“The Beast” Hits 10 Downing! + a Wide-Open Thread

This is the best looking limo so far…

I remember standing outside 10 downing street as Kissenger walked by back in 73
Bet I couldn’t do that today

The repub senate is holding up the C Hill nom for Iraq over North Korea…

The repub senate is holding up the C Hill nom for Iraq over North Korea…

Kerry making comments in the Senate well.

Ah, yes, the Beast that GM built for the POTUS. What irony.

Biden is the chair of the Senate. Yikes.

The budget.

The limo that has to do a three pointer.
Not good.

Obama gets to drive his limo, but like a good Leninist wants us all to drive this..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvino/3221350492/

One size fits all folks!

I still think it was dragging someone behind it when it pulled out..

If it was a Bobby…They could play…”Bob..bob Bobing Along’

Obama is setting a good Example…very Thrifty Guy

Approved…largest Budget in History..

Good thing we have all that surplus…

Do we Qualify as a BANANA Republic yet…?

Yeh…The Heat from the Printing Press running day and Night is proving enough Heat…

Can’t wait to hear how much the Obama contingent of 500 traveling to Europe cost the taxpayer. A personal chef? Come on, the hypocrisy of this fraud astounds me.

Maybe thats what The “O” meant by intending to go “Green” Eh..?

Kucinich – I Simply Cannot Endorse a Budget or a Plan that Authorizes the Expansion of War

http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?Docu...

“Washington D.C. ( April 2, 2009) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement after voting against H.Con.Res 85, setting forth the Congressional Budget for the fiscal year 2010:

“I am committed to doing everything I can to put our community and our nation on the path to economic stability. I led opposition to the bank bailout program TARP, I worked vigorously in favor of the stimulus package, and I have worked to save the automotive, steel and aerospace industries in America.

“This budget is a statement of principles for the upcoming year, and I cannot accept it in its entirety. I will not vote for a budget that ties military spending to the operational funding of our government. This year, the budget includes $130 billion for war funding. The Washington Post reports today another 10,000 troops may be sent to Afghanistan, bringing our total number of troops there to as much as 78,000 by 2010 – a more than 100% increase from today’s troop levels. This budget is a plan that authorizes the expansion of the war. I simply cannot endorse a budget or a plan that sends more of our brave men and women to Afghanistan, a conflict which has the potential to become this generation’s Vietnam.”

They knew: AIG was a Ponzi scheme plain and simple
on Thu Apr-02-09 11:57 AM
They knew:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/04/aig-before-cds-the... /

“In fact, our investigation suggests that by the time AIG had entered the CDS fray in a serious way more than five years ago, the firm was already doomed. No longer able to prop up its earnings using reinsurance because of growing scrutiny from state insurance regulators and federal law enforcement agencies, AIG’s foray into CDS was really the grand finale. AIG was a Ponzi scheme plain and simple, yet the Obama Administration still thinks of AIG as a real company that simply took excessive risks. No, to us what the fraud Bernard Madoff is to individual investors, AIG is to the global financial community.

“As with the phony reinsurance contracts that AIG and other insurers wrote for decades, when AIG wrote hundreds of billions of dollars in CDS contracts, neither AIG nor the counterparties believed that the CDS would ever be paid. Indeed, one source with personal knowledge of the matter suggests that there may be emails and actual side letters between AIG and its counterparties that could prove conclusively that AIG never intended to pay out on any of its CDS contracts.

“…These were not valid contracts as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Geithner and Economic policy guru Larry Summers claim, but rather acts of criminal fraud meant to manipulate the capital positions and earnings of financial companies around the world.

“…Seen in this context, the payments made to AIG by the Fed and Treasury, which were then passed-through to dealers such as Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), can only be viewed as an illegal taking that must be reversed once the US Trustee for the Federal Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York is in control of AIG’s operations.”

much more at:
http://us1.institutionalriskanalytics.com/pub/IRAstory….

Obama signals to the world the end of American dominance
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/alex_spillius/blog/2009/04/02/obama_signals_the_end_of_american_dominance

Scroll down and read some of the comments

The beast hits…Did they mean the Limo, or Obama????

I live not too far from the Franklin Mint outside of Philly but I must have missed all the truckloads of bales of cotton going there to print up all the trillions more of money. Another thought, maybe that’s why it cost me so much money yesturday to buy all of my granddchildren an outfit for Easter. All that cotton.

Not only did they airlift the “beast” over there it took so many air force planes and personnel to transport all the 500 people,etc., that the airforce had to contract out to get supplies into Afghanistan at a very great cost to US the taxpayers. Not to mention the disrespect to our troops over there. The French Revolution needs to happen to Non-president O-nobody.

WHY??? Why is no one getting the parallel of the Obama bow to the Saudi king – Saud, where women live under gender apartheid – and the sexism/misogyny directed at Hillary Clinton during the primary???

The moderate Taliban in action. Public flogging… at least no body parts were cut off. Hopey changey for the Taliban… provided you are born male.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/taliban-pakistan-justice-women-flogging

government grants available for small businesses…

It sounds interesting but I am not sure that I agree with you completely….