They may or may not be connected. I find the timing very suspicious. This would not be the first time an enemy of the corporate state has been smeared with a sex scandal. Spitzer is most recent example that comes to mind. >> ^entr0py:

"WikiLeaks Targets Corporations; Assange Arrested Days After"
It seems like you're implying the two things are connected. You know we've been following the legal wrangling over the rape allegation for months now. And as Shep mentioned, Assange revealed he had that info on Bank of America over a year ago.

"WikiLeaks Targets Corporations; Assange Arrested Days After"

It seems like you're implying the two things are connected. You know we've been following the legal wrangling over the rape allegation for months now. And as Shep mentioned, Assange revealed he had that info on Bank of America over a year ago.

Now this is the story all about how
To flip a burger upside down
So I'll take a minute, just sit right there
I'll tell you how to make a Wendy's Double, don't be scared

In the mid-west cattle are born and raised,
On a ranch where they spend most of their days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing staying cool
And all standing around, letting out a moo
When a couple of cowboys, who call each other 'dude'
Started wrangling up cattle to sell as food
They sent them to the slaughter to be prepared
And said, "You're going out to our franchises by truck and air!"

Now we've got our patties, come over here
The package says "Fresh" and you can dice the onions there
If anything Id say our patties are square
But one bite and you'll say, 'Nah these are better then theirs!'

Use even number of buns, not seven but eight!
And throw on some cabbage, and cheese (don't grate)
Look at the burger, put it on a plate
And serve it up at minimum wage

In reply to this comment by Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
if you are unwilling or unable to see the moral courage this woman has by standing up and doing what she felt was righteous

The bank is conducting itself legally. What you object to is that BoA offers credit to people who are 'risky' borrowers. You call it 'predatory'. Hmmm - what other entity does exactly the same thing...? What organization has been telling banks to lend money to people who "can't afford it"? Whose policy is it to "spend our way out of debt"?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CF8SIO0&show_article=1
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30388.html

My position is that it is stupid policy to lend money to people who are risky borrowers. It is unsustainable, foolish, and destructive at the business level AND the government level. But it is not IMMORAL. This womans 'stand' has nothing to do with morality. It a disagreement on how a company should conduct business.

When you disagree with how a company does business - you quit. You don't stick around violating the terms of your employment and doing stuff that will get you fired. You stand up straight, quit the job, and leave with your head high. She didn't. She slunk around, kept taking paychecks, disobeyed orders, bucked policy, and at finally got thrown out the door kicking and screaming like a baby. Then to cap it off she's got the cheek to make a whiny video about how unfair it was. Bullcrap. She got exactly what she deserved.

Now - I wholeheartedly agree with her opinion that money should not be lent to people who can't afford it. She and I are sympatico there. But she's saying it's 'wrong' and I'm saying it is merely 'stupid'.

However, I find it interesting that you agree with her sentiment that such practices are 'wrong' at a moral level. So - tell me - will you follow her example and condemn the current administration's practice of 'aggressively marketing' debt spending to people who can't afford it? After all, according to your moral code such actions are 'evil'. Will you support evil, or will you condemn and abandon it?


i never used the term evil.that is subjective.
and no,i do not agree with our governments massive borrowing practices.sadly we lack leadership in that arena.no administration has had the balls to do whats right.reagan ushered in the new financial economy while abandoning our industrial industry and no admin since has done it right.clinton balanced the budget..sure..but it took him raping SS and medicare to do it.

it angers me that average citizens are expected to be held accountable(which is right) yet our government can keep passing the buck.

as for the young lady.i see a woman who wrangled with a moral dilemma and used her supposed power to help those in trouble by breaking company policy.
i would have done the same.
you would not.
but in the end we both would have been out of a job.
our disagreement is one of semantics but at the heart i feel we agree.

>> ^quantumushroom:
If you don't execute them now you'll be reading/hearing about them in a few years' time, and not for receiving Grammys.
Let Africa Sink.
http://www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php/essays/36/


This article is nonsense.

It suggests that colonialism was beneficial and once that ended in the '60s, everything went to shit. Well no duh, it's not exactly a revelation that revolutions tend to lead to populist, despotic, autocratic dictators that steal from their people. It's a trend that happened all over the world and was not helped by the Cold War wranglings thereafter where these same dictators were propped up to serve the interests of their beneficiaries.

It makes the argument that charity and foreign aid is the only way to stimulate development. It's not, in fact unless it's in response to something unexpected such as emergency disaster relief, it's for the most part only beneficial in the short run and at worst counter productive, showing time and time again to create dependence. What has seen many African countries prosper is the opening of trade barriers, the promotion of foreign direct investment over portfolio investment which gives corporations a stake in their target country, and the promotion of democratic governments and impartial judiciaries.

Tribal warfare on the level that you no longer see in other continents of the world is a product of the lack of urbanisation and agglomeration of split social groups. The US is coming up against the same problem in Afghanistan for that matter. You can't come into Africa, try to force democracy on it cold turkey and expect it to work. Mutually trustworthy social relationships between disparate tribes don't appear overnight, although they are needed for an effective representative democracy and for a thriving business sector that brings together entrepreneurs and those with capital and funds to actualise those ideas. They are also needed dealing with natural distasters, diseases and creating safe habitable environments.

There are gradations each respective side of the debate refuse to acknowledge. Vid Chick epitomizes the 'religious people are idiots' side. Persons of such stripe refuse to discuss creationism as religious philosophy, instead recasting the matter as an unyielding test of evidenciary proofs. They probably do this because they feel goaded or vexed by 'certain' Creationists who try to recast religion as science (a fruitless endeavor). Ultimately both sides reject each other's basic premises and treat each other with insults, disrespect, mockery, and boorishness.

For a creationist, the origin of life is a matter of faith. If you are a believer, then it would seem eminantly possible that God would have to be a very intelligent fellow. Such a being would likely use or influence natural laws in ways not currently understood.

Could such a being, if existant, 'create' life? According to evolutionary theory, sure! Scientists in labs today can put primordial soup into electrical currents and plasma to 'create' amino acids. From that perspective, isn't evolutionary theory no more than the most basic, rudimentary, stumbling first step of humanity's attempt to grasp this God guy's far more advanced methodology?

But, there is no scientific evidence for that position because it starts with a faith-based premise that God exists. Accepting such a premise isn't in the cards for people like Vid Chick. It involves apriori thinking of a philosophical nature which goes into areas Vid-Chick would rather not. So it gets ignored in favor of far easier to wrangle strawmen.

Some creationists do the same thing the other way around and refuse to give any scientific evidence the time of day. The problem isn't one sided. Both sides refuse to acknowledge that they are coming from completely different viewpoints, and so both end up looking like intolerant bigots.

lol at 2:50, '... even large sauropods, as young adults, were not overly large (and could fit on the ark)...'

It all makes sense now... Noah caught 'young adult' dinosaurs, put them on a wooden ark for 40 days with every other animal, and then let 'em go to spread about the world and become fossils embedded in the rock for us to now find.

Actually I bet Noah would be pissed, having done all that dinosaur wrangling only for God to kill them off.

Ya know what QM? You will never be a highdileeho.

My karma is different from his. I respect his decision to serve and he has to live with his life decisions like everyone else. Same with Corporal Twinkie, who is doing his brothers and sisters a grave disservice, even if he is sincere. If any of you think the war against this SCUM is anywhere near over, guess again. Jihadists don't give up until they're dead. Or you're dead. Or both.

He put his life on the line for his country, and will never have the same bloodthirst that you spout here.

My "bloodthirst" is mostly limited to jihadist fktards who want to kill Americans and other civilized peoples. That's the price I gladly pay for not being a moral relativist: recognizing there is real evil in the world, and that this world has real consequences for appeasement stupidity.

I'm a non-combat veteran...now, I don't know if that meets the high standards liberals set for everyone but themselves, and I've never had to shoot anyone, but the US GOV could've sent me into the fire and I would've gone. Unlike in Congress, military oaths to defend the Constitution mean something.

- Article 3 of Geneva conventions requires humane treatment of all persons held. Furthermore on June 12, 2008, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Boumediene v. Bush that the Guantanamo captives were entitled to the protection of the United States Constitution. International and American rights apply to them.

Well, guess what, the dumbshts in the legal system have been wrong plenty of times before. They tried this bullsht with captured Nazi spies, that is, attempting to give them Constitutional rights, but the country was more sane in the 1940s and instead they were dealt with properly.

"The ones that have been released quickly rejoin [...] their jihad."

National security expert and CNN analyst Peter Bergen, states that some of those "suspected" to have returned to terrorism are so categorized because they publicly made anti-American statements, "something that's not surprising if you've been locked up in a U.S. prison camp for several years." If all 18 people on the "confirmed" list have "returned" to the battlefield, that would amount to 4 percent of the detainees who have been released.

Ah, so that's acceptable to you, those "small" numbers? How many a-holes did it take to bring about 9-11? Oh, that's right, that doesn't count, because the 9-11 jihadist scum were from Country X and not Country Z. Brilliant reasoning, libs.

The US looked for legal loopholes to justify its detention program at Gitmo, nor could it trail them as it had torture testimony which is inadmissible in a court of law.

Well, given the choice of calling this a real war against a real enemy or "Bush's Game" I'll gladly err on the side of real war. Let the animals run wild and free over some "clever" legal ACLU wrangling and before long you won't have a society to defend.

Wouldn't you rejoin? I mean if this group of jihadists captured you and put you in a shitty hole with crappy accommodations, when you were released wouldn't you come running back and join military...well you wouldn't cause you're a pussy, but somebody with balls would...

LOOKIT ME EVERYONE!...I'M TALKIN' TOUGH...ON THE INTERNETS. I CALL YOU NAME!

It's not some alien we're dealing with...it's people. So I don't know why you act so surprised when humans follow their own nature to feel hatred when they're mistreated.

I understand the "feelings" of Gitmo detainees and nothing they do surprises me. Go to any prison in America and you'll find plenty of the same resentment, since every one of those guys is ALSO not guilty! They'll tell you so! They were set up!

Why do liberals act surprised that there is real hatred towards jihadist animals sawing off heads, homicide bombing, beating women, honor killing, etc.

Liberals are always angry and ashamed of America first and "the oppressed" last. They just don't see this, the way a fish can't see the water. Maybe they're too fking far gone to notice, who knows. NYC could be suitcase nuked tomorrow and they'd use Gitmo to justify it.

Man, choggie holds a thought and doesn't let it go.

So to explain teh westy comment in the title..

| 6 days 8 hours ago

YES LET'S SEE GOLD 100 PRIV-ALLEGEDS SHALL WE??!!!

WESTY DOOOOOEES NEED TO BE A GOLD 100 MEMBER!!-HE NEEDS A GODDAMN HONORARY OR BY DECREE OR OTHERWISE, and fuck you, pardon my caps up your asses who may PLEASE, shit sideways inna wind, CHUNK OF PRECIOUS METAL NEXT TO HIS AVATAR-AND BY VOTE I DECLARE, SHALL THE SIFT DEEM HIM WORTHY OF THAT GOLD, AND THEN SOME!!!!!..... IF, & BY WAY OF so-called VOTE, DIATRIBE, RANT, WRANGLE OR DISCOURSE, WESTY FINDS HIMSELF WITHOUT SAID HONORARY DESIGNATION, REGARDLESS OF RULES OR SOME FLY-BY-NIGHT WHIM OF SOMEONE WITH A STICK SHOVED STRAIGHT THE FUCK DOWN THEIR CAKE-SHOOT THROUGH TO THE GRAVY END, I SHALL LEAVE YOU GIFTED AND TALENTED TYPES, TO YER OWN DEVICES.....

HALLOWEEN baby, all-hallowed is the ground Westy walks, the same ground I walk, if the Emperor Norton Award is not handed down, and if I don't get my....Mother-fucking channel.

I love you dag, really want to be yer best friend, you too Lucky.....and yer old ladies.....specially you, Lucky-

ok, choggie is just having a little meltdown right now- everybody just give him some space to relax.

*unsticky

>> ^choggie:
"You need to be a Gold-100 Star member to be able to promote videos. See Member privileges" thanks grimsleeper, for pointing that the fuck out-
YES LET'S SEE GOLD 100 PRIV-ALLEGEDS SHALL WE??!!!
WESTY DOOOOOEES NEED TO BE A GOLD 100 MEMBER!!-HE NEEDS A GODDAMN HONORARY OR BY DECREE OR OTHERWISE, and fuck you, pardon my caps up your asses who may PLEASE, shit sideways inna wind, CHUNK OF PRECIOUS METAL NEXT TO HIS AVATAR-AND BY VOTE I DECLARE, SHALL THE SIFT DEEM HIM WORTHY OF THAT GOLD, AND THEN SOME!!!!!..... IF, & BY WAY OF so-called VOTE, DIATRIBE, RANT, WRANGLE OR DISCOURSE, WESTY FINDS HIMSELF WITHOUT SAID HONORARY DESIGNATION, REGARDLESS OF RULES OR SOME FLY-BY-NIGHT WHIM OF SOMEONE WITH A STICK SHOVED STRAIGHT THE FUCK DOWN THEIR CAKE-SHOOT THROUGH TO THE GRAVY END, I SHALL LEAVE YOU GIFTED AND TALENTED TYPES, TO YER OWN DEVICES.....
HALLOWEEN baby, all-hallowed is the ground Westy walks, the same ground I walk, if the Emperor Norton Award is not handed down, and if I don't get my....Mother-fucking channel.
I love you dag, really want to be yer best friend, you too Lucky.....and yer old ladies.....specially you, Lucky-

"You need to be a Gold-100 Star member to be able to promote videos. See Member privileges" thanks grimsleeper, for pointing that the fuck out-

YES LET'S SEE GOLD 100 PRIV-ALLEGEDS SHALL WE??!!!

WESTY DOOOOOEES NEED TO BE A GOLD 100 MEMBER!!-HE NEEDS A GODDAMN HONORARY OR BY DECREE OR OTHERWISE, and fuck you, pardon my caps up your asses who may PLEASE, shit sideways inna wind, CHUNK OF PRECIOUS METAL NEXT TO HIS AVATAR-AND BY VOTE I DECLARE, SHALL THE SIFT DEEM HIM WORTHY OF THAT GOLD, AND THEN SOME!!!!!..... IF, & BY WAY OF so-called VOTE, DIATRIBE, RANT, WRANGLE OR DISCOURSE, WESTY FINDS HIMSELF WITHOUT SAID HONORARY DESIGNATION, REGARDLESS OF RULES OR SOME FLY-BY-NIGHT WHIM OF SOMEONE WITH A STICK SHOVED STRAIGHT THE FUCK DOWN THEIR CAKE-SHOOT THROUGH TO THE GRAVY END, I SHALL LEAVE YOU GIFTED AND TALENTED TYPES, TO YER OWN DEVICES.....

HALLOWEEN baby, all-hallowed is the ground Westy walks, the same ground I walk, if the Emperor Norton Award is not handed down, and if I don't get my....Mother-fucking channel.

I love you dag, really want to be yer best friend, you too Lucky.....and yer old ladies.....specially you, Lucky-

Raccoons do not take to domestication very well. They're beguilingly cute when they're babies but as they grow they get big, strong and surly. They're wild creatures with a strong independent streak. They're also most active at night when they'll keep everyone up by climbing on, and breaking whatever they can, and they can break a lot. They also have a painful bite if anyone's tried to hold a raccoon that's larger than a baby. Welding gloves and some sort of protective codpiece are essential gear for raccoon wrangling.

You can't say that he hasn't pushed her on policy issues like the tax holiday and the subtle differences between their health care plans for example but yes, I suppose maintaining a cool, restrained composure particularly in relation to making purely political attacks has been a part of the image that he has been for the most part unwilling to jeopardise.

Not to mention it is likely much of the intense superdelegate wrangling and debate over Florida and Michigan is occurring outside the public eye in private conversations.

Way to wrangle those anti-bodies....Now you are immune to yet another virus that won't hold a candle to the next strain-Beggar's corner is a place to waste yer power points, in hopes that someone will vote for a floater-My advice is to encourage folks into the pqueued section of your dilemma....

Welcome back!

That video shows a clear individual who we can judge..it's good TV, not abstract. Katrina is visual and visceral..global warming and civil liberties are not: http://www.videosift.com/video/Frogs-in-Boiling-Water-the-Psychology-of-Global-Warming

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
People seemingly get more railed up about police abuses captured on video then the continuing judicial abuses committed by the Whitehouse. One affects a minority the other affects the majority. Kind of like whats going on right now in the Senate:

Senate Yesterday

After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory on Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s program of eavesdropping without warrants.

One by one, the Senate rejected amendments that would have imposed greater civil liberties checks on the government’s surveillance powers. Finally, the Senate voted 68 to 29 to approve legislation that the White House had been pushing for months. Mr. Bush hailed the vote and urged the House to move quickly in following the Senate’s lead.