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Monday Open Thread | 84 comments (84 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Madoff's been sentanced to 150 years.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 11:51:22 AM EST

That's like what, one year for every half-billion he took?

By that standard your average armed robber would serve something like 14 minutes.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 11:55:07 AM EST
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Time for all I have ever stolen will be served in the next ten seconds.

..........

Thank you.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 11:58:35 AM EST
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$150 of theft? thats either a hanging, or a term in Guantanamo for terrorism, if your a lefty. ;)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 12:02:33 PM EST
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The scale must be logarithmic.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 12:11:59 PM EST
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Nah, just volume discount.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 01:57:17 PM EST
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Or, bearing in mind that we used to sentence people to life transportation (Liverpool-Sydney approx 10576 miles) for stealing two sheep (current value around $100), that works out at 105.76 miles per dollar.

In other words, we could send him about 1.17 light years, or a little over a quarter of the way to Proxima Centauri.

by Sassafras on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 01:37:23 PM EST
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Very lateral, but it works for me.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 01:44:52 PM EST
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But will that be with the hard cases, or in the relatively plush surroundings of a low security facility?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 12:15:19 PM EST
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My ten seconds were pretty tough.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 12:18:48 PM EST
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You'll need to be rehabilitated back into society.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 12:20:50 PM EST
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When you've been where I've been, sweety, society's a sick joke.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 12:46:34 PM EST
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So from now on do we call you 'Knuckles' Afew, or what?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 01:35:06 PM EST
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by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 01:50:56 PM EST
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Hardcore.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 01:51:35 PM EST
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No reason to get excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 01:44:01 PM EST
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The wind began to howl.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 01:49:45 PM EST
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but you and i have been through that, and this is not our fate...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 03:04:56 PM EST
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so let us not talk falsely now
the hour is getting late

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--

by tzt (tztmail at gmail dot com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 04:13:51 PM EST
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Surely he's a prime candidate for "prison as rehabilitation" rather than "Prison as punishment"

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 12:21:58 PM EST
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