their wallet? my friends, we live in a world where the noble goals are many but the precious dollars to pay for them are few, where we continue investing money we don t have. then again, we don t much like those saps do we? time for them to quit whining and just do it, pay their fair share, even though the folks who are pushing them to do so are not. that s what it is hitting the greeks right now. something called reality right now. that moment when you realize you run out of gas and everybody is staring at a fat check. that s the thing about big fat
three university administrators asking me why i would do that and telling me that bill cosby called and asked about my tenure status. i was an untenured junior faculty member at the time. he s on the board of trustees meaning that bill cosby ultimately votes on my tenure or not. there s a power dynamic. the other thing he does is because he s rich he s not just a philanthropist he s also engaging in what we call philanthocracy. he dangles the check in front of you and makes you do what he wants you to do under the guise of promising you money. so many institutions do what bill cosby requests because they think they re going to get a big fat check. and although he never gave temple the big fat check i think that was a big part of it. he resigned from the board today. and jeetendr, i have to ask you, what advice would you give bill cosby? does he need to address this now? what advice would you give him and his team? you know, i think the challenge for bill cosby s brand at this point
you come to mothers and fathers and talk about how i m going to take care of your kid and look out for their best interest. no, you re looking out for your own best interest. how can you sit there with a fat check and talk about you have players rights and you have players that are saying they re hungry. players traveling, coming back late night, restaurants and places aren t open to get food. he can go take several seats. i can t believe he s commenting. coaches, stay out of it. i think as a player for me that s on the executive committee with the wnba, of course we would, because players need to have rights. this isn t just about players getting money. what i like and what i m seeing right now and as the commissioner of nba, he s taken the initiative to try to start conversations with the ncaa to try to talk about how they can do something on the basketball side to help some of these players stay in school. i m glad that he s an advocate for change, but we need more people out there
someone in california took home the $425 million jackpot in last night s powerball drawing. the winning ticket was sold at a bay area gas station and the owners just took home a fat check for $1 million. but we still don t know the winner of the actual drawing. i ll tell you about another winner, jonathan, science. this january came in as the fourth warmest winter on record. take that polar vortex. it was more than a degree above the 20th century average. mind you they started keeping these records in 1880, also worth noting this is, of course, a global average. the eastern u.s. was colder than normal. if you ve been watching the cycle or been outside, you may know about that. that is very true. if you stepped outside, you know much of the country is experiencing a much-needed thaw. it feels nice out there. from chicago to new england, the rare above normal temperatures are causing a lot of melting and fast. that is leading to flooding concerns. there are also severe storms pushi
that gentleman, they vote themselves a special $7 per share dividend. he and his wife own 2 million shares of costco. so they get $14 million. after tax, that is $12 million. a nice, fat check and they ll get it this month. if they paid that dividend next month, in january, they d only get $8 million. gretchen: why? so they ve cheated the obama treasury out of $4 million. why? because next year the tax on dividends goes up. if they get the dividend this year, the tax is lower. this great supporter of tax the rich avoids the tax the rich tax by paying himself the dividend this year, not next year. gretchen: so if he s doing it, my question to you, is how many other ceo s will do the same thing, who may have also supported president obama? there are two members of the costco board who own shares in