I'm ALL FOR ANARCHY when I read crap like this. Either GWB is as corrupt as all of his conmen friends or we really have a dumb mutha fugger running our country IMO.

someone on Fark finally uses the tag correctly. Wow!

No, it should have an obvious tag.

Horray! What a leader that Dumbya is! All hail Dumbya! *cheers*

"HaHa"

The scary thing is, SLAYERSWINE, GW is probably both stupid and corrupt. Sweet jeebus what have we done to deserve this?

Time to put on the asbestos suit

Do as I say, and not as I do

dear mother dear father what is this hell you have put me through?

Damn you Florida.

GW is probably both stupid and corrupt. Sweet jeebus what have we done to deserve this?

well um . . . 49% of the americans who voted went for a guy who's a former DUI, cocaine abuser, oil baron, and (probably) handicapped-spot blocker.

you reap what you sew.

the funny thing about Good-Ole-Boy clubs is that they are all so yellow, that one doesn't hesitate and ratting the others out when they get in trouble.

too damn bad you have to go all the way across the "pond" to get news like this. The main(urine)stream US lap dog Press ain't got the stones to run this story.

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Actually I think it would be more ironic if a member of the Bush administration were not suspected of something.

Old news -- it was reported a few days ago. Thompson thought he had to sell off all his Providian shares upon being appointed assistant AG. However the ethics board is saying he just had to put the shares in an independent trust. Personally, I find it hard to believe he would be ignorant of such a major issue.

I've posted links to finance articles when the market has gone up and they didn't get through. Yet this week-old story gets through??

Certainly the standard-issue economic flamewar can be had in response to good and bad news...

Shawn Pickrell

Hmmm, time for asscroft to remind the American press that if they question the government, they go to Guantanama with the rest of the terrorists.

Well, well, well......Kinda makes you right wing staunch conservatives long for a good old fashioned democratic knob job to scream about dosen't it?

So much for bringing "integrity" and returing a "moral compass" to the White House.



/absolutely farking giddy

I'm starting a petition here in Texas to disown that boy, he aint from around here no more. Anybody wanna sign?

So basically, what's happening right now is that either someone got pissed and leaked the info on one guy (Enron) or some nosy reporter (Hero) stumbled across the fraud that was sitting right out in the open because the CEOs all though everyone new better than to fark with them.

And now, because one guy went down, Enron decided he wouldn't go alone, OR in case 2, GWB (being the president) had to make some noise about cleaning up corporate fraud, and because it's really blatant if one bothers to look, he found (surprise, surprise) that EVERYONE is doing it. Even him. *gasp* So now, regardless of whether or not Enron started the landslide for revenge, whoever's going down currently is not going to go down alone.

If it weren't for the economic HAVOC AND CHAOS these steaming piles of shiat were causing, I'd say all the more power to the backstabbers in Washington etc.--It's high time for house cleaning.

For how long will this hilarity ensue? Maybe this cleansing will cross the Atlantic and cause a bad cause of Frenchism in the rest of Europe.

Trust me,

Damn you TexasSkeptic, get out of my head!

He looks like Ice Cube's father in "Friday" - what's that smell, is that me.

Bush: "Hey I got an idea. Why don't we hire Mr. Fox here to watch the Hen House. As long as we pay him enough he will not feel the need to rob it."

a guy who's a former DUI, cocaine abuser, oil baron, and (probably) handicapped-spot blocker
It's called character, iff you are in the GOP.

cause = case

Maybe I'm just the 1% minority, but I'm glad stuff like this is coming out. I've seen reports of it, and it looks WAY overblown... but I don't trust the media to get facts right on stuff I know about and can check. When it comes to financial law, I'll believe it when I see it.

But this is the way this stuff is supposed to work. To get rid of corruption, put it on display. And if the guy in charge of cleaning up the corporations goes down, you damn sure bet the next one will be investigated much harder.

Until then, expect the usual finger-pointing and lack of facts.

OK, who's surprised? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

lets roll

Two dollars says that nobody in "w's" cabinet use turn signals for lane changes.

Sure, this might be bad, but it sure beats having to worry about if the President lied about getting a blow in the White House. Thank you Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Lott.

Anyone seeing a pattern emerging?

Yeah, white-male-patterned-boldness.

If this guy worked for Clinton, he would end up pushing up daisies as the result of a freak accident.

Irascible: Well, well, well......Kinda makes you right wing staunch conservatives long for a good old fashioned democratic knob job to scream about dosen't it?

Nope, I can do just fine with the situation at hand. By being conservative doesn't mean that I need a democrat to scream at to make my point, and I don't side with just anyone who identifies him/herself as conservative. If they can prove that Thompson is guilty of corporate fraud, they should kick is ass outta there. But I've got another theory on the matter.

It's interesting to note that Judicial Watch, the watchdog group going after him, is also going after Cheney, who sold his stocks at Halliberton upon becoming vice president. Notice the link? They both sold their stocks upon being admitted into public office.

How does this matter? Remember that back in January 2001, lots of the democrats were badmouthing Bush and his potential cabinet as being in cahoots with big business, and their massive ownership of business stock proved it. Basically, they were saying that you couldn't hold stock in a company (i.e. energy) whose profits you could personally affect from your position of power. They'd just encourage the passage of bills favoring that company and watch their stocks' value skyrocket. With a house and senate controlled by republicans at the time, the democrats were shouting that Bush and co. could easily do this.

So what do Bush and most of his staff do? They sell their stocks in said companies to avoid political pressure. Now these same critics come back and hound them again for doing exactly what they pressured them to do a year and a half earlier.

Of course, with the stock market tanking (as Bush predicted back in November 2000), we have to investigate them now to make certain that they didn't have any insider information, but don't get your hopes up on there being too much meat behind this case. Critics tried to accuse the same thing of Bush with Harken, but when everybody learned that Bush would have made twice the money he did had he held onto his stock for 2 more months, the argument that he had insider information pretty much went out the window and out of the news spotlight.

"Mr Thompson's office was not available to comment last night."
Mr. Thompson was also unavailable for atomic wedgies and electric anal probes.

Pedantic -

I agree. I think that GWB, Cheney and many others are suspect. I have lost a chunk of change, not as bad as most people, but it is kind of a clean feeling to get it all out. Who cares if the numbers are up if they dont mean anything.
Anyway if its all true about Bush and Cheney then I hope they go down in flames, but lets prove it first.

that and farkers who can't read articles but have no problem jumping to conclusions.

Yup.

Note that it comes from "a shareholder suit" (not even filed by the shareholder, but on behalf of a Texan in a California court). I've seen many of those -- they're filed against companies when their stock doesn't do what some buyer wanted it to do. Almost NEVER do they have any proof about anything; they just wanted better returns, didn't get them, and decide to sue.

This could be a real problem, and there's no denying that. Thompson could have done something illegal. It could also just be a baseless lawsuit.

Me, I'll wait until something more is known.

See yah!

Popain-

Because after ads, sports, weather, and some cheery wit from commentators, most news organizations only have time for about 4-5 news stories per year.

It takes a thief...

It's funny, because no matter how many skeletons are found in Bush's closet, there will still be people on FARK that will rise from the depths EVERY TIME to defend him. Pedantic, I'm looking in your direction. On the one hand, this doesn't suprise me, but on the other, it's still awfully stupid that people will refuse to look at all the ugly evidence that is creeping in on their poster boy and his staff.

I bet if Bush killed a kid with his bare hands, people would still defend him as an upholder of truth, justice, and the American Way.

And before anyone says how I'm a tree hugging hippy/commie/terrorist/trendy government basher, I'm not really any of those things. I was pretty neutral on the presidential election (didn't like either of em), I think that PETA is insane, and Greenpeace is a far extremist group, and I find that several people in Bush's cabinet are doing an outstanding job. However, the fact that I dislike the puppet strings coming out of Bush's elbows and you refuse to see them doesn't make the piled up evidence of corporate ties and fraud any less important.

i was talking about print news cheeto.

yeah, it's kind of ironic. but surprising? no.
the whole administration's full of scumbags and crooks.

It's funny, because no matter how many skeletons are found in Bush's closet, there will still be people on FARK that will rise from the depths EVERY TIME to defend him. Pedantic, I'm looking in your direction.

Point to the defense, then. I said that the man involved (Larry Thompson) could well be involved in a baseless lawsuit (the same type of suit which has been launched at over half the IPO software companies since '98). He may have done something illegal -- he may not. Before we brand him a crook, have some proof.

That you take that as a defense of Bush and everything he does, and exaggerate it to the ridiculous lengths you do, tells me how partisan you are.

Thanks, Tairngire. You told more about you than about me.