Wonkette
- AIG chairman and CEO Edward Liddy does not want to defend his company’s terrible bonus plan, but nobody else will do it for him. He will testify before the House Financial Services subcommittee at 10AM Eastern today. [CBS]
- Connecticut’s attorney general piles on, saying that using his state’s Wage Act as an excuse for awarding AIG bonuses is totally dumb. [Reuters]
- Huzzah, rising prices return after a brief hiatus! This is actually a good thing for the economy. [Washington Post]
- Iran ruins the Iraqi economy by selling Iraqis cheap goods they are trying to manufacture themselves. [Wall Street Journal]
- That Austrian dungeon incest creep confessed to all sorts of horrors, and the only reason we mention it is that literally all other news is about AIG. [Guardian]
- Oh except for this cheerful news: if you are obese, you may find yourself ten years closer to death. [USA Today]
Austrian dungeon incest creep: The foreigns seem to be obsessed with this weirdo, as anybody who listens to BBC radio knows. Here the states, he’s merely one’s Uncle Fred.
Here’s an article about Gerry Pasciucco, the guy who’s been called-in to mop up the mess left by AIG’s melt-down. You’ll notice his attire is entirely appropriate to our new economic reality.
The Austrian incest creep was so horrified by the video testimony of the daughter he terrorized that he surprised even his own attorney by pleading guilty today.
What a pussy. Obviously not a psychopath if he actually feels bad about what he did. Austria used to crank out masochistic creeps by the thousands (Nazis.) Now the best they can do is this wretched beast. I blame that queer Jörg Haider.
TGY:
Seriously, locked in a sex dungeon and abused in uspeakable ways? When I was a kid we called that “recess.”
The only thing that could make the Austrian Incest Creep (AIC) story worse is if he was a CDO trader for AIG.
That IS cheerful news. Remember that study a couple of years ago that said it didn’t matter much whether or not you are obese? People like David Brooks were ROTFLHAO at how there is no point to trying to live intelligently and healthy. Well, suck it.
Eager to hear the testimony. I wonder if this whole thing could’ve been prevented by President Obama though… http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/03/did-obama-screw-up-on-aig-bonuses-.html
total BMI (body mass index)X blubber factor X total fat in head X stress X cigars= Rush is a dead-man-walking!
if you are obese, you may find yourself ten years closer to death.
Yay! Now I can stop worrying about how I’ll ever retire — I’ll just eat myself to an early death!
That dungeon creep has taken all the fun out of mocking creepy people.
mylesfromnowhere: Those fat fuckers live forever. If anyone’s ever had to work an assisted-living facility, they’d say the same thing. And when they die it’s a genuine fucking mess. Ask Gilbert Grape. You have to torch the whole house!
So Iraqi industries are being shut down & workers laid off because of the import of cheap foreign goods.
I’m totally glad nothing like this could happen in, oh say, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, etc.
You wouldn’t have thought it would be possible to be more outraged at AIG bonuses, but that asshole/master of the universe in a Che t-shirt holding a mojito did it for me. Thanks, Serolf Divad!
magic titty:
Agreed. He even sucks the fun out of Restroom Ranger Larry Craig.
V572625694: Oh jesus. There is now a sharp, continuous throb behind my eye. This is the sort of rage that makes me want a drink at nine in the damn morning.
“Obesity can trim 10 years off life”
Time to hit the snack bar so I can avoid paying back my school loans.
Serolf Divad: ahhh. something similar to: Out on the road today, I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac A little voice Inside my head said, “Don’t look back. You can never look back.”
what a dick.
“Obesity can trim 10 years off life”
From what I’ve seen, those last ten years aren’t all that great anyway.
Ah, Iran. Building a Middle Eastern hegemony, one brick at a time.
We should arrest Liddy Dole and G. Gordon Liddy because of guilt by name-association, and Scooter Libby because close enough.
Rejoicing at the avoidance of deflation while paying more for hobo beans, is sort of like being grateful for having dodged Hepatitus C while contracting the AIDS in your local shooting gallery.
WAIT! WAIT! The AIG dude is no longer riding solo. Wingman “rush” is on the program now.
Serolf Divad: And here I was thinking that I was the only Wonketteer with a proper Catholic-school education.
…”dungeon incest creep confessed…”
If you just read that part, it’s like the beginning of the best Dick Cheney news article EVER!