Tuesday, February 14, 2006
The buck stops ... over yonder someplace
You may have heard that the vice president shot some guy on a hunting trip. The poor guy isn't dead, but is in the hospital. Seems he "he got peppered pretty good with a spray of 28-gauge pellets" [that] "sprayed him across the right side of his face, his shoulder, his chest and along the rib cage area..." The poor guy is "The person who is not doing the shooting at that moment in time is just as responsible and, should be, as the person actually shooting," Armstrong said. Armstrong by the way, was a member of the hunting party and is part of the family who owns the ranch. You can tell she's well rounding in hunting customs since she recognizes "28-gauge pellets." (there ain't no such animal). So remember folks, even if you loaded the gun, aimed it and pulled the trigger, the guy you shoot is at fault because he shouldn't a been standing in line of the muzzle.
I got a letter from my fund today. Seems they made a teensy bitty mistake and sold a slight 8,613,843.599 number of shares they didn't really have. The excuse is that they got too much cash coming in. Someone gives you cash to buy something so you gotta sell them something even if you don't have it - right? They sent me an 8 page booklet (pages numbered 1 to 5) on recycled paper (they're environmentally conscious you see) explaining the little mistake.
I'll be damned if I know exactly what it means, but it seems to say in specifically uncertain terms that if anything bad happens to me about taxes or losses or anything else - too bad, it's not their fault. And if I choose the wrong option and lose money - too bad, it's not their fault. And if it causes me to pay more federal income tax than I would have if they hadn't fucked it up - too bad, it's not their fault. How much you wanna bet "they" get off scott free and no doubt with a hefty year-end bonus.
A judge just approved a $28 million bonus to the executives of Delphi. You've heard of Delphi - they've gone bankrupt and now they're offering their workers a 50-70% cut in pay - at least those workers that they haven't laid off yet. How can a company go bankrupt without the leaders of the company being the ones who fucked up the company? The workers are just poor dumb blue collar wage slaves - they don't make contracts and decide how the company going to be run. I guess no one does that anymore.
I've also heard rumors about another company that went bankrupt and zeroed its value - but then who hasn't. But, no more said about that...
