[When 100 million dollars on the Africa tour isn't enough. Giving all of us on the bottom of the heap, here, a taste of how the average Muscovite must have felt while waiting for hours outside in line in the snow with wet and frozen feet, for a chance to purchase a loaf of bread from the GUM Department store as they watched the Party Apparatchiks drive by in their warm and toasty chauffeur driven limousines on their ways to their equally warm, toasty, commodious and luxurious Moscow apartments. Everything, of course, in the best "From each according to their ability. To each according to their need" tradition]
"Because nothing says hypocrite populist like a zillionaires manse…
I was a little concerned about our new vacation cottage on the pond when I heard we downsized, butt was greatly relieved when I saw the little place on the pond in this video from Fausta:
Wait a darn minute, Chilmark? Aren’t they one of those most despised of all Wall Street entities, a vulture capitalist firm? Just like…Bain? Why yes, yes they are. Butt unlike Bain Capital, who relished in firing people, killing sick women and raiding companies for spare parts, Chilmark “buys distressed companies” to nurse them back to health in order to ensure that nobody ever loses their job, gets sick or dies.
So as you can see, the primary difference is Chilmark is owned by well intentioned, Progressive vultures.
Homeowner Schulte deserves special attention. If this deep-pocketed donor and private-equity whiz were a Republican, the Occupy hordes and left-wing super-PACs would have made him a household name by now. The SEIU already would have picketed his private residence. Cher, Bette Midler and Chris Rock would be tweeting furiously about this privileged white robber baron in all caps.
Schulte, you see, earned his money in much the same way the demonized Mitt Romney did: through corporate restructuring and rescuing debt-burdened companies. He and his former partner, Sam Zell, have happily embraced the nickname "grave dancers" since the early 1990s. By 1993, their billion-dollar "vulture fund" based in Chicago had purchased all or part of Jacor Communications, the embattled media conglomerate; Sealy Corporation, the mattress empire; and the distressed Schwinn Bicycle Company.
The duo also scooped up Santa Fe Energy Resources (an oil and gas company) through a partnership and refinanced Revco D.S., the drugstore chain. Schulte called his financial playground "the land of broken dreams," according to the Los Angeles Times, which described the partners as "bottom-fishing."
Team Obama had plenty of brutal depictions for GOP private-equity mavens during the 2012 campaign: "Looter." "Corporate raider." "Greedy Gekko." "Heartless profiteer." Liberal media outlets likened Romney's cohorts to mobsters, strip miners and cannibals.
As you see, Bain is nothing like Chilmark.
So we’ll just be chillin’ here, hanging out on the links and at the infinity pool, sipping our Mojitos and noodling over our retribution response to the newly irresponsible press reports appearing about our regime’s administration’s efforts to control assist you in every way with your life.
Specifically, we’re looking at plans to take out reeducate educate the Politico reporter who dared criticize Big Guy’s Friday press conference responses:
America, President Barack Obama said Friday, you’re just like my wife. You’re always on my case.
Obama’s patronizing attitude has never been far from the surface, or from the minds of his political opponents. But not since he said two years ago that his daughters did a better job than Congress in getting their homework done has he been this explicit.
It’s the flip side of “I got this”: everyone else doesn’t. (snip)
In other words, Obama said, what he’s got is a public relations problem caused by people who just don’t understand what’s good for them…
And, I’m sorry to say, we’re also going to have to ask the IRS to look into MoDo’s latest filing:
There is no moral high ground that he does not seek to occupy. As with drones and gay marriage, he seems peeved that we were insufficiently patient with his own private study of the matter. Why won’t the country agree to entrust itself to his fine mind?
And may I just ask, MoDo, where were you 5 years ago when Big Guy first started developing this peevish attitude that you no longer find so cute?""
Michelle Obama's Mirror: Transformationalism on Walled-in Pond
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/11/ah-its-good-to-be-king-obama-begins-vacation/