‘Hard times, baby, hard times everywhere I go’
“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress. Could you imagine what it’s like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?”
– Accountant Alan Dlugash, a specialist in financial planning for the wealthy, explaining the heart-rending consequences of reduced bonuses on Wall Street, where bonuses fell to levels last seen in 2008. This year, the average bonus has collapsed by 14 percent, to $121,150.
(Fortunately, the figure doesn’t include stock options or other unrealized, deferred compensation.)
For more on this calamity and its consequences — canceled trips to Aspen, a four-month rental of a summer home reduced to one month, etc. — see this.
– Jay Bookman
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Thulsa Doom
February 29th, 2012
11:05 pm
“Who the hell is Glenn Richardson. Sheesh. Cant the libs come up with someone of some actual national signifiance. Come on poo. Weak as usual.”- George Washington
Ninja
February 29th, 2012
11:20 pm
Geez, even Marie Antoinette just said “Let them eat cake”, not GFY.
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
11:22 pm
Thulsa Doom
February 29th, 2012
11:05 pm
“Who the hell is Glenn Richardson. Sheesh. Cant the libs come up with someone of some actual national signifiance. Come on poo. Weak as usual.”- George Washington
He’s Dave Richardson’s idiot cousin?
Oh hell. Where is the spray. I inadvertently read a doomy post. Will the shame scrub off?
Oscar
February 29th, 2012
11:22 pm
Must be a full moon out tonight.
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
11:24 pm
Thulsa Doom
February 29th, 2012
10:48 pm
Thought I would take a break, get a good run in at gym,
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
So did you please Gym?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 29th, 2012
11:24 pm
“Let them eat béchamel.”
– Thomas Jefferson
captguitarman
February 29th, 2012
11:29 pm
No sympathy from me for these Wall Street types who, along with the Dem/Lib social engineers in Congress and the federal bureacracy, helped to bring this nation’s economy to its knees. And it is way too bad those in Congress and the entrenched federal bureacracy will never be held accountable for their major role in the melt down, like this pathettic schmuck is now being held accountable. The public employee unions will ensure that they will keep their jobs for life and get their raises and more benies. It was kind of disappointing to see Bookman here take such a disingenuous cheap shot by not acknowledging that the Atlanta lifestyle now enjoyed by his readers and the contributors to this blog, it would require a 150% to 200% increasde in income, or more, in New York. But again, Wall Street can burn itself alive as far as I am concerned.
On a positive note, it was encouraging to see the huge effort the Dem/Libs put into trying to screw up the Michigan primary and de-rail Romney. I have been very discouraged by the Pub debate traveling circus and the damage it has done to the one guy who could beat Obama – Romney. But maybe there is some hope from the fact that the Dem/Libs, with the help of that Bozo, St. Santorum, showed their cards in Michigan about who they really fear. If Super Tuesday finally gets Santorum, Newt, and that Liberarian out of the race (we can only hope and pray), and the Pub/Cons decide that they would rather be President than right . . . and the Pubs finally unite . . . well, it’s still a long way to the election. And the upside is that all of these awful attacks on Romney will be stale, and used, and re-used, and re-used by the time Obama can use them . . . yawn. We’ll see, but last night was very telling. Hope the Pub/Cons finally get the message.
Don't forget
February 29th, 2012
11:31 pm
Pardon me, but could anyone spare some grey poupon.
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
11:33 pm
Hope the Pub/Cons finally get the message.
Wouldn’t THAT be nice. But no. Instead, they ridicule and call names at everyone that isn’t as crazy as they are. I’ve been saying for over a year that it scares the hell out of me that the Democrats are the ones that are more sane than the Republicans……… and the Repubs just keep getting crazier and crazier…….
Fred ™
February 29th, 2012
11:35 pm
Don’t forget
February 29th, 2012
11:31 pm
Pardon me, but could anyone spare some grey poupon.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Screw that French stuff. I have some french based stuff that is 10 times better. Ever tried it?
http://www.zatarains.com/Products/Condiments-and-Sauces/Creole-Mustard.aspx
Tommy Maddox
February 29th, 2012
11:45 pm
Poor guy – he doesn’t want to send his kids to a piece-of-crap public school? Go figure that. And yes back at the top – WEALTH ENVY.
Despicable, but the apparent flavor for the year,
Oscar
February 29th, 2012
11:48 pm
No, I checked. Not a full moon. Cresent moon. Must be something else.
bman
February 29th, 2012
11:59 pm
creole mustard? what do you use it on?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 1st, 2012
12:03 am
creole mustard? what do you use it on?
Creoles, of course.
I thought you were in the restaurant biz.
bman
March 1st, 2012
12:06 am
kam .. .. hahaha
Thulsa Doom
March 1st, 2012
12:24 am
Fantastical Fred,
Im about to sign off for the night. Got any fantastical stories you can thrill me with about your photographic memory, your Einsteinian mathematical prowess, or you 30,000 foot halo jumps as an elite paratrooper. Perhaps you would like to regale me with your astronaut years.
Oscar
March 1st, 2012
1:18 am
I got it. It’s leap day. Always happens on leap day.
Z
March 1st, 2012
3:23 am
They know the sheep are occupied by Gun’s, God and Gay’s so they can get away with what ever their greedy hearts desire.
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
5:24 am
What TBogg said:
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/02/29/walk-a-mile-in-my-berlutis/#comments
stands for decibels
March 1st, 2012
5:56 am
UnU @ 5.24, to which I say, that oft-linkeed picture speaks for me.
Real Scootter
March 1st, 2012
6:09 am
Hope this works USinUK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB3iSM
Bud Wiser
March 1st, 2012
6:26 am
With nothing of substantive value to write, the media stooges are instructed (so I’ve heard) to write about a subject to stir up the unwashed masses (see Occupy), in no particular order.
They would be:
1. Race (see Cynthia Tucker for refresher courses)
2. Wealth envy (look for the democratic registration booth placed for your convenience in every welfare and food stamp/ebt office)
3. personal attacks based on race, religion, or wealth status (see 1 and 2 above)
4. anything atheistic
5. NASCAR – sorry, comic relief, everyone knows NASCAR fans are all incestuous, fat, beer-swilling, uneducated buffoons living in trailer parks but scraping together enough money for that satellite dish and new pickup with the 12 cylinder, 1400 hp engine and a chassis that requires a stepladder for admission, just throw the beer cans off the seat onto the floor…
6. Race (see all of the above)
7. how we should be like the French
8. The KKK
9. MLK
10. KFC – kudos to Louis Farrakhan
Oh well, I think I’ll go empty my rain gauge now; that water looks both cold and deep.
Bud Wiser
March 1st, 2012
6:28 am
Oh, and what’s up with the font, you ask?
All the better for your third grade teachers to read without glasses to her class.
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
6:34 am
Scooterpuss! that takes me back to high school
thanks
Normal
March 1st, 2012
6:36 am
Good morning all y’all…Leaving for Ohio ina bit to try to see my grandson, but before I leave thought I’d post my usual…in no particular order…
http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/2012/02/29/political-pictures-callista-and-newt/
…and…
http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/2012/02/29/political-pictures-rick-santorum-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/
Normal
March 1st, 2012
6:37 am
Scooterpuss??? Wow!
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
6:37 am
BW – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WST2D9Ht1j0&feature=related
fast forward to 4:17 … the same could be said of you …
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
6:38 am
Normal – 6:36 – the second one made me laugh loudly …
6:37 – one of my best friends used to have a cat named Scooter … she called him Scooterpuss …
JamVet - There are two types of Republicans, millionaires and suckers.
March 1st, 2012
6:38 am
Scooter, great way to start the day, buddy. Thanks.
Bud, the cleaners called. Your sheets are ready.
cgm, social engineering?
I thought Newt was the only human being on the planet stupid enough to actually use that phrase. Guess not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZtgyEC9xAw&feature=related
Normal
March 1st, 2012
6:49 am
Couldn’t resist this one…
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2012/02/29/funny-cat-pictures-lolcats-honey-i-think-we-need-2/
Reminded me when I went to Colorado back in the mid 70’s. I was going to try out for a semi-pro football team. Anyway came out to my car from practice one evening and it was the proverbial gully washer. Got in the car and heard mew, mew. Got out looked under the hood and spotted an orange bedraggled kitten pressed up against the inside of my front tire by the force of the run off in the gutter.
Anyway long story short, I picked it up, took it home, ran out to get all of the necessities for the damn thing and refused to name it.
The very next morning, I got out of the shower and was standing in my birthday suit fixing to shave. All of a sudden I feel these needles marching up my bare leg, look down and see this kitten climbing up to the sink and commence to play with the soapy water. I looked at the trail of blood spots on my leg and said something like “Damn, cat! You’re a hell of a climber!” Then I realized I had named him. Clymer lived eighteen years. He was a damned good family cat too.
Normal
March 1st, 2012
6:52 am
Well, I’m off…
See y’all Monday…
Jm
March 1st, 2012
7:12 am
Obama making energy expensive and destroying jobs in action again
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-29/genon-will-shut-plants-through-2015-on-environmental-rules-1-.html
TaxPayer
March 1st, 2012
7:36 am
Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull on Wednesday admitted to sending a racially charged email about President Barack Obama from his courthouse chambers.
Cebull, of Billings, was nominated by former President George W. Bush and received his commission in 2001 and has served as chief judge for the District of Montana since 2008.
The subject line of the email, which Cebull sent from his official courthouse email address on Feb. 20 at 3:42 p.m., reads: “A MOM’S MEMORY.”
The forwarded text reads as follow:
“Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.
“A little boy said to his mother; ‘Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?’” the email joke reads. “His mother replied, ‘Don’t even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!’”
There’s a real class act for ya.
Bud Wiser
March 1st, 2012
8:06 am
At least know we know where the moniker came from……….
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