A Discussion of the Global Financial Crisis

of the CFR after a grueling day drinking a beer with a security guard. Out walks Uma Thurmon with her friggin' dog. The dog takes a dump on the sidewalk and Uma doesn't clean it up. The security guard barks at Uma to do so and she responds, "Do you know who I am? I am Uma Thurman." The security guard responds, "I am Ray, now clean it up." My son negotiated with the limo driver (he has a job there because of his negotiating skills) to clean it up. It was only after it was over that my son told Ray who Uma Thurman was: "Remember 'Kill Bill'?" and then the little light bulb goes off in Ray's head. "Oh yeah! She looked familiar."
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RE: Idol worship....nm HungryPoohBear NEW 1/11/2009 10:11:04 AM
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RE: useless....nm solidus NEW 1/11/2009 10:59:04 AM
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RE: Jolie is a satanist just like the rest of them. solidus NEW 1/11/2009 11:02:00 AM
they arent after money, its just a tool, to own people.
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RE: For her first wedding Sheeple Shredder NEW 1/11/2009 12:25:23 PM
She wore a T-shirt splattered with her own blood - 'nuff said.
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RE: CFR Symposium on the financial crisis... qqqbear NEW 1/11/2009 7:48:13 AM
Roger C. Altman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Evercore Partners; Former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury; James D. Grant, Owner and Editor, Grant's Interest Rate Observer; Author, 'After the Crash: Helping the U.S. Economy Right Itself' (Foreign Affairs November/December 2008); Harold James, Professor of History, Princeton University

Presider: James F. Hoge Jr., Peter G. Peterson Chair and Editor, Foreign Affairs
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RE: The only panel member halfway worthy RasputinLives NEW 1/11/2009 7:51:23 AM

...is James Grant, but the CFR just trots him out so they can giggle at his bowties and huge, half-mooned-shaped head.

All in all, a globilst, elitist, organization.
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RE: I don't think that is quite right... Thomas. NEW 1/11/2009 7:56:16 AM
I do not believe anybody in their right mind trots out James Grant to laugh at him. Nobody has the firepower to defeat him in rhetorical battle. It is elitist to the extent that they scour the globe to invite those in positions to see problems clearly and potentially address them intellectually. I very much doubt you will see Joe the Plumber get an invite. As to Angela Jolie, heaven only knows what goes into that one, but she certainly is not a neocon.
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RE: Where were you in the early 1980's... RasputinLives NEW 1/11/2009 8:01:38 AM

...when Louis Rukeyser and his gang would have poor, skinny James Grant on regularly to ridicule, berate, and practically stick a "kick me" sign on the erudite pundit's back as James would be warning of the dangers of Wall Street and the imminent crash (at this point, the Dow had barely broken the 1000 level.)

Sorry, but notice how even during this video, much of what Grant states is laughed at outright by the members. And they are not "laughing with him", if you know what I mean.
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RE: You are simply too cynical... Thomas. NEW 1/11/2009 8:16:22 AM
To criticize the opposing team for leaning on a much younger Grant howling with the DOW at 1000 is not correct. He may have been correct, but the experiment had hardly been started. As to the laughing when Grant speaks, there is nothing in the laughter that is targeted at him; his oratory is very entertaining (funny at times). You are lashing out too much; this is an excellent discussion (despite the seemingly soft-headed European).