Obama Retorts

Economic Crisis Solution

Or How China became capitalist and America, communist...

Here's a crazy idea on how to solve the apparent economic crisis on Wall Street:

Instead of the US government diverting taxpayer's hard-earned dollars away from killing people overseas; they should look up all the C.E.O.'s who've received bonuses over $1,000,000 over the past two or three years, take their cash and pump it into the system. I'm sure they could easily make a start on $700 billion.

Here's where they could start:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein will take home nearly $68 million in restricted stock, options and cash, making it the largest bonus ever given to a Wall Street CEO.

Blankfein was awarded $26.8 million in cash and $41.1 million in restricted stock and stock options, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission issued Friday.

Lehman Brothers chairman and CEO Richard Fuld Jr. made $34 million in 2007.

Goldman Sachs paid Co-Chief Operating Officers Gary Cohn and Jon Winkereid made $72.5 million and $71 million.

American International Group’s chief executive Martin Sullivan, who was ousted in June, made $14 million.

Morgan Stanley Chief Financial Officer Colin Kelleher got $21 million.

Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain was paid $17 million in salary, bonuses and stock options.

JP Morgan Chase & Co. chairman and CEO James Dimon earned $28 million in 2007. Chase bought Bear Stearns in a fire sale earlier this year with Washington promising to take on up to $30 billion in assets to get the deal done.

Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd made $11.6 million in 2007.

Freddie Mac, CEO Richard Syron, brought in $18 million.

Wachovia Corp. chairman and CEO G. Kennedy Thompson received $21 million in 2007. He was succeeded by Robert Steel as CEO in July. Steel is slated to get a $1 million salary with an opportunity for a $12 million bonus, according to CEO Watch.

Seattle-based Washington Mutual will pay its new CEO Alan Fishman a salary and incentive package worth more than $20 million through 2009 for taking the helm of the battered bank, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/25/193135.aspx

There you go: there's at least three or four hundred million. And really, who needs all that money?

Really?

Pro Life Choice

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For the ladies:
The decision is yours; make an informed one.

For men:
If you don’t have internal genitals, this hasn't got much to do with you. All you can do is help your partner make an informed choice and support her. Women have choices, men have responsibilities. By chance of birth we were assigned either: responsibility or childbirth… we got off pretty light. Deal with it.
Don’t want babies? Wear a condom. It’s not rocket science.

For the unborn child:
You don’t have any rights until you can vote as far as I’m concerned.

Adam's Visit

Our good friend from Thailand Adam, who is now living in Japan, was scheduled to visit on Monday the 15th for a week. We were excited: the house was cleaned, friends informed, a room prepared. I cleared my schedule from other commitments and got ready for a mental vacation. It was to be our first visitor to Taiwan.

You can't imagine how gutted we were, when we got an email the morning he was due to arrive, saying that he had missed his flight.

Well, what can you do?

We decided to carry on with his planned itinerary without him, so what follows is a photo essay of his trip. Due to Adam's unfortunate absence, his part will be played by a stuffed toy bear* who kindly stepped in at short notice.

Beers at The Black Dog



Icy Filipino Beers for all



Adam gets help for his drinking problem



The next day: enjoying the view from our apartment and recovering



Easy rider



Visit to Monkey Mountain



Up close



Bus to Kenting



Fine local fare



Beers on the beach



A spot of snorkelling



Another big day comes to a close.

Well, that about wraps it up, for everything that's fit to print. You'll have to get in touch with us directly to hear about the other shenanigans....

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Vending Machine Rats

Do you ever feel like a rat in a science lab
when you use a vending machine?

I do.

Push the lever and get your sugar pill.

New Olympic Logo...