[wacor]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

You be the whiner Bill - it's who you are - your nature - in your genes.

-- Tom

You and the rest of the cut and cap crowd always get your panties in a bunch when anything critical of their habits is mentioned

[lotuseclat79]

You need a violin to accompany your musak Bill! Try one of the new fungi models - I hear their tone is better than a Stradi!

-- Tom

[lotuseclat79]

Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on Capitalism, Healthcare, Latin American "Populism" and the "Farcical" Financial Crisis.

Zizek’s latest offering also excerpted in the October issue of Harper"s magazine opens with the words: “The only truly surprising thing about the 2008 financial meltdown is how easily the idea was accepted that its happening was unpredictable.” He goes on to recall how the demonstrations against the IMF and the World Bank over the past decade all protested the ways in which banks were playing with money and warned of an impending crash.

Full story at Democracy Now.

AMY GOODMAN: You write, “Is the bailout then really a ‘socialist’ measure? If it is, it takes a peculiar form: a ‘socialist’ measure whose primary aim is to help not the poor but the rich, not those who borrow but those who lend.”

Read it if you dare right-tighties! LAN would croak on the spot - all of his assumptions would blow away in the wind! Mulder would be wearing brown pants!

-- Tom