Keating 5:John McCain and a Financial Crisis

On my Soapbox

I can understand how people would prefer McCain/Palin over the Obama/Biden ticket. I can also understand how people believe that people who strive to educate themselves and work very hard to be informed about a wide variety of subjects can be hated by those who do not exhibit such intellectual curiosity. I can also understand how people measure a person’s worthiness by their capacity to badger or berate another person for perceived weaknesses. I can also understand how people think that anyone who is not religious is incapable of having morals. I can also understand how people who reject education and learning believe that they are correct in all matters, and if someone dares to question them on this matter, then obviously they are unpatriotic. I can also understand how people who are willfully ignorant about anything that does not happen in their backyard also cry out that anyone who does not see things their way, does not have an open mind.

There is a lot I understand about people, because I have see a lot of people from a lot of different places, in a lot of different places. Not everybody is the same, not everybody has the same beliefs, not everybody wants a government which is democratically elected, not everybody wants a capitalist society, not everyone believes that Jesus is their Lord and Savior, not everybody believes that medical procedures designed to save lives should be illegal, not everybody belittles someone for not being as “tough” or “macho” as them, not everybody thinks that because they have been rebuked that their have been insulted and not everybody is so fiercely dominated by fear that they must attempt to wield that emotion like a sword in order to dominate everyone else.

I would like to have both a President and Vice-President who are capable of speaking in complete sentences. I would like to have both a President and Vice President who understand there is a great big world out there and that not everybody sees things our way. I would like a President and Vice President who exhibit more than a passing curiosity in matters which require application of their minds rather than their fists.

If I am hated for this, then so be it. I will be proud to be hated by people who hate anything which does not fall into their tiny circle of personal knowledge. Just remember this, if all the jocks, gearheads, beauty queens, gossipers and popular people in the high school lunchroom manage to run all the geeks, nerds, art-fags, band-geeks, immigrants and people who do not “fit in” out of the country, then the country will be devoid of scientists, doctors, and professors who collect the knowledge necessary for technology, weapons, engineering, and economy.

A nerd we can believe in

This has been circulating today

If this weren’t so scary, I’d be laughing…

SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

DEAR AMERICAN:

I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.

I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU.

I AM WORKING WITH MR. PHIL GRAM, LOBBYIST FOR UBS, WHO WILL BE MY REPLACEMENT AS MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY IN JANUARY. AS A SENATOR, YOU MAY KNOW HIM AS THE LEADER OF THE AMERICAN BANKING DEREGULATION MOVEMENT IN THE 1990S. THIS TRANSACTIN IS 100% SAFE.

THIS IS A MATTER OF GREAT URGENCY. WE NEED A BLANK CHECK. WE NEED THE FUNDS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WE CANNOT DIRECTLY TRANSFER THESE FUNDS IN THE NAMES OF OUR CLOSE FRIENDS BECAUSE WE ARE CONSTANTLY UNDER SURVEILLANCE. MY FAMILY LAWYER ADVISED ME THAT I SHOULD LOOK FOR A RELIABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY PERSON WHO WILL ACT AS A NEXT OF KIN SO THE FUNDS CAN BE TRANSFERRED.

PLEASE REPLY WITH ALL OF YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, IRA AND COLLEGE FUND ACCOUNT NUMBERS AND THOSE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN TO WALLSTREETBAILOUT@TREASURY.GOV SO THAT WE MAY TRANSFER YOUR COMMISSION FOR THIS TRANSACTION. AFTER I RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION, I WILL RESPOND WITH DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT SAFEGUARDS THAT WILL BE USED TO PROTECT THE FUNDS.

YOURS FAITHFULLY MINISTER OF TREASURY PAULSON

…now the Republican policy has driven us right into a Socialist Economy Scam, thanks alot guys.