1,000 Words

My entry…
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“Hmmmmm, will basketball make MY @ss look that good?”

“Trust me, it’ll be HYSTERICAL … her name is Michelle Bachmann, just call her and tell her that it’s ALL TRUE … one world currency, new world over … put your phone on speaker, we all want to hear it …”

“Wonder if I can get him to bend over for me like Sarkosy got him to do”? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

http://www.paulcaterdeaton.com/images/fourevils.jpg
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See no evil. Speak no evil. Hear no evil. Doctor Evil. Photo: Joyce Waller

welcome back pourme if only for a moment
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Its too hard for me to come up with a caption because I want it to be about Obama and what his crew is saying but the guy in the corner looking like he wants to …..ahem get to “know” President Obama is just too distracting and I am not going to go there lol.

Which clique do I want to join

From the gentleman in upper-right: Which clique do I want to join

Does he even know I’m a bottom? My God! Those must be size 13 shoes. How do I work the word commando into the conversation?

Guy in upper right:

“Got ‘em right where I want ‘em!”

I could demand one BILLION dollars if I only had some sharks with freakin laser beams on their heads.

So many men. So little time.

I got my Crackberry at Amazon — where’d you get yours?

Berlusconi: “Sausage fest. We need to get, like, Yulia Tymoshenko in the G-20. Mmmmm….Yulia Tymoshenko…. “

Who does a girl have to f#@k to get a bailout around here?

Pissing off the queen was pretty naughty of me….yet so hilarious.

Berlusconi: “I wonder who I can play a practical joke on next?”
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Pourmecoffee. Have missed you. I still laugh occasionally about your being too tired from dragging the cialis tub up the hill to make use of it. I like your scenario here. Please, please, let someone do this to Bachmann.

First I’ll say I’m Scalia’s younger brother and then I’ll casually mention that I’m addicted to chocolate.

“I thought I was being quite witty. They really have no sense of humor.”

“Boris”
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“ja”
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“Load up ze plane. They’re all here.”
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“Ve haf the coordinates”
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“Not so loud, Boris. Wait for my word.”
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“Ja”
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“They’ll never know what hit them…”

kathy, how about those Canadian comedians that pawned Palin?

“He didn’t get me an ipod, I’ll just have to steal his.Now how do I get into his back pocket with out being noticed?”

That is Berlusconi?
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Damn. That ruins it for me. My well laid plans…
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Now all I’m doing is trying to figure out just what kind of expression that is! It’s too smiley to be conspirational, too cynical to be happy, and too sly to be straightforward.
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Ahah! He has a crazy idea he’s proud of and wants to relate it to someone on the cell phone he’s holding…

G. Brown:
“See? if you wogs hadn’t been so eager to get rid of your British benefactors and protectors you wouldn’t be in this mess!”

Peter Boyle was at the G20?
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Hey pourme!
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PD lol brilliant

All this world ecomics jargon gives me a tooth ache.

Fewpickens

Welcome back, pourme!

Okay now…which one of us is the Manchurian Candidate?

Berlusconi: I wonder if President Obama will like my new grill?

I swear, the whole underside of the desk was covered with gum and boogers and there were crayons in the drawer!

MAN, Crow is sooo hard to get out of your teeth!!!

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It looks to me like he’s surveyed all these people he’ll have to work with and is praying. I’d call it, “Lord, give me strength.”!

I meant Obama, by the way.

“Hmmmm…now where did I leave my checkbook?”

A few little round nodinis, prosciutto, and a ricotta desert, and he will forget all about Gordon.

So what you guys want to do tonight?

Same thing we do every night. Try to take over the world!

I’ll take Burlusconi, but then you guys have to take the short Chinese guy for your team.

President Jintao’s translator gently explains to Prime Minister Brown that he can’t read sign language.

I preferred last year’s meeting with Bush. I miss the sock puppets and pop-up books the White House insisted upon.

Live from London … it’s Saturday Night!

Talking Heads

“New Babylon”

Clearly, politically pointed yammering is easy, comedy is hard.

my caption: hmmm, Fiat takes Chrysler, then what?

Berlusconi: I may not be an intellectual, but damn it, none of these “world statesmen” can lick their own balls!

Berlusconi thought bubble: “I would, but Obama is probably a bit old for me in the long term”

wvng – I was thinking of that. I think somebody already pwned Bachmann, only she took it seriously and leaves others so dumbfounded they’re speechless. Watching her question Geithner about what part of the constitutional gave him authority to do what he was doing was priceless. He gamely tried to explain about Congress enacting laws and such as.

Berlusconi: “I’ve got a little Buffalo Soldier for him….”

Has anyone noticed the dent in Berlusconi’s forehead? Just about 3 inches above his left eye?
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After having awakened refreshed, now I know what that look is:
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Total befuddlement…

All together now..Kum bay ya…

“Can I play, too?”

“Please god don’t let this be the only thread of the weekend”
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Oops that’s the caption under MY picture.

Should I drill a hole on the other side to give myself a little symmetry?

Symmetry is good.
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Go for it…

I don’t think we need to wonder why the Italians are not a player in the global arena. Maybe they should just stick to pasta, vino and romance. (I am sure the would suit Berlusconi just fine).

I think the first mark was a pilot hole for a horn.

Seriously Barack, when your wife put her arm on the Queen’s shoulder…did she really put a “Kick Me” sticker on her back?

What, is there no other news occurring? It must suck to be a reporter and not have any news to report on.

Is this Change We Can Believe In?

it’s not a dent, it’s a dimple. He’s had several facelifts, I expect.

Via Balloon Juice:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090404/ap_on_re_us/pittsburgh_shooting

My vote is for bj4hand’s “MAN, Crow is sooo hard to get out of your teeth!!!”

SZ, interesting link…help me out though. I read this:
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The requirements were honored in an initial program injecting public money directly into banks. That effort was developed by the Bush administration and continued by Obama’s team. The initiative is on track to account for the bulk of the money spent from the rescue package. All the major banks already submit to executive-compensation provisions and have surrendered ownership stakes as part of this program.
Then this:
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Some private investors said, for instance, that they would not help the government buy toxic assets from banks if the congressional restrictions were applied to them. And every major provider of small-business loans has said that it will not participate in the government’s program if it has to surrender ownership stakes to the government or submit to executive-pay limits.
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So as to the bulk of money the rules were applied and this is an initiative to coax investors to pony up some cash to buy the “toxic” assets? It says the major banks have complied, so this relates to much smaller amounts of money and smaller institutions?

somepeoplelikeit:
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So as to the bulk of money the rules were applied…this relates to much smaller amounts of money and smaller institutions?
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Not to my understanding.

The Obama administration is engineering its new bailout initiatives in a way that it believes will allow firms benefiting from the programs to avoid restrictions imposed by Congress…The administration has decided that the conditions should not apply in at least three of the five initiatives funded by the rescue package.

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The majority of the money –of the first $700mm– hasn’t been spent:

Bank bailout: Who’s getting the money
The Treasury Department is in the midst of doling out $250 billion to financial institutions nationwide as part of the $700 billion bailout plan. Here’s a list of the banks that have received checks so far.
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… Total: $198,495,981,000

Given that there’s at least another $700 billion still in the pipe (presumably for toxic asset “auction” and beyond):

…private analysts believe that with the $700 billion bailout fund nearly tapped out by capital disbursements to banks and lifelines provided the auto companies and AIG, there are only enough resources left to get the asset purchase program launched.
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Mark Zandi, an economist with Moody’s Economy.com, estimated the government will need another $400 billion to make a sufficient dent in the bad asset problem.
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Administration officials said they want to get the new program launched and see how successful it is before deciding whether to ask Congress for more resources.
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The administration included a placeholder in its budget request to Congress last month for an additional $750 billion, more than doubling the financial rescue effort, but many lawmakers have said the current bailout fatigue among voters dims the prospect of getting further resources.

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With respect to:

The initiative is on track to account for the bulk of the money spent from the rescue package.

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Don’t take my word for it, somepeoplelikeit. Check it out yourself. I think that the paragraph you highlighted (“The requirements were honored…“) is rather confusing, somewhat misleading and ambiguous. It seems that the term “the initiative” is poorly used, given that the piece refers in the first sentence to “The Obama administration is engineering its new bailout initiatives“, and then speaks about “In one program” and “In another program“, and then “At first, when the initiative was being developed last year…“.
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Still, when one includes the fact that the “bulk of the money spent” isn’t the same thing as “the bulk of the money”, it makes more sense.
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There is a lack of clarity, but I can’ imagine that the piece’s authors meant to imply by “The initiative is on track to account for the bulk of the money spent from the rescue package” that the bulk of money requisitioned for the program are included in “requirements were honored”. Since we know with certainty that the money spent isn’t even half of the original $700 billion, what we can say from this is that perhaps the bulk of the money already spent ($198,495,981,000 –almost $200 billion) may have complied with Congressional restrictions.
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So my answer is no, somepeoplelikeit. It seems that perhaps a majority of the $200 billion already spent may have been largely in compliance with Congressional requirements, but since the rest of the $700 billion and the next bailout $700 billion-plus are being engineered to be exempt from these requirements, it doesn’t seem that this engineering simply “relates to much smaller amounts of money and smaller institutions”, as you suggest.

“Silvio (aka Rustyreturns) realized that it was not always easy to be the lone Republican troll among the adults”

“After a sluggish start, the trading floor on the new exchange exploded with activity once it was suggested that the new international currency should be based on Pokemon cards.”

Is that a Blackberry in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?

Pres. Obama realizes he wore the wrong color tie and quickly tries to switch with China’s President Hu Jintao.

This knot is crooked and the tie is out of style. What do you guys think?