Monday, October 3

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What is the opposite of TGIF?  Because that is what today is. Beautiful weekend - football game on Saturday, golf yesterday.  Quite nice to be outside. 

There was a story last week that the head of HP was being axed after 10 months ont he job - and walking away with a $13 million going away gift...at those prices, how would a guy not purposely be a miserable failure if he knew he would be set for life after only 10 months of wetting the bed. Now - where is this dough coming from?  That would be the dividends the stockholders will not get since this pantload is leaving with $13 million, after demonstrating his inability to do an acceptable job - his performance led to a loss in market value of over $40 billion..and he still received $2 mil for "pay for performance".   Makes you wonder if he was paid for ineptitude...because his bonus could not be based on performance, could it?

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/20110929recently_fired_hp_ceo_departs_with_more_than_13m

Oh, and Cook county is going after those who are not paying cigarette taxes...I guess the pension issue must be fixed, huh?  and all the parasitic illegal aliens have been swept off the public dole???

to paraphrase Michelle Obama: "I have never been less proud of my country than I am today"

of course, in the near future, something will surely happen to make me less proud than I am today.  and we will swirl ever lower in the proverbial toilet.

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