Whether it's your first Bonnaroo or you’re a music festival veteran, we welcome you to Inforoo.
Here you'll find info about artists, rumors, camping tips, and the infamous Roo Clues. Have a look around then create an account and join in the fun. See you at Bonnaroo!!
I am literally almost to mad to talk a about this. She is upset mainly that she can not spend the money they saved without looking bad.
At the end of the day, it came down to a choice between an especially accommodating (and well-known) high-end restaurant and a less expensive, clubbier spot. We ultimately picked the cozier restaurant—even though it ended up costing us more, so eager was the more chic outfit to host the party. Why spend the extra bucks? Because our chosen place is distinctly low-profile and rarely mentioned in the press. We did not need a snarky story about a “Wall Street bigwig living it up while taxpayers wonder where their money went.” Really, not even President Obama spends this much time looking after his image.
I think she needs to spend a few months out in the real world and see what it's like to worry about having enough money to keep the lights on, food in the house, gas in the cars to go to work and praying that nothing mechanical or medical goes wrong because the money just is not there
OMG she has to shop in her closet. Will the horrors never cease!
I would like to shop in her closet. But then I am not a size 2, so never mind.
Well - don't forget - she's gained a few pounds from comfort food so she is having to take stuff to the tailors. Hell - I bet her tailor charges as much as it would cost me to buy new clothing from Wal-mart or Target or J.C. Penny
Last Edit: Apr 22, 2009 11:02:59 GMT -5 by Meg - Back to Top
actually, I bet her tailer costs 2-3 times what your Target/Penny's clothes cost
edit: just read the article and one interesting thing I noted was this quote
We now regularly turn down the invitations we receive from museums and arts organizations that will inevitably be followed by a request for funds. No point in getting their hopes up.
I just read an article the other day that the Corcoran Museum here in DC had to make a bunch of layoffs. This quote makes me wonder if it's not just that people don't have the money to make donations but if they're afraid to do so. No one wants their name on the honor rolls anymore.
^That is sad that they would sacrifice their charity first. Of course most right wingers at this point are preaching the gospel of Ayn rand and John Galt at this point so I am not really surprised she worked it in there.
well, it seemed more like they were afraid that the press/masses/us would be mad if they were donating large amounts to charity instead of to the government/masses/us
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
I think she needs to spend a few months out in the real world and see what it's like to worry about having enough money to keep the lights on, food in the house, gas in the cars to go to work and praying that nothing mechanical or medical goes wrong because the money just is not there
Wow Meg, you sound just like all my pinko liberal friends.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Post by nitetimeritetime on Apr 25, 2009 13:08:33 GMT -5
My first thought was that it's satire, too. If it is, it's very poorly done. Too many paragraphs undermine the intended irony, making the satirical point difficult to interpret. The opulence she describes isn't even exaggerated for effect -- that's what a CEO wife's life is really like. And she makes concessions that shows she knows she's rich and doesn't have as much to complain about as others, which further undermines whatever satire might be found here.
It's such a badly written satire that some major media operations couldn't tell that's what it was (if it was actually satire). CNBC ran the article as a news story. New York Magazine and a Wall Street Journal blog claim to have outed the author of the piece as Liz Peek, wife of Jeffrey Peek (chair and CEO of CIT Group).
So it's either a fail as satire, or a fail as life story.
I did not read as a satire to me, has anyone debunked it? I am with nitetimerighttime if it is satire it the most poorly done job of satire I have ever seen.
No sooner did the piece appear, of course, than the scribe was outed from clues dropped in the essay as Elizabeth T. Peek, wife of Jeffrey M. Peek, chairman and CEO of CIT Group Inc. whose firm had accepted $2.3 billion from the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
Post by nitetimeritetime on Apr 26, 2009 9:32:32 GMT -5
Technically, I wouldn't call her a journalist, but a "journalist" instead. She's still a financial columnist for Fox News, which should tell you plenty about the financial perspective of that organization.
Obviously, if she can't afford to send her daughter to college when she & her husband knew it was coming with only two decades advance warning...
Also, I eat mac & cheese fairly often, and I'm not outgrowing anything - in fact, I've probably dropped about ten pounds so far this year. I don't see why she's calling that out as the cause of her weight gain.
I heard also that they are having to switch to using the steel cutlery, when people see the silver at the parties in the Hamptons they just get judgmental.
What really bothered me were those digs about not donating money, and all. I think Atlas shrugged must be required reading for all neocons these days. I drove by the Nashville "tea" party and there were at least 5 going John Galt signs.
Edit
I really wanted to show up dressed as the Mad Hatter and periodically yell out change places, and run around swapping signs.
Last Edit: Apr 26, 2009 23:10:20 GMT -5 by Deleted - Back to Top
1) I have no sympathy for this woman. None at all. She has no room to complain about ANYTHING.
2) Yes, charities are one of the first groups to take a nosedive in hard times...charitable giving is one of the first things people cut when they start losing money
3) The wingnuts can "Go Galt" whenever they'd like. I surely won't miss them.
What really bothered me were those digs about not donating money, and all. I think Atlas shrugged must be required reading for all neocons these days. I drove by the Nashville "tea" party and there were at least 5 going John Galt signs.
