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MLS's Worst Nightmare Comes True As Its Biggest Stars Get Knocked Out Of Playoffs

If the objective is to put photogenic stars on television for the finals and make a bunch of money, why not simply stop pretending the league is about talent after all? End the farce. Put the teams with the most endorsements and fluff piece writeups in the finals, every year.

Otherwise, accept that these stars didn't carry their teams this year, and that some of these "non-superstars", by contrast, actually earned it.

Here's What Happens When You Criticize Bitcoin

Friend, *I* find it interesting how you think you know my views or who I am without even much getting to know me.

First of all, I never said I wanted the government to "protect Madoff victims". Caveat emptor, certainly - I only cited this as an example of how dealing in dollars is no guarantee that one's value will be protected, and no guarantee that the government can retrieve one's stolen assets either.

Far more important to me are the systemic frauds of LIBOR and the mortgage crises, because THOSE scandals defrauded a great many more people with much less reason to believe they were getting ripped off; and my anger comes in there because my grandfather was chairman of the FDIC during the S&L bailouts - and for that crisis, one-one-hundredth the size of the Great Recession, over a THOUSAND people were prosecuted. In this era the number of major fraud cases brought has literally been LESS than the fingers on one hand. And no, citing Taibbi does not mean the "system is working". It is not; Taibbi is a financial journalist, not a regulator - and Goldman and the other major banks responsible for this crash have certainly not taken a break from donating money to Obama, Romney, et. al., to take a look at whether or not they're doing anything wrong, and as a result neither are the regulators.

Characterizing me as a libertarian would be inaccurate; it is more accurate to say that I am a moderate who has been influenced strongly by the libertarians after witnessing the vast unprosecuted frauds of this recession. I certainly believe in using the power of the FDIC and SEC to go after criminals; and this has not been done in any way, shape, or form that matters since 2008 - indeed, probably in much longer.

Here's What Happens When You Criticize Bitcoin

"Greasy haired 17 year olds in Moscow manipulating markets and stealing your "supposed" money."

Yes, by all means let's stick with the existing system of 60-year-olds in New York and London manipulating markets and stealing our ACTUAL money instead. :D

Here's What Happens When You Criticize Bitcoin

Yes, tell us more about how the United States government has been nothing but assiduous in protecting dollar-based investments over the last five years.

Perhaps you could explain that to the victims of Bernie Madoff. Or the millions of homeowners who were quietly sold fraudulent mortgages and put out of their homes by the TARP banks who donate millions to the major candidates of both parties every cycle and thereby escape prosecution. Or perhaps we can get the military to do something about the foreign ties between large investment banks like Goldman Sachs and the Bank of England via the LIBOR scandal, in which billions were stolen from municipal pension funds and which Matt Taibbi described as the largest single systemic fraud perpetrated against the world's people in the history of markets?

Here's What Happens When You Criticize Bitcoin

By the way, that line you do not understand is a meme from the Penny Arcade webcomic.

It was a throwaway joke, then as now, originally written about the founder of Infinium Labs - but the fact that you can't place it is just another one of those small signs that shows me you do not really understand Internet culture, or Internet currencies either.

Here's What Happens When You Criticize Bitcoin

Well, Joe, you said some stupid shit. As I recall, you didn't just criticize Bitcoin in a rational and balanced way; no, you said the dollar was better because the "US military could enforce its use if it had to."

Can you show me ONE historical example of a currency that has prospered through being FORCED at GUNPOINT on people? Does the notion that you would even have to WRITE about such a possibility perhaps show you WHY people are upset with central banks and the Fed and seeking decentralized alternatives?

Bitcoin Is A Joke

Every statist, pro-government, the-government-should-use-military-force-to-coerce-the-use-of-the-dollar reason you just gave, Weisenthal, is a reason that trust in traditional central banks is plummeting and Bitcoin is surging.

FBI-Tested Tactics For Quickly Building Rapport With Anyone

"Establish artificial time constraints", eh?

You have to love an article written by the FBI on how to schmooze that starts off by attempting to establish a reasonable basis of deceit with which to alter the rest of the discussion.

Some of the rest of this is good advice, but if it doesn't come from the heart it won't build rapport at all. This kind of neurolinguistic programming drama has been misleading people on how to build core relationships for years, because it doesn't start with "foster an attitude of mutual regard and respect".

Dale Carnegie's "How To Win Friends And Influence People" is a much better approach to this subject, for it does advocate mutual regard and honesty, as well as getting out of oneself somewhat to ask what you can do for your business partners as well as what they can do for you.


Wow. Think it'll fall all the way to junk? Does anyone in the investing or business world want to buy any part of this company anymore or is it considered akin to buying someone else's totalled car?

Courtney Love Accuses Katy Perry Of Producing 'Artless Pop'

Cobain's death may not have been as "suicidal" as we are told, and Courtney knows why.


"Bush was humble"? When was that?

When he said "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties" in 2003? Or perhaps "You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror" in 2006? Maybe you prefer "I'll be long gone before some smart person figures out what happened in this Oval Office" in 2008?

The WORST part of watching Obama blow his Presidency is the way it is enabling the same people who couldn't tell that Bush bombed us on 9/11 to keep supporting him or suggesting he was better in any way. There's no difference; they were both mass murderers financed by Wall Street who abused our military. There's really no difference in any of these CIA puppets; but apparently "identity politics" still predominates, eh?

Europe Just Released A Horrific Set Of Unemployment Stats

Yes, because finessing the numbers with statistical trickery wasn't part of what caused the labor crisis in the Eurozone to begin with at all, right?

By all means let's teach them how to cheat more properly like we do, so they too can have a "seven to eight percent unemployment rate" with only sixty percent of the population fully employed.

Europe Just Released A Horrific Set Of Unemployment Stats

Let's all give a round of applause to Goldman Sachs for helping Greece fraudulently enter the Eurozone while collecting a $300 million fee, destroying several trillion dollars in wealth, driving the young of Europe into poverty and the poverty-stricken elderly into suicide, and bribing every relevant United States politician to avoid any and all international prosecution.


It's not just that. A LOT of Facebook's users have been unhappy with its atrocious site governance, Zuck's fawning belly-over to Federal agents and local police doing un-Constitutional searches, their literal use of the DEAD to boost "like" counts for those with enough cash, and possibly worse. Facebook's ethics are terrible.

I've long said that this company is drastically overvalued simply based on the fact that their only successful product is one website without very many unique features. At least Apple, Google, and Microsoft have long lines of successful physical products that can't be duplicated by a small team of coders in a few months. Myspace was the hottest site on the planet once too; how did that work out for everyone?

ROBERT SHILLER: Young People With A Moral Purpose Should Work For Goldman Sachs, Not Google

They share that with Goldman and other Wall Street banks who financed them.

The Sad Conversation Bill Ackman And Dan Loeb Reportedly Had Before They Stopped Speaking

Honestly, is there actually anything wrong with Dan Loeb for blasting CEOs who take lavish pay and perks and laze around on company jets and don't work hard enough?

Or is there something wrong with the rest of Wall Street for NOT doing so?

NSA MEDIA STRATEGY: When All Else Fails, Mention 9/11

Anyone surprised?

That's all 9/11 ever was; an excuse. It was an attack ON America BY the CIA and Israel's Mossad - blamed on Muslims, there to provide a pretext for war in the Middle East, for the benefit of Rockefeller oil and Rothschild gold, because Iraq and Afghanistan were seen as obstacles to the "Greater Israel" plan and the PNAC needed an excuse for war. It's why five dancing Israelis were caught filming the 9/11 attacks and cheering; then quietly deported to Israel with no investigation. It's why the NSA is giving private American data to the Mossad and multibillion-dollar Homeland Security contracts to Israel right now.

America has been so fully betrayed by our "allies" that it is a joke. Israel despises the United States. The most common thing I hear from Israelis - even the ones who do not know the truth - is that "9/11 made the stupid Americans know what it's like to live under terror". Netanyahu said it was "good for Israel" and would "generate immediate sympathy" - which was, of course, the point. And so it has proven to be. As another Israeli official said, "in America, you can criticize God but you can't criticize Israel" - ESPECIALLY since 9/11.

All I can hope is that the terrible karma of such evil, craven, heartless acts comes back around for everyone who betrayed this country.

EIKE BATISTA: The Downfall Of A $30 Billion Tycoon


No massive Mossad terror attacks in America blamed on Muslims for Lord Rothschild to watch this weekend, eh? I guess squeezing insolvent gas and mining companies is what they do on a slow day.

GOLDMAN SACHS PRESIDENT: 'I Feel Bad For JPMorgan And What They're Going Through'

Don't worry, Cohn. Once Goldman's short sales of airlines before 9/11/2001 are one day fully investigated, the kind of prosecutions that will happen to you all will be far, far worse.

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