Looking up at the calendar and I notice it is Friday the 13th, and it occurs to me “what an appropriate day for Mad Dog Bernie Madoff’s first day in jail.” He got locked up yesterday, but I think he should have went to a real penitentiary and not this Club Med crap with the cubicles and min security child molesters or something like that. They should have put this guy in with the “regular criminals” in the Big House!.
I awoke with several concerns this morning, still have problems with my email, and I have to deal with that. Looked out the window and much to my surprise, it was snowing here in the Heartland. Quickly rushing into the TV Room I turned on Channel #4 for the latest weather news. My anxiety and weather related apprehension was quickly squelched when the announcer said, “Currently in the Metro-Plex we are experiencing heavy snow, but this should not be a problem, as the hail should beat it off the roads by ten A.M..”
Oklahoma weather sucks.
Bad week for kids. A man in a ski mask and goggles took almost $800 in proceeds from a local Girl Scout cookie salesgirl. The incident at a department store left two ten year old girls in hysterics. The man came out of nowhere, grabbed their cash box, and then ran off making his escape thru the parking lot. Has to be a special place reserved in hell, for a scumbag that would rob little kids.
Boy Scouts in Connecticut are asking the state department of transportation to overturn a ruling that bans them from serving hot coffee and donuts in rest area’s to weary truckers and travelers. Transportation officials in their infinite wisdom, banned them from doing this last year and prohibited all 24-hour rest stop and truck weigh station operations.
Big reward for a lousy job.
The man who has been the CEO of GM for more than eight years (eight very bad years I might add) received a pay package last year worth some $14.9 million despite a $30.9 billion dollar bail out by-you-know-who. All this compensation when the share price of GM stock fell to below $2 a share, and a balance sheet that is propped up by taxpayers. All this when you are at the head of a company that is losing $82 billion in the last three years. Meanwhile this week, auditors announced and made it official, “GM is at risk.”
One step closer to the brink.
American Express, who the media refers to as a “U.S. Credit Card Company” but as I understand it, recently changed their status to a bank, in order to get in on the Stimulus Gravy Train increased their total compensation to their CEO by 4.8%. He was awarded a package totaling $27.32 million dollars. American Express received $3.39 billion out of the Federal Slush Fund and this guy has cut some 7,000 Americans’ out of a job.
Larry and Frank have been having a hard time of it with the economy souring and all, so they decide to split the business up and go their separate ways. So they hammer out the deal, and then one goes to the other side of town to start up in the new business and the other stays at the old location.
Larry wanting to do something nice for Frank calls the local florist and orders a spray of flowers for him. Shortly thereafter the telephone rings and it is Frank, who is visibly shaken up and upset on the other end of the line. Larry of course, says to him, “Calm down, calm down. What is the matter?” Frank, still very much irritated says to him, “Why did you send this? What is the matter with you?”
So Larry says to him, “Send what? What are you talking about?” Frank replies, “This flower arrangement which says across the front of it Rest In Peace … You want me to die or something?”
“Oh no,” replies Larry, “that isn’t right. I will call that guy.”
He hangs up the telephone and then calls the florist where he placed the order. “Hey, what is the deal? I paid good money for this and this is what you do to me? What kind of business are you running anyway?” he barks into the telephone.
There is a pause for a moment or two and then the florist says to him, “You think you have problems? Somewhere in town they are preaching a funeral and the flowers are saying Good Luck In Your New Location!”
Have a great weekend.
OOO
