Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 17 June 2012 11:30:43 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Trust me, if your dad lives within thirty five miles of a potato pancake Reuben from Max's Allegheny Tavern (NORTH Side, make no mistake) you recognize the character in the web series Pittsburgh Dad.

Happy Father's Day to my Pittsburgh Dad and dad's everywhere.

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Open thread for night owls: Up, up, upCEO pay

post from Daily Kos on 17 June 2012 11:30:05 PM. © Daily Kos

Nathaniel Popper writes:

Probably the most-heard complaint about big business these days, one seemingly tailored for the 99 percent, is how much money corporate C.E.O.?s routinely pull down. Many ordinary Americans probably cheered when stockholders ? that is, the people who actually own public companies ? finally began to say, ?Enough.?
Yeah, well.
Despite a lot of noise from shareholders and a few victories at big names like Citigroup and Hewlett-Packard, executive pay just keeps climbing.
Yes, some corporate boards seem to be listening to shareholders, particularly on contentious issues like the seven-figure cash bonuses that helped define hyperwealth during the boom. Since the bust, corporate America on the whole has moved to tie executive pay more closely to long-term performance by skewing executive paychecks more toward restricted stock, which can?t be sold for years.
But rewards at the top are still rich ? and getting richer. Now that 2011 proxy statements have been filed, the extent of executive pay last year has finally become clear. Median pay of the nation?s 200 top-paid C.E.O.?s was $14.5 million, according to a study conducted for The New York Times by Equilar, a compensation data firm based in Redwood City, Calif. The median pay raise among those C.E.O.?s was 5 percent. (The full list is available here.)
That 5 percent raise is smaller than last year?s. But it comes at a time of stubbornly high unemployment and declining wealth for many ordinary Americans. [...]

Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2002:

I hate to say this about anyone, but NY Post columnist John Podhoretz is an asshole. To what do we owe this ad hominem attack? In his latest column, Podhoretz urges the president to invade Iraq in order to boost his numbers and improve GOP chances in November.
You're in some domestic political trouble, Mr. President. You need to change the subject. You have the biggest subject-changer of all at your disposal. Use it.
Even if Iraq is unable to kill a single soldier or airman, Americans will still die. Fatal accidents are common in the military, and such accidents are obviously more common when waging war (just ask the Canadians).
For this columnist to callously condemn Americans to certain death in order to boost the president's political fortunes is nothing short of barbaric. Podhoretz claims he is being practical, Machiavellian. No he's not. He's being a coward. It's easy enough to send others to their death. But I don't see Ann Coulter, the editorial board of the National Review, Robert Novak or Podhoretz volunteering to serve in the vanguard of any such invasion.

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Get Ready To Eat Cat Food

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 17 June 2012 11:13:57 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow GazetteHere comes Simpson-Bowles to spare the bloated Pentagon budget and avoid letting the Bush/Obama Tax Cuts expire:Geithner praises Simpson-Bowles framework as the way forwardU.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner[...]

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Click Quote 617

post from Occasional Planet on 17 June 2012 11:09:49 PM. © Occasional Planet

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Who am I (86)

post from Occasional Planet on 17 June 2012 11:05:33 PM. © Occasional Planet

There?s more! You?ll find a collection of previously published Who Am I teaser images in our Who Am I Gallery. How many can you identify? Occasional Planet?s ?Who Am I? features people who have made important contributions to liberal thought, progressive politics, human rights, enlightened education, and ?small-d? democratic principles?both in the US and internationally. [...]Related posts:

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Wanker Bankers

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 17 June 2012 11:04:49 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

Adapted from The Stars Hollow GazetteBank WankersAfter reportedly losing $7 billion on risky investments, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon travels to Capitol Hill to face the mighty Senate Banking Committee. Eight the hard way is proving riskier than[...]

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Sunday Late Night: Portland Pride Report

post from Firedoglake on 17 June 2012 11:01:51 PM. © Firedoglake

Happy LGBTIQQ Pride to one and all! I hope you've had a wonderful Pride month and been able to celebrate diversity and newly recognized civil rights your community has afforded non-hetero people.Today, Badger and I piloted ZIPCar's bright blue Honda[...]

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C&L's Late Night Music Club with Joe Strummer

post from Crooks and Liars on 17 June 2012 11:00:00 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Title: Yalla YallaArtist: Joe Strummer
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What is there to say about Joe Strummer, that hasn't already been said? His later work with The Mescaleros didn't skip a beat. The Clash were, and still are one of the best in my book. There's was an attitude. Strummer actually made quite a lot of music after the Clash. Like I said, he didn't skip a beat.

Our sister site Newstalgia has some Max Roach with Abbey Lincoln, Live from Germany 1964.

Whaddaya got tonight, folks?

Rock Art & The X-Ray Style

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Butterfly Garden

One good thing about living in the city– no one nags you about your lawn. In fact, I don’t have one. Instead I have a butterfly garden, with sweet-smelling milkweeds just coming into bloom.

Chemicals from the milkweed plant make the monarch caterpillar’s flesh distasteful to most predators. Monarch butterflies are specific to milkweed plants; this is the only type of plant on which the eggs are laid and the larvae will feed and matures into a chrysalis. Eggs are laid on the underside of young, healthy leaves. Monarch, Queen, and Viceroy butterflies are Müllerian mimics; all are toxic, and have co-evolved similar warning patterns to avoid predation. Milkweed species are attractive to many insect species, including the large milkweed bug, common milkweed bug, red milkweed beetle, blue milkweed beetle, and bees. Accordingly, this is a wonderful horticultural plant for landscaping to attract butterflies (particularly monarchs), whose numbers are declining and migratory routes changing due to lack of appropriate habitat.

It’s amazing how close to nature you can get when you don’t go overboard with the mowing.

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My Daddys Day

My daddy, E.W. Taylor Jr., served in the Army Air Corps in World War II, mostly as a radio operator for a weather squadron in Europe. He didn't talk much about the war as his children were growing up. But there were a few stories he shared, and some[...]

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