IS THERE NO SHAME?

WITH THE SANDUSKY TRIAL UNDERWAY I THOUGHT IT WAS WORTH REPOSTING THIS ARTICLE FROM 7 MONTHS AGO. NOTHING HAS CHANGED MY CONCLUSIONS.

 

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth. ”William Faulkner

I wish I could believe William Faulkner’s advice was possible in the world we live in today. But sadly, I am losing hope in our civilization. We seem to have entered a death spiral with little likelihood of pulling out. Our society has become so degraded and our populace so apathetic and willfully ignorant, that I think we are too far gone to recover. Honesty, truth and compassion have been soundly defeated by injustice, lying and greed. Our technologically advanced society has become a stinking cesspool, devoid of humanity, common sense and morality. Those with the power and wealth who control our country do not concern themselves with quaint concepts like good and evil, right and wrong, or moral and immoral. Sociopaths see no obligation to society, humanity, or posterity. They only care about themselves, their wealth, their status, their reputation, and their control of others. They are incapable of feeling shame or remorse. They blindly march forward towards their own and society’s self-destruction.

Joe Paterno was fired by the Penn State Board of Trustees on Wednesday night as head football coach of Penn State. It was the first good decision that has been made in the last two decades by the leaders of Penn State. The man was told that his Defensive coordinator was seen in the locker room shower raping a 10 year old boy in 2002. He did not call the police and report this crime. He and the other top officials at Penn State brushed this crime under the rug, allowing at least seven more young boys to be raped by this monster. The 28 year old graduate assistant not only did nothing to stop the crime he witnessed, but he accepted a position as an assistant coach, knowing that Paterno and the Athletic Director never did anything to hold Sandusky accountable for his crime. Sandusky was still on campus working out as of last week. The actions of all the players in this disgusting example of how far our society has degenerated are enough to make someone lose all hope for humanity:

  • Jerry Sandusky creates a charitable organization so he can gain access to little boys. Multiple incidents are witnessed on campus from 1994 through 2002. A mother reports Sandusky to the Penn State police in 1998 and nothing is done by the men in the Administration. The investigation is dropped, but Tim Curley forces Sandusky to retire in 1999. It is clear that everyone in the top echelon of Penn State knew Sandusky was a deviant pedophile. But letting it become public would have been a black mark on the football program and could have reduced the huge profits generated by Paterno’s kingdom.
  • After his forced retirement he is still given access to the campus and locker room facilities. He is caught having anal sex with a 10 year old boy in the locker room shower by a 28 year old man, who chooses not to intervene and save the boy. Joe Paterno does the absolute minimum when informed of this horrific crime. After this crime is covered up by all the key men running the show at Penn State, it just becomes business as usual for Joe and his cronies.
  • Sandusky continues to rape little boys for the next eight years because of the cowardice and complete lack of morality exhibited by the men in high places at Penn State.
  • With the issuance of the grand jury report last week, the psychotic nature of these men was on display for the world to witness. In a stunning display of arrogance and hubris, Paterno and the President of Penn State announced their full support for the Athletic Director and VP of Finance who were arrested. These men did not think they did anything wrong. They clung to the fact that they adhered to the laws created by other men. In a despicable display, Joe Paterno led a cheer at a pep rally in front of his house with his arms raised in victory. At least eight boys had their lives ruined and Joe Paterno leads a cheer.
  • The Board of Trustees summoned the courage to fire Paterno and the President last night. In another display that makes me wonder about the future of our country, thousands of students rioted in support of Joe Paterno, breaking windows, turning over news vans, and starting fires. Are these young people incapable of critical thinking and are just driven by emotion and mindless rage? Can’t they distinguish between facts and lies? Do they care more about football than innocent children being raped?

I have been blind with rage for the last week as I’ve watched the powerful men of Penn State attempt to retain their power and reputations at the expense of truth, honesty, and accepting responsibility for their actions and willful inaction. As I’ve watched this tragedy unfold I was struck by the thought process of rich men in positions of power. They have huge egos and believe they are above the law. They think so highly of themselves they believe they can make the rules and ignore the laws which the little people must follow. They have no moral compass whatsoever. They cannot be shamed. The most despicable behavior by prominent men has been willfully overlooked because these men generate $50 million of profit per year for the university. Their sociopathic desire to protect their reputations and power has led to a scandal of such epic proportions that it will haunt Penn State forever and has permanently damaged the institution.

This is an institutional cancer that eats away at the fabric of our society. It is not isolated to Penn State. It is a societal sickness that threatens to overwhelm every facet of our lives. There is a constant thread that runs through every incident that comes to light. In 99% of the cases it is men protecting men. Money and greed always trump morality and truth. The exact circumstances can be observed in the priest abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in the last five years. Pedophile priests have existed within the Catholic Church for decades. The Penn State situation shows that pedophiles exist everywhere in our society. The bottom line is that they are sick men and need to be locked up and kept away from little boys. There is no more heinous criminal act than a grown man raping a little boy. Anyone who does this is pure evil and must be punished.

The Catholic Church’s wealth is almost beyond measurement. There are 1.2 billion Catholics in the world. The pope is one of the most powerful men on earth. Cardinals and bishops throughout the world wield tremendous influence over their flocks. As young Catholic boys you are taught that priests represent Jesus Christ on earth. They are treated with reverence and fear by little Catholic boys. Little Catholic boys would never question the motives of a priest. They are taught to obey, because a priest is the same as Jesus Christ. These beliefs allowed pedophile priests to prey on thousands of little boys around the world for decades with little or no backlash. Those crimes were horrific enough by themselves, but the actions of the bishops, cardinals and even the popes who have known about these crimes make it ten times worse. Again, powerful men will ignore rules, regulations, laws and simple human decency in order to protect their wealth, power, and reputations. Cardinals and bishops knew that priests were raping little boys and their solution was to transfer them to another parish where they could find fresh meat. The thought never entered their minds to turn these perverts in to the police. Their only concern was how a scandal would impact their beloved institution. Little boys were sacrificed at the altar of the Catholic Church by evil men.

The cover-up continues to this day. The Catholic Church uses the statute of limitations as their defense against the continuous stream of cases that continue to mount. They secretly pay out hundreds of millions to the victims as long as they promise to keep quiet. They use bankruptcy laws to close down parishes and avoid paying civil penalties for the crimes committed by its hierarchy. They hire public relations firms to create false and misleading stories designed to obscure the truth about the biggest criminal conspiracy in history. The powerful sociopathic men who were supposed to represent Christian teachings have destroyed the lives of thousands of boys in order to protect their institution. The end result is that in addition to the thousands of lives destroyed by the pedophile priests, hundreds of thousands of Catholics have lost faith in the leadership and have abandoned the church. The wealth these sociopaths attempted to protect has been eroded as donations have dried up and lawsuit payouts have mounted.

Not only have our educational and religious institutions failed us, but our financial and political institutions have spectacularly self-destructed over the last decade. Shockingly, these institutions have been run predominantly by men. At one time banks were stodgy institutions that abhorred risk and methodically made profits year after year by lending to people and businesses capable of paying them back. Investment firms were partnerships. If any one partner was to take an excessive risk, they could wipe out the personal wealth of the other partners. Therefore, they never took excessive risks or used excessive leverage. Their boring business model generated modest profits year after year. The officers of banks and investment houses were well compensated, but not excessively so. The leaders of these firms were children of the Great Depression. They understood bad times.

During the 1990’s they were displaced by a new generation of leaders. This has not turned out well for our country. These psychopathic CEOs were given the green light by their fellow psychopaths in Congress and at the Federal Reserve to loot and pillage to their heart’s delight. This conspiracy of thieves broke down the barriers between traditional banking and gambling using excessive leverage. They captured the regulatory agencies that were supposed to police them and leveraged their bets 30 to 1. They created fraudulent mortgage instruments designed to lure the stupid and crooked. They marketed debt to anyone with a breath and ability to scratch an X on a piece of paper. They designed derivatives so complex that even their own Harvard MBAs couldn’t figure out how they worked. They bribed rating agencies into stamping a AAA credit rating on crap so toxic that they joked about the idiots they were selling it to. They shorted the very same derivatives they were selling to their clients. These psychopaths raked in hundreds of billions in fees, salaries and bonuses, while detonating a nuclear bomb on the worldwide financial system.

When their bets came up craps, they had the gall to hold the American people hostage for trillions in bailouts. Their fellow psychopaths in Congress gladly forked over the money. Rather than mend their ways, these evil men have returned to their excessive risk taking and continue to pay themselves billions in compensation, while the American middle class is smothered to death under mountains of debt. These evil Wall Street geniuses have shown no remorse as seven million people have lost their jobs and millions more have lost their homes due to the greed and avarice displayed on an epic scale.

Wall Street bankers exhibit the epitome of psychopathic behavior, showing lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. Psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others. Though lacking empathy and emotional depth, they often manage to pass themselves off as average individuals by feigning emotions. These Wall Street bankers will never willingly accept responsibility for their actions. They continue to use their wealth and power to control the politicians in Washington DC and the misinformation propagated by the corporate media they control. They own and control the Federal Reserve and will print money until the whole system collapses in a spectacular implosion that destroys our financial system. They only care about their own wealth, influence and status. They have no shame.

When I consider all that is wrong in our society, I become despondent, angry and despairing for the future of our country. It seems that everyone in positions of power across the spectrum of education, religion, finance, and politics are psychopaths, bent upon self-destruction no matter the cost to society or unborn generations. Our nation has degenerated into an egocentric, self-loathing, vain, shallow excuse for a civilization. There is anger flaring up, but it is just as likely to be misdirected and misinformed. The lack of critical thinking skills and the overwhelming effects of media propaganda has so degraded the intelligence of the populace that when the system breaks down in the next few years, the masses will clamor for a savior rather than seeking truthful answers and willingly making the sacrifices required to get our nation back on track. This country will get what it deserves – a despotic ruler and a brutish civilization governed on the basest of principles. This is what happens when a society rewards lying and greed over honesty and compassion. There are consequences to actions and inactions alike. We’ve made our choice.

“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” Adolf Hitler

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flash
flash

No there is no shame….hell in hand basket is putting it mildly.

American culture on the rocks as exemplified in this video that gets well over a 100 thousand hits.
A word of caution ,if you’ve not had breakfast go ahead and do so ,’cuz you won’t feel like eating after viewing this very overt display of filth sharing between mother and daughter.
You think your vote counts? Here’s two reasons it doesn’t.

Me and My Mom Dancing To My Neck My Back :Warning strong language and lewdness displayed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TUdAFkXPKBw

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flash

howard in nyc says:

flash/anon~
i was just snarkily correcting your spelling

Yeah, well betwixt my limited eyesight/typing skill and Firefox wanting to correct every word I spell, but mostly getting it wrong too, I’m just happy getting a comment 20% legible.

Slingshot
Slingshot

Admin to slingshot:
Pedophiles and rapists are committing one of the most heinous crimes on the planet. actively covering those crimes up is harboring that evil. All of those people should be in Jail. And that is why there are charges in place and the law is chasing them down. I didn’t say that there may be crimes on wall street. Maybe there are. but if there are crimes, than prosecute. only overt crimes have been uncovered and are being prosecuted. but not CDO and CLO structures. Even Goldman Sachs settled for hundreds of millions since they were selling and shorting the same structures, even though there is no law against that.
But no one can draw a rational parallel to pedophiles and rapists to wall street. Hence your classic “defense” to the argument by attacking me, even though you don’t know me.

Colma Rising
Colma Rising

Slingshot: That’s the fucking point of the article, Einstein.

People in high places, supposed “role models” commit heinous crimes and their position… and their proximity to the avenues of enforcement and prosecution circumvents prosecution.

Whether it be a beloved coach protecting his beloved program or persons appointed to agencies protecting their beloved friends and money machines, crime is not prosecuted as it should.

“Prosecute” the execs and weasels who pilfered TRILLIONS?!

Novel Idea.

It could very well happen if there was any person willing to enforce laws and can their massive campaign donors or, as many suspect, implicate themselves as complicit in the massive theft.

Hence the title: “Is There No Shame”

Answer: NO. This country is headed by shameless monstrosities in all aspects, drowning out the cries of those with a shred of honor. Shameless, greedy sellouts who put their own fleeting interests before the law, before their fans, before their countrymen, before anything else remotely considered decent.

So there you have it, Slingshot, so kindly take your sophomoric musings and stick them where the sun don’t shine.

flash
flash

admin- I would have given you 10 thumbs up on the slingshot take down ,but since I’ve switched ISP’s WP will only let me vote once..sheesh.

Colma Rising
Colma Rising

“No rational parallel”

How’s this for a parallel:

The Cane, with due process of course.

Cane the lot of the corrupt fuckers, and make it enough lashes to kill the pedophiles in particular. Like murder, the same penalty for those who harbor or assist the criminal.

There’s a mandatory-minimum statute I could support.

Colma Rising
Colma Rising

Flash:

I agree.

Colma Rising
Colma Rising

Let the victim or their family do it.

That goes for financial high crime and corrupt politicians…

With due process, of course.

Slingshot
Slingshot

To Colma Rising
I think you are getting a bit confused. there are 3 actors here in each scenario:
the criminals, the cover ups, and the law. The title and subject matter of “Is There No Shame” is mainly referring to the cover ups. people that protect their power, their religion, their sport, etc. – even though they are harboring evil. the law is not the cover up, and that is where all of you seem to be getting confused and angry. if there are legitamate charges, than the law will pursue them. regarding Penn State, the Church, etc. – the law was in the dark, since the cover ups were harboring the criminals. once the criminals were exposed to the law, the law immediately pursued them. the same would be for wall street. if there is a crime, than the law would pursue. so the so-called crime has taken place, right? there is no more cover-up. it is now exposed. right? so where is the law? the law and only pursue crime. and there is NO CRIME. sorry.
and that is why is is a ridiculous parallel

Stucky

hmmmmm …. I expected more from you.

I’ll leave it at this ……. torture dehumanises the torturers.

“None of us were like this before: American soldiers and torture.”

Slingshot
Slingshot

Admin –
call me old fashioned (or a dumb-ass village idiot :)), but i believe that if there is evidence to ANY of the charges that you claim exist – like mortgage fraud, robo-signing fake documents, fraud in the inducement, bribes to rating agencies, etc. – then the law would pursue them. the law has no interest in cover ups. bankers do. politicians do. but if you call wild claims on left wing web sites – evidence, then you may be in contention for the village idiot. if you have evidence to crimes on wall street, i urge you to go to the FBI

Slingshot
Slingshot

Admin —

Also, I wish you would stop saying I’m a village idiot. I graduated first in my high skool.

As you can see, I am of superior intellect.
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Cordially,
Sling

Colma Rising
Colma Rising

Stuchenscheisser: What in bog’s name does that have to do with caning corrupt officials, major imbezzlers and pedophiles with due process?

Slingshot: That is purely ignorant. I’d wager many an investigator has found a premature end to or major hurdles placed before them regarding their careers for less. Really: Do you think that evidence and a case against any higher-up’s friends or political allies wouldn’t be met with any less?

(Where’s Mary? She’d hammer this assertion by slingshot with ease)

Stucky

YOU brought up caning.

Just wondering if you considered the implications.

Apparently, you have not …. or, can’t.

flash
flash

fraud via finance e.g.

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=197462

slingshot, you must not be from around here?

flash
flash

Damn stuck , that caning pic look like one of the stripings my old man put on my ass for hanging around the pool hall after school.

Colma Rising
Colma Rising

Stuchenspieler: You’re dam right I brought it up.

Pedophiles destroy their victims forever. Like a disease to the spirit passed on, the victims often acquire this behavior themselves. What is more torturous than destroying an innocent soul for life for some sick satisfaction and amusement of an inhuman monster?

Cane the bastards. Like Singapore, this behavior would be deterred effectively. I have no sympathy for these lizard-brained demons. I would shed no tear for a kid-fucker getting his ass whipped in public by a vengeful victim.

The same goes for financial TREASON and the cover-up and obfuscation of by their political henchmen. Do you think the financiers haven’t disrupted the security and peace of the country… or the world? Do you think that world wars haven’t been started for less, at the behest and profit of these devil-horned perveyors of economic ruin?

Cane the bastards. Like Singapore, politicians would be stoic in the face of bribery, understanding not only the benefits of sound financial dealing but the detriment of being whipped with bamboo on television for betraying the trust… and eventually the security… of the people to whom he is beholden to govern and/or represent.

Yeah, I’ve thought it out. Relatively speaking, a good caning isn’t quite enough, but it sure would make a treasonous criminal or a kid-fucking demon wince and think twice.

The degeneration of society has gone far enough. With the proper trials and due process, these punative measures, in my opinion, would be fitting to the crime in a merciful manner.

Stucky

Colma

I have no argument with you regarding the vileness of peds, banksters, etc. That was NOT my main point.

My main point is stated clearlyl —— “torture dehumanises the torturers.” Comment on that, please, if you want.

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Flash

Caning is much more severe than your old man’s ass kicking. I could have put up much more gross pictures. That pic was a mild caning. Severe caning rips the flesh off the bones right down to the internal organs. I call that torture. I can’t support that, no matter what the crime. Sorry.

MuckAbout

Whatever Colma said!

MA

MuckAbout

Whatever Stucky said, too!

MA

howard in nyc

whatever MA said!

hey, MA, peep denninger and yves on the failed efsf bond auction. time to go balls-out short?

http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=197458

EFSF Fail: Forced to Buy Some of Its Own Bonds in Auction

Colma Rising
Colma Rising

Barbaric!

Yeah, lots of moral questions.

Cruel and Unusual.

That’s what that whole due process thing is supposed to figure out.

No less, the punishment thought aside, the sinister implications of this behavior and the “look the other way” nature of society is sickening. Pretending nothing happened and going about their business seems to be all of the scrutiny or punishment that criminals of priveledge receive these days.

MuckAbout

howard: God I wish you’d teach that Firefox to capitalize the first word of sentences.. Ah well – you are worth reading in all small anyhow.

The EFSF is just as fairyland as our Federal Reserve. What they’ve done our Fed is doing every day or three to insure Treasury debt has a buyer. Treasury pretends to sell debt instruments and the central banks pretend to buy it. They don’t like to admit they had to buy it because that admits the whole system is corrupt, dead broke belly up and they can’t find any _real_ buyers anymore.

Just another step down the slippery slope to perdition. It’ll happen more often, then pretty soon the Central Banks will be the ONLY buyers of government debt and then – GAME OVER!

Long before that final GAME OVER you will see roving bands of catastrophes and crashes, riots when the food runs low and the global economy s_l_o_w_l_y implodes and all this wonderful globalization we’ve profited from for the last 15 years will see to it that whatever you want is now made too far away to ship to you or the producer can’t get what he needs to produce because the parts and pieces are on another continent.

To answer your direct question ” time to go balls-out short?” . TBF is on my MRO Trading System as a BUY both short term and intermediate term. (TBF is the inverse 20 year treasury bond and when the Fed looses control of long term rates there will be buckets of bloody money to be made shorting 10-20 and out Tbonds. USO (oil ETF) is on a BUY short and intermediate term, PHYS (Sprott physical gold ETF – best way to go “paper” gold) is on short and intermediate term BUY.

Believe it or not, VTI (Vanguard VIPER as a whole market proxy) is on a short term waffle (neither buy nor sell) and an intermediate term weak buy. I wouldn’t touch anything in the general markets that is not defensive in nature.

So the answer is NO – NOT FLAT OUT SHORT but be very defensive with basic small tranche positions on the long bond short, long PMs and CASH. (Note: In my opinion, unless you personally check, DO NOT place money in ANY “money fund” that is exposed to any European bond or debt instrument or derivative. When I said CASH, I meant cash in your brokers sweep account (otherwise known as dry powder). At the moment, thanks to the infinite wisdom of our own central banker, there is absolutely no way to earn a positive return on what would normally be conservative investment. There it costs nothing to keep your funds in cash, spread around in $250k chunks so the “sticker safety” FDIC is hovering over it. When the shit hits the fan, the FDIC is already busted but the fantasy TreasureBond – central bank loop will leap in and you’ll get your money back. Won’t be worth shit but you’ll get it.

howard, have you ever read “World Made by Hand” by our very own J. H. Kuntsler? If you haven’t, it’s a fine read, rings terribly true and may be bought at:

http://worldmadebyhand.com/

I’d send you my copy but I want to read it over again..

Sleep tight and don’t lets the Feddies bite..

MA

howard in nyc

thanks tons for your market views. my ‘balls short’ question is only in regards to equities.

sadly, in the short term, all this eurozone shit has made equity traders of us all. metals, oil, food commodities and equities getting dragged along for the ride.

and every time i look for an ‘intermediate’ position (weeks? a couple of months?) these shorter gyrations spook me into taking profits, or much more often, cutting losses.

i think your words are spot on. i remain very defensive, exactly as you describe. i am definitely on the same page.

i have not read kunsler’s book yet. suppose i should; i enjoy his weekly rants. i guess i’m afraid it will make me want to flee the big city, head for some small town on a rail line. his books are in my cue; maybe i’ll move it up, after i finish rereading strauss + howe.

thanks again, mate.

MuckAbout

Ya! I understand – and even did it once. Back in ’79 I quit a contract I was working on in Great Britain, tossed 20 years with RCA under the bus and homesteaded 10 acres we happen to have up in N. Id. near a wee village called Spirit Lake.

I figured (at the time) things were going into the tank, so I withdrew my services from the market place, took off a year to hand build a home and then took two more to go back to school and finish up a degree.

By the time I’d done that, Volcker and Co. had put the screws to the economy and inflation and we were getting back to normal. So I upstaked, sold the homestead to an exLA cop for an indecent profit and moved to Maui where we flourished nicely until the next bullshit cycle came along and I went back overseas.

Now old snuck up on me when I wasn’t looking and I’m not physically able to fort up in some nice small community in N. GA., NC or SC so I suppose my sweetie and I will tough it out here in Central Florida. At least the climate won’t kill you here and with appropriate foresight, water is never a problem if you have a shovel, pump/filter and clorox. Lotsa fish in the vicinity too. We already have a going kitchen garden that can be easily expanded but if the power goes, that’s going to be a problem. I’d put up an “off the grid” system (as I did in Idaho) but at my age, I may never get to use it (I hope)..

But I don’t think I’d stay here if it was a big city. Orlando is 40 miles SE and too close for comfort as it is. Big cities are going to have big problems.

If power goes, I’ll probably miss TBP as much as anything..

MA

howard in nyc

oh, i made a critical typo above. i wrote:
“sadly, in the short term, all this eurozone shit has made equity traders of us all.”

i intended to type “made currency traders of us all”

it makes no sense with the mistaken word. (it probably doesn’t make all that much sense with the correction).

i would be inclined to short euros, but since cash in dollars (and gold) already functions as a euro short, i don’t want to press too much.

steven tobin
steven tobin

If I had discovered the rape in the shower in progress, I would have snatched that kid away, called the cops and testified to put Sandusky away. If I lost my job, so be it…

llpoh
llpoh

Stuck – I am all for caning. Dehumanize – that is what the anti-penalty folks always say. De-humanize – to make unhuman. The whole thought process trnsfers rights to the criminal from the victim, and that is crap.

So your position is violence/corporal punishment is un-human. Why don’t defend that statement rather than insist that someone else discusses the lame proposition that caning is dehumanizing. And in my book it is not torture – it is corporal punishment. The penalty should suit the crime. A lot of people would call incarceration punishment – it causes mental anguish, etc. etc.

As for who administers, I suspect in this era of technology, we coud set up an automatic caning machine.

I bet the guy in the pic isn’t looking for a return engagement with the cane. And that, my friend, is what I am after. I want to 1) punish criminals, and 2) deter them. I am not nearly so concern with how they feel about the situation – I am rather concerned about their victims.

Ed
Ed

Don’t despair Jim. Strauss & Howe taught us that this destruction is a part of the process of rebuilding.

mrsbart
mrsbart

Fabulous article. It is extremely rare these days that anyone has the courage to state the blatant truth. Thank you! Keep up the excellent writing, and witnessing of the truth.

Novista

muck

somewhere around Lady Lake or Wildwood? Ny last trip, 2002 when mom was dying, home base was Deland.

Novista

Slingshot

“if there is a crime, than the law would pursue” [then]

Do you remember the Madoff case? I guess not. Harry Markowitz analyzed the scam in 1999 and took his analysis to the SEC. And several times thereafter.

That was 1999.

Another good year, in which the MERS frankenstein was sewn together. One E. Holder was a senior partner in the firm that provided the ~legal~ justification for it. [~sneer quotes~ by intent]

Markowitz recently uncovered the evidence of Bank of New York Mellon skimming on pension fund transactions — for years and years. *crickets*

I could give you reliable links to all these and more but you should already be aware. Maybe until the smoking gun is well up your ass, then you might venture a guess that something bad happened.

Slingshot
Slingshot

Guys. I am educated. I am from around here. And I invested in CLOs. the law needs evidence to prosecute. not hunches. With Madoff in 1999, it was guesses, hunches and circumstantial. the idea was to entice the SEC to investigate his hunches, and they decided not to. There was NO evidence.
PLEASE, if any of you have evidence against ANY crime,don’t sit around and comment on blogs. go to the FBI.
Can we all now admit that Pedophilia and rape is far worse than wall street?

Novista

Sling

Six hunches, eh?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204358004577032280966055886.html

Harry, with a CFA and CFE, has hunches! Who knew?

flash
flash

Worth a viewing. ex-CIA backs up Ron Paul’s statement that Islamists attack US targets because we’re “over there” meddling in their affairs.

It seems that TPTB seek to set up and arm an enemy that can propel all nations into global conflict.
The question is who will profit?
Ex-CIA Agent: America creates its own enemies

Pat
Pat

It seems odd that Paterno’s son has been an Assistant Coach and unaware of the code of silence under which his father is being ostracized/fired for in the Penn State case.

Much like Madoff’s sons who turned him in, one would think that his son would be too ashamed to remain as Assistant Coach either.

Just how much power did/does Paterno and Sandusky have in PA, and how many other pre-1987 scandals are in the works, or operating in PA besides the Judicial youth incarceration scandals?

TJ
flash
flash

SAH, I have a dream….

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flash
flash

oops wrong thread..

Aine
Aine

Hi Jim,
We might be related. All my male relatives have James in their name and I am a Quinn-Irish families do that. We’d be pretty close (within last 150 years) if you have Tyrone/ Belfast/Durham (England) family location pattern in your family background.

I have to say though it is important not be too dismissive of socially systemic theories, Marx whatever.

Yes, psychopaths are containment nightmares regardless of social systems. They will exploit, whatever the circumstance.

It might be that we need to control circumstances that allow for exploitation. Anyone got a suggestion?

Regarding the Catholic Church, no excuse makes the hierarchy exempt for re-creating circumstances that foster abuse. The Protestants pointed that out centuries ago. Unfortunately since then, protesting marches the well worn track from collective indignation to social systems of Imperial individualism. It’s a psychopath’s wet dream.

AWD

Instead of the death penalty, Sandusky got 45 convictions, 17 felony at 20 years per, for a grand total of 447 years. No bail or release for appeal. Straight to jail. I hope they throw him in with the general population so he can get ass raped by leroys day and night. That would be to good for this POS.

EnergyGuy
EnergyGuy

Re: “Instead of the death penalty” –

Whom did Sandusky murder?

AWD

He murdered the dignity, self esteem, trust and sphincters of young boys in the showers. I hope he gets shanked in prison after years of get ass raped by well endowed black dudes.

ThePessimisticChemist

Death penalty isn’t much of a punishment. Throwing him in with the general prison populace is.

AWD

I thought Qinny would make some comment about Sandusky, he hates him more than I do.

FYI

Quinn, in Irish Ó Cuinn, comes from the personal name Conn, meaning a person of high intelligence, or, maybe, a freeman. There were a number of distinct families of the same name. In Ulster, where they are most numerous, they were centred in County Tyrone and the Glens of Antrim. There was an important sept that was driven out of County Longford by their kinsmen the O Ferralls of Annaly. In the mid-twelfth century, the O Cuinn of Clann Chuain near Castlebar were a subsidiary of the powerful MacDermotts of Moylurg. The most prominent family was a Dalcassian sept of Thomond in the barony of Inchiquin in County Clare. Place names such as Inchiquin, Ballyquin and Glenquin are spelled with a single n, while in Irish they have a double n. In general Catholics spell their name “Quinn” while Protestants spell it “Quin”, but this has never been a rigid rule.

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AWD

The coat of arms.

Present at any bar for a double shot of whiskey.

SSS

AWD (and others who hope Sandusky will “get his” from other prisoners)

Won’t happen. Child molesters and snitches are isolated from the general prison population for the very real reason that they WILL GET THEIRS from the general prison population. Child molesters are the lowest of low lifes in prison. Why? Many of the prisoners themselves suffered molestation when they were children.

Check out the 1981 prison riot in New Mexico. The prisoners took over the facility and spent all night trying to break into the isolation ward housing the molesters and snitches. When they finally breached the doors, what happened next is enough to make you to make you toss your cookies.

Just to make you even angrier, AWD, is that starting with good food and a private cell, Sandusky will likely get BETTER treatment and privileges than the average prisoner. Because he’ll be housed with snitches, he’ll get to enjoy the added perks the snitches get because they cooperated with prison officials. Now, isn’t that special?

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

AWD is obsessed with obese people.

Therefore all Xers are obsessed with fat people.

That is the problem with group think finger pointing.

United We stand, Divided We Fall.

Its also why I wont listen to some foaming pundit making millions a year playing on your likes, dislikes and emotions.

ThePessimisticChemist

With liberty and justice for all….

Old Joe
Old Joe

I agree, there is a lack of shame, a lack of morality. It makes me sad for our future. I think there are only two consequences to the evils mentioned in the article. One is destruction by God, which is out of our hands. Maybe it will come in the form of a mass extinction caused by global warming.

The other, in our collective hands, is revolution. Any time in history, when there is a great disparity between the rich and the poor, a revolution results. Occupy Wall Street seems like only a beginning, a testing of the waters. We currently lack only a charismatic figurehead to lead.

Will it be another Hitler? Will it be another George Washington?

I pray for a saint.

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