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"1. We believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement, and we’re willing to fight for it."

A few police shootings of Wall Street execs would be a welcomed change.

I still can't believe the majority of my idiot neighbors voted for this fraud. How sad is it when Democrats celebrate a complete liar, who gamed the system. I'm sorry, but Harvard doesn't hire professors out of Rutgers. Oh but wait! She's a professor of color! Says so right on her application, see! She checked off Indian, so it must be so. No proof? No problem! Harvard's quota is filled HOOORAYYY!!!! Now that she's been at Harvard for a few years, she stopped checking the box. WTF?!

- Also, many facts were spiked by New England's paper of record, the Boston Globe. The fact that she was a house flipper back in Oklahoma seemed to get swept under the rug by the 'beautifiul, low-info voters'... I'm sure this audience can't really like that fact.

- The fact that she can't debate her way out of a paper bag seems to go unnoticed, as well.

- Want to make her go away? Ask a tough, legit question. She runs for the hills.

Is She starting the Pee Party?

Blurtman says

"1. We believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement, and we’re willing to fight for it."

A few police shootings of Wall Street execs would be a welcomed chang

The article says there is no shortage of regulation but a dearth of enforcement.

It only takes 6 months from when they feign outrage to when they get completely adsorbed/co-opted into the borg/beltway

Her rhetoric is all based on corporate outrages septin they are bogus outrages, even if she believed in them.

Boy the beltway sure brings out the whore in people.

indigenous says

Blurtman says

"1. We believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement, and we’re willing to fight for it."

A few police shootings of Wall Street execs would be a welcomed chang

The article says there is no shortage of regulation but a dearth of enforcement.

It only takes 6 months from when they feign outrage to when they get completely adsorbed/co-opted into the borg/beltway

Her rhetoric is all based on corporate outrages septin they are bogus outrages, even if she believed in them.

Boy the beltway sure brings out the whore in people.

One must recall that we recently have had a criminal, Hank Paulson, approved to be Treasury Secretary by both parties. And former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was an advisor to CitiBank when he was informed by their chief auditor that crime was rampant at the institution, which resulted in no action being taken. And then there is Geithner, who was complicit in Wall Street fraud, and a failed regulator of these investment banks. And the revolving door between Wall Street and the government. And the campaign contributions to members of both parties.

The government has been captured by the financial industry. One proposed soluton has been campaign finance reform. I think mass hangings of Wall Street criminals might be better.

Sen. Warren loves the export import bank. That tells us where she stands.

The facts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_warren#Native_American_controversy

Some more 'facts'....

http://elizabethwarrenwiki.org/elizabeth-warren-native-american-cherokee-controversy/

..."When confronted with this information, Warren admitted[12] she had filled out forms listing herself as Native American, claiming she wanted to meet other Native Americans:[13]

Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade because she hoped to meet other people with tribal roots.
“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off,” said Warren….
“Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born,” said Warren, who never mentioned her Native American heritage on the campaign trail even as she detailed much of her personal history to voters in speeches, statements and a video. “These are my family stories, I have lived in a family that has talked about Native American and talked about tribes since I was a little girl.

...."That explanation did not make sense[15] because the AALS faculty directory only listed Warren as “minority,” not as “Native American,” so putting herself on that list was not a way to meet other Native Americans.....

..."The Genealogical Evidence Shows Warren Has No Native American Ancestry
Detailed genealogical investigation by a group of Cherokee genealogists[31] showed that Warren had no Cherokee or other Native American ancestry. The findings are set forth at the blog Thoughts From Polly’s Grandaughter[32] which based the research on over one hundred primary sources,[33] and detailed the findings:

The team and I have done an exhaustive search on the genealogy of Elizabeth Warren. We have researched ALL of her ancestral lines, but have only posted those she claimed were Indian here in the blog. None of her direct line ancestors are ever shown to be anything other than white, dating back to long before the Trail of Tears."....

Blurtman says

The government has been captured by the financial industry. One proposed soluton has been campaign finance reform. I think mass hangings of Wall Street criminals might be better.

They tried that with McCain Feingold, it did nothing.

No amount of legislation will work because it is antipathetic to reelection.

A couple of things that would help is to repeal the 17th amendment.
Another would be term limits.
Another would be a genuine ethics committee that would be as feared as a police departments internal affairs.
IMO the only thing that would really make a difference be an education of economics, politics and civic duty.

How.

AverageBear says

Oh but wait! She's a professor of color! Says so right on her application, see! She checked off Indian, so it must be so.

Or as they say in the Indian Reservations these days:

"How many poker chips you want?"

Seriously, there are no standards for "Hispanic" or "White" or "Black", so I always lie about my race and fill it in however, and encourage everyone to fill it out hapharzardly as well.

If you just came back from Cancun, choose Hispanic. If you've been listening to Parliament-Funkadelic that day, put Black.

Imagine the government trying to prove you were White or weren't Black, how could they?

"Well, your honor, the State University policy is that if you have one White Grandmother, you're White."
Good luck with that in the Courts.

To qualify for a minority SBA program by claiming to be a Native American, one has to prove inclusion on a tribal register. But anyone can claim to be a Spanish speaking Indian, i.e., an Hispanic. And so the US government holds its own Indians to a much higher standard than foreign Indians.

What if I claim to be a black, gay, Hispanic who became a woman and changed back to a man? What kind of benefits do I qualify for???

lostand confused says

What if I claim to be a black, gay, Hispanic who became a woman and changed back to a man? What kind of benefits do I qualify for???

Probably some kind of political office?

http://www.i-P-CoSNYaI

Rabble-Rouser, no substance, no good ideas, just more of the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYtSMLgaW6U&t=7m55s

willywonka says

But anyone can claim to be a Spanish speaking Indian, i.e., an Hispanic.

Not always. There was this guy, Dion Alaniz (the Big Tex scandal, 2006?), who got in trouble for claiming he was Hispanic on his law school application. He was applying to UT Austin and said he was Hispanic based on the fact that he was adopted by his Hispanic father. He, however, had no Hispanic lineage. If the story is to be believed, the admissions committee at UT law school trolls law school applicant message boards that can be found all over the internet. In a posting, Alaniz made some comments about how he isn't Hispanic, but he put it on his application to increase his odds of getting in. I'm not sure how the school found out about it, but somehow they figured out he was "Big Tex." He was denied admission and UT informed all the other schools to which he had applied. I guess if you're going to claim to be a minority, you better, at least, be consistent about it....

indigenous says

Rabble-Rouser, no substance, no good ideas, just more of the same.

Are you talking about Rep/Con/Teas & their talking points media?

HEY YOU says

Are you talking about Rep/Con/Teas & their talking points media?

No, just listening and some commn sense. I first started questioning her when she drones on about household income.

turtledove says

In a posting, Alaniz made some comments about how he isn't Hispanic, but he put it on his application to increase his odds of getting in. I'm not sure how the school found out about it, but somehow they figured out he was "Big Tex." He was denied admission and UT informed all the other schools to which he had applied. I guess if you're going to claim to be a minority, you better, at least, be consistent about it....

He should sue and make UT tell the court what an Hispanic is in specific terms. 1/8th Blood? How come a Portugese from Europe would be an Hispanic but not an Italian? Were Portugese worse off than Corsicans? Why is a German-Italian Brazilian national with blue eyes and blond hair Hispanic but an Irish American raised in Panama not? Is an Afro-Cuban Black or Hispanic? What genetic evidence is there for an Hispanic Race? Cultures aren't Races.

"I know it when I see it" = Arbitrary.

I encourage everyone to change their "race" makeup on a daily basis.

lostand confused says

What if I claim to be a black, gay, Hispanic who became a woman and changed back to a man? What kind of benefits do I qualify for??

You would qualify to run for President of the United States, and probably be able to do with the government paying for your campaign.

thunderlips11 says

I encourage everyone to change their "race" makeup on a daily basis.

You can and should change your sex/sexual orientation daily too - on forms that ask for it, that is. Today I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body, so that makes me a female/male, heterosexual, bi-sexual. Oh and this morning I felt like I was originally from a lost tribe in the Amazon. I need to sit down and get grounded.

thunderlips11 says

1/8th Blood? How come a Portugese from Europe would be an Hispanic but not an Italian? Were Portugese worse off than Corsicans? Why is a German-Italian Brazilian national with blue eyes and blond hair Hispanic but an Irish American raised in Panama not? Is an Afro-Cuban Black or Hispanic? What genetic evidence is there for an Hispanic Race?

My dad did that DNA thing through Ancestry dot com. It gave a breakdown of his heritage based on DNA. He came back as 40 percent Iberian, which would make sense, as his family originally traces back to Spain (Basque). Both his grandfather and father were born in Puerto Rico. Everyone has very obviously Spanish names. For these reasons, we are Hispanic.

However, my dad's father was a very educated man who came from a family well off enough to afford for him to get a BS engineering from a continental US school (back in the day when only a few could afford post-secondary education). Spanish was his first language, but he was educated enough that he came to the continent speaking English very well. I wouldn't characterize my dad's side of the family as particularly oppressed by virtue of their background.

Now my mom's side of the family made it to the US at around the same time as my dad's. They came straight from Italy (Naples and Sicily). They were not especially educated. All of them spoke very little English upon arrival and found comfort living amongst their own in Brooklyn. They all worked as dress makers in the garment district. My grandmother started working there at the age of 11! She was married off at the whopping age of 15!

Now, if I had to evaluate which side of the family had it worse off, I would say my Italian half without question. From where I'm sitting, the disability was directly related to education level. The Puerto Ricans in my family had it made by comparison. But where opportunities exist for minorities, they come from my Hispanic heritage, not my Italian heritage. It's pretty messed up.

This broad is just a Sarah Palin as a Democrat. Except less truthful, and possibly a former REALTOR!

Race is becoming less an issue every year as inter race couples marry and procreate. Then their kids do the same and how confused would that 1/4black, 1/4 Asian, 1/4 white, 1/4 Latino kid be when it comes time to check the "ethnicity" box on his college admission form? Is he an oppressed minority or an elitist cracker? Is he a hardworking Latino or a tech-savvy Asian? 15-20% of all marriages now cross racial barriers. Given a couple of generations, by about 2050, the race debate will be over. Purebred holdouts can then be stereotyped at will. I do think this is the primary problem with science fiction futuristic shows. They almost never show multi-racial characters, where the cast should be primarily multi-racial for accuracy!

My kids are multiracial, and they're smart and beautiful. I feel like they will own the future.

Quigley says

Race is becoming less an issue every year as inter race couples marry and procreate. Then their kids do the same and how confused would that 1/4black, 1/4 Asian, 1/4 white, 1/4 Latino kid be when it comes time to check the "ethnicity" box on his college admission form? Is he an oppressed minority or an elitist cracker? Is he a hardworking Latino or a tech-savvy Asian?

The cynic in me says it would depend on what is the most beneficial at the moment.

Besides, if someone claims to be, say, Asian, who's to say he's not? It's not like his skull will be measured by some state-appointed "Dr.Mengele". So basically it comes down to self-identification and nothing else.

indigenous says

HEY YOU says

Are you talking about Rep/Con/Teas & their talking points media?

No, just listening and some commn sense. I first started questioning her when she drones on about household income.

All the Assholes in the Big Club just drone on & on. She's just another talking head. I don't expect any change in 2014 0r 2016. It will just be a new group of Assholes.

Probably so (8^(()

Quigley says

Race is becoming less an issue every year as inter race couples marry and procreate. Then their kids do the same and how confused would that 1/4black, 1/4 Asian, 1/4 white, 1/4 Latino kid be when it comes time to check the "ethnicity" box on his college admission form? Is he an oppressed minority or an elitist cracker?

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Quigley, you have a point. But when you lie on a job application, and the employer allows the lie to perpetuate for it's own personal gain (Harvard bragging they now have a woman 'professor of color'), that's a completely different matter. Then on top of all of this, the liar (that would be Liz Warren) takes her career public, she lies about the lie she used to 'game the system'. (Harvard does not hire professors out of Rutgers; sorry but it's the truth)...

See, it's OK to lie when you are a liberal. The press (MSM, Boston Globe, et al), will give you a pass, and spike an 'inconvenient truth', but won't have the same sympathy if you aren't a liberal. It's just the way it is.

Thank God Boston is a two paper town, with the Herald, calling out BS on both sides of the isle. If the story gets traction, the Globe is then forced to at least mention any transgressions a liberal might have done.... Sad, but it's just the way it is.

And now all of the low-info liberal voters are rallying around Liz Warren for president. Un-fuckin'-believable. I can't wait to see her in a debate again. It's a shit-show of stammering, repeating 3-5 phrases that are unrelated to the question ("the middle class is getting hammered"), while having that stupid granny, "deer in the headlights" look....