Posted by The Happy Tutor
He who read the books builds and sells the shelves. In a dumpster, he might have the books, but the shelves probably would not fit. He is living pretty high.
February 25, 2008
January 13, 2008
Plenty of Fish
Posted by The Happy Tutor
The principal customer service that Plenty of Fish <a dating site> provides is responses to complaints about possibly fraudulent identities and to subpoenas and search-warrant requests.
On the other hand the owner works a few hours a week and makes $10 million a year on user created content. It is all Wealth Bondage, after all.
November 24, 2007
Today's Reality
Posted by The Happy Tutor
I see on the Yahoo homepage that Hulk Hogan's wife files for divorce. Also house payments fall again. The Hogan story is news. The house payment one is under Marketplace. Does that mean it is not news? The subprime crisis and resulting meltdown are not stories. Nice story on sneezing too. That is news. The constant is the light tone, the relaxed fun feeling, and the reading level - moronic. Very reassurring. Glad I waited to trade my Dumpster up for a Mansion.
September 23, 2007
A Practical Suggestion for Porter Novelli's Crisis & Issues Team
Posted by Dr. Amrit Chadwallah 
Phil over at Gifthub has written what is apparently a satire, of sorts, on Porter Novelli: Many Minds Singular Results (tm). But he seems, if I may be allowed to read between the lines, to be making them an honest offer too. Now, Porter Novelli with the best minds in the world, keyed into getting Singular Results, for those whose Vision Has No Limits, does not need any help from an Adjunct Senior Fellow in Charge of Hidden Meaning in Wealth Bondage. They can hold their own in defending Wade Dokken, their own role in this on-going public relations fiasco, and the role of PR generally in cooking up a Culture of Excellence. From the perspective of the vast history of satire, though, I think we can draw some lessons that might be helpful for Porter Novelli's Crisis & Issues Team as they plan their response, in defense of the Firm, their own profession, and the Fate of Humankind.
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My Crisis Intervention Strategy, if I maybe be allowed a suggestion as professional skilled in Rhetoric, would center on the Persona, or at least the Wallet, of this seedy figure who calls himself Morals Tutor to America's Wealthiest Families. By every indication he is a penniless hack, a blogger on the take, a smarmy hypocrite, a toadying tool of Mistress Candidia Cruikshanks, his esteemed Patron, and my boss, for that matter. Rather than attacking him head on, my suggestion would be to take the hints he has liberally sprinkled throughout his post: Give him a job in HQ, maybe running the Media and Influencer Relations Division. He is good at Masquerade and fits as well just shooting the shit in a Dumpster Conversation as in Driving Public Opinion from the Bottom Up in a Corporate Astro-Turf Context. I know he needs the money. Don' t we all. But with so much at stake what is one million a year? Plus benefits. Just bill it through to Dokken. Call it insurance.
September 13, 2007
The Greenspan Bubble and the Mortgage Mess
Posted by The Happy Tutor
Now: Greenspan disavows responsibility for subprime mortgage mess.
Then: Adjustable Rate Mortgage:
In a speech to a credit union group, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan questioned whether fixed-rate mortgages were the most cost-effective means of financing a home purchase. He said "American homeowners clearly like the certainty of fixed mortgage payments" but pay several thousands of dollars a year for the benefits. Greenspan said homeowners "might have saved tens of thousands of dollars had they held adjustable-rate mortgages rather than fixed-rate mortgages during the past decade. Greenspan noted that if homeowners are "willing to manage their own interest-rate risks, the traditional fixed-rate mortgage may be an expensive method of financing a home." Feb. 24, 2004.
Even then eyebrows were raised. Joseph Stigletz explains the hows and whys of the Greenspan bubble. Among the winners is Ambassador Arnall who went from flogging subprime mortgages to Ambassador to the Netherlands following campaign contributions to George Bush. Caveat Emptor, my fellow citizens. Wealth Bondage is on plan.
August 07, 2007
Kolko on a Possible Global Economic Catastrophe
Posted by Candidia Cruikshanks, CEO of Wealth Bondage
The entire global financial structure is becoming uncontrollable in crucial ways its nominal leaders never expected, and instability is increasingly its hallmark. Financial liberalization has produced a monster, and resolving the many problems that have emerged is scarcely possible for those who deplore controls on those who seek to make money – whatever means it takes to do so. Contradictions now wrack the world's financial system, and if we are to believe the institutions and personalities who have been in the forefront of the defense of capitalism, it may very well be on the verge of serious crises.
So much the better. My money is offshore in bullion. "In a depression," as Andrew Mellon said, "assets return to their rightful owners." As the dollar collapses, everything in the US, from land to labor gets so so cheap. Yummy! Mommy can't wait to gobble it all up. That pension I promised you? Paid in dollars that won't buy you a taco, Sweetie. You will be working for me until you are so worn out I toss you into the street to die. It is all good. Don't whine, little man, I am getting tired of your class envy. Smile when you kiss my boots.
June 22, 2007
Loathing, Fear, LA
Posted by The Happy Tutor
A 23 year old special effects expert in LA muses on the the empty life he lives and empty illusions he creates. So few inside Wealth Bondage can see it for what it is, and has done to them. Art that was to liberate the spirit has become the angel of living death.
June 13, 2007
Chase Freedom Wherever you Go
Posted by Candidia Cruikshanks, CEO of Wealth Bondage
For Eternal life, there is Jesus, etc. For everything else ChaseFreedom. Co-Branded with Wealth Bondage.
March 24, 2007
Beyond Wealth Bondage: Catherine Austin Fitts
Posted by The Happy Tutor
I am not posting much about Wealth Bondage, because I realize how little I really know about it. Instead I am studying the work and insights of someone who knows, and paid the price for knowing. She calls it "the tapeworm," but it is same thing. It is all Wealth Bondage, after all. Best of all, she has a plan for beating Wealth Bondage at its own game. She calls it a Solari, and it amounts to a for-profit company founded as a quasi public trust that invests in a local community's businesses, land, and resources, drives out crime and corruption, uplifts the values and cash flows, and makes a bundle for investors, while maintaining control of the community-owned property in the hands of what amount to Trustees. She could explain it better, but she calls it, "The great American Buy-Back." Since everything and everyone is for sale, why not join forces, pool our financial, intellectual, and human capital, and buy ourselves and our communities out of slavery? If the idea made any more sense Mistress Candidia would have to kill her, or at least bankrupt her, and put her in jail. Where others talk big, Catherine Austin Fitts writes plans, or design books, so detailed that there is no mistaking her businesslike intent. She calls herself "an artist who works in money." I believe her. Big world-changing murals she paints, like Diego Rivera, only Capitalist.
October 20, 2006
Wealth Bondage at the FPA
Posted by The Happy Tutor
Dick and I are off to the Financial Planning Association's National Conference at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville where we hope to meet up with the nice man from Gifthub.org. Dick and I will be manning the The Wealth Bondage Booth, which is always a very popular meeting place at the FPA. Advisors can stick their heads through the stocks, don golden handcuffs, enter a wind tunnel where they can chase dollar bills, or sit upon a golden ass, holding his ears. I had hoped the nice man from Gifthub would be talking about value-based planning for America's Wealthiest Families, but apparently he was bumped for a guy doing Appreciative Inquiry and The Financial Planning Process. "When in Wealth Bondage have you felt most free?" I am giving complimentary spankings; Dick is giving away these squishy balls that look like globes with "Weath Bondage 2007" on them. Those who drop their business card in a fishbowl qualify to win a date with Candidia Cruikshanks.
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