Bank Of America: Too Pig To Fail ... But Use Them While You Can?

Dear B,

Thanks for your email.

I hope you enjoyed the National Airline History Museum. http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g44535-d275749-Reviews-Airline_History_Museum-Kansas_City_Missouri.html 

Did you know -- or do you know now -- that the oldest, continuously operating commercial airlines in the world is Colombia's Avianca? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca

Your visit to the Airline Museum moves me to recommend the Bank of America credit card. In addition to no annual fee, 3% cashback on gas, 2% cashback on groceries and 1% cashback on the rest, check out the card's "Museums on Us" feature: https://get.com/blog/best-credit-cards-museum/

Despite these advantages, it is painful to recommend BofA, a financial institution even more thuggish than its fellows. 

Pax on both houses: "Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail ...

Pax on both houses: Here's Why People Hate Bank of America

Pax on both houses: Taibbi: The $9 Billion Whistle-Blower ...

Pax on both houses: Too Pig To Fail: "Banks Need Far More ..

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Teddy Roosevelt: "Malefactors Of Great Wealth... Are Curses To The Country"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/teddy-roosevelt-malefactors-of-great.html

Although I found it hard to believe, your Dad confirmed "the rumor" that during the early phase of The Great Recession, The Fed loaned billions (if not trillions) to The Big Banks at 0% interest, money they immediately loaned out at sizable profit. "Money for nothing. Kicks for free." http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/economy/the-true-cost-of-the-bank-bailout/3309/  ///  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-28/secret-fed-loans-undisclosed-to-congress-gave-banks-13-billion-in-income  ///  http://ase.tufts.edu/Gdae/Pubs/te/MAC/2e/MAC_2e_Chapter_15.pdf

"Plutocracy Triumphant"

Cartoon Compendium

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/plutocracy-triumphant.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: Plutocracy, Economic Inequality & Collapse Of Conservatism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

"Politics And Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html

Pope Francis: Quotations On Finance, Economics, Capitalism And Inequality

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/pope-francis-on-finance-economics.html

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You may be interested in my proposal to "level the playing field" by authorizing credit unions to undertake all functions currently reserved to commercial banks, a modest move in the direction of "free markets" that free-loading free marketeers would oppose tooth and nail. 

"Pax On Both Houses: Good Ideas For The Body Politic"

A Compendium Of Practical Political Projects

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/10/pax-on-both-houses-good-ideas-for-body.html

I look forward to hearing the details of your current road trip and also what's happening at Medical School.

Happy Trails To You! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcYsO890YJY 

Hasta pronto!

Pax tecum

Alan

PS It bears mention that we 5 Archibalds grew up to "Happy Trails," the theme song of The Roy Rogers Show, an eagerly anticipated half hour serial which we watched weekly along with other "cowboy" demigods: Hopalong Cassidy, The Cisco Kid, Gabby Hayes, Death Valley Days, Colt 45, The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Paladin, Bat Masterson, Zane Gray Theater, Bonanza and The Lone Ranger and Tonto, the Indian sidekick whose Spanish name means "Stupid."

Here is a video clip of Classic Western TV Show Intros from the '50s and '60s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gA0gGK6Mew

One of the most remarkable -- and unremarked -- mythic changes in my lifetime is the near disappearance of "The Cowboys and Indians motif," a secular religion that totally dominated my youth. 

John Lennon said that "The Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ" but Westerns were even more popular, communicating a murderous, genocidal, violence-solves-all ethic that - in the minds of flag-waving "exceptionalists" - handily trumped The Sermon on The Mount. 

"General George Washington Orders "Complete Destruction" Of Iroquois Settlements"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/general-george-washington-orders.html

Today, the nearly defunct presumption that Indians were "supposed to be expropriated" -- and as early American politicians actually urged, "exterminated" --  finds modern reprise in our growing understanding that "black lives matter" and that cops no longer enjoy "open season on black males." 

Open Season On Unarmed American Black Men, A Compendium Of Pax Posts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/open-season-on-american-black-men.html

Extrajudicial Execution By Killer Cops: Best Pax Posts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/killer-cops-best-pax-posts.html

"Bad Black People." Why Bill O'Reilly Is Wrong Even When He's Right"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/bad-black-people-why-bill-oreilly-is.html

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 10:59 AM, B wrote:

Hello Alan-

Hope this email finds you well! Things are going well. I'm currently road tripping from Denver to Rochester and am busy hitting up all sorts of cool museums (currently sitting in the parking lot of the national airline history museum in Kansas City waiting for it to open) on the way and discovering the beauty of Kansas that your friend Fred captured quite well in his piece you sent earlier. I'll respond in more detail after I arrive back in Rochester mid-next week!

B