Posted on 08/06/2011 6:55:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
Good Sarcastic wit. This is almost believable.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2759531/posts
Police raid Milan offices of Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s
08/05/2011 4:51:12 AM PDT · by No One Special · 2 replies
The Guardian ^ | August 4, 2011 | John Hooper
Chief prosecutor of Trani conducts investigation into whether the two rating agencies abide by regulations As stock and bond markets across the world tumbled on fears about Italy and Spain, it emerged that police acting on orders from prosecutors had raided the Milan offices of rating agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s as part of continuing investigations into their role in the recent financial turmoil.
LOL, you had me until “influenced by executives membership in the Tea Party,”
Many a true word spoken in jest......
C’mon man. I only read to here “influenced by executives membership in the Tea Party,” didn’t take long.
I’ll bet you are a stickler for spelling as well.
the Italian article is real.
Texas Fossil in #17 is right!
the real stuff is too close to make the satire even funny.
I was going to post this on my FaceBook page, along with the great cartoon -— WITH permission, of course, if y’all will allow it. But, the link just goes back to the FreeRepublic Forum???
Ripped from the headlines: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90056267?Italian%20authorities%20raid%20Milan%20offices%20of%20S%26P%2C%20Moody%26%23146%3Bs
I’m not really just making this stuff up.
Help yourself on my part.
yep. that’s what Texas Fossil and me said in 17 and 21...
A satire alert would have been nice.
You're scaring me, man. You didn't find the New York Police Department's Thought Crime Squad a little questionable?
>>>A satire alert would have been nice.
The “Treasury Department SWAT teams, assisted by New York City Police Department’s Thought Crimes Squad” from the first sentence wasn’t a clue for you? Those things don’t exist... yet. :)
Yes, the whole thing was a clue to me, What wasn’t a clue was the title and clicking on the article before reading any of it. Had he marked it Satire I would not have read it at all thereby using my time to read REAL articles. While I see no harm in posting such fake articles, I do think they should be clearly marked in the title as Satire.
Whoever controls the present controls the past.
Whoever controls the past controls the future.
It amazed me how in that first year, the Obama Administration changed the rules as to how unemployment is calculated, and then applied those rule changes retroactively for the last 18 months of the Bush Presidency. The official unemployment history was altered in that Bush's numbers were adjusted upward, making it appear that rising unemployment actually occurred during the Bush years and not during 2009.
Soviet historians could unerringly foresee the ineluctable future, but could never predict the ever changing past.
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