{"id":173,"date":"2008-10-09T09:16:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T13:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2008-10-09T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T13:25:31","slug":"shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/","title":{"rendered":"Shades of Palpatine in the Economic Bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Obviously the financial crisis the world is facing is very serious business. However, the geek side of my brain keeps yelling at me every time I read an article on the bailout.<\/div>\n<p>For example, click here for an article about the White House considering taking ownership stakes in certain U.S. banks.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a snippet of text from the article&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;This official said all the new powers granted in the legislation were being considered as the administration seeks to deal with a serious credit crisis &#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is it just me, or doesn&#8217;t that sound a lot like the way Palpatine came to power? I&#8217;m just saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-173\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-173\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-173\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously the financial crisis the world is facing is very serious business. However, the geek side of my brain keeps yelling at me every time<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-173\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-173\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-173\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/shades-of-palpatine-in-the-economic-bailout\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[15,19,10],"tags":[265,1658,264,1655],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdwqIt-2N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4400,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/20\/geeky-yo-momma-jokes\/","url_meta":{"origin":173,"position":0},"title":"Geeky &#8216;Yo Momma&#8217; Jokes","date":"October 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are a couple \"Yo Momma So Fat\" jokes (geeky style) that came out of a conversation with my 11 year old.\u00a0 If you are easily offended by \"Yo Momma\" jokes, then don't read this post. 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