Opening Bell: 09.03.09

dupreboat.jpgWill AIG Reign In Its Brash CEO? (WSJ)
For the love of God please say no, or at least not til after the words “I’m gonna bust that guy’s knee-caps” in reference to Cuomo are uttered. (BTW, it took two people to write this article, which includes a flow chart.)
Allen Stanford Has Surgery (Houston Chronicle)
He’s recovering nicely, which is less than we can say for the orderly who got punched in the mouth.
Pot ‘Plantations’ On The Rise (WSJ)
“Authorities have discovered pot farms in 61 national forests across 16 states this year, up from 49 forests in 10 states last year. New territories include public land in Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, Alabama and Virginia…So far this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, federal agents have raided 487 pot farms on forest-service land, where they destroyed 2.6 million marijuana plants, seized 138 firearms and made 369 arrests on felony drug charges.”

Edinburgh Hedge Funds Feel Madoff Effect as Clients Get Pickier
(Bloomberg)
All of a sudden people are demanding shit like disclosure.
Cerberus To Ban Withdrawals From New Funds (Reuters)
Going with the three year lock-up this time around, after the whole $4.77 billion in redemptions situation.

Ex-Lehman Trader Bedwick to Manage OGI Global Macro Hedge Fund
(Bloomberg)
You’re gonna wanna get some of this.
Spitzer’s Babe Backs Run For Office, Slaps The Snobs (NYP)
Ashley Dupre (or, you know, someone else) wrote this (and more) so much awesomeness on her blog last night: “I read the front page of the NY Post this week and was happy to see that Mr. Spitzer is moving on with his life and considering getting back into politics. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone deserves a second chance. Me too, right? Well, apparently not. Why? Because many people are liars and hypocrites. Let me give you just a few examples of what I keep encountering, despite my best efforts to move on…ladies, ladies, ladies – so many of you have been cool, supportive and loving. But there are those of you out there who just love to judge. Let me say this – most girls, to varying degrees, of course, want to be pampered and have nice shoes, designer handbags and gorgeous clothes. I know many women who target guys with money and use them to get these things. They toy with them, flirt, go on dates, have sex and then drop hints about that new dress at the store down the street or being short on rent money – and the guys deliver it. This is a dishonest relationship. I see this all over New York City. Some women aren’t as vindictive, but still dive into relationships with wealthy guys who they don’t love or even find attractive, but they stay in it because they have a nice home, a car and spending money – they would rather stay in an unfulfilling or loveless relationship than lose that security. This, too, is a dishonest relationship. I see this type all over the suburbs of New Jersey with the housewives who are strung out on mood stabilizers or the couples who put all their attention on their chil dren so they don’t have to deal with their own issues.”
Then she promoted her new single, “Inside Out.”

Comments (38)

  1. Posted by HAM05 | September 3, 2009 at 8:11 AM

    wheres the those breasts never get old guy? i like that guy.
    also, those breasts never get old

  2. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 8:19 AM

    ZH sucks,

  3. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 8:20 AM

    those breasts never get old

  4. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 8:21 AM

    those breasts never get old

  5. Posted by american bandersnatch | September 3, 2009 at 8:23 AM

    I hate it when a hooker summarizes my marriage so accurately. But who wants to deal with their own issues …

  6. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 8:24 AM

    Enough with me talking about myself. Why don’t you talk about me for a while.

  7. Posted by wcburrs87 | September 3, 2009 at 8:35 AM

    Three people wrote the AIG article for the journal…

  8. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 8:44 AM

    @6 – that should be:
    But enough about me, let’s talk about you. What do you think of me?

  9. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 8:53 AM

    Damn. Even after all that, she’s still only 24.

  10. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 8:57 AM

    the only thing that’s inside out is her pink sock

  11. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 9:03 AM

    I don’t stand in judgment. There’s dignity in any job well done. Apparently she was quite a skilled whore.

  12. Posted by Elliot Spitzer | September 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM

    Ashley, many thanks for your well-intentioned and in many ways quite accurate views.
    Now, more importantly, how much extra is it for you to bring your mom next time? Her sag bags look like they need to be slapped by the very whore that suckled from them.
    Fondly,
    ES

  13. Posted by ES | September 3, 2009 at 9:10 AM

    please do not endorse me. please.

  14. Posted by Investorcluzo | September 3, 2009 at 9:14 AM

    what’s better in the morning: mandi or dupre? oh wait, perusing the pics from the post…does that b1tch have lazy eye?
    for you mad libbers out there putting in face time for the boss in the final days of summer: the white bikini says ______; but the tat across the stomach says _____.

  15. Posted by NakedShort | September 3, 2009 at 9:23 AM

    @cluzo
    How about the white bikini says “I’m a brunette so you know my vajayjay is shorn”; the tat across the stomach says “enter unprotected at your own risk”

  16. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 9:26 AM

    White bikini says I don’t bleed. Tat across stomach says I’m cheap and will say anything you want.
    I hate to say it but Ashley does have a bead on many a mans (womans?) partners. Elliot, like many of us, are in loveless (material) partnerships. The doesn’t excuse the guy for being an asshole, though.
    - ping

  17. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | September 3, 2009 at 9:29 AM

    Ashley, you’ve got quite good insight into relationships for a cum dumpster.

  18. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 9:29 AM

    @14 The white bikini says “high maintenance” but the stomach tat says “payable in cash”

  19. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 9:32 AM

    @14- White bikini says “credit cards accepted,” but tat says “cash is ok too”

  20. Posted by NakedShort | September 3, 2009 at 9:34 AM

    @17 I was thinking the same thing, I guess if you hear “let me do you doggy b/c my wife wont let me” or “please dont stop blowing me I havent felt anything like this is years” enough times you gain insight to the relationships of married men.

  21. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 9:47 AM

    The watch says “I have taste”, but the shades say “only by Jersey standards”
    alternatively, the watch says “I have taste”, but the smirk says “it could be your taste”

  22. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 9:49 AM

    The white bikini says I have the body to pull this off; but the tat across the stomach says Jersey represent.

  23. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 9:50 AM

    @naked, how does being a brunette automatically mean she’s shorn? serious question.

  24. Posted by Tax Chick | September 3, 2009 at 9:52 AM

    Ashley should stick to what she does best: laying on her back (or stomach or knees) and stay out of giving relationship advice. Men marry for just as many stupid reasons.

  25. Posted by stevie | September 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM

    ping@16 i never knew you were so unsatisfied with our arrangement!

  26. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 9:54 AM

    wow
    I want to cry
    Then go home a get divorced

  27. Posted by NakedShort | September 3, 2009 at 9:54 AM

    @23 from time to time when white bikinis get wet they become see through.

  28. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 9:57 AM

    @25/stevie
    I don’t have a ring.
    - ping

  29. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 10:28 AM

    Ashley Dupre for president!!

  30. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 10:31 AM

    @29 I love America!
    Only in America can rock stars like Dupre and Palin prove that anyone can come from nowhere to the pinnacle of running the formerly greatest country on the planet.
    Palin/Dupre 2012!

  31. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 10:48 AM

    @30 – does that mean Geithner / Nemazee will be on the other ticket? I mean, only in America can a tax cheat rise to Secretary of Treasury. Furthermore, only in America could a brazen swindler of several hundred million can run finance for the President and the eventual Secretary of State’s presidential campaigns without calling into question the integrity of either!
    What a country!

  32. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM

    @ 31
    don’t forget: obese surgeon general as well- too many “chitlins”, I presume. xtra points for a Prez that smokes pushing healthcare reform.
    what is a “chitlin”?

  33. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 11:53 AM

    Glasses say “I’m From Jersey” Bad accent but not as bad as from New Yawk

  34. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 11:53 AM

    @29
    What’s wrong, don’t you think you are getting completely screwed by our current president?

  35. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM

    Chitlins are pig intestines. Ick.
    Ashley writes pretty well. Maybe Spitzer should have hired her as a speechwriter rather than as a salad-tosser.

  36. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM

    I was questioning whether or not I should even click the “Comments” link on this one…

  37. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 3:53 PM

    30- Palin still getting to you, eh? ‘Death panels’ comment had legs…
    Good luck with your socialism.

  38. Posted by guest | September 3, 2009 at 4:45 PM

    When is she going to be in Playboy….Penthouse….Swank?

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