I was searching for some socially significant logo.
At first I went to the COSATU site (Congress of South African Trade Unions).
I didn't find anything really useful, but I did discover that COSATU, the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress are equal partners in that nation's governing structure.
Then I went to the Democratic Socialists, USA site, where the flower and black/white shaking hands are its official symbol.
I added the words "Bread and Roses" -- which is the title of probably the best, most powerful song I've heard in my entire life...as sung by Judy Collins.
It's the ultimate women's anthem of all time.
I hope the link works, so you can read the inspiring lyrics.
Here is a little word bite I picked up from our neighbors at BHoRc.........enjoy!
Traditional Capitalism:
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
Enron Venture Capitalism:
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company,using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a  debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk  rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who  sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release.
A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.
A SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
A REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So what?
A DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous.
A COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
A FASCIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk. You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage.
DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull and build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, then pours the milk down the drain.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are eleventh the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A MEXICAN CORPORATION: You think you have two cows, but you're not sure where they are. You'll look for them tomorrow.
A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belongs to you. You charge for storing them for others.
A BRAZILIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You enter into a partnership with an American corporation. Soon you have 1000 cows and the American corporation declares bankruptcy.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them.
A TALIBAN ORGANIZATION: You have only two cows. You load them up with explosives and herd them onto your neighbor's property where you blow them up. Your neighbor dies. You starve to death.
Hollings has confused the Bush administration with the Clinton administration. It was during the Clintons' reign that Enron executives flew on U.S. trade missions on government planes with the secretary of commerce. It was the Clinton administration that helped Enron pry open India for a multibillion dollar project.
But Global Crossing is a scandal that directly implicates Democratic Party leaders including Bill Clinton -- so once again, it's buried. Consider that Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, made out like a bandit by getting a special deal to buy Global Crossing stock before it was offered to the public, investing $100,000 in 1997 and cashing it in for $18 million two years later. It seems McAuliffe connected Global Crossing boss Gary Winnick with then-President Clinton. They played golf, and Winnick later gave $1 million to the impending Clinton presidential library. Winnick, by the way, came up through the junk-bond trading firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, the big media whipping boy in the 1980s.
The dilemma is that the Democrats who believe Gephardt is taking the proper path see Filner and Wellstone, upright in their ideological purity, leading the party into permanent minority status. The party of big government is not in a politically favorable position.
Enron Corporation, and all involved with its collapse, have become more politically radioactive than Clayton Waagner at a NOW rally. The stench of this catastrophe is so rank that those within the blast radius are required to tell lies of outrageous magnitude to escape taint.
One cannot necessarily be blamed for a desire to come in out of the rain. In the case of Enron, however, there simply isn't enough roof to go around.
The individual most desirous of a windy gap between himself and all things Enron is George W. Bush. Bush already has an image problem in this area; his 2000 Presidential campaign was fairly drenched in Enron contributions, and a mob of former Enron employees, consultants and stockholders hold high positions within his Administration. Vice President Cheney has already admitted to slow-dancing with Enron while compiling national energy policy, and is now awaiting GAO subpoenas because he is too discomforted by these dealings to reveal their substance.
It's hard to write satire in America, because our daily news feed is filled with so much absurdity that ridicule is rendered redundant.
Take the official political reaction to the Enron scandal, which is that while Enron honchos had to use forklifts to deliver all the campaign cash they gave to assorted politicians, they got nothing––absolutely nothing––in return for their money. How do you satirize that?
Got nothing? Enron used the Bush White House like its own coin-operated favor-dispenser. It had put about $700,000 into George W's election bid, and it began to collect as soon as Bush's tush hit the presidential chair. Here are a few examples: One, Enron execs got six private meetings with Dick Cheney to help write the Bush energy bill––which just happens to include 17 special interest provisions that would benefit Enron; Two, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's first formal action was to scuttle a Clinton initiative to shut down off- shore tax havens that let corporations skip-out on paying their taxes––with 881 of these off-shore accounts, Enron had more than any other of the corporate tax dodgers; Three, Bush let Enron hand-picked the head of the agency that regulates its business; Four, George's infamous "stimulus" package contains a $287 million tax rebate for Enron; Five, Vice President Cheney personally intervened to try to make India pay more than $2 billion to Enron for a power- plant scam that Enron was running there. All of this is nothing?
Then there's Enron's homebase of Texas. Governor Rick Perry, appointed an Enron executive to head the state commission that regulates the company. The next day, Perry got $25,000 from Enron's CEO. Likewise, the judges on the Texas Supreme Court have pocketed some $135,000 in Enron campaign cash, then ruled for the company in five out of six cases brought before them.
This is Jim Hightower saying...Enron always got what it paid for.
"Embattled PUC leader steps down" Austin American Statesman 1/19/2002; "Enron Ruling by Nominee to US Court is Being Noticed" by Jim Yardley 1/22/2002; "Before crash, Enron Chief urged stock buys" Austin American Statesman 1/19/2002; "The United States of Enron" New York Times by Frank Rick 1/19/2002; "Enron got It's Money's Worth" Los Angeles Times by Robert Scheer 1/22/2002; "How the White House Energy Plan Benefited Enron" Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman 1/ 16/2002.
This may be the GOP party line, but it's simply not true.
"Enron has made donations to many Democrats, but the Center for Responsive Politics estimates that Republicans received 73 percent of the contributions from company executives over the past 12 years."
"Politically, Bush administration officials will have to explain how much influence Enron executives had on administration policies after contributing more than $500,000 to Bush's various campaigns."
Gee, I wonder if a company that handled 85% of all the energy in the US might just have a little influence on energy policy? People lobby at the capitol all the time. The big groups make some influence, this is not an Enron specific event. Enron executives are crooks. I don't think there is any doubt there. I think they played all sides of government. Here's a really good question for everyone. What gives the congress the right to hold criminal hearings? Isn't that the power of the courts? I guess if members of congress were in on the scam they would want to hold hearings to look like the "good guys". I can't say I like where this whole thing is going.
Just in case anybody still thinks that Kenneth Lay is not hooked up, or that he really has money problems:
The Lays just sold their home in Aspen for three times the going rate to an anonymous buyer. It wasn't even officially listed by the real estate agent yet. It's good to have rich, powerful, unscrupulous Republican friends evidently.
What gives the congress the right to hold criminal hearings? Isn't that the power of the courts?
They're not criminal hearings, they're investigative hearings. The only time Congress has the authority to hold criminal hearings is in the case of Impeachment. The Constitution gives Congress express power to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony, and to turn any information gleaned from hearings over to law enforcement and prosecutors.
The Lays, who have three other Aspen properties for sale, paid $1.9 million in 1991 for the 3,015-square-foot house on a three-acre lot, part of which fronts the Roaring Fork River.
What determines our attitude toward sprawling corporations? It's not the principle of the thing but the money. And the lack of it when the whole, intricate, innovative structure collapses. Would Enron still be an ethical outrage if it had succeeded? What do you think? Your answer would tell me a lot. Not about Enron, but about you.
Martin! Where are you! We miss you!
Wait. Something happened to Enron?
Enron? What about the K-mart scandal?
I love your avatar, CSC!
The blue light doth flicker!
What happened?
Where am I?
Did I sleep through the revolution?
The PPWC switched formats, it was too slow so we found this corner of the web as a substitute.
How come I can't upload my picture?
What's the trick?
The preference thingee keeps telling me it's not an image.
Dennis is here! Dennis ! WOO HOO!
Make sure you choose "All Files" when you browse. The default is .html files.
I also believe you can link to a pic if you want.
not as far as I know. Not for your user pic. It has to be an actual picture on your hard drive somewhere.
I'm working on it, thanks.
Hey Dennis!
The people united cannot be defeated!
Wouldn't work with Opera.
But IE did the trick.
Okay Dennis lets start with your picture. I'm just dying to know what it is exactly and what it represents!
http://www.columbia.edu/~melissa/petronella/songs/bread-roses.html
I was searching for some socially significant
logo.
At first I went to the COSATU site (Congress of South African Trade Unions).
I didn't find anything really useful, but I did discover that COSATU, the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress are equal partners in that nation's governing structure.
Then I went to the Democratic Socialists, USA site, where the flower and black/white shaking hands are its official symbol.
I added the words "Bread and Roses" -- which is the title of probably the best, most powerful song I've heard in my entire life...as sung by Judy Collins.
It's the ultimate women's anthem of all time.
I hope the link works, so you can read the inspiring lyrics.
Great now scribe will be singing that in the parks!hehe
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/02/09/enron.bonuses/index.html
Just before Enron went bankrupt, big bonuses were given to top people like candy thrown from a passing clown to kids lining a parade route.
The money was probably to pay for their future legal costs before they go to prison.
Here is a little word bite I picked up from our neighbors at BHoRc.........enjoy!
Traditional Capitalism:
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
Enron Venture Capitalism:
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company,using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a
 debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk
 rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who
 sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public buys your bull.
lmao, scribe! and as usual ccom!
CCOM? Wha........??????
cleaning coke off monitor
A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your
neighbor.
A SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to
your neighbor.
A REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So what?
A DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for
being successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you
to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then
take the tax money and buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel
righteous.
A COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you
with milk.
A FASCIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the
milk. You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage.
DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government taxes you to
the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who
has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull and
build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government takes them
both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, then pours the
milk down the drain.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the
other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops
dead.
A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want
three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are
eleventh the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live
for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
You break for lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have
five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them
again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another
bottle of vodka.
A MEXICAN CORPORATION: You think you have two cows, but you're not sure
where they are. You'll look for them tomorrow.
A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belongs to you. You
charge for storing them for others.
A BRAZILIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You enter into a partnership
with an American corporation. Soon you have 1000 cows and the American
corporation declares bankruptcy.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them.
A TALIBAN ORGANIZATION: You have only two cows. You load them up with
explosives and herd them onto your neighbor's property where you blow them
up. Your neighbor dies. You starve to death.
LMAO!!
Hollings has confused the Bush administration with the Clinton administration. It was during the Clintons' reign that Enron executives flew on U.S. trade missions on government planes with the secretary of commerce. It was the Clinton administration that helped Enron pry open India for a multibillion dollar project.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20020211.shtml
But Global Crossing is a scandal that directly implicates Democratic Party leaders including Bill Clinton -- so once again, it's buried. Consider that Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, made out like a bandit by getting a special deal to buy Global Crossing stock before it was offered to the public, investing $100,000 in 1997 and cashing it in for $18 million two years later. It seems McAuliffe connected Global Crossing boss Gary Winnick with then-President Clinton. They played golf, and Winnick later gave $1 million to the impending Clinton presidential library. Winnick, by the way, came up through the junk-bond trading firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, the big media whipping boy in the 1980s.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20020211.shtml
The dilemma is that the Democrats who believe Gephardt is taking the proper path see Filner and Wellstone, upright in their ideological purity, leading the party into permanent minority status. The party of big government is not in a politically favorable position.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20020211.shtml
Speaking of cows and bull(s).
Do you remember, not that long ago, when Gateway had TV commercials saying they wouldn't resort to gimmicks to sell their computers?
Now they've got Ted Waitt and that talking Holstein.
The darn thing even ski jumps in the Olympic ads.
I better check my dictionary.
Maybe I don't know what "gimmick" means.
But, hey, as far as corporate betrayals go, I guess that's pretty minor.
that's ok dennis, even with their talking cow, i wouldn't buy one of their computers.
I thought I knew what the word ' gimmick' meant.........
I guess I'll have to go look it up now.
And Dennis......never,never,never,ever trust what your T.V. says.
never,never,never,ever trust what your T.V. says.
you mean the tv occasionally lies??? you're sh*ttin' me!
Enron Corporation, and all involved with its collapse, have become more politically radioactive than Clayton Waagner at a NOW rally. The stench of this catastrophe is so rank that those within the blast radius are required to tell lies of outrageous magnitude to escape taint.
One cannot necessarily be blamed for a desire to come in out of the rain. In the case of Enron, however, there simply isn't enough roof to go around.
The individual most desirous of a windy gap between himself and all things Enron is George W. Bush. Bush already has an image problem in this area; his 2000 Presidential campaign was fairly drenched in Enron contributions, and a mob of former Enron employees, consultants and stockholders hold high positions within his Administration. Vice President Cheney has already admitted to slow-dancing with Enron while compiling national energy policy, and is now awaiting GAO subpoenas because he is too discomforted by these dealings to reveal their substance.
--William Rivers Pitt, liberalslant.com
Is it just me, or is the voice of the cow on the Gateway commercials the same voice as The Brain on Animaniacs?
"ENRON GOT 'NO FAVORS' FROM GOVERNMENT"
It's hard to write satire in America, because our daily news feed is filled with so much absurdity that ridicule is rendered redundant.
Take the official political reaction to the Enron scandal, which is that while Enron honchos had to use forklifts to deliver all the campaign cash they gave to assorted politicians, they got nothing––absolutely nothing––in return for their money. How do you satirize that?
Got nothing? Enron used the Bush White House like its own coin-operated favor-dispenser. It had put about $700,000 into George W's election bid, and it began to collect as soon as Bush's tush hit the presidential chair. Here are a few examples: One, Enron execs got six private meetings with Dick Cheney to help write the Bush energy bill––which just happens to include 17 special interest provisions that would benefit Enron; Two, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's first formal action was to scuttle a Clinton initiative to shut down off- shore tax havens that let corporations skip-out on paying their taxes––with 881 of these off-shore accounts, Enron had more than any other of the corporate tax dodgers; Three, Bush let Enron hand-picked the head of the agency that regulates its business; Four, George's infamous "stimulus" package contains a $287 million tax rebate for Enron; Five, Vice President Cheney personally intervened to try to make India pay more than $2 billion to Enron for a power- plant scam that Enron was running there. All of this is nothing?
Then there's Enron's homebase of Texas. Governor Rick Perry, appointed an Enron executive to head the state commission that regulates the company. The next day, Perry got $25,000 from Enron's CEO. Likewise, the judges on the Texas Supreme Court have pocketed some $135,000 in Enron campaign cash, then ruled for the company in five out of six cases brought before them.
This is Jim Hightower saying...Enron always got what it paid for.
Sources for the foregoing Hightower piece:
"Embattled PUC leader steps down" Austin American Statesman 1/19/2002;
"Enron Ruling by Nominee to US Court is Being Noticed" by Jim Yardley 1/22/2002;
"Before crash, Enron Chief urged stock buys" Austin American Statesman 1/19/2002;
"The United States of Enron" New York Times by Frank Rick 1/19/2002;
"Enron got It's Money's Worth" Los Angeles Times by Robert Scheer 1/22/2002;
"How the White House Energy Plan Benefited Enron" Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman 1/ 16/2002.
Dennis, Enron is an equal-opportunity lobbyist. Clinton got it into India in the first place. Ron Brown was a particular good buddy.
This may be the GOP party line, but it's simply not true.
"Enron has made donations to many Democrats, but the Center for Responsive Politics estimates that Republicans received 73 percent of the contributions from company executives over the past 12 years."
"Politically, Bush administration officials will have to explain how much influence Enron executives had on administration policies after contributing more than $500,000 to Bush's various campaigns."
(Both quotes from The Washington Post.)
And I think they SHOULD explain, not stonewall.
So I ask you, why, if they have nothing to hide, are they stonewalling?
Gee, I wonder if a company that handled 85% of all the energy in the US might just have a little influence on energy policy? People lobby at the capitol all the time. The big groups make some influence, this is not an Enron specific event. Enron executives are crooks. I don't think there is any doubt there. I think they played all sides of government. Here's a really good question for everyone. What gives the congress the right to hold criminal hearings? Isn't that the power of the courts? I guess if members of congress were in on the scam they would want to hold hearings to look like the "good guys". I can't say I like where this whole thing is going.
Just in case anybody still thinks that Kenneth Lay is not hooked up, or that he really has money problems:
The Lays just sold their home in Aspen for three times the going rate to an anonymous buyer. It wasn't even officially listed by the real estate agent yet. It's good to have rich, powerful, unscrupulous Republican friends evidently.
Maybe it was a Democrat friend. Lay was a good buddy of Clinton remember. Maybe Marc Rich bought Lay's home.
They're not criminal hearings, they're investigative hearings. The only time Congress has the authority to hold criminal hearings is in the case of Impeachment. The Constitution gives Congress express power to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony, and to turn any information gleaned from hearings over to law enforcement and prosecutors.
You wanna place a little wager?
The Lays, who have three other Aspen properties for sale, paid $1.9 million in 1991 for the 3,015-square-foot house on a three-acre lot, part of which fronts the Roaring Fork River.
Three other properties huh?
You wanna place a little wager?
Do you think we will ever know?
What determines our attitude toward sprawling corporations? It's not the principle of the thing but the money. And the lack of it when the whole, intricate, innovative structure collapses. Would Enron still be an ethical outrage if it had succeeded? What do you think? Your answer would tell me a lot. Not about Enron, but about you.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20020213.shtml