Couldn’t Help But Notice (040907)
I realize there’s more to these numbers than meets the eye, but you also have to understand that most people will only understand what their eyes immediately see in these two headlines:
- Ford CEO: $28M for 4 months work (AP claims it’s over $39 mil)
- Google CEO, Co-Founders Get $1 Salary
Ford continues to act as if it really doesn’t want to survive.
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Steve the Pirate and I are both wondering: If it’s really true that the Iraq War is all about oil, why are our big oil companies getting no access to it (so far)?
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You Don’t Say — UMass thinks it might be a good idea to revoke the honorary degree it gave Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe in 1986.
Also worth noting in the AP article by Adam Gorlick (bold is mine):
But in the two decades since, Mugabe has been condemned for attacks on dissidents and accused of running a corrupt government that has ruined the economy.
Mr. Gorlick can’t even bring himself to identify Mugabe’s corruption and Zimbabwe’s economic ruin as the objective facts that they are.
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Michelle Malkin has a great post on “B.C.” cartoonist Johnny Hart, who died on Saturday.
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It’s hard not to think that this story about possible corruption in the operations at the Cindy Sheehan-associated Crawford Peace House was dumped into Easter Weekend to minimize the scrutiny. Some of the facts and circumstances have been known for months, but the Associated Press’s writer chose to attempt a follow-up call to Texas’s Secretary of State on Good Friday — a call that of course received no response. How convenient.
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So predictable — Gribbit grabs evidence that Bank of America credit cards that are being marketed to immigrants are ending up in the hands of illegal immigrants. I’m so not shocked.
RE: Ford CEO
Of course you have to factor in that being the CEO of google is a much better time, plus the options may have value.
Of course I’m sure Ford could find any number of competent managers willing to work for say, $1 million salary.
Comment by dave — April 9, 2007 @ 7:34 am
Ah, you went past what your eyes immediately saw. :–>
The Googlers obviously can do what they’re doing because their holdings have appreciated so much.
Comment by TBlumer — April 9, 2007 @ 8:01 am
If we wanted to invade a foreign country just for oil, we could have just gone north to Canada!
Comment by Porkopolis — April 9, 2007 @ 11:34 pm