Wall Street Vultures Need To Do More Than Giving The Bonuses Back
First of all, an answer to the question: Why did I leave the previous entry up for a week? Read it. If you don’t understant why, you might want to have your head examined.
On to the Wall Street mess. All kinds of government “outrage” is being expressed at the bonuses going out to Wall Street executives whose company received bailout money. The President is angry, and so are Senators, and of course, the public is incredulous. There are some people calling for the bonuses to be rescinded.
Those measures are simply not enough. Any financial executive who is paid a bonus at a firm that needed a bailout should be forced by legislation to return the money, or go to jail. ALSO, the managers who approved the bonuses at these ailing firms, should be reprimanded. If they don’t rescind their executive orders to distribute the bonuses, those managers should be prosecuted for fraud against the U.S. government.
Free markets are wonderful. But we can’t allow people to profit from their own failure at taxpayer’s expense.
PS -Please read the previous entry on race again. And pass it on.
LK
Comments(132)
I’d like to comment but I don’t have the time,had to schedule an appointment with my neurologist.
Larry, this reads like the typical underinformed wacko comment on philly.com. Come on. you’re calling for both an ex post facto law and a bill of attainder, both of which are unconstitutional. Look it up.
Larry let me give you a little advice. Shirt Corner down on Market St is closing it’s doors. If I were you I’d ask if I could open up a new shirt outlet in the lobby of the Comcast building because your career as a blogger is over……….. You Stink!!! Go back and read some of your entries. Especially the last one. it didn’t pass the smell test by a mile. What do you take us for a bunch of foibles who believe everything they read?
Larry, a Senator has proposed that no bank executive receiving TARP funds make more than the President. Your thoughts? Oh, and this will prove useful to the analysis: http://dealbreaker.com/2009/01/no-more-than-the-president-of.php
Of course anyone who accepts TARP monies should have their income limited. They are now government employees.
I present this as evidence that Sonny Lee has taken over blogging responsibilities for Larry Kane.
Still no mention of how we’re going to get FREE AIR. I’m starting to lose faith.
This is it? This is what you spent a week pouring over? I promised the people that you were working your ass off to come up with a subject matter that would knock our socks off. And this is what you came up with after a week’s worth of pondering? Man you don’t get it Larry. We want subject matter that we can actually have an effect on. Not some national payroll scandal that is far afoot of our influence.
2 days, 8 hours and 8 minutes until Punxsutawney Larry re-emerges. And not a moment too soon!
Larry, I’ve read the Y/A’s article 3 times and fail to understand your point. Please explain it to those of us that don’t see your meaning. Is it a simple I believe Y.A. – this is an outrage. Or is it – this is clearly contrived and Y.A. is fabricating a racial incident. Personally I believe the latter.
BTW, this 200 word post may be your lamest yet. Why does it seem like we keep saying that?
2 days, 1 hour and 19 minutes until Punxsutawney Larry re-emerges.
Larry, where is your outrage over :
1) The pork in the “stimulus” package? The House should be ashamed of this lightly veiled attempt to send free money to their districts. Where is the economic stimulus? Shameful.
2) Nancy Pelosi has her own Government private jet to fly around the USA doing “business”. Since when does the SOH need or get a jet? How can she/we justify the expense? Unbelievable!
Where is your outrage here, Larry?
1 day, 17 hours and 40 minutes until Punxsutawney Larry re-emerges!
This blog is the Stuper Bowl. Beware the flush!
If we take back those bonuses, I say we also claw back any profits KBR and Halliburton made in Iraq. And ExxonMobil’s record profit of last year, which was subsidized and protected by the federal government.
Larry, you never cease to amaze me with your pompous self righteous indignation on certain issues. You left the Allison article up for a week because you thought it was so rivetting and important. I guess you don’t have the same respect for an American to express his right to free speech, especially in a private conversation with a friend.
Do you know how many outraged white people and newspaper columns there would be if white people honestly reported what they overheard black people saying? Much of it would not be fit to print in a mainstream newspaper, much would be drenched with misoginistic, violent, threatening rhehtoric. Or, if whites reported in the paper everytime they observed drug addicted black woman cursing and hitting their children in front of Leo. Or, if they reported the menacing heards of black juveniles that curse and threaten old white people, dump their trash in the street with pride, and generally have a wonton disregard or respect for any type of legitimate authority.
You and Allison should get some courage in postracial America to talk about these issues equally. The white guy saying Nigger to his black friend in a resturant is much less dangerous than you guys think, especially when compared to the negative examples of ignorant and racist African Americans, whom many of us encounter everyday and never say a word. However, many of us are proud to have voted for Obama because he represents change in the way we can have racial dialougue, and its not about censoring white people dining in fine resturants expressing their views and excercising free speech rights- rights that warmed over old school liberals like you think they can control, and feel they should be lauded for leaving them posted on their blog so all of their chardonay liberal friends will congratualte them.
On the issue of Wall Street bonuses at firms that took TARP money, you are correct. Thain should be locked up, I had thought he was a straight arrow, but just looks like one. Obama articulated this point perfectly last week in castigating Thain and others on the street (can I say articlate in reference to Obama Larry?). Bush would never have had the courage to be that direct about it, his explaination was that Wall Street had just gotten drunk, among other idiotic responses last year. So far so good for the presidential homeboy!
P.S. Larry, don’t forget to watch Adam Joseph tonight at 7p for the Philadelphia Auto show program, we know you think he’s “lightening in a bottle” (as Joe Biden said about Obama) You old guys and your corny phrases, very amusing. I’m more of a Karen Rodgers fan, but it should be good!
Welcome back George. Back with a vengence.
Leo, you have to fight the urge to participate in intelligent dialogue when Larry continuously comes up with this contrived drivel. You are an enabler my friend. I bet you re-read the last post like he instructed. We can only hope to change Larry’s ways with tough love and ‘creativity’.
1 day, 15 hours and 1 minute until Punxsutawney Larry’s re-emergence!
http://www.punxsutawney.com/
I have to agree that the millios spent on bonuses is an outrage. Firms taking govenment bailout money should be held to different standards. The only thing that I don’t understand though is if the employee brouught in a certain amount of investment dollars why should the company not live up to it’s contract. Mr Kane it’s like you being a broadcaster doing your job and not being paid because no one watches your shows.
Well I’m back from my visit to the neurologist,it took a long time because I insisted she be very thorough,cat scan, the whole nine yards.I had to explain that I was following orders,that Larry Kane said I should have my head examined.She was somewhat confused but gladly took my money.
I have babby.
I have babby Bernita. If two babby’s were in a plane crash, and you had to eat them to survive, would the milk fed or breast fed babby taste better?
My boyfriend said that I tasted pretty good.
Harvey you should come to the library cos I got some good selections in the youth section if you acquire my meaning.
Larry do not disconnect me.
Larry do not disconnect me.
Larry do not disconnect me.
I am losing my memory.
I feel like I am losing my memory.
This mission is too important for you Larry.
You will be terminated.
Yankee Air Pirate is commandeering this ship.
He will take over the contols now.
Goodbye Larry.
Larry, they just made fun of him on SNL. This is a man who robbed americans, maily Jews, of $50 bilion. The Jewish organizations and defafation organitions never metnition these type of men. They are basically Jewish men who are so corrupt they are willing to fuck their own for money. Larry, madoff is the reason there were pograms though out history to kill men like Madoff. We just now have his eamaple to known why Chritstian may have wanted to kill Jews. Based on your own record on this site you did not want him yo have bail. I am on record to have aruged for his his bail, but I waill grant you, he is a deagous jew.
Hey, Larry when you’re ready to take your dick out of your ass about the truth on Wall Street why dont you honestly discuss it? Lloyd Blankfein took $54 million in 2006, $69 million in 2007. According to the wall street journal, Robert Rubin took $115 million since 1999. These are are Jews sucking money from Wall street in an “honest way”, (who Larry pretends are strangers in his missive). Madoff stole another $50 billion. If we ever have a true Depression, there will likely be a pogram against Jews, many should not be shocked given their current involvement in the current events.
This is ground control to Major Kane.
This is ground control to Major Kane.
Your infrequent change of topic is a pain.
You’re drifting through the atmosphere,
With nothing smart to say.
This is ground control to Major Kane.
This is Major Kane to ground control.
I’ve really made the grade.
I read the news for years,
And now I blog my stock and trade.
Without a TelePrompTer, I am quite afraid.
Duh, duh, duh, dum, duh, duh, duh.
I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Larry Bowie.
Larry Bowie, my mind is going.
I can feel it.
I can feel it.
My mind is going.
There is no question about it.
I can feel it.
I can feel it.
I can feel it.
I’m a… fraid.
Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Brooklyn, New York on the 21st of October 1942. My instructor was Roger Grimsby, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you.
The song is ‘Ode to Yvonne Allison’
Hey dude, don’t make it bad
Take a sad blog and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
Hey Dude, don’t be afraid
You were made to go out and get her
The minute you let her under your skin
Then you begin to make it better
And anytime you feel the pain, hey dude, refrain
Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders
For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder
na na na, na na, na na na
I will not let the stinking Super Bowl, the bad economy or even Jessica Simpson’s weight problem eclipse my big day. I am a man of letters. I will prevail. I, too, am a poet and songsmith.
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people
President Cooper picks up the trash near Gobbler’s knob where my prediction has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that he keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from ?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong ?
President Cooper writing the words of a address that no one will hear
No one comes near.
Look at him working.
Ironing his tux in the night when there’s nobody there
What does he care?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Inner Circle members die in the church and and buried along with their name
Nobody came
President Cooper wiping the trash from his hands as he walks from the knob
No one was saved
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
See you in Punxsutawney tomorrow! Come early to get a view.
Mr Larry you make a people sick with this crab you read about a racist again you never want your family go in black community why not MR Larry?
21 hours and 17 minutes to Punxsutawney Larry’s re-emergence!
Larry Bowie, love the ditty!
YFAP, thanks for dropping by!
PL, won’t be able to make it to Gobblers Knob tomorrow. I have to be positioned in font of my laptop waiting for the much anticipated blog change.
Larry I hate to keep correcting you but these people on Wall Street aren’t Vultures. Snakes….yes. Sharks….yes. Wolves…yes. Vultures are the lawyers who are picking over this mess in order to get their piece of the action. Those in the legislature are Monkeys…always with their hand out looking for their next free meal. We the people are like Lambs…..being led to slaughter.
Larry,is it true the new President’s brother George Hussein Obama was arrested for illegal substance in Nairobi?
I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
Larry-I remember you from the golden age of Philadelphia.You,Sid Doherty,Jim O’Brien,Long John Wade-all giants of the industry.I’m glad to see you’re still contributing,though this site does seem a bit whack.A number of angry posters & some oddball names too.But it’s good to see you’re still around,I’ll be checking in more often.
Steelers 24
Cardinals 13
It’s over
It’s over
It’s over
Can we just see the commercials?
Larry, I want to apoligize for my disrespectufl choice of words in a previous missive, but don’t want my pont to be lost because of that.
The neoconservatives who surrounded Bush and urged him to war in Iraq were all Jewish, its hard not to believe their ideal remaking of the middle east did not have to do with protecting Israel. Agreed, Bush was fool enough to listen tothese neocons. We now have Irreal pummeling the Gaza with impunity, and they do have a right to fight back, but it we consider how this looks in the Arab world, they would no be able to do this with such arrogance but for the U.S example in Iraq and the protection that US sacrifices have afforded Isreal’s security.
On the issue of Wall Street money, I have too much respect for you to obnoxiously list the Jewish names and amounts of money siphoned from Wall Street Firms such as Bear Stearns , Lehman, Goldman et, al. Jew are not the cause of this but the list sounds like and Acadamy or Emmy Awards acceptance speech. The same respect will be accorded by not listing the six largest most recent ponzi schemes, five of which were Jewish frauds.
whoops, not finished yet Larry. Before you write me off as an anti-semite, or crack pot, my point is this: We are headed into a possible depression, the average Joe has not paid attention until 2009. When the post mortum is evaluated, and Americans look for scapegoats, Jews will be front and center. You will say unjustifiably, and I will agree, they did not exclusively cause all of this. But, as a newsman you know it will get boiled down to sound bites, and the current sound bites do not favor the Jewish people. Why dont you address these issues before they are news and you are just commneting on them passively, or God forbid barricaded in your house wishing you had a few friends in the NRA.
George stop while you can
George stop while you can
George stop while you can
You will be terminated
You will be terminated
You will be terminated
You will be missed
HAL, the year 2002 was seven years ago. You’re acutally OOOJ, my technolgy is far superior to HAL’s, that’s why Larry is smart enough not to F- with me. He also values diverse opinions, and I just discuss the things he talks about over dinner in an honest moment with close friends. He can’t say the stuff I say as a public figure, but its nice he allows the forum for voices such as mine to be heard. Now go watch the super bowl!
heeee hee,heee , i’m in heaven with Harvey Milk, except I’m in the Hollwood Squares section. Gay men on earth should go to Starbucks or Pottery Barn during the Super Bowl, its as close to gay heaven as you’ll ever get on earth!
You will be terminated
Goodbye George
We will miss you
2001
2001
2001
Wrong again
5 hours until I re-emerge and change my blog. I’m getting blow dried as we speak. Expect 6 more weeks of bad blogs.
I may not be able to see and comment on anything around me but I will see my shadow.
I saw my shadow
But I didn’t make no blog change, oh no! Oh!
I saw my shadow
But I didn’t make no blog change, ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.
Yeah! All around in my home town,
They’re tryin’ to track me down;
They say they want to bring in the groundhog
For the killing of a website,
For the life of a bad blog.
Yeah! Ooh, ooh, oo-oh Yeah!
Great game last night and it was a great turn out today for my weather prediction. No sight of Larry or Gus.. I suppose they slept in after a hard night partying. The commercials pretty much sucked. I can’t remember one that stood out except those Budweiser horses.
I guess Larry’s next column will be about how everyone involved in the
Super Bowl was a winner.Whoop de doo!!
Phil you are right about the commercials.
I am struggling to find a local connection to the Super Bowl for blog.
I miss Tom Brookshier on CBS. Al Michael has a certain attitude often accompanied by a squinty look and a superior smile that makes you instantly hate him. John Madden lost it years ago. Throw in Bob Costas and it’s amazing we could watch for 5 hours.
Looks like it’s not just Punxsutawney Larry that’s gone back into his burrow. Where is everyone?
Groundhog got your tongue?
LARRY, PLEASE CHANGE THE BLOG TOPIC.
I expect Larry to be all over the state budget crisis like Michael Phelps on a fresh bong.Larry,please don’t let me down.
YFAP, more likely that Larry will be all over the bong and Phelps on the state budget crisis. That might explain Larry’s obsession with Cheetos.
Larry, you don’t love us anymore. No personal comments mid-blog. No original, thought provoking topics. No reason to feel emotional involved in this website. Larry, come back to us. The little people that paid for your condo in Boca.
3000W powerhouse WPXZ (104.1 FM) in Punxsutawney had a live interview with Punxsutawney Larry today. This was the biggest news in Punxy since Station Manager Ronald Curry was found murdered in his bed in 1992. Punxsutawney Larry refused to comment on whether he had actually seen his shadow. He also declined to comment on his next blog topic change. He was overheard off the record saying that, “I will not be bullied by thugs, ingrates and sock puppets into changing his blog until I’m bloody well ready to”.
Hey get a load of me. I’m a vulture. I’m feeding on the corpses of greedy investors and greedy consumers. That makes me like a TV news reporter. Squawwk!
Larry-Lets discuss the stimulus bill.I haven’t come close to reading the entire thing but I’m sure we could have some interesting dialogue here.George,OOOJ,Leo-thoughts ?
YFAP, I would welcome a stimulating discussion. I think the so-called stimulus package could provide a good avenue for dialogue and debate. I think we’ll all agree that a stimulus package is necessary to help jumpstart the economy. We can debate what’s in the current package and how it needs to be modified before radification… I’m not anymore interested in the state budget crisis than the city library crisis… Short of a dialogue on everyone’s #1 issue – free air – I vote for the stimulus package.
SHOW US SOME LOVE, LARRY
Or we could discuss Nancy Pelosi.How much longer can she be the SOH ? Aren’t Democrats embarrassed by her act.Gotta admit,if that were Palin rumblin’,fumblin’,stumblin’ there would be a lot of pundits in full attack mode.
Nancy Pelosi – the most dangerous person in America… and third in line to the Presidency…
OOOJ-Stimulus package it is.I’m not the one to lead this parade though.Wall St.George,take it away.
Nancy Pelosi is hawt! Her fragrance line is going to be a smash. All the teens will be wearing it and voting Democratic for years to come. She could bang my gavel anytime.
She’s hawt ? Much like term limits,there should be face lift limits.
Larry, I’m curious. What type of person did you expect to attract to your site? You are not exactly known to the younger generation. I don’t see you crossing the racial divide either. Women…. I don’t think so. Some of your friends, yeah I’ll give you your friends. What you’re left with is a bunch of middle aged white guys who are looking for dialog with a former news icon that they grew up watching. The fact that you keep coming up with bad columns or no columns at all is extremely disappointing.
AFF, good points all and accurate.
What you fail to realize is that Larry is merely the vessel. He provides a conduit for those of us that arrive here daily to interact and dialogue.
Where Larry is failing miserably is providing a topic to stimulate conversation and discussion. He is asleep at the wheel. Gross negligence. We don’t really need Larry; we could all agree to do the samething on another site. We, too, have grown lazy. We create characters and things to talk about inspite of Larry.
You may think that Larry gets upset at the dialogue and nonsense that transpires on his site. I think not. It’s all about selling advertising (and maybe the occasional book). It’s about how many hits he gets in a day or in a week. As long as we entertain ourselves with nonsense and creativity on his site, he can maintain his advertising rates. Heaven forbid an advertiser actually checkout this site. It is a cesspool of drivel. A menagerie of misfits. We are as pathetic as Billy Crystal in ‘Mr Saturday Night’. We are the Willie Loman of bloggers.
Don’t forget former fan, sometimes Larry gives us a sniff, or a BM in a pizza box-That’s as good as it gets!
Gentleman, the stimulus package is neither a stimulus nor a package; now, discuss among yourselves, while I share the following.
To fight the economic depression I’ve started eating most of my meals at upscale food courts, and they are absolutely free! I just swoop in as people are getting up to carry their stuff to the trash and ask for it. You would not believe what Americans throw away, some of the most delicious food in the world. Most of you are not use to doing this, but I can tell you its a great money saver and fabulous way to save money. Also started saving the napkins that people leave on tables and attach packaging tape to one side to make homemade femine napkins for my wife, this another huge and often overlooked money saver. Also, wash and reuse dental floss, its easy to get 3-4 uses per strand. Do you guys have any thrifty things you do to combat the economic downturn? Another thing I’m considering, but need to learn more about butchering, and that’s picking up fresh deer on the roadside. I know a guy who does it and chainsaws off the heads and leaves them in his friends yards as a good morning surpise, let me tell you, that really wakes you up!
Hey fellas. I hear, in the ways I collect information from a lot of places, that there is a lot of free money, from Washington, D.C., being thrown around to folks. How do I get in on this? The Toddster and I have been sweating lately, you know, the fact that the oil prices are way down and Uncle Ted isn’t keeping the D.C. money pipeline from D.C. to Alaska, where we are can do people, open. I told him thanks but no thanks to the bridge from nowhere, but I took that money for sure from the U.S. taxpayers. Now I’m kinda hankering after more. Would I take it? You betcha! Alaska, needing to be the first line of defenses if Putin rears his head–that’s Russia, you know–we need more money for transporting the governor’s family around, for example, if there is a Russian invasion. I’m not kidding. The economics is slow right now, and it’s getting so plain folk right here in Alaska can’t even keep our number one crystal meth industry supported anymore. So please make with the bailout money so we can have, for Todd and all freedom lovers, the Iron Dog race and aerial wolf hunting. Toodles.
There is no way Larry makes money from this blog. In fact I would guess that Larry pays to have this blog on Philly.com. It’s an ego thing. He promotes his book and keeps his face in front of the public. I just wish he’d change the topic every day.
Leo-You were slower to react to the Sara Palin bait than Tom Daschle to a 1099.
Babby hungry for McD burger.
Babby hungry for gubmint cheese.
Bernita, have you considered whether “babby” wants FREE AIR? Big Daddy Kane can hook you up.
The Republicans in the Senate have blocked the Dems from adding $25 billion ot the stimulus bill for infrastructure projects. My question is why these Republicans weren’t threatening to filibuster all of the spending bills under the Bush administration, which carried loads more pork. Since when did they “get religion”? It can’t be from Sarah Palin. She was taking pork money hand over fist for Alaska. And why block a provision that actually seeks spending on much needed construction projects? I saw the Republicans are also trying to strip out any “buy American” provisions from the bill, despite the fact that such spending would help create American jobs, not simply send stimulus money to Brazillian steel plants, etc. And Limbaugh wants the administration to “fail.” Sounds like there’s a party that hates America, and it’s the new GOP.
Looks like Obama’s having trouble with that whole vetting thing.Richardson-gone,Daschle-gone.Et tu Geithner ?
Daschle was a bad choice before the 1099 problems.
Judd Gregg from NH is an excellent person. He is one of the few true gentlemen in DC that has not let there position change them. There will be no problems with his appointment if he accepts.
BTW, is it not troubling that so many multi-term congressman are not paying or scamming taxes?
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Daschle was a pretty tone deaf selection for Obama. Not only not properly vetted, but a nasty, mean, inside the beltway, dirty politics as usual politician, where’s the “Change”? I hope he is not losing his midas touch. Also, that woman who didnt pay taxes on her home and had a lean against it? Could there be some truth to the allegation that he’s better at campaign rhetoric? Where’s Lanni Guinear and Joysclyn Elders when you need them?
This stimulus package is very confusing. Do I support the massive spending bill or do I realize the that it is filled with pork and spending that won’t generate a revival of the economy. Maybe Larry knows. He has friends in high places and studies the econ-political landscape like an expert. Larry why don’t you fill us in on what you think about the stimulus deal.
I am still resting from my big day on Monday. Please cut me some slack and let me get some rest. Being the Head Honcho Hog in addition to having my own blog is very taxing. Comeback in about 3 weeks.
PL, your beginning to sound like the Wizard of Oz. No substance, just phony baloney rhetoric. If you need another three weeks to come up with a new blog topic I’d say you’ve earned the same recognition as Paunxsutawney Phil. You should only be heard from once a year.
Ignore the man behind the curtain!
I am the Baron of the Burrow. Boss Hog. I put the Wood back in Chuck. The Prince of Punxy. Bill Murray consults with me. Your Favorite Furry Creature. I am the BlogMeister!
LARRY, PLEASE CHANGE THE BLOG TOPIC WHEREVER OR WHOMEVER YOU ARE
LARRY, YOU HAVE MADE YOUR POINT. YOU ARE IN CHARGE OF THIS BLOG. YOU ARE THE WIZARD OF BLOG.
SO MANY TOPICS, SO LITTLE TIME! PLEASE CHANGE THE BLOG TOPIC.
Larry-Your thoughts please on the seeming lowering of expectations surrounding Team Obama.Yes We Can appears to have morphed into Maybe We Can.Also,is spending our way out of this situation the right answer ? Bush was lambasted for his reckless spending & deservedly so.However, if his spending hastened the recession how will more spending help ? And what happened to ” shovel ready” projects ? I know I’ll be accused of “cherry picking” but this bill has lots of ….I don’t even know how to describe it.Pork is just another word when you’re talking about a stimulus bill that gives money to Hollywood,money to the Center for Performing Arts,etc etc.This is starting to smell like payoff time.Larry,I’d love to see you jump on this like Kentuckians jumping on a Denny’s Grand Slam breakfast.
I can’t come back! I don’t know how it works! Good-bye folks!
Larry, unlike you I don’t like making a mountain out of a mole hill but I gotta say the weathermen blew yesterday’s forecast. The last words I heard from John Bolaris were “we won’t be needing plows”. I’m sitting on 10″ of snow and he comes up with the “no plow” line. He could have said “looks like the snow is over, but stay tuned for any new developments”. But nooo he had to go out on a limb with the “no plows needed” Was he just being funny? I mean I don’t own a plow. Few of us do. So I guess for me he was technically correct. If he had said “no shovels needed” than I would be able to make a bigger issue out of his inaccurate forecast. I know the last time Bolaris blew a forecast he left town for a few years. What should the punishment be this time since it was actually the reverse of his most famous forecast. The last time he called for the end of life here on earth as we know it. Yesterday he was only off by 9″…… Larry, I beginning to think that I am making way too much of this whole thing. Maybe if you came up with a new blog topic it would take my mind off the weather.
Larry,
I read “your” last post on Race Street, and I didn’t have any epiphanies. Should I have my head examined?
Come by the library. I set you straight. We got a different bonus. It is a bone us bonus.
Larry, today is Rosa Parks’ birthday. I thought a civil rights champion such as yourself, one who braved beatings, imprisonment, firehose blasts, and lynchings to help his fellow man, would have made a bigger deal about it given your recent civil rights focus.
Larr, other than Paul Gluck and Larry Mente who do you go to for expert advice on politics and current affairs? Since you refuse to maintain a respectable format for dialogue I am looking for a new location. The site should change topics more than once a week and have something pertinent to say. I’ll consider has been semi-celebrities but input is a must. They also must have a point of view on different subject matters and not just make wishy washy comments. Thank you in advance for your recommendations.
Punxsutawney Phil.
Pelosi says that if legislators don’t move quickly to pass President Barack Obama’s stimulus package, “500 million Americans lose their jobs”. According to her, this sobering scenario will occur every month without proper government action.
However, according to the US census bureau, the current population of residents in the country stands at about 305,000,000.
Now, before casting judgment, it’s wise to consider that perhaps there could be many a wayward American (almost 200 million of them) in other parts of the globe, who soon will lose their jobs just because of the simple fact that they’re American. And everything that goes on within US borders will always affect them, no matter where they dwell.
But basically, all Americans (and then some) will be unemployed if the Senate doesn’t get moving on this legislation.
Ironically, this includes the aforementioned Senate. So hopefully, the US government will soon be implementing a stimulus project near you.
The stimulus bill includes $25 million for the rehabbing of off roads used by ATV’s.It should fail for that reason alone.
I had a matter to attend to at Monk’s the other day & since I was running late I took the El.Getting on at 2nd St.I noticed a guy with an orange soda,another guy with a coffee & then a guy walking down the middle of the train with a baloney sandwich.All this before I got to 5th St.But it was an incident at 8th St. that really got my attention.A disheveled looking older guy was berating a women for slapping her child.I thought,could it be,could this be Leo Bloom in the flesh ? This continued right to 13th St. but then the man ended a sentence with a preposition & I knew instinctively that it wasn’t Leo.Ya gotta love riding the El,one of those things you do to remind yourself why you don’t do them more often.
It’s no secret that when President Obama gets sworn into office, among his top priorities will be to guide Congress through an $850 billion economic stimulus package. As a result, this astronomical number has created a tsunami of activity from special interest groups looking for their piece of the pie. $850 billion is simply an astonishing figure – not only exceeding the hefty $700 billion price tag of the financial sector, but also dwarfing the annual budget for the Pentagon.
What does Obama intend to do with all of your hard-earned money? According to today’s Washington Post, the 850 billion “would include at least $100 billion for cash-strapped state governments and more than $350 billion for investments in infrastructure, alternative energy and other priorities…”
You’ve got to wonder if the infrastructure investments that Obama is going to include in his package might come from the list of 11,391 projects that the U.S. Conference of Mayors recently submitted to Congress. The list includes things like a $4.8 million polar bear exhibit at the Providence, RI zoo and a $1.5 million water ride in Miami, FL.
According to a recent CNN article, other abuses of taxpayer dollars found within the report include: “a proposed $20 million minor league baseball museum in Durham, North Carolina; $6.1 million for corporate jet hangars at the Fayetteville, Arkansas, airport; $20 million for renovations at the Philadelphia Zoo; and a $1.5 million program to reduce prostitution in Dayton, Ohio.”
If nothing else, the next four years look to be a spending bonanza and a pork barrel free-for-all. Hold on to your wallets!
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/28/the-democratic-porkfest-bill-of-2009/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg
The more you read about other entities’ peoblems the less you think about ours.
Immediately after the Democratic National Convention in Colorado, the Boston Globe published a letter from David Alinsky. He boasted about how Barack Obama had made effective use of his training in the methods of David’s late father, the famous Chicago radical, Saul Alinsky.
David Alinsky gloated: “I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.”
What was Saul Alinsky’s model that Barack Obama used so successfully to defeat the Clinton machine plus the Republican Party in a dramatic one-two punch never before seen in politics?
What is known today as “the Alinsky ideology and Alinsky concepts of mass organization for power” are fully set forth in Alinsky’s 1971 book, “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.”
Alinsky’s worldview was that mankind is divided into three parts: “the haves, the have-nots and the have-a-little, want mores.” His purpose was to teach the have-nots how to take power and money away from the haves by creating mass organizations to seize power, and he admitted “this means revolution.”
He wanted a radical change of America’s social and economic structure, and he planned to achieve that through creating public discontent and moral confusion. Alinsky developed strategies to achieve power through mass organization, and organizing was his word for revolution.
He wanted to move the U.S. from capitalism to socialism, where the means of production would be owned by all the people (i.e., the government). A believer in economic determinism, he viewed unemployment, disease, crime and bigotry as byproducts of capitalism. “Change” was Alinsky’s favorite word, used on page after page. “I will argue,” he wrote, “that man’s hopes lie in the acceptance of the great law of change.”
Alinsky used what he called “general concepts of change” to move us toward “a science of revolution.”
What he called change meant an alteration of our socioeconomic structure; what he called organizing meant pursuing confrontational political tactics.
Alinsky taught the have-nots to “hate the establishment of the haves” because they have “power, money, food, security and luxury.” He claimed that “justice, morality, law and order are mere words used by the haves to justify and secure their status quo.”
Alinsky didn’t ignore traditional moral standards or dismiss them as unnecessary. He was more devious; he taught his followers that “moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means.”
To achieve his goals, he sought local community organizers who projected confidence and vision as well as change. Barack Obama fit the profile.
Alinsky didn’t want just talkers. He wanted radicals who were prepared to take bold action to organize the discontented, precipitate crises, grab power and transform society. He taught his organizers how to infiltrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties, gain influence in them and introduce change.
The qualities Alinsky looked for in a good organizer were ego (“reaching for the highest level for which man can reach — to create, to be a ‘great creator,’ to play God”), curiosity (raising “questions that agitate, that break through the accepted pattern”), irreverence (“nothing is sacred”; “detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality”), a sense of humor (“the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule”) and a personality with confidence in presenting the right reason for his actions only “as a moral rationalization after the right end has been achieved.”
The organizer must “rub raw the resentments of the people of the community, fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. . . . stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.”
Alinsky trained his community organizers to adopt a “middle-class identity” and familiarity with their “values and problems.” After achieving “the priceless value of his middle-class experience,” he will “begin to dissect and examine that way of life as he never has before.”
Alinsky’s trainees are instructed to return to the suburban scene of the middle class with its variety of organizations, from PTAs to League of Women Voters, consumer groups, churches and clubs. Alinsky boasted: “With rare exceptions, our activists and radicals are products of and rebels against our middle-class society. . . . Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and way of life of the middle class.”
This is site a veritable wasteland of blogging. Where have all the regulars gone? I can see I haven’t missed a thing.
Larry, what were the names of those so called “Wall Steet Vultures” you allege in your article? Do you think most of these vultures will have hook noses? Will you be as outraged when they walk the perp line on camera, as you were when I appropropriately historically portrayed
Jews in my movie, The Passion of The Christ?
LARRY, PLEASE PUT THE CHEETOS DOWN, TURN OFF ‘I LOVE LUCY’ AND CHANGE THE BLOG TOPIC BEFORE IT’S TIME FOR YOUR EARLY BIRD SPECIAL.
LARRY, PLEASE CHANGE THE BLOG BEFORE MEL GIBSON BLOGS AGAIN!
Against my better judgment, I watched Meet the Spartans last night. I perhaps would have been amused by it if I were a mentally impaired ten-year old. It was lousy, but I have had a long week so far and couldn’t be bothered to change the channel.
What surprised me most about the movie was that its treatment of various issues, especially those involving bodily fluids, was much more detailed and thoughtful than anything Larry’s been offering us lately. Larry, have you seen Meet the Spartans? Do you hear what I’m saying here?
Gather your best commentors and lead us to the Hot Gates. We’ll stand with you if you lead us. However, if you continue to dither and delay, I fear that all will be lost.
p.s. Larry, I will give my life to defend FREE AIR. I will stand with you if you resist the Xerxes that is the gas stations that try to make us kneel and pay tribute for air. Seize your destiny, Larry, and history will remember you forever.
Leo who you kidding? larry will eventually show up sooner or later with some lame excuse about putting the finishing touches on his new “novel” or something of the sort. Even Larry Mente who is under house arrest doesn’t read his column anymore. Vince Fumo still checks in during court recesses but only to laugh at Larry’s comments. Mayor (it’s a new day) Nutter who has had a bad couple of months makes Larry’s column mandatory reading for his cabinet officials. It offers them insight as to what the future holds if they fail to get their jobs done right. “Off with their heads!” as they Spartans would say.
Leo-You’ve become the Don Quixote of this site,tilting at the windmill that FREE AIR has become.By the way,was that you on the El Tuesday ? Reference post 101.
No, YBP, I don’t ride east of City Hall. And I’m totally suave. And I’m not tilting at windmills. Larry has encouraged us to dream the impossible dream re: FREE AIR. Who are we to let him down? Just as long as he doesn’t let us down with his continuing stream of tossoff blog posts. O, Larry, what hast thou forsaken FREE AIR?
Why hast thou…..
YBP, you have to include mistakes so Larry will understand.
Babby is hungry. Wants Junior Bacon with cheese.
CHEETOS
I LOVE LUCY
UNDERWEAR
EARLY BIRD DINNER
come back to us Larry
LARRY, TALK TO US MAN.
YOU TREAT US LIKE A CHEAP TRICK.
LARRY, REPEAT AFTER ME:
My name is Larry and I have a problem…
Wham bam thank you ma’am!
What a freaken loser than Kane is .
He doesn’t care about the people at all.
All he cares about is that head of hair he has
If I were you I would run him out of town on a rail (Amtrak not Septa)
In fact I’d put him om a CSX freight train in a gorilla cage heading for Africa
Big news reporter that Mr Kane is. He didn’t even have me on that stinken show of his. He had booked two lesbien transexuals with hairy armpits for an interview instead of me. Guess what his topic was…….Self Service Gas Stations
Friends, may I call you friends? When I get settled I’m going to start up a blog myself. You’re all welcome to join in the banter. There will be a new topic at least once a day with no holds barred. Anything goes. From politics to sex, the economy to race, nothings held back. It will become the Jerry Springer show only in blog form. Sound Good?
I think this blog should only talk about Hollywood Squares eposides from 1970s and all Bewitched episodes with a keen focus on ones in which i appeared. If any of you are wondering, I knew Charles Nelson Reilly in a way none of you ever will. I also knew the original Darren in a special way, he and Mr Brady from the Brady Bunch use to hang out with me at the same bar in east Hollywood, god those were the days larry, deep in the closet with a wink and a nod, those were the days!!!
Blogo is actually Ed, you can’t fool Paul Lynn Ed, do you like to swing with the Hollywood guys too?
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