Got this from MorOn.org and just had to share my schadenfreude:
You’ve probably heard about how Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff scammed investors out of at least $50 billion.
But you may not have heard that his victims included the foundations that support some really important progressive organizations. Groups that fight for human rights, fair elections and racial justice are getting hit hard—just in time for the holidays. We’ve worked side-by-side with many of them.
If these groups can’t replace the funding that came from investment accounts that Madoff stole, they may be forced to start cutting important projects or, in some cases, even lay off staff.
I’m smiling like the Grinch after he got that wonderful, awful idea.
Anyway, click here for a list of the objects of their sympathy.
For the record, there’s a tiny little cynical part of me that can’t help wondering if these organizations really DID lose money to Madoff, or if this is just a fund-raising scam by MoveOn.
Only 50 billion and he will be sitting in jail. Al Gore is in the process of swindling governments out of trillions and he is still running around free in his gas guzzling private jet.
“I’m smiling like the Grinch after he got that wonderful, awful idea.”
Keep that smile through 2009, Harvey. Maybe it’s infectious.
A lot of the trust found liberals got obliterated in their private accounts. It is going to be really hard for the dems to raise money like they used to. Worse for them China is getting hammered, so the libs can’t even depend on million dollar donations from dishwashers anymore either.
Either Frank’s multiple personalities are unusually seperate, or the bloggers here really are unique individuals after all. (Harvey at least. We should reserve judgement on Basil.) There’s just no denying that Harvey contributes the best material.
What a shame that the left has to ask for more money – yeah – I think I have a grin too
SCAM, how could any think different?
Anyway,just get more from SOROS
And the Baby Jesus smiled.
I love it when God gets ironic.
Good news about liberals having a problem is gnat crap – they own the whitehouse – the congress – the senate – the media and the Supreme Court – its about like being the one in the water as the Titanic sinks to find a floating oar — big deal! It’s over….
Whether you agree with the Old Testament that “vengence is mine, says the Lord” or simply the Mister Boffo T-Shirt that said, “Poverty is nature’s way of saying, ‘HA! I don’t think so!'”, you have to love this.
Either way, CS Lewis nails it with, “We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst”.
Or Steve Turner, “If chance be the father of all flesh, disaster is His rainbow in the sky. And when you hear ‘State of emergency, Sniper kills ten, Troops on rampage, Youths go looting, Bomb blasts school’, it is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.”
Or me – There is no “honor among thieves” for a generation that has spent forty years redefining “Honor” and redefining “Thieves”.
C.S. Lewis also wrote, “Our rulers have become our owners”.
An indicator of this was the increasing use of the term “leader” in the West.
(Guess what the translation of ‘Fuhrer’ is.)
Free people need representatives, governors and judges.
Children need parents, students need teachers, and domestic animals need leaders.
I’ve read here many times that the conservative movement needs a new ‘leader’.
We need representatives who will write laws based on conservative principles,
executives who will enforce the laws impartially, and judges who will apply the law fairly, not make it up as they go along.
A few good spokesmen/spokeswomen wouldn’t hurt, but I’ve grown suspicious of ‘leaders’.
BTW: “God in the Dock, Essays on Theology and Ethics”
by C.S. Lewis,
Part III, Chapter 8,
“Is Progress Possible? – Willing Slaves of the Welfare State”
(reprint of essay first published in The Observer, 1958).
He saw it coming 50 years ago.
CS Lewis is one of my heros. He actually took God up on the “prove me” opportunity. That is why he could write the things he did. Was he infallible, no he’s still human, but he was inspired.
The book “The Narnian” about him is a good read.
#13 – Seanmahair,
“The Narnian”. Thanks! I’ll look for it.
I’m re-reading ‘Reflections on the Psalms’ right now.
I get something new from him every time I read his stuff.
I have to go to the library to see if I can find a copy of G.K. Chesterton’s,
“The Everlasting Man”.
Lewis said in his autobiography, “Surprised by Joy”, that reading that book was an important step in breaking down his atheism by letting him see, “that Christianity itself was very sensible ‘apart from its Christianity'”.
(Chapter 14, ‘Checkmate’).
In Chapter 12, ‘Guns and Good Company’, he writes,
“In reading Chesterton as in reading (George) MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere – ‘Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,’ as Herbert says, ‘fine nets and stratgems.’ God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.”
So, if Lewis is influential to me, I’m keen to read the authors who were influential to him.
Speaking of Psalms:
“Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered:
let them also that hate him flee before him.”
“But let the righteous be glad and rejoice before God:
let them also be merry and joyful.”
– Psalm 68: 1, 3.