Sunday, September 11, 2011

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    Kim Bost

    • notsocommon posted to Twitter an article:
      Jul 27, 2011
      South Dakota Was Home to Lion Killed in Connecticut
      “South Dakota Was Home to Lion Killed in Connecticut - http://nyti.ms/nE76Mf” 
      " . . . and then, more dramatically, by the lean body of a 140-pound male creature killed by a sport utility vehicle on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Milford on June 11."    A sad end. 

      "Dennis Schain, communications director for the department, said that the development could lead people to wonder if there were other mountain lions, but that there was no reason to believe so.
      “We’ve never seen any evidence of that,” he said, “and you can see that in other states where they do get mountain lions dispersing they have evidence — a footprint, scat, DNA. We’ve never had any of that. There’s been no evidence of them moving into this area except for this incident.”"
      " Its stomach was empty, but an analysis of food in its intestines was being conducted."

      I can look for a report but why? It ate what it could catch or find.

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Sep 9, 2011
    Social Security Is Not a Scheme, but Change Is Needed - Room for Debate
    Raising the ceiling on income hit by the payroll tax would restore balance to the system and make it solvent for the long term.

    • A System in Need of Change

      Robert Reich Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary
      I have thought he was one of us.  He is.
      "The reason there could be a problem 26 years from now is widening inequality. Remember, the Social Security payroll tax applies only to earnings up to a certain ceiling — now $106,800. The ceiling rises every year according to a formula roughly matching inflation."
      "To return to 90 percent, the ceiling on income subject to the Social Security tax has to be raised to $180,000. Do that, and Social Security would be fully solvent over the long term." R.B.R.


  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Sep 9, 2011
    Will Online Faith Communities Replace Churches? - Room for Debate
    Can online communities like Jesus Daily take the place of offline religious life, like what happens at synagogues and churches?
    No.  
    They may reinforce Faith.  They cannot replace the tribal bond.

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Sep 9, 2011
    There's Still a Need for the Patriot Act - Room for Debate
    The Patriot Act does not apply only to Al Qaeda; it also has implications for domestic terrorists and ordinary criminals.
    Ordinary law has been enough. Let us make it that way again.

    • There's Still a Need

      Eric Posner Eric Posner, co-author, "Terror in the Balance"
      Free speech includes the right to consider violence.
      The act is unlawful, not the thought.

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Sep 9, 2011
    Social Security as a Ponzi? It's a Bad Metaphor - Room for Debate
    Ponzis depend on fraud, but there is no organization more scrupulously honest than the Social Security Administration.
    It is funded by it's own revenue scheme.  A flat tax. it makes no claim to return capital.  No fraud is there.
    "To paraphrase the late David Crockett — as a U.S. congressman from Tennessee, before he died in 1836 at the Alamo during the fight for the independence of Texas — Governor Perry’s claim that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme don’t make good sense. It don’t even make good nonsense."


  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Sep 9, 2011
    Social Security Is Not a Fly-by-Night Ponzi Scheme - Room for Debate
    The only thing that could transform Social Security into a Ponzi scheme would be a scoundrel president and Congress ending the system.

    • Fly-by-Night vs. Social Institution

      Teresa Ghilarducci Teresa Ghilarducci, New School for Social Research

    She is deeply  offended by the suggestion.  
    She is doing her homework.
    "The economist Hyman Minsky first compared the financial practices of banks to Charles Ponzi when, in good times, they make extremely risky loans based on overly optimistic expectations, whether it’s a real estate loan or a bond deal in a merger or acquisition. Minsky called it Ponzi financing when falsely confident lenders didn’t even demand full interest or minimum payments on principle. In short, a financial system is a "Ponzi" if entities that agree to pay turn out to be weak and default.The economist Hyman Minsky first compared the financial practices of banks to Charles Ponzi when, in good times, they make extremely risky loans based on overly optimistic expectations, whether it’s a real estate loan or a bond deal in a merger or acquisition. Minsky called it Ponzi financing when falsely confident lenders didn’t even demand full interest or minimum payments on principle. In short, a financial system is a "Ponzi" if entities that agree to pay turn out to be weak and default."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
    She is an academic and can't cite the Wikipedia.  The links seem to be broken.  That has been happening.  Unskilled attempted editing.
    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/shleifer-vishny-minsky-wonkish/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/22/comment.business

  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
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    Beware of Convenient Fellowship - Room for Debate
    The freedom from commitment that makes online faith communities appealing also can make them isolating and misleading.

    • Beware of Convenient Fellowship

      Colleen Carroll Campbell Colleen Carroll Campbell, columnist and author
      I suspect R.C. doctrine.
      Reading scripture can be dangerous to your spiritual health.

    • I have no trouble with endangering my spiritual health but scripture and inspiration are no reason to attend a church.


  • TimesPeople recommended a blog post:
    Sep 9, 2011
    Social Security Will Last Indefinitely - Room for Debate
    In 1954, Eisenhower referred to a small group of politicians who wanted to abolish Social Security as 'stupid.'

    • The Program Is Sustainable

      Paul Pierson Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley
      " President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a moderate Republican, wrote in 1954: “should any political party attempt to abolish social security … you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. … Their number is negligible and they are stupid.” "
      The whole as quoted is still true.
      Perry is probably not a viable candidate.
      The main reason Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme is that it does not fit the definition of a Ponzi scheme.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
      "A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors, not from any actual profit earned by the organization, but from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors. The Ponzi scheme usually entices new investors by offering returns other investments cannot guarantee, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. The perpetuation of the returns that a Ponzi scheme advertises and pays requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors to keep the scheme going."


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    KevinBrainard

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      Feb 24, 2011

      Obama Shifts Course on Defense of Marriage Act
      “Finally! Obama Shifts Course on Defense of Marriage Act - http://nyti.ms/fTfKVN” 
      Congressional action will be required to remove it from the law.
      There is no majority on the Supreme Court to strike it down.
      Non-enforcement is the best he can do.

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    SarahDC 
    What Did We Learn From Irene? - Room for Debate

    http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/29/what-did-we-learn-from-irene?src=tp

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Irene_%282011%29
    The Wikipedia does a good job.

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