Comments on: News of the $500 billion

By: Juliette

Juliette — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:06:39 +0000

That’s Geneva in Switzerland.

By: Josh Maxwell

Josh Maxwell — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:20:28 +0000

I’m quite sure this pic was taken in Montreal after the giant ice storm in 1998.

By: SilverFire85

SilverFire85 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:38:01 +0000

Wow, where was this taken? This is an awesome image.

By: Simnos

Simnos — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:26:02 +0000

perhaps they were counting in Canadian dollars?

By: hotsauce

hotsauce — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:22:36 +0000

Try this instead:
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_jan2004/HellFreezesOver.jpg

By: hotsauce

hotsauce — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:20:44 +0000

Oops, that didn’t work out, did it?

By: hotsauce

hotsauce — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:18:17 +0000

By: well

well — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:45:55 +0000

Figured you’d be incapable of actual dialog.

By: well

well — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:45:16 +0000

You’re assuming I actually want that piece of trash bailout bill.

By: ck

ck — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:08:53 +0000

Yes, your comments are quite the waste.

By: wut

wut — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:07:22 +0000

And if you’re not also blaming all the repubs who voted against the bill then you’re as bad of a partisan hack as you claim Pelosi is. Go back to Fox News’s teat!

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:03:49 +0000

That made me lol.

By: herb

herb — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:30:33 +0000

“If Pelosi wanted to fix things she doesn’t need any Republic votes, she can just shove it down our throats.”

Except for that whole Not-having-veto-proof-majority-in-the-Senate thing… Repubs mention the word “filibuster” and the Dems fold faster than Superman on laundry day.

By: well

well — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:21:49 +0000

Yeah, they’re definately worried about their own skins or they could/would have done something about it without bothering to be bi-Partisan. I’m generally more level headed than I was above, but the “If you don’t agree with me you’re dumb” folks on here just get annoying after a while. Figured I’d throw it back at him and maybe he’d see what a waste of a comment it was. He probably won’t get it though.

By: TC00

TC00 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:13:47 +0000

You’re right just thought I would pass on a link to more pictures of the ice storm

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:12:38 +0000

It was both sides who had people who voted against it, not just one. You would think that Pelosi would have better control over her party than that, though. I think these guys are thinking toward the next election. God forbid this goes further down the crapper, all of the ones who voted for it (if it ended up making things worse) would be living under a newpaper on the Mall.

By: well

well — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:08:15 +0000

If you’re not blaming her and the entire Democrat portion of the House, you’re a hopeless moron.

By: ck

ck — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:59:21 +0000

If you’re blaming Pelosi of all people you’re truly stupid.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:55:09 +0000

Without the caption, this is a pretty amazing picture. I’d love to see it in person.

By: well

well — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:48:26 +0000

It’s all a bunch of Democrat posturing anyway. If Pelosi wanted to fix things she doesn’t need any Republic votes, she can just shove it down our throats. But if she did that and it failed, she’d be blamed. So she was wanting Republican votes too. And it would have worked if right before the vote she didn’t go all Evil Partisan Ice Queen and piss everyone in the room off with a “Ha! Ha! I get what I want and you can’t stop me!” So they shut her down, and her own Democrats (who could have still passed it regardless) voted it down too.

By: lol

lol — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:05:58 +0000

Wait, McCain didn’t save the economy?

By: lol

lol — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:05:07 +0000

Didn’t the US Treasury just guess on that number or something?

By: inked_hippie

inked_hippie — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:03:49 +0000

ftw

By: noway

noway — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:30:15 +0000

Definitely Versoix.

The sign actually says:
Tea-Room
Restaurant

The building in the background is the Tea-Room “Les Regates” J.-J. Cartier & Cie. in Versoix, Switzerland.

By: wxyz

wxyz — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:11:55 +0000

I think it probably actually says:
Tea-Room
Restaurant

Pretty sure this is Versoix. And I think that the restaurant in the background is
“Les Régates”: http://www.cartier-versoix.ch/

So there.

By: jellybeans

jellybeans — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:59:35 +0000

“This bill would not have been agreed to had it not been for John McCain… This is a bipartisan accomplishment, a bipartisan success. And if people want to get something done in Washington, they just watch John McCain. He’s been the guy whose name is at the top of major pieces of legislation for a long time.”
– Mitt Romney, NBC’s Today show, 9/29/08
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“What Senator McCain was able to do was to help bring all of the parties to the table, including the House Republicans, whose votes were needed to pass this”
– Steve Schmidt, NBC’s Meet the Press, 9/28/08
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“We’re optimistic that Senator McCain will bring House Republicans on board without driving other parties away, resulting in a successful deal for the American taxpayer.”
– McCain spokeswoman Kimmie Lipscomb, 9/26/08
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Stunning defeat for economy bailout; stocks plunge
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JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | September 29, 2008 03:45 PM EST
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WASHINGTON — In a stunning vote that shocked the capital and worldwide markets, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation’s financial system, ignoring urgent warnings from President Bush and congressional leaders of both parties that the economy could nosedive without it.
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Stocks plummeted on Wall Street even before the 228-205 vote to reject the bill was officially announced on the House floor.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:50:13 +0000

Who do you think makes up the numbers for the Wall Street Journal if money is the root of all evil?

By: Dylane

Dylane — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:43:25 +0000

Switzerland, eh? No doubt where the smarmy “businessmen” of Wall Street are stashing their loot.

By: scum-bot

scum-bot — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:38:56 +0000

I think I can now afford to go to hell…DEMON WINTER HOLIDAY

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:22:30 +0000

Satan reads the Wall Street Journal….who knew?

By: signe

signe — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:02:16 +0000

CAPTION FAAAAAIL actually you can’t really help if you don’t know everything… i have no idea what this is even about, myself

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:59:55 +0000

You are about 198 billion shy there, Obama.

How surprising.

By: Obama

Obama — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:52:02 +0000

I’ll take that extra 2 billion then, you won’t miss it! Thanks!

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:47:26 +0000

After a few billion they’re just numbers anyway. Accuracy doesn’t matter – it’s a fvckload either way.

By: Hayley

Hayley — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:30:31 +0000

Yes but if you look up the picture online its slightly larger and above restaurant it says room..
http://www.mybench.org/gallery/pg4.php
Hmm..

By: Kali

Kali — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:28:53 +0000

I confirm for Versoix, Switzerland
+1 to ryszard!

By: Kali

Kali — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:25:42 +0000

This picture was taken in Versoix, near Geneva, Switzerland, in winter 2005…
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Switzerland/photo140412.htm
http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/88076154UtyEZJ?start=0
for more!

By: ryszard

ryszard — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:24:23 +0000

I was thinking that it was the back view of another pic I have seen taken at Lake Geneva of several cars completely encrusted in ice, and frozen spray angling down from the trees. I think I’d like to visit there sometime, [i]en été[/i].

(And “restaurant” in French is “restaurant”.)

By: Hayley

Hayley — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:18:03 +0000

priceless or $700 billion..

By: Dread Poet Jethro

Dread Poet Jethro — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:48:50 +0000

Perhaps so, Otter
But the “Restaurant” sign has
To make me wonder…

By: crazy_otter

crazy_otter — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:21:51 +0000

This picture has been taken in Versoix, a small town at Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Probably during winter 2005 (awful chilly winter!)

By: Lolnathan

Lolnathan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:57:39 +0000

Like they are going to pay a dime of taxes on their corporate welfare…

By: Obama

Obama — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:46:02 +0000

Oh no! I’m goin’ back to Hawaii!

By: Brandon_ha

Brandon_ha — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:44:55 +0000

cold on yo ass though.

By: jellybeans

jellybeans — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:39:08 +0000

Hell has some swanky park benches

By: mrshooah

mrshooah — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:31:00 +0000

Recaption away, my ocd friend

By: sususbug

sususbug — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:30:30 +0000

the person that captioned this was calculating the “after taxes” total

By: mrshooah

mrshooah — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:29:32 +0000

It’s ok, facts aren’t funny. Especially in this case.

By: Lolnathan

Lolnathan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:17:02 +0000

Is it bad that the OCD in me is ruining this funny for me because the number is wrong? I want to laugh… but can’t… its like the $500 is in giant red text blinking on top of the lol…

By: inked_hippie

inked_hippie — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:14:27 +0000

I love Pundit’s disclaimer below the picture. Priceless.