CNBC Confirms: Lehman Brothers CEO Punched Out at Gym

Hope he got his nose broke!

I don't condone killing, but a well considered punch in the face certainly doesn't seem out of place here. I think all the stockholders that got screwed by this man should get a shot at him.

I gotta say, while I don't condone violence.... the bastard had it coming.

Ditto - wonder what it feels like to have no soul?

I read an article on here about a CEO in India, I THINK, getting beaten to death after laying off some folks. Things are about to get real in corporate world. Really real.

Mars I was thinking the same thing.  Now I certainly don't condone violence but in India they don't stand for crap like this they just take out the CEO.

When main street and wall street collide...

Some friends of mine back east are in the investment banking industry.  Call the whole bailout a sham.

I have no problem with this whole condoning violence thing. In at least some ways, I'm not a nice person. Wish I'd been there...

Agree with the not condoning violence thing, but can't find too much sympathy for the 'victim' either.  At my less than best moments, I think maybe hanging from trees by certain male body parts would be effective!  On the more positive side maybe all these financial/investment types working on Wall Street can be retrained and do something more productive than devising rip-off scams - at least they are well-educated so retraining and reorientation should be adequate - may have to take a big cut in pay, but isn't that what they have been telling the rest of us for years.  Get educated and reetrained so you can make less than you do in your current career?

Sometimes people react in different ways to losing their life savings.

You know, I have this OTHER business besides the book and sci-fi mag thing. Let's just say it's a personal service and that most of our clients are both Republican and well-to-do.

So today I am at one of these customer's homes and she was working in her home office. But instead of working, she is watching the MSNBC money channel (CNBC?). I forget the channel name...anyway...she's watching the stock market tank.

She tells me she and her husband have already lost thousands of dollars, and she is REALLY angry about it. Even for Republicans, they are nice folks. I don't hold it against them that they get Christmas cards personally signed by George Bush. (laughs)

She also says this: They are voting Democrat for the first time ever on November 4.

I have also heard this from a few other of our Republican customers, some of whom live in places around Seattle like Hunt's Point, Medina, some areas of Bellevue.

Even Republicans know sometimes when they've been had, and the only thing that will motivate them to change their affiliation is MONEY. Hit them in the pocketbook hard enough and they start listening to reason.

The pocketbook is always how Democrats win. If the economy is good, Republicans convince the electorate they are needed to protect them from America's enemies.

I gotta say, while I don't condone violence.... the bastard had it coming.

Killfile

Aye, I'm thinking a month or so in the pillory for this scoundrel. And a new cable channel PTV to exhibit him and his fellow corporate miscreants.

Aye, I'm thinking a month or so in the pillory for this scoundrel. And a new cable channel PTV to exhibit him and his fellow corporate miscreants.

And I still got dibs on feeding them a lunch of charity pantry food: turkey mystery meat hotdogs on white bread, no condiments, cubed rutabagas, that crunchy foam fake popcorn stuff, and grape Koolaide with too much water added to "stretch" it. - They need to eat like that for a few months since they're personally responsible for so many others having to do so while they have enjoyed their mesclun salads, Chateau Briand, and Cabernet Sauvignon.  [Voice of experience]

I'm thinking that since he helped to create the s*** sandwhich from which we all must take a bite....