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January 10, 2013 06:20 AM UTC

Thursday Open Thread

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“I don’t apologize to people with an agenda.”

–Kinky Friedman

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                    1. And considered going back to the 20’s to see a Leadbelly show.  Just don’t let him get close to the knives.  

                      Imagine if he’d had access to a semi-automatic rifle.

    1. Hi all;

      We need a person to do some video for the code war. A tiny bit of filming and a moderate bit of putting together some clips (including building us a great intro using free clips).

      If you’re interested and can do all this over the next week, please shoot me an email.

      thanks

      1. try your participating schools.  Guarantee they have Comm depts or they’re offering some kind of multimedia, collaborative tech, or instructional media courses with students looking for features.

        Or find the folks that pull together the 24- hour Boulder shoots — they’re guerrilla shooters with little footprints & overhead that can work with mind preproduction.

        First question from any & all — ” are you paying”?

    1. Bane thing and whole stations being changed from successful progressive talk to sports etc. but I can’t get too upset about the insufferable Sirota’s individual fate. I  can’t remember the last time I bothered to read or listen to him.

      1. I think Sirota is probably a very nice human being in a number of ways, and there are many areas where I agree with him politically. However, whether in print or on the radio, he seems mostly to speak to the theme, “I’m a really great person and here’s why you should be like me.”

        I started skipping over his editorials in the Post after the one about “Hey, aren’t I really great for raising my son vegetarian?” I can’t believe he managed to use several hundred words, and get paid for the rights to them, talking about what a gift he’s giving his son by raising him without meat.

        1. sophomoric, self righteous, humorless, holier than thou type of liberal who gives the rest of us a bad name. He is also just as predictable as the loons on the right.  Just as you don’t have to actually listen to Rush Limbaugh to know exactly what his automatic response to anything will be, you don’t have to actually read or listen to Sirota either. I’m surprised that his show was a success because he’s such a boring little prig.

  1. Am I the only one who can’t help thinking about “The Office” character Michael Scott’s movie epic “Threat level Midnight” every time I here the title of the controversial new movie “Zero Dark 30”?  

    1. (Say what the link is about – I don’t follow to video links, and I don’t generally follow to unidentified links period…)

      The problem with the foreclosure issue is that the reviews were too complicated by mounds of paper to be effective. Not enough evidence was coming up in the amount of time available. A settlement was probably the best we could get. 🙁

      However, some of the big banks are paying a lot for mortgage fraud on the side. Bank of America, which bought Countrywide, has paid most of its last two quarters worth of gross income in penalties for defrauding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – and they’re being forced to buy back some of the worst of those mortgages.

      I also expect big ongoing settlements and criminal charges for the LIBOR fixing scandal.

      1. The link is to a John Stewart clip about the Justice Department’s settlement with HSBC.  The bank agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle charges of money laundering drug gang and terrorist  money. There will be no criminal charges against the bank or any of the bank officers, managers or employees.  The rationale? Under US banking and securities law, any criminal prosecution could result in HSBC losing its ability to do  business in the United States. This could  create a financial crisis and result in the loss of jobs.  These banksters are not just to big to fail – they are now to big to prosecute.

        1. We’ve got minimum sentencing for people, but for corporate crimes it’s always plea bargains and settlements.

          Many countries have a requirement that international companies incorporate a separate division in-country – e.g. if Ford wants to sell cars in Germany, they have to create a Ford GmbH in Germany. I don’t know if we require that – if not, we should. And that US entity should be perhaps not dissolved but taken over by the Federal government for a period of years in lieu of a prison sentence. No job losses, no financial crisis – the bank continues, just not under HSBC control for a few years.

        1. I grew up in a household where every time a news item came on about a sleazy financier, lawyer, accountant, doctor, car dealer or nursing home owner the universal reaction was “please let him not have a Jewish name!” If our prayers were answered there was a giant “Whew!”.  If not, there were tsk tsks followed by “Oy, what a shondah!”  

          1. *cough, Lindsay Lohan, cough, cough* f’rinstance, does something stupid, we all hope not an Irish name again.  

            Alack, and alas, it very often is an Irish name.

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