tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post4617047919899513993..comments2023-11-05T03:20:46.695-05:00Comments on The Ostroy Report: AIG: Time to Hire the Worst and the Dumbest The Ostroy Reporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421147082736335noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-37053708856079366232009-03-21T10:01:00.000-04:002009-03-21T10:01:00.000-04:00Larry, last warning: if you leave one more disrupt...Larry, last warning: if you leave one more disruptive, harassing post on this board I am going to report you to Blogger.com, and they will ban you from their site...and you will lose your own blog. Be smart.The Ostroy Reporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421147082736335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-27172259691598771132009-03-20T21:49:00.000-04:002009-03-20T21:49:00.000-04:00Larry, if you are going to insist on clogging this...Larry, if you are going to insist on clogging this message board with rambling, antagonistic, imflammatory off-topic postings you are going to be banned/rejected every time you post.The Ostroy Reporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421147082736335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-54813044660548399772009-03-20T09:52:00.000-04:002009-03-20T09:52:00.000-04:00Thank you Ostroy. As a long time appreciative r...Thank you Ostroy. As a long time appreciative reader of your blog I'n glad censorshp is over I think the vitriol and insanity in readers' responses was during the last days of the election when everything was very tense between opponents. If the "crazies" do continue to offend us, I think that if none of us responds to their insane, vicious remarks they'll stop since their egos require being noticed. Hope I'm right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-18117070974110076072009-03-20T07:37:00.000-04:002009-03-20T07:37:00.000-04:00Comment moderation has been lifted. I am hereby tr...Comment moderation has been lifted. I am hereby trusting my mature, responsible readers to engage in civil debate. But again I warn, a return to the days of hate-fiiled nonsense will bring an instant return to comment moderation. Ball's in your court, gang.<BR/>AndyThe Ostroy Reporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421147082736335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-48061291335944776742009-03-19T19:36:00.000-04:002009-03-19T19:36:00.000-04:00This may come as a shocker, but this blog does not...This may come as a shocker, but this blog does not exist so that crazies can run up a hundred nasty, derisive comments every time I write something. There are thousands of people who read and appreciate what I write here and on Huffington--whether they agree with me or not--and my priorities are not with the few kooks who insist on hijacking the message board and doing viscious battle with each other every 5 minutes. Those of you who write vile, racist, anti-semetic things--or horribly cruel things about the dead--have no place here. Being able to comment on my blog is a priviledge, not a right. Perhaps I will soon lift the moderating and see what happens. If you all behave yourselves, then fine. But we'll switch right back to comment moderating the second I see the same sort of juvenile nonsense that took over this board before. It's all up to you, not me.The Ostroy Reporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421147082736335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-15469779907246622632009-03-19T18:45:00.000-04:002009-03-19T18:45:00.000-04:00Before Ostroy's censorship this used to be a terri...Before Ostroy's censorship this used to be a terrific blog with lots of different ideas fired by Ostroy's article. Now fewer people take the time to post, wait a day or so to read more posts and eventually lose interest. We're mostly adults We can "take" rading trash talk from a few.Can't you lift the restraints and let all participate?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-10767226505134797492009-03-19T17:59:00.000-04:002009-03-19T17:59:00.000-04:00I think the meaning of "taxation without represent...I think the meaning of "taxation without representation" pertained to the fact that the colonies did not get a representative that they chose in parliament as per the British Constitution in the 1760s. The American public has received a say, through free elections. We are then represented by these elected officials to make decisions on our behalf. So we did in fact consent to the bail out funds being issued by proxy of our officials. Your analogy doesn't quite ring true even if you try to invoke the spirit of the sons of liberty to your argument. The stimulus bill (where the piece of legalese that allowed the bonuses) is not the Tea Act of 1773.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-25528857176233330782009-03-19T11:38:00.000-04:002009-03-19T11:38:00.000-04:00The problem with this is the inability to realize ...The problem with this is the inability to realize that AIG hasn't cost the taxpayers a cent. It was the corrupt political filth in Washington who robbed the taxpayers not anyone working for AIG.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-24213867372461569592009-03-19T09:55:00.000-04:002009-03-19T09:55:00.000-04:00What I want to know is who is running this Preside...What I want to know is who is running this President's administration. It is not Obama who spends all of his time "on the road" performing his act of charm with the theme "if you like, me trust me."<BR/><BR/>We knew it was Karl Rove and Cheney with Bush -- who's the shadow ruler of our country now? Who is making all of these terrible decisions and orchestrating the "cover ups"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-77999973318798536402009-03-19T09:06:00.000-04:002009-03-19T09:06:00.000-04:00When are folks going to realize that this is the r...When are folks going to realize that this is the result of decades (since 1981) of no regulations Republican greed? It has all come to a head now. How many of the voters gave the Republicans free rain all those years? Now the Dems have to clean up the mess. It won't be pretty and it won't be easy.<BR/>If anyone can not see just how this relates to the Republican Party's big corporation/big businss connection, they have not been paying attention.<BR/>How many American workers voted for the Republicans all these years to now find themselves without good paying jobs? <BR/>Elections make a difference. Political parties make a difference. Dumb American voters make a difference. Get it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-14228588181481394572009-03-19T07:59:00.000-04:002009-03-19T07:59:00.000-04:00Know what Im sick and tired of hearing Andy? I am ...Know what Im sick and tired of hearing Andy? I am SICK of turning on the TV and hearing EVERYONE say "how can you reward incompetence?", "these guys ran their bank into the ground and they get rewarded?" and so on and so on. But YET, they got bail out money to begin with! When it came time to decide if they even received bail out money, why werent they saying the SAME things about their incompetence and greed then?? Criticizing them wasnt right when it came time to give them 700 BILLION, but when it comes to 170 million in bonuses then that's when its time to use the words "greed", "incompetence" and "failure"? Why did they get the money in the FIRST place if they are a bunch of failures???? Can anyone answer this?? <BR/><BR/>On a side note Andy: Your blog has become dead. Months ago you were getting 25-40 comments on each story, now with comment moderation, you dont even get over 10 on MOST of them. Free speech is a good thing Andy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11636447.post-44306016918744596232009-03-18T20:58:00.000-04:002009-03-18T20:58:00.000-04:00The bottom line here Andy is that this bailout mon...The bottom line here Andy is that this bailout money that WE THE PEOPLE did NOT consent to equals taxation without representation. This is what the freaking Boston Tea Party was all about. Did they ask YOU about bailing out these companies first? Did they ask ANY of us? NO, they didnt. They made the decision to bail out these companies and OBAMA SIGNED IT, WITHOUT our consent, WITHOUT "We the people". WE are the government Andy, not them, they are only supposed to REPRESENT us, not be our masters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com