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(Chicago Sun-Times) Misc In getting his economic stimulus bill passed, perhaps Obama should have earmarked himself $1.74 million to cover his election victory party tab   (suntimes.com) divider line 72
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GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 09:30:47 AM  
Dear Chicago,

Sorry, haven't your heard? The economy is bad. But we'll get those evil evil rich people for you just as soon as the private investors come back. Then maybe we can talk about a reduced settlement.

The Fed

 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 09:39:36 AM  
How much did McCain's group crying jag cost Arizona?

 
Bored Horde 2009-02-20 09:40:11 AM  
GaryPDX: Dear Chicago,

Sorry, haven't your heard? The economy is bad. But we'll get those evil evil rich people for you just as soon as the private investors come back. Then maybe we can talk about a reduced settlement.

The Fed


The good thing about you Gary, is that you can reliably take the thread into full-retard mode in the opening post.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 09:41:49 AM  
oldfarthenry: How much did McCain's group crying jag cost Arizona?

I don't think it's about the amount. I think it's about actually getting paid. Everyone wants to party but no one wants to stick around and clean up. It's kind of a collective problem right now.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 09:42:55 AM  
Bored Horde: The good thing about you Gary, is that you can reliably take the thread into full-retard mode in the opening post.

Yea, those are some awesomely retarded Stock Market numbers we have going on..I agree.

 
Bored Horde 2009-02-20 09:49:14 AM  
GaryPDX: Yea, those are some awesomely retarded Stock Market numbers we have going on..I agree.

a) Stock Market
b) Obama's campaign owing Chicago 1.78 Million

Explain how a and b are related please.

 
Lundah [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 09:55:56 AM  
This is a town that took 6 months to tear up & repave the sidewalk on my block, and you expect the bill for that party to be paid up faster than that? Good one.

 
40yoVirgin [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 09:59:51 AM  
Bored Horde: Explain how a and b are related please.

Ooooh... if he does explain this, it'll be full of wackiness and nonsensical gibberish.

 
what_now [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:05:17 AM  
Gary'd in the Boobies.

Jesus.

 
PurplePimpSaber [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:06:00 AM  
Surgeon General's Warning: Exposure to GaryPDX may result in high blood pressure, cranial trauma (from bashing your head against your desk), aneurysms, and general psychological disorders.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:07:02 AM  
Bored Horde: Explain how a and b are related please.

Money.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:08:18 AM  
what_now: Gary'd in the Boobies.

Jesus.


lol..Should I keep hoping? Are you hoping? Is Hoping paying the rent? Maybe I should pick up a magic Beaver Tail..what do you think?

 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:11:55 AM  
Geez, people! Lay off Gary!
He's a lonely voice of conservatism in this dense hippie forest of liberalism!

Kinda like having a mullet haircut amongst a crowd of dreadlocks.

 
Bored Horde 2009-02-20 10:13:59 AM  
GaryPDX: lol..Should I keep hoping? Are you hoping? Is Hoping paying the rent? Maybe I should pick up a magic Beaver Tail..what do you think?

Did you start mixing cocaine into your coffee or something? The last time I talked with someone so obnoxious and unfunny, several lines were involved.

 
PurplePimpSaber [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:17:25 AM  
oldfarthenry: Geez, people! Lay off Gary!
He's a lonely voice of conservatism in this dense hippie forest of liberalism!

Kinda like having a mullet haircut amongst a crowd of dreadlocks.


If Gary is the voice of conservatism, then the Republicans will never win another election.

 
what_now [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:18:38 AM  
GaryPDX: what_now: Gary'd in the Boobies.

Jesus.

lol..Should I keep hoping? Are you hoping? Is Hoping paying the rent? Maybe I should pick up a magic Beaver Tail..what do you think?


Gary. Do you hope President Obama succeeds in pulling this country out of the downward spiral, yes or no?

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:21:52 AM  
Bored Horde: GaryPDX: lol..Should I keep hoping? Are you hoping? Is Hoping paying the rent? Maybe I should pick up a magic Beaver Tail..what do you think?

Did you start mixing cocaine into your coffee or something? The last time I talked with someone so obnoxious and unfunny, several lines were involved.


Well, first of all. 99% of the time you can bet what comes from me is snark. Oh and I'm a HUGE cynic. My point is, the "evil rich people" are the same people as the "private investor capital" that running for their lives from the stock market as along as two conditions exist:

1. The Fed keeps dicking around in a free market

2. The same people, with the same finger prints, are stll handling the money on this whole banking implosion.

When those two conditions change, we might stop collapsing. The Administration has effectively made targets of them. Ninety percent of America are paying their bills. Obama and the clowns in Congress have stirred up a big gigantic hornets nest.

Let the back peddling begin. Now he wants everyone to "spend wisely" to minimize political back lash.

I'm not impressed with these so called geniuses. Their game is up, gidgity gidgity.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:22:57 AM  
what_now: Gary. Do you hope President Obama succeeds in pulling this country out of the downward spiral, yes or no?

Of course not but America isn't going to take this government takeover shiat..this is America..remember?

 
Lundah [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:24:12 AM  
GaryPDX: 1. The Fed keeps dicking around in a free market

That's because the "free market" keeps asking the Fed for help.

 
what_now [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:24:48 AM  
GaryPDX: Of course not but America isn't going to take this government takeover shiat

What is the government taking over? The banks? I seem to recall those banks BEGGING for help from Big Brother.

GaryPDX: this is America..remember?

It's finally starting to resemble it again, yes.

 
PurplePimpSaber [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:28:52 AM  
GaryPDX: Bored Horde: GaryPDX: lol..Should I keep hoping? Are you hoping? Is Hoping paying the rent? Maybe I should pick up a magic Beaver Tail..what do you think?

Did you start mixing cocaine into your coffee or something? The last time I talked with someone so obnoxious and unfunny, several lines were involved.

Well, first of all. 99% of the time you can bet what comes from me is snark. Oh and I'm a HUGE cynic. My point is, the "evil rich people" are the same people as the "private investor capital" that running for their lives from the stock market as along as two conditions exist:

1. The Fed keeps dicking around in a free market

2. The same people, with the same finger prints, are stll handling the money on this whole banking implosion.

When those two conditions change, we might stop collapsing. The Administration has effectively made targets of them. Ninety percent of America are paying their bills. Obama and the clowns in Congress have stirred up a big gigantic hornets nest.

Let the back peddling begin. Now he wants everyone to "spend wisely" to minimize political back lash.

I'm not impressed with these so called geniuses. Their game is up, gidgity gidgity.


WTF does any of this shiat have to do with the DNC owing $1.75 million to the City of Chicago?

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:29:49 AM  
PurplePimpSaber: WTF does any of this shiat have to do with the DNC owing $1.75 million to the City of Chicago?

Money. I think I said that already.

 
jonasborg [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 10:51:03 AM  
Gas has gone down and all the companies who raised their prices because it cost way more to transport goods have continued to raise their prices. It's funny how opportunity is capitalized upon.

 
Bored Horde 2009-02-20 11:08:02 AM  
GaryPDX: Money. I think I said that already.

And hydrogen fusion is the engine that runs the universe. What the fark does that have to do with this thread?

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 11:14:12 AM  
perhaps Obama should have earmarked himself $1.74 million to cover his election victory party tab

Why? That was a DNC gig. Those pricks need to cough up the dough, not Obama, or his campaign.

 
Brad_Will [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-02-20 11:18:27 AM  
Pfft. This is Chicago we're talking about here. $1.739 million of that bill is probably kickbacks and bribes.

 
Mentat [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 11:27:03 AM  
GaryPDX: what_now: Gary. Do you hope President Obama succeeds in pulling this country out of the downward spiral, yes or no?

Of course not but America isn't going to take this government takeover shiat..this is America..remember?


img7.imageshack.us

My interpretation of the mind of a Fark Independent.

 
Lundah [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 12:07:56 PM  
*waits paitiently for Gary to whip out his "this is not Venezuela" talking point of the week...*

 
I_C_Weener [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 12:13:34 PM  
If Obama threw a party like this every years since Jesus died on the cross, he'd still have spent less than his stimulus plan!!!

 
HotLonelyTeenageGirl [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 12:38:44 PM  
Can you guys please lay off Gary? He's proud so he probably hasn't told you, but last night Obama's citizen army came to his house, took all of his guns, replaced all of his clothes with a standard government-issue uniform, and took his luxury items to redistribute them to PETA, the Black Welfare Queens union, with the rest to be sold to government programs providing free abortions and classes in masturbation and homosexuality for 8 year olds.

It's been a bad day for him.

 
Dust [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 12:43:11 PM  
Gary, people might actually take you seriously if you could at least confine your ramblings to the actual subject matter in each thread.

You don't see Bevets in threads like this trying to talk about Darwin and evolution, do you?

Pick your spots, man. Otherwise you come across as even more of a rambling lunatic, much like the guy on the street corner who claims that the FBI took his shoes away.

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 12:57:59 PM  
Would everyone please just put Gary on ignore? I'm tired of seeing threads derailed by his senseless bullshiat.

 
Dust [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 01:00:41 PM  
GAT_00: Would everyone please just put Gary on ignore? I'm tired of seeing threads derailed by his senseless bullshiat.

His snark can be really amusing when it's actually on-topic.

 
HotLonelyTeenageGirl [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 01:20:28 PM  
GAT_00: Would everyone please just put Gary on ignore? I'm tired of seeing threads derailed by his senseless bullshiat.

Gary never used to be crazy before, and actually contributes rather than trolling. I think this is probably why. Whether or not he and the rest of the Fark Independents(TM) will ultimately come back and have a nice cup of reality with us remains to be seen.

 
The Stealth Hippopotamus [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 02:28:36 PM  
GAT_00: Would everyone please just put Gary on ignore? I'm tired of seeing threads derailed by his senseless bullshiat

The internet is a scary place. Wear a cup.

 
Apik0r0s 2009-02-20 02:48:00 PM  
GaryPDX: Bored Horde: GaryPDX: lol..Should I keep hoping? Are you hoping? Is Hoping paying the rent? Maybe I should pick up a magic Beaver Tail..what do you think?

Did you start mixing cocaine into your coffee or something? The last time I talked with someone so obnoxious and unfunny, several lines were involved.

Well, first of all. 99% of the time you can bet what comes from me is snark. Oh and I'm a HUGE cynic. My point is, the "evil rich people" are the same people as the "private investor capital" that running for their lives from the stock market as along as two conditions exist:

1. The Fed keeps dicking around in a free market

2. The same people, with the same finger prints, are stll handling the money on this whole banking implosion.

When those two conditions change, we might stop collapsing. The Administration has effectively made targets of them. Ninety percent of America are paying their bills. Obama and the clowns in Congress have stirred up a big gigantic hornets nest.

Let the back peddling begin. Now he wants everyone to "spend wisely" to minimize political back lash.

I'm not impressed with these so called geniuses. Their game is up, gidgity gidgity.


img187.imageshack.us

 
RemyDuron 2009-02-20 02:48:15 PM  
GaryPDX: Well, first of all. 99% of the time you can bet what comes from me is snark. Oh and I'm a HUGE cynic. My point is, the "evil rich people" are the same people as the "private investor capital" that running for their lives from the stock market as along as two conditions exist:

Which would be important if lack of investors was our problem. Unfortunately, as has been pointed out MANY MANY times, it doesn't matter how many investors you have if no one will buy your farking product.

 
DrRatchet [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 02:49:23 PM  
$19,500 paid to police official Neil Sullivan to quarterback election night logistics.

How much did Mr. Sullivan work for his not-quite-twenty-grand? If someone presented me with a bill like this, I'd want to discuss it with them before paying too.

This is Chicago, folks. I expect there are negotiations going on as to how much of the bill is pork, how much is bribes, how much is corruption and how much is simple bullshiat. A bill will get payed, in full. It won't be the first bill that is presented.

 
moralpanic 2009-02-20 02:54:42 PM  
GaryPDX: PurplePimpSaber: WTF does any of this shiat have to do with the DNC owing $1.75 million to the City of Chicago?

Money. I think I said that already.


Wow, you really have gone completely farking stupid with the Obama victory.

i301.photobucket.com

 
GWShenlong05 [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 02:56:16 PM  
HotLonelyTeenageGirl: Gary never used to be crazy before, and actually contributes rather than trolling.

No he hasn't.

I've been around for almost as long as Gary has, and there has never been a point in his history with Fark, that I can remember, that he wasn't Walter Kovacs, with the added bonus of perpetual self-loathing and misogyny, stomping up and down the threads warning us the end is nigh.

That he may be able to conduct himself in light conversation every now and then doesn't change the fact that he's always been this way. Barking mad, and self-assured of his own genius that we just don't quite understand, but would if we just threw off the Liberal Thinking Caps™ and started calling it like it is.

In conclusion, there has never been a time when I was around on Fark, when I didn't think that GaryPDX's stupid should be harnessed, weaponized, and dispersed into the air of America's enemies.

 
ODDwhun 2009-02-20 03:02:55 PM  
GaryPDX: what_now: Gary. Do you hope President Obama succeeds in pulling this country out of the downward spiral, yes or no?

Of course not.


FTFY.

 
ZachF81 2009-02-20 03:03:47 PM  
I'm sure sooo much money has crossed between Obama and the Chi-town Daley posse over the past few years that this really isn't much of an issue to either of them.

 
NYZooMan 2009-02-20 03:09:00 PM  
Don't worry.

He'll have his Treasury Secretary hide that somewhere.
He's a pro at cheating the numbers!

 
absoluteparanoia 2009-02-20 03:09:54 PM  
GWShenlong05: HotLonelyTeenageGirl: Gary never used to be crazy before, and actually contributes rather than trolling.

No he hasn't.

I've been around for almost as long as Gary has, and there has never been a point in his history with Fark, that I can remember, that he wasn't Walter Kovacs, with the added bonus of perpetual self-loathing and misogyny, stomping up and down the threads warning us the end is nigh.

That he may be able to conduct himself in light conversation every now and then doesn't change the fact that he's always been this way. Barking mad, and self-assured of his own genius that we just don't quite understand, but would if we just threw off the Liberal Thinking Caps™ and started calling it like it is.

In conclusion, there has never been a time when I was around on Fark, when I didn't think that GaryPDX's stupid should be harnessed, weaponized, and dispersed into the air of America's enemies.


lol, too true

 
Shaggy_C 2009-02-20 03:14:28 PM  
i25.photobucket.com
This thread in a nutshell.

 
Clonod 2009-02-20 03:14:40 PM  
The revenue generated in downtown Chicago by having a few hundred thousand descend on a random November night far exceeded the $2 million price tag.

Cities spend hundreds of millions of dollars enticing conventions and sports franchises for exactly this reason.

 
Hat Madder 2009-02-20 03:15:34 PM  
If they can get Burris to resign, perhaps the Mayor and Governor can cut a deal on with next appointee for $1.74M

 
Edsel 2009-02-20 03:15:46 PM  
GWShenlong05: HotLonelyTeenageGirl: Gary never used to be crazy before, and actually contributes rather than trolling.

No he hasn't.

I've been around for almost as long as Gary has, and there has never been a point in his history with Fark, that I can remember, that he wasn't Walter Kovacs, with the added bonus of perpetual self-loathing and misogyny, stomping up and down the threads warning us the end is nigh.

That he may be able to conduct himself in light conversation every now and then doesn't change the fact that he's always been this way. Barking mad, and self-assured of his own genius that we just don't quite understand, but would if we just threw off the Liberal Thinking Caps™ and started calling it like it is.

In conclusion, there has never been a time when I was around on Fark, when I didn't think that GaryPDX's stupid should be harnessed, weaponized, and dispersed into the air of America's enemies.


Seconded. All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.

 
imbrial [TotalFark] 2009-02-20 03:25:32 PM  

 
hugram 2009-02-20 03:28:59 PM  
I_C_Weener:

If Obama threw a party like this every years since Jesus died on the cross, he'd still have spent less than his stimulus plan!!!

I seem to remember Bush pushing for the bailout... way before Obama was in office. Were you upset with Bush for pushing the $700B bailout?

 
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