- I noticed that St Thomas Aquinas in East Dallas shut down for few days because of the flu. I remember that happened at Bridgeport Junior High when I was in sixth grade.
- I never get a flu shot.
- Fox 4's Lari Barager's hair looks fuller.
- Speaking of, I need to cut my hair. (Remember, it was July when I last had it cut.)
- Victim Impact Statements, that can only be delivered in court after the trial is over, seem more for show than for "impact".
- Hypothetically, you know a relationship is over when your significant other changes her "relationship status" on Facebook.
- I watched a little of Jamie Foxx in Booty Call last night Kinda funny.
- For the first time ever, I've heard of the college football term "gray shirt". It's when a high school recruit doesn't enroll in college in the fall and instead waits for the spring semester. That gives him an extra year to, uh, grow, and keep four year's of eligibility.
- National Signing Day is a little silly. Every coach does indeed say he has a "great class" or even "his best class ever."
- I hate Jimmy Buffett.
- Baseball man Manny Ramirez was offered a one year, $25 million dollar. He turned it down. I remember that happening in the Great Depression as well.
- Had a new client come in who was charged with an adult criminal offense. I looked at his info sheet and saw that he was born in the 1990s. Ugh.
- I guess it's a big deal when someone gets a golf scholarship to Southeast West Texas A&M Technical University.
- I've always been against the financial bailout, but how has this country come so far that we find it acceptable for the government to impose a salary cap on a private sector employee? Think about that.
- I used to play in the woods behind my house. I mean real woods: Acres and acres of trees. And I knew every square inch of it.
- The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office lets the media interview a murder suspect and his attorney says, " "I thought that in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, they would have learned after the Lee Harvey Oswald/Jack Ruby incident that that was unwise.” Huh? Come again?
- Weird: The wives of our new District Attorney and new County Attorney have both given birth since the first of the year.
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I never get a flu shot either.
By the way, I now listen to Hal Jay in the mornings during Ticket commercial breaks just to hear how bad it is.
It was downright awful this morning. It almost makes me sad.
Maybe our new Attorney's were celebrating..I sure hope Stainton will do a good job. I know Lowry will.
I don't have a problem with Obama setting a cap on private business salaries, as long as WE THE PEOPLE are bailing that company out, somebody needs to keep an eye on them!
What a shame BG. I had little Kevin tears running down my Kevin face when I saw the relationship status change.
Looks like it's back to the hookers for you, bud.
I don't know that they are still "private" after they take tax dollars. I personally don't have a problem with it in this specific scenario.
salery caps=socialism
hope the dems are proud
God help us
...and stay away from anyone on Facebook with a relationship status of "It's complicated."
Wait a minute! Only salaries capped are those who led their company to need "a bailouot"
In stead of whining, why aren't they grateful they still have a job!
I'm still wondering why shareholders aren't replacing the CEO and the board of directors who have done such a bad job.
Furterhomore, the federal government capped individuals salaries for years when they determined that Social Security people couldn't make more than X and still receive their SS.
Where was the screaming then?
"I hate Jimmy Buffett."
I love breakfast buffet
"I used to play in the woods behind my house. I mean real woods: Acres and acres of trees. And I knew every square inch of it."
Of course...that treasure map marking the locations of all the hidden "special edition" National Geographic mags really helped
"I thought that in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, they would have learned after the Lee Harvey Oswald/Jack Ruby incident that that was unwise.”
Let's see... he's gotta be so dumb that he thinks:
a) someone from the press actually interviewed Oswald before he got shot (didn't happen back in those days. NEVER!)
b) Jack Ruby was a reporter who used the cover of an interview to get close enough to Oswald to shoot him
c) equating his punk, two-bit (alleged) patricide client will get some publicity (actually, that one could be accurate)
The photo of the attorney seems to prove that he is older than I am. I remember when JFK was shot, and I'm not talking about the Oliver Stone movie!
What did Jimmy ever do to you? Hate is such a strong word...although it doesn't surprise me. You don't seem like the type that can relax enough to enjoy the Buffett experience. Have you ever been to one of his concerts?
With love,
A Parrothead
those 'woods' were great , baron.
i knew every inch also.
we used to think, (some older kids told us) that when you found a tree that was leaning over, it meant a Hobo had been there.
good times!
Aww! The Ponderosa, what great memories....
If Obama HONESTLY believes executives of PRIVATE industry should have salary caps and take salary reductions, due of the financial plight of their respective companies, why did the House and Senate get a raise this past October when the U.S. is looking at a multi TRILLION dollar DEFICIT? Incidentally, Obama's proclamation does not apply to ANY company that has already accepted Bailout Bucks.
If the House and Senate expect CEOs to work for $1 why has there not been a single elected official make the same sacrifice?
Oh, right! They are LIBERALS and the rules/laws do not apply to them.
In our society, two people can basically do the same thing yet one may get fired as a result by the simple fact that someone in the media decided to run a story on it. Case in point is the girls basketball saga, in which a coach ends up in a trap simply because the media ran with it as opposed to countless other examples of coaches doing the same thing. Does a tree falling in a forest make a sound? Depends on whether a reporter felt like it that day.
Anon @ 8:31, no kidding! I have an old friend whose marriage is described as "complicated" on Facebook! I'm thinkin' it got that way after his wife saw that?!
I hate Jimmy Buffett too. I truly don't get Parrot Heads. At all.
Hairy Barry = cut!
I'm sad sometimes that I live in the suburbs and there are no woods for my kids to play in. Little concrete lovers, all of 'em.
The owners of companies should have a say so in how the managers of that company are paid. The only salaries the government wants to regulate are the companies that required tax payer dollars to survive. If you do not want your salary capped then work for a company that is self sufficient and does require a loan from the “Lender of Last Resorts” – the government.
“salery caps=socialism…..hope the dems are proud”
Give me a break - Socialism is one of the most over worked words around these days. Anyone it is short hand for I don’t know what I am talking about – but I want to look like I do. I didn’t hear anyone claiming it was Socialism when governments gave millions of dollars in the form of tax breaks to companies to relocate or build new building in there area.
The congressional Dems and Republicans should all have their salaries capped or taken way for letting Bush and Paulson give away $350 Billion in tax payer dollars with no restriction or strings attached
BG...Whats up with all the butter faces you put on the blog. Geez. How bout finding an ACTUAL pretty girl!!!
Why is it that on wisecounty.com on the "external sites" they have CNN and MSNBC and NOT FoxNews??? Must've been a liberal that made the site!!! What a shame. FoxNews is the only media show that tells the truth. All the other one's like to sugar coat Hussein!!..I mean, Obama! Excuse Me!
I'm a huge OU fan... so no offense to Mike Balogun. But who wants to play with a bunch of 18 and 19 year olds when your 26 years old?? And he's still got another year!! A 27 year old college football player is a little weird to me.
*Fins to the Left Fins to the Right* Jimmy is AWESOME!!!
Regarding government-imposed salary caps: Until I researched my post yesterday, it might have seemed the tiniest bit acceptable. Not any more. What the government has done is unconscionable, and the media -- supposedly the public's watchdog -- is playing along.
**I hate Jimmy Buffett. WOW! The singer/writer of "why don't we get drunk and screw" is someone you ascribe the word "hate" to. That seems a tad strong.
**...how has this country come so far that we find it acceptable for the government to impose a salary cap on a private sector employee? This seems like one of those poll questions that is designed to get a specific answer...i don't think the inquiry fairly characterizes the facts. The private sector employees in question reported to their various stockholders that they were in wonderful shape at annual meetings and in SEC filings for several straight years before one day waking up and announcing that they were on the verge of financial collapse and in need of immediate government assistance to survive, while making billions of dollars themselves in salary, bonus money and stock options (18.4 Billion Dollars in bonuses in 2008). And then when they received taxpayer money in the form of a bailout, they claimed they had no obligation to identify how that money was used. What those individuals have done to the country is far, far worse than what any group of thieves or robbers has collectively done and they ought to be tarred and feathered...though having their salaries capped i suppose is a good start. The real wailing and gnashing of teeth will come when the other shoe drops and those same pay restrictions are imposed on ALL of the companies that take the money and not just the finanicial companies. Also, the restrictions are only imposed on those needing exception government assistance in the future, so the real frauds at companies like Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase, won't even feel the pinch unless they have to go back to the well at some point in the future. If free enterprise is supposed to mean free from government restriction, then it ought to mean free from government bailout as well.
I'm all for a salary cap on any exec that works for a company that my tax dollars are keeping from going out of business. No Vegas, no 7 figure bonus, no golden parachute.....nothing. You want more money, company can't survive without you? Go out and get a job somewhere else for more money. Prove how valuable you are. Good luck. In the real world, when you screw up as bad as you guys have, they do a little background on you and say "no thanks....we'll pass". As well they should. If they don't, they are no smarter than the financial genius that you just walked away from.
Yeah.....and you watch which companies (financial bailouts that the taxpayers are keeping afloat) that line up to bid on the naming rights for the new Cowboy stadium. I heard that CITI-CORP had bid $400 million on one of the stadiums but that's in limbo.
Barry, what's so weird about giving birth? Did they not cover that subject in health at BHS or were you absent that day and that's why your sgnificant others change their status on Facebook?
9:18 The most overworked word these days is "change". Since 2008 it has replaced the word Socialism in the English language. And Barry, if you keep disagreeing with the ability of this administration to limit capitalism, you will have to change the name of your blog. (See The Right is already taken!)
Happy Birthday to you, Barry!! What are you going to do to celebrate your special day??
Wasn't he Timothy McVeigh's lawyer?
hey boomer, we spent many a halloween in those woods as kids.
i am not a big comment poster or reader on any site - but when i do read them - if it is more then 7 or 8 lines long - I'm not going to read it - "say it quick or i move on" - (i made it 6 lines)
BG,
The music is great. The atmosphere is better. Every year, we slowly increase the amount of people that go with us. I think that you would enjoy the whole Parrothead experience at a concert. Between the girls walking around with pasties on, to the girls ready to earn some Mardi Gras beads, there is plenty of scenery to keep you occupied all day. Then you add the all day alcohol consumption, it just keeps getting better. I have been going to his concerts for the past 10 years, and I wish he would do two shows in Frisco or anywhere else within a couple hours & I wouldn't miss one.
Signed,
The Jolly Mon
Hey wordkyle,
If you think companies were forced to take bail out money (which is BS) and are now being unfairly regulated because they took it - then the solution is simple - pay it back! Oh wait - they can't pay it back because they have to have in order to stay solvent - so i guess they did need it....Give me a break.
Wow. Everyone is commenting as if the banks caused the problem. Does nobody remember how federal policies in the spirit of "everyone is equal" have forced banks, for one example, for years to make loans in areas and to people and businesses that the market said weren't qualified for the loan? The greed, ills and misdeeds of other financial sectors and policies came to rest upon the banks, at least in large part. Put banks in a position of failure, plain and simple. And so the decision is do we let the banking system fail or not. What would be your answer? And if think "well I've got my house paid for and my acorns all snug so let them fail" then stop for a minute and think what happens to those you care about, your neighborhood, your local economy, the value of your assets you think keep you secure, the tax revenue that would evaporate from your schools, and the big picture. And if you think well my little town bank would be fine...oh man you have a lot to learn about how the economy works.
I favor a cap on what lawyers can charge. Also mortician charges should be regulated. Their clients are in deep s--- or about to rot. You can't say "I am not going to pay that much."
Barry, I thought you were a loyal Democrat. You get Obama in office and then turn on him. What is the deal. You support the Republicans and 10 Democrats in the House who oppose the Obama bailout. Pelosi would disenfranchise you. I think your family have been Democrats for generations and you just haven't realized that the party has moved away from the values of JFK. Isn't he the one that cut capital gain taxes to create jobs? It worked.
Banks were never forced to make loans that were not sound business decisions. Banks just realized that the more they lend the more profit they make. Below are the actual words from the Federal Reserve Board on how to implement the act. As Allan Greenspan said” we never anticipated that business would make decisions that were not in their best interest” – greed!
"[T]he board anticipates banks can meet the standards of this part with safe and sound loans, investments and services on which the banks expect to make a profit. Banks are permitted and encouraged to develop and apply flexible underwriting standards for loans that benefit low- or moderate-income geographies or individuals, only if consistent with safe and sound operations."
A little reported - within subprime mortgages the default rate is the virtually the same across all income levels. Subprime loans were given to all income levels not just the poor. Subprime loans were based on credit worthiness/credit scores not income.
Has everyone forgot that this economy is the result of the Communbity Reinvestment Act. You can blame Carter, Clinton and the Democrat Congress. Bush and McCain said stop and the Democrats in Congress said go, leave the lenders alone.
I saw an ad on TV last night for a phone that types what the other person is saying. Pretty cool. I immediately had a vision of an old man screaming at the phone and saying "You have to talk louder. I don't have my glasses on!"
I remember the Ponderosa quite well, especially on Halloween. All of us neighborhood kids, plus extras, hiding in the woods from the cops with our sweatshirts full of water balloons and rotten eggs! Yep, Barry Green was once a hoodlum!! Hard to believe? I've got more stories about Mr. Green and he doesn't even know who this is. Looks like I may have one up on Barry.
110 - Read the story. The feds forced the banks to let the government take partial ownership of the banks. It's not a loan - the government strongarmed their way into controlling interest in the banks. (They control it because in the public's eye -- people like you -- the banks now have to answer to the government.) Private companies have been taken over by the government against their will. And there doesn't seem to be much outrage.
Now, 2:12 - Bush had 8 years in office, most of them with a Republican House and Senate, and he could have taken action in any direction he wanted.
I think every kid that grew up in Bridgeport knew The Ponderosa.
So if you had a significant other hypothetically change their relationship status on face book does that mean you would have to hypothetically change yours too?
"I've always been against the financial bailout, but how has this country come so far that we find it acceptable for the government to impose a salary cap on a private sector employee? Think about that."
Here's a civics lesson - the government has no say on the salary of private sector employees (except to set a minimum wage). The only corporations they can enforce that on are the ones who accept handouts from them.
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