Wonkette
- If you feel like you aren’t sick, go ahead and ride around on the germy subway and germy buses. Just don’t lick everything. [AP]
- The guy who tried to kill the Dutch queen in a parade yesterday died. [Wall Street Journal]
- Why does President Obama have to be so mean to hedge funds? [Washington Post]
- Early treatment makes a huge difference in whether you will die of the pig flu or just feel a little under the weather for a few days. [New York Times]
- Unless its unions agree to all sorts of concessions, the Boston Globe may shut down … soon. [Reuters]
- Like the Boston Globe, Mexico is shutting down, but only for five days in order to halt the progress of the killer flu. [BBC News]
Hedge Funds haz a sad?
Boo fucking hoo.
WTF????!!!! You want me to sit on one of those nasty, icky, subway seats without licking it clean first? Are you fucking kidding me? That’s so gross. I think I’ll just stand, thank you.
Meeeoooow.
pissed-off people with pitchforks and torches can do a lot of damage to a hedge
The funds hold about $1 billion in Chrysler bonds and have turned down the government’s terms. The government would have paid just under a third of the value of those bonds. However, many funds bought the bonds at deep discounts from other investors who feared the bonds might ultimately be worthless.
Read that paragraph, then read it again. Those pieces of shit bought that debt for pennies on the dollar hoping to outsmart the smart people who felt the bonds weren’t worth the paper they were printed on, hoping to make a killing when the government bailed out Chrysler. Now they’re pissed that they made the wrong call.
Fuck ‘em. Fuck ‘em in the ass with a red-hot poker dipped in rubbing alcohol and sea-salt.
John McCain is suspending his campaign due to the Swine Flu.
What kind of world do you want Barry Hussein Obama?
If hedge funds have to be treated with the lack of respect, honor and importance that they deserve then this isn’t the US America I know!!!11!!!!!
Hedge funds aren’t working stiffs like the rest us. They’re better because throwing lots of money around can paper over the fact they act like have: small penises, no morals, no sense of community and a psychotic need to crush/control things they have no understanding of in the quest for fantasy profits.
>>An anonymous group of 20 Chrysler lenders calling itself the “Committee of Chrysler Non-Tarp Lenders” said in a statement yesterday that they’d been treated worse than junior creditors during negotiations in violation of “long-recognized legal and business principles.” They said they were owed $1 billion.
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I hope the bankruptcy judge fucks these people in the ass so hard, he’ll have to open their mouths to take a piss.
Hedge funds really are the cancer killing capitalism.
Serolf Divad: How do you really feel?
“Fuck ‘em. Fuck ‘em in the ass with a red-hot poker dipped in rubbing alcohol and sea-salt.”
That’s pretty much what Barry said in that press conference.
“‘Some of the characterizations that were used today to refer to us as speculators or to say we’re looking for a bailout is really unfair,’ said one executive who spoke on condition of anonymity because
of the sensitivity of the matterhe’s a whiny fucking pig. ”/fixed
Anybody who seriously thinks that God created man in His/Her own image should be forced to witness a meeting of creditors in bankruptcy.
Yes, fuck you hard in the prison yard you dirtbag hedge fundies. Having said that, call me so I can build your penthouse additions, please?
The hedge funds remind me of Brom Garret threatening Al Swearingen with the Pinkertons because he believed his claim was ‘pinched-out’.
“Make it look like an accident.”
-Al Swearingen to Dan Dority
Serolf Divad: Yes, when the bankruptcy papers are drawn up, Barry needs to learn how to say “You Get Zilch” in communist socialist French or something.
Fuck the hedge fund people.
But also, why the fuck is it always the unions having to make concessions? You never read something like “Unless its executives and useless middle management agree to all sorts of concessions, the Boston Globe may shut down.”
Serolf Divad: As a nurse, I might suggest sulfuric acid rather than rubbing alcohol…the burn is a little more, umm, lasting.
Lascauxcaveman:
Et pour vous… rien.
Au revoir. Ne laissez pas la porte vous frapper dans le cul quand vous sortez!
hobospacejunkie: Because unions are teh 3\/1|
This makes me want to drive my car into a meeting of hedge fund managers on Queen’s Day.
Today we are all Dutch Queens.
Serolf Divad: Anally crucify them, perhaps?
Serolf Divad: These fireplace tool sodomizings intrigue me. Where might one sign up?
Oh, please. It’s impossible to ride the subway without someone licking something.
Snark aside: as tempting as it is to retardedly interpret Obama’s being “mean” to hedge funds as a brave sign of sticking it deep to the greedy white Man, the entities who will suffer most from this meanness are pension plans. That’s what the whole war was about: who gets to keep more of their money? Tough luck, hedge funds! I mean, all you poor schlubs whose money was in them!
From the BBC: “The US has announced that it will buy 13 million new courses of antiviral treatment and send 400,000 of them to Mexico…”
…because US experts agree there are only 400,000 Mexicans left in Mexico. The rest are in Houston, Texas, where they have come to die. Austin, which is well on its way to becoming the shithole that is St. Louis, plans to salvage its flagging tech economy by crafting bongs from the skulls of dead chulos, and grinding the bones to make herbal tea.
These hedge fund people are the uptown equivalent of the slime who buy consumer debt at 3 cents on the dollar & then call people 100 times about a hospital bill they couldn’t afford ten years ago. If they can get one person out of 30 to pay off an old bad debt they make money. They are vultures, as are these particular hedge fund managers, circling Chrysler, trying to make money off its demise. And they also own insurance on Chrysler defaulting which would be paid by the federal government via AIG. Either way they get paid (I read your piece in Stinque, Serolf.) Only kid-diddlers are lower on the scum ladder than these princes.
God I love Joe Biden!!!!!!
Terry: Terry:Here’s a suggestion every Wonketeer ought to like: pardon Blago, and make hime White House spokesman! (Him or Rev. X). We need more cursing in public life, don’t we??
Zhu Bajie, enjoying the cheap Burmese rum
WadISay: He Who reigns in the heavens laughs them to scorn!
Zhu Bajie
FaunceyGardner: Maybe it’s barium enema time, too?
Zhu Bajie
drrty martini: Where’s Vlad the Impaler when you need him?
Zhu Bajie
Serolf Divad: Lets take em out back and kick the shit out of them… Then let’s make them lick it up! We don’t want the swine flu to get us.
“Some of the characterizations that were used today to refer to us as speculators or to say we’re looking for a bailout is really unfair… “
Yes, they’re not “speculators,” they’re just people with active imaginations. And by definition, they’re not “looking for a bailout” since they’re not the ones in debt. No, what they’re looking for is more along the lines of protection money.
Is it true that the funds were INSURED, so the pond-scum toilet-lickers had nothing to lose by watching Chrysler declare bankruptcy?