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12-15-2008, 07:33 AM
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Encroaching on your decrees
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Any comments about Mr Madoff?
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Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of 
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12-15-2008, 07:41 AM
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Gone and done
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If it seems to good to be true, it usually is.
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12-15-2008, 09:23 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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Any comments about Mr. Meoff and his porno scheme?
(That's Jack Meoff)
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12-15-2008, 09:46 AM
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You just have to shake your head. How much worse can it get? 50 Billion in fraud? WTF? Were there any regulators at all? Or all they all surfing the web when they should be regulating?
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12-15-2008, 10:07 AM
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
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They've all been spending too much time in the Cellar.
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12-15-2008, 10:22 AM
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Encroaching on your decrees
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12-15-2008, 10:24 AM
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Slattern of the Swail
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I think it's funny that his name is Madoff. HA HA. He really 'made off' with their money, huh? This is why I chose to spend all my money on magazines and candy--no one can hurt me that way. I'm bullet proof.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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12-15-2008, 11:01 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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At the risk of sounding like tw, the foxes have been regulating the henhouse for a while, and the hens have been thinking "Holy smokes! look at all the corn we've been getting! Much better than when that miserly Farmer Brown was looking after us." And as the nearby hens fell to the foxes the remaining hens just watched and said to themselves "It can't happen to me..."
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12-16-2008, 03:30 PM
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Read? I only know how to write.
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Problem in this particular example is information. Currently not clear is whether any regulations existed to enforce. SEC received numerous tips on this particular hedge fund. SEC has been starved for funds for over a decade. Even after Enron, the Congress tried to double the SEC budget and Harvey Pitts refused to accept the money. Not even known if the SEC investigators had sufficient knowledge or experience to see or understand this fraud. All we know is the SEC did investigate this hedge fund previously due to tips - and did nothing. Did nothing because their people are not smart enough - have enough experience? Or did nothing because the fraud was legal? Well, one would think after LTCM and that massive emergency $billions bailout, then some regulation would exist. Nope. Instead, the powers in power stifled regulation, refused to increase the SEC budget, and were promoting more deregulation as the solution to our economic ills. What we now know - those ills were created because finance people must be highly regulated. Even Enron accounting is alive and well. |
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12-15-2008, 12:14 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Ahem...since we're all in here together right now...why the hummus quote? Of all the funny damn things I've said and you quote me on a salad bar issue?
 
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12-15-2008, 12:14 PM
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
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When someone wears your quote, that means you're going steady.
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12-15-2008, 12:16 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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So foot's like, a dating Mormon?
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12-15-2008, 05:11 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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Shawnee there was something sweet and innocent about it and it makes me smile, I don't know why. Was "drowning a fish" one of Jim's sock puppets?
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12-16-2008, 07:41 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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hummus hummus hummus hummus hummus... 
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12-16-2008, 03:40 PM
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polaroid of perfection
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