Yesterday, I didn’t get my housework done. It’s patient and always waits for me. However, I did go out to run errands, caught up an email backlog (self-renewing daily), purchased a couple needed items online, cooked a three day meal, set my fantasy football lineup, and got enough sleep for a change. I’m current on replies. Today I have that housework and volunteer paperwork to do.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 4:21 (average 5:33). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Reuters: Jon Corzine resigned as MF Global Holdings Ltd’s chairman and chief executive in the face of mounting pressure from regulators searching for customer money that has gone missing from the brokerage’s accounts.
Corzine, a former chief of Goldman Sachs & Co , called his departure "difficult" but voluntary, capping a rapid downfall for one of Wall Street’s best-known stars.
Could we possibly get a Bankster behind bars?
From Washington Monthly: Faced with increasing push-back from the public, the media, government watchdogs and a bipartisan list of lawmakers, the Department of Justice Thursday agreed to drop a proposed regulation that would have allowed government agencies to lie to members of the public seeking records through the Freedom of Information Act.
I consider it reprehensible that such a rule was even considered.
From Alternet: The Cuban government has approved a law allowing individuals to buy and sell homes for the first time in 50 years, in the latest instalment [sic] of President Raul Castro’s reforms of the island’s Soviet-style economy.
It is time for the US to end our embargo of that nation. The cold war is over.
Cartoon:
4 Responses to “Open Thread–11/5/2011”
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Jon Corzine — I feel an industrial strength forensic audit coming! It is good that he is coöperating but with the FBI moving in etc, I rather doubt he’ll be on the loose too long. And he was one that fought regulations! Risks need to be managed and regulations are there to help manage risk. Would he get Club Fed or a regular prison cell? With any luck, he’ll have to mop the floors and clean toilets! Then he might begin to understand how the 99% feel. Big come down from having blonde Buffy doing your nails once a week!
FOIA — ” . . . drop a proposed regulation that would have allowed government agencies to lie to members of the public seeking records through the Freedom of Information Act.” It is totally unacceptable to have a law that says the government can lie to the public. I agree 200% with you TomCat.
Cuba — I remember at one point the US government was mad at Canada and made some threats because we still had dealings with Castro’s Cuba. I have never understood why the US slapped on sanctions and left them in place when the world was changing. Makes me wonder how differently things might have been had the governments started acting like adults.
Cartoon — Well better enjoy the view and the comforts for now because when the 1% return from the ‘occupied retreat’, they are going to be pre-occupied with the changes in regulations etc that are coming down the line like a speeding locomotive, that is when the Republican/Teabaggers are relegated to the annals of history. Good cartoon.
Lynn, I’m sure it would be Club Fed. But when the close the cell door behind you, any prison is prison.
Thanks.
They were slapped on, because Cuba nationalized Big Oil’s refineries and Big Sugar’s plantations, in response to US attempts to overthrow the government there. There is a fairly large group of of Cuban Americans, mostly in Florida, who are single issue voters. Florida is a key swing state and they could tip the balance.
May it be so!
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Corzine behind bars? It would be a sight to behold! Get the rest of them too!
You beat me!
Amen!