Comments on: WTF? http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:14:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: qpynavbe http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-346437 qpynavbe Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:41:02 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-346437 <p><strong>qpynavbe</strong></p> <p>qpynavbe</p> qpynavbe

qpynavbe

]]> By: Knut Wicksell http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-346022 Knut Wicksell Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:07:45 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-346022 <p>This is likely to be EPU’s, but as a personal anecdote, I recall seeing money change hands 35 years ago at a poll on Willow Street, during the 1968 election. I was poll-watching, but what I actually saw was big black cadillacs draw up, big men get out, and green bills change from their hands to people getting ready to vote. They were our votes. It was the Democratic machine at work. Lieberman is just carrying on the tradition. Too bad it’s going to get him in jail.</p> This is likely to be EPU’s, but as a personal anecdote, I recall seeing money change hands 35 years ago at a poll on Willow Street, during the 1968 election. I was poll-watching, but what I actually saw was big black cadillacs draw up, big men get out, and green bills change from their hands to people getting ready to vote. They were our votes. It was the Democratic machine at work. Lieberman is just carrying on the tradition. Too bad it’s going to get him in jail.

]]> By: mui http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-346008 mui Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:47:53 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-346008 <p>New Ad: Thanks to Joe’s “petty cash” we folks in CT have been seeing a lot of <a href="http://ctbob.blogspot.com/2006/05/shame.html">Uncle Sam.</a></p> New Ad: Thanks to Joe’s “petty cash” we folks in CT have been seeing a lot of Uncle Sam.

]]> By: mui http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-346005 mui Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:40:25 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-346005 <p>Wait a minute! $380plus went to paying for that *stupid* Uncle Sam costume? So the Lieberman campaign paid for that stupid kid to stand on corners wearing a costume, & holding a cardboard sign that Ned=Al Jazeera or whatever?<br /> You know, this is all beginning to look very very Dirty Trickster-ish.</p> Wait a minute! $380plus went to paying for that *stupid* Uncle Sam costume? So the Lieberman campaign paid for that stupid kid to stand on corners wearing a costume, & holding a cardboard sign that Ned=Al Jazeera or whatever?
You know, this is all beginning to look very very Dirty Trickster-ish.

]]> By: Stuart Eugene Thiel http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345956 Stuart Eugene Thiel Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:10:27 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345956 <p>If the money didn’t go to buying votes, maybe it went directly into Joe’s pocket.</p> If the money didn’t go to buying votes, maybe it went directly into Joe’s pocket.

]]> By: Mark Steckel http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345932 Mark Steckel Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:12:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345932 <p><a href="#comment-345593"><em>TeddySanFran @<br /> 117 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Just offhand, if Mr. Mark Spotlight stops by, when Jane’s post transfers to Spotlight format, the $400,000 figure in the first sentence gets translated to 0,000 (which kinda loses some punch….) I mentioned the $400,000 figure in my intro comment, but perhaps Mark could see what’s wrong there.</p></blockquote> <p>All better now.</p> TeddySanFran @
117

Just offhand, if Mr. Mark Spotlight stops by, when Jane’s post transfers to Spotlight format, the $400,000 figure in the first sentence gets translated to 0,000 (which kinda loses some punch….) I mentioned the $400,000 figure in my intro comment, but perhaps Mark could see what’s wrong there.

All better now.

]]> By: chele http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345741 chele Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:33:12 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345741 <p><a href="#comment-345500"><em>TeddySanFran @ 32 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p><em>Oh, but that was the <b>primary</b> campaign, and we’re engaged in a positive <b>general election</b> campaign now, and none of the people who worked on the primary campaign are here anymore, and we can’t find the records.<br /> </em></p> <p>Nah, they’re not gone. They’ve moved on to OTHER campaigns.</p></blockquote> TeddySanFran @ 32

Oh, but that was the primary campaign, and we’re engaged in a positive general election campaign now, and none of the people who worked on the primary campaign are here anymore, and we can’t find the records.

Nah, they’re not gone. They’ve moved on to OTHER campaigns.

]]> By: elrod http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345726 elrod Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:25:13 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345726 <p>Couldn’t we just once in our lifetime see a newspaper headline that reads, “Lamont campaign has thousands of enthusiastic volunteers, Lieberman pays for his shills.”</p> Couldn’t we just once in our lifetime see a newspaper headline that reads, “Lamont campaign has thousands of enthusiastic volunteers, Lieberman pays for his shills.”

]]> By: ruffian http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345681 ruffian Mon, 23 Oct 2006 03:38:20 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345681 <p><a href="#comment-345624"><em>punaise @ 145</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Breaking news:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/22/214433/68">Ken Mehlman Arrested</a>, Charged in Second Recent Terror Hoax</p></blockquote> <p> (satire)</p></blockquote> <p>good thing you put that satire there….I was almost estatic!</p> punaise @ 145

Breaking news:

Ken Mehlman Arrested, Charged in Second Recent Terror Hoax

(satire)

good thing you put that satire there….I was almost estatic!

]]> By: newlondondem http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345680 newlondondem Mon, 23 Oct 2006 03:37:25 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/22/wtf-2/#comment-345680 <p>@Steven Parrish</p> <p>Have you read the Nation’s article “Enron Democrats?” </p> <p><em>(Lieberman’s) most important crusade was protecting the loopy accounting for corporate stock options. Nervous regulators recognized early on that the profusion of stock options had the potential to deceive investors while cheating the tax system–illusions that could drive company stock prices to impossible heights. Tech startup firms, as well as established names like Microsoft, were issuing a growing volume of stock options as a substitute for wage compensation, especially for top executives. These companies did not have to report the billions in new options as an operating cost, thus making their earnings seem much greater than they were. Yet when employees eventually cashed in the options, the companies claimed them as tax deductions. This two-way mirror is symptomatic of the deceptive bookkeeping that permeated corporate affairs during the boom and the bubble. </em></p> <p><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020408/greider">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020408/greider</a></p> @Steven Parrish

Have you read the Nation’s article “Enron Democrats?”

(Lieberman’s) most important crusade was protecting the loopy accounting for corporate stock options. Nervous regulators recognized early on that the profusion of stock options had the potential to deceive investors while cheating the tax system–illusions that could drive company stock prices to impossible heights. Tech startup firms, as well as established names like Microsoft, were issuing a growing volume of stock options as a substitute for wage compensation, especially for top executives. These companies did not have to report the billions in new options as an operating cost, thus making their earnings seem much greater than they were. Yet when employees eventually cashed in the options, the companies claimed them as tax deductions. This two-way mirror is symptomatic of the deceptive bookkeeping that permeated corporate affairs during the boom and the bubble.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020408/greider

]]>