Suzanne!

yo neuro

Retention bonuses to people whom you should pay to leave.

What the fuck?

Digg it, you betcha!

maybe “retention bonus” means you are paying them to “retain” all your dirty little secrets, as in not blab about them after you leave.

thanks neuro for opening the digg

i think it is called hush money wigwam

A retention bonus is like a signing bonus. You give it to people who have an excellent record in expectation that they’ll continue to do excellent work.

What the fuck is with the notion of giving “retention bonuses” to people who have screwed everything up?

SUUUUUUU-zanne!
Hi!
FunnyD

yo funnnnnnay

I think the word not mean what we think it mean.
FunnyD

Hi Suzanne and Neurophius: Oops! Visibly, I’ve missed it. bonus = hush money. Excellent. I’ve not yet heard an equally good theory.

Hiya, Suzanne.

Plus 18 F, blowing 25, gusting 40, out of the ENE. ET Jr and ETette got together down in Portland over the weekend for a punk concert. Ms ET and I saw Taj Mahal in Anchorage. I’ve never seen so many aging hippies in one place in my life!

Joe McGinnis’ new article on Palin comes out.

Shannyn Moore asks why the most important surviving caging and voting machine manipulation guy was in Alaska for weeks last fall.

paying workers more to fix their own mess

you want them to be anal-retentive with your dirty info

hi you all;)
Life is too crazy now. And I though it would get better somehow, after the election. It is a long slog.

tis 41 and for the first time since friday, there is no wind.

this is part of finding out all the bullshit that went on during the bush years margot. i fear it is only the tip of the iceberg

went to St. Pat’s day parade today. Sunny, and I’m sure it was over 80 f, did not hear an official high

for the first time since friday, there is no wind.

A windy time of year…

when i lived in sf, i never missed a st patricks day parade. of course, that was back in the 70’s. it was great.

SO last week, we hear about Cheney’s assassination squad, then the ICRC report on torture. Now everybody is following the bright shiny AIG bonus story.
What great luck for the Bush mob.

won’t let me read the iditarod race article without registering :( so i went to the race web page

I know how to find out how warm it is, I know how to find out how warm it’s supposed to get

I don’t know how to find out how warm it got

weather dot com should provide ya with that info – just type in the city and state and the day’s info should come up

the aig hearing is tomorrow morning – the other stories about the cesspool created during bush cheney, such as the assassination squad and torture are not going away.

This year’s race is interesting. The wind storm near the end is bunching up about 20 teams on the edge of the Bering Sea.

isn’t that the area where winds are usually a problem? the free tracker only tracks 6 mushers

neuro, seems I recall a bru-ha-ha about natl weather service putting that info online, because it could be sold to a fee-charging entity :(

thanks suz, did not know about that site

so it actually only got to 78 today officially…

daffodils are coming up, and some of the trees are starting to flower

i put up some spring is springing photos over at my place, included some of the daffs.

I think the “free tracker” part of the site is forked up.

it took forevah to load

I checked that out, Suz. that’s what I actually meant to say–daffodils are blooming, not just coming up

rather than “retention” bonuses, what they ought to do is prosecute some of those AIG people for defrauding the shareholders with their reward-for-failure schemes, then maybe part of the plea-bargain could be explaining to their successors how they screwed things up and how to fix it

i wanna hear there are grand jury indictments being announced in the morning.

Listening to Metallica’s song All Nightmare Long.

It’s a good title for this fucking recession and AIG mess.

Suz you missed the good news….. Feb CT – no new nodules…… increases were very small (0.2-0.3cm) and one SHRUNK ….. 0.5 cm……. shrunk did ya hear…… woohoo…

then, bust out their headlights and windshields and scratch their paint jobs, metaphorically speaking, “before they cheat again.”

woohoo!!! good news indeed katy (big ass smile on my face)

I’m happy for you to hear that, katy

We’ve got tons of blooming bradford pears and *glorious* weeping cherries.

But, WTF do many folks prune their weeping cherries every fall? They look like blunt-cut lampshades.

for some of them that would include revoking their attorney licenses, or broker licenses, or whatever kind of professional credentials they have

metaphorically speaking of course

my video choice tonight in no way at all encourages going after cheats of any sort in the manners depicted.

I’m on a two day snoopy dance marathon…..

only two?

citrus trees are in bloom….. nothing more heavenly is the combined smell of orange, lemon and grapefruit…. and the jasmine is getting ready too…

hey tomorrow will put it into day three… ;)

Katy, went to bed last night with a very big grin on my face about that.

You are a model of grace under pressure and your sharing is a real gift to us.

no, of course not. but there are no doubt legal and ethical ways of deterring future misconduct by people like the AIG losers. such as prison terms and large fines. I hope NY Atty General Cuomo is exploring those options as we speak.

Have I mentioned that I love Edit?

the point of all that being that we the taxpayers do not need to pay millions of dollars in bonuses to these slimebags to get them to stay around and clean up their mess. we can make them offers they can’t refuse. IF our public officials have the fortitude to do so.

getting down to the basics: actions have consequences

“offers they can’t refuse” referring to legal remedies

not been very graceful about my hair falling out……

No one has been able to answer the one question I have about the bonuses….. this was to the London financial services division……. congress wants to tax it but how many of those employees are US taxpayers?

i’ve not heard that question nor the answer katy – i would think they would likely be londoners – and not subject to us taxes. but that is just a wild assed guess

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Suzanne and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Yo sister Suzanne, what a treat!! Keep the fire and the tunes hot and the arguements hotter…we’re goin’ the distance tanight.

Is anyone else out there gettin’ the sense that Obama is losin’ patience with the fascists and some of his own staff…I’m thinkin’ that this is a man who doesn’t like ta lose and he is surely capable of puttin’ his foot on some necks. I wonder how long it’s gunna take before he cuts the “bipartisan” shit right outta his vocabulary.

Two of my kids teach in inner city high schools and the last couple a weeks they’ve seen an epidemic of actin’ out, fights, kids comin’ in with no sleep and no breakfast and a whole lotta anger pointed at anyone who looks like authority. Both my kids are good teachers and have great relationships with their kids but some of the stuff they’re dealin’ with is breakin their hearts. We gotta pass a law outlawin’ fascists and Republicans…awe shit, they’d jest ignore it like they do everythin’ else. But I’ll tell ya what, I don’t cut wingnuts any slack anymore even if they’re young and ignorant. Ignorance is voluntary and if yer so stupid ya can’t make sense of yer own experience, well I’m gunna unload on ya!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION AND THE STRUGGLE GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

A girl’s gotta have limits *g*

Passing on a health notice ….. protect those kidneys…..
Sugary pop hard on women’s kidneys

hey norske – glad ya liked the tune. the local tv news has more crime stories they are covering, more violent crime. back in the day when i was driving a beat, we used to say that bad economic times meant job security for cops since crimes of all kinds went up.

this time, we are laying off cops and firefighters and teachers while giving bonuses to those who helped create this clusterfuck.

Katymine, that’s GREAT!!!
Hugs hugs hugs!
FunnyDiva

I don’t know enough to know if this is good news or not, but if you’re happy, I’m happy.

Growth more than 20% – drug failed
Little or more growth – considered stable – drug working
no growth with or without shrinkage – drug working

So I am going with stable with some shrinkage….. yahoo the drug is working….

Our priorities became so screwed up. We’d rather reward failure out of some bizarre sense of obligation that doesn’t seem to apply to the people who really need help.

Hi, Cujo.
She’s talking about nasty tumors. lack of growth is good. shrinkage is even better. indicates the cancer isn’t progressing at the moment.
good news. really.
XXOO
FunnyDiva

Do you have to stay on this drug forever?

i blame the infotainment that passes for news

the dumbing down of america

and doesn’t apply to people who work with their hands actually making things (auto workers).

Hey, Check out Glennzilla: NYT has corrected their article blaming Chris Dodd for the bonus thing. Yea, Jane! She was the first to counter their stupid, poorly-researched story.

FunnyD

You explain it so much better than I do…… yes it is good news…..

Add the consult with a kidney cancer oncologist at the AZ Mayo (these are very rare specialists and one is here in AZ) to review all my clinical info and treatment

I take the drug until it doesn’t work then they change to another drug over and over again…… until the nodules are gone or the rest of my life or until none of the drugs works

The CDSs should be voided. They were cynical hardball – churning fees and disguising/enabling risks. Everyone involved knew exactly what they were doing.

Every legal opinion rendered on those transactions (and there are undoubtedly tons of them) should be made public, let the chips fall where they may.

They weren’t bad judgment, exuberance or aggressive financing. They were criminal interactions among players. Folks must be imprisoned if we hope to salvage our financial system. Justice must be done and be seen to be done.

As do I, I suppose. Trouble is, though, for a long time it was what we wanted. I just got through reading this editorial by Joel Connelly, a local reporter for the now online-only P-I, and he seems to think that people are becoming more interested in real news. Judging by the comments after his article, they’ve yet to become significantly smarter.

i want all the forkers gone katy and for them to stay gone.

Oh, wow! a world-class consultant, too. Excellent. Excellent news.
Thanks for the compliment, but I didn’t see your reply before I commented. Ya did fine.
I’ve edited a few tumor treatment-related manuscripts.
I’m glad I caught your good news, Katy…the world is soooooo depressing right now, I needed a lift.
FunnyD

It doesn’t apply to many folks who use their brains, either. Engineers and programmers are both having more trouble finding work, thanks partly to all the work we shipped overseas. I suspect it’s not terribly good in any profession right now.

are you in the PNW, too, Cujo? I forget.
FunnyD

Citizen Suzanne:

I used ta whine about the “dumbing down of America” but then I had kids a my own and I took a good look around the mess of a world they were negotiatin’ and watched as they literally devoured everything new around ‘em and how they learned stuff in 6th grade math and physics that I was doin in High School and I watched as they figured out that us old fuckers had it right while we were growin’ up in the 60’s and we lost it somewhere along the line. Thanx to my kids, I don’t lament the dumbing down but I take some responsibility for educatring the ignorant and seein’ to it that the stupid don’t dominate the conversation.

Yes, I am. Not too far south of Seattle.

No, as a scientist at the lab bench, it’s damn tough. My last day at my current, contract, position is April 10th. Nearly 10 months, but it’s really terrifying to be facing a search again. Eeek.
And we’ve been undervalued for a long time.
FunnyDiva

This is a fine piece of writing.

Heh, I’m north, on the sno/king county line.
Sad about the P/I, but cool that some brave souls are going for it in the online format. Guess I have another daily stop for news…if only to keep pointing them to FDL and GlennZilla.
FunnyD

Thanks. Have to admit, it was fun. It’s nice to be able to see humor in things.

Anyone else sharpening their cutlery yet?

it sure is cujo… very well done (and recommended)

I know sweetie…….. not going into my rant on money and cancer research…..

the hardest thing to cope with is that there is no cure for kidney cancer, Interlukin is the only drug that seems to make it go into remission but for only a very small percent (5-15%). All the current drugs just pushes the end further out…… I have heard of KC patients living 8-16 years after diagnosis but that is not common.

Thankfully I was diagnosed when there are several drugs that do push the end out and there are quite a few new ones in the pipeline. Now if we can get congress to approve MORE for KC research ….. we can do better than $1.5 million from last year right?

What kind of scientist, if you don’t mind my asking?

Silly person….. we met Cujo at our Seattle meetup in 2007 ……

Might have made this point around here before, but I saw an interview on Charlie Rose with Watson of Watson/Crick, and a bio researcher. They agreed that the Bush Administration was a disaster for medical research. That’s particularly telling, I think, because usually that’s the last kind of research politicians want to cut (assuming it’s not military, of course).

It’s one thing Obama seems to be doing better on. There’s a lot of ground to be made up, though.

i hear the chorus from this song in my head whenever the talk goes to the aig bonuses

Yes, well, I’m not all that regular around here. I swear I have to reintroduce myself to a couple of people every time I show up…

D’OH!!!
But that was 2005!!!
FunnyD

For me, it’s this one.

I’ve worked in biotech/bio-pharma since grad school. (I have a master’s degree…of SCIENCE!). Putting DNA thingies together, culturing cells, using antibodies to measure things.

OT: I really love the show “How it’s made”.

FunnyD

in the waning minutes of st paddy’s day, i’m going to indulge in some shameless self-promotion – it was 3 years ago today that i wrote my first blog post over at my place.
happy blogiversary to me

a fine selection cujo

LOL!
Happy Happy, Suz!

Happy Blogiversary!!!
XXOO
FunnyD

From what I can gather….. AIG got more money in bailout than ALL cancer research funding in the US…… the big name cancers, lung & prostate received around $100 million in research dollars last year.

it is all priorities……

Congrats. I love the pictures. I’m tempted to use them for screen backgrounds sometimes.

thanks pups:)

feel free to use the pics – if ya post them online, i would like a link otherwise, enjoy

Happy Day! It’s been 3 years??
How time flies when you’re a DFH with tunes!

No it was fall of 2007 because it was after the surgery to remove my kidney….. I was wearing those granny pants with the elastic waist…. The pictures are on my FB site

i’ve only had tunes for the last year and a half – when i started, i was on dialup so there was not many utubes or videos.

Gets back to needing a more educated citizenry and a more involved press, I think. People have no idea where the money goes. I saw Neil deGrasse Tyson speak a few weeks ago. A point he brought up about the NASA budget was that very few people have any idea how little is spent on the space program. When people are asked how much of the federal budget they think must go to NASA, they’re usually off by a factor of ten. NASA’s just so visible that everyone assumes they must be getting more.

The press doesn’t pay attention, and most people don’t, either.

LOL. OK. I’s corrected. Silly me.
OK. Bedtime.
Night to all you fabulous pups!
XXOO
FunnyD

One of the best exercises was on the True Majority site years ago….. the budget was put in dollar amounts = cookies and people could redo the budget my moving the cookies from their stacks. Funny how the defense budget dropped for people focused spending.

g’nite funny

We still spend about twice the percentage of our GDP that most modern industrialized societies do for defense. I haven’t done the numbers for this year, but when the budget’s finally passed, I should see if that’s still true. It almost certainly hasn’t gone down, and if I were to bet I’d say it’s gone up.

Will say good night to everyone still up…… damn…. Rick Steves is touring Venice …. well nite everyone

Goodnight, FunnyDiva.

P.S. It’s fun to find out how things are made, isn’t it?

You work at the development end of what i eventually dispense, FunnyD. Fun how we both have musical talent as well. Me as a DJ (with vocal training in the past) and you with yours.

Saw that one already. Goodnight, Katymine.

g’nite katymine

Janushka’s just put up another diary about misspent bailout funds. There seems to be no end to them. I wonder how many times over I could screw up the economy if I had that much money to throw around?

nite funnyd and katymine.

recommended

’bout time for me to head off pups. thanks for hanging out with me tonight.

g’nite all.

I just started a Digg entry, too.

Goodnight, Suzanne.

nite suz, sleep well. Great pix

I think I should drop out now, too. Goodnight, everyone.

nite suz
nite cujo

me, too

Hey, any freedom fighters left out there??!!

howdy Pups, just got home from work and thought i’d peek in.

Congrats to Suze on her blogoversary!

Congrats to Katymine on tumor stalling and shrinking!

Attaturk is upstairs!
Just middle class people