My God, you are an idiot.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sgtclub

So what does a post-Euro world look like?

Don't know, and I'm not too excited to find out.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Wow.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sgtclub

So what does a post-Euro world look like?

A really, bad recession here and in Europe. At the least. Is there any way to unwind things?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

A really, bad recession here and in Europe. At the least. Is there any way to unwind things?

Ask Austria-Hungary.

[Hank Chinaski]

How come when Iceland tanked and caused our economy to fail it was W's fault, but the entire continent failing has nothing to do with BHO? Also, call it co-incidence, but has the state of the world turned more unfavorably against us and our friends under any other President since Carter? i think not, but again we seem to give him a pass.

Not to mention last week when I went to pick up Ironweed to go to lunch I read in one of his occupy handbills that his kids must use for toys that Obama has enlisted local police to pepper spray the occupiers as he and the other politicians are afraid of the movement's cutting truth. Why doesn't the NYT cover that?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

How come when Iceland tanked and caused our economy to fail it was W's fault?

It wasn't. It had nothing to do with W. Who says otherwise?

But the entire continent failing has nothing to do with BHO?

What do you think he should be doing or have done to save the European economy?

Also, call it co-incidence, but has the state of the world turned more unfavorably against us and our friends under any other President since Carter? i think not, but again we seem to give him a pass.

I think not either, so we can agree on that.

Not to mention last week when I went to pick up Ironweed to go to lunch I read in one of his occupy handbills that his kids must use for toys that Obama has enlisted local police to pepper spray the occupiers as he and the other politicians are afraid of the movement's cutting truth. Why doesn't the NYT cover that?

Maybe 'cuz NYPD penned up their reporters where they couldn't see what was going on.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by sgtclub

So what does a post-Euro world look like?

I'm just waiting for my vacations to be cheap again. Ah, how I miss the $.80 exchange rate.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

How come when Iceland tanked and caused our economy to fail it was W's fault, but the entire continent failing has nothing to do with BHO? Also, call it co-incidence, but has the state of the world turned more unfavorably against us and our friends under any other President since Carter? i think not, but again we seem to give him a pass.

Not to mention last week when I went to pick up Ironweed to go to lunch I read in one of his occupy handbills that his kids must use for toys that Obama has enlisted local police to pepper spray the occupiers as he and the other politicians are afraid of the movement's cutting truth. Why doesn't the NYT cover that?

Wait -- Iceland tanking caused our economy to fail?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Wait -- Iceland tanking caused our economy to fail?

Whoa. I thought Hank said only one loopy, unsubstantiated thing in that sentence, not two.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Whoa. I thought Hank said only one loopy, unsubstantiated thing in that sentence, not two.

Do try and keep up. Remember, Hank is only sane on the FB.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

I'm just waiting for my vacations to be cheap again. Ah, how I miss the $.80 exchange rate.

No shit. Planning this one, I learned that the yen has dropped to 76 to 1.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Is the Fed the most functional branch of government today?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Wow.

What's even more "Wow" is that this story is getting next to zero traction in the general media. It's astonishing.

Bill Hicks was right in the early Nineties when he said (paraphrased), "Nothing to see here, America... Everything's okay. Go back to watching American Gladiators. We've got everything under control here..."

I'd like to think Joe Sixpack doesn't get incensed by this stuff because he's either given up, or doesn't think there's any way to change it. But I don't think that's true. I think he's so fucking dumb that an article discussing the Treasury Secretary nakedly assisting in insider trading is simply not interesting, or somehow "beyond him."

We deserve to lose our freedom. And the cattle who aren't disgusted by this shit deserve to be enslaved in debt, and have their benefits eviscerated. In a country where 20% of the citizens had adequate curiosity about the world beyond their couch, this story would be the headline in every newspaper. "Henry Paulson: Agnew by Different Means?"

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

How come when Iceland tanked and caused our economy to fail it was W's fault, but the entire continent failing has nothing to do with BHO? Also, call it co-incidence, but has the state of the world turned more unfavorably against us and our friends under any other President since Carter? i think not, but again we seem to give him a pass.

Not to mention last week when I went to pick up Ironweed to go to lunch I read in one of his occupy handbills that his kids must use for toys that Obama has enlisted local police to pepper spray the occupiers as he and the other politicians are afraid of the movement's cutting truth. Why doesn't the NYT cover that?

Because the world in which Iceland caused our economy to fail was a parallel universe, discoverable only through Syd Barrett-level indulgence in LSD. Or paranoid schizophrenia.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by sgtclub

So what does a post-Euro world look like?

(AP) Pamplona - "Dozens Dead in the Running of the Banks"