Comments on: In His Own Words

By: Mesa Econoguy

Mesa Econoguy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:54:40 +0000

Oh, and yeah, Gore could easily go to jail for his Apple insider trading.

By: Mesa Econoguy

Mesa Econoguy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:35:50 +0000

AlGore needs to be exposed for the fatass scientific fraud that he is.

What a massive insidious joke. Some amateur divinity/journalism/law school flunkie thinks he can control economies via scientific fraud.

Heil Gore! Seig Heil!

By: joshv

joshv — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:35:21 +0000

Well Gore has just obliquely invoked Godwin’s law – http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VOM5J00&show_article=1 – an article on Gore’s new advocacy campaign:

An advertising campaign will equate the climate-change movement with other grand historic endeavors, like stopping fascism in Europe during World War II, overcoming segregation in the United States and putting the first man on the moon.

“like stopping fascism in Europe in WWII” – wow, just wow. Gore isn’t stupid enough to directly compare his adversaries to Nazis, but this comes damned close.

By: TCO

TCO — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:24:44 +0000

I think Skilling is an offense to real thinking. He and the McKinsey Houston office got all blathery with their blather and contributed nothing to real consideration of finance. You can learn more reading the side bars in Brealey and Myers in the bathtub, than you can listening to middlebrows tout securitization.

By: TJIT

TJIT — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:10:46 +0000

TCO,

You should probably read this article.

A Moral Stain of a Punchline

How often does rape get used as a joke these days? Not often, except in one particular context — when the victims are men in prisons. Under those circumstances, the joke gets told over and over again, in movies, political speeches, late-night television, and so on. As Ezra Klein reminds us in yesterday’s LA Times, the easy familiarity that elicits broad laughter at these jokes indicts all of us as passive enablers of a human-rights atrocity that shows no signs of abating

And this one too

5th Cir. to Hear Skilling's Enron Appeal

By: Adirian

Adirian — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:20:27 +0000

The director of Enron was doing his duty to his stockholders. He was attempting to maintain liquidity during a credit crisis – if confidence had gone up, rather than down, he would have been lauded for saving the company. The accounting was neither unique nor even exceptional; virtually every publicly traded corporation in the US, because there are no federal regulations on how accounting must be done, play with their numbers to try to keep confidence as high as possible – because if they fail, if confidence in the company disappears, they’ve effectively lost the company. (They did nothing Bear Sterns didn’t do as it approached its own demise at the hands of a liquidity crisis, and nobody is calling foul there. The only difference is that the law turned its eyes on Enron, and several employees panicked.) Enron, and its executives, were merely scapegoats for California’s misregulation of its energy supply.

By: TCO

TCO — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:06:57 +0000

If you characteristically fail to think critically, how does it make you different than ass-raped former Houston office director of yours who ran Enron?

By: Tony Edwards

Tony Edwards — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:52:44 +0000

I say continually that he should be referred to the SEC for puffing his own stock. Let alone be put in the stocks

By: Tony Edwards

Tony Edwards — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:52:22 +0000

I say continually that he should be referred to the SEC for puffing his own stock. Let alone be put in the stocks