Welcome To The “Blago-Sphere” – From Chicago To Wall Street – If It’s Greed It Leads
The headlines are infused with greed. First off, is Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevic, charged with trying to sell a Senate seat, among other assorted crimes that sometimes destroy small time pols who become powerful. Maybe Blagos biggest problem is being married to a foul-mouthed woman who loves the joys of power and cash as much as he does. People blame this on Chicago, but this is just all about America in 2008 where greed lives. I mean, even the credit card companies are stlll sending out free card offers by mail, hoping that more financially-troubled Americans will get deeper and deeper in debt.
But here’s the really sad part. The kings of greed in the USA are rich people. Bernard Madoff, a multi-billionare investment giant on Wall Street is now charged with running a 50-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. Racketeering has always been popular in America, but now the potential felons are richer than rich, abusers of the poor, and in the case of the Chicago “BLAGO-SPHERE”, people lusting for the obsessive-compulsive joy of power. Make no mistake about it. I’ve seen it up close. Power is a joy to the power-hungry, and a delight to people who lust for the need to screw over people.
As far as Rod Blagojevic: The man has a couple of things going against him. He seems to revel in the excitement of a ten percent approval rating. He enjoys talking freely about payoffs, after he and the entire world realized he was under investigation. He brags about getting deals done, and allows his cronies to score taxpayers money. He is, in a word, stupid.
Stupidity is the vice of people who live on an island, and think they answer to no one. These are people who never understand how others see them, because they don’t care about the feelings of others -only their own narcissistic reality. Hey Rod, look in the mirror. No, not at your overweight hair. Rod, look at what you’ve become – a punk in a suit.
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I co-sign.
Is that sentence even in English?
We awarded points for the borderline misogyny, but we had to subtract them for failure to use an apostrophe where one was called for. (For a second, I thought you were talking about Larry Mendte and Alycia. Isn’t it amazing how easy it is to cut and paste when you’re talking about these types of nitwits?)
What this are you referring to? The marriage? I don’t follow. While credit card companies are still in the business that they’re in, I don’t know that they hope that people with financial troubles will get deeper and deeper in debt. I think they hope that people who don’t have financial troubles will carry debt and make service payments. What interest does a card issuer have in lending money to someone who cannot pay it back or even make monthly payments?
Maybe some rich people are “kings of greed” by virtue of their wealth, but I don’t think they stand alone in being greedy. Most people are animals, Larry, and if you look at how fat people are in this town you’ll see that greed doesn’t stop at money. Moreover, do you know how the rich who run Ponzi schemes prey on the poor? I’d say it’s because they appeal to the greed of the poor, people who want money for little work or effort, a deal that’s too good to be true.
Blago may have done some stupid things, but I think you’re describing Rendell there. Rendell’s just smart enough not to used his home phone.
That’s another one you could cut and paste from a story about Mendte and Lane. Thanks for that first sentence, too. It’s quotable and should be included in the dictionary definition of stupidity. What’s the island called, by the way? Is it Nantucket? Martha’s Vineyard? Please do tell.
A punk in a suit ? You just described most of Congress & almost all lawyers.By the way,has Obama said “this is not the Blagojevich I knew ?”
You know the election is over when you can take a shot at Obama & not have his tag team zealots firing back.Five & a half hours, when in the past the knee jerk response time was about five minutes.
Leo: You are so brilliant that you ought to have your own site. You never have anything positive to say. And your comments are getting old and tired. But you are Leo, and we have to be grateful for brilliance.
Yankee–good comment on a “punk in a suit.”
Leo: Are you an English teacher?
Larry, who was the smelliest Beatle?
mike, larry is the expert, but im gonna make an educated guess and say the smelliest Beatle was probably John lennon. because rumor has it that the song “yellow submarine” was actually about Yoko’s vulva