So long, Teddy. Thanks for the sounds of soul. Teddy Pendergrass was one of the best, until a car crash landed him in a wheelchair. It takes a whole body for a chirp to be able to make full sounds. Here’s to Teddy.
Consider this a topic free for all.
Of course, the big news is that Democrats have forced unions to buckle, as a deal on a health care bill nears, ratcheting down yet another level their effectiveness to the average worker. Some would call it bowing to reality of 21st global economics. I’d say the Democrats are about to levy a whopping middle class tax. You decide.
I’ll offer Dylan Ratigan’s piece over at Huffington Post as a jumping off point for discussion. For me, Ratigan is the newest cable talking head worth watching. He’s actually a grown up, with the bonus that he talks about our financial crisis with guts and honesty, afflicting the comfortable every opportunity he gets.
Recently, Ratigan turned his rhetorical guns on Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it:
Look at just the past few years of compensation for some of the CEO’s testifying today. Numbers that don’t even include the expected record-breaking 2009 bonuses.
* $410 million for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein over 3 years
* $195 million in that timespan for JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon
* $132 million for just two years work at Morgan Stanley for John Mack
Brian Moynihan has just stepped into his role as CEO of bank of America. But he stands to do just fine… His predecessor Ken Lewis made 150 million for 5 years before stepping down.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, their man-made money-making hurricane has devastated this country.
Oh, and get a load of this new attack ad by Brave New Films. Harold Ford’s going to need his friend Joe Scarborough to stay afloat in New York.
How delicious. Thank you Taylor. Gotta run.
PERFECT word.
Hate to repeat myself but FU*K Harold.
Finally a thread I can comment on!!! RIP, Teddy P. These new cats have nothing on you. “TURN ‘EM OFF!!!”
I don’t know if Ramsgate was referring to Teddy or the Brave New World’s ad but both are pretty damn delicious.
Hey ogenec~
Hey LL!
Will the real Harold Ford Jr stand up.
Never mind. I don’t like any of them.
WJC is on The news Hour right now sounds like he is running the rescue operation in Haiti.
He has no voice because he has been on the phone for hours.
He has been on the phone with all the World leaders.He is working all angles. Light,food, shelter, medicine,water,getting the government reconsituted getting refridgeration ships there so they don’t have to do mass burials.
he is being brilliant..unbelievable.
The president is being so smart to give it to him. His knowledge and heart make him perfect. Obama has enough to deal with!
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2010
Rothenberg:
MA Senate moved to Toss-Up
Democratic desperation and other compelling evidence strongly suggest that Democrats may well lose the late Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat in Tuesday’s special election. Because of this, we are moving our rating of the race from Narrow Advantage for the Incumbent Party to
Toss-Up.
http://rothenbergpoliticalreport.blogspot.com/2010/01/ma-senate-moved-to-toss-up.html
I’m a little shocked, here. Maybe I missed it here earlier.
No one noticed Glenn Beck tell Sarah Palin she was full of BULLCRAP right to her face ???
I’ve got it on MPEG so I may make a YouTube. Is no one paying attention ?
Taylor,
Thanks for the fine shout out to TeddyP. He will truly be missed.
Now about those durned banks: all we have to is do like France and Great Britain are doing and impose a super tax on bonuses paid to its county’s bankers (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/dec/10/brown-and-sarkozy-tax-bankers). With Obama’s newfound populist rhetoric something like this should be an easy sell for…
Oh. Never mind. Sorry guys. I must have gotten a strong whiff of Hopium and Changenada. My bad.
oh. Declaring this “Open Topic” just reminded me. This is for SecularH and Imhotep:
http://www.lbfitness.com/Babble.html
I apologize for the double-spacing required by editors, but at least it’s readable. Hope you enjoy it.
kennedy jr empotional plea for martha coakley. obama refused to go to ma but oh well- this seat has it all wrapped up it in it. the kennedy legacy, the 60th sen seat, etc..
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/ted-kennedy-jr-s-email/
dr shah really impresses me. i saw him on msnbc this morning and he was great. he runs usaid- and was just sworn in last week! he is 36. dang!
http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Rajiv_Shah
“obama refused to go to ma but oh well”
Hmm. Two wars.
In conference about the health bill.
Fighting with the banks.
More threats from al Qaeda.
Haiti.
Migawd.
Glad I don’t have his schedule.
more on dr shah in today’s wapo. very interesting. ive been very impressed with how the admin has lead on haiti.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011402961_pf.html
Seems including what I listed above, today:
Pres. Obama & OMB Director Peter Orszag made opening remarks at a White House forum on modernizing government. Private sector and government leaders were in attendance to discuss new ways to use technology to streamline government operations.
Maybe The UN should make Bill Clinton Governor-General of Haiti and let him run the place for 10 years.
Odd that no one has noted the current Haiti situation is one that would normally demand a thing called “martial law”. Unfortunately, there is little to no “martial” available there so that is highly unlikely. Sadly, there is very good reason behind ‘martial law’ – and I’m afraid Haiti is on the verge of discovering this.
This could get real bad (gang rule, etc.) in the coming days.
StephenAG says:
14 January 2010 at 8:52 pm
We saluted him last night during cocktail hour.
Kerry Sanders of NBC news is on the ground in Haiti, pmichael. His reports are hair raising and he’s been warning people the last 36 hours of how dangerous a point they’re reaching there.