Displaying 661 To 690 Of 10,917 Comments Agreed! That’s why I posted it on DP.;-) » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 13, 2012 @ 3:41 pm I knew I’d heard that Santorum comment somewhere! » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 12, 2012 @ 6:59 pm Just a great analysis, KQ–totally correct. To me the way vulture capital works is immoral.A bunch of guys have too much money and they want to invest–but even the term “invest” is a misnomer because it denotes a way to participate and facilitate. Anyway, where do they put their money? In a start-up? That would be fine, even commendable. But no, they look for companies that they deem are under-performing. They take over companies that have been built by someone; someone who employs many people, perhaps over generations, and someone who feels he is making a good-enough profit for himself. In fact, these companies often have a good ratio of assets to expenditures. But again, these vultures decide they can make it more profitable even if it means lay-offs and other ways of running the company that the original owner doesn’t want, or need. And then there are the fees that vultures like Bain imposed on their victims. Remember the story line on The Sopranos, when they took over a sporting goods store because the owner needed to pay them his gambling debts? They didn’t just take a % of his profits; they bled the company dry. Same story in Wiseguys–when they bought the restaurant and used it to money-launder and for freebies, and them arsoned it. Bain is essentially a Mafia enterprise. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 12, 2012 @ 4:17 pm OMG!!~ I was putting tomoirrow’s Daily Planet together and could wait to show you this–TOO GREAT. Love photoshop! http://hypervocal.com/news/2012/old-romney-bain-capital-magazine-ads-uncovered/ » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 10, 2012 @ 11:58 pm These pics have GOT to become campaign ads. [img]http://bit.ly/yUgbk4[/img] Then there was the chair holder: » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 9, 2012 @ 5:47 pm I read your newer comments so I know where you’re coming from, and I’m glad you feel better! Just FYI, I don’t know about the others you listed, but I do know that Pete Rouse turned down the job twice. » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 9, 2012 @ 5:24 pm OMG that is EXACTLY what Mitt looks like! » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 9, 2012 @ 5:21 pm Wow. Aside from being a vulgar, crude bully, Chris Christie has a seriously enormous ass. He really should never appear without a jacket. Dude! Here he is responding to a heckler and talking about “going down.” Ugh–that’s an image I didn’t need.
» Posted By Chernynkaya On January 9, 2012 @ 3:12 pm I don’t know about that, Funk. The CoS doesn’t set policy, he runs the WH. He also negotiates with Congress to implement the president’s agenda–not his own. Lew is noted for his ability to offset obstructionism. He is liked by the WH staff and the Dems in Congress, where Dailey wasn’t. If you are judging solely on his stint at Citi, I guess I would take a more practical approach. We have a Wall St. We have bankers. Both are semi-criminal enterprises, but they are what we have. I’d rather have somebody who understands that world than someone with purely theoretical experience. “It takes a thief…” Besides, why is it we immediately reject anyone from that background considering that there are precious few people in the country who know how to deal with Congress, the financial industry, the economy and run a White House? I mean, it’s not like there are tons of folks out there with all those skills. But I don’t really know who is a more likely choice. Any ideas? » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 9, 2012 @ 2:59 pm So Bill Daily is out as Obama’s Chief of Staff. As Matt Yglesias Tweeted “Our brief national nightmare of a goyisha Chief of Staff is over.” 😆 Jacob Lew replaces him (he was the current OMB Director). But unlike Romney, the president really does NOT like firing anyone–he will co-chair Obama’s re-election committee in Chicago. Background on Jacob Lew: nyti.ms/igLg9u » Posted By Chernynkaya On January 9, 2012 @ 1:03 pm Merry Christmas, Caru! Peace! » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 24, 2011 @ 7:23 pm Hitler reacts to SOPA. The best bunker remix in a while: You can sign here to let Congress how you feel here: » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 24, 2011 @ 7:21 pm A failed species. Not the cranes–us. Jeez. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 24, 2011 @ 4:13 pm My ears! My EARS!! I feel like when I go scuba diving too deep. 😆 And thanks for posting the vid above! » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 24, 2011 @ 4:11 pm Not the ice-pick-in-my-ear that Bachmann’s “choots-pah” was, but Mitt, it doesn’t mean “delusional.”
» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 24, 2011 @ 3:28 pm Sue, that is so lovely–I thank you and am so glad you are here too! The group in the song is part of the worldwide Playing for Change. I posted their version of Stand By Me a while ago. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 24, 2011 @ 12:31 pm To my dear PPOV family, my favorite Christmas song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6YrcsppZOI This holiday video was recorded live in Brazil, and is dedicated to each and every one of you. Let’s celebrate our time together on this earth and work towards creating a better future for everyone. (Some of you already know why this song is my favorite–my real name is in the title!) » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 24, 2011 @ 11:20 am The outrageous War On Christmas continues at the White House! Behind-the-Scenes Look: Time-Lapse of Holidays at the White House The Littlest Bo Honoring Military Families for the Holidays » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 24, 2011 @ 11:08 am I’m glad that I am still not so cynical that this message touched me. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 24, 2011 @ 11:05 am Here’s a heartwarming and TRUE Christmas story–and short too! The saddest thing about it isn’t the actual story at all. (You’ll see what I mean if you read it.) “Get the kid his peaches.” http://spmcrector.blogspot.com/2009/12/great-christmas-story-get-kid-his.html » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 24, 2011 @ 10:19 am I think so too, kes. But we’ll never really know if the President knew that Boehner would reject that massive deficit reduction deal. If that gin-soaked Cheez-It had accepted the deal it wouldn’t be so good. But I totally believe that Obama knew the SuperCommittee would fail, and that’s what made this year so sweet! » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2011 @ 11:45 am Here’s a Christmas gift from Ezra Klein: “Obama’s surprisingly good 2011” But, in terms of the substantive concessions the two parties have won for themselves, the fact of the matter is that the White House begins 2012 in a very, very strong position. Much stronger than most would have expected at the beginning of this year. And not always through any fault of their own. For starters, the government did not shut down — not once — and the deal Democrats cut to keep it from shutting down ended up being a nothingburger. The $38.5 billion in cuts ended up being more like $20-$25 billion, with less than $400 million falling in 2011. The debt-ceiling debate was a mess, and it probably did real damage to the economy. Some of the deals that Obama offered Boehner — which would have taken the Bush tax cuts off the table, and raised the Medicare eligibility age — would have dragged federal budget policy far to the right. But Boehner didn’t take those deals. And, in the end, the debt ceiling was lifted in return for $900 billion in discretionary spending cuts and the establishment of the trigger-backed supercommittee — a deal that ended up dragging federal budget policy far, far to the left. The key here was that the supercommittee failed. That left two major events on the budgetary horizon: the spending trigger, which cuts $1 trillion from the budget, half of which comes from the Pentagon, and none of which comes from Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare beneficiaries, or assorted other programs for low-income Americans; and the scheduled expiration of the Bush tax cuts, which would raise taxes by almost $4 trillion. Both events are scheduled to happen simultaneously and automatically on January 1, 2013 — a dual-trigger nightmare for the GOP. And taken together, they are far to the left of anything that Democrats have suggested over the past year, as this graph shows: » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2011 @ 11:21 am Ah, yes–being a niggler is no small task. Bravo! » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2011 @ 1:23 am Khirad, I didn’t mean to come off as accusatory–I know where your heart is. Knowing that about you, I was struggling to figure out why it bothered me. As I reflect, I think that one of the reasons you brought it up with the video was to keep us from becoming to ethnocentric–not to put down or diminish the struggle here. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2011 @ 1:21 am On a lighter note (in a gallows humor kinda way) may I present “Cockberg.” When you’ve screwed up Mother Nature this is what you get: [img]http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/icebergREX_450x300.jpg[/img] » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2011 @ 1:12 am Yes–whew, thank you. My brain was trying to say that. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2011 @ 1:09 am I’m with you there, KQ. That last sentence really struck a chord! Yes! I listen to my son–who is employed when so many his age in the world are not–and even he sees a dim future. As a parent, I cannot express how wrenching that is. And not only economically–the very environment will be much worse in his time. We did not leave the young people the world they deserve. » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2011 @ 1:06 am I will agree with you that being pepper sprayed is not at all like what protesters in other parts of the world are experiencing, and that to say it is shows zero understanding of what that level of tyranny and oppression really is. But all I am saying is that it is not inconsequential. It is on the same sliding scale, not an altogether different thing. I guess what I am trying to say is that you are right to remind us how atrocious treatment is on other places and that we are nowhere near that level. But while it does provide much needed perspective, there is something that niggles about it. You have made me think hard tonight! I cannot yet put my finger on what it is that bothers me, Khirad. I will be thinking about it though. Maybe it’s enough to say, Dear OWS, you are doing a good job showing how easily rights can be abused here, even as our brothers and sisters are fighting a much harder and more lethal battle elsewhere. (I’m getting closer, but not yet there to what I feel.) » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2011 @ 1:02 am KQ of course you are totally right. I can’t tell you how many times that exact phrase–about we in the US being so much richer than most of the world, even working class people–has been repeated in my house. It’s something we never lose sight of. I mean, even as little kid I heard it: First it was eat your food, children in China are starving; then people in Biafra. Ethiopia, then somewhere else. When I was a young married and wanted lots of “stuff” we would have to remind ourselves how lucky we actually were to keep perspective. Now I’m old and we are still among the richest. But you know what? We might not always be. The reason I don’t see the OWS movement as whiners is because I see them as folks who want to prevent us from becoming like those awful places. And just as importantly, to raise up people all over to a better level of living. If the US is prosperous–call me a wild-eyed idealist–than I think we can be a force for good. I think it helps no one for us to become more like China or Central Asia, which is what I think the corporations want. That’s why I do freak out whenever ANYONE gets pepper sprayed. It would be a tragically low bar if we looked to Central Asia or Syria and said, “Well, at least it is not THAT bad.” Why would we want to wait until is was that bad?? » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 23, 2011 @ 12:11 am [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5DWyU5z-qZY/SiW6QbX9k9I/AAAAAAAAAR0/aZthQ2Wxvpg/s400/Bohol+Most+famous+Tarsier.jpg[/img] » Posted By Chernynkaya On December 22, 2011 @ 2:42 pmComments Posted By Chernynkaya
Here’s the latest to surface (It’s a Twitpick, so if it doesn’t appear, click the link–worth it!)
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This may not be how the White House hoped the year would close out. They wanted a big deficit deal with the Republicans, and a more collegial, compromise-filled relationship. But the reality is, they begin 2012 with vastly more policy leverage than they had in 2011. And at this point, what does Boehner have to show for the brinkmanship of the last year, save for the discretionary spending cuts from the debt deal?
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