tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post6944278886831160226..comments2023-09-25T05:36:27.538-04:00Comments on Big Dan's Big Blog: Big Dan's Big News March 3, 2010Big Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11750364112179020584noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-74004594644812396952010-03-05T03:43:05.010-05:002010-03-05T03:43:05.010-05:00HA, good ideaHA, good ideaanonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-5184478712536427872010-03-04T16:43:49.485-05:002010-03-04T16:43:49.485-05:00Oh, those asshole Luddite taxed-enough-already mor...Oh, those asshole Luddite taxed-enough-already moron Republicans:<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/04/grayson-leading-in-republ_n_486090.html99http://neufneuf.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-6571684188049801592010-03-04T11:46:43.739-05:002010-03-04T11:46:43.739-05:00The IMF always tests its concepts on the little gu...The IMF always tests its concepts on the little guys before rolling out the strategy to the biggest dogs. Here is the precursor to the US selling its National Parks:<br /><br />http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20100304-25667.htmlplungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-79719027983512088482010-03-04T06:39:12.441-05:002010-03-04T06:39:12.441-05:00BD: Have you seen this?
http://portland.indymedi...BD: Have you seen this?<br /><br />http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/03/356342.shtml<br /><br />http://proudprimate.com/plungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-79701443673025825212010-03-04T06:18:44.056-05:002010-03-04T06:18:44.056-05:00From Black Swan on Mish's blog:
If you look a...From Black Swan on Mish's blog:<br /><br />If you look at the TARP payouts from AIG, they match up almost perfectly with those big banks that donated $300 million each to keep LTCM afloat in 1998. In fact, right before the actual bailout, AIG, Goldman Sachs and Buffet offered to buy out the LTCM fund's partners for $250 million, and offered to dump in an additional whopping $3.75 billion so that Goldman's traders could operate the LTCM hedge fund. Who would have guessed at the time, that AIG would some day be on the other end of the bailouts? Ultimately, Bankers Trust, Barclays, Chase, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, J.P.Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Salomon Smith Barney and UBS kicked in $300 million each, and Société Générale kicked in an additional $1.25 million. <br /> <br />To figure out why some banks recieved more than others from AIG, it helps to look at the consolidations. Bankers Trust (talk about an oxymoron) was swallowed up by Deutsche Bank. Chase was engulfed by JP Morgan which had already been sucked up by Chemical Bank (which took the JP Morgan name), Merrill Lynch was "purchased" by Bank of America and Salomon Smith Barney became the step child of Citigroup. Barkley's, of course, dined on what was left of Lehman Brothers, which had donated $100 million to the LTCM bailout cause in 1998. This AIG reward money theory is my own. I've never read it anywhere, but I have read that Bear Stearns was allowed to fail because the IB refused to kick in a dime to save LTCM. I believe that if anybody really researched it, my AIG reward theory would hold up. It got me believing in the international banking conspiracy. If you don't believe in the international banking conspiracy, it's hard to explain why all those European banks were gifted with billions of US taxpayers dollars through the AIG bailout scam.<br /><br />http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/03/geithners-illegal-money-laundering.htmlplungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-41885350170296066382010-03-04T02:28:38.973-05:002010-03-04T02:28:38.973-05:00Something crashed on to the surface of Mars the ro...Something crashed on to the surface of Mars the roving lander takes a close look.<br /><br />Photos at link,<br /><br />http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_n331.htmlanonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-31060694671924990232010-03-03T22:26:30.094-05:002010-03-03T22:26:30.094-05:00Mr. Show: GloboChem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...Mr. Show: GloboChem<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uco5Ed-5y2UBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-32775587632811803232010-03-03T22:17:55.499-05:002010-03-03T22:17:55.499-05:00I saw the "Taint Team" part of the artic...I saw the "Taint Team" part of the article, and I thought: "Holy shit! Don't they know what that means? This is like TeaBaggers!" Then, of course, I remembered that classic Mr. Show Taint skit, like a 70's porno movie like that one with Mark Wahlberg. I forget the name of that movie. Burt Reynolds was in it, it was really good. Then, of course, I thought the head of the Taint Team should be Ron Jeremy! LOL!Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-52869497248372970992010-03-03T22:10:54.657-05:002010-03-03T22:10:54.657-05:00Hal Turner took the stand today in his federal tri...Hal Turner took the stand today in his federal trial and accused the FBI of instructing him to make violent and racist statements. The North Bergen, New Jersey, radio talk show host is on trial for allegedly threatening three Chicago-based federal appeals court judges. In June of 2009, Turner said the judges “deserved to be killed” for a ruling they made in a gun control case.<br /><br />In more than two hours of testimony, Turner described how he was recruited in 2003 by the FBI’s Newark-based Joint Terrorism Task Force. He said he was paid “in excess of $100,000” by the FBI during his almost five years as an informant, according to The Record.<br /> <br />http://www.infowars.com/fbi-operative-hal-turner-says-government-urged-him-to-make-violent-statements/<br /> <br /> “National Security Intelligence” asset Hal Turner.<br /> <br /><br />In more than two hours of testimony, Turner described how he was recruited in 2003 by the FBI’s Newark-based Joint Terrorism Task Force. He said he was paid “in excess of $100,000” by the FBI during his almost five years as an informant, according to The Record.Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-49049685070787301632010-03-03T21:18:55.943-05:002010-03-03T21:18:55.943-05:00Wow - they even have a website:
http://www.oneeye...Wow - they even have a website:<br /><br />http://www.oneeyedmonstermovie.com/BB2http://bluebear2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-87038299694414673182010-03-03T21:15:27.687-05:002010-03-03T21:15:27.687-05:00Ron Jeremy
LMAO - I saw the photo but it didn'...<i>Ron Jeremy</i><br /><br />LMAO - I saw the photo but it didn't click. I thought you were serious and was going to comment about how smarmy he looked. Then I saw your comment about it being a joke and forgot about it.<br /><br />I just went back up your page and the photo again caught my eye, now looking somewhat familiar so I did a search on him.<br /><br />OMG... he was one of the main characters in that weird sci-fi move I saw about the porn film crew trapped at a backwoods cabin being hunted by an alien. His character was bumped off early when he was taken over by the alien, but first he became a crazed sex-fiend, killing one of the girls with his penis during oral sex. There is kind of an explosion at which point he is thrown backwards across the room. The other characters first check out the girl - dead, then turn to Ron and discover his penis is gone. Ron dies shortly thereafter and the remainder of the movie is the alien monster (Ron's dismembered penis) stalking and killing the rest of the characters.<br /><br />There is no sex shown in the movie and only one shot of one of the girls topless in panties.<br /><br />It was so horribly bad yet so friggin funny, about six of us, mixed company, were rolling on the floor laughing. It was so bad we couldn't stop watching.BB2http://bluebear2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-65076982658954028972010-03-03T21:15:10.245-05:002010-03-03T21:15:10.245-05:00Israeli novel with parallels to Dubai killing a hi...Israeli novel with parallels to Dubai killing a hit in Germany <br /><br />http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1153818.htmlplungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-35591646290731487552010-03-03T21:01:37.749-05:002010-03-03T21:01:37.749-05:00Oh - between the 2 of them the repugs have put ove...Oh - between the 2 of them the repugs have put over $35million dollars into their campaigns. Jerry Brown, who announced his candidacy today has spent $6million. Meg Whitman has put $12million of her own money into her campaign. Nothing like blatantly buying the Governorship! A billionaire, she sits there and tells us how she is going to work for us - the working class... <br /><br />Ya, sure - you know where you can stick it biotch!BB2http://bluebear2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-6076552739333557552010-03-03T20:55:46.371-05:002010-03-03T20:55:46.371-05:00the United States government is a complete financi...<i>the United States government is a complete financial mess.</i><br /><br />And the republicans are still spouting their lower tax mantra! The two repugs vying for California Governor are hammering the no new and lower tax angle. Yet at the same time claiming they will improve the schools. <br /><br />Fuck, the district my wife works in closed two schools last year and will close two more after this semester. Maintenance staff has been cut to the bone, class size has gone from 24 to 32 or more and they just sent pink slips to 605 teachers and assistants warning that they could be laid off after this semester.<br /><br />Other districts around here are in as bad a shape or worse. Community college fees have risen 10 fold or more over the past 10 years and the state colleges are out of control - beyond the means of most students.BB2http://bluebear2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-20926181738681087562010-03-03T20:47:03.264-05:002010-03-03T20:47:03.264-05:00co-counsel, William Ruzzo and Arthur Donato will n...<i>co-counsel, William Ruzzo and Arthur Donato</i> will now be making big bucks off the backs of the kids. Kids for cash, spread the wealth around!BB2http://bluebear2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-45738490718216397132010-03-03T19:18:47.499-05:002010-03-03T19:18:47.499-05:00Bingo. Even a solar panel panel plant that is bein...Bingo. Even a solar panel panel plant that is being built where i live is owned by China. <br /> I live in the friggin desert. ARIZONA. This is all a globalized scam to take us further into the abyss of Chimerika.REALITYZONEhttp://realityzone-realityzone.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-70447570797131540672010-03-03T19:11:44.151-05:002010-03-03T19:11:44.151-05:00Ammunition for political adversaries,
Although Ba...Ammunition for political adversaries,<br /><br />Although Barack Obama and other Democrats touted the $787 billion stimulus package as a way to create green jobs that would put Americans back to work, new reports show the spending package has mostly created green jobs for foreign workers.<br /><br />U.S. Department of Energy statistics show 79 percent of the $2.1 billion in stimulus money allocated for wind energy has been paid to foreign manufacturers.<br /><br />The Spanish company Iberdrola has received $443 million; the Portuguese company EDP has received $229 million; and the British company Terra Firma, which bought a large wind farm in western Pennsylvania, received $42 million.<br /><br />Analysts worry the stimulus funds will also help create manufacturing jobs in China, and a Texas consortium’s plans to build a wind farm that primarily will rely on Chinese-made turbines using $450 million in stimulus money underscores this fear.<br /><br />http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449678/postsanonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-54769659308027220542010-03-03T19:06:05.983-05:002010-03-03T19:06:05.983-05:00An alien took that picture from outer space?An alien took that picture from outer space?Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-46634234197864879292010-03-03T19:04:53.493-05:002010-03-03T19:04:53.493-05:00Reagan is the symbol of the start of everything th...Reagan is the symbol of the start of everything that's going on today.Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-6647812818827009222010-03-03T18:37:16.427-05:002010-03-03T18:37:16.427-05:00The 2009 Financial Report Of The U.S. Government I...The 2009 Financial Report Of The U.S. Government Is Out - America's Economic Goose Is Cooked<br /><br />The 2009 Financial Report Of The U.S. Government has finally been released, and the news is not good. It basically confirms much of what we already know - that the United States government is a complete financial mess. The U.S. government budget deficit for 2009 was a record-setting 1.417 trillion dollars. The total liabilities of the U.S. government rose from 12.178 trillion dollars at the end of 2008 to 14.123 trillion dollars by the end of 2009. At their present rates of growth, the interest on the national debt and spending on entitlement programs will gobble up almost every single dollar of federal revenue by the end of the decade. Throughout the report, the word "unsustainable" is repeatedly used. The authors of the report understand that the U.S. government simply cannot keep spending and borrowing like it has been recently. But if the U.S. government slows down this reckless spending even a little bit it could literally plunge the U.S. economy into a deflationary depression. In fact, even with all of the "bailouts" and "stimulus packages" there are many who would argue that we are already in a depression. In any event, the authors of the report make it clear that the United States government is facing a financial crisis of unprecedented magnitude.<br /><br />Much more at link,<br /><br />http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-2009-financial-report-of-the-u-s-government-is-out-americas-economic-goose-is-cookedanonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-45648606706697966732010-03-03T18:31:50.716-05:002010-03-03T18:31:50.716-05:00Pennsylvania drill baby drill for gas.
http://ww...Pennsylvania drill baby drill for gas. <br /><br />http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/fracking/REALITYZONEhttp://realityzone-realityzone.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-8383928002231793702010-03-03T17:36:10.803-05:002010-03-03T17:36:10.803-05:00Many dollars for green jobs from the government st...Many dollars for green jobs from the government stimulus program are going into the pockets of workers in China not the USA workers.<br /><br />http://news.yahoo.com/video/environment-15749659/green-stimulus-jobs-going-to-china-18059421anonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-41764546301911674362010-03-03T16:09:06.693-05:002010-03-03T16:09:06.693-05:00Did I go to far saying the head of the Kids for Ca...Did I go to far saying the head of the Kids for Cash Judges' "Taint Team" is Ron Jeremy? I hope people know when I'm kidding.Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-81422926081393228412010-03-03T16:09:02.304-05:002010-03-03T16:09:02.304-05:00Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlin...Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology<br /><br />http://www.theonion.com/content/news/google_responds_to_privacyplungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-72769904166582827542010-03-03T16:06:05.590-05:002010-03-03T16:06:05.590-05:00September 1, 2009, 2:47 pm
The California Wildfire...September 1, 2009, 2:47 pm<br />The California Wildfires Seen From Space<br />By ROBERT MACKEY<br /><br />Photo at link,<br /><br />http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/the-california-wildfires-seen-from-space/anonynoreply@blogger.com