I sure have complained enough in previous posts about the absurd salaries and severance packages that corporations are giving their chief executives. It bothers me that, up to this point, no one else seemed to care. Now presidential candidate John McCain has proposed a policy on this topic will probably win my vote.
"Something is seriously wrong when
the American people are left to bear the
consequences of reckless corporate con-
duct, while the offenders themselves are
packed off with another $40 million or
$50 million for the road. If I am elected
president, I intend to see that wrong-
doing of this kind is called to account
by federal prosecutors. And under my
reforms, all aspects of a CEO's pay, in-
cluding any severance arrangements,
must be approved by shareholders."
Corporate CEO's receive over 36o times the compensation of their average employees, and they receive juicy severance packages, even when they are dismissed for having run a company into the ground. CEO's do have special talents, and many of them do work hard. But they put their trousers on one leg at a time just like the rest of us, and most certainly are not 360 times as valuable by anyone's measure. John McCain's proposed reforms are long overdue.
Now before all the "free market conservatives" jump on me, let me say this: human nature (call it greed) will cause any totally "free" market to be abused by a corrupt few individuals. In the absence of universal morality and fairness, a society must have rules, boundaries, and limitations imposed by laws to prevent that corrupt few from victimizing the rest of the society.
Now if we could only go after all those ridiculously overpaid entertainment folks and professional athletes...
Friday, June 13, 2008
Friday, June 06, 2008
The Jihad Candidate
The Presidential campaign this year promises to be a hot one.
I received the following message and reply from a retired Navy colleague of mine. It is apparently getting wide circulation among US Naval Academy graduates, many of whom are Republicans. I don’t know who Rich Carroll is, but he seems to be a conspiracy nut.
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Subject: The Jihad candidate
To all...As Classmate Bill said in sending this to me; Try it on for size. If you have received this, it doesn't show in messages that I received. I thought this too powerful for you not to see it.
C / Pete
PS ....Wayne: Does Carroll's opinion fit into your earlier assessment of Islam and its challenges?
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Subject: FW: The Jihad candidate
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 00:51:57
Rich Carroll articulates the thoughts that have been on many people's minds. There's too much question surrounding Obama and Michelle's real ideology. Too many sinister associations make me suspicious. Also his past is still a blank. The Jihad Candidate by Rich Carroll Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the storyline is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention. 'The Manchurian Candidate' and 'Seven Days in May' are examples of plausible chains of events that captures the reader's imagination at best-seller level. 'What if' has always been the solid grist of fiction. Get yourself something cool to drink, find a relaxing position, but be fore you continue, visualize the television photos of two jet airliners smashing into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and remind yourself this cowardly act of Muslim terror was planned for eight years.
How long did it take Islam and their oil money to find a candidate for President of the United States? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Minnesota? The same amount of time to create a large Muslim enclave in Detroit? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as 'chaplains'? Find a candidate who can get away with lying about their father being a 'freedom fighter' when he was actually part of the most corrupt and violent government in Kenya's history. Find a candidate with close ties to The Nation of Islam and the violent Muslim overthrow in Africa, a candidate who is educated among white infidel Americans but hides his bitterness and anger behind a superficial toothy smile. Find a candidate who changes his American name of Barry to the Muslim name of Barak Hussein Obama, and dares anyone to question his true ties under the banner of 'racism'. Nurture this candidate in an atmosphere of anti-white American teaching and surround him with Islamic teachers. Provide him with a bitter, racist, anti-white, anti-American wife, and supply him with Muslim middle east connections and Islamic monies. Allow him to be clever enough to get away with his anti-white rhetoric and proclaim he will give $834 billion taxpayer dollars to the Muslim controlled United Nations for use in Africa.
Install your candidate in an atmosphere of deception because questioning him on any issue involving Africa or Islam would be seen as 'bigoted racism'; two words too powerful to allow the citizenry to be informed of facts. Allow your candidate to employ several black racist Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan followers as members of his Illinois Senatorial and campaign staffs.
Where is the bloodhound American 'free press' who doggedly overturned every stone in the Watergate case? Where are our nation's reporters that have placed every Presidential candidate under the microscope of detailed scrutiny; the same press who pursue Bush's 'Skull and Bones' club or ran other candidates off with persistent detective and research work? Why haven't 'newsmen' pursued the 65 blatant lies told by this candidate during the Presidential primaries? Where are the stories about this candidate's cousin and the Muslim butchery in Africa? Since when did our national press corps become weak, timid, and silent? Why haven't they regaled us with the long list of socialists and communists who have surrounded this 'out of nowhere' Democrat candidate or that his church re-p rinted the Hamas Manifesto in their bulletin, and that his 'close pastor friend and mentor' met with Middle East terrorist Moammar Gaddafi, (Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)? Why isn't the American press telling us this candidate is supported by every Muslim organization in the world?
As an ultimate slap in the face, be blatant in the fact your candidate has ZERO interest in traditional American values and has the most liberal voting record in U.S. Senate history. Why has the American main stream media clammed-up on any negative reporting on Barak Hussein Obama? Why will they print Hillary Rodham Clinton's name but never write his middle name? Is it not his name? Why, suddenly, is ANY information about this candidate not coming from main stream media, but from the blogosphere by citizens seeking facts and the truth? Why isn't our media connecting the dot s with Islam? Why do they focus on 'those bad American soldiers' while Islam slaughters non Muslims daily in 44 countries around the globe? Why does our media refer to Darfur as 'ethnic cleansing' instead of what it really is; Muslims killing non Muslims! There is enough strange, anti-American activity surrounding Barak Hussein Obama to peek the curiosity of any reporter. WHERE IS OUR INVESTIGATIVE MEDIA!?
A formal plan for targeting America was devised three years after the Iranian revolution in 1982. The plan was summarized in a 1991 memorandum by Mohamed Akram, an operative of the global Muslim Brotherhood. 'The process of settlement' of Muslims in America, Akram explained, 'is a civilization jihad process.' This means that members of the Brotherhood must understand that their work in 'America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable hou se by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.'
There is terrorism we can see, smell and fear, but there is a new kind of terror invading The United States in the form of Sharia law and finance. Condoning it is civilization suicide. Middle East Muslims are coming to America in record numbers and building hate infidel mosques, buying our corporations, suing us for our traditions, but they and the whole subject of Islam is white noise leaving uninformed Americans about who and what is really peaceful. Where is our investigative press? Any criticism of Islam or their intentions, even though Islamic leaders state their intentions daily around the globe, brings-forth a volley of 'racist' from the left-wing Democrat crowd. Lies and deception behind a master plan - the ingredients for 'The Manchurian Candidate' or the placement of an anti-American President in our nation's White House? Is it mere coincidence that an anti-capitalist run for President at the same time Islamic sharia finance and law is trying to make advancing strides into the United States? Is it mere coincidence this same candidate wants to dis-arm our nuclear capability at a time when terrorist Muslim nations are expanding their nuclear weapons capability? Is it mere coincidence this candidate wants to reduce our military at a time of global jihad from Muslim nations? Change for America? What change? To become another 'nation of Islam'?
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Subject: RE:The Jihad candidate
Pete and Classmates,
I believe there are conspiracies.
I don't think one needs to believe Senator Obama is conspiring per this appraisal which ties him to Islamic fundamentalists.
There is no need to make him a Black Muslim to think he would be a frightening President.
Senator Obama is from Chicago, where long ago the motto was "Vote early and often." If you look at his spectacular rise to prominence, it is easy to see he is the product of the Democratic machine in my home town.
Anyone who probes beneath the Obama appeal for "Change" ought to know there is change for the better and change for the worse, without any resort to conspiracy.
Obama is monstrously effective. He will capture the youth vote. It is extraordinary that he found Senator Clinton's vulnerability and beat her. She is still wondering what happened. I hope Senator McCain is shrewder.
Wayne
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At least “classmate Wayne” takes a less inflammatory position. Everyone should, of course, decide on the basis of facts, not theories. As Dr. Phil has said, the best predictor of a person's future actions is his past behavior. We need a President who recognizes all that is really great about our country, and who can offer constructive change to improve what is not so good. I am not sure that either party's candidate can do that.
I received the following message and reply from a retired Navy colleague of mine. It is apparently getting wide circulation among US Naval Academy graduates, many of whom are Republicans. I don’t know who Rich Carroll is, but he seems to be a conspiracy nut.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Subject: The Jihad candidate
To all...As Classmate Bill said in sending this to me; Try it on for size. If you have received this, it doesn't show in messages that I received. I thought this too powerful for you not to see it.
C / Pete
PS ....Wayne: Does Carroll's opinion fit into your earlier assessment of Islam and its challenges?
-------------------------------------------------------
Subject: FW: The Jihad candidate
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 00:51:57
Rich Carroll articulates the thoughts that have been on many people's minds. There's too much question surrounding Obama and Michelle's real ideology. Too many sinister associations make me suspicious. Also his past is still a blank. The Jihad Candidate by Rich Carroll Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the storyline is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention. 'The Manchurian Candidate' and 'Seven Days in May' are examples of plausible chains of events that captures the reader's imagination at best-seller level. 'What if' has always been the solid grist of fiction. Get yourself something cool to drink, find a relaxing position, but be fore you continue, visualize the television photos of two jet airliners smashing into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and remind yourself this cowardly act of Muslim terror was planned for eight years.
How long did it take Islam and their oil money to find a candidate for President of the United States? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Minnesota? The same amount of time to create a large Muslim enclave in Detroit? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as 'chaplains'? Find a candidate who can get away with lying about their father being a 'freedom fighter' when he was actually part of the most corrupt and violent government in Kenya's history. Find a candidate with close ties to The Nation of Islam and the violent Muslim overthrow in Africa, a candidate who is educated among white infidel Americans but hides his bitterness and anger behind a superficial toothy smile. Find a candidate who changes his American name of Barry to the Muslim name of Barak Hussein Obama, and dares anyone to question his true ties under the banner of 'racism'. Nurture this candidate in an atmosphere of anti-white American teaching and surround him with Islamic teachers. Provide him with a bitter, racist, anti-white, anti-American wife, and supply him with Muslim middle east connections and Islamic monies. Allow him to be clever enough to get away with his anti-white rhetoric and proclaim he will give $834 billion taxpayer dollars to the Muslim controlled United Nations for use in Africa.
Install your candidate in an atmosphere of deception because questioning him on any issue involving Africa or Islam would be seen as 'bigoted racism'; two words too powerful to allow the citizenry to be informed of facts. Allow your candidate to employ several black racist Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan followers as members of his Illinois Senatorial and campaign staffs.
Where is the bloodhound American 'free press' who doggedly overturned every stone in the Watergate case? Where are our nation's reporters that have placed every Presidential candidate under the microscope of detailed scrutiny; the same press who pursue Bush's 'Skull and Bones' club or ran other candidates off with persistent detective and research work? Why haven't 'newsmen' pursued the 65 blatant lies told by this candidate during the Presidential primaries? Where are the stories about this candidate's cousin and the Muslim butchery in Africa? Since when did our national press corps become weak, timid, and silent? Why haven't they regaled us with the long list of socialists and communists who have surrounded this 'out of nowhere' Democrat candidate or that his church re-p rinted the Hamas Manifesto in their bulletin, and that his 'close pastor friend and mentor' met with Middle East terrorist Moammar Gaddafi, (Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)? Why isn't the American press telling us this candidate is supported by every Muslim organization in the world?
As an ultimate slap in the face, be blatant in the fact your candidate has ZERO interest in traditional American values and has the most liberal voting record in U.S. Senate history. Why has the American main stream media clammed-up on any negative reporting on Barak Hussein Obama? Why will they print Hillary Rodham Clinton's name but never write his middle name? Is it not his name? Why, suddenly, is ANY information about this candidate not coming from main stream media, but from the blogosphere by citizens seeking facts and the truth? Why isn't our media connecting the dot s with Islam? Why do they focus on 'those bad American soldiers' while Islam slaughters non Muslims daily in 44 countries around the globe? Why does our media refer to Darfur as 'ethnic cleansing' instead of what it really is; Muslims killing non Muslims! There is enough strange, anti-American activity surrounding Barak Hussein Obama to peek the curiosity of any reporter. WHERE IS OUR INVESTIGATIVE MEDIA!?
A formal plan for targeting America was devised three years after the Iranian revolution in 1982. The plan was summarized in a 1991 memorandum by Mohamed Akram, an operative of the global Muslim Brotherhood. 'The process of settlement' of Muslims in America, Akram explained, 'is a civilization jihad process.' This means that members of the Brotherhood must understand that their work in 'America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable hou se by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.'
There is terrorism we can see, smell and fear, but there is a new kind of terror invading The United States in the form of Sharia law and finance. Condoning it is civilization suicide. Middle East Muslims are coming to America in record numbers and building hate infidel mosques, buying our corporations, suing us for our traditions, but they and the whole subject of Islam is white noise leaving uninformed Americans about who and what is really peaceful. Where is our investigative press? Any criticism of Islam or their intentions, even though Islamic leaders state their intentions daily around the globe, brings-forth a volley of 'racist' from the left-wing Democrat crowd. Lies and deception behind a master plan - the ingredients for 'The Manchurian Candidate' or the placement of an anti-American President in our nation's White House? Is it mere coincidence that an anti-capitalist run for President at the same time Islamic sharia finance and law is trying to make advancing strides into the United States? Is it mere coincidence this same candidate wants to dis-arm our nuclear capability at a time when terrorist Muslim nations are expanding their nuclear weapons capability? Is it mere coincidence this candidate wants to reduce our military at a time of global jihad from Muslim nations? Change for America? What change? To become another 'nation of Islam'?
------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: RE:The Jihad candidate
Pete and Classmates,
I believe there are conspiracies.
I don't think one needs to believe Senator Obama is conspiring per this appraisal which ties him to Islamic fundamentalists.
There is no need to make him a Black Muslim to think he would be a frightening President.
Senator Obama is from Chicago, where long ago the motto was "Vote early and often." If you look at his spectacular rise to prominence, it is easy to see he is the product of the Democratic machine in my home town.
Anyone who probes beneath the Obama appeal for "Change" ought to know there is change for the better and change for the worse, without any resort to conspiracy.
Obama is monstrously effective. He will capture the youth vote. It is extraordinary that he found Senator Clinton's vulnerability and beat her. She is still wondering what happened. I hope Senator McCain is shrewder.
Wayne
-------------------------------------------------------------------
At least “classmate Wayne” takes a less inflammatory position. Everyone should, of course, decide on the basis of facts, not theories. As Dr. Phil has said, the best predictor of a person's future actions is his past behavior. We need a President who recognizes all that is really great about our country, and who can offer constructive change to improve what is not so good. I am not sure that either party's candidate can do that.
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