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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Morgan Stanley CEO’s words to Tim Geithner
Very good interview with the CEO of Morgan Stanley, but be sure to watch the very end in which he confirms to CNBC that he told then NY Fed Chairman, and now Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to go “$@%@% himself.”
Not everyday you get to see that.
Darius Goes West
If anyone doesn’t know about the Dairus Goes West Project, check out this video. What a great story. I feel privileged to have met everyone involved and to have been a tiny part of their journey(they visited me twice):
If you want to know more about Darius Goes West, go tot heir website: Darius Goes West
The Audacity of Extortion
Run to Jeff Matthews’ latest post on his blog about how awful the latest health care “reform” bill is and what the implications are. Here is a snippet:
Big Labor, naturally, never needed to negotiate with the White House, thanks to its pre-election payoffs to the Obama campaign. Despite the Senate bill’s plan to impose stiff taxes on “Cadillac” healthcare plans, union jobs will be exempt, which is fortunate for Big Labor, since its members frequently get “Cadillac” healthcare coverage.
All in all, the so-called “healthcare reform” plan looks to have been put together by and for special interests, without a single actual “reform” in the bill—tort reform being the most obvious missing ingredient, for the obvious reason that Big Ambulance Chasers were on board Team Obama from Day One.
Say what you like about healthcare reform—say that it is necessary, or it is unnecessary; say that it is just another government program bound to fail, or that it is an important government duty to pick up where the private sector has failed; say that it is a manufactured crisis or that it is the most serious political issue of our time—but you can’t say this bill is rational, well-considered, and logical.
It is political, it is pay-for-play, and it is not reform. Indeed, it is Chicago politics at the National level.
Here is the link: Jeff Matthews’ Blog on Health Care Reform
Food and Health Care
Th New York Times Magazine has a wonderful article on chef Jamie Oliver and his mission to have people cook their own food and be healthier. I highly recommend you read the article and came away incredibly impressed with Jamie Oliver, what a great guy. If we as a country really want to tackle health care costs, we need to tackle the diet and eating habits of our country. Here is a snippet:
Oliver became famous at 23 for his television series “The Naked Chef,” which was broadcast from 1999 to 2001, first in Britain, then here, on the Food Network. The title referred not to his lack of clothing but to his belief in stripping pretense and mystery from the kitchen — the idea that anyone can cook and everyone should. He was loose and playful, measuring olive oil not in spoonfuls but in “glugs,” making a mess and having a ball. In the years since, that laddish charmer has morphed, somewhat unexpectedly, into a crusading community organizer. “Jamie’s School Dinners,” his award-winning four-part series, exposed the shameful state of school lunches in Britain and made for riveting television — he and the school cooks working feverishly to prepare dishes like tagine of lamb that the students either refused to try or dumped in the trash after one bite. When he eventually succeeded in getting them to abandon their processed poultry and fries and eat his food, the teachers reported a decrease in manic behavior and an increase in concentration. The school nurses noted a reduction in the number of asthma attacks. Those findings, along with “Feed Me Better,” his online campaign and petition drive, were the impetus for the British government to invest more than a billion dollars to overhaul school lunches.
Here is the article link: Jamie Oliver profile in New York Times