The Oil Plume
Once again, I have to disagree with Mr. Brooks' conclusions starting with "(The decision to do health care before energy is now looking extremely unfortunate.)" Not if you're sick or become sick and don't have adequate health insurance. Having cheap gas to drive to the movies is a good thing but being alive is better. And rather than a metaphor for the "ineffectiveness of government institutions," this horrible event seems a final nail in the coffin of Republican ideas about government, namely their fundamental aversion to robust regulatory agencies staffed by competent and accountable individuals. Now we have the outcome of that disregard for the proper role of government and conservatives yet again (!) want to point to it as an example of how government is always ineffective. What incredible chutzpah! Rather then becoming enervated by this event, I hope and believe that the Obama administration will become energized in the pursuit of competence in government with meaningful corporate oversight and a set of rules that holds businesses responsible for the safety of their workers, the environment they utilize, and the true costs of their products including the externalities they create, all things utterly disregarded by the Republican way of governing.
- Well said.
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Our Epic Foolishness
I've seen on tv the former president of Shell Oil and others recommending sending supertankers with million barrel capacities out to suck up the oil and water mixtures then to take them to ports and deposit them in tanks ashore to separate out the oil and water. They say it was done once before. It sounds expensive and also like it might work. Why has no one from the Obama administration mentioned this technique? It would at least prevent the destruction of "OUR" entire southern shoreline.
- The result is not clean enough to matter. This "spill" is too diffuse by the time it gets to the surface. The replacement riser is a better fix even if it takes ten days. A fix for the huricane that has not formed yet is to have a mostly full and mostly empty tanker on the riser at all times there is not a hurricane. the mostly empty can run , the mostly full can try to hold station.
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Owners Stop Paying Mortgage ... and Stop Fretting About It
I'm plainly sick of these stories, because I emigrated to this country in 2004 and have been renting ever since, seeing that the housing market was in a bubble and the labor market is shaky. The rent history included a dumb-as-rocks, overleveraged landlady from the Bronx who as some point stopped paying not only the mortgage but the gas bill as well. Dude, where is my bailout? If I stopped paying the rent I'd be out of a roof in 30 days!
- In this case the occupant would rather have the money than the roof.
- They will have to pay the rent soon.
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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.
- "Let's form a comity and see what we can do by talking."
Fictional Mining Town, Mirroring Real Losses
“BURNT PART BOYS: Fictional Mining Town, Mirroring Real Losses - http://nyti.ms/9AfGcJ Watch for my review.”
- "Socialist Realism" with the serial number filed off. There is power there but they might better play with an updated How the Other Half Lives.
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Gender Gap for the Gifted in City Schools
Ok, so when females share equally in the world's resources (females currently own 1 % of the world's wealth compared to men's 99%), we can worry about the fact that more girls go to gifted schools. Furthermore, giving girls more opportunity may help compensate for the extra responsibility still placed on all women around the globe for child rearing.
- Really dumb girls get dead a bit quicker than really dumb boys.
- evolution is a long time base process. It has had a million years to work.
Afghan Girls Flogged for Running Away
“Video: Afghan Girls Flogged for Running Away - http://nyti.ms/b77JsH”
- The money should not develop a mind of its own. I want a way to end the cash equivalency of persons. Elisabeth I did it for us. In the stans it seems to come from Persia.
Motherhood: Norway Tops List of the Best Places to Be a Mother; Afghanistan Rates Worst
“Motherhood: Norway Tops List of the Best Places to Be a Mother - http://nyti.ms/dC4Lak <--- can't believe US came in 28th!”
- The top rated countries are all in population reduction. one child is considered normal. Development is associated with this.
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Backward at Bagram
"...since President George W. Bush embarked on a campaign after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to create an imperial presidency." A bit over the top, no? Or just a poor choice of words. "Imperial Presidency" evokes Nixon, not Bush, in popular usage. I think "National Security State" would have been more precise, but still ambiguous. Still, Bush, Rove and Rummy hardly seem an imperial presidency to me.
- "We have a government of laws, not of men." These prisoners of laws are subject to law, all of it.
- Stop whimpering.
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The Pain Caucus
Less than a year into a weak recovery from the worst slump since World War II, there is a dangerous urge to stop helping the jobless and start inflicting pain.
- We dealt with this. Krugman fixes the world or tries.
Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card
Using their cellphones, consumers can track their visits and purchases and earn rewards.
- More minutes shot to hell. Is the reward worth the cost?
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Israeli Raid Complicates U.S. Ties and Push for Peace
The deadly operation on a flotilla trying to break a blockade of Gaza introduced a new strain into already tense relations between the United States and Israel.
Defeated forces that do not surrender are called bandits. The forces of order act to destroy them. The Israelis are showing great restraint.
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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.
- David Brooks is not helping. He is damning things before-time.
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When Online Gripes Are Met With a Lawsuit
Lawyers say that a growing number of businesses are suing individuals for posting critical comments online.
- A reasonabl report. SLAPPs are abusive.
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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.
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Owners Stop Paying Mortgage ... and Stop Fretting About It
Some overextended borrowers have stopped paying the mortgage, and are capitalizing on the time that it takes to be evicted.
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Behind Unassuming Walls, a War of Words Among Co-op Board Members
This is a sit-com waiting to happen....
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Paterson Now Focuses on Layoffs to Cut Budget
Union bus drivers making $100k a year? Are you kidding me? There are fifty qualified guys out there that would take the job tommorow for half of that. Patterson's employees are RIPPING OFF THE TAXPAYER!
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Deadly Israeli Raid Draws Condemnation
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel canceled his plans for meeting with President Obama after a raid on ships carrying supplies for Gaza left nine people dead.
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Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt
Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card
Using their cellphones, consumers can track their visits and purchases and earn rewards.
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Israeli Raid Complicates U.S. Ties and Push for Peace
The deadly operation on a flotilla trying to break a blockade of Gaza introduced a new strain into already tense relations between the United States and Israel.
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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.
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When Online Gripes Are Met With a Lawsuit
Lawyers say that a growing number of businesses are suing individuals for posting critical comments online.
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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.
- I guess I will just have to do some work.
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Owners Stop Paying Mortgage ... and Stop Fretting About It
Some overextended borrowers have stopped paying the mortgage, and are capitalizing on the time that it takes to be evicted.
- The bank doesn't want that property. It wants money.
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Behind Unassuming Walls, a War of Words Among Co-op Board Members
This is a sit-com waiting to happen....
- What do you mean waiting? It just needs a writer
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Paterson Now Focuses on Layoffs to Cut Budget
Union bus drivers making $100k a year? Are you kidding me? There are fifty qualified guys out there that would take the job tommorow for half of that. Patterson's employees are RIPPING OFF THE TAXPAYER!
- Signing the union contract made Pataki very happy.
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Deadly Israeli Raid Draws Condemnation
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel canceled his plans for meeting with President Obama after a raid on ships carrying supplies for Gaza left nine people dead.
- Where does this go from here? The Mediterranean breeds piracy. The Turks have a history, most recently in Cypress.
‘A Threat to Their Sovereignty’
“Jimmy Kimmel's take on HHDL/BHO meeting. ‘A Threat to Their Sovereignty’ - http://nyti.ms/9Y5Ibg”
http://comics.com/frazz/
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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