Quite stunning video: Brought to you by Al Jazeera English, a video taken just following Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s defiant and surprising speech yesterday. There’s a bit to follow, here: Assad waves to the crowd, then gets into his car which begins slowly driving, flanked by personnel on all sides. A woman rushes over, brandishing what what appears to be a paper that is snatched away by one of the personnel, but this interruption causes a chaotic reaction of people surging towards the car. Then, the feed cuts out, and instead shows jarringly contrasted overhead shots of a city with jaunty music, presumably to prevent this from inflaming the citizenry. source
Grassley and three to four Republicans would have voted for it, but all the other Republicans would have beaten the living ^&%$ out of us [during the 2010 midterms], claiming the bill was too bloated.
A random Democrat who supported Harry Reid’s decision • Regarding the jobs bill that was cut by $70 billion. You guys are @(&@(@(. Get a backbone and call us later. Do you think FDR would’ve done something like this, knowing how badly the country needed it? It’s a jobs bill. $15 billion does not help create jobs. $85 billion does. What’s the point of having a majority if you’re not going to use it? source
If last year was the worst of it, we survived its best punch and are still fighting. With [businesses] like us, it’s not about the exact unemployment rate – it’s about how many people are worried about losing their jobs. And the latter has definitely come down.
Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz • Describing his decision to completely kill his $840,000 salary in 2009 – and knock executive pay by 10% or more – to prevent major layoffs. Katz plans to slowly revert back once the recession dies down – except he’ll cut his only salary by 15%. Awesome. • source
