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March 16:
Sen. Charles Grassley is so angry over AIG bonuses that he says the executives should resign or kill themselves.
In a comment aired this afternoon on WMT, an Iowa radio station, Grassley (R-Iowa) said: “The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better towards them if they’d follow the Japanese model and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I’m sorry, and then either do one of two things — resign, or go commit suicide.”
Today:
Police: Death of Freddie Mac CFO may be suicide.
Sen. Charles Grassley is so angry over AIG bonuses that he says the executives should resign or kill themselves.
In a comment aired this afternoon on WMT, an Iowa radio station, Grassley (R-Iowa) said: “The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better towards them if they’d follow the Japanese model and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I’m sorry, and then either do one of two things — resign, or go commit suicide.”
Today:
Police: Death of Freddie Mac CFO may be suicide.
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(you don't really fail, i just needed a URL to make my anal-tastic point. poot!
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now my office mate is saying over his shoulder, "Whatchoo failin', girl?"
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coincedence
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I think criticism is a healthy part of our burgeoning democracy. :)
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Your mileage may vary, of course.
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I don't think the way we talk about those with whom we disagree has undergone a substantive overall change of late. Ad hominem has been around (and cheered and jeered) as long as differences of opinion have. we might be more frequently subjected to it with the onslaught of the internet and everyone now not only having an opinion and an asshole, but also a keyboard. And it's clearly in vogue in certain circles.
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May be triggery; obviously delete if you find it so.
Now references to such violent acts are used so much for rhetoric that the true gruesomeness of the actual act is overlooked. I had an acquaintance who frequently used (or uses as I'm sure he still does) the term "rape" as an expletive, often in combination with other descriptors, in situations where he feels, for instance, that he's been charged too much for something. I cringed every time I heard it, and asked him to stop using it, which he objected to as my attempting to censor him. He is, suffice it to say, no longer an acquaintance that is welcome in my home. But I hear it - and read it - more and more frequently from more sources, along with exclamations of how someone who's annoyed someone else should "die". It's that kind of thing - that it seems that we've become so inured to the trauma of violence that we use the language in common parlance as if it were nothing - that is, I think, what upsets me.
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I reminds me of the folks that purportedly killed themselves after the Crash of '29.
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I don't think Grassley was too harsh at all; he did leave them the option of simply resigning, which seems to be about all we ever demand of people who have done horrible things in a corporate environment. Me, I'd push for "resign and then face criminal charges".
I have to wonder what a full audit of the Freddie Mac books would turn up. But we'll probably never be allowed to know.
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I agree with