ANIMAL HOUSE: How To Defend A Banker

The Bankster Defense.

Start watching at 45 seconds.

Don't blame us, blame the system and society as a whole.  Reminiscent of Bank of America CEO Bryan Moynihan preaching to Charlie Rose the other night that his bank does God's work, "helping everyone who needs help."

Friday humor from one of the best of all time.

This is really good:

Comedian Bill Burr On Obama, Guns And The NDAA

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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJzLRoJmUNk. A piece of Ratigans speech at Union commencement. There is a podcast of the full speech but I don't know how to load it here. Pretty good stuff to listen to if you all get the chance.

[dee dee]

Daily Bail--you are brilliant!!!

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Truth hurts.


http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/truthdigger_of_the_week_david_stockman_20130406/?ln

Truth hurts again.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/truth-telling_is_offensive_20130406/?ln

[john]

1% Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/i-crashed-a-wall-street-sec...



Recently, our nation’s financial chieftains have been feeling a little unloved. Venture capitalists are comparing the persecution of the rich to the plight ofJews at Kristallnacht, Wall Street titans are saying that they’re sick of being beaten up, and this week, a billionaire investor, Wilbur Ross, proclaimed that “the 1 percent is being picked on for political reasons.”

Ross's statement seemed particularly odd, because two years ago, I met Ross at an event that might single-handedly explain why the rest of the country still hates financial tycoons – the annual black-tie induction ceremony of a secret Wall Street fraternity called Kappa Beta Phi...



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