Glad everything worked out in the end:

An American CIA contractor who shot and killed two Pakistani men was released from prison Wednesday and left Pakistan after more than $2 million in “blood money” was paid to his victims’ families, defusing a dispute that threatened an alliance vital to defeating al-Qaida and ending the Afghan war.

In what appeared to be carefully choreographed end to a crisis that had stoked anti-Americanism to new heights, the U.S. Embassy said the Justice Department had opened an investigation into the killings on Jan. 27 by Raymond Allen Davis.

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Antagonism was especially sharp between the CIA and Pakistan’s powerful Inter Services Intelligence, which says it did not know Davis was operating in the country. One ISI official said the agency had backed the “blood money” deal as a way to soothe tensions.

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The Davis affair had been a staple for right-wing Islamist parties, who rallied around it as another example of U.S. brutality and their government’s subservience to Washington. They had urged the families to reject any “blood money” and called on the government to hang him.

Protesters took to the streets in major cities after nightfall, briefly clashing with police outside the U.S. consulate in Lahore, where officers fired tear gas at men burning tires and hurling rocks. Some called for larger protests Friday after noon prayers.

“I am not ready to buy that the families have struck a deal,” Hamid Gul, a former ISI chief turned cheerleader for right-wing causes, said on a popular TV talk show. “This is shameless surrender. We are being sold and not even told about, I appeal the people not only to condemn it, but also rise against it.

Three things:

1) How the fuck can Hillary Clinton deny that the U.S. made any payments, but not dispute the fact that the men’s families were compensated? Isn’t that the same thing as a teacher denying a female student gave him a blow job, but not disputing the fact that the student had a cum stain on her shirt when she left his class?

2) I love how the AP makes it seem like only fanatic right-wingers in Pakistan are upset over this. Can you imagine the crazy shit that would happen if two U.S. citizens were murdered in Time Square by a deep undercover ISI official? Rednecks, liberals, gang bangers, prostitutes, crack heads, and pedophiles would be coming out of the woods, mansions, slums, cars, cardboard boxes, and play grounds trying to get a piece of the spy.

3) Once again this proves that nobody gives a fuck about brown people.

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These rich cocksuckers need to shut the fuck up:

Despite the stock market’s positive performance over the past couple of years, the Fidelity survey found that 42 percent of millionaires still do not feel wealthy, compared to 46 percent, who said they didn’t feel wealthy in 2009. In fact, among those who classified themselves as not feeling wealthy, the investable asset level needed to begin to feel wealthy is $7.5 million.

Jesus fucking Christ on a crispy cracker. I would give my unborn illegitimate son’s left testicle to be a millionaire. Hell, I’d give my daughter’s right ovary just to say I was a hundred-thousandaire.

So what do these asshats have to complain about? They’re not getting enough back in taxes? They can only buy three beach homes? They can only provide their mistresses with C-cups?

I’d love to see how these pampered cuckolds would act if they were forced to work 60 hours a week. I’d love to see their faces when they realize the pension they’ve been working so hard for is gone because some 25-year-old coke fiend blew it all in the derivatives market. I’d love to be a fly on the wall when they had to tell their wives and kids how they lost their job because the company they’ve been working for for 20 years decided to move overseas.

But more importantly, I’d love to see the look in their eyes right before a struggling, unemployed father of three blows their fucking brains out.

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This is fucking nuts.

While we were venting our outrage at shenanigans in Wisconsin politics, in fact while Republicans were planning last night’s attempted coup, the Michigan state legislature quietly passed a bill giving the Governor of Michigan martial control over the state. Except instead of using actual military, the Governor is more likely to use private security. But make no mistake–rights would be suspended.

Here’s how it works:

The governor, on his own initiative, can declare an economic emergency in any town and appoint an administrator. The administrator can be any person, including a corporate person.

The administrator has the power to do anything in the name of economic stability, including void contracts, void collective bargaining agreements, dissolve the town council, dissolve the school board, fire anyone including elected officials, hire private security, unincorporate the town, and sell off public property.

The people of the town have no say in this. They can neither demand nor turn away the administrator. That is because this provision is meant to be used against the people.

Could someone with a background in law tell me how the hell this is legal? And could someone from Michigian tell me how the fuck Rick Snyder got elected governor?

Never mind. I found the reason.

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I’m back, and better than ever. Okay, that’s a lie. I’m not better than ever. I’m better than the average Egyptian, but who isn’t? Right?

Right?

I had to fucking ask.

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Does this make me a bad person?

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And this time they are applying what they’ve learned from the previous two bubbles.

Facebook and Goldman Sachs unleashed a tech investing mania this week compared far and wide with the euphoric 1990s dot-com run-up. By arranging a $500 million private investment, at a staggering $50 billion valuation, Goldman at once delayed a Facebook public offering (now expected in 2012), prompted a likely LinkedIn IPO, and thrilled its clients, who clamored for a piece of Mark Zuckerberg’s behemoth.

But for all the nostalgia for pre-IPO “friends and family” stock in Pets.com, the dot-com era comparisons are off base. Instead, Goldman’s Facebook deal mirrors the subprime collateralized debt obligation deals that blew up entire companies, as well as crater-size hole in our economy. In fact, what Goldman just engineered might well be worse.

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Yet the Facebook phenomenon shows us that nothing has changed. Goldman again moved aggressively to get the business—investing $75 million into Facebook early, at a low valuation, through one of its hedge funds, in the same way it used to get CDOs rolling—again will rake in the fees (to the tune of $60 million—upfront) and again will pawn off the overvalued results to its clamoring clients, who don’t have nearly as much information as Goldman.

If you’re one of those investors, here’s the deal in a nutshell: You get to buy shares, forking over 5 percent of any possible gains, on top of a 4 percent placement fee and a 0.5 percent expense reserve fee (so you’re down 10 percent before the game starts) in a private company that doesn’t have to disclose any pertinent financial information to you or any regulator for 15 months. For the privilege, Goldman gets its eight-digit windfall.

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Goldman does seem to have learned one lesson. One of the problems brought up by the Abacus CDO deal that prompted the $550 million fine was the idea that Goldman was helping one client short the deal against another client. To avoid another uncomfortable SEC incident, and the nuisance of public scrutiny, they’ve put the sell possibility right out front: a disclaimer allowing them to dump their shares, or perhaps short them, at any point. Which is extra convenient, since Goldman is privy to far more information about Facebook than the people they would sell them to: insider trading in the public markets—upfront and legal here.

So, just to recap: Goldman is going to make a shit ton of money off of this deal by legally robbing investors and nobody gives a shit.

Looks like it’s time for me to quit jerking-off to pictures of old girlfriends and delete my Facebook account.

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Am I really hoping that the Republicans can pull this of?

The new Republican-controlled House plans to schedule a vote to repeal the sweeping health care overhaul before President Barack Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address late this month, incoming House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said Sunday.

“We have 242 Republicans,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” He added, “There will be a significant number of Democrats, I think, that will join us. You will remember when that vote passed in the House last March, it only passed by seven votes.”

Upton, whose committee will play a key role in the GOP’s effort to roll back the law, said that he believes the House may be near the two-thirds majority required to override a presidential veto.

Why yes, yes I do hope the Republicans pull this off. But not because I consider “Obamacare” a socialist, communist, evil black man program designed to force the white man into extreme poverty while raping all of the white man’s wives and daughters. No, I hope the Republicans pull this off because I don’t want to fucking subsidize private insurance companies.

Now, someone help me out. Is the story of Republicans, champions of subsidizing corporations at the expense of the taxpayers, fighting to repeal a law that will force millions of Americans to buy shitty, expensive private insurance from mega corporations irony or is it a coincidence?

I always get those two definitions confused.

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