Steely Dan

They don't try to crack the lineup in Detroit, they lineup the crack.

Already being discussed in the free speech? thread.

Here are some cakes Just for s and giggles. Link Link 2 Link 3 Link 4 Link 5 Link 6

That's also my fear, Karma for doing that.

Great joke. That's really sick and it's sicker that it's tolerated in that society. Can you imagine if that happened in this country?! The men who stoned her and the brothers would be charged as soon as the video evidence became available. The cops standing by watching it would be in deep too.

Almost forgot, does anyone believe Katie Holmes is still happy in her marriage to Tom Cruise? He made her become a Scientologist and she probably figured out what a sack of crap it is but is stuck with a high level Scientology wacko.

My theory is that Keith should have died 15 years ago but the Angel of Death is afraid to get near him.

They want someone better than Millen.

It's the airlines fault for letting a level 5 pilot even get behind the wheel of a plane. Fut the Wuck is that about?

'Nuff said.

The whole thing is just flabbergasting. Personally I think this whole industry needs to monitored closely. My favorite part is how they kept trying to get bonus' by ignoring problems and making paper profits.

Link For Dow Kim, 2006 was a very good year. While his salary at Merrill Lynch was $350,000, his total compensation was 100 times that — $35 million. The difference between the two amounts was his bonus, a rich reward for the robust earnings made by the traders he oversaw in Merrill’s mortgage business. Mr. Kim’s colleagues, not only at his level, but far down the ranks, also pocketed large paychecks. In all, Merrill handed out $5 billion to $6 billion in bonuses that year. A 20-something analyst with a base salary of $130,000 collected a bonus of $250,000. And a 30-something trader with a $180,000 salary got $5 million ________________________________________________ “Compensation was flawed top to bottom,” said Lucian A. Bebchuk, a professor at Harvard Law School and an expert on compensation. “The whole organization was responding to distorted incentives.” Even Wall Streeters concede they were dazzled by the money. To earn bigger bonuses, many traders ignored or played down the risks they took until their bonuses were paid. Their bosses often turned a blind eye because it was in their interest as well. “That’s a call that senior management or risk management should question, but of course their pay was tied to it too,” said Brian Lin, a former mortgage trader at Merrill Lynch. ___________________________________________ Mr. O’Neal himself was paid $46 million, according to Equilar, an executive compensation research firm and data provider in California. Mr. Kim received $35 million. About 57 percent of their pay was in stock, which would lose much of its value over the next two years, but even the cash portions of their bonus were generous: $18.5 million for Mr. O’Neal, and $14.5 million for Mr. Kim, according to Equilar. _________________________________________ Mr. Lin, the former Merrill trader, arrived late to the party. He was one of the last people hired onto Merrill’s mortgage desk, in the summer of 2007. Even then, Merrill guaranteed Mr. Lin a bonus if he joined the firm. Mr. Lin would not disclose his bonus, but such payouts were often in the seven figures. Mr. Lin said he quickly noticed that traders across Wall Street were reluctant to admit what now seems so obvious: Their mortgage investments were worth far less than they had thought. “It’s always human nature,” said Mr. Lin, who lost his job at Merrill last summer and now works at RRMS Advisors, a consulting firm that advises investors in troubled mortgage investments. “You want to pull for the market to do well because you’re vested.” _____________________________________________ “What happened to their investments was of no interest to them, because they would already be paid,” said Paul Hodgson, senior research associate at the Corporate Library, a shareholder activist group. Some Wall Street executives argue that paying a larger portion of bonuses in the form of stock, rather than in cash, might keep employees from making short-sighted decision. But Mr. Hodgson contended that would not go far enough, in part because the cash rewards alone were so high. Mr. Kim, for example, was paid a total of $116.6 million in cash and stock from 2001 to 2007. Of that, $55 million was in cash, according to Equilar. ________________________________________ As the damage at Merrill became clear in 2007, Mr. Kim, his deputies and finally Mr. O’Neal left the firm. Mr. Kim opened a hedge fund, but it quickly closed. Mr. Semerci and Mr. Lattanzio landed at a hedge fund in London. All three departed without collecting bonuses in 2007. Mr. O’Neal, however, got even richer by leaving Merrill Lynch. He was awarded an exit package worth $161 million.

In a matricidal way. They recently took the death penalty off the table but that was before the body was discovered and they can put it back on the table. If the death penalty isn't an option then she'll never see the light of day again and that is as it should be. I'd really like to know what actually happened and why but I'd say it's a 99% chance we'll never find that out.

I downloaded it today and didn't have a problem. You might have downloaded it at a bad time. Did you download it from the Firefox site?

They're a rollcage on wheels so if you get hit by a truck you'll go hopping like a soccer ball across the road.

That's ten less hours of being a couch potato.

I just checked and my opponent has Eddie Royal on his team so every TD Cutler throws to him will be negated for both of us. I guess that's ok.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Imagine the problems they have. White cake with white frosting but what color for the wording? Red, no. Chocolate, no, Yellow, no. Orange, maybe. Green, ok. The poor kid will never get a chocolate cake with white icing. True. Can you imagine the next person in line seeing them buying that damn cake. As for the kid he's gonna come home black and blue everyday. "Say he grows up and hangs out with black people. That's fine, I don't really care," he said. "That's his choice." Yeah well, with that name I think he'll only be hanging out with neo-nazis.

p.u. what stinks?

Head count , who still loves Dick ? I'm guessing Blzrule, Lana and Pyrite Gal.

Thanks but I'm a little worried about interceptions with the Bills. Oakland's secondary is weak. The Bills secondary is better than Oakland's but Shaub is a lesser QB than Cutler. Aye Yi Yi.

Nope those are real. Pretty funny aren't they.

Barney Frank doesn't speak for the whole party. Numbnuts. Not on that no. He has no political thought to the left of the farthest right.