Question of the Day | 04/18/2008 12:00 am

What do men not know about women?

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LADIES- women owned business employs more people than all the Fortune 500 companies combined. Here’s a short very powerful video that shows why the nation is in economic trouble: http://www.truemajorityaction.org/oreos/ Dr. Troll’s own blog advocates bombing Iran, and he is very hardline on US support of Israel beyond what serves US interests, and at enormous taxpaper expense, and to destabilization of the region: http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm -What got us into a conflict in the Islamic world was Bush #1/CIA paying/arming/training insurgents in Afghanistan to fight the Russians in a long expensive protracted war that would drain them and bring down the Soviet Union. Osama bin Ladin was a CIA operative in that effort and those trained CIA trained insurgents are now using our methods against them. Bush#1 also funded both sides of the 7-year Iran-Iraq war because the US is the biggest arms dealer in the world, and to keep the conflict going. US/British long-term intervention in the Middle-East has kept it destabilized. Read Chalmers Johnson Blowback trilogy which includes “Nemesis” and “Sorrows of Empire” he has one of the highest security clearances in the US, and unlike some, understand the extremely complex geopolitics of the Middle-East, the centuries long struggles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalmers_Johnson The middle east has nothing to do with american women working, or even one rich american women’s actions in Afghanistan which were well meaning if deluded and of scant import. Fear=Hate. Men who are very fearful of women’s power blame women for everything.

By Buh-Bye Hillary Hillary Buh-Bye on 04/18/2008 5:00 pm

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Suzanne: “Fear=Hate. Men who are very fearful of women’s power blame women for everything.” Women have done a very poor job since gaining leadership opportunities. We’ve had female secretaries of state for the past 16 years during which America’s relationship with the world severely deterioriated and we got embroiled in 2 hopeless unwinnable wars. (I no longer support an attack on Iran.) With a few exceptions women have been a disaster as major corporate CEOs and senior officers. The women CFO of Citigroup and the risk manager of Bank of America exposed both banks to massive losses. With Citigroup shareholders like myself paid with a 41% dividend cut. The problem is women usually react to criticism by attacking the speaker rather than examining their own behavior. That tends to make them poor leaders.

By MARK KLEIN, M.D. on 04/18/2008 5:59 pm

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MK- Reversed your radical hardline bomb Iran position in the last week, hmmm? And what do we owe that enlightenment too. That’s quite a reversal, sort of like you taking up reading Nora Ephron. I’d call it Greenwashing or throwing the sheepskin over the rabid mountain lion amid the lambs…but whatever. -NeoCon/Leo Straussian beliefs, and the PNAC plans developed and signed in 1997 to go into Iraq and est permanent bases was signed by everyone in this administration and other architects of the illegal invasion including Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, Libby Lewis etc…it stated they needed a new Pearl Harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Pearl_Harbor http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=loose+chan… Iraq/Afghanistan has everything to do with the the conjunction of CIA/Oil interests and geopolitical positioning of the US in the Middle East and ringing the Caspian Sea with our puppets, and has nothing to do with female SoS although granted Condi Rice is a total disaster. http://condimustgo.com/?utm_source=rgemail But she does play a mean piano. -Women CEO’s like Meg Whitman at Ebay, CFO’s like Myrtyle Potter at Genetech selected by Fortune as one of America’s 50 most powerful African Americans. Oprah-qwner of her own production company/magazine and the richest individual in entertainment? I could go on…. But for true sparkling, laugh-your-guts out stupidity nothing beats the Citigroup/BoA massive losses. OK, short explanation. #1 End of Glass-Stegall Banking 1932 Act in 1999 by Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill paying off head of the Senate Banking Committee removed the fire wall bet insurance, comm’l and investment banking. The Act was put in place after the Great Crash, brought on by speculators who gamed the system, and to prevent the same confluence of factors occurring again. With Glass-Stegall gone, thanks to Sandy Weill, the MALE head of Citigroup, the greatest FRAUDS in US banking occurred, wiping out over $4 trillion in market value and destroying millions of lives. Sandy Weill & Co and their pals in other big banks orchestrated knowingly funded fraudulent deals at Enron, World Com…and paid billions in fines for their crimes. #2 By ending Glass-Stegall derivatives values exploded from $9 T in 2000 with out GNP at $14T to $700 trillion today with the world wealth at about $100 trillion. Warren Buffet called derivatives ‘sewage’. They are bets on trends, indexes, weather, and in the case of what is bringing down the banks billions of dollars of sub-prime loads. Derivatives are made-up bets, 90% lose on derivatives, hedge-funders win big, they are totally unregulated and have no value in themselves but are based on the trends of things….they are nothing but a license to steal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YNyn1XGyWg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjS60TaD_J8 There have been relatively few women CEOS at enough helms of large corporations to make a dent in the economy if their performance was bad, it hasn’t been. In fact women account for more jobs and more money in local economies by employing more people than the Fortune 500 firms. The economic mess is based on Bush Inc and men like Sandy Weill gaming the system. And anyone who stayed in Citigroup stock after Glass-Stegall went bye-bye was an imbecile who doesn’t know history of banking. The best thing women can do for themselves is support women owned and sustainable and green business and credit unions. Get your news at Fox and you’ll lose. Too bad you didn’t know me in 2000 Dr. Troll when I saw Glass-Stegall go away I told people to buy gold was under $300 then, now haven’t checked for awhile but over $900. People invest the way they live. Two things cause them to lose in both Fear or Greed….and Greed is part of Fear. So really it’s Fear. And fearful people rarely are smart people and are easily duped and that’s what the likes of Fox specialize in demonizing groups of people, women, blacks whatever, and blaming your problems on them. Shell Game. Bush Inc’s been cleaning out the Candy Store while you’ve been focused on your hatred of women and how they’re ruining everything. “The problem is women usually react to criticism by attacking the speaker” refuting attacks with facts. The problem with the country is extraordinarly ignorant men like you who are so easily duped by Bush Inc.

By Buh-Bye Hillary Hillary Buh-Bye on 04/18/2008 7:09 pm

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btw, wasn’t the glass-stegall act pushed through under clinton? bill, that is.

By ariadne a on 04/22/2008 10:34 am

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meant reversal of the glass-stegall act. i’ve been posting about this for awhile on the political sites and do not understand why most, either do not get it, or just aren’t that interested. it was HUGE and, you are right… directly resposible for the home mortgage crisis and the financial mess we find ourselves in. all we need is one more little crisis in the financial market and have the people start pulling their money out of the banks… then strap in.

By ariadne a on 04/22/2008 10:49 am

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By Buh-Bye Hillary Hillary Buh-Bye on 04/18/2008 7:09 pm

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As an investor, one of my biggest beefs is women with top level jobs, or busy professional lives, serving on too many large corporate boards. They couldn’t have the time to do the job properly. This has been a problem at troubled companies like GE, Merck and the major money center banks. Unfortunately, women in business are sacred cows. Were that not the case Sally Krawshack at Citiigroup and Carley Fiorina at HP wouldn’t have lasted as long as they did as CFO and CEO respectively.

By MARK KLEIN, M.D. on 04/18/2008 7:31 pm

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to Dr Mark strangelove Klein — fiorina is now supporting McCain’s campaign if I’m not mistaken — by your “logic” we should help him go down in flames faster than he did over Hanoi — hope so….

By Michael Salling on 04/19/2008 4:13 am

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MK, you gas bag, you forgot that Colin Powell was in there. How much blame is placed on women because of men’s fear of women? Geez, look how much men have screwed up the world over the last couple of millenium and you criticize women for the last couple of years? Get a grip.

By Frannie Em on 04/19/2008 6:11 pm

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Men like Dr. Klien are why women are contemptuous. Rather than be trod upon we finally had to step up. As with the Taliban, western men thought that they had the only answers. Women are changing the world for the better at every level of society. Troglodytes are going the way of all dinosaurs. Poor, poor pitiful you. I am amazed at how often fiction is pulled out to support ridicules arguments. Think: the republican debate where each candidate pointed to JACK BOWER as the way to deal with real problems in the real world. In the REAL world Feminism has saved families from ruin, saved companies from ruin, saved the economy from ruin and as it evolves feminism will save humanity from ruin. Honestly. We have to teach our children better. Respect the respectable!

By Alyn C on 04/21/2008 1:39 pm

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Go Girl!!

By wildflower Buttitta on 04/23/2008 3:22 pm

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Wow all that.

By M P on 04/23/2008 6:21 pm

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Wow all that.

By M P on 04/23/2008 6:21 pm

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Too bad Kaopectate doesn’t treat diarrhea of the mouth.

By Ginger Richardson on 04/18/2008 5:44 pm

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Why, oh why is this clown permitted to spew his diarrhea of the mouth here amongst decent folk? Please, ladies, don’t get angry at widdle mr. klein. Pity him. He’s pathetic.

By Ginger Richardson on 04/18/2008 5:46 pm