http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247230/The-Roman-Army-Knife-Or-ingenuity-Swiss-beaten-1-800-years.html

What do you think?  Don't these ROCK!!!  I am thinking Robear needs one for his B-day this year.  Someone forward this to Grimir, Votergern, and Solvar. 

Oh and I know this is yesterday's but really come on guys we were wronged!  :)

http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/100204.html

For Green Leader, Aedan and my husband

http://fatpita.net/?i=831

I am completely unmotivated today but I promised Gracie.

Who knews the bows were functional as well as decorative!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

you will receive more shit than any one human being can handle.

• lots of heavy polical lifting, coming out on the right end of it all (at least in the short term)
• working late but completing lots of things
• impressing senior management with the awesomeness that is me
• getting major problems solved or at least given a plan or process to
• finish watching a hour long demo on an app we are going to sunset but have to get the data out of

• 1200 emails to be filed and some responded to
• complete detailed design document for Monday 10 AM meeting
• update & send the presentation for Monday 9 AM meeting
• get ready for the all day kick off meetings Tues and Wed

• I completely agree that the executives for the division of a company that lost money shouldn't be given bonuses, whether it be the company or the division.
• I will also concede a bonus should not only on be based on a person's performance but on the company's performance as well. 
• I will also agree that it could be argued that any company that took TARP money didn't make money last year.  However, please remember, so companies didn't need TARP money at the time and were told they had to take it. 
• I will concede that some of those companies did have to go back and ask for money but that was because some executives who worked of the other company lied or hid how much debt the acquired company had from the acquiring company. 
• So we have companies that HAD to have TARP money and some companies that have TARP money that may not have needed at the time, regardless the US gov't holds select stocks in all of these companies.
• All of these companies consist of both executives and little people.
• The Financial services industry has traditionally paid low but compensated high.  In other words, you work for a really low salary and work little a dog (60 to 80 hrs average) but once a year your company gives you a big check.  Sometimes these bonus can be the same amount of as a person's yearly salary, some of them can be more, but many - most- are less. 

Do I think the execs at Merrill Lynch or AIG should have gotten their million dollar bonuses?
No. 

Do I think the programmer who built the accounting program and delivered it early and within acceptable failure rates?
Yes.

Do I think that bonus for the programmer should be lower than years past when his company made lots more money?
Yes

Do I think that the bonus received by an employee of a company that has TARP money should be taxed at a higher rate than the 45% that a bonus is already taxed at?

NO!!!!!!

Yes, I received a bonus this year. 
Yes, I have received a bonus every year for the last 5 years. 
ALL of them have been less than 4 figures. 
ALL of them have been taxed at 45%. 

If you tax my bonus at 70%, how does that penalize my company? 
Only in the mind of a democrat does this make sense. 

Wouldn't you want companies who took TARP money be able to attract and retain the best associates so they can pay the TARP money back faster?
Yes

I could be making 15 to 30% more than I am now with my experience and skill set, if I left the financial industry.  I don't want to leave the financial industry but I shouldn't be taxed for staying and should be rewarded for working hard. 

If the Congress successfully changes the tax rate for bonuses for companies that took TARP money, the talent in the financial industry will flee in droves.  Don't do it. We should not be penalized for doing good work or made to leave our choosen industry in order to be well paid.
 

• Spent Friday and Saturday with Thomas and Judith.  Damn I miss them. 
• Went to William's and did Seneschal 101 Saturday morning.
• Thomas cooked all weekend and we ate some awesome food.  I need to get Judith's wilted lettuce recipe - yumm.  You have got to love good traditional German food.
• Came back early ET and Judith were off to Church.
• Went to Target and bought furniture, moved a shelf, finished rearranging the dinning room, did some laundry and vegged out watching the last 4 parts of Band of Brothers on the History Channel (it is still surprisingly bloody on cable) while rearranging books on the bookshelf.