In Enthusiastic and Sincere Praise of AIG Bonuses - Comments Page 2

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• 26 - roger nowosielski

  Mar 21, 2009 at 4:09 pm

  I know, Handy, that the storm is being manufactured. But stop defending them, for Christ's sake. It's getting stale. You start sounding like a fucking recorder.

• 27 - handyguy

  Mar 21, 2009 at 4:20 pm

  All right, I'll say it once more:
  
  I'm. Not. Defending. AIG.
  
  Is that clear enough?
  
  I'm expressing concern about the consequences of the current media-storm -- consequences much larger than the scandal around a specific company.

• 28 - roger nowosielski

  Mar 21, 2009 at 4:25 pm

  Fuck that. They do it to generate sales in the failing newspaper industries. And the reps do it to discredit Obama. We all know that.
  
  What else can the conservatives do but moan and groan for the next eight years. They've been reduced to Rush Limbaugh types - lots of hot air and no substance.
  
  I'd rather just let it go. We've got a country and a nation to save. All else is bullshit and distraction.

• 29 - Clavos

  Mar 21, 2009 at 4:29 pm

  We've got a country and a nation to save.
  
  Which is which?

• 30 - roger nowosielski

  Mar 21, 2009 at 4:48 pm

  Both, Clavos. They're interchangeable.

• 31 - Clavos

  Mar 21, 2009 at 4:51 pm

  And therefore redundant, Roger.
  
  
  Which was my point...

• 32 - roger nowosielski

  Mar 21, 2009 at 5:05 pm

  Form of expression, Clav. Can't resist my literary impulse, in spite of your "blah, blah, blah" editorial advice.

• 33 - Clavos

  Mar 21, 2009 at 5:15 pm

  Redundancy that's nonsensical is not a desirable literary attribute, Roger.

• 34 - roger nowosielski

  Mar 21, 2009 at 5:18 pm

  You go your way, I'll go mine.

• 35 - Clavos

  Mar 21, 2009 at 5:22 pm

  Sure, Roger you don't have to be a good writer if you don't want to.

• 36 - roger nowosielski

  Mar 21, 2009 at 5:24 pm

  Clavos,
  
  I take everything you say here with a grain of salt. Remember, it's only a virtual reality. I was you who said it, not I.

• 37 - Jordan Richardson

  Mar 21, 2009 at 5:37 pm

  Alright guys, put your penises away. Take it easy.

• 38 - Clavos

  Mar 21, 2009 at 5:49 pm

  That's fine, Roger, you never will learn how to write well, anyway -- you're too impressed with yourself.

• 39 - roger nowosielski

  Mar 21, 2009 at 6:15 pm

  I'll take your comments seriously, my friend, once I'm convinced you have my interest at heart.
  
  Not until.

• 40 - Clavos

  Mar 21, 2009 at 6:21 pm

  You go, boy!

• 41 - roger nowosielski

  Mar 21, 2009 at 6:58 pm

  Your own words, Clav.
  It's virtual reality, nothing more.

• 42 - bliffle

  Mar 21, 2009 at 8:01 pm

  Clearly, the tax bill introduced in congress is a Bill Of Attainder, which even the atrophied legal sensibilities of the various assembled congresscritters must realize will be rejected with guffaws by the courts. Therefore, it is nothing but posturing.
  
  How cynical of them. But then I suppose they have accurately calibrated the gullibility of the US voter.
  

• 43 - Dan(Miller)

  Mar 21, 2009 at 8:34 pm

  Bliffle,
  
  Although I agree that the whole thing is posturing, I am less confident than you appear to be that the thing* is a bill of attainder. There haven't been a lot of cases involving that sort of thing, and as I understand the situation it could go either way; it will probably be held to be OK. I have no idea what changes the Senate will make, or what the conference committee will do.
  
  In any event, I would prefer to see the funds used for bonuses recouped from the companies paying them, instead of from the recipients.
  
  What the whole mess has done is show, even our rather dense congresscritters, I hope, that passage of an humongous bill such as the stimulus package, without studying or even reading it, is stupid. They appear to have relied all too heavily on their betters in the administration, are now suffering some of the consequences, and are pointing fingers in every direction except at themselves.
  
  If the next major piece of legislation coming down from on high is passed under similar circumstances, and a newsworthy flaw is found, the anger currently on display will, and should be, exceeded by an order or two of magnitude.
  
  I hope it doesn't come to that.
  
  Dan(Miller)

• 44 - REMF(MCH)

  Mar 21, 2009 at 9:03 pm

  "We've got a country and a nation to save."
  "Which is which?"
  
  The country is Iraq, and the nation is Red Sox.
  
  
  

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