WE SURROUND THEM!

“More cowbell.”

“"This is horrible to say, and I wonder if I'm alone in this... you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims' families? I don't hate all of them. I hate probably about 10 of them. But when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining. And we did our best for them."

- Glenn Beck”

“Colbert mockery: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/223279/march-31-2009/the-10-31-project”

“It reminds me of 0'Really losing his #&%!$ when the 9-11 victim's son said his father wouldn't want us to invade Iraq on some fool's errand to avenge his death.

The way he started flailing around and frothing at the mouth, I thought ol' Bill certainly had a future in Professional Wrasslin' after he left Fox.”

“

It's skeery.....but there's sugary treats!”

“Makes one want to work for FOX, doesn't it?”

“LOL...yeah man....for the past few years the civilians being killed in the war are not American Citizens...that is a crime...”

“Watchdogs: Treasury won't disclose bank bailout details

By Chris Adams | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The massive programs designed to rescue the nation's financial sector are operating without adequate oversight, with vague goals and limited disclosure of their details to the taxpayers who are paying for them, government watchdogs told a Senate panel Tuesday.

The Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, was launched in the midst of last fall's collapse of the nation's banking system and is designed to get loans flowing to businesses and individuals.

But "without a clearer explanation" about parts of the program, "it is not possible to exercise meaningful oversight over Treasury's actions," said Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor who leads a special congressional oversight panel monitoring the TARP program. Her comments came in a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the bailout program.

Noting that TARP passed Congress six months ago, Warren said that her group has repeatedly called on the Treasury Department to provide a clear strategy for the program — and that "the absence of such a vision hampers effective oversight."

Although she has asked Treasury to explain its strategy, "Congress and the American public have no clear answer to that question."

TARP is one of several programs the government has launched in recent months to help ailing institutions and even bolster healthy banks. Warren singled out one program, known as TALF, for appearing to involve "substantial downside risk and high costs for the American taxpayer" while offering big potential rewards for private interests. She said the public information about that program was "contradictory, promoting substantial confusion."

The Government Accountability Office shared some of the same concerns, saying in a new report that "Treasury continues to struggle with developing an effective overall communication strategy" for the TARP program.

Beyond that, the GAO's report pointed out the difficulty in even measuring whether TARP is working. As of March 27, the Treasury Department had handed out more than $300 billion of the $700 billion in approved TARP funds, the GAO said.

The majority of that money went to banks large and small around the country. And there are signs that credit is flowing from those banks; the GAO said that several hundred billion dollars in new loans were processed by the largest TARP recipients in December and January.

But crediting TARP for that is difficult, given the range of actions the government has taken since October. "Isolating the effect of TARP's activities continues to be difficult," the GAO's Gene Dodaro said in his prepared testimony.

The Treasury Department, in a statement, said that "transparency and accountability are central to ensuring that taxpayer funds are spent wisely," and noted that the department is actively working to respond to the recommendations of GAO and other oversight bodies. Among other things, the department has hired more staff and expanded its survey on bank lending activities.

Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, the panel's ranking Republican, described himself as "disappointed and frustrated" in the amount of information available about the program. "You can't measure effectiveness when you don't know what the goals and objectives of a program are, or how the program is being run," he said.

Warren's oversight panel made news earlier this year with its report that Treasury's bailout programs had overpaid by an estimated $78 billion in its transactions with the nation's ailing financial institutions. She said that issue is still under investigation.”

““Colbert mockery: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/223279/march-31-2009/the-10-31-project”
viOliN


That was brilliant! I was laughing so hard I had to hit "pause" when Colbert showed up in gas mask, diapers, and holding a gun!

But pointing out that Beck "HATES" 9-11 Families (in his OWN WORDS)...

And pointing out that since Becks plan can't, then, be about helping "actual 9-11" victims, it must be about helping people build their careers on 9-11... GOOD POINT!

Way to go, Colbert.
last edited: 4/02/09 9:27:31 AM”

“Colbert is a parody...I thought the "Most tranparent administrator in history" was a promise....”

“Colbert is a flaming neo-conservative.............................parody.”

“Seriously guys....Watch this d1ckhead and tell me you support this fascism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITq19ezj_Xg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fboortz.com%2Fnealz_nuze%2F&feature=player_embedded”

“Hello, Richard.”

“Neil Cavity needs a filling, he's as foxed up as the idiot (Grayson). Neil had to start swinging to the Beckafication of the FAUX.”

“Well like most Americans you guys are happy as long as someone else gets the shaft...Not ever contemplating that eventually there will be a time when you will be the only one left to GET the shaft.

But I can play that game. If there is a major attack on the north east I say let the rest of the country just "let it go" after all the "Yankess are getting it not us."”

“here's what I say....let the Libbofascist have 25 states....ANY 25, they can pick which ones....the common folks get the other 25....let's see who survives and who goes down in flames.....

saleboard, I assume then that you support and appointed politician deciding what private companies do, make and pay their workers? Or is that you don't believe what the Democrat senator said because he said it FOX ? It amazes me how you guys never admit the truth, or acknowledge reality, and ALWAYS "shoot the messenger" when the message isn't one you want people to hear. It's a classic Fascist tact....just look at TILTS fascism definitions...

liberalism=fascism”

“good morning, Richard.”

“Yay Cliffy!

Your bread ain't so stale after all.

I think we should call him Francisco, Tilt.

"Take it easy, Francisco!"”

“3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The most significant common thread among these regimes was the use of scapegoating as a means to divert the people�s attention from other problems, to shift blame for failures, and to channel frustration in controlled directions. The methods of choice�relentless propaganda and disinformation�were usually effective. Active opponents of these regimes were inevitably labeled as terrorists and dealt with accordingly.

6. A controlled mass media. Under some of the regimes, the mass media were under strict direct control and could be relied upon never to stray from the party line. Other regimes exercised more subtle power to ensure media orthodoxy. Methods included the control of licensing and access to resources, economic pressure, appeals to patriotism, and implied threats. The leaders of the mass media were often politically compatible with the power elite. The result was usually success in keeping the general public unaware of the regimes� excesses.




This is how you liberals operate...the target? conservatives....aided by the state controlled media. That's why you hate FOX so much, because your side doesn't control it the way they control the rest of the media...That's ALSO why newspapers across the nation are dropping like flies, because people are tired of lies and propaganda, they want the truth...that's ALSO ALSO why FOX news, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and others are so successful, because they ARE equal time, and they present the facts that the liberal media won't tell you...in a word, HONESTY. Look at the ratings..MSNBC is a joke, CNN, HNN, none of even come close to FOX's ratings...You mark my words, when these newspapers start going down, the state will try to prop them back up, especially the ones that help the liberals....

BELIEEEDAT!”

“Go buy a dictionary.

And Use it ----”

“What's the frequency, Kenneth?”

“I used your own words dood. I'm not stupid, no matter how many times and ways you say it...

Got any substance to add to the discourse, or just more name calling, fascist tactics?

Yeah, I didn't think so....”

“http://www.stratfor.com/


SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND!”

“Now tell us how Hitler was a Leftist.”

“You can't be substantive. Let's look at this moment instead. Enough diversion.

You are being lied to America

http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/”

“Is being lied to something new? This country has lied to it's citizens forever, but you wingers that took the WMD and Mushroom Cloud bait , without out a whisper, suddenly have noticed that truth isn't universally used in american politics?”

“Were it not for XL, we'd have not truthiness.”

“The comic relief is pretty thick in here today.”

“Haha, that was not funny. Go back and reread the dood's truthiness Mista!”

“puh-Leeze.”

“Tell MachO about it, He'll act like he listens, but I'm surrounded and dumbfounded and now my wife has me grounded.”

“He's mad as hell and Borscht beets hell outta the truth.

Grounded.............in a one-story house??
I suppose you'll stick to that story bored.”

“Gingrich: GOP-ers may form third party
By ANDY BARR | 4/3/09 11:01 AM EDT
Newt Gingrich thrashed the GOP for allowing Bush's increased spending and not blocking Obama’s early initiatives.


Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is warning fellow Republicans that conservatives may leave the GOP for a third party in 2012.

“If the Republicans can’t break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would see a third party movement in 2012,” Gingrich said Wednesday during a speech at the College of the Ozarks in Missouri, the local television station KY3 reported.

Gingrich thrashed Republicans for allowing increased spending during the Bush administration and for not doing enough to block President Barack Obama’s early initiatives.

“Remember, everything Obama's doing, Bush started last year,” Gingrich said. “If you're going to talk about big spending, the mistakes of the Bush administration last year are fully as bad as the mistakes of Obama's first two, three months.”

The former speaker also attacked the Democratic president on the economic stimulus package and for what he called his “grotesque arrogance” to oust Rick Wagoner as the head of General Motors.

“During the period I was speaker, the U.S. government – for four years – total growth was 2.9 percent a year. Under Bush, it was 6.1 percent. ... This year, I think it will be 36 percent in one year,” Gingrich said. “It is just literally irrational.””

“....time misspent and faculties mis-employed, and senses jaded by labor, or impaired by excess, cannot be recalled any more than that freshness of the heart, before it has become aware of the deceits of others, and of its own.

--John Randolph”

“The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

--Eric Hoffer

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

--Eric Hoffer

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

--Eric Hoffer”

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

-- C. S. Lewis”

“The GGG ; gawd, guns and gingrich?”

“This war was a revolution against the moral basis of civilization. It was conceived by the Nazis in conscious contempt for the life, dignity and freedom of individual man and deliberately prosecuted by means of slavery, starvation and the mass destruction of noncombatants' lives. It was a revolution against the human soul.

--Time, May 14, 1945”

“
How'd you like to hide the egg and gurgitate a few saucers of mocha java?

� W.C. Fields

”

“A troupe of authentic circus freaks will parade before you in a grotesque pageant of human oddity and pathos, each adding one more piece of crap to your pile as you contemplate the infinite variety of creation.

--Me, today”

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

-- T. S. ELiot”

“We need a common enemy to unite us.

~ Condoleezza Rice, March 2000”

“"If cookies was ho's, then elves be they pimp."

--Stephen Hawking”

“The past couple of elections have been tough for some people to handle.”

“A troupe of authentic circus freaks will parade before you in a grotesque pageant of human oddity and pathos, each adding one more piece of crap to your pile as you contemplate the infinite variety of creation.

--Me, today”
kleetn
3:39:25 PM
4/03/09

That's really deep..............................dude.”

“Creation is under that pile?”

“We need to demand an investigation of Fannie and Freddie”