HEAVEN . COM
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Posted by: FAITHCARR on Dec 22, 2009 6:18 AM
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Just sayin'
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» RE: Now that we have their names...
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» OK, great, you take the drug companies then..... I am taking the foreign enemies
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» Yeah and where their wives shop and their kids go to school.
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» RE: Yeah and where their wives shop and their kids go to school.
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» Ok, great, now here is what you do... publish the entire list all over the net.
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» RE: Yeah and where their wives shop and their kids go to school.
Posted by: Harris20
» Yeah, well, I might be, but at least I am not a SELF SERVING RUNNER.
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» RE: Yeah, well, I might be, but at least I am not a SELF SERVING RUNNER.
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» LOL, you show yourself by what you say, that is how we know you. Your more worried about spelling,
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» Did you know that Prophit0 had to give up water skiing? She couldn't find a downhill lake.
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» Did you know that Guitarbill is the brother of the now disgraced and banned "foreverhope" ?
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» Yeah Benn, I hear that you put your chin on the curb to get your mind out of the gutter.
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» At least my head ain't in the gutter unlike yours.
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» RE: Now that we have their names...
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» Ok, then watch for news accounts probably in foreign press of any who have had "heart attacks" or
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» RE: Ok, then watch for news accounts probably in foreign press of any who have had "heart attacks" or
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» ROTFLMAO!!!!! Good one, Weathered.
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Posted by: ootempo on Dec 22, 2009 6:35 AM
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Jess
Ultimate Online Privacy
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» Guitarbill...you want the honors?
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» No thanks, dog-breath. 9/11 "truthers", however, are encouraged to click on that hyperlink.
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» Dog breath? Have you no respect for even your gracious helpers?
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» Have you no brains, MaxPayne?
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» Who is MaxPayne?
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» Hurry MaxPayne! Login to one of your AlterNet accounts and mark up your post scores.
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» Oops, I almost forgot you're one of those senseless illiterate trolls.
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» That's right, MaxPayne, if don't have a good argument, make sh*t up.
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Posted by: JohnTruth2001 on Dec 22, 2009 7:20 AM
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» RE: Anyone who makes the kind of wealth these elites do, in a very, very corrupt system, must be very,
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» Oh, don't worry your pretty little narcississtic head about it, just go to davos as you plan.
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» Look! Prophit0 learned a new word, "narcississtic" [SIC]. Of course, she can't spell it.
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» Give it up Guitar dillweed. Nobody wants you.
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» What's the matter MaxPayne, burr up your butt today?
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» Who is MaxPayne?
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» Can you still fog a mirror, MaxPayne?
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Posted by: CB in MN on Dec 22, 2009 7:22 AM
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Posted by: TagsNOLA on Dec 22, 2009 8:35 AM
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Posted by: billwald on Dec 22, 2009 9:45 AM
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How any of you have ever turned down a raise?
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Posted by: Prophit0 on Dec 22, 2009 11:38 AM
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afghanistan
pakistan
the congo
Yesterday Yemen now has been bombed.
its us doing it, and that aint bush now, so you can't get away with not looking at the mote in our own eye while criticizing the log in someone elses.....
We are culpable if we allow this mass murder of millions of people continue. We will go down in the history books of being guilty of the same genocide that Israel will go down about in their area as well.
I do not want to be lumped with Hitler or Israel in the area of genocide. Its bad enough we have our own history of doing that to the American Indians, that we will never be able to make up to them, but at least, AS A PEOPLE, WE CAN STOP IT HERE AND NOW.
That is why I am recommending the actions that I am... AFTER THE ATTACK ON YEMEN, I REALIZED WE ARE GETTING TO THE PLACE WHERE WE HAVE NO CHOICE IF WE HAVE ANY CONSCIENCE AT ALL.
We are now and will be, if we do nothing, war criminals and are allowing crimes against humanity on the most massive scale in US and world history and if we continue we will surpass Russian during STalins time. You DO KNOW WHO STALIN WAS, RIGHT??? His kind are continuing his legacy as we speak and now we are following in his footsteps with the same people in charge.
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Posted by: hughesrg on Dec 22, 2009 11:04 AM
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Posted by: Benn_Miller on Dec 22, 2009 12:19 PM
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Posted by: GuitarBill on Dec 22, 2009 12:24 PM
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And Edgar Bronfman should know. After all, he's the grandson of Samuel Bronfman the wealthiest man in Canada.
That said, many people claim that Bill Gates is a "self-made man"; however, this is false. The fact is that Bill Gates is the scion of one of the wealthiest families in Washington state. Moreover, Gates was born with a multi-million dollar trust fund. In other words, he was born on third base and given a limousine ride to home plate. Moreover, his mother's connections to IBM are the stuff of [cough] legend.
Source: Why Bill Gates is Richer than You, by Philip Greenspun, professor of computer science at MIT.
Source: How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates, by Philip Greenspun, professor of computer science at MIT.
Source: Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock, by Philip Greenspun, professor of computer science at MIT.
Your Personal Contribution to Bill Gates' fortune: $236.86.
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» RE: Conspicuously absent from the list is the World's greediest man: William Henry Gates III.
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» Don't blame me. I wouldn't run MS Windows if you paid me.
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» RE: Don't blame me. I wouldn't run MS Windows if you paid me.
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» RE: Don't blame me. I wouldn't run MS Windows if you paid me.
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» RE: Conspicuously absent from the list is the World's greediest man: William Henry Gates III.
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» That's Bill Gates' propaganda.
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» Not only that but instead of building a new factory plant here, he built it in Israel....
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» RE: Conspicuously absent from the list is the World's greediest man: William Henry Gates III.
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» He has screwed people from the beginning... starting with steve Jobs who managed....
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» RE: Conspicuously absent from the list is the World's greediest man: William Henry Gates III.
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Posted by: tony_opmoc on Dec 22, 2009 1:23 PM
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But that Really is not the point. There is absolutely nothing wrong in starting a company up, particularly if it is a Software Company and becoming incredibly Successful and Personaly Rich.
I dont know who this person EVIL is but its not Bill Gates either.
It is someone with far more POWER and Wealth than anyone in the same league as Bill Gates and Larry Ellison or even any of The W/Bankers at least at the level to which they are visible to the public...
The Real EVIL Bastard at The Top of The Pyramid is trying to CRASH The Entire System.
Sure we need to find out who this evil bastard is.
He or She is Probably Only Human.
Tony
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Posted by: reelectnoone on Dec 22, 2009 1:36 PM
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Greed is also about the way people place money ahead of other more important priorities. People who are charged ethically with a duty to do one party and who then sell out that obligation for money.
I am talking about the greed in Congress where our interests as voters and constituents are so often tossed aside to curry favor of the special interest lobby with the deepest pockets.
Congress has sold us out.
BTW I also give mention to this article with a link on my own commentary site.
Things I think About Drop by some time.
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» They are worse than the one caught in the light with there hand even duped in blood.
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They shed light on Ugly
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Posted by: tony_opmoc on Dec 22, 2009 2:54 PM
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In England, the Poor Dress Up, and The Rich Dress Down...and We Meet in The Pub in The Middle - To See a Band or Talk Bollocks
To Give an Example...
I Was in My Local a Few Years ago watching a Band Cover Led Zeppelin..
It was Free to come in...
But this little guy was standing outside - looking through the window of the pub - at the band...
I gestured to him to come in...
But he wouldn't...
So about an hour later, after the band had finished and loads of people were coming back to our house for a party - he was still there...
And I said - Hey Mate - come back to our home for a party - and put my arm around him - and he came back...
And I was drunk and talking nonsense and he hardly said a word...
And I was sat down in my kitchen with him right next to me and he had a drink in front of him and someone asked him a question in English....
And determined that he only knew about 3 words of English...
The next day after staying the night he was on National UK TV News in a Major Music Festival in Central London...He had told us nothing much about this but my Mate Saw Him - and Went FUCK ME (My Mate is a Really Good Guitarist)
He came back very late the next night to our home and climbed into the same bed he had slept the previous night
He found a completely Naked Girl...
She screamed and said who are you?
He has invited us to his Village in The Mountains of Peru
Tony
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I wanted to meet him and celebrate his Release From DEBT
He was Actually CASH POSITIVE For Probably The First Time in His Adult Life....
Sure He Has Been Through Well At Least The Emotional Wars though I don't think he has actually hit anyone in anger in his life...
We all love him so
And so we were all going to tramp through the ice and snow - and I started out to test it with my two hiking sticks - one in each hand...
And I came back...
I phoned him and said sorry I don't think we are going to make it - but you are welcome to come here if you like...
Last night another of our friends turned up after over 3 hours in his car trying to travel 3 miles - and we gave him a meal.
This COLD is Highly UNUSUAL
It is Heading For -10 Degrees Tonight in Southern England..
Sure We Can Handle It - But it Should be about 50 Degrees Farenheit Now...
Maybe Jim Hansen and His Muppets Will Be On Over Christmas
In England We Talk Bollocks - But We Have Not Yet Failed To Provide Basic Services To All Our Population - which includes Energy, Food, Water and Sewage Supplies.
I find the fact that I am writing these words - as if they could ever be in doubt - and Yes I lived through Power Cuts and Candles in 1969...
We Are Better Than AMERICANS
I reckon America is Fucked
All the lights are Going To Go Out in America but English 70 year olds will get their Porn DIRECT From RUSSIA...
I reckon The Quality is Better ANYWAY
Yes I Really Did Like All The REAL GIRLS...
My Wife Didn't Get It
Tony
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» RE: IT Is INCREDIBLY FUCKING HIGHLY UNUSUALLY COLD and I Feel Guilty
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The high CEO salaries also set the scale for everyone else claiming the same competitive salaries as it goes down the line of the managerial class meanwhile everyone else is being cut back.
This kind of banana republic excessive compensation disparity between the ultra-rich and ultra-poor only goes so far before everything begins to collapse. When a business principle becomes a fixation in the face of reality it a sign of a totally dysfunction society!
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Have Newbie American children even heard of Thomas Paine? What is the point of all this faux "news" We are being Liebermanned by the power elite and until we figure out that one vote counts about as much as a flushable Lieberman. Nothing will change folks. What are we gonna do?
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» Read above, its all out there for you to decide what to do. We are past anything normal....
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I have got my favourite toy right in front of me on my lap
No it is not my penis, nor my pussy
I have worn them down so much
But I can clearly see the keys
1-0
Most of the letters have been rubbed off by my fingers
I reckon my toy is more powerful than yours.
All yours can do is kill people
I can write words with mine
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Us Rage Against The Machine
And We Voted With Money (For Charity)
Rage Against The Machine
Number 1
And So In Response I Give Our American Friends a Dot
Ginger Minger Find Her If You Can - f**k Me They Are Playing A Different Song On The Radio By Her
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Now
You've Got The Love
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nxO-yPQesA
Tony
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And Yes Of Course My Daughter's Best Friend Was There - With Her Boyfriend
And The Three of Us Were Swinging On Our Garden Hammock - Looking at Our Fairy Garden In The Snow...
And My Son Was inside listening....
So I left the kids to get on with whatever they were doing
And then I talked to my Son
The Difference Between American Beauty and English Beauty is that although we are all in love with each other, so far as I am aware only my wife and I are having sex.
So far as I can tell - all the Kids are Innocent
They are Just So Polite and Nice
Tony
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Fucking Fire Away
Do You Think Anyone Else Will Give a Fuck...
Go On You Stupid Cunts
Instead of Bombing The Rest Of The World
Fucking Shoot Yourselves
You Know Its Going To Happen
Lets Face It. The Rest Of The World are Just Telling You To Fuck Off Back To America
Bye,
Tony
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