Mendacity Wrapped in Avarice and Coated with a Smooth, Peanuty Frosting.

[Are_grits_groceries]

So many examples of Republican values on display today that I heard the squeaking wheels of tumbrels...


There are days when, after scanning the news, I push back from my computer and think, "Holy shit, is this how the French Revolution kicked off?" Today was one of those days.

In Washington, D.C., the eight, white, male bank CEOs were so relieved to avoid the rabble picketing outside their estates up in Greenwich, CT, that they allowed members of the House Financial Services Committee to wag accusatory fingers and scold them on their continued use of private jets to transport them around the country. In return, they promised they'd try to remember how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they "earn" per year:

Wells Fargo’s Stumpf had some trouble remembering his salary.

“My compensation in 2008, I’m embarrassed, I think it was 850 — I can’t remember the exact number. Let’s say $850,000,” he said.

Well, whatever Stumpf does, he should also remember not to call this year's cash payout a bonus!

Across the hall in another chamber, Stewart Parnell, CEO of The Peanut Corporation of America, a.k.a. "Salmonella Central," defiantly pleaded the Fifth in the face of proof that his greed and arrogance caused at least nine deaths to date. Cost of doing business, right?

Then it turns out that sweet little victim Ruth Madoff, wife of archvillain Bernie "I'm a Prisoner in My $7 Million Apartment" Madoff, somehow managed to transfer $10 million out of a brokerage account run by her husband . . . the day before Bernie was busted. Um . . . negative optics, anyone?

It's no wonder the country's fixated on whackjob "Octomom", Nadya Suleman. At least she's genuinely crazy
http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/11/mendacity-wrapped-in-avarice-and-coated-with-a-smooth-peanuty-frosting/

Madoff should be in the first tumbrel............

[47of74]

1. These scum need to go to prison

And I'm not talking country club prisons either. I'm talking places like Marion or Florence.

[undergroundpanther]

2. I think

they need to be tried and executed,but that's my take on it,I say it because I hate psychopaths,and psychopaths cannot be cured, I am pro DP for torturers, psychopaths and tyrants .Lacking a consience these monsters will take and steal and wreck as many lives they can get away with before they ever get caught.And contrary to popular belief the majority of psychopaths are not in jail..


According to the authors, psychopathy and sociopathy are closely related and overlapping: malignant narcissism; shallow affect; lack of empathy and remorse; sense of entitlement and being destined to rule others; grandiosity; predation; avoidance of taking personal responsibility when things go wrong; adept at manipulation, schmoozing, networking and conning; see other people as objects to be used and disposed of when no longer useful; charismatic; thrive on the edge but also calculatingly cautious; megalomania; cynical and facile deceit; inability to manifest a normal range of human emotions; etc.

http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2008/07/20/snakes-in-suits/