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    Image of 1WordUp 1WordUp
    12/14/09

    In reply to Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of 'Inclement Weather'
    I live in NJ, about 15 miles outside NYC, but work in DC. Ain't having a job grand in the hobo decade?

    Anyway, took the 5.12 am Amtrak this morning out of MetroPark, arrived Union Station in DC at 8.15 am. Was at my desk in MD by 9 am.

    In other words, go fuck yourselves, Goldman Sachs et al. Pussies.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of 'Inclement Weather'
    Please, please -- that's National Airport, not "Reagan"... or, as my wife likes to call it, "Iran-Contra National Airport".
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    12/14/09

    @flugennock: If she also calls the Metro stop "Farragut Oliver North," then I'm probably going to have to challenge you to a duel or something.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/14/09

    In reply to Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of 'Inclement Weather'
    wait, i'm confused. Flights were canceled, but the pictures of the sky look super clear. Can we start a rumor that the banksters paid off the FAA to cancel a few planes so they didn't have to get out of their pajamas to talk to the president?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    12/14/09

    In reply to Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of 'Inclement Weather'
    I can bring my pitchfork up from DC, Lloyd.
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    Image of Scott Kidder Scott Kidder
    12/14/09

    In reply to Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of 'Inclement Weather'
    They just can't win. The irony here is that if they had flown private, they could have made it. But they chose to fly commercial.
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    Image of SpicyMeatball SpicyMeatball
    12/14/09

    In reply to Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of 'Inclement Weather'
    So, basically these guys are so rich that they view the $200 each way Acela as being the equivalent of being forced to take the Chinatown bus? That's amazing. I am so poor.
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    Image of BaconForTheSoul BaconForTheSoul
    12/14/09

    In reply to Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of 'Inclement Weather'
    I really think this is a ridiculous post to wage verbal war on Wall St. bankers. It sounds like they called in by conference call because there were airspace issues.

    Why is this news?

    The headline is misleading, because they didn't skip the meeting. This is Fox News stuff, guys, hold yourself higher.
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    12/14/09

    @BaconForTheSoul: Thank you, yes. What a stupid post, considering they still attended by teleconference, and way to illustrate it with (i) a photo from DC hours after the fog delays and (ii) a photo at the time of the fog delays but from another city.

    Look at FlightStats.com for this morning. Just a random sample, out of the 13 American Airlines flights scheduled to fly into DCA between 8AM and noon today, 5 were canceled, 6 were at least 3 hours late, one was late 140 minutes and the last was late 45 minutes. What does having a private plane have to do with anything? Flights were fucked up because of the airport, not the planes. Sure, maybe they could have had someone call the FAA and give them a priority slot (and further delayed everyone else), or maybe they could just pick up the fucking phone.
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    Image of BaconForTheSoul BaconForTheSoul
    12/14/09

    @Astigmatism: If they had gotten priority, can you imagine the headline?

    "3 Rich bankers use federal pull to pollute the environment on private planes before the rest of us, could have just picked up phones"
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    12/14/09

    @BaconForTheSoul: Yeah, that had occurred to me.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    12/14/09

    In reply to Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of 'Inclement Weather'
    Cloudy With a Chance of Shitballs
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/14/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: "Inclement weather" = "Unable to pull off a snow job"
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    12/14/09

    In reply to Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of 'Inclement Weather'
    Soylent green is made out of bankers! IT'S MADE OUT OF BANKERS!!!!
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/14/09

    @misslinda: We can only hope.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    12/14/09

    @Swifter: Bankers are the new fois gras.
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    Image of MisterMustard MisterMustard
    12/14/09

    In reply to Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of 'Inclement Weather'
    It's the equivalent of the rich kid up the street taking his ball home cause you schooled his ass in P-I-G. Too bad "the ball" is all of our money.
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    Image of krismry krismry
    12/12/09

    In reply to Budget Cuts Threatening America's Ability to Control the Weather
    With climate as weird as it tends to become, maybe this is not a bad idea to ensure fewer downstream unintended consequences of meddling with weather. Flap of a butterfly's wings in a Lorenz attractor. Sensitivity to initial conditions and all that Chaos theory.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/11/09

    In reply to Frosted Fakes, They're Grrrreat
    They are stealing our snow.

    We have a snow gap with the Chinese. #china
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/11/09

    In reply to Frosted Fakes, They're Grrrreat
    We should get them together with the gnomes. #china
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    Image of Anrkist Anrkist
    11/11/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: We should first find the kingdom of gnomes. #china
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    11/11/09

    @Anrkist:

    Wow... Tom Bosley, Christopher Plummer... Executives in charge: The Weinsteins. I think we've found it. #china
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    Image of Karlifornia Karlifornia
    11/11/09

    In reply to Frosted Fakes, They're Grrrreat
    The hedge maze at the Overlook claims 1,000 more victims #china
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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