Swiss Bankstas to Protect US Tax Evaders

I am of two minds on this subject. For one, I don't think that the US Justice Dept should be telling foreign financial companies what they should or should not do. On the other hand, UBS is harboring fugitives of justice essentially by protecting the names of people who stash their money in untouchable anonymous accounts.
I think UBS is afraid of a run on their banks from all the felons who are their clients who have been stealing from the world's working poor. Sacks of shit, the lot of them.

FTA:
"The customer data may not be given out," he said, "to protect the interests of the customers."

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/20/news/international/ubs_court/index.htm?iref=topnews

Where's this bitch's shoe-thrower?!

I love the part where she says "Did you know...???"
Of course not, bitch! Your question even implies that you know your audience is not college educated (which itself isn't bad- as long as your'e not some fundie Christian Taliban).
This is how they start their shit in these "new economic times."

Smokin' Aces, indeed.

I must see this movie.

Joy Division- Dead Souls

Damn this is good. The dancing cracks me up, but this takes me back.

Fox unleashes Evil Gays!!!

Yet somehow, I'm addicted.
The premise: Naive, beautiful, young Christian Jackie must choose among a group of masculine, strapping, hunky, ripped... er... I'm getting carried away... guys, but some of them are pork-sword-swallowing friends of Dorothy!

What Fox would like you to think the show's message is: Gay guys are just like regular straight guys! We're breaking stereotypes!

The not-so-subtle undertone:
The gay guys are necessarily Macchivellian, conniving, and sinister. Oh, and every stereotype is put out there for you to put on the guys you think are gay.

I'm still watching because I think Jackie WILL fall for a gay. I am just waiting with arms folded across my chest to see how Fox handles that.

'Cos Fox is territorial about their shizz, copy n' paste:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi4o6PVOX1s

Fred Phelps used to make me angry...

...now I just laugh and laugh and laugh. His moribund brand of hatred doesn't worry me any longer. Seeing these kids' counterprotest makes me so damn proud.

You gotta check out the photo gallery!
http://www.kansascity.com/703/story/1019356.html

Congressman Ackerman (D-NY) for the WIN!!!

I had to show this to all my friends. I LOVE how uncomfortable these SEC failures look. Even the people behind Ackerman are looking down awkwardly. Every second of these 5 minutes just makes my day.

Capped at a mere $500,000/year

Obama limited the earning cap for CEOs of financial corporations recieving "exceptional" amounts of taxpayers money (i.e. yours and mine). Seems fair to me, right? Doesn't seem unreasonable since they essentially get all this money to keep their banks open and keep their job (to say the least).

Well... you just can't please all the people all the time, I guess.


“That is pretty draconian — $500,000 is not a lot of money, particularly if there is no bonus,” said James F. Reda, founder and managing director of James F. Reda & Associates, a compensation consulting firm.


And another bag of scum banksta (will look up name and exact quote) told CNN that $500,000 isn't "real money" and that the average american "doesn't understand" that these guys will just look for other jobs elsewhere.
I'd like to see THAT resume:

Skills:
Driving Financial Institution into ground
Shameless inflation of personal net worth at expense of tax payers
60wpm

The CEO of bank of America makes about 20M a year. That means that under his new pay scale, he will make approximately 3 weeks worth of his old salary- in a year. If his living expenses are now out of whack with his new financial situation, I welcome him to the ranks of the rest of Americans living in these new so-called "economic times." And don't bitch to me about salary caps being "socialist." Once you took that handout, you forefeited the right to whine about your socialism for the rich, comrade.

I think that I, being an average American, have a pretty good understanding of what "real money" is. It's currency with which to sustain oneself and one's family and enough to save to have hope for a better future. It's money to buy milk, and bread, and diapers, and gas with. I think 500K will do them just fine.

Hot Science Damn!!!

Right fucking ON! This gives me hope for HIV+ folks.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/hivtreatment.html