It seems Big Dan Sontag has been given a big check to bring the herd into the barn where the Butcher awaits. 

  The POA program has been torn up and slings layoffs like a soup kitchen slings soup.   John Thain had a 1.2 Million office redo.   Flemming, McCann, Thain are all gone.   Nevertheless, the squirrel brained pimp master Ken Lewis, and the whore known as Dan Sontag are sure to keep the Stynch in the headlines and the AUM jumping ship...just like all rats eventually do.   Selling from the Stynch is like selling Marijuana at a Southern Baptist convention.   Most people want to work with honor and their head held high.  This is impossible for those working for Merrill Stynch.   Just remember to spray like a chronic case of the butt squirts to put the word on the street: "Friends don't let friends, work, nor invest at Merrill Stynch!"    ED