Hopefully a new president will help us all out....

[WHIZ]

<------- That guy does!

Who here likes PIZZA !!

Edited January 28, 2009 by WHIZ

[Richard Cheese]

dude... im lookin for the "tony ripped me off" thread dunefreak started with the 3 pieces of pepperoni...where is that fuggin thing...THAT needs to be recessitated

[MAXDOUT]

Okay maybe being to critical on

I think the white smiley is a little to Racist.lol

This political topic was okay until inauguration was spelled wrong.

Now for the real truth I don't like democrats. :poke:

STICKS AND STONE'S WILL BREAK MY BONES.............BUT NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME.

LIVE BY IT. IT WAS TAUGHT TO US AT A VERY EARLY AGE.

But, apperently some are senastive to name calling. I am not!!! Call me what you will. Again, here is the comment of GROW SOME THICKER SKIN DUDE.

Edited January 29, 2009 by MAXDOUT

[bladeridder]

Here is a picture of my :B

Which one do I bring.

Okay lets get back to politics.

Very nice!

[las vegas duner]

[undertow]

STICKS AND STONE'S WILL BREAK MY BONES.............BUT NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME.

LIVE BY IT. IT WAS TAUGHT TO US AT A VERY EARLY AGE.

But, apperently some are senastive to name calling. I am not!!! Call me what you will. Again, here is the comment of GROW SOME THICKER SKIN DUDE.

What are you, 12-13 years old? Or just too thick headed to understand the point?

[MAXDOUT]

STICKS AND STONE'S WILL BREAK MY BONES.............BUT NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME.

LIVE BY IT. IT WAS TAUGHT TO US AT A VERY EARLY AGE.

But, apperently some are senastive to name calling. I am not!!! Call me what you will. Again, here is the comment of GROW SOME THICKER SKIN DUDE.

What are you, 12-13 years old? Or just too thick headed to understand the point?

[WHIZ]

Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones...... But Whips and Chains Excite Me!

That was the one I always liked, hahahaha

[MAXDOUT]

Since I have already offended some people, why not add to the fire :poke: :stir:

Definition of tragedy

________________________________________

The newly elected President and Vice President, while visiting a primary school class, found themselves in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked both men if they would like to lead the discussion of the word "tragedy". So the illustrious Mr. President asks the class for an example of a "tragedy".

One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes along and knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy"

No," says the newly elected President, "that would be an accident."

A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."

I'm afraid not," explains the Vice President. "That's what we would call a great loss." The room goes silent. No other children volunteer.

Mr. President searched the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?"

Finally at the back of the room little Johnny raises his hand. In a stern voice he says: "If a plane carrying the President and the Vice President were struck by a missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy."

Fantastic!” exclaims both men,” That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"

"Well," says little Johnny, "because it sure as hell wouldn't be a great loss, and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."

__________________

[desertskyz]

Since I have already offended some people, why not add to the fire :poke: :stir:

Definition of tragedy

________________________________________

The newly elected President and Vice President, while visiting a primary school class, found themselves in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked both men if they would like to lead the discussion of the word "tragedy". So the illustrious Mr. President asks the class for an example of a "tragedy".

One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes along and knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy"

No," says the newly elected President, "that would be an accident."

A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."

I'm afraid not," explains the Vice President. "That's what we would call a great loss." The room goes silent. No other children volunteer.

Mr. President searched the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?"

Finally at the back of the room little Johnny raises his hand. In a stern voice he says: "If a plane carrying the President and the Vice President were struck by a missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy."

Fantastic!” exclaims both men,” That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"

"Well," says little Johnny, "because it sure as hell wouldn't be a great loss, and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."

__________________

:hug:

[Warrior07]

I hope something good comes of this for our country

Obama has pushed for swift passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as vital to prevent the collapse of the US economy, reeling from the global financial crisis that has thwarted governments' unprecedented actions to ease the turmoil.

A new "Buy American" push in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan!

(Made in USA)

[barefoot bob]

I hope something good comes of this for our country

Obama has pushed for swift passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as vital to prevent the collapse of the US economy, reeling from the global financial crisis that has thwarted governments' unprecedented actions to ease the turmoil.

A new "Buy American" push in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan!

(Made in USA)

lol to bad you didnt listen to the rest of the story . they have so much pork barrel spending in that package . according to cnn . its another great rip off

[Warrior07]

lol to bad you didnt listen to the rest of the story . they have so much pork barrel spending in that package . according to cnn . its another great rip off

No i read it all , just :stir: a little

[mush]

I hope something good comes of this for our country

Obama has pushed for swift passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as vital to prevent the collapse of the US economy, reeling from the global financial crisis that has thwarted governments' unprecedented actions to ease the turmoil.

A new "Buy American" push in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan!

(Made in USA)

well speaking of stirring the pot and the inaugeration, I don't understand how the man who is gonna "change" our country, and is constantly telling america how bad of a situation our country is in, can spend 150 million on his little party. In my eyes he should have by passed that spectacal, shook hands with bush got the keys and started working period. I don't know maybe take that 150 mil, and give it to the school districts for books or special eduacation children, or teachers, or children in this country that are suffering from disease or cancer or whatever ect. same old sh*t, aint nothin changed, unless you count the fact that he wasted the most on his inaugeration than anybody else. rant over.

and ya pizza is good. but meatballs are better.

[Warrior07]

well speaking of stirring the pot and the inaugeration, I don't understand how the man who is gonna "change" our country, and is constantly telling america how bad of a situation our country is in, can spend 150 million on his little party. In my eyes he should have by passed that spectacal, shook hands with bush got the keys and started working period. I don't know maybe take that 150 mil, and give it to the school districts for books or special eduacation children, or teachers, or children in this country that are suffering from disease or cancer or whatever ect. same old sh*t, aint nothin changed, unless you count the fact that he wasted the most on his inaugeration than anybody else. rant over.

and ya pizza is good. but meatballs are better.

:poke:

[OGP]

WE SHOULD ALL BE HOPING FOR THE BEST. THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE IS......... DO HE GOT STREET CREDS?

[desertskyz]

Wall Street’s Socialist Jet-Setters

By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: January 27, 2009

As President Obama spreads his New Testament balm over the capital, I’m longing for a bit of Old Testament wrath.

Couldn’t he throw down his BlackBerry tablet and smash it in anger over the feckless financiers, the gods of gold and their idols — in this case not a gilt calf but an $87,000 area rug, a cache of diamond Tiffany and Cartier watches and a French-made luxury corporate jet?

Now that we’re nationalizing, couldn’t we fire any obtuse bankers and auto executives who cling to perks and bonuses even as the economy is following John Thain down his antique commode?

How could Citigroup be so dumb as to go ahead with plans to get a new $50 million corporate jet, the exclusive Dassault Falcon 7X seating 12, after losing $28.5 billion in the past 15 months and receiving $345 billion in government investments and guarantees?

(Now I get why a $400 payment I recently sent to pay off my Citibank Visa was mistakenly applied to my sister-in-law’s Citibank Mastercard account.)

The “Citiboobs” — as The New York Post, which broke the news, calls them — watched as the car chieftains got in trouble for flying their private jets to Washington to ask for bailouts, and the A.I.G. moguls got dragged before Congress for spending their bailout on California spa treatments. But the boobs still didn’t get the message.

The former masters of the universe don’t seem to fully comprehend that their universe has crumbled and, thanks to them, so has ours. Real people are losing real jobs at Caterpillar, Home Depot and Sprint Nextel; these and other companies announced on Monday that they would cut more than 75,000 jobs in the U.S. and around the world, as consumer confidence and home prices swan-dived.

Prodded by an appalled Senator Carl Levin, Tim Geithner — even as he was being confirmed as Treasury secretary — directed Treasury officials to call the Citiboobs and tell them the new jet would not fly.

“They woke up pretty quickly,” says a Treasury official, adding that they protested for a bit. “Six months ago, they would have kept the plane and flown it to Washington.”

Senator Levin said that the financiers will not be able to change their warped mentality, but will have to be reined in by Geithner’s new leashes. “I have no confidence that they intend or desire to change,” Levin told me. “These bankers got away with murder, and it’s obscene that close to nothing is being asked of financial institutions. I get incensed at the thought that a bank that’s getting billions of dollars in taxpayer money is out there buying fancy new airplanes.”

New York’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, always gratifying on the issue of clawing back money from the greedy creeps on Wall Street, on Tuesday subpoenaed Thain, the former Merrill Lynch chief executive, over $4 billion in bonuses he handed out as the failing firm was bought by Bank of America.

In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC, Thain used the specious, contemptible reasoning that other executives use to rationalize why they’re keeping their bonuses as profits are plunging.

“If you don’t pay your best people, you will destroy your franchise” and they’ll go elsewhere, he said.

Hello? They destroyed the franchise. Let’s call their bluff. Let’s see what a great job market it is for the geniuses of capitalism who lost $15 billion in three months and helped usher in socialism.

Bartiromo also asked Thain to explain, when jobs and salaries were being cut at his firm, how he could justify spending $1 million to renovate his office. As The Daily Beast and CNBC reported, big-ticket items included curtains for $28,000, a pair of chairs for $87,000, fabric for a “Roman Shade” for $11,000, Regency chairs for $24,000, six wall sconces for $2,700, a $13,000 chandelier in the private dining room and six dining chairs for $37,000, a “custom coffee table” for $16,000, an antique commode “on legs” for $35,000, and a $1,400 “parchment waste can.”

Does that mean you can only throw used parchment in it or is it made of parchment? It’s psychopathic to spend a million redoing your office when the folks outside it are losing jobs, homes, pensions and savings.

Thain should never rise above the level of stocking the money in A.T.M.’s again. Just think: This guy could well have been Treasury secretary if John McCain had won.

Bartiromo pressed: What was wrong with the office of his predecessor, Stanley O’Neal?

“Well — his office was very different — than — the — the general décor of — Merrill’s offices,” Thain replied. “It really would have been — very difficult — for — me to use it in the form that it was in.”

Did it have a desk and a phone?

How are these ruthless, careless ghouls who murdered the economy still walking around (not to mention that sociopathic sadist Bernie Madoff?) — and not as perps?

Bring on the shackles. Let the show trials begin.

[mush]

Wall Street’s Socialist Jet-Setters

By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: January 27, 2009

As President Obama spreads his New Testament balm over the capital, I’m longing for a bit of Old Testament wrath.

Couldn’t he throw down his BlackBerry tablet and smash it in anger over the feckless financiers, the gods of gold and their idols — in this case not a gilt calf but an $87,000 area rug, a cache of diamond Tiffany and Cartier watches and a French-made luxury corporate jet?

Now that we’re nationalizing, couldn’t we fire any obtuse bankers and auto executives who cling to perks and bonuses even as the economy is following John Thain down his antique commode?

How could Citigroup be so dumb as to go ahead with plans to get a new $50 million corporate jet, the exclusive Dassault Falcon 7X seating 12, after losing $28.5 billion in the past 15 months and receiving $345 billion in government investments and guarantees?

(Now I get why a $400 payment I recently sent to pay off my Citibank Visa was mistakenly applied to my sister-in-law’s Citibank Mastercard account.)

The “Citiboobs” — as The New York Post, which broke the news, calls them — watched as the car chieftains got in trouble for flying their private jets to Washington to ask for bailouts, and the A.I.G. moguls got dragged before Congress for spending their bailout on California spa treatments. But the boobs still didn’t get the message.

The former masters of the universe don’t seem to fully comprehend that their universe has crumbled and, thanks to them, so has ours. Real people are losing real jobs at Caterpillar, Home Depot and Sprint Nextel; these and other companies announced on Monday that they would cut more than 75,000 jobs in the U.S. and around the world, as consumer confidence and home prices swan-dived.

Prodded by an appalled Senator Carl Levin, Tim Geithner — even as he was being confirmed as Treasury secretary — directed Treasury officials to call the Citiboobs and tell them the new jet would not fly.

“They woke up pretty quickly,” says a Treasury official, adding that they protested for a bit. “Six months ago, they would have kept the plane and flown it to Washington.”

Senator Levin said that the financiers will not be able to change their warped mentality, but will have to be reined in by Geithner’s new leashes. “I have no confidence that they intend or desire to change,” Levin told me. “These bankers got away with murder, and it’s obscene that close to nothing is being asked of financial institutions. I get incensed at the thought that a bank that’s getting billions of dollars in taxpayer money is out there buying fancy new airplanes.”

New York’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, always gratifying on the issue of clawing back money from the greedy creeps on Wall Street, on Tuesday subpoenaed Thain, the former Merrill Lynch chief executive, over $4 billion in bonuses he handed out as the failing firm was bought by Bank of America.

In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC, Thain used the specious, contemptible reasoning that other executives use to rationalize why they’re keeping their bonuses as profits are plunging.

“If you don’t pay your best people, you will destroy your franchise” and they’ll go elsewhere, he said.

Hello? They destroyed the franchise. Let’s call their bluff. Let’s see what a great job market it is for the geniuses of capitalism who lost $15 billion in three months and helped usher in socialism.

Bartiromo also asked Thain to explain, when jobs and salaries were being cut at his firm, how he could justify spending $1 million to renovate his office. As The Daily Beast and CNBC reported, big-ticket items included curtains for $28,000, a pair of chairs for $87,000, fabric for a “Roman Shade” for $11,000, Regency chairs for $24,000, six wall sconces for $2,700, a $13,000 chandelier in the private dining room and six dining chairs for $37,000, a “custom coffee table” for $16,000, an antique commode “on legs” for $35,000, and a $1,400 “parchment waste can.”

Does that mean you can only throw used parchment in it or is it made of parchment? It’s psychopathic to spend a million redoing your office when the folks outside it are losing jobs, homes, pensions and savings.

Thain should never rise above the level of stocking the money in A.T.M.’s again. Just think: This guy could well have been Treasury secretary if John McCain had won.

Bartiromo pressed: What was wrong with the office of his predecessor, Stanley O’Neal?

“Well — his office was very different — than — the — the general décor of — Merrill’s offices,” Thain replied. “It really would have been — very difficult — for — me to use it in the form that it was in.”

Did it have a desk and a phone?

How are these ruthless, careless ghouls who murdered the economy still walking around (not to mention that sociopathic sadist Bernie Madoff?) — and not as perps?

Bring on the shackles. Let the show trials begin.

thats gotta be the best thing i heard all week

[MAXDOUT]

Wall Street’s Socialist Jet-Setters

By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: January 27, 2009

As President Obama spreads his New Testament balm over the capital, I’m longing for a bit of Old Testament wrath.

Couldn’t he throw down his BlackBerry tablet and smash it in anger over the feckless financiers, the gods of gold and their idols — in this case not a gilt calf but an $87,000 area rug, a cache of diamond Tiffany and Cartier watches and a French-made luxury corporate jet?

Now that we’re nationalizing, couldn’t we fire any obtuse bankers and auto executives who cling to perks and bonuses even as the economy is following John Thain down his antique commode?

How could Citigroup be so dumb as to go ahead with plans to get a new $50 million corporate jet, the exclusive Dassault Falcon 7X seating 12, after losing $28.5 billion in the past 15 months and receiving $345 billion in government investments and guarantees?

(Now I get why a $400 payment I recently sent to pay off my Citibank Visa was mistakenly applied to my sister-in-law’s Citibank Mastercard account.)

The “Citiboobs” — as The New York Post, which broke the news, calls them — watched as the car chieftains got in trouble for flying their private jets to Washington to ask for bailouts, and the A.I.G. moguls got dragged before Congress for spending their bailout on California spa treatments. But the boobs still didn’t get the message.

The former masters of the universe don’t seem to fully comprehend that their universe has crumbled and, thanks to them, so has ours. Real people are losing real jobs at Caterpillar, Home Depot and Sprint Nextel; these and other companies announced on Monday that they would cut more than 75,000 jobs in the U.S. and around the world, as consumer confidence and home prices swan-dived.

Prodded by an appalled Senator Carl Levin, Tim Geithner — even as he was being confirmed as Treasury secretary — directed Treasury officials to call the Citiboobs and tell them the new jet would not fly.

“They woke up pretty quickly,” says a Treasury official, adding that they protested for a bit. “Six months ago, they would have kept the plane and flown it to Washington.”

Senator Levin said that the financiers will not be able to change their warped mentality, but will have to be reined in by Geithner’s new leashes. “I have no confidence that they intend or desire to change,” Levin told me. “These bankers got away with murder, and it’s obscene that close to nothing is being asked of financial institutions. I get incensed at the thought that a bank that’s getting billions of dollars in taxpayer money is out there buying fancy new airplanes.”

New York’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, always gratifying on the issue of clawing back money from the greedy creeps on Wall Street, on Tuesday subpoenaed Thain, the former Merrill Lynch chief executive, over $4 billion in bonuses he handed out as the failing firm was bought by Bank of America.

In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC, Thain used the specious, contemptible reasoning that other executives use to rationalize why they’re keeping their bonuses as profits are plunging.

“If you don’t pay your best people, you will destroy your franchise” and they’ll go elsewhere, he said.

Hello? They destroyed the franchise. Let’s call their bluff. Let’s see what a great job market it is for the geniuses of capitalism who lost $15 billion in three months and helped usher in socialism.

Bartiromo also asked Thain to explain, when jobs and salaries were being cut at his firm, how he could justify spending $1 million to renovate his office. As The Daily Beast and CNBC reported, big-ticket items included curtains for $28,000, a pair of chairs for $87,000, fabric for a “Roman Shade” for $11,000, Regency chairs for $24,000, six wall sconces for $2,700, a $13,000 chandelier in the private dining room and six dining chairs for $37,000, a “custom coffee table” for $16,000, an antique commode “on legs” for $35,000, and a $1,400 “parchment waste can.”

Does that mean you can only throw used parchment in it or is it made of parchment? It’s psychopathic to spend a million redoing your office when the folks outside it are losing jobs, homes, pensions and savings.

Thain should never rise above the level of stocking the money in A.T.M.’s again. Just think: This guy could well have been Treasury secretary if John McCain had won.

Bartiromo pressed: What was wrong with the office of his predecessor, Stanley O’Neal?

“Well — his office was very different — than — the — the general décor of — Merrill’s offices,” Thain replied. “It really would have been — very difficult — for — me to use it in the form that it was in.”

Did it have a desk and a phone?

How are these ruthless, careless ghouls who murdered the economy still walking around (not to mention that sociopathic sadist Bernie Madoff?) — and not as perps?

Bring on the shackles. Let the show trials begin.

Yep, take these azzhats out and shoot them in public. Set a "NEW" standard. After the "sensative" people got used to it, people may not be so quick to rip others off.

Edited January 30, 2009 by MAXDOUT

[MAXDOUT]

well speaking of stirring the pot :freakin_nuts: and the inaugeration, I don't understand how the man who is gonna "change" our country, and is constantly telling america how bad of a situation our country is in, can spend 150 million on his little party. In my eyes he should have by passed that spectacal, shook hands with bush got the keys and started working period. I don't know maybe take that 150 mil, and give it to the school districts for books or special eduacation children, or teachers, or children in this country that are suffering from disease or cancer or whatever ect. same old sh*t, aint nothin changed, unless you count the fact that he wasted the most on his inaugeration than anybody else. rant over.

and ya pizza is good. but meatballs are better. :freakin_nuts:

:stir: :stir: :stir: They say, that the turn out was bigger than the "million man march", and more blacks attended this than any other event. The reporter went on to say that, "thankful it wasn't raining that day, because they were going to "CHANGE" the name from inaugeration.?.?.?.?......to Gorilla's in the Mist.

Edited January 30, 2009 by MAXDOUT

[las vegas duner]

I am convinced some people are and they try very hard to look like an :freakin_nuts:

I am glad we don't have any people like that in the :freakin_nuts:

[barefoot bob]

things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :sophie:

[dunefreak]

things that make you go...this thread sucks.

[Richard Cheese]

:..to Gorilla's in the Mist.

looked pretty sunny to me

[desertskyz]