NON-POLITICAL COMMENTS
Straying from my usual political junkiness, I have a couple of observations. First, the bonuses given to executives of banks and other financial institutions were really phony. Presumably they were based on good profit performances. But there were really little or no profits because the mortgage derivatives and other toxic assets took those "profits" away.
So can we make the executives pay them back? Or hold the Boards of Directors responsible? Or the accounting firms?
On another topic, I have a hard time making sense of the car rental company's ads touting excitedly the customer's ability to select the actual car to be rented. Does this mean choosing the blue instead the green Escort? The customer is paying for a car category. If the category is subcompact, the customer cannot choose a Lexis.
January 20, 2009 - CORNYN FORCES DELAY ON CLINTON CONFIRMATION
Senator John Cornyn refused to permit a voice vote confirming Hillary Clinton's appointment as Secretary of State. thus preventing her from joining other appointees confirmed on inauguration
day.
A bush league move by a right wing Senator from Texas - doesn't he realize that Hillary Clinton is ready on day one?
Straying from my usual political junkiness, I have a couple of observations. First, the bonuses given to executives of banks and other financial institutions were really phony. Presumably they were based on good profit performances. But there were really little or no profits because the mortgage derivatives and other toxic assets took those "profits" away.
So can we make the executives pay them back? Or hold the Boards of Directors responsible? Or the accounting firms?
On another topic, I have a hard time making sense of the car rental company's ads touting excitedly the customer's ability to select the actual car to be rented. Does this mean choosing the blue instead the green Escort? The customer is paying for a car category. If the category is subcompact, the customer cannot choose a Lexis.
January 20, 2009 - CORNYN FORCES DELAY ON CLINTON CONFIRMATION
Senator John Cornyn refused to permit a voice vote confirming Hillary Clinton's appointment as Secretary of State. thus preventing her from joining other appointees confirmed on inauguration
day.
A bush league move by a right wing Senator from Texas - doesn't he realize that Hillary Clinton is ready on day one?
