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Monday, March 30, 2009

03/30/09 PRESS RELEASE:Who's On-Board in 2009?

The Greenwich Harbor Yacht Showcase takes place this spring, May 10th and 11th, from 11 A.M. to 7 P.M. at the Delamar, a luxury waterfront hotel and private pier in the heart of Greenwich, CT. This unique, semi-annual event offers buyers and dreamers alike the chance to see what’s on offer from the world’s finest shipyards and luxury retailers.

Exhibitors for 2009 include Aston Martin, Bentley, Chris Craft, Ferretti, Hinckley, plus many more. Admission is complimentary.

Delmar Greenwich Harbor Offers Sneak Preview of Exhibitors at “Greenwich Harbor Yacht Show” May 9-10, 2009.

What: The Greenwich Harbor Yacht Show takes place this spring at the Delamar, a luxury hotel and private pier on the Greenwich waterfront, just steps from the heart of town. This unique, semi-annual event offers buyers and dreamers alike the chance to see what’s on offer from the world’s finest shipyards and luxury retailers.

When: Saturday, May 9 & Sunday, May 10, 11am to 5pm daily.

Where: The Delamar Hotel, 500 Steamboat Road, Greenwich, CT 06830. Convenient to reach by car or Metro-North Railroad (Greenwich station).

Show Highlights: Exhibitors for 2009 to include Aston Martin, Bentley, Boatique USA, Hinckley, Hunt, Sunseeker, Viking, plus many more.Price:

Admission is free for all ages.

Consumer Info: For more information, visit http://www.thedelamar.com/ or call 203-413-3534.

Delmar Greenwich Harbor, an 82-room luxury hotel and private marina, is Connecticut’s first and only member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. Ideally located just one block from the Metro North train station with service to New York City, the hotel is also just steps away from the world-class shopping of Greenwich Avenue. Delamar was recently named by Conde Nast Traveler as “One of the Best New Hotels in the World”. Reservations can be made by calling the hotel toll free (866) 335-2627, or (203) 661-9800, by email: resevations@thedelamar.com, or by visiting http://www.thedelamar.com/

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0330/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed: This Just In ....

The Latest Greenwich News Briefs:

Greenwich Post
Woman's Club holds philanthropy tea
Greenwich Post
The Woman's Club of Greenwich held it's Philanthropies Tea on Thursday, March 19. Each year the monies earned by the Woman's Club from its fund-raising ...
Norwalk's Snellman, Adams lead Fairfield men's lacrosse
Greenwich Time
Josh Lesko (New Canaan/Deerfield) has four goals and two assists while Jonathan Meyers (Greenwich) and Long Ellis (Darien/Hotchkiss) have appeared on ...
ECB, G-20 summit have potential to agitate dollar
Wall Street Journal - USA
"I expect a lot of volatility," said Dustin Reid, director of G-11 foreign-exchange strategy at RBS Greenwich Capital Markets in Chicago. ...

The Latest Greenwich Blog Posts:

Did Lamborghini Greenwich Bite the Dust? - Lamborghini Forum
By deelmakur
I've been in Florida all winter, but happened to be in Greenwich, CT, last week. Driving by the Lambo store, the sign was gone, and the showroom full.
Lamborghini Forum - http://www.lamborghini-talk.com/vbforum/
Furnished Room-Share Bathroom (Greenwich(Byram)CT) $650
By admin
Filed under Roommates Wanted Fairfield. Private entrance to your furnished room in a safe, quiet and convenient setting-ample closet plus storage-washer/dryer ...
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03/30/09 The Raw Greenwich Overnight News Feed (Updated)

The Wilpon family of Greenwich knew what it was doing at the new Citi Field in Queens
Sean Lamont of Georgetown waiting in the on-deck circle at Citi Field. Georgetown won the first baseball game at the new ballpark, 6-4, against St. John’s.



No matter what comes later — say, in the last week of the season, that recent and ghastly Mets tradition — there could only be one first game, when the gates open and the people enter.

This was not opening day, when the games count. This was not even the first Mets exhibition, which is Friday against the Red Sox. But it was the first real game of baseball, St. John’s against Georgetown, and the real star of the day was the new ballpark.

It is handsome and functional and full of nooks and crannies to explore. The Wilpon family knew what it was doing. This is not the municipal dump that used to be next door. If anybody had dared to play “There Used to Be a Ballpark,” that Sinatra chestnut, I would have laughed out loud. ....

... sometime this season, he will surely hop up and down all over again. Near the rotunda, John Booth, a teacher from Greenwich, Conn., inspected the commemorative bricks with inscriptions like "Gets By Buckner" and "I Saw Todd Pratt's Walkoff 1999.".....
By Jesse Quinlan
GREENWICH, Conn.—After playing professionally for 13 seasons, Bobby Darula can tell baseball stories all day.

Many of his minor-league experiences he'll never forget. Like how in his first at-bat as a paid ball player with the Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer League, Darula hit a pinch-hit three-run homer that won the game. Then there was that unforgettable spring training Darula spent with the Cincinnati Reds, swinging in the shadows of sluggers Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Larkin and Adam Dunn.....

... Darula, a former Greenwich High School standout, was humbled by the game he loves for the final time last July when the Bridgeport Bluefish gave him his release during the Independent League's All-Star break. Darula retired quietly, stepping away from not only his job, but his passion. ...
Nantucket lightship is reborn in Lower Manhattan
CapeCodOnline.com
... views of the Hudson River and the Statue of Liberty. "Last year, while under a one-year charter to a hotel in Greenwich, Conn., we had the chance to take the ship to New York City, and we fell in love with the waterfront," Golden said ...
Sense of direction helpful when orienteering courses
Poughkeepsie Journal
... of my own backyard. Name a locale and, if I've been there, chances are I've been lost. A 45-minute drive to Greenwich, Conn. once taking three hours isn't the worst of it. Neither is the night spent doing intermittent jumping jacks to stay warm ...
The Bruce Museum opens 'Marine Paintings of James E. Buttersworth, 1817-1894'
Art Knowledge News
"What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this.. to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom." - Gerhard Richter The Bruce Museum opens 'Marine Paintings of James E. Buttersworth, 1817-1894'.........
Leaders: Spring Into Reading
The Washington Post
... became popular with Japanese adults. Watanabe, who went to school in Japan until eighth grade before moving to Greenwich, Conn., told USA Today that the inspiration for the book came from the fact that U.S. schools focus less on memorization than ...
Teixeira: Pressure in the Past
New York Post
... my family, it makes it even more enjoyable to go play the game." Teixeira and his family have decided to live in Greenwich, Conn. "I've always loved playing in New York as a visitor because of the excitement, now to have that excitement on my side, ...
US shopping malls cut hours
The Peninsula
Shoppers walk down a street lined with retail shops in Greenwich, Connecticut.
WASHINGTON: As Americans tighten their belts to cope in the grim economy, the venerable US shopping mall has begun to suffer and many are quietly cutting back on their opening hours.....
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03/30/09 The Raw Greenwich Blog And RSS Feed - Bloggers Who Are From, Work In Or Used To Live In Greenwich (Updated)

Bill Clark Alerts Us That You Can Order Your Girl Scout Cookies By Visiting All The Vacant Store Fronts On Greenwich Avenue

TODAY'S FEATURED BLOGGER:


Greenwich Gossip By "The Scribe Of Greenwich" Bill Clark

Another Empty Storefront on Greenwich Avenue...

As your scribe took advantage of yesterday's mild weather to stroll down Greenwich Avenue, he paused at the three empty storefronts that are part of the former Mead's Stationery store and its next-door neighbor. And then he looked across the street at the storefront where Coach had been just a day or two before. It was empty.

Another chain store bites the dust. Was this where the old Cheese Shop used to be? What a loss - a popular local family-owned business where you could meet your friends and buy something you actually wanted was driven out by greed, and replaced by a handbag store where only out-of-towners looking for mall merchandise would venture in. Well, now it, too, is gone, and Greenwich Avenue looks even more like a Western ghost town than it did a week ago.

But there's a silver lining: a local Girl Scout troop was ensconced in front of the vacant store, selling cookies. And they had Thin Mints! Your scribe walked away from their table a happier man, glad that another chain store has left the Avenue and toting two boxes of Thin Mints. A most satisfactory stroll, all in all.

ALSO FROM THE SCRIBE OF GREENWICH:

The Greenwich Dollar Plummets to Zero

.....young Kerrin Kinnear (whose name is consistently misspelled by the equally worthless Local Rag, aka Yellowwich Time) won $75 of Greenwich Dollars in an essay contest. When she took them to Wish List on Greenwich Avenue to buy some clothes, she was told by the store manager, Ashley Kane, to suck eggs. Well, maybe not in those exact words, but basically Kerrin's mother, Jill, had to come up with the scratch for the threads.......

.....The Greenwich Chamber of Commerce's logo is prominently plastered at the top left corner of these rubber checks. But will Mary Ann Morrison, the overpriced "CEO" of the GCC, do anything about it? Probably not. She's too busy trying to find more tacky national chain stores to come and take a bath on Greenwich Avenue, now that she has helped to drive out the local businesses that used to thrive here.

For years your scribe has watched as Morrison has browbeat local businesses into joining her organization. More than one manager has told him that he paid the annual dues only after hearing threats of negative PR from her and her minions.

Frankly, your scribe would love to be bad-mouthed by Mary Ann and her ilk; it would mean he must be doing something right.

Do you remember the Greenwich Sidewalk Sales Days, dear reader? Time was when they were a happy street fest all up and down the Avenue. Then the Chamber of Commerce took over, charging a hefty fee to participate. Fewer stores participated. Some who dared to hold their own sidewalk sales were issued "bills" by Mary Ann for the participation fee.

Whether they allowed themselves to be browbeaten into paying these specious assessments, your scribe does not know.

Had he had a storefront on Greenwich Avenue, he would have told Mary Ann to go suck eggs.....

.....The next time you walk down Greenwich Avenue, dear reader, know that you can thank Mary Ann and the CGG for all the empty storefronts and parking places. If you look hard enough, you will even see the GCC logo on some of the empty windows.

The same logo that is on the worthless checks, by the way. If your scribe had been so foolish or unlucky ever to have had one of these Greenwich Dollars, and still be carrying it in his wallet, he would be at the courthouse right now filing suit against Mary Ann and the Greenwich Chamber of Commerce. They promoted these fraudulent checks, and their logo is right there in living color......

.....Here is a novel suggestion, dear reader: let us all begin to boycott stores bearing the Chamber of Commerce logo until such time as Mary Ann gives Kerrin Kinnear her money back.....

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
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When Greenwich Roundup Types
Failed Greenwich Time Managing Editor
Bruce Hunter Listens......




These Citizen Journalists Remind Me Of The Greenwich Citizen, Because They Have Not Updated Their Blogs In Over A Week.......


Did You Ever Notice That: Most Of The Pokey Bloggers Are Current And Ex-Hearst Newspaper Employees.......


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Sound gardening: Salad garden - Now that the witch hazel has finished blooming - a dwarf plant installed last autumn managed to put out tiny yellow flowers on and off all winter - I've go...
11 months ago .....


UPDATE:

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Helping kids slim down in 7 steps - Childhood obesity is a thorny issue without simple solutions, but that hasn't daunted health-care experts who work diligently to come up with viable ...


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The Green Kitty Litter Liner
Call Greenwich Roundup

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Another Miscellaneous Entry - All right, so I got excited and a little ahead of myself with the "New Camera" entry. I actually have a lot of pictures that I need to post before getting up...

Exit 55 By Rob "WGCH" Adams - The Sports Voice Of Greenwich
Off The Bench (or "There's Thunder and Lightning, so Be Quick!") - Sean Adams (once and forever, "The Son") will play for the Phillies this year. That means, I will be coaching the Phillies this year. Mets fans smile and s...

The Fox Trot By Nick "The Sly" Fox
What would you do? - I'm currently watching "High Stakes Poker" on the Game Show Network, and one hand really got me steamed. It was between Frenchmen David Benyamine and ...

Greenwich Geek David S. Isenberg's musings at isen.blog
Proud Brother Report - My sister Sara Isenberg has been recognized by We Magazine as one of the "101 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2009." Check out her blog,.........

Greenwich Property Market
Byram Shubert Library Opens - This is great news for the Western side of town as well as for all Greenwichites who take advantage of this resource. Here is the article from the ...

EDDIE "Greenwich Native" ROSS
In the Meantime - Hey, y'all! We've only been down here in N'awlins for a few days, but I'm already talkin' like the locals! Maybe that's because Jaithan and I have been meeti...
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Greenwich Time Editorial - RSS FEED
Vandals went too far this time - Vandalism of public property can be a serious problem in the best of times. When money is tight, it's even worse.

Greenwich Time: Community Events - RSS Feed
Birth announcements - Stamford Hospital To Andrea and Brett Wilderman of New Canaan, a girl, Mallen Violet Wilderman, March 3.


GOOD JOB- PASTOR NICK
CONSISTENT BLOGGING PAYS OFF

The Daily Spurgeon
We hit 400 subscribers - thanks, readers! - Although the numbers do fluctuate, today is the first day I've seen our RSS subscriptions hit the 400 mark. My sincere thanks to all who read and pass it along...

Greenwich Time Letters To The Editor
Wake up call - To the editor: Can someone please wake me up because I thought that I just read an article in the Greenwich Time that the pocket park project in Byram is moving forward and costing the taxpayers $350,000.

At a time when the police force has been cut back because of revenue issues...

....Has anyone thought about what the upkeep of this park will cost the taxpayers, who is going to patrol the park and what the liability insurance is going to cost? ......

....I know that one of the issues is parking spaces for cars, but I feel there are much larger issues: the safety of the public .......

Diane Carpenteri
Greenwich

Here Is An Update On The
Greenwich Based Ponie Scheme That
Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter
Has Failed To Cover


Tribune Company's Greenwich News RSS Feed
Iowa recoups $35 million in frozen IPERS assets - Iowa officials said Friday the state has recovered $35 million in retirement assets that were frozen as part of an investigation into an alleged investment scam....

....Stephen Walsh, 64, of Sand Point, N.Y., and Paul Greenwood, 61, of North Salem, N.Y., are charged with conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud. The men also face civil action by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

They are accused of misappropriating at least $550 million as part of an alleged $1.3 billion investment scam.

The men ran Greenwich, Conn.-based Walsh WG Trading Company LP and Westridge Capital Management Inc.

....Two days after Walsh and Greenwood were arrested, a federal judge froze the assets involved in the alleged scam.....


If You Want To Know
What's Going On In Greenwich
You Have Got To Read The
Out Of Town Newspapers



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Sunday, March 29, 2009

03/29/09 PRESS RELEASE: Greenwich Socccer Player Are Invited To Attend The Colorado Showcase (College)

Registration is open now for the 2009 Colorado Showcase for U15-U17 Boys and Girls, taking place over Memorial Day Weekend, 2009, in Denver, CO. This is the 8th year for this event which has grown every year.

Last year 142 teams played from 13 states. Over 150 college coaches from all levels and all over the nation came to observe soccer at its highest competition. Brackets include State Cup/ODP, Platinum and Premiere.

All games will be played at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, home of the Colorado Rapids MLS Team, the largest professional soccer complex in the world, on 22 grass and 2 turf fields.

All registrations are $850 and include 15 complimentary tickets to the CO Rapids game to be played during the tournament. Extra tickets are available at a discounted price.

Three game guarantee.

All games are exhibition-style.

Play begins at 4 pm on Friday, May 22 and ends on Monday, May 25. Stay-to-play: reservations must be made through Anthony Travel.

Beautiful time of year in Colorado for soccer and vacation! CO Showcase is hosted by Real Colorado the same weekend as the 2009 Real CO Cup, competitive tournament for U10-U18 boys and girls.

There is truly soccer for everyone in Colorado over Memorial Day 2009!! Website: http://www.lijsl.com/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=2038&e=MzUwNTMw&l=-http--www.coloradoshowcase.org/ For more information, contact Cindy Thomas at cindyt@realcolorado.net.


03/29/09 Hey, Hey !!!, Ho, Ho !!! John Bowman Says Byram Neighborhood Association President Michael Bocchino Has To Go

Greenwich Time Rookie Reporter Meredith Blake Article Wont Tell You All The Facts About The $350,000 Byram Pocket Park

Conflict Of Interest? : The Board of Estimate and Taxation Appropriated $350,000 For The Proposed Pocket Park.

A house directly across the street from the proposed park is owned by Stephen Walko, chairman of the Board of Estimate and Taxation.

The Protesters Say:

Byram Neighborhood Association President Michael Bocchino has refused to put the pocket park on the agenda, because he is afraid it will be voted down.

The Expensive Pocket Park would lead to the elimination of parking spaces that Byram businesses and neighborhood residents heavily rely on.

The people who support this don't live here and don't work here.

The Proposed Park creates a public safety issue: Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg Has Been Unable To Suppress Crime On South Water. The pocket park will likely make the job of Greenwich police officers harder, because it will attract drug sellers and will probably covered with gang graffiti tags overnight.

The Town Of Greenwich already has budgeted $350,000 for the proposed park: Byram residents and merchants would rather the money go for community policing that would make the village save Again.


By Meredith Blake
STAFF WRITER

.....Carrying signs that said "Say No To the Park," "Use Our Tax Dollars Wisely," and "Sidewalks, Not Boardwalks," protesters were hoping their message -- about the problems they have with the proposed pocket park in Byram -- is heard by the Byram Neighborhood Association and other town leaders, according to organizer John Bowman, a Byram resident and a member of BNA.....

....Linda Gionfreddo, a 25-year resident of Byram, said she Linda Gionfreddo, a 25-year resident of Byram, said she......

Rookie Greenwich Time Reporter Merideth Blake
Only Briefly Touches On The Byram Crime Problem
The Out Of Control Byram Crime Problem
Is Destroying The Fabric Of The Community.

.....This is a proposal that some residents have been fighting since it was first proposed in 2007, according to Dominick Genovese, 51, who lives on Mead Avenue. He circulated a petition which got 150 signatures.

"I think this is going to cause a lot of problems in this area," he said.

He said there have been a slew of car break-ins along South Water Street and problems with teens loitering in the area that may only become worse with a new park. .....

Byram Neighborhood Association President Michael Bocchino Should Put Byram First.

Bocchino should stop refuseing to put thepark on the Byram Neighborhood Association agenda.

If Town Hall Boy Michael Bocchino's Park Gets Voted Down.
Then The Park Gets Voted Down.

Let's Spend The $350,000 On Additional Police Protection That Will Help Solve The Out Of Control Byram Crime Problem

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03/29/09 PRESS RELEASE: ROCKIN' WATER on NBC Nightly News-Monday, March 30, 6:30 pm

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NEWS BULLETIN
Amy Guerrieri and ROCKIN' WATER™ to be featured on
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS
6:30 p.m., Monday, March 3

Old Greenwich's own Amy Guerrieri, owner of ROCKIN' WATER, rocked the Appalachian area of Kentucky this past week with 11 pallets (a semi-tractor trailer truck full) of donated items such as water, school supplies, clothing, diapers, formula, toys, books, and personal care products, collected through the generosity of schools, families and businesses from the community and beyond.

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams followed this effort from Connecticut to Kentucky and will feature the story on Monday, March 30, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. (ET). The segment will most likely be on the second-half of the show, after 6:45 p.m., barring any breaking news. The show airs on Channel 4 in the New York City metropolitan area. If the segment doesn't air on Monday, it will air Tuesday.

Amy, along with Katrina Bischoff, Allison Cohen and Jenifer Howard, traveled to Martin County, Kentucky, one of the most poverty-stricken areas of the United States. Partnering with CAP - the Christian Appalachian Project, the group was able to hit the ground running - driving more than 875 miles in 2-1/2 days, visiting 12 locations that served children and families, including schools, daycare facilities, after school programs, churches, food pantries, health clinics and the only dentist serving the county for many years. In addition, the group met with and supported two families - both headed by single parent Moms who had four children each, bringing them much needed items used for day-to-day living and survival.

A special THANK YOU to everyone who participated
in this amazing outpouring of support!

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ROCKIN' WATER 187 Sound Beach Avenue Old Greenwich CT 06870

03/29/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed: This Just In ....

The Latest Greenwich News Briefs:

Greenwich Academy lacrosse team aims for more gold
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It is normally a difficult feat to achieve -- but not for the Greenwich Academy lacrosse team. Once again the Gators, under the tutelage of Angela Tammaro, ...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

03/28/09 REVISING HISTORY: Greenwich Time Tries To Make It Look Like They Were On Top Of The Breaking AIG Scandal By Backloading Their Website

This Image Is Called The "AIG Driver" By Hearst Newspapers And Was Sent Down The Line To Make It Look Like The Greenwich Time Was On Top Of The Breaking AIG Bonus Scandal. Hearst Newspaper Has Slapped The Generic Image And On Many Of It's Newspapers Including The Danbury News Times, The Conneticut Post And Others.... (Editors Note: Hearst Newspaper Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Has Taken Down The Page Of Back Dated Links And Removed This Graphic From The Greenwich Time Web Site)


ONCE AGAIN
THE GREENWICH TIME
CAN"T KEEP TIME

The Image Links Each Paper To A Generic Page Full Of Old Backdated Wire Reports That Are Made To Look Like The Local Heast Newspapers Were On Top Of The AIG Bonus Scandal

The Greenwich Time Doesn't Date The Page With Today's Date And Then Say Here Is A Summery Of What Wire Services Have Reported About The AIG Scandal.

When In Fact Many Greenwich Time Readers Know That These Back Dated Articles Just Showed Up Recently.

Some Of The Back Dated Greenwich Time Pages Are Downright Comical

For Instance This Page:

Inside AIG-FP, Feeling the Public's Wrath

It Was Supposedly Posted On 03/19/2009 At 05:04:40 PM EDT

The Only Problem Is The Page Is Blank

Supposedly This Greenwich Time Web Page Has There For 10 Days With Links To It And No Body Noticed It Was A Blank Page.

Go Look At The Blank Page That Supposedly Takes Us Inside The AIG - FP Wilton Office And Shows Up The AIG Employees Feeling The Public Wrath.

You Had Better Take A Quick Look, Because Thin Skinned Hearst Newspaper Editor Bruce Hunter Has A Nasty Habit Of Taking Down Web Pages When Greenwich Roundup Catchs The Greenwich Time With Its Pants Down In Public.

In Fact You Would Think That Greenwich Time's Regular Message Board Trolls Would Have Been Screaming, "WTF, There Is No Story Here!!!!!" For The Last Ten Days.

Oh Wait A minute Here Is Another Funny Back Datted Page At The Greenwich Time.....

AIG a slap in the face to labor

By Tim Rutten
Posted: 03/19/2009

President Barack Obama and his administration have made a shambles of the AIG bailout, and the failure won't be papered over by the chief executive's populist campaign rhetoric.

First Of All If You Do A Google News Search For "AIG a slap in the face to labor" You Will Find That After Ten Days Google Has No Listing At All. Currently Google Has 19 Listings For "AIG a slap in the face to labor", But Non Of Them Are From The Greenwich Time. Maybe Tommorow Or The Next Day Google Will Find The Freshly Back Dated Article And Add It To It's Search Results.

Greenwich Roundup Knows What Your Thinking: "Who The Hell Is Tim Rutten?"

Well According To News Busters Tim Rutten Is ....

Tim Rutten NewsBusters.org
As we've noted several times before, Los Angeles Times Opinion Editor Tim Rutten hardly misses an opportunity to bash the Catholic Church. ...

Media Report DEscribes Tim Rutten This Way....

TheMediaReport.com :: Tim Rutten at the Los Angeles Times
Sep 17, 2005 ... Los Angeles Times' media critic Tim Rutten has long had a somewhat troubled relationship with reality (for just a few examples, see here, ...

Slate Magazine Describes Tim Rutten As.....

Slimmer Tim Rutten! - - Slate Magazine
Apr 3, 2007 ... On March 24, Los Angeles Times media critic Tim Rutten expounded on the controversy surrounding the cancellation of an opinion section ...

Actually I Am Starting To Like This Tim Rutton Guy, But Greenwich Roundup Just Surprised He Is Now A Featured Reporter At The Greenwich Time. A Newspaper That Is Trying To Be The Fox News Of Lower Fairfield County.

In Fact, Many Hard Core Republican Cable TV News Junkies Can't Stand Tim Rutten, Ye None Of Them Complained When He Supposedly Appeared On Their Local Conservative Newspaper's Web Site.

Here Watch How Ultra Conservative Lou Dobbs blasts LA Times media critic Tim Rutten For 3 Minutes And 33 Seconds .

Man, I Am Really Starting To Like This Tim Rutten If He Can Get Lou Dobbs This Upset And He Isn't Even An Illegal Alien.

Maybe Failed Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Will Make Tim Rutten The Local Greenwich Time Media Critic, Then Both Rutten And Greenwich Roundup Can Both Criticize Hunters Poor Preformance At Hearst Newspapers.

The Fact Is You Just Can't Trust Bruce Hunter And The Greenwich Time.


THE FACT IS INSTEAD OF PROPERLY COVERING THE AIG STORY
THE FOX NEWS WANNA BE OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY WAS ATTACKING CONGRESS FOR GOING AFTER AIG'S MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BONUSES
Greenwich Time Staff
Posted: 03/19/2009 06:54:07 PM EDT
There is blame a-plenty to go around in the giant shell game that has caused our nation's finances to collapse. A lot of it very close to home in fact -- starting with American International Group's Financial Products Division, based in Wilton, a source of the credit default swaps that not only helped create the problem, but spread it so far and wide that the crisis became systemic.
.....That said, people in Congress need to cut it with the scapegoating and get busy solving the deep, deep problems with our financial system. Yes, it makes good TV, but the bonuses are a tiny part of the issue. Congress was, at best, asleep as AIG and its cohorts were up to their tricks. At worst, it was a knowing abettor. Then Washington forked over huge amounts of cash with no say over how it all would be spent......
.....The problems with our economy go so far beyond shameful bonuses that every moment that legislators spend grandstanding for the cameras is really just another slap in the faces of the many millions who have already lost so much.......
BUT IT MIGHT NOT OF BEEN GREENWICH TIME MANAGING EDITOR BRUCE HUNTER'S FAULT BECAUSE HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN STILL DEPRESSED FROM THE NEWS HE GOT TWO DAYS EARLIER:
There Is Not Much Local News At The Greenwich Time, Because Hearst Newspapers Has Once Again Cleaned House And Cut Back At The Daily Rag Once Again.

Greenwich Time Staffers Are Depressed And Demoralized Today

They Just Don't Have The Luck Of The Irish At The Green Kitty Litter Liner
PLEASE ALSO SEE:

Not by me - I kind of enjoy the paper, which can be consumed in thirty seconds and you’re good to go, but there are those who don’t and are anticipating its demise with glee......
MEANWHILE:
GRENWICH ROUNDUP WAS KICKING BUTT AND TAKING NAMES:
Cityfile - New York... he'd received to try and make the case that releasing the names of immoral AIG employees might lead to a drive-by in Fairfield or Greenwich or wherever. ...
FOXNews
....But some Democrats, including freshmen Reps. Jim Himes, D-Conn., and Michael McMahon, D-N.Y., had planned to vote against the bill because they believed lawmakers were "rushing through" the process.
Himes and McMahon represent many Wall Street constituents in Greenwich, Conn .....
Barny Frank, whoremaster of Georgetown, is pushing to ban all bonuses,any bonuses, being paid to any employee of a company that’s received TARP money....
Greenwich Resident Richard Blumenthal Has Discovered That The AIG Pirates Are Lying To America
THE FAILURES:
Hearst Newspaper President Steven Swartz Has Doomed His "100 Days Of Change" Initiative To Failure, Because He Continues To Employ An Incompetitant Editor At The Greenwich Time
Apparently, Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Has No Contacts In The CT AG's OfficeHearst Newspaper Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Is A Sleep At The Switch As Out Of Town News Organizations Are Covering The Story In The Greenwich Time's Own Backyard
Ex- Greenwich Time Managing Editor And Now Hearst Newspaper Reporter Jim "I Like Writting About Beer" Zebora Is Clueless That AIG Lied And Paid Out An Additional 53 Million In Tax Dollars To The Jackpot Jimmys At AIG
New York Post
Difficult as it may now be to believe, there once was a time when folks on Wall Street were held in high regard. The high rollers at firms like Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and the financial services division of AIG may have been a tad haughty if not outright arrogant, but the lucre they generated evoked similar sums of admiration and envy.
But with Wall Street's reputation currently fluttering around the lofty heights set by Al Qaeda and the North American Man-Boy Love Association, some experts are saying the stigma attached to working in finance is hurting the ability of downsized bankers to find new jobs
....... Sandy Gross, founder and managing partner at Pinetum Partners, an executive search firm in Greenwich, Conn., is likewise seeing some blowback resulting from the current banking morass.
"There are people in HR who say, 'I'm not going to go there and touch anyone who comes from that organization,'" she says, noting that the large pool of applicants makes it easy for hiring execs to send the resumes of people from troubled firms to the shredder. ...

03/24/09 UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR: Former Greenwich Resident And AIG Bum "Fake Jake" DeSantis Tries To Buck Efforts to Give Back Bonus Pay
Democracy Now
They have one that’s in Greenwich, Connecticut, and one that’s in London. I’m assuming most of these employees are Americans. But, you know, the key thing ...
New York Daily News
Good Ole Honest Abe Had It Right
At Was Abraham Lincoln who said....

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.'

Hats off, as they would say in Honest Abe's time, to the out of town newspapers and bloggers who were not so easily fooled like the Greenwich Time amateurish news team

Compare And Contrast The Green Kitty Litter Liner's Reporting With That Of Out Of Town Newspapers And Bloggers

If You Want To Know What Is Really Going On In And Around Greenwich, Then You Have To Read The Out Of Town Newspapers, As Well As, Local And National Blogs.....
Financial Times
It has been a good week for US plutocrats and technocrats. The Andrew Cuomo-prompted give-back of the bulk of the $165m in AIG bonuses appeased the angry, anti-bankster mob....
....This week was just a lull in the storm: the nation's widespread and deeply felt anger at financial capitalists and capitalism remains the new and dominant fact of the country's political life. So far, neither Washington nor Wall Street seem to have fully grasped this political sea-change, or figured how to deal with it....
....is that elite and mass opinion in the US are sharply and dangerously divided, a cleavage he sees as deep as the more frequently discussed partisan split. From the perspective of the nation's elite - not just the Greenwich, Connecticut, fund manager, but also the Stanford professor and the DC think-tanker.....
..... As a result, fairness and yes, even equality, have become more important to ordinary people than at any time since the Great Depression. Like all political revolutions, the privileged class is finding it hard adapting to this shift. But ignorance is dangerous: in the days after the Bolshevik revolution, Russia's bourgeoisie didn't think much had happened, either, and stock prices held steady on the Petrograd exchange.
These Citizen Journalists Remind Me Of The Greenwich Citizen,
Because They Have Not Updated Their Blogs In Over A Week.......
Did You Ever Notice That: Most Of The Pokey Bloggers
Are Current And Ex-Hearst Newspaper Employees.....
(Hired, Then Fired, Then Re-Hired Hearst Newspaper Employee ????)
Out there … The Toast and Roast Dinner to honor Joe Pisani, former editor of the Greenwich Time/Stamford Advocate, took place last week at the Greenwich Hyatt...
4 months ago

Hopefully, "The Better Late Than Never"
Greenwich Citizen Will Update Before
The Sun Goes Down Today

UPDATE IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT AND
THE GREENWICH CITIZEN
HAS JUST FINISHED UPDATING

6:45 PM

We bail out American International Group Inc. and they party. We bail them out again and they hand out millions of dollars of the taxpayers' money in bonuses.
No Other Connecticut News Media Outlet Or Blogger Reported That The Clock Was Ticking On A Second Round Of AIG Bonuses Until Yesterday Afternoon
Only Greenwich Roundup Was The Voice In The Lone Voice In The Wilderness Howling That The AIG Pirates Were Planning To Double Down With A Second Taxpayer Taxpayer Theft
It Took Greenwich Resident Richard Blumenthal Ten Days To Finally Listen To Greenwich Roundup, But After He Read The Greenwich Roundup Reports And Then Looked At The Fine Print Of The AIG Contract He Found Out That......

Greenwich Roundup Had
Been Right All Along About
The Second AIG Bonus To Be
Paid Out On March 15, 2010

PLEASE SEE:

Everyone Town Knows That The Greenwich Time Has A Long History Of Not Name Names In The Backcountry.

But These Greedy Backcountry Sleazeballs Should Face The Judgement Of Every Working Greenwich Resident They Encounter As They Spend Their Dirty Bonus Bucks.

Incompetent Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Has No Nose For News And Doesn't Realize That This Is Not Going To Just Blow Over.

Here Is A News Flash For The Clueless Bruce Hunter:

An AIG Source Has Told Greenwich Roundup The Truth About The AIG Employee Retention Plan, That Is Causing Working Folks To Start Sharpening Their Pitchforks.

There Are Two Sets Of Bonus Payments.

This Is The First Bonus And Covers December 01, 2007 To November 30, 2008 That Was To Be Paid No Later Than March 15th of 2009.

Most People Including Bruce Hunter Don't Realize That The Clock Is Already Ticking On A Second Round Of Bonus Payments.

The Is Second Bonus Payments Cover December 01, 2008 To November 30, 2009 That Was To Be Paid No Later Than March 15th of 2010.

Next Years Bonus Payments Are A Done Deal

Yes The Greedy Backcountry SOBs Are At Home Patiently Waiting For Their Second Bonus Check As Hard Working Greenwich Taxpayers Holler About How Their Hard Earned Money Is Being Wasted.

Hearst Newspaper Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Should Tell Greenwich Time Reporters To Name Names And Rat Out The Greedy Backcountry Bonus Babies, Because Hardworking Greenwich Families Now Own 80% Of AIG.

Now Ten Days Later Every One Is Reporting
This Greenwich Roundup News Scoop:

Look At All Of This News In The Last 16 Hours....
Hartford Courant

By LYNN DOANConnecticut's attorney general urged Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday to block an additional $232 million in bonuses scheduled to be delivered to AIG Financial Products employees next March — plans confirmed by AIG officials during a state legislative hearing Thursday.Since December, AIG has delivered $218 million in bonuses to keep employees working at its dying Financial Products subsidiary in Wilton.

AIG executive Stephen Blake confirmed in testimony before the legislature's banks committee Thursday that the company plans to deliver more bonuses in March 2010. That would bring the total of so-called retention bonuses paid to division employees — designed to keep them working long enough to dismantle the business — to $450 million......
MarketWatch
‎HARTFORD, Conn., Mar 27, 2009 (UPI ) -- The Connecticut attorney general said Friday he'll try to stop $230 million in additional bonuses ...
The Hour
......it was revealed that the total projected payout of bonuses for 2008 and 2009 is closer to $451 million as opposed to the previously understood $232 million, and there may be additional payouts in 2010.....
Bloomberg
By Karen Freifeld March 27
(Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc. should be stopped by the federal government from paying another $230 million in ...
NBC Connecticut
By ANDREW PERGAM and LEANNE GENDREAU
AIG employees might be taking home $450 million in bonuses, rather than the $185 and $232 million figures tossed around ...

AIG Bonus: CT Attorney General tries to block additional $230 ...
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal -- in a letter today -- urged Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to block another $230 million in AIG bonuses slated for payment, saying no Connecticut law impedes such action.
Hartford BusinessBy Greg Bordonaro opposed to a previous estimate of $218 million, and there may be additional payouts in 2010, state lawmakers said today. State Sen. ...

But Greenwich Roundup Readers Like The Employees In Richard Blumenthal's Office Have Known About The Scheduled March 15, 2010 Payment For Days.

In Fact Greenwich Roundup Has Been Reporting On The Second AIG Pay Out Almost Every Day For The Last Ten Days

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