Israel Holds Hundreds Seized During Raid on Flotilla
Israel just does as it pleases despite the problems it creates for the United States. The US needs to step back and cool its relationship with Israel and support for Israel until it acts more like an ally. If the U.S. continues to blindly support Israel whatever it does, Israel will just act out more and more and create more and more problems. Exactly why does Israel think it has the right to attack ships in international waters? And why does it think it is entitled to block aid ships to Gaza? How would Israel feel if the UN imposed a blocade on it?
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Our Epic Foolishness
For a nation that likes to brag about how great it is, the U.S. has become helpless in the face of its many challenges.
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Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, and Stop Fretting
I don't blame these homeowners one bit. I blame the professionals who were supposed to know better, but who chose to take crazy risks and are now paying for it. I also blame the right-wing ideologues and politicians who spent the past 20 years smoothing the way for these situations to bloom with their "free market" boosterism. You can't have it both ways, banks. If you want to make hi-risk loans, you should have to take your lumps when the risks don't pan out.
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The Oil Plume
David, It is difficult, if not impossible, to establish those concrete understandings about the role of government or have a grounded conversation about anything in the current climate so well described by California political analyst, William Bradley, as the toxic and dysfunctional media and political culture which has become pervasive throughout the country and which has led to a dangerously ill-informed electorate. The complicated challenges faced by this administration have also been particularly compounded by the incompetence and ineptitude of the previous administration on any number of policy fronts, foreign and domestic. Add to all of that the unprecedented obstacles put in front of this administration as a result of the global financial crisis and it’s not hard to understand why a period of stagnation may be upon us. If you ask me, a more responsible media could go a long way to avert this scenario. But, I don’t see that happening, either.
- You neglect to mention the foot dragging of the Republican leadership and the forces of reaction in general.
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Spillonomics: Underestimating Risk
"Surely, given the expense of the clean-up and the hit to BP’s reputation, the executives wish they could go back and spend the extra money to make Deepwater Horizon safer." I believe this assumption is wrong. Just as with the AIG traders that blew it, the criminal charges will most likely be dropped and the former and possibly present executives will get to keep their egregious cash compensation that they paid themselves in all the years leading to this catastrophe.
- You could gather a quorum and file a class action suit. The fishermen will.
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Our Epic Foolishness
Seems more and more every day that President Carter was correct, after all; when the electorate voted instead for the Regan/Bush vision of temporal energy gratification, America's children's futures got suckered down the sewer into the oily cesspool, just as we were warned. I can't wait to watch the most highly educated community on earth vote at their next election. It can be so much better, please be thoughtful.
I will. I cannot speak for others.
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The Oil Plume
The continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will likely come to serve as a metaphor for the ineffectiveness of governing institutions.
- I read this and agreed with the comment posted.
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Venting Online, Consumers Can Find Themselves in Court
Lawyers say that a growing number of businesses are suing individuals for posting critical comments online.
SLAPPs must be discouraged. Summary dismissal?
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Happiness May Come With Age, Study Says
For feeling content, 18 doesn’t hold a candle to 85, a nationwide poll has found. Researchers aren’t sure why.
They have only just noticed. Give the experts a few cycles to graduate PHDs and less will be known but a great deal will be said about the data.
- "Do not go gentle into the night. Rage Rage against the dying of the light."
I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed?
“I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed? - http://nyti.ms/bRDlNu”
- I began to wonder what was going on in 1998. Tech stocks were behaving very oddly. I did manage to get out of some positions at the top. I got burned in 2001 on a very few stocks. I found calculated risk soon after it started and read with wonder as the markets went mad. The markets are still mad. I have a strategy I hope will get me through the next few years. If I have guessed right, I will gain.
- Look and think hard. You must do for yourself. Situations and risks are such that I must not advise anyone. I will try to pass the news I find.
Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card
Using their cellphones, consumers can track their visits and purchases and earn rewards.
- Some "rewards" I would just as soon skip.
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For Very Young, Peril Lurks in Lithium Cell Batteries
Last fall, 13-month-old Aidan Truett of Hamilton, Ohio, developed what seemed like an upper respiratory infection. He lost interest in food and vomited a few times, but doctors attributed it to a virus. After nine days of severe symptoms and more ...
- Yet another reason to forbid my play areas to children. Computers use 2032s for cmos memory backup. Failure is often the reason old machines are junked.
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Exploring Music’s Hold on the Mind
“I wondered whether human music had been shaped for our brains by evolution — meaning, it helped us survive.”
- It helps us remember. Rhythm and rime form a mnemonic. Very useful, especially where the written word is not.
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So You Still Want to Choose Your Senator?
A look at the Tea Party’s quest to repeal the 17th Amendment, which provides for direct popular election of U.S. senators.
- How many times do we need to fight this battle? The Civil war is over. States Rights lost. "One Nation, Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
- Pre 1953 form.
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Israel Holds Hundreds Seized During Raid on Flotilla
Israel detained activists on Tuesday from the aid flotilla that its navy raided Monday, as reports said new attempts might be made to ferry aid to Gaza.
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Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, and Stop Fretting
Some overextended borrowers stop paying the mortgage and capitalize on the time that it takes to be evicted.
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Mere Silence Doesn’t Invoke Miranda, Justices Rule
Suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent during interrogations, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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Spillonomics: Underestimating Risk
What the oil spill and the financial crisis have in common.
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Louise Bourgeois, Influential Sculptor, Dies at 98
Ms. Bourgeois gained fame late in a long career, when her work had a galvanizing effect on younger artists.
Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card
Using their cellphones, consumers can track their visits and purchases and earn rewards.
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For Very Young, Peril Lurks in Lithium Cell Batteries
Last fall, 13-month-old Aidan Truett of Hamilton, Ohio, developed what seemed like an upper respiratory infection. He lost interest in food and vomited a few times, but doctors attributed it to a virus. After nine days of severe symptoms and more ...
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Exploring Music’s Hold on the Mind
“I wondered whether human music had been shaped for our brains by evolution — meaning, it helped us survive.”
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So You Still Want to Choose Your Senator?
A look at the Tea Party’s quest to repeal the 17th Amendment, which provides for direct popular election of U.S. senators.
Go Tell the Spartans: Upload Your Video
“@vanhoosear Guessing you saw Go Tell the Spartans branding in NYTimes:- http://nyti.ms/9ZM02h”
- A well designed campaign. Lansing is not Ann Arbor.
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Israel Holds Hundreds Seized During Raid on Flotilla
Israel detained activists on Tuesday from the aid flotilla that its navy raided Monday, as reports said new attempts might be made to ferry aid to Gaza.
- Egypt opened it's border with Gaza. People are leaving. The siege will continue. Israel is being very gentle. No looting burning and rape-murder. No pyramid of heads.
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Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, and Stop Fretting
Some overextended borrowers stop paying the mortgage and capitalize on the time that it takes to be evicted.
- It looks like one gets a year and a half to two years before eviction. It is called strategic default. It is worth it if you have an income to accumulate. Traumatic for all but it gets one out of a white elephant.
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Mere Silence Doesn’t Invoke Miranda, Justices Rule
Suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent during interrogations, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
- True. You must request a lawyer. They must tell you that.
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Spillonomics: Underestimating Risk
What the oil spill and the financial crisis have in common.
- Leonhardt was making sense to this point:
- "The big financial risk is no longer a housing bubble. Instead, it may be the huge deficits that the growth of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will cause in coming years — and the possibility that lenders will eventually become nervous about extending credit to Washington. True, some economists and policy makers insist the country should not get worked up about this possibility, because lenders have never soured on the United States government before and show no signs of doing so now. But isn’t that reminiscent of the old Bernanke-Greenspan tune about the housing market?"
- The US government does not borrow from banks in this way. the Federal Reserve loans money to the banks which it is intended the banks invest.It also lends money to itself. There can be no stricture on the money supply in the US. The external worth of the Dollar is another matter.
- Colin Powell said it:"Have an exit strategy." We do not have one in oil wells, in Iraq, in Afghanistan or in Israel.
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Louise Bourgeois, Influential Sculptor, Dies at 98
Ms. Bourgeois gained fame late in a long career, when her work had a galvanizing effect on younger artists.
- http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/31/arts/design/20100601-bourgeois-ss.html I will let the work speak.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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