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...company's value. In fact, companies long ago thought they had figured out a way to shepherd individual interest. "Everyone thought risk-based compensation was equity in the firm," says James Wiener, head of the finance and risk practice at the consultancy Oliver Wyman. Employees at Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns owned some 30% of their companies. At the end of the day, that didn't matter. Because altering a foundational element of an industry is difficult...
...brothers and sisters, man is born free but everywhere he is in trays! We can’t sustain this tray-ful life. A man who cannot bear his own dishes is no man at all. Throw down your tray and take up your red-spiced chicken on a plate of freedom...
Don’t believe the historical revisionism of the tray lobby! Clearly, when John Winthrop founded the Massachusetts Tray Colony and guaranteed the right to bear trays, he could never have envisioned the world we lived in today! There were no trays at the first Thanksgiving! The Indians taught pilgrims about maize and tray-less dining. At the very least we could have no trays at three of five meals: a tre-fifths compromise, though that was ruled unconstitutional in the seminal case of Roe v. Tray. It’s a simple case of traykle-down economics. Let?...
...Remember what eight years of Republican rule has wrought: missing weapons of mass destruction, the promises we'd be greeted as liberators, Jessica Lynch, torture, the disintegration of Afghanistan. Also: Enron, WorldCom, Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie and Freddie, GM, Chrysler, Social Security privatization, the $700 billion bailout. Also: Brownie, John Ashcroft covering up that bare-breasted statue at the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzales politicizing the Justice Department, Harriet Miers, the oil lobbyist who edited those global warming reports. Also: Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Ted Stevens. Also: the Vice President shot a guy, and the President almost...
Tucker •propensity of insufferable people to bear the name is noted...