Yes we have a funny sense of justice sometimes. While Madoff should remain in custdy, the cowboy antics of the big banks have gone largely unpunished and more than that rewarded with bail outs.

The bail outs should have been passed to the bank customer rather than the perpetrators of greed.

We seem not to learn. The mechanics of the system and lack of real regulation will mean the system is ripe for plundering at some time in the future.

You only have to look at the Bank of QLD and dodgy loans for Storm Financial customers.

Dear Steven,

I'll let Mel Brooks have the last word
on this one...

"Zeit nisht messhuge. Loz em gain. Abee gezint!"
(Mel Brooks - "Blazing Saddles.")

"Zeit nisht messhuge. Loz em gain. Abee gezint!" ??
Foxy,
I don't get it, sorry !

Dear Individual,

I find that humour is the most
reliable of antidepressants.

And I tried to introduce a bit of it
here in response to Steven's question
about releasing Bernie Madoff. Afterall
the money he took was from the rich and
greedy, while the banks harmed many
people who could least afford it. Therein
lies the difference between them.

So, I took a few lines that Mel Brooks spoke
in the film, "Blazing Saddles."
In the film Mel brooks plays a Sioux chief
who encounters a family of African-American
settlers. Asked by one of his equally Semitic braves
if they should be slaughtered, Brooks incants
in Yiddish: " Zeit nisht messhuge. Loz em gain.
Abee gezint." Which means: "Don't be crazy.
Let them go. As long as we are all healthy."

I hope you get it now, if not, don't worry about
it. It's viewing the world through a certain lens.
I adore the humour of Jerry Seinfeld, Joan Rivers,
Jon Stewart, Shelley Berman, Jackie Mason, Shecky
Greene, Sid Caesar, Woody Allen and a host of others.
But not everyone does. I like the way they view an
often indifferent and callous world. And they've
frequently reduced me to a giggling mess.

The real criminals are the US Federal Reserve.They are doing a repeat performance of the Great Depression of 1932.Create lots of fiat money and get over valued property assets and shares,then restrict the money supply causing the real economy to collapse.

The parasites then go about buying up devalued assets via the crisis they have created.

WTF?

I hated the so called comedy of Mel Brooks. You could see the punch line coming from a light year away and when it got there it was never as funny as I thought it could be.

At least Gene Wilder knew when Brook’s lines were not funny – he would yell his lines out and hope for the best.

Steven’s attempt at humour rates on par