a.) Take his guitar to the side of your head and watch as his "backup singers" to stomp a mudhole in you, or

b.) Call in the rest of the local chapter of the OWS crowd to have words with you.

I was not only impressed by how civil he was when you were speaking to him, but how up-to-date he was with Obama (Goldman Sachs was a huge contributor to his campaign).

The second person also surprised me by his overall demeanor (I'll wait until that's posted here before I go into a little more detail).

I'll be honest here, when they started spring up here in Michigan, I fully expected something like this to happen.

In Detroit, nothing even close. They even held a Wedding in the middle of Grand Circus Park yesterday with OWS in attendance.

Now before people think that I've lost gone over to the dark side and will show up downtown singing kumbayah along with them, here's three words for you: Ain't gonna happen!

But if they want to conduct whatever it is they are doing in a civil manner, then I can at least respect that.

"We bail out the culprits (Wall Street) and let THE VICTIMS, you know, get shafted even worse,"  "a real Democracy...," "too many people think they've got the right answer...," "fix the electoral process... you have to be corrupt to be elected...," "I don't think Obama did this to us on purpose...," "We'd like to by the Koch's a world so they'd leave ours alone"

{Face palm} I want my 8 minutes and 46 seconds back.  Did this stooge ever get a job from someone without money unless it was a gummint job?  Nope.  

And, it started with Bush?  Hogwash.  It started with Carters' Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 and that was exploited to No Income No Job and no Asset loan status by BJ Clinton.  There's the gottdam economic bubble that burst.  Looters and Moochers wanting their free housing in our society out there electing to Office those that will provide them their 'entitlements'.

George W was a race pimp like Carter and BJ that was also a complacent moron that didn't repeatedly take the ticking time-bomb to The People way before he got stuck holding the Carter/Clinton bag as well as the 535 that regulate Wall Street that created the burst.

Ferchrissake, even the screwed up Limeys can see the devastation that the evolution of 1977 Carter Socialism created with affirmative action housing.

But, according to the clownfart with the guitar, "it's still Wall Streets fault".  

Aside from Junior chucking his principles into the wind, I've been catching up on some light reading this weekend.

It's an interesting little piece sent to me that was done by the GAO on the bailout.

Some interesting highlights:

- The GAO identified 18 former and current members of the Federal Reserve's board affiliated
with banks and companies that received emergency loans from the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis including General Electric, JP Morgan Chase, and Lehman Brothers. (Page 39)

• The affiliations of the Federal Reserve's board of directors with financial firms continue to pose "reputational risks" to the Federal Reserve System. (Page 32)

• The policy of the Federal Reserve to give members of the banking industry the power to both elect and serve on the Federal Reserve's board of directors creates "an appearance of a conflict of interest." (Page 32)

• Many of the Federal Reserve's board of directors own stock or work directly for banks that are supervised and regulated by the Federal Reserve. These board members oversee the Federal Reserve's operations including salary and personnel decisions. (Page 41)

• Under current regulations, Fed directors who are employed by the banking industry or own stock in financial institutions can participate in decisions involving how much interest to charge to financial institutions receiving Fed loans; and the approval or disapproval of Federal Reserve credit to healthy banks and banks in "hazardous" condition. (Pages 41-42)