There’s finally, a conclusion to Stevens ex Rep – Senator, Alaska, corruption trial. This mockery of justice, tax cost of millions, half a decade long witch hunt comes to an end amidst a PR nightmare. In a nut shell I will sum up the federal governments legal partisan ping pong. The Dems, thought they had caught a live one, Repub. Senator Stevens, Alaska, while still sitting in office. The federal prosecutors were forced to launch an investigation for corruption into Steven’s home remodel even though a Republican President sat in the White House. Apparently Stevens did not disclose a big chair, stain glass window and a sculpture in his Senate documents. (Shoot, I thought those where Ms. Stevens stuff) This activity, of course, had a direct affect on the Republicans bid for President and Vice-President, frickin repubs, their probably all crooks. And once the Dems won the highest office in the land the prosecution went on with renewed zeal. Yes, our ‘neutral’ federal prosecutors, paid outta our taxes, committed vast resources to nail Stevens ass to the wall. Stevens barely lost his Senate seat in a race with Democrat Mark Begich. Stevens was a 40 year veteran in congress and a WW2 veteran.
Okay, maybe a couple nut shells, but I’m a getting there. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said of the prosecutors "In nearly 25 years on the bench, I've never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I've seen in this case." So a guilty Stevens got off because of our legal servants lied and cheated and acted in a complete partisan manner, they figured it was payback time. Whoever gets on top gets to screw the other guy, using our money, so this blatant gun slinging has been going on since George Washington was president, ping pong with legal bullets. The prosecutors will now be investigated by a different federal prosecutor and most likely they will lose their license to practice law. The case will prove career-ending for those prosecutors in the Justice Department's public corruption unit.
Stevens, who may have accepted some hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of a chair, a window and a statue, will get no punishment and has declared victory on the court house steps. Stevens will sue the Federal Justice Department for several million dollars worth of legal bills, he will win. The Justice Department is suing itself, that will cost us another umpteen million above what we have already spent. These Demo antics will also derail the corruption investigation into other public officials, including Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, who has been under scrutiny by the same prosecutors now under investigation.
The only conclusion I can come up with concerning this political war is that we are the biggest losers. For a couple pieces of furniture we paid out millions to support this squabble. The only personal satisfaction I can think of is to go right down to a full session of congress, drink a gallon of root beer, and barf over the visitor’s rail, I really don’t care if I splatter a Dem or a Repub. Maybe I’ll get lucky and splat both.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
I’m sick and tired, disgusted and outraged, etc, adnauseam..
I have been musing on the small citizens, like me, of our great U.S., us poor innocent serfs too the mega money people. That’s assuming you think these people should be called people at all. I tend to think of them as slime, crooks, thieves, predators, evil on earth, devil spawn, creatures to be exterminated, bugs to step on, vampires sucking out our life blood while they cackle in greed. There are many more fine definitions for these grotesque entities but the list is too long to record if I intend to get to my point in this century.
I will relate to you just a few recent grand larceny incidents committed by these ruthless ‘captains of industry’ and their minions, our equally putrid politicians; the greedy, traitorous elected officials that passed laws so we would all suffer together while they laughed their way to the bank. This is not an historical accounting of the rich tradition recounting peoples leaders stealing everything not nailed down. No, this is contemporary crime, crime that has been polished and perfected by centuries of practice and growth in the art of fleecing the poor public at large. The seduction of men by riches and power is prehistoric. Indeed Adam and Eve where seduced by Satan to reach for the power of God Himself. Genghis Kahn and Attila the Hun are historic examples of men’s never changing nature for power and riches.
After a history of one, then another, then masses of evil hearted men learned to become pillars in their community while plundering the lambs of society; we arrived at the turn of the new millennium, January 1st, 2000. This beginning of the first decade of the 21st century brought the perfected systems of billion dollar bilk jobs, executed by corrupt business men and politicians proclaiming they serve our best interests, into the largest corporations on earth.
The first mega theft slammed the public with incredible power costs, designed and allowed by our representatives with the deregulation madness. The intricacies of the power legislation are mute now. I live in California and the utility users first got swindled by the power industry then our government signed an emergency contract that allowed us to be swindled for many more years. Power traders gobbled up insane profits by manipulating the power grid. In Texas; Enron went further and stole the pensions from thousands of its employees. Our elected officials should of committed suicide from guilt, but since they were no doubt rewarded handsomely for selling their votes they obviously don’t have a conscience to motivate them to do the right thing, jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.
On to a more national fraud; days that should forever be known as days of infamy. Of course I speak of the ‘oil crisis.’ If ever there was a pig in a poke to be bought our congress made the buy. It is my understanding that our congress is supposed to protect us from such charlatan stealing. It has to be a fact that the oil barons got as many chuckles selling their swindle as ‘free enterprise’ and ‘we need gazillions for research’ as they did getting gobzillions in cash. Our politicians need to be strapped to hard back chairs with toothpicks holding their eyes open while watching repetitions of the meaning of public trust; ‘For the benefit of all, for the protection of the public and for the security of the United States’until they go mad. And methinks they should pass another law to compliment some new laws disallowing rape of the public and destruction of our resources, to wit; the ‘string up the bad guys mob law.’ Subsection A1; ‘No federal troops may be used to face, control or even come within 50 miles of a public demonstration and/or lynching of elected officials and other rat finks.’
Now we come to a global killing. The truly black hearted, the most disgusting vile monsters on earth, so foul that you would prefer to stand next to a rotting 25 ton whale for a week in the sun rather than smell their lethal stench. I speak, of course, of the bankers, the Wall Street scum, the insane, inept insurance back room boys and our condescending congress of slobbering blood suckers and toe jamb eaters. I guarantee you that one and all knew what they were doing and of the unfettered misery and death their actions were unleashing on the world. ‘So be it’ one and all called, as long as I get my mega cash the rest be damned.
This grandiose strategy to defraud the entire earth is the pinnacle of mans greed and lust for power. Vile, evil fiends building on the lessons of historic monstrosities have risen to the acme of devils work. Nothing in our past comes close to the world suffering and tragedy that’s here now and yet to come from this egregious assault on our delicate global civilization. Our politicians are stumbling about putting Band-Aids on ruptured arteries. Trying to grab cap full’s of change by squeezing off shore tax heavens as if that would come to a flea on a dogs ass compared to the trillions of our tax dollars being shoveled for free into a hundred mile breach in the dike. ‘See, we are working on the problem’ they can now say. There’s an old wisdom about that, one that Will Rogers pointed out, “closing the gate after the cattle’s run off won’t be much help when you try to get ‘em back in.” We are not going to get the darn cattle back unless we swoop down with our helicopters and Gatling guns, kill them all and take whatever they have of value. Probably not a good idea to leave anything for the vultures neither.
This is what needs to be done with the guys making a couple million a year and better only because they found out how to swindle the people. Did you know that some Wall Street and banker types made over a billion dollars last year? What job on earth could possibly be worth that? How else could that money be made other then outright scheming and stealing? But it was legal, thanks to our public officials and their kin about the globe. I say chase them all down, take them for all they possess. Throw them in the gutter, homeless, where they condemned billions to go. The mobs can identify them and stone them as was done in Biblical times.
How can anyone even conceive of leaving Ms. Madoff a hundred million in property and cash? We all know where that money came from. How can we conceive of letting these millionaires billionaires keep their plunder of legal criminal conspiracy with our elected morons? Tie ‘em up; let the public do some real justice on them.
I’ll tell you one more thing I am very unhappy about. I had hoped that some of my anger, my inner turmoil would dissipate a little by the end of my tirade. That has not happened, if anything my sick and tired, disgusted and outraged self is madder than hell and I only want to dish it out anymore.
Update; a Federal judge has ruled to allow Madoff junior to receive 10K a month while in school. Lynch the judge.
I will relate to you just a few recent grand larceny incidents committed by these ruthless ‘captains of industry’ and their minions, our equally putrid politicians; the greedy, traitorous elected officials that passed laws so we would all suffer together while they laughed their way to the bank. This is not an historical accounting of the rich tradition recounting peoples leaders stealing everything not nailed down. No, this is contemporary crime, crime that has been polished and perfected by centuries of practice and growth in the art of fleecing the poor public at large. The seduction of men by riches and power is prehistoric. Indeed Adam and Eve where seduced by Satan to reach for the power of God Himself. Genghis Kahn and Attila the Hun are historic examples of men’s never changing nature for power and riches.
After a history of one, then another, then masses of evil hearted men learned to become pillars in their community while plundering the lambs of society; we arrived at the turn of the new millennium, January 1st, 2000. This beginning of the first decade of the 21st century brought the perfected systems of billion dollar bilk jobs, executed by corrupt business men and politicians proclaiming they serve our best interests, into the largest corporations on earth.
The first mega theft slammed the public with incredible power costs, designed and allowed by our representatives with the deregulation madness. The intricacies of the power legislation are mute now. I live in California and the utility users first got swindled by the power industry then our government signed an emergency contract that allowed us to be swindled for many more years. Power traders gobbled up insane profits by manipulating the power grid. In Texas; Enron went further and stole the pensions from thousands of its employees. Our elected officials should of committed suicide from guilt, but since they were no doubt rewarded handsomely for selling their votes they obviously don’t have a conscience to motivate them to do the right thing, jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.
On to a more national fraud; days that should forever be known as days of infamy. Of course I speak of the ‘oil crisis.’ If ever there was a pig in a poke to be bought our congress made the buy. It is my understanding that our congress is supposed to protect us from such charlatan stealing. It has to be a fact that the oil barons got as many chuckles selling their swindle as ‘free enterprise’ and ‘we need gazillions for research’ as they did getting gobzillions in cash. Our politicians need to be strapped to hard back chairs with toothpicks holding their eyes open while watching repetitions of the meaning of public trust; ‘For the benefit of all, for the protection of the public and for the security of the United States’until they go mad. And methinks they should pass another law to compliment some new laws disallowing rape of the public and destruction of our resources, to wit; the ‘string up the bad guys mob law.’ Subsection A1; ‘No federal troops may be used to face, control or even come within 50 miles of a public demonstration and/or lynching of elected officials and other rat finks.’
Now we come to a global killing. The truly black hearted, the most disgusting vile monsters on earth, so foul that you would prefer to stand next to a rotting 25 ton whale for a week in the sun rather than smell their lethal stench. I speak, of course, of the bankers, the Wall Street scum, the insane, inept insurance back room boys and our condescending congress of slobbering blood suckers and toe jamb eaters. I guarantee you that one and all knew what they were doing and of the unfettered misery and death their actions were unleashing on the world. ‘So be it’ one and all called, as long as I get my mega cash the rest be damned.
This grandiose strategy to defraud the entire earth is the pinnacle of mans greed and lust for power. Vile, evil fiends building on the lessons of historic monstrosities have risen to the acme of devils work. Nothing in our past comes close to the world suffering and tragedy that’s here now and yet to come from this egregious assault on our delicate global civilization. Our politicians are stumbling about putting Band-Aids on ruptured arteries. Trying to grab cap full’s of change by squeezing off shore tax heavens as if that would come to a flea on a dogs ass compared to the trillions of our tax dollars being shoveled for free into a hundred mile breach in the dike. ‘See, we are working on the problem’ they can now say. There’s an old wisdom about that, one that Will Rogers pointed out, “closing the gate after the cattle’s run off won’t be much help when you try to get ‘em back in.” We are not going to get the darn cattle back unless we swoop down with our helicopters and Gatling guns, kill them all and take whatever they have of value. Probably not a good idea to leave anything for the vultures neither.
This is what needs to be done with the guys making a couple million a year and better only because they found out how to swindle the people. Did you know that some Wall Street and banker types made over a billion dollars last year? What job on earth could possibly be worth that? How else could that money be made other then outright scheming and stealing? But it was legal, thanks to our public officials and their kin about the globe. I say chase them all down, take them for all they possess. Throw them in the gutter, homeless, where they condemned billions to go. The mobs can identify them and stone them as was done in Biblical times.
How can anyone even conceive of leaving Ms. Madoff a hundred million in property and cash? We all know where that money came from. How can we conceive of letting these millionaires billionaires keep their plunder of legal criminal conspiracy with our elected morons? Tie ‘em up; let the public do some real justice on them.
I’ll tell you one more thing I am very unhappy about. I had hoped that some of my anger, my inner turmoil would dissipate a little by the end of my tirade. That has not happened, if anything my sick and tired, disgusted and outraged self is madder than hell and I only want to dish it out anymore.
Update; a Federal judge has ruled to allow Madoff junior to receive 10K a month while in school. Lynch the judge.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Laughing Stock
Citibank Group stock just fell twenty two percent, could be because recent Citibank escapades have the makings of a great comedy script. But since their bumbling activities are so very real they would fit better in the believe it or not category. There is no good way to break this news; I will just blurt it out. Are you ready? Citibank lost 27 million dollars to a Nigerian money scam. I read this and choked on my Wheaties, I should sue Citi for making me choke and then settle out of court for a measly million. Who knows, they may fall for it. So far the exact details haven’t been brought out but we know this much. A Nigerian scam artist got Citibank to send 27 million to 24 different banks in a dozen countries then he and his cohorts scooped up the cash.
I just can’t believe it. It has to be an inside job. Some bank V.P. had to have loaded his own account with a few million on this deal. I mean even the average grandma doesn’t get fooled by Nigerian cons anymore. Just for the benefit of a doubt, maybe Citi hadn’t heard of the Nigerian cons, they have only been around for two decades. I’m thinking about sending them a registered letter stating that they won the Freakness Triple Crown and if they just send me a five million handling charge I’ll cut them a check for a hundred million and send it right out.
You want to hear more funny Citibank antics? They want the Feds to buy another fifteen percent of its stock with the bailout cash. I’m thinking they will get the money. That’s hilarious; that’s so funny I bet Citi laughs all the way to the bank.
Doom
Thanks to; Tim Stevens from The Business Insider
The scam was perpetrated by 37-year-old Paul Gabriel Amos, a Nigerian citizen living in Singapore. With the help of fraudulent documents, Amos asked Citibank to transfer $27 million from a Citibank account held by the National Bank of Ethiopia into 24 different accounts around the world, all of which he and fellow scammers controlled. Amos's misdeeds were thankfully detected, albeit after the transfer was complete; he was arrested when flying into Los Angeles, and is currently being held after being denied bail by a federal judge in Manhattan. If convicted, he could spend the next 30 years in jail.
As for Citibank, well, we guess its latest misstep will just be covered by taxpayer-funded bailouts!
I just can’t believe it. It has to be an inside job. Some bank V.P. had to have loaded his own account with a few million on this deal. I mean even the average grandma doesn’t get fooled by Nigerian cons anymore. Just for the benefit of a doubt, maybe Citi hadn’t heard of the Nigerian cons, they have only been around for two decades. I’m thinking about sending them a registered letter stating that they won the Freakness Triple Crown and if they just send me a five million handling charge I’ll cut them a check for a hundred million and send it right out.
You want to hear more funny Citibank antics? They want the Feds to buy another fifteen percent of its stock with the bailout cash. I’m thinking they will get the money. That’s hilarious; that’s so funny I bet Citi laughs all the way to the bank.
Doom
Thanks to; Tim Stevens from The Business Insider
The scam was perpetrated by 37-year-old Paul Gabriel Amos, a Nigerian citizen living in Singapore. With the help of fraudulent documents, Amos asked Citibank to transfer $27 million from a Citibank account held by the National Bank of Ethiopia into 24 different accounts around the world, all of which he and fellow scammers controlled. Amos's misdeeds were thankfully detected, albeit after the transfer was complete; he was arrested when flying into Los Angeles, and is currently being held after being denied bail by a federal judge in Manhattan. If convicted, he could spend the next 30 years in jail.
As for Citibank, well, we guess its latest misstep will just be covered by taxpayer-funded bailouts!
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