Fairweather Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 We should have been listening to j_b all along! Â Although my batting average is excellent, reading the articles out of Business week, the guardian, bloomberg, and from that investigative journalist's website I posted, should be sufficient. But of course, you have nothing of substance to contribute, so per usual, ad-hominem put-downs is all you can do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Â Good links JB. Â Fairweather, if you haven't read it yet, I thought that this was one of the most awesome reads of the last 2 years. Great stuff which was deeply and thoroughly researched: and gives us a window on the world to this day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Focusing on corporations that use tax havens. Barack Obama made clear during the US election campaign that the Cayman Islands is used by US corporations to avoid tax. Obama memorably said: "There's a building in the Cayman Islands that houses supposedly 12,000 US-based corporations. That's either the biggest building in the world or the biggest tax scam in the world, and we know which one it is." http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/19/gordon-brown-tax-avoidance-switzerland  isn't it interesting that pols everywhere are discovering tax havens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 We should post some climbing pics.  We get to The Far Side early Saturday morning and make it down to the ledge on the route we are calling The Drop Zone. Jim Opdycke took some pictures as Scott Peterson and I grabbed gear and organized.   Scott did the work while I slacked off...I was thinking that a lawn chair would have been more appropriate, but I can stand around and look silly in the cold as much as the next fella, it's even easier as every joint and my head hurts from a massive head cold.  We all decide that we can trust Scotts anchors and rap off.  We head to the other end of the cliff band to look at a wide crack I'd been lusting after. We decide to do it and as it's the first ascent I get to name it so I go with "Dulcinea". (sexy, seductive, but a wide crack still) I still had the massive head cold I'd had an hour earlier, and was dead tired, but my buds let me have at it ground up. Sometimes it nice to see what kind of reserves you can draw on. Ujahn Belayed, Jim Opdycke and Scott Peterson took a run up as well. Short but fun we all agreed.  Little run out to start. Unless you showed up with a 12" piece which I didn't have.     The only notable thing: Ujahn was tossing some blocks off when he followed it. You can see a few of the very ones right above my head on the last picture. One of the larger ones got away from him and landed on the rope he thought he'd coiled up off to the side and whacked it. Fortunately it was his old one!  As we're later huddled behind a tarp Jim had set as a windbreak as Scott led Happy Crake (pronounced Crack) in the cold and damp, we thought of our friends the Silverman Brothers and Adam who had wisely bailed on this cold bullshit to go climb in Zion.  Bastards   Nothing says full value weekend like some 100 yard range time to finish off the next day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 To All My Valued Employees, Â There have been... Â So, if you lose your job, it won't be at the hands of the economy; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country, steamrolled the constitution, and will have changed its landscape forever. If that happens, you can find me sitting on a beach, retired, and with no employees to worry about.... Â Appears as if the boss is angry. I don't understand. The boss chose to live in the US correct? If he is so pissed off, why does he stay? Better yet, why do we all stay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Â isn't it interesting that pols everywhere are discovering tax havens? Â What do you mean? It had evidently been a topic at the last G7 meeting. Â I thought this was interesting from the article you linked JB: Â "Obama memorably said: "There's a building in the Cayman Islands that houses supposedly 12,000 US-based corporations. That's either the biggest building in the world or the biggest tax scam in the world, and we know which one it is." Â I have been to "downtown" Grand Caymen. It is very interesting to see the many names of big wall street businesses on the outside of buildings. And yet, I hardly saw anybody coming in or coming out of these two story buildings. The "downtown" area was similar in size to downtown Snohomish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akhalteke Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 To All My Valued Employees, Â There have been... Â So, if you lose your job, it won't be at the hands of the economy; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country, steamrolled the constitution, and will have changed its landscape forever. If that happens, you can find me sitting on a beach, retired, and with no employees to worry about.... Â Appears as if the boss is angry. I don't understand. The boss chose to live in the US correct? If he is so pissed off, why does he stay? Better yet, why do we all stay? Â I think that is why he said he was leaving actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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