[Loud Mime]

Good Sarcastic wit. This is almost believable.

I started rereading Orwell’s 1984. I’m only two chapters inside the book and realize that Obama may become his Big Brother.

[Elendur]

Good Sarcastic wit. This is almost believable.
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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.

[Hoodat]

I read 1984 for the first time shortly after Obama was elected. The parallels are frightening.

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.