Fiddling While Rome is burning.......

Page 1 of 1 [ 6 posts ] 

richie
Supporting Member
Supporting Member

User avatar

Joined: 9 Jan 2007
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Posts: 30,142
Location: Lake Whoop-Dee-Doo, Pennsylvania

23 Apr 2010, 2:58 pm

SEC Staffers Watched Porn as Economy Crashed

Quote:
(AP) Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says.

The SEC's inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained late Thursday by The Associated Press.......


Another reason to groan whenever I look at my 401K statement..... :evil:


_________________
Life! Liberty!...and Perseveration!!.....
Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references.....
My Blog: http://richiesroom.wordpress.com/


Willard
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 23 Mar 2008
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Posts: 5,647

23 Apr 2010, 3:24 pm

That's "diddling" while Rome is burning... :wink:



MissConstrue
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 Feb 2008
Gender: Female
Posts: 17,057
Location: MO

23 Apr 2010, 3:57 pm

And so Rome fell to its knees..

What lasts forever isn't perfect. What is perfect doesn't last...


_________________
I live as I choose or I will not live at all.
~Delores O’Riordan


ViperaAspis
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,083
Location: Portland, OR

23 Apr 2010, 4:07 pm

Oh come now, you know for a fact that Nero would have been doing the same thing if that were an option at the time.

The lovely and erudite MissConstrue wrote:
And so Rome fell to its knees..


...and then Rome slid her hand lovingly around Italy's boot, undoing the laces one by one with her sharp, white teeth.

<<Cue "Bah chick-a BAA WAAA" music>>


_________________
Who am I? This guy! http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt97863.html


Ambivalence
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 8 Nov 2008
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,613
Location: Peterlee (for Industry)

23 Apr 2010, 4:15 pm

Fiddling while Rome burned is a viscous lie. It sticks around when it shouldn't. Nero was a loon and deserves intense dislike (like most things Roman), but he acted reasonably decently at the time of the fire. :?


_________________
No one has gone missing or died.

The year is still young.


Ahaseurus2000
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 21 Sep 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,546
Location: auckland

23 Apr 2010, 9:25 pm

richie wrote:
SEC Staffers Watched Porn as Economy Crashed

Quote:
(AP) Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says.

The SEC's inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained late Thursday by The Associated Press.......


Another reason to groan whenever I look at my 401K statement..... :evil:


Do you mean "porn01K statement"?

Once during the primetime news (here in NZ), when they crossed live to a business reporter, a man behind him was using a computer and viewers could clearly see he was looking at softcore porn. He was disciplined.


_________________
Life is Painful. Suffering is Optional. Keep your face to the Sun and never see your Shadow.