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Congress is being muscled out of financial market supervision by a troop of venal banksters and corporate picaroons who are threatening to finish-off the already-defanged SEC and put the Fed in the driver\'s seat for good.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Fed Up: Bernanke joins G-7 to Stem Global Financial Meltdown 2008

Congress is being muscled out of financial market supervision by a troop of venal banksters and corporate picaroons who are threatening to finish-off the already-defanged SEC and put the Fed in the driver's seat for good.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Fed Up: Bernanke joins G-7 to Stem Global Financial Meltdown 2008

Everything I've talked about above took place in a world full of pirate ships, sword fights, seductive courtesans, picaroons and other staples of the bodice-ripping and swashbuckling genres, which I have not been above putting into these books.'

Stephenson interview Michael Allen 2004

Everything I've talked about above took place in a world full of pirate ships, sword fights, seductive courtesans, picaroons and other staples of the bodice-ripping and swashbuckling genres, which I have not been above putting into these books.'

Archive 2004-04-01 Michael Allen 2004

Everything I've talked about above took place in a world full of pirate ships, sword fights, seductive courtesans, picaroons and other staples of the bodice-ripping and swashbuckling genres, which I have not been above putting into these books.'

April 2004 Michael Allen 2004

It was like a mustering shouting to adventurous stars, buglings to buccaneering winds, cadenced beckonings to restless ranks of viking waves, signaling to all the corsairs and picaroons of the elemental.

The Metal Monster 2004

For a snack between meals he would eat fifty bales of hay, wire and all and six men with picaroons were kept busy picking the wire out of his teeth.

The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan W.B. Laughead

The crews were busy with picaroons forking salmon out of the seiner into the tender's hold.

Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

"Not now, but if the storm abates and we float through the night, these lousy picaroons shall dance to another tune."

Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

Should the little brig be so fortunate as to escape the civilized belligerents, there were still the pirates of Tripoli, the picaroons of the French West Indies, and the unauthorized and irresponsible pirates, who, with forged commissions and flying the

The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898