The Minow family is reshaping America.

[Wullie]

(for you conspiracy theorists )
http://news.muckety.com/2009/09/11/just ... 0011?rLink

[callmeslick]

I hope you realize the tongue in cheek nature of that piece. If you doubt me, note the flow chart where it has a link from SS Minnow to Gilligan's Island.

[Buzz]

I thought this thread was about bait fish with bad spelling.

[callmeslick]

I thought this thread was about bait fish with bad spelling.

in a way it is. I think he's using his trolling tackle.

[Daiichidoku]

chum seems to be the standard around here....

[Wullie]

I hope you realize the tongue in cheek nature of that piece. If you doubt me, note the flow chart where it has a link from SS Minnow to Gilligan's Island.

As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission during the Kennedy administration, Newton Minow described TV as a “vast wasteland.” The creators of one of the most wasted programs of the era, Gilligan’s Island, responded by naming their fictional tour boat the S.S. Minnow.

Minow later confided to law professor Robert M. Jarvis: “The S.S. Minnow has made me immortal. I had told my kids to put on my tombstone, ‘on to a vaster wasteland.’ I think I will amend it to say ‘on to a vaster wasteland on the S.S. Minnow.’”

Read the article did ya? EH?

[callmeslick]

be serious, Wullie. There was NOTHING in that article close to the sinister nature of what the Koch brothers are trying to pull off. Get over it, the family is wealthy and powerful. US history has been full of same, for good and bad.

[callmeslick]

from the article in question:

More recently, Martha Minow has advised the president about religion-based initiatives. Her father also has been a mentor to Obama, not only about politics and the White House, but about raising daughters.


Nell Minow, 83, and his wife Josephine have three fabulously successful daughters - Martha, Nell and Mary.

Nell, the eldest, is an expert on corporate governance. As co-founder of the Corporate Library, a research firm, and Lens, an activist investment fund, her views are much sought after by business executives and board members, government officials and journalists.

Martha Minow recently became dean of Harvard Law School. She also has been nominated by Obama to be a director of the Legal Services Corporation, the federal organization that provides civil legal services to the poor. She and her father both clerked for Supreme Court justices - Martha for Thurgood Marshall and Newton for Frederick Vinson.


The third Minow daughter, Mary, is an attorney and librarian.

now, Wullie, point out where the scary conspiracy is here, because I don't see much past a wealthy law firm hiring the President, and a bunch of wealthy folks active in politics, the arts, and social service charities. Compare, as I say, with the Koch brothers, who have contributed NOTHING of social significance, underwrite the Tea Party movement, almost completely, and wish to abolish Medicare, Social Security, the MINIMUM FREAKING WAGE law and all ownership of Federal Lands(first created by Teddy Roosevelt and one of the nation's greatest treasures held by the citizenry).
now, tell me about those scary librarians......

[Wullie]

You shoulda run with your first instinct slick, instead you ran with the hook.

I thought it interesting that a "law firm" should notice a young black fuck off who'd never really done anything in his life except spend other people's money. (Hey He's gotten very adept at that now that he has a pretty much bottomless well to draw from), and then he "notices" Moo-chelle" and the rest is shitory. ( re-written history ).

Fascinating how that boy just kept getting "noticed" everywhere he went. Even on his first big home "loan". Where's the guy that made that loan nowadays?

[callmeslick]

I thought it interesting that a "law firm" should notice a young black fuck off who'd never really done anything in his life except spend other people's money.

you really are getting more clueless every day in your anti-Obama stuff. The guy was editor of the Harvard Law Review and near top of the graduating class. Do you have any idea how prominent Law Firms view such things when hiring new lawyers?The fact that he was non-white probably looked good to them as well, from a diversity standpoint.
Tell me again, why is it that you hate Obama so? Color of the skin has nothing to do with it, right?