mr_genius

Some goof on CNBC cricized Obama and all the Obama worshippers are freaking out. If Cramer talks about how Obama is God, Cramer is a great journalist and does a perfect job in their minds. It has nothign to do with reporting. There are plenty of experts in finance working for media organizations other than Jim Cramer that should have been reporting on a potential collapse, but Cramer was mean to Obama on tv. Thats the difference. BTW I think Jim Cramer is a douche and despise him and everyone like him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 07:00 PM) Because I am Barack Obama. Therefore, Obama has now gone from feuding with Limbaugh, rapidly through feuding with Glenn Beck, to feuding with Mr. Genius. well, this new feud between me and Mr.Obama can easily be remedied with a some front row sox ticket bribes from the president.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 06:56 PM) At least one of them realizes he's running a comedy show. glenn beck is supposed to be comedy too; from what i can tell. at least to a certain extent. so is glenn beck is the new Rush Limbaugh? i can't keep up with the feuds. so now Obama will be complaining about Glenn Beck. seems pointless, to be honest.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 06:34 PM) I was going to go with John Stewart, but potato, potAto. that comparison is better. lets go with that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 05:03 PM) Based on the standard you guys apply when labeling someone a leftist...Glenn Beck is a moderate. Glenn Beck is the tv host right wing version of the New York Times

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 03:19 PM) Barack Obama has selected a leftist, David Hamilton, to be his first nominee for the federal bench. Hamilton is Obama's nominee for a spot on the Seventh CIrcuit Court of Appeals. Appropriately enough, Hamilton reportedly was once a former fund-raiser for the radical activist outfit ACORN, a key Obama ally. He is also a former leader of the Indiana chapter of the ACLU. Hamilton's record as a federal district judge confirms his ultra-liberalism. Recently, he invalidated a law requiring the registration of sex offenders. He also prevented enforcement of an Indiana law that required information and a waiting period before an abortion. The Seventh Circuit (the court to which Hamilton now has been nominated) found that the law in question was materially identical to a law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Casey decision. It noted that no judge in the land, other than Hamilton, has found such a law invalid since Casey was decided. Apparently, Hamilton did not consider himself bound by decisions of the Supreme Court with which he strongly disagreed. In addition, Ed Whelan points out that Hamilton somehow managed to invoke the doctrine of substantive due process to suppress evidence of a criminal defendant's possession of cocaine. The Seventh Circuit unanimously reversed that ruling. Not to worry, though, the New York Times calls Hamilton a "moderate well, compared to the NY Times, just about everyone is a moderate.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 01:45 PM) This is really not gonna go over well. http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/17/ve...ppy-with-obama/ get shot in Afghanistan serving your country? come home with a $30,000 medical bill wtf

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 12:31 PM) I think CKnolls had a post detailing all of the campaign contributions Dodd got from them... yea i saw that. Dodd's outrage is the fakest of them all

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 12:19 PM) Why did Dodd put in the clause exempting bonuses? They knew damn well what was going on across the financial industry. ^^^

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 10:17 AM) I went for Lagoon Creature, but only because I'm taking my class on a collection trip to our lagoon tomorrow.

QUOTE (CubKilla @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 10:45 PM) You're joking right? you must be thinking of the property assessment in Chicago. they will f*** you. it's totally messed up.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 08:13 PM) California just has a ridiculously low property tax, especially given property values out here. (That really jacks up the state tax rate, because in a lot of places, property tax revenues go to fund city-based projects like schools. Out here, the property tax base is so limited thanks to Prop 13 that additional revenue needs to be raised somewhere, and Prop 13 required the State government to raise those funds. So therefore, income and sales and gas taxes have to go through the roof, because they have to not only fund what the state government would normally have to pay for, they have to fund all the city governments as well) Cook county is kind of the same. relatively low property tax, everythign else crazy high tax. sales tax alone is 10.5%

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 07:53 PM) You JUST undermined your own data! You told me how overall taxation was a better way to look at it, and then you cited California's Income tax level to point out its budget problems! Because overall is better. As I clearly stated a high income tax increases the burden when used with everything else. Not really that tough a concept. So california has no other taxes, just state income tax?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 07:33 PM) Do we have to keep going to 24 references? (The 12 year old kid with the AK repeating "Kill the cockroach" from last fall comes to mind there) Anyway...do whatever you want to them. Just give them a trial first and make it part of their sentence. We're better than them, let's stop acting like we're not. i would prefer South Park refrences to the episode where Cartman solves a terrorism case involving Hillary Clinton.

overall taxation including fees, sales tax, state income tax and such is a better way to look at it. raising the state income tax by 50% in Illinois obviously raises the total tax burden for a state resident. from your cited wiki page and we all know that has fixed their budget issues

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 06:12 PM) In fairness to AIG, I have to ask, are the execs getting the bonuses part of the insurance division or the financial division? Because the insurance division is golden, it's the financial division that's f***ed everything for the entire company. Bottom line, not everyone that works at AIG sucks. "It's hard to understand how derivative traders at AIG warranted any bonuses, much less 165 million dollars in extra pay," Obama said at the outset of an appearance to announce a plan to boost small businesses loans. I guess it's going to derivative traders.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 06:11 PM) Did they actually use that phrase? The phrase that described the cabinet of John F. Kennedy, the guys like Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, etc., who organized and led that small conflict in southeast Asia? yes, that exact phrase. i saw it in a quote

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 06:06 PM) This is really creative. I wonder if this could be written well enough to work. that would be a great move. i heard someting about a 98% tax on those bonuses earlier of course, the newly appointed head of AIG used the tired "best and brightest" argument again today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 05:10 PM) WaPo. The House Democrats are currently holding up an ethics investigation of Congressman Murtha, I believe using a rule-weakening change instituted by the Republicans to protect Tom Delay. This of course, needs to stop. I encourage right wing ranting and raving at this point. liberals and conservatives must unite and focus rants on such abuses.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 02:36 PM) ACKERT, DAVID WESTON,CT 06883 AIG FINANCIAL 11/22/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) ALLERS, DONALD COS COB,CT 06807 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) BALFAN, MARK PORT CHESTER,NY 10573 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) BUSACCA, SAL COLTS NECK,NJ 07722 AIG FINANCIAL 11/22/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) CASSANO, JOSEPH WESTPORT,CT 06880 AIG FINANCIAL 11/22/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) DESANTIS, JASON REDDING,CT 06896 AIG FINANCIAL 12/9/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) DIAZ-PEREZ, EDUARDO SYOSSET,NY 11791 AIG FINANCIAL 11/28/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) FANG, XUAN GREENWICH,CT 06830 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) FERRAIUOLO, NEIL PLEASANTVILLE,NY 10570 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) FRAADE, JONATHAN WESTON,CT 06883 AIG FINANCIAL 11/21/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) FRAADE, JONATHAN WESTON,CT 06883 AIG FINANCIAL/EXECUTIVE 6/26/07 $800 Dodd, Chris (D) FRAADE, JONATHAN WESTON,CT 06883 AIG FINANCIAL/EXECUTIVE 9/8/08 $800 Dodd, Chris (D) FRAADE, JONATHAN WESTON,CT 06883 AIG FINANCIAL/EXECUTIVE 6/26/07 $200 Dodd, Chris (D) FROST, ALAN WESTPORT,CT 06880 AIG FINANCIAL 11/22/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) KANAAN, ILYAS , AIG FINANCIAL 12/16/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) KOLBERT, WILLIAM WESTON,CT 06883 AIG FINANCIAL 11/22/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) LEARY, ROBERT GREENWICH,CT 06831 AIG FINANCIAL 11/22/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) LIEBERGALL, JONATHAN NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 AIG FINANCIAL 12/1/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) MCGINNIS, JAMES WESTPORT,CT 06880 AIG FINANCIAL 12/30/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) MELTSER, JULIA RIDGEFIELD,CT 06877 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) NELSON, KURT NORWALK,CT 06853 AIG FINANCIAL 11/21/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) NELSON, KURT NORWALK,CT 06853 AIG FINANCIAL/BANKER 6/21/07 $800 Dodd, Chris (D) NELSON, KURT NORWALK,CT 06853 AIG FINANCIAL/BANKER 6/21/07 $200 Dodd, Chris (D) PALAZZO, JOANN FAIRFIELD,CT 06824 AIG FINANCIAL 11/22/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) PHOLE, CHRISTOPHER NEW CANAAN,CT 06840 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) PIKE, STEVEN STAMFORD,CT 06901 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) PLAGEMANN, THOMAS NEW YORK,NY 10021 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) POLING, DOUGLAS FAIRFIELD,CT 06824 AIG FINANCIAL 11/21/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) POWELL, ROBERT WESTON,CT 06883 AIG FINANCIAL 11/28/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) RAAB, EILEEN TEANECK,NJ 07666 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) ROONEY, JOSEPH FAIRFIELD,CT 06824 AIG FINANCIAL 12/16/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) RUFFA, GREGORY DARIEN,CT 06820 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) SHEKHTMAN, LEONID REDDING,CT 06896 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) SHIRLEY, WILLIAM LARCHMONT,NY 10538 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) STEIN, KEITH WESTPORT,CT 06880 AIG FINANCIAL 11/22/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) TOFT, CHRISTIAN WESTON,CT 06883 AIG FINANCIAL 12/3/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) WAGAR, STEVEN NORWALK,CT 06850 AIG FINANCIAL 11/22/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) WAYNE, MARTIN BEDFORD HILLS,NY 10507 AIG FINANCIAL 11/22/06 $2,100 Dodd, Chris (D) Not a bad take for Dodd. SCUMBAG! completely paid off. Dodd is one of the worst of the worst in government.

QUOTE (BaseballNick @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 03:10 PM) Guaranteed bonuses? I need this guy negotiating my contracts. Sounds like a very unusual and dangerous business practice. Obviously dangerous business practices mean nothing to AIG. Too bad it seems that no matter what AIG does they will get constant billions from the government. No risk, all reward.

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market up again today

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Mar 16, 2009 -> 10:11 AM) Is anyone else having a problem trying to make their picks on yahoo right now or is that just my computer? i couldn't either

QUOTE (The Critic @ Mar 15, 2009 -> 11:43 PM) Willis Field!! Hell Yeah!!!