eat the rich.

[grindmonkeh]

While AIG spends another $343,000 at a secret resort gathering. the company "can't promise" that it won't need more money.

A few days ago I was reading that it cost about $30 billion a year to end world hunger. Approximately 10% of the $700 billion bailout is to be paid in discretionary bonuses. That's $70 billion dollars worth of BONUS money for a job WELL DONE! Doing the math in this context makes a problem that appeared to be beyond a massive scale now seem offensively neglected. Lets put that bonus money to work by sending those C-level (CEO's, CFO's, etc.) employees on vacation to a third world country just starving for their company. We can solve world hunger one scumbag at a time.

At least THIS is a relief. The Congressional Review Act has a clause that will cost Bush any additional pillaging he and his cronies were planning for the end of their run. Politico explains the Congressional Review Act and the specific clause that affects Bush:

"...any regulation finalized within 60 days of congressional adjournment — Oct. 3, in this case — is considered to have been legally finalized on Jan. 15, 2009. The new Congress then has 60 days to review it and reverse it with a joint resolution that can’t be filibustered in the Senate."

As Politico sums up:

"In other words, any regulation finalized in the last half-year of the Bush administration could be wiped out with a simple party-line vote in the Democrat-controlled Congress."

I took yesterday off since the boys were home and neither Bran nor I have been feeling all that great due most likely to the weather change. I've caught up on all the episodes of Fringe I had dvr'd. It's the X-Files meets CSI or some such shit, but I like it. Argh. Headache.

WTF? Seth Green was THAT guy?

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[rissa333.livejournal.com]

Ah, his first BIG break.

CHA-CHING!

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

I was reading yesterday or the day before that the bail out might not be happening now? I've been so occupied w/ other stuff I haven't been keeping up on the bail out....