This one is a whole new bag of scandalous.
Poor Obama. He's out there breaking his back trying to pass his financial reform bill for more government oversight of the financial industry. Well, some shocking, and hilarious, news out of Wall Street last week probably wasn't something he expected.
You would think that while the world's economy was tanking, Iceland was sinking, and Greece was...heck I don't know what they were doing, the SEC would be working their asses off trtying to figure out just what the hell was going wrong. Well, you're wrong. As the world was descending into financial chaos, an internal investigation discovered that senior SEC officials were actually...surfing the Internet for porn!
As Jon Stewart so eruditely puts it:
"They should've been watching stocks and bonds, not cocks and blondes!"
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CNN reported that a senior attorney at the SEC headqurters spent 8 hours a day downloading porn, filled up the hard drive, and copied it to CDs/DVDs so that he wouldn't have to delete it. Here's the maths:
8 hours=1 work day
I know unemployed people who are at home all day that don't even watch that much porn! I can't even imagine how creepy and undignified the women who work there must feel being surrounded by these hounds all day. One accountant was even found to have been blocked by the internal filter from visiting pornographic websites 16,000 times! I am impressed by his perserverance. But dude, get yourself to a strip club!
In total, there are only 16 recorded cases of this. Also, according to a 2006 Websense Inc. survey, 16% men with internet access at work use it to look at porn. I guess finance must be one boring ball and chain if senior members of a regulatory institution would rather beat themselves off at the keyboard.
Anyway, this is what I propose:
Mr. Obama, please introduce a porn sensibility to your financial regulatory reform. Also, show government officials how to delete their browser history, at least.
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