Taibbi's Bankster Blowback

[don]

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Who's that creepin' in the background, a bishop?

[Raz]

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I'm an atheist, but I have the same sentiments (minus the God part). They certainly aren't worried about leaving the world better than they found it, or using their wealth to leave any sort of positive legacy. An 1800's railroad or steel worker no doubt cursed Andrew Carnegie's name, but at least he built some libraries.

"You can't take it with you" is a cliche but it also happens to be true.

Being a theist (Eastern Orthodox Christian) I would say that's not completely true.

But the only thing you can take with you is what you gave away.

[jiimbergin]

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Being a theist (Eastern Orthodox Christian) I would say that's not completely true.

But the only thing you can take with you is what you gave away.

+1 (except I am a Missouri Synod Lutheran)

[makimanos]

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all itulipers, atheists, theists, deists and heretics. after all 2012 will be an interesting year.

[Shakespear]

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This is the lesson of history that we must never forget.

(from Jesse's Cafe Americain)

In that case the Plebs would be harder to "rule".

"You can't take it with you" is a cliche but it also happens to be true.

Many do not understand the deeper meaning of this.

[Shakespear]

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Sutter - Your comment about Monica was swirling in my mind and my initial reaction was to address it along a different direction then the one I am taking now. I remembered that she was stabbed and her career was put on hold for some time. Well I went GOOGL-ing and found this INSANE situation.

In spring 1993, 19-year-old Monica Seles was the top women’s tennis player in the world. She had dominated the 1992 Women’s Tennis Association season, winning 10 tournaments and concluding the year with a decisive victory over the legendary Martina Navratilova that for many symbolized a changing of the guard in women’s tennis.

She won her eighth career grand slam in January 1993, defeating second-ranked Steffi Graf in the Australian Open final. That April, she was playing in a tournament in Hamburg, Germany, the home country of Graf.

Now here is how the "crazy" fan who stabbed her fared which I did not know until just now.

Guenter Parche, a fanatic fan of Steffi Graf, was convicted today of stabbing her tennis rival, Monica Seles. The Hamburg District Court gave Parche a suspended two-year sentence and the 39-year-old German, an unemployed lathe operator, walked away a free man.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/14/sp...-sentence.html

After all this she tried to come back but it was not to be on the same level she had before.

[shiny!]

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all itulipers, atheists, theists, deists and heretics. after all 2012 will be an interesting year.

This Sikh seconds that emotion.

"* bless us, everyone!"