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To: koan who wrote (782451)	4/28/2014 7:55:29 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577225

Liberals started the Viet Nam war. They put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during WWII. Liberal President Woodrow Wilson imposed segregation on the military and Washington DC and promoted the Ku Klux Klan. FDR's housing programs invented redlining. Liberal Democrats didn't support civil rights until LBJ's Presidency. JFK himself voted against Eisenhower's civil rights act of 1957. Don't forget those things.

To: koan who wrote (782451)	4/28/2014 9:20:15 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577225

You really need to put the crack pipe back in your bottom drawer.

To: koan who wrote (782451)	4/29/2014 9:29:07 AM
From: d[-_-]b	3 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 joseffy Tenchusatsu Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577225

Defeat of communism, destruction of the southern democrats and the KKK, civil rights act and many more. Liberals gave us welfare families and has enslaved blacks all over again.

To: koan who wrote (782451)	4/29/2014 9:54:00 AM
From: d[-_-]b	3 Recommendations Recommended By joseffy steve harris Taro Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577225

We liberals stood with the women's efforts to get the vote. No they didn't. Women's right to vote (1872): Republicans Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton write the text of the 19th Amendment, which is introduced by Republican Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California. The Amendment was finally ratified in 1920.' First woman elected to U.S. House of Representatives (1916): " Jeannette Rankin, Republican from Montana, becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives."

To: koan who wrote (782451)	4/29/2014 9:57:11 AM
From: steve harris	3 Recommendations Recommended By i-node joseffy Taro Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577225

koan, it would save you a lot of time if you would verify the "facts" you throw out probably save everyone else a lot of time also

To: koan who wrote (782451)	5/1/2014 2:31:55 AM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1577225

koan: "You have it ass backwards and that is why the rich know they can use you for their benefit. You never can figure out how they are screwing you." === reality: Who's carrying water for the rich? Obama and the Dems….. American justice is blind, but likes the sound of money: Matt Taibbi By Aaron Task14 hours ago Daily Ticker Reports that Credit Suisse (CS) and BNP Paribas (BNPQY) may be hit with criminal charges stunned Wall Street Wednesday as it potentially marks a dramatic shift in how Federal prosecutors look at the financial services industry. Since the 2008 crisis and up to and including JPMorgan's (JPM) settlement for enabling Bernie Madoff earlier this year, U.S. regulators have typically sought to settle cases of alleged misdeeds rather than pursue criminal charges. Typically, the big banks pay a fine without having to admit to any wrongdoing and no senior executives have suffered anything more than, perhaps, deferred bonuses. In his latest book, The Divide, Matt Taibbi set out to examine why Wall Street has been largely immune from prosecution since the 2008 crisis; that's in contrast to the S&L crisis of the 1980s -- when over 800 bankers went to jail -- and the accounting scandals of the early 2000s, when high profile CEOs like Enron's Jeffrey Skilling, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers, Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski and Adelphia's John Rigas went to jail for various crimes. "After 2008 - certainly there were no less ethical misdeeds -- but we've seen nothing, not even symbolic prosecutions," Taibbi says. "It's qualitatively different." Related: How income inequality can lead to more financial crises Taibbi, who recently left Rolling Stone for Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, is highly critical of the Obama Administration for failing to prosecute Wall Street crimes. But he concedes the change in how federal prosecutors view Wall Street predates Obama's rise and stems from a variety of factors, including: The Democrats embrace of the financial services industry in the 1990's under President Clinton, which, over time, evolved "from deregulation to non-enforcement." A 1999 memo by (then) deputy U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder which warned of "collateral consequences" of prosecuting corporate crimes. The fallout from the 2002 "death sentence" of Arthur Andersen, which was later overturned by the Supreme Court -- embarrassing the Justice Department -- but came far too late to save the firm or the jobs lost when it lost its accounting license. ('Collateral consequences', indeed.) An influx of corporate lawyers into the Justice Department, which Taibbi says "resulted in more settlements as opposed to a perp walk, which is the old way of doing things." These developments, plus fear of "systemic risk" if a big bank were to be criminally prosecuted, have conspired to where (now) U.S. Attorney General Holder recently expressed concern “that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them.” 'A Gigantic Mindless Punishment Machine' But six years after the financial crisis, perhaps the worm is finally turning. After opening criminal charges against Citigroup's (C) Mexican affiliate, Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for Manhattan's Southern district said: “You can expect that before too long a significant financial institution will be charged with a felony or be made to plead guilty to a felony, where the conduct warrants it.” These developments are "good news" and hopefully a portent of more prosecutions of white collar crimes to come, Taibbi says. "I know it's hard for the government to commit to these cases." The bad news is what Taibbi found in researching his latest book. As noted above, he set out to investigate why crimes committed by wealthy Wall Street bankers weren't being prosecuted and discovered what he calls a "judicial gap" roughly mirroring America's growing income inequality. "I was just stunned, not just as a journalist but as a citizen, to learn about all the ways you can end up caught up in the criminal justice system, which turns out to be a gigantic mindless punishment machine if you're a person without means," Taibbi says. In sum, Taibbi's book takes the national discussion on income inequality to a whole new level, and seeks to connect the dots of how America became #1 in the world for incarceration rates while simultaneously dropping in global rankings of the wealth of its middle class and opportunities for upward mobility. Watch the accompanying video to find out what Taibbi thinks can be done to address what he calls "the cleaving of the country into two completely different states -- one a small archipelago of hyperacquisitive untouchables, the other a vast ghetto of expendables with only theoretical rights." Aaron Task is the host of The Daily Ticker and Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo Finance. You can follow him on Twitter at @aarontask or email him at altask@yahoo.com.