According to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, “Wall Street bonuses were up 17 percent to over $20 billion in 2009, the year taxpayers bailed out the financial sector after its meltdown. Total compensation at the largest securities firms grew beyond that figure” and profits could exceed “an unprecedented $55 billion last year,” nearly three times Wall Street’s record increase.  Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer and Rolling Stone Reporter Matt Tiabi have been calling out these big banks for the scams they're running - and the politicians in both parties for going along with them - for years.  Yet still the banksters own you, me, and our government.  Maybe we need a tea party!  Or at least we should all move our money into local Credit Unions and leave the big banks to wither and die on their own.

In Strange News...State Del. Bob Marshall (R-VA), at a press conference on Thursday, in calling for an end to state funding of Planned Parenthood,  declared last week that an increased number of disabled children are a punishment from nature, taking "vengeance" for prior abortions by their mothers. He said, "The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children."