I just couldn’t resist! These are from yesterday during Obama’s campaign stop in California:
Photo 1:
(update: please note the upper left corner)
Photo 2:
Photo 3:
Open thread, but I found this gem to discuss:
WASHINGTON – At least 13 firms receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes, a key lawmaker said Thursday.
Rep. John Lewis, chairman of a House subcommittee overseeing the federal bailout, said two firms owe more than $100 million apiece.
“This is shameful. It is a disgrace,” said Lewis, D-Ga. “We are going to get to the bottom of what is going on here.”
The House Ways and Means subcommittee on oversight discovered the unpaid taxes in a review of tax records from 23 of the firms receiving the most money, Lewis said as he opened a hearing on the issue.
“If we looked at all 470 recipients, how much would they owe?” Lewis asked.
He did not name the firms owing back taxes.
Banks and other firms receiving federal money were required to sign contracts stating they had no unpaid taxes, Lewis said. But he said the Treasury Department did not ask them to turn over their tax records.
Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, told the hearing that if an executive signed a contract knowing that information about unpaid taxes was false, “that would potentially be a crime.” He said his office will look to see if crimes were committed.
The revelation is sure to spark outrage on Capitol Hill, where the House is expected to vote Thursday on a bill that would impose steep taxes on employee bonuses at firms that have received bailout money.
To date, the Troubled Asset Relief Program has paid out more than $300 billion to private companies, with billions more on the way.
As much as I dislike Dodd, he’s not the only one at fault. Jus’ sayin’.
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Photo 1: Can’t see the Teleprompter!
Photo 2: (guy in striped shirt) “¡Que pinche pendejo!”
Photo 3: “F__ck, this is harder than I thought it would be.”
LMAO.
My captions below are inspired by yours.
photo three: Quick, check the rag for stigmata!
LOL!!!!!!
We must prove his divineness, or else!
Good one!!!!
Caption 1: “I didn’t get a harrrumph outta that guy!”
Caption 2: “Hey wait a minute, Hussein ,Schmussein, that’s just a white guy dipped in caramel!”
Caption 3: “In a unguarded moment W2 re-applies his caramel.”
#3: LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the W2 reference!
W squared to 10th power
Caption #1: Land ho!
Caaption #3: Koolade makes you sweat.
#1. Teleprompsident Obama suddenly realizes that a secret puma agent must have switched the font to 8 point.
#2. “What do you mean, you never promised us healthcare?”
#3. Warning: Plastic president melts in direct sunlight.
If you look at the top left corner, the teleprompter is RIGHT THERE.
Obama is a hot ass mess.
I just hope Dodd goes down swinging…he ready should, since he’s going down anyway.
Oh, please, email this back taxes bullshit out to every news source you know, and anywhere else you can think of.
If this gets coverage, the people are going to FLIP OUT.
This could be a PUMA Pac prowl!
Paging Murphy, Mama Puma…. paging Murphy, Mama Puma…
I can’t BELIEVE this guy spends weeks and mountains of moola reenacting the primaries glory days rather than freaking working…I love how he takes Air Force One to camp David, and then lectures on waste.
OT – AIG is a good diversion but yesterday they decided to monetize the deficit – brace yourself – the bottom is about to fall out from under us!
Dak – could you expand on this for all of us???? 😯
If I’m not mistaken monetization of the debt means increasing the money supply. In other words, the Fed prints up some more greenbacks to buy debt that the Treasury has issued. End result –> inflation
Photo 1: “I’m speechless! There’s too much glare on my teleprompter!”
Photo 2: “I know you voted for me because I’m Teh One, so don’t get mad at me now! Get over it! Where else ya gonna go?”
Photo 3: “Oh Gawd! I need a ciggie!”
What I like about this the most is how Obama brought the heat of this meltdown on himself. He is the one who used his bullyprompter to throw gasoline on the fires of AIG. Why did he get out there in front to play cheerleader of the mobs? His ratings are falling and it looked like a quick, cheap way to gain the populist flag. He unleashed a firestorm and now he is burning in it. LOL
I was thinking about this last night and I believe he did it because, well, he was a community organizer and that is what they do. They inflame the mob to go after corporations to shake them down. Same reason he set his baying pack on Rushbo, without pausing to think that perhaps community organizer ummm skills aren’t really what it’s about when you are president.
My caption for #3.
Blowback sucks.
BTW. I am in Ojai, CA; a pretty liberal artsy community. There are demonstrators in front of the post office with petitions to impeach Pelosi. LOL Such a fun filled day in sunny CA.
Interesting tidbit Jangles!
Also, I have heard so much about the beauty of Ojai. Would love to go some day.
Someone needs to start this in her own district: SF and Marin counties. But they love her, so it probably wouldn’t work.
Well, I’m across the bay and can tell you not everyone around here loves her.
#1- Wait, I see them……
#2- The ponies are coming…..
#3- Man, am I green!! (don’t know how to do an honest day’s work)
New bailout coming up
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=OBR&date=20090319&id=9711872
5 billion for auto suppliers.
ugh. I am almost at a sensory overload of badness.
1. Is there an economist in the house? I need a new Treasury Secretary!
2. Whew! I don’t think these two went to Obama camp!
3. Now I know what they mean by flop sweat.
bb — LOL!!
Someone on another blog noted that when those paltry little stimulus checks were sent out to average Americans, if you owed back taxes or child support, they took it out.
Different rules for the Big Boyz, once again.
Exactly, I stopped paying my school loans in 2006 (I haven’t even finished school yet), and I can’t even dream about finishing my degree until I pay back what I owe.
Each time I file for taxes, any refund money also goes back against the school loans.
AND THEN I SEE THIS. Bailouts galore for the rich & non-taxpaying companies.
#1: Speak up, move to the front, I can’t see you or hear you
#2: Your homeless and want to know if there is room in the White House
#3: Man, Michelle is gonna be pissed off that I told those homeless people they could move in.
WMCB: They took my son’s stimulus package, because he was “no longer in the military” and owed for some supplies that weren’t turned.
They stop-lossed him a month later. He is in Iraq right now.
How big was his stimulus package, Kim?
$600 and they took it all. Now isn’t that just a big old slap in the face. You can’t have the stimulus, because you aren’t in the military anymore. Three weeks later, it is oops “my bad”, you are in the military, now scoot your a$$ on to the sandbox.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😡
You mean he was out of the military and they forced him back in?
The stop-loss policy, he was 13 days from his release date. He had been IRR for four years.
My heart goes out to your family, Kim.
Very bad.
Bastards.
Yes, bastards it the correct word – W
#1 – Obama elevates teleprompter #1 to position as 5-star General.
#2 – Obama promises supporters a pound of arugula in every pot.
#1: LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s the TOTUS! Salute!
Looks llike the teleprompter is working well
This is what TOTUS had to say about (from Teleprompter’s blog link below:)
LOL!! I hope “TOTUS” goes viral.
May we just say TOT for short? Somehow seems fitting….
About bernanke printing money:
“When Does Faith in Financial Engineering Wane?”
http://tinyurl.com/cs38ql
Laurie,
I’ve been reading the econ blogs and this looks very risky to me. Dakinikat said she would put up a thread about it today.
Look at this.
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/
The guy at Market Ticker says that everyone should have enough cash to last 2 years, and try to become self sufficient–chickens, goats, and enough land to grow all the food you need. Those who can’t do that will be fu&*ed.
2 years?????
I don’t even have enough for 2 seconds!
LOL, I love advice like this…especially the land buying suggestion.
Hey, but look on the bright side, those who can do that will surely be looted and robbed by those who can’t so no worries. 🙂
Christ. I almost wish I had not read that.
boomer….does he suggest that we keep our money in the Vlaasic Pickle Jar Savings & Loan?
great captions, all.
don’t know whether to laugh or cry!
Get a hold of this new blog! It is hillarious.
http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/
Yes, it’s the teleprompter’s blog.
Now THAT’S funny! ROFLMAO!
The teleprompter is even on Twitter!
“Barack Obama’s Teleprompter’s Blog
Reflections from the hard drive of the machine that enables the voice of the Leader of the Free World”
LOL!!!!!
I LOVE THIS!!!!
People are emailing this to me too. It’s instantly viral.
OMG That’s too funny!!!!
All hail TOTUS!
OMG, I LOVE IT! I hope it goes viral as hell – too funny!
oh, Easterner – that is very funny thanks 😆
From Tim Duy’s Fed Watch-“Quick Post on the Oregon Employment Report”
A quick forecast, based on monthly nonfarm payroll figures since 2000, indicated that the Oregon job loss for February would be -13,800. This was a relatively pessimistic forecast, especially compared to the official state forecast, but I thought it was justified given the strong spike in initial unemployment claims at the end of last year.
Today the official numbers were released- nonfarm payrolls in Oregon declined by 21,700. A number best described as virtually freefall. The unemployment rate now stands at 10.8%. Dismal.
http://tinyurl.com/d7qb6r
And that’s Oregon. Big land state, little in population though.
I don’t even wanna know Florida’s.
And my husband is looking for a job in our home state of … Oregon. Ugh.
That’s just what we need right now, a few trillion of funny money and some hyperinflation. Bring on the locusts!!
Dodd has “pledged to go through his list and give back or donate to charity the contributions linked to bailout money. The bulk of Dodd’s AIG money during the just-completed campaign season came from about a dozen AIG executives” (three of whom may have received bonuses).
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/ci_11945511
I trust Dodd about as far as I can throw him.
Can we throw him to the moon?
Yep, he’s wily. I’m hoping this “loophole” trips him up good.
Dodd really needs to be held accountable and asked some questions under oath, as do many other committee chairs, regulators etc.
Rush has been referring to POTUS as TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States).
Photo number one really supports the TOTUS title (wouldn’t it be fun if someone collected as many pictures as possible of Obama reading from his teleprompter and assembled into a great big collage).
The following article is from yesterday, but in case anyone missed it, I’m including the link. I found it surprising to actually see the Obama myths covered in such a prominent political news source.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20118.html
“I’ve concluded that much of the conventional wisdom about Obama is wrong. Here are five of the biggest misconceptions:”
To summarize, the 5 myths are that he is bold, a great communicator, put together a team of rivals, is smooth and has a good relationship with the media.
What KILLS ME is that we knew this a year and some odd months ago.
They belittled us, called us racists and every name in the book all because we did not want to vote for an empty suit.
Now the curtain is up, it’s their show and they are screwing up in ways that we knew they would.
Oh well, we told them so.
The guy that wrote the article worked for the Republican National Committee last year, and he obviously became aware of many of these myths during the campaign season. I’ve always suspected the Republicans didn’t play to win.
I’ve always suspected the Republicans didn’t play to win.
Bingo.
LOL
I didn’t see last night’s town hall, but someone said he did not use a teleprompter. DId he or didn’t he?
Kim, photo #1 is from one of the town halls- and TOTUS is in the upper left corner.
Sorry didn’t see it.
We should make a game of this – maybe people with cameras at his events will catch on. Like “where’s Waldo” — spot the TOTUS!
LOLOLOLO
#1 The sun – the glare is blotting out the teleprompter text. What to say… my mind is a blank… where are my handlers… hey, there’s my reflection, don’t I look cool as always! I’m so fascinating. I could gaze at myself forever. Where was I?
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3842395&referralPlaylistId=undefined
I just got this link to Greta’s interview with Chris Dodd off of Gretawire. Greta was a good one to get this interview, because she asks follow up questions (such as who in the Treasury asked for the language modifications).
So Geithner has a “flood of issues on his desk” and we need to “have confidence in him” and give him time to deal with them?
What happened to walking and chewing gum at the same time?
AND Dodd is an ignoble cad. It’s clear as hell that he’s guilty as hell, and also clear that he’s doing all he can to foist the guilt off onto the treasury dept (who i’m sure deserves it). What’s that saying? There is no honor among thieves.
#1 – Look! What’s that over there! Ignore the men behind the empty suit!
Photo 1: The Hell with this prompter – can I get an ear piece?
Photo 2: What eyes you have – I love you more than my husband
Photo 3: Give me back my tele prom – I don’t know what to say?
By the way I love this caption exercise – good way to vent out.
Photo 1: “You were right, Colonel Custer, sir. Here comes them Injuns.”
Photo 1: Ahoy there matey. You might not recognize me, Michelle won’t let me wear my sailor suit anymore.
Photo 2: No habla espanol, without a teleprompter
Photo 3: That Damned Dodd is making me sweat.
#1- Commander Teleprompter, sir! Sgt. Karaoke reporting for duty, sir!
#2- If you look close enough, you can see the words of the teleprompter reflecting off the back of his empty skull.
#3- Damn, I need a uh uh uh, breathalyzer…I mean a uh, inhalator!
Obama is SHOCKED that he asked Dodd to write in that loop hole. He is shocked angry and disgusted at himself for sure.
Photo 3:
George Bush wipes off the latex blackface(barackface?)
As far as the article…. anybody ever see “Dave?”
For God’s sake get someone with some common sense in office!!!!
Photo 1: Before I get started, I salute the one that makes me who I am… my teleprompter.
Photo 2: You’re right. Every time Obama’s lips move he IS lying.
Photo 3: Preznident’n is hard. Can I go read to some second graders now?
Photo#3: Hot flashes–they’re not just for PUMAS anymore.
LOL!!!!
🙂 !!!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LISTEN TO CONFLUCIANs SAY!
Coming in late – but I can’t resist responding to this:
1. “Hey Rahm, where’s the teleprompter?!”
2. “Actually, if you keep your status as illegal, you might have a better shot at getting a drivers license.”
3. Okay, Rahm, I’ll sign the rest of these. Just don’t expect me to read this stuff.”