MARCH
24, 2004 --
The
Lonely Pamphleteer Review CEO Payment Plan
Take
the average annual weekly wage of the lowest level employee and multiply
that weekly wage by x. (10, 100, 300, for example.) This is the CEO's
base. Thereafter adjust this base -- weekly, monthly or quarterly --
by the AYEP-- or the BYEP, if the company is below year-ending price.
This plan adjusts the CEO's pay strictly on the performance of the
company. It does away with bonuses, options and compensation committees
headed by CEOs at other companies. Let the bonus follow performance,
with higher pay based on AYEP making possible the purchase of additional
stock.
Additional
Service to G.O.P. Convention delegates (and UFPJ demonstrators)
Roving
New York Police Department checkpoints seem to be popping up with greater
frequency. LPR here shows one such checkpoint at the Central Park 79th
Street transverse road, near Central Park West, the morning of March
23. Earlier that morning, this roving checkpoint was located on the
park's 86th Street transverse road, near Fifth Avenue. (Again, LPR
saw no signs at the March 20 ABM protesting seatbelt summonses.)
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Central
Park Checkpoint.
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MARCH 24, 2004
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MARCH
19, 2004 --
Is
being a corporate head a full time job?
Reuters
reported March 16 that Time Warner head Richard Parsons is chairman
of the Citigroup personnel and compensation committee that bestowed "about
$44.6 million" on Stanford Weill, chairman of Citigroup, Inc.,
for 2003. Anyone notice the Time Warner BYEP listed just above? Is
the following assertion currently incorrect: company head, wearing
other company's hat, approves tens of millions in compensation to execs
at that company, while his own company declines in value?
Questions
from LPR
If tax
cuts actually result in increased revenue for government, how about
price cuts resulting in increased revenue for oil companies, and other
corporations?
If election
of a Socialist prime minister in Spain, after that country's March
11 terrorist atrocity, can be seen as a victory for terrorism, is the
stock market post - March 11 decline likewise a victory for terrorism,
provided by craven investors?
LPR
Recommends
"Memo
to our pets," on "Pamela's Page of Stuff" -- February
8, 2004, and an old joke variation, same source, January 18, 2004.
Go to: pamspage.blogspot.com. See also, on-line, Jackson Simon Review.
LPR sent JSR a compliment and got a link, in return. JSR woulda been
mentioned here even without that kindness.
MARCH
19, 2004 --
On
Seatbelts Today -- and in the Future
Delegates
who drive to the Republican National Convention, in New York City,
late this summer, should beware of seatbelt traps throughout the city.
Last June, for example, LPR got seatbelted on 47th Street, just a bit
down from Broadway. This seatbelt summons rankled more than usual because
LPR was approaching the officer who served the seatbelt allegation.
LPR had spotted a crowd midway down the block and circled back to ask
the police about the crowd. At a March 18 hearing, the administrative
law judge upheld the violation, cutting the fine in half, to $20, plus
the $50 surcharge. LPR plans to appeal, on various grounds including
denial of equal protection.
There
are still horse drawn carriages in the vicinity of Central Park. Are
seat belts required in those carriages which go as fast as traffic
down 47th Street?
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One
of the horse drawn carriages in the vicinity of Central Park.
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Seatbelt
Trap Warning: Beware of the northwest corner of 47th and Broadway.
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Are passengers fined
if they don't have seatbelts in taxis?
Are
seatbelts required in the behemoth buses that are popping up in the
Bronx and Manhattan, taking away from motorists precious parking space?
Indeed, between those behemoth buses and "Law and Order" which
is constantly on location on city streets (see photo accompanying "Future
Law" article below) -- to the detriment of motorists, it is not
difficult to imagine the day when cars will have no space left for
street parking.
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One
of the behemoth buses now in use in the Bronx and Manhattan.
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Battered by NYC's parking
rules, LPR concluded that a sign on Central Park South (59th Street) called
for an $800 fine for parking in a bus layover zone. It appears on further
inspection that the sign warns of an $800 fine for idling bus engines in
this location. (Was this agreed to by the bus union?) Still, how far off
can $800 fines be for parking violations? What is the fine to a motorist
who has his engine idling at this location? Perhaps motorists would be
advised, stopping at Manhattan curbsides, to be accomapnied by their parking
lawyers.
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Watch
out for this "Fine Sign" on Central Park South!
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MARCH
12, 2004 --
Federalist
57 Commendation
LPR
bestows its first Federalist 57 commendation to New York Times
columnist Nicholas D. Kristof who, in his March 6 column criticizing
wage overpayment to corporate heads, indicated "communion
of interests and sympathy sentiments" with the people, PLUS
opposition to those who seek the "ambitious sacrifice of the
many to the aggrandizement of the few."
Calling
All Opera Lovers
If
I remember right, that was how Milton Cross addressed listeners
to Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee broadcasts in the 1940s
and 1950s -- "opera lovers everywhere." Well, it is time
for us OLEs to pony up and save the broadcasts which, after more
than 60 years, are losing their oil company sponsor, now Chevron
Texaco -- after so many years of Texaco.
Beverly
Sills told us OLEs March 6, during a "La Traviata" intermission
that next season's broadcasts are secure and that $150 million
would guarantee the broadcasts in perpetuity. Actually that isn't
much. Just one million OLEs donating $50 a year for three years.
LPR herewith pledges to the Met OLE Fund $50 a year for the next
three years. Betcha we get another 999,999 faster than you can
say "communion of interests and sympathy of sentiments" pursuant
to Federalist 57, which is what the OLE Fund would, of course,
be all about. What a terrifically populist message this fund will
be. For the common good.
Better
late than never?
Washington
Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie, Jr. advised readers, March
7 that the paper will do a better job quoting people as to what
they actually say.
Advice
from a Democratic President not likely to be followed by the 2004
Democratic presidential candidate.
At
a February 3, 1939 White House press conference, President Franklin
D. Roosevelt said, "I had always supposed, and I still believe,
that the foreign policy of the United States should not be involved
in either legislative or party or newspaper politics." He
added, "In other words, I do not think that the 1940 campaign
should enter into the problem either on foreign policy or American
defense in the year 1939."
Litigation
Question
Which
ice cream company will be the first defendant in an action for
wrongful death brought by the family of a person alleged to have
died of obesity?
Additional
Questions
Will
the Surgeon General post warnings on ice cream containers. Cake,
candy and cookie boxes?
Will
the state attorney generals demand payment from ice cream, candy
and cookie manufacturers into an obesity fund?
Will
state legislatures impose huge obesity taxes on ice cream, cake,
candy and cookies?
Will
Mayork Bloomberg establish an Obesity Violations Agency (OVA) in
New York City, authorizing OVA agents to weigh pedestrians and
give summonses to persons deemed obese?
A
Word About the Martha Stewart Coverage
ENOUGH
A
Suggestion for the Martha Stewart Prosecutors
Do
you have a moment to check the way HUD and the City of New York
handled the Dayton Seaside property taxes?
A Prediction
on the Martha Steward Appeal
Reversal.
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MARCH
5, 2004 --
Wisdom
of the Founders
On the "Anti-republican" view
of society, "The people are stupid, suspicious, licentious. They
cannot safely trust themselves. When they have established government
they should think of nothing but obedience, leaving the care of their
liberies to their wiser rulers." (Kind of the view of anti-Republicans,
today, n'est-ce pas?)
James
Madision, National Gazette, December 22, 1792 (reprinted in James
Madison: Writings, pp. 532-33. Selected by Jack N. Rackove. Library
of America, 1999).
Back
in October
At the
Oscars, February 29, host Billy Crystal introduced Robin Williams as
one of the presenters. Last October, Crystal and Williams were spotted
going into Yankee Stadium by the press gate (used by VIPs and celebrities
as well as players) for a World Series game. Mr. Crystal looked straight
ahead, as did Mr. Williams and both were, remarkably, silent as far
as LPR could tell.
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Robin
Williams and Billy Crystal.
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Ahead
to April
With
Major League Baseball's spring training underway (before the end of
winter) can amateur softball be far away? The Broadway Show League
gets going with pre-season games April 15 at the Heckscher fields in
Central Park, near Columbus Circle. Players include actors like Tom
Cavanagh who was in, and played for, Urinetown, last summer. Mr. Cavanagh,
who has the title role in "Ed" -- the NBC television series
-- is shown here playing shortstop in a game against La Boheme. "Ed" is
probably show in South Dakota over KSDK-TV, clearly admired by at least
one person at the 2003 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade route
goes through Columbus Circle, now also the location of the towers of
the new Time Warner Center
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Shortstop
Tom Cavanagh
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Thanksgiving
Day 2003 message.
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