Monday, December 15, 2008

Bank of America takes our money ...

Bank of America takes our money. Let me count the ways.
Congress, take the money back from this traitorous unAmerican corporation.

Today's QUOTES:
















Clearly health insurance parasites, aided by their collaborators in the press, are to maneuvering to replace Stark with someone more malleable. ...
--Pete Stark takes on Medicare part D(eath), Corrente
... “You keep focusing on all the death,” a peeved Bush whined to an Irish journalist once. Go figure. So the searing misery continues day after day, America forever in shame from it, a flying shoe a symbol of another real journalist to an American country that has very, very few of them.
--Nice Shoes by paradox, The Left Coaster
The media fixation on the ultimately irrelevant Blagojevich scandal, juxtaposed with their steadfast ignoring of the Senate report documenting systematic U.S. war crimes, is perfectly reflective of how our political establishment thinks. Blagojevich's laughable scheme is transformed into a national fixation and made into the target of collective hate sessions, while the systematic, ongoing sale of the legislative process to corporations and their lobbyists are overlooked as the normal course of business. Lynndie England is uniformly scorned and imprisoned while George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld are headed off to lives of luxury, great wealth, respect, and immunity from the consequences for their far more serious crimes. And the courageous and principled career Justice Department lawyer who blew the whistle on Bush's illegal spying programs -- Thomas Tamm -- continues to have his life destroyed, while the countless high-level government officials, lawyers and judges who also knew about it and did nothing about it are rewarded and honored, and those who committed the actual crimes are protected and immunized.
--Senate report links Bush to detainee homicides; media yawns by Glenn Greenwald, salon.com


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Bank of America's tellers, on seven separate occasions, dispensed my money to thieves with ONLY a fake driver's license in my name. No signature check. No bank card demanded. No password. No gramma's blood type/momma's homeroom, none of that. I've made a complaint about them to the Comptroller of the Currency, and I'm awaiting the results of their investigation. For more information on the jeopardy I believe every consumer customer of the bank may be in (for identity theft), I've written extensively about it on my blog at advicegoddess.com. Caveat emptor -- caveat thieves empty your account and you're a target more than you probably would be at other banks, thanks to B of A's pattern of spectacular negligence in their fiduciary duty to guard their customers' identity data and money.