Isn’t his home the size of Mall of America?

dawG. #LOL

Confessional is open. Veal penners get in line OWS will be hearing your confessions 24/7. Make it a general–all the sins of commission and omission of your past lives.

Thank you occupiers!!!

Thought i heard some thing off in the distance. Thom is that you? You want in? the door is open but your too fat. Lose 53% of body, perhaps you will fit.

I give as much credence to Friedman changing his mind as I do Obama changing his mind.

Agreed but Friedman is writing about it. That in itself is pretty amazing.

Tom is now a 99er.

Good morning all.

Good morning, pups. It’s Keller and Krugman today. In “Beyond Occupy” Mr. Keller says in India, Anna Hazare and his team show what protest can accomplish. Prof. Krugman, in “Bombs, Bridges and Jobs,” says the weaponized Keynesians are out in full force.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. I’ve got 50 Trick or Treat bags ready for this evening, which will probably mean that no kids show up… Although we had a fairly good showing last year, and most of the same kids still are in the neighborhood. Fingers crossed that I’m not left with all that candy! (But the folks in my office are like soldier ants, so it wouldn’t last long.) Happy Halloween!

The only way Friedman could be a 99er is if 90% of the population dies off.

Gee Margaret, you’re such a stickler for arithmetic.

Good morning all,

Tom’s hands are covered with the blood of a million Iraq citizens in service to the 1%ers, who cares what he says.

I thought somebody should be since Friedman is abusing it so badly.

Shows how much effect the pressure is having. Some of the 1% front men are having to bail to protect their own reputations.

Or perhaps it’s more like congress on a tough issue. Some are given permission to vote against to ease their next election. Perhaps Friedman was given such an out.

Boxturtle (But if he believes what he wrote, it’s a good thing)

Fair enough.

Friedman has never had a position of his own. He’s more of a finger to the wind kinda guy.

What’s the opposite of scapegoating.

Gotta go to work because unlike Friedman, I can’t just phone it in.
Laters.

Get out of jail free?

Looking forward?

Boxturtle (or Palingoating, since she can’t be held responsable for anything)

The next time there’ll be trouble? Last week the FDIC got stuck backing rotten BofA/Merrill Lynch derivatives equal in value to the rest of the world’s GDP, and he’s talking about next time?

The MofU married into a family of billionaires. He speaks for them. That’s the only relevant fact.

IF he didn’t excel at lying, he wouldn’t have his job as 1 of the chief liars.

yawn … I still wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.

rmm

Wow, look at all the hate. And the tone. FDL owns OWS and says who can and can’t come on board. My, my.

Just so much broken pottery to Tom.

No, FDL doesn’t say who can or cannot come on board OWS. OWS is about the 99% protesting the profligacy & criminality & greed & venality of the 1%. The math says who’s part of the 99% and who is not.

There’s actually a story about Friedman. His wife’s family used to be worth a billion, give or take half a billion, through their share in General Growth Properties, which did real estate. In 2009 GGP went bankrupt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Growth_Properties

The numbers are uncertain, but after losing 90%-99%, the Friedmans are probably still worth $10,000,000 or so, plus his job. So they’re still in the 1%, but no longer in the 0.01%.

I see. And you think Tom Friedman is part of the 1% and therefore can’t write an editorial that’s pro-Occupy? Sure. I bet not. Read the comments here. You’re lying. You don’t really care how much Friedman is worth, because he isn’t an investment banker, and you can’t tie him to manipulating stock to cause the crash, can you? You care about his editorials on Iraq. I didn’t like them either. But that’s why you hate him and that’s why you want to prohibit him. He’s been writing pro-Occupy, not just one editorial, he was on Bil Maher doing pro-Occupy, too. For better or for worse, he agrees with Occupy and quite possibly against his class. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, is it?

I really don’t care what the moustache writes in favor of OWS. I don’t follow his inane blather. In all probability, him being favorable to OWS has some hidden nefarious reason. I wouldn’t trust anything he says that on the surface is progressive.

Enlighten me: has he gone out to stand with them in NYC or DC? Has he called out the blatant criminality of the bankers and wall street with specific examples? I don’t know, but I would suspect that his sympathies and choices reflect the 1% a lot more closely than the 99%.

Here’s a much better Thomas Friedman mustache pic for next time, if you are interested Attaturk

https://plus.google.com/107111297336598106204/posts/FuE8X5YTd37

See? You are confirming what I said.

You didn’t answer my questions. I stopped paying attention to him back when he was in favor of bombing any ME country because 9/11 happened. The wh under w said that Iraq was the target and friedman got on the bandwagon. So enlighten me about how he is now one of the 99% and out there with them.