Wish we still had IAM leaders like Wm Winpisinger…

Chris Dodd appears to be odd man out and stuck in a no-win situation kind of like Charles W. Freeman Jr. whose nomination as a Chairman of the US Intelligence Council was nullified by those representing another country.

Thanx for sussing out the truth.

“Dirty Barry” to AIG execs: “You feelin’ lucky today, punks? Are you??”

When GWB arrogated to himself a set of unanwerable executive powers to fight the Terr’ists, and then proceeded to deploy them only against a motley crew of paintballers and EDITED IN MODERATION cabdrivers, he could fairly be accused of using an atom bomb to take out a fire ant infestation. The fact that the Constitution was also blown away being a regettable case of collateral damage… (not really too) Sorry about that!

But what about using a few of those ill-gotten superpowers to go after a real set of “bad actors” with global reach, the banksters and grifters at the top of the international money food-chain? At the very least, it should cause the Rethugs to rethink the idea that a Unitarily-empowered super-Executive is not necessarily such a good thing, if the oxen getting gored/barbecued are their own. (In fact, it’s probably the only way to make them rethink their faulty premises!)

So… President Obama could create a new Terrorist Mastermind of the Universe classification under the USAPATRIOT Act, and direct all agencies of the government to devote the maximum effort to seeing them Brought To Justice; perpetrators would be summarily stripped of their civil rights and apprehended, all their property and records seized, and their future liberty and physical security would depend upon them cooperating fully with the efforts of the government to unwind the Gordian knot in which they have tied up the world’s financial future.

Failure to cooperate (for instance, by working gratis to repair the damage they have wrought) would result in their disappearance into the “black site” (currently scheduled for phase-out, but still relatively intact, AFAIK) sub-dimension for “attitude adjustment”, and the same offer being made to the next lower tier of the pyramid of Masterminds, blah blah etc.

This could be justified as a matter of national security; I mean, the security of current and future generations of Americans against the brazen looting of their national patrimony and treasure by a bunch of two-bit pirates and thieves. Murder isn’t the only crime on the books; last I looked, robbery was still against the law… people are doing time for it, as we speak!

/modest proposal

~~~ModNote: Racial epithets are not tolerated. They DO NOT belong here ever.~~~

i’ve been looking for a word to describe her, that one would do for a start. i call her bobblehead.

ever noticed when there is a woman on the set that she sits up straighter and sticks her boobies out? meow!