GOLD, Man $ACK$ morphs From Wall Street Giant to Giant Vampire Squid

[Earth Bound Misfit]

Matt Taibbi nailed these pig-fucking scumbags about 3 minutes into the whole bailout Ponzi-Scheme with his now famous Rolling Stone piece: “Inside the Great American Bubble Machine” which included these SPOT-ON opening lines

"The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

All this BULLSHIT we're reading and hearing today is CLEARLY just so much political grandstanding. They're ALL in on the inside in what amounts to a CAN'T LOSE Casino.

I'm watching the Rachel re-run right now. She's KICKING ASS, which is hardly a surprise. We should put Rachel & Taibbi in charge of investigating these scumbags, and just cut through the BULLSHIT.

RANT OFF.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. Nah. Vampire squids are harmless to humans.

Getting compared to GS is pretty insulting.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

2. LOL. Harmless? Maybe. But like Gold-man $uck$ they're quite "innovative"...

and very very cagey in their evasiveness.

Unlike their relatives living in more hospitable climes, deep-sea cephalopods cannot afford to expend energy in protracted flight. Given their low metabolic rate and the low density of prey at such depths, Vampire Squid must use innovative predator avoidance tactics in order to conserve energy. Their aforementioned bioluminescent "fireworks" are combined with the writhing of glowing arms, erratic movements and escape trajectories, making it difficult for a predator to home in.

In a threat response called "pumpkin" or "pineapple posture", the Vampire Squid inverts its caped arms back over the body, presenting an ostensibly larger form covered in fearsome-looking though harmless spines (called cirri)<1> The underside of the cape is heavily pigmented, masking most of the body's photophores. The glowing arm tips are clustered together far above the animal's head, diverting attack away from critical areas. If a predator were to bite off an arm tip, the Vampire Squid can regenerate it.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

3. shameless self kick n/t