According to my online temperature thingy there are only three degrees out there. THREE. No wonder the dang furnace runs for twenty minutes at a time. Sheesh.
A&B are just about finished with ICC for the semester. I boxed up Ben’s books and we dropped them off at the UPS in Pekin. We rented them through Chegg.com.
Ben said he hardly even opened any of them. I don’t know if that means he should have been using them and didn’t —— or if the teacher didn’t teach from them —— or what.
Aaron is looking forward to working more hours over the Christmas break and Ben wants to work less.
Aaron wants as much money in the bank as he can get and Ben only wants enough to get by.
They were born on the same day but they sure are different.
MjL 14 Dec 2010, 5:19 a.m.
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they’re about to do it again
“As Duh-bya’s last Treasury secretary, former Goldman CEO Henry Paulson was the architect of the bailout, a suspiciously self-serving plan to funnel trillions of Your Dollars to a handful of his old friends on Wall Street.
Robert Rubin, Bill Clintoon’s former Treasury secretary, spent 26 years at Goldman before becoming chairman of Citigroup — which in turn got a $300 billion taxpayer bailout from Paulson.
There’s John Thain, the asshole chief of Merrill Lynch who bought an $87,000 area rug for his office as his company was imploding; a former Goldman banker, Thain enjoyed a multi-billion-dollar handout from Paulson, who used billions in taxpayer funds to help Bank of America rescue Thain’s sorry company.
And Robert Steel, the former Goldmanite head of Wachovia, scored himself and his fellow executives $225,000,000 in golden-parachute payments as his bank was self-destructing.
There’s Joshua Bolten, Duh-bya’s chief of staff during the bailout, and Mark Patterson, the current Treasury chief of staff, who was a Goldman lobbyist just a year ago, and Ed Liddy, the former Goldman director whom Paulson put in charge of bailed-out insurance giant AIG, which forked over $13,000,000,000 to Goldman after Liddy came on board.
The heads of the Canadian and Italian national banks are Goldman alums, as is the head of the World Bank, the head of the New York Stock Exchange, the last two heads of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — which, incidentally, is now in charge of overseeing Goldman — not to mention …”
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