Comments on: BREAKING: Something’s Popping Up In NY… http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:28:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1326305 MarkH Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:27:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1326305 <blockquote><p>Emperor’s club is worldwide…technology</p></blockquote> <p>How is ‘dear leader’ involved in this?</p> <p>Wouldn’t W be offended for someone to use his name, er title ‘emperor’ without his permission?</p>

Emperor’s club is worldwide…technology

How is ‘dear leader’ involved in this?

Wouldn’t W be offended for someone to use his name, er title ‘emperor’ without his permission?

]]> By: RockPaperScizzors http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325560 RockPaperScizzors Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:11:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325560 <p>The Wall Street pirates are desperate. If anything, they are running naked through the streets wearing a sandwich board of “The end of the world is coming, Repent now.” In offering Spitzer’s dalliance they’re hoping to save the investment banks as they slide into the sea of red ink. Bernanke’s 200 billion dollar bailout this week wont have made a dent. In fact all he’s done is thrown gasoline (pardon my pun) onto Wall Street’s mega fire. The banks in turn are dumping these Fed loans into Gold, Oil, and Wheat. Thereby creating more bubbles and mega inflation in commodities.</p> <p>DOW down to 153.54, Oil up $107.94<br /> Investment Banks Plunge on Market Fear<br /> Monday March 10, 3:06 pm ET<br /> By Dan Seymour, AP Business Writer<br /> Investment Banking Stocks Sink to Multiyear Lows on Concerns About Unraveling Market<br /> NEW YORK (AP) — Investments banks’ stocks plunged to their cheapest prices in years Monday, as the unraveling of a host of investments raised the prospect of more losses on Wall Street and a seize-up in financing.</p> The Wall Street pirates are desperate. If anything, they are running naked through the streets wearing a sandwich board of “The end of the world is coming, Repent now.” In offering Spitzer’s dalliance they’re hoping to save the investment banks as they slide into the sea of red ink. Bernanke’s 200 billion dollar bailout this week wont have made a dent. In fact all he’s done is thrown gasoline (pardon my pun) onto Wall Street’s mega fire. The banks in turn are dumping these Fed loans into Gold, Oil, and Wheat. Thereby creating more bubbles and mega inflation in commodities.

DOW down to 153.54, Oil up $107.94
Investment Banks Plunge on Market Fear
Monday March 10, 3:06 pm ET
By Dan Seymour, AP Business Writer
Investment Banking Stocks Sink to Multiyear Lows on Concerns About Unraveling Market
NEW YORK (AP) — Investments banks’ stocks plunged to their cheapest prices in years Monday, as the unraveling of a host of investments raised the prospect of more losses on Wall Street and a seize-up in financing.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325472 cinnamonape Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:53:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325472 <blockquote><p> LEWIS asked: “You had QAT . . .,” and Client-9 said: “Yup, same as in the past, no question about it.” LEWIS asked Client-9 what time he was interested in having the appointment tomorrow. </p></blockquote> <p>Wait! QAT…isn’t that the Somali amphetamine-like drug? And if this was a phone tap…how did they know it was spelled QAT…rather than KAT or CAT (as in “Katherine”)? Why make it sound so “Middle Eastern”, and all?</p>

LEWIS asked: “You had QAT . . .,” and Client-9 said: “Yup, same as in the past, no question about it.” LEWIS asked Client-9 what time he was interested in having the appointment tomorrow.

Wait! QAT…isn’t that the Somali amphetamine-like drug? And if this was a phone tap…how did they know it was spelled QAT…rather than KAT or CAT (as in “Katherine”)? Why make it sound so “Middle Eastern”, and all?

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325470 Christy Hardin Smith Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:53:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325470 <p>It was likely a wiretap on the phone lines of the prostitution ring folks — the bookers, the business partners, etc. — you’d pick up incoming call information that way.</p> It was likely a wiretap on the phone lines of the prostitution ring folks — the bookers, the business partners, etc. — you’d pick up incoming call information that way.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325429 cinnamonape Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:44:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325429 <blockquote><p>Preferences given to candidates who are:<br /> University educated, professional (Finance, Law, Art, Media).<br /> Master degree or PhD a plus.</p> <p>That’s a relief..PhD’s and Law..The GF is only an MD*g*</p> </blockquote> <p>Almost sounds as if the gals could have been acting as “lobbyists” as well with those credentials. Funny they didn’t want any Scientists, Historians, Doctors, or Engineers.</p>

Preferences given to candidates who are:
University educated, professional (Finance, Law, Art, Media).
Master degree or PhD a plus.

That’s a relief..PhD’s and Law..The GF is only an MD*g*

Almost sounds as if the gals could have been acting as “lobbyists” as well with those credentials. Funny they didn’t want any Scientists, Historians, Doctors, or Engineers.

]]> By: RockPaperScizzors http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325425 RockPaperScizzors Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:42:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325425 <p>Auction Debt Succumbs to Bid-Rig Taint as Citi Flees<br /> Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — The collapse of the auction-rate bond market, where state and local governments go to raise cash, <em>demonstrates that regulators are no match for Wall Street.</em>Hundreds of auctions have failed this month, <em>sending borrowing costs as high as 20 percent because dealers from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to Citigroup Inc., UBS AG and Merrill Lynch & Co. stopped using their own capital to support the sales.</em> Regulators, who allowed the manipulation of bids and lack of information to persist even after two probes in the past 15 years, are now watching a $342 billion market evaporate at the expense of taxpayers.<br /> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXXucptLVGuc&refer=home" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/.....refer=home</a></p> <p>(Feb 21)Rates on $100 million of bonds sold by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, with bidding run by Goldman, soared to 20 percent yesterday from 4.3 percent a week ago, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.</p> Auction Debt Succumbs to Bid-Rig Taint as Citi Flees
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — The collapse of the auction-rate bond market, where state and local governments go to raise cash, demonstrates that regulators are no match for Wall Street.Hundreds of auctions have failed this month, sending borrowing costs as high as 20 percent because dealers from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to Citigroup Inc., UBS AG and Merrill Lynch & Co. stopped using their own capital to support the sales. Regulators, who allowed the manipulation of bids and lack of information to persist even after two probes in the past 15 years, are now watching a $342 billion market evaporate at the expense of taxpayers.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/…..refer=home

(Feb 21)Rates on $100 million of bonds sold by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, with bidding run by Goldman, soared to 20 percent yesterday from 4.3 percent a week ago, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

]]> By: biffdiggerence http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325417 biffdiggerence Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:39:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325417 <p>Another Pee Pee Posse. </p> <p>Excellent use of scarce federal resources.</p> Another Pee Pee Posse.

Excellent use of scarce federal resources.

]]> By: greenwarrior http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325412 greenwarrior Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:37:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325412 <p>funny!</p> funny!

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325407 cinnamonape Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:36:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325407 <blockquote><p>nice. i’ll take vanessa for 5000 alex.</p> </blockquote> <p>Vanna?</p>

nice. i’ll take vanessa for 5000 alex.

Vanna?

]]> By: cbl2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325403 cbl2 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:36:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/10/breaking-somethings-popping-up-in-ny/#comment-1325403 <p>has HRC denounced or rejected him yet ?</p> has HRC denounced or rejected him yet ?

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