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Phil Knight, the man who turned ordinary sneakers into a $160-a-pair branded footwear experience, is a businessman right down to his shiny black track shoes. By the way, Phil, what shoes are you wearing?
"These?" Knight says, incredulous that anyone would need to ask. "They're 360s."
OK, asking Phil Knight what kind of shoes he's got on is a bit like wondering what kind of computer Steve Jobs uses at home. The seventy-year-old billionaire cofounder of Nike is whooshing around his Beaverton office in a pair of Air Max 360s, the sneaker that, as anyone on the Nike campus can tell you, features an air-filled sole that cushions heel-to-toe transitions and offers a smooth overall ride—shoes that will set you back three figures unless your name happens to be Phil Knight.
No doubt about it: Phil knows footwear. But on February 5, Knight enters radically different territory as Laika, the Portland animation studio he owns, premieres its first feature-length movie, Coraline. For the supremely calculating Knight, breaking into the movie business is an unnerving journey into the unknown. "The footwear business is risky," he says with a rueful laugh. "But the movie business? That's gambling. At Nike, we launch new products, but every six months there's something different. With animated movies, it's more like a three-year cycle. So it's a bigger deal." Or as Laika CEO Dale Wahl puts it, "This is like taking three years to make one shoe, putting a ton of money into it, and hoping that somebody buys it."
"You're burning your fingers on hot glue, you're cutting you hands on bits of armature wire…The only reason stop-motion characters have life is because they take it out of someone else. They're little vampires that suck the life out of the people who work on them." -Travis Knight
Not since the days when Knight peddled sneakers out of his green Plymouth Valiant at track meets across the Northwest has he taken such a risk. With Coraline, the fledgling Laika—known as Will Vinton Studios before Knight took over the company in 2003 and ousted founder Will Vinton—enters the highly competitive animation arena alongside powerhouses like Pixar, DreamWorks, Disney, and Sony. Pixar, the industry giant, has been nominated for twenty-five Academy Awards (winning nine) for such box-office smashes as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. (In 2006, Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion, an amount that's still a few billion shy of Phil Knight's total net worth.) " Coraline is a huge risk," concedes Henry Selick, the film's screenwriter and director, who also directed The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. "But these days in animation, the safest bet is to take a risk."
The choice of Coraline as Laika's first release makes the crapshoot even dicier. The movie employs a painstaking technique known as stop-motion animation—think of the old Gumby TV show, or Vinton's California Raisins, or The Nightmare Before Christmas_. For a stop-motion production, animators position malleable silicone puppets on miniature sets and then film them one frame at a time, moving the puppets incrementally to simulate motion. Stop-motion is notoriously labor-intensive—_Coraline took three years to make, about twice as long as a typical live-action feature. Adding another layer of complexity, the film was shot entirely in stereoscopic 3-D, a first for a stop-motion animated feature. Stereoscopic 3-D involves shooting the same frame twice, from slightly different perspectives. The dual images are then superimposed upon each other on the movie screen, creating the illusion of depth for viewers wearing 3-D glasses. By the time Coraline was in the can, the film had cost Phil Knight close to $70 million—roughly the equivalent of 437,500 pairs of Nike 360s.


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CHIPLEY — The Washington County Board of County Commissioners considered whether or not to give the Sunny Hills MSBU its own website during Thursday's meeting in Chipley.
The board had discussed the possibility of creating a website which would keep Sunny Hills residents apprised of the financial standing of the MSBU's funds, Board Chairman Alan Bush said. The proposed website would cost about $90 a year to host — although the county no longer has an IT person to keep up the website.
"At first I thought it was a good idea," Commissioner Joel Pate said. "But I don't think we can really be paying anyone to be making a website."
The board voted earlier this summer, after several months' discussion, to do away with the MSBU as soon as possible, and to put all available funds toward paying off Sunny Hills' loan debt.
The Municipal Service Benefit Unit, or MSBU, is an ordinance-created tax district. Within that area, funds are raised to provide services to the residents in that designated region. However, the MSBU is not an entity unto itself.
The MSBU is a mechanism by which a county can fund a particular service or facility that provides a special benefit to property from a levy of special assessments.
Currently, the county collects $31.25 a year from residents and property owners within the MSBU, and that money is used to provide services to those living in Sunny Hills, as well as pay down the $1.66 million in debt — a loan that is not scheduled to be paid off until 2028.
The board reduced services to lighting, some contracted mowing, and intends to put all the remaining money raised by the MSBU toward paying off the community's debt.
"I know $96 doesn't sound like a lot of money, but my thought process was on the website itself," Commissioner Todd Abbott said. "We already have a county website. Why can't we post that information ourselves and save that money?"
Abbott said it was a good idea to have the financials of the MSBU publicized so the community can track where its fees are going and how the debt is being paid off.
"I think it was a very good suggestion on Commissioner (Lynn) Gothard's behalf," he said.
"Who dictates what goes on the county website?" Commissioner Charles Brock asked. "Who is in charge of it now?"
County Coordinator David Corbin is now in charge of the county websites since he is doing the duties of the former county manager, Brock was told.
"The county website hasn't been updated in months," said Gothard. "It still has Steve Joyner listed as the county manager."
"I may have a solution," Bush said. "Can I have a motion that we will put the MSBU information out there as soon as we can find a way of handling the website postings to the website?"
Bush said that the county was still in the process of dividing up tasks since the loss of the county IT person, as well as the human resources director and the administrative secretary.
"Lets agree that this is a good idea and we'll make it happen once we get through this transition," Bush said.
The board voted in favor of the motion, except for Gothard, who voted "no."
Consultant Bill Williams with SCG Governmental Affairs of Tallahassee also appeared before the board to give an update on the progress toward securing RESTORE Act funding for Washington County.
RESTORE Act funds are federally controlled funds resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 and which are coming from fines levied against BP for their part in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
"We were waiting on the Treasury rulings, which came down last week, and we were not precluded," Williams told the board. Williams was hired in March to serve as the county's consultant in its bid for RESTORE Act money.
"Now we are much closer to having a strong position, with the work of the Water Management District and the Regional Planning Council," Williams said.
The entire state of Florida was declared an impacted coastal zone, and the region that will be eligible for funding may stretch 25-30 miles north into Alabama.
The more the Panhandle counties work together, the stronger their claim will be for project funding from the RESTORE Act, Williams said.
This was Williams' first update of the board since he was hired to act as consultant on the county's behalf for a $5,000 fee.
"I, for one, would like to be updated at least once a month," Abbott told Williams. "Whether it is by email or you coming and meeting with us, I would like be kept better informed about what is going on."
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The flush valves from Netafim Irrigation eliminate the need for periodic manual flushing within a drip irrigation system. These devices are not required on a zone with Excel CV PC drip line due to its emitter check valve feature, but they work well with all other drip line as a means of flushing the lines automatically at the beginning of each irrigation cycle.
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Final Score: Miami 92, Golden State 75
Oakland, CA (Sports Network) - LeBron James had 25 points, 10 assists, seven rebounds and made NBA history in the Miami Heat's 92-75 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday.
With his offensive output, James has amassed 20,007 career points, making him the youngest player to reach that mark at 28 years, 17 days old. Kobe Bryant previously held the record at 29 years, 122 days old.
He became the 38th player to accomplish the feat, but by doing it in his 726th regular-season game he did not reach the milestone the fastest. Wilt Chamberlain holds that record by doing it in just 499 games.
"I try to give everything to the game of basketball and it continues to give back to me," said James. "It was great to be able to achieve those milestones alongside my teammates."
Dwyane Wade contributed 15 points, eight rebounds and six assists for the Heat, who have won two of their last three.
Mario Chalmers added 15 points, Chris Bosh finished with 11 and Ray Allen dropped in 10 in the victory.
Jarrett Jack netted 16 points to pace Golden State, which dropped its second straight and four of five overall.
David Lee finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds in defeat.
The teams traded baskets over the opening minutes of the first quarter until Miami ripped off a 14-0 run to go on top, 23-12, on James' 3-pointer with just under three minutes left in the frame.
Golden State never got closer than seven for the remainder of the first and trailed, 28-21, heading into the second quarter, where consecutive field goals by Lee cut the Warriors' deficit to three.
Miami, however, responded with a 9-0 spurt that included a pair of treys by Allen and Chalmers to reopen a 37-25 advantage.
James later connected on a pull-up jumper near the foul line to give the Heat a 44-31 lead and register his 20,001st career point.
The Heat maintained a double-digit lead for the rest of the half and carried a 52-38 cushion into the break.
Chalmers then drilled three shots from beyond the arc as Miami scored the first 13 points of a dominant third quarter, outscoring the Warriors by a 28-12 mark in the frame to take an 80-50 lead into the fourth quarter.
Miami emptied its bench for the final frame and still managed to maintain at least a 15-point lead over the final 12 minutes.
Game Notes
Warriors guard Stephen Curry sat out the game with a sprained right ankle ... James also recorded his 5,000th career assist in the game ... The Warriors fell to 11-5 against teams with records over .500 this season ... Miami scored 22 points off 21 Golden State turnovers.


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Led by Songhur Balkhi and Lulu the Spy, the Ayyars Slit the Throats of Prison Guards and Free Sa'id Farrukh-Nizhad
The oversized manuscript known as the Hamza- Nama was commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar (reigned 1556–1605). All of its paintings are on cloth, with Persian text written on paper glued to the reverse. The pages were probably displayed in storytelling performances. The Hamza-Nama is an adventure tale about the first generations of Muslims. This painting is typical of the series, with multiple figures in active stances set within a sumptuously decorated courtyard. The subject is a night raid on a prison, with the heroes killing their captors in order to free their comrades.
- Culture: Indian
- Medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on cotton cloth
- Dates: 1557-1572
- Dynasty: Mughal
- Dimensions: sheet: 30 7/8 x 24 1/2 in. (78.4 x 62.2 cm) image: 26 15/16 x 20 1/2 in. (68.4 x 52.1 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Asian Art
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- Accession Number: 24.46
- Credit Line: Museum Collection Fund
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- Caption: Indian. Led by Songhur Balkhi and Lulu the Spy, the Ayyars Slit the Throats of Prison Guards and Free Sa'id Farrukh-Nizhad, 1557-1572. Opaque watercolor and gold on cotton cloth, sheet: 30 7/8 x 24 1/2 in. (78.4 x 62.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 24.46
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Doug Flutie Hail Mary Pass | The Miracle in Miami
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Mel Allen wrote this Yankee Classic in November 1989 on the fifth anniversary of Doug Flutie's football triumph for Boston College. November 23, 2009, is the 25th anniversary of that moment.
The father of Doug Flutie drives slowly through Natick, a town of 31,000 west of Boston. It is a summer night; the air conditioner hums softly. Now and then the radar detector beeps a warning, but Dick Flutie pays it little heed. His wife Joan sits in the back.
They are showing me landmarks in the life of their son, Doug Flutie — the most famous football player in New England history — so he drives as if these streets were pages from an album he could turn.
"That's where Doug and Laurie were married," Dick says in front of St. Patrick's Church. LIFE magazine was there. "Natick's royal couple," I say. "Yes," Dick says, "they were." Four years have passed since the wedding, a new granddaughter has been born, but he still has trouble accepting that Doug has a life away from them, even though the life is lived but two miles away. "That's been the hardest," he says. "Not the football. Just Doug not being around as much."
We ride in a 1985 Ford LTD Crown Victoria. It is maroon, the school color of Boston College, Doug's alma mater. In the winter of that year, at the height of his fame, Doug made a television commercial for Ford; as payment he could select a car. He told his father to take his pick. "I was in a grocery store with Doug," Dick says, "and I felt tears in my eyes. I pulled him over in an aisle, and I told him that for me not to have to worry about car payments … well, nobody had ever given me anything like that. Ever." Bolted to the front bumper is a Boston College novelty plate, presumably in place forever. Lying on the back window is a New England Patriots banner that — should Doug be traded — can easily be removed.
Five years ago Doug Flutie threw a ball that traveled 65 yards through the rain in the twilight of the Orange Bowl, defying a wind that shook the palms outside the stadium and a clock that read zero. Some 30 million people watched on national television. The longest pass in football history, one writer said, because it traveled into myth. When he threw the ball, the score was 45-41 in favor of the University of Miami, the defending national champions. When the ball came down, Gerard Phelan, Doug's roommate, was waiting two yards deep in the end zone. Later, in the bedlam of the Boston College locker room, a player said, "That wasn't Gerard Phelan who caught the ball. God caught that ball." "No," replied a teammate, "God threw it."
The land hungered for a hero. Here was Doug Flutie: clean living, handsome, polite, modest; a Rhodes Scholar candidate who played with the bravado of a fighter pilot. He said his parents were his best friends. He played touch football with his old neighborhood pals. And his story read as if scripted in Hollywood. Standing a shade under 5′ 10″ and only 165 pounds, he was too small for big-time college football. Though time and again he had rescued his Natick High team from certain defeat, the Boston College coach had rejected him. Then the coach resigned. A new coach, Jack Bicknell, arrived from Maine. Dick Flutie phoned him . "Take another look at Doug," he urged. "Look at the films." There was one scholarship left to offer, and his son received it. When Bicknell came to the house, Dick told him, "You don't know what you have just signed. You just don't know."
Doug became what the New York Times called "a cultural icon." Stores sold out of football shirts bearing number 22. A week after the "miracle in Miami" he won the Heisman Trophy, awarded to college football's best player, and soon after helped Boston College win the Cotton Bowl. A television producer toured New York with him and said in wonder, "It was like being with Sinatra." One day former president Richard Nixon was walking when a young woman wearing a Boston College sweatshirt jogged by. "Ah," he reportedly murmured, "Doug Flutie."
For years Dick Flutie had been Doug's coach, his cheerleader, his historian; he roamed the playing fields snapping photos of his three boys, athletes all, and sold them to the local papers for $5 a shot. A computer engineer, he arranged work schedules so he could attend practices. Once Doug's high school baseball coach told him not to come to practices anymore. The two men have not spoken since. At Boston College he obtained a photographer's sideline pass. At times during games he could almost reach out and touch his son.


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Higher Taxes Hurt Job Creators? That's Malarkey.
As we go into the final days of a dismal presidential campaign where too many issues have been fudged or eluded—and the media only want to talk about is who's up and who's down—the biggest issue on which the candidates have given us the clearest choice is whether the rich should pay more in taxes.
President Obama says emphatically yes. He proposes ending the Bush tax cut for people earning more than $250,000 a year, and requiring those with high incomes to pay in taxes at least 30 percent of any income over $1 million (the so-called "Buffett Rule").
Mitt Romney says emphatically no. He proposes cutting tax rates by 20 percent, which would reduce taxes on the rich far more than anyone else. He also wants to extend the Bush tax cut for the wealthy, and reduce or eliminate taxes on dividends and capital gains.
Romney says he'll close loopholes and eliminate deductions used by the rich so that their share of total taxes remains the same as it is now, although he refuses to specify what loopholes or deductions. But even if we take him at his word, under no circumstances would he increase the amount of taxes they pay.
Obama is right.
America faces a huge budget deficit. And just about everyone who's looked at how to reduce it—the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission, and almost all independent economists and analysts—have come up with some combination of spending cuts and tax increases that raise revenue.
Just last Thursday, executives of more than eighty large American corporations called for tax reform that "raises revenues and reduces the deficit."
The practical question is who pays for those additional revenues. If Romney's view prevails and the rich don't pay more, everyone else has to.
That's nonsensical. The rich are far richer than they used to be, while most of the rest of us are poorer. The latest data show the top 1 percent garnering 93 percent of all the gains from the recovery so far. But median family income is 8 percent lower than it was in 2000, adjusted for inflation.
The gap has been widening for three decades. Since 1980 the top 1 percent has doubled its share of the nation's total income—from 10 percent to 20 percent. The share of the top one-tenth of 1 percent has tripled. The share of the top-most one-one hundredth of 1 percent—16,000 families—has quadrupled. The richest 400 Americans now have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together.
Meanwhile, the tax rates paid by the wealthy have dropped precipitously. Before 1981 the top marginal tax rate was never lower than 70 percent. Under President Dwight Eisenhower it was 93 percent. Even after taking all the deductions and tax credits available to them, the rich paid around 54 percent.
The top tax rate is now only 35 percent and the tax on capital gains (increases in the value of investments) is only 15 percent. Since so much of what they earn is from capital gains, many of the super-rich, like Mitt Romney himself, pay 14 percent or less. That's a lower tax rate than many middle-class Americans pay.
In fact, if you add up all the taxes paid—not just on income and capital gains but also payroll taxes (which don't apply to income above incomes of $110,100), and sales taxes—most of us are paying a higher percent of our income in taxes than are those at the top.
So how can anyone argue against raising taxes on the rich? Easy. They say it will slow the economy because the rich are "job creators."
In the immortal words of Joe Biden, that's malarky.
The economy did just fine during the three decades after World War II, when the top tax rate never fell below 70 percent. Average yearly economic growth was higher in those years than it's been since, when taxes on the rich have been far lower.
Bill Clinton raised taxes on the rich and the economy did wonderfully well. George W. Bush cut them and the economy slowed.
The real job creators are America's vast middle class, whose spending encourages businesses to expand and hire—and whose lack of spending has the opposite effect.
That's why the recovery has been painfully slow. So much income and wealth have gone to the top that the vast majority of Americans in the middle don't have the purchasing power to get the economy moving again. The rich save most of what they earn, and their savings go anywhere around the world where they can get the highest return.
It would be insane to compound the damage by raising taxes on the middle class and not on the rich.
Logic, fairness, and common sense dictate that the rich pay more in taxes. It's the key to avoiding January's fiscal cliff and coming up with a "grand bargain" on taming the budget deficit. And it's central to getting the economy back on track.
Mon, 2012-10-29 18:26
There's a better reason why it's malarkey. It's not even true.
Historically, the top marginal income tax rate was higher than the corporate tax rate. With the Bush tax cuts, individual rates could be lower than corporate rates. This caused many "small businesses" to restructure as pass-through corporations so that the corporate profits were taxed as income rather than corporate profits.
Romney is arguing that raising the top personal income tax rate will raise taxes on those small businesses that run as pass-through corporations. But, if the new personal tax rate goes up, those "small businesses" will just switch back from a pass-through to a more conventional corporate structure. And heck, if Obama lowers the corporate tax rate (as he's said in the past), this may result in even lower taxes for those small businesses than what they currently face.
In short, Romney's argument assumes that corporations won't adjust to the changes in tax law. As a "businessman" (whose pretty adept at minimizing taxes himself), he knows this argument is BS.
Tue, 2012-10-30 10:24
It might also be pointed out that most of the liquidity that the Fed is trying to pour into the economy is sucked right up by the wealthy who put it to use in non-productive financial chicanery.
If we taxed this money away and put it into the economy as a fiscal stimulus, then the economy would recover faster and the deficit would be eliminated.
Tue, 2012-10-30 10:28
The argument for tax increases for the wealthy is strengthened if you can explain the mechanism by which such tax increases help the economy.
If we only argue that historically, during high taxes the economy has done fine, then people could dismiss this as just a coincidence. If you can explain why it is true that the economy does well with higher taxes, then it is harder to dismiss the argument.
Tue, 2012-10-30 20:27
The mechanism is described in two parts.
Part 1 - Lower marginal rates increase inequality:
Part 2 - Higher inequality leads to lower consumption:
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Animals have been associated with certain attributes since people started drawing on the walls of caves thousands of years ago. Owls have often been used as a symbol for wisdom and longevity, royal lions are featured on the crests of a number of noble families, and elephants are said to bring good luck to those who put pachyderm images and sculptures on display. Another lesser known animal that has also been viewed as a symbol of longevity, good luck, and wisdom is the lowly tortoise. Although this ancient order of reptiles might not look as pretty as a macaw or cute as a Meerkat, they win hearts with their good natured, harmless appearance and patient attitude.
The positive attributes and unique look of the tortoise have actually made it one of the more popular and enduring of animal garden statues. People have put sculptures of this characteristic reptile in gardens for more than a thousand years to bring luck to their home and family, and because they add a wholesome, happy look to any garden. The low height of the tortoise makes it an excellent choice for an animal yard statue that can provide a natural look to the backyard while looking right at home with its surroundings. Like the actual, live tortoises that actually do enter gardens in certain parts of the world, the tortoise statue makes for innocuous, naturally interesting decor.
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Bobby Jindal to Poor Louisianans: Drop Dead
Last week, I wrote on how Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was transforming his state's tax system, from a mixed collection of corporate, income and sales taxes, to one where corporate and income taxes have been eliminated, and sales taxes are hiked to make up for lost revenue. In other words, Jindal wants to turn Louisiana's marginally progressive tax structure into a fully regressive one, which places its largest tax burden on its most vulnerable citizens.
If Jindal were also proposing a large expansion of state services, this would make sense. Overall, the progressivity of the tax burden is less important than the level of redistribution. A state with regressive taxes but robust public benefits is better for lower-income people than one with progressive taxes but few benefits.
Unfortunately, that doesn't describe Jindal's Louisiana. To wit, he has authorized elimination of the state's hospice program for Medicaid recipients. According to a local New Orleans news station, Louisiana residents over the age of 21 will stop receiving hospice benefits at the end of the month. As of February, low-income Louisianans with terminal illnesses and disabilities will lose access to long-term home and medical care.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals defends this as a cost-saving measure: Over the next two years, Louisiana will save $8.3 million by ending state-funded hospice care. But that's a paltry sum compared to the state's $900 million deficit. And in the same way that raising Medicare eligibility increases costs by moving seniors into more expensive private insurance plans, these cuts will, in the end, place a greater burden on the state, as low-income Louisianans turn to nearby hospitals and ICUs, shifting the burden to localities.
In isolation, it's a disaster of a plan. When coupled with existing cuts to education and a large tax increase on the bottom 80 percent of Louisiana residents, it's a catastrophe. Indeed, Jindal seems devoted to engineering a Louisiana that works little for its most vulnerable citizens, and does as much as possible to satisfy the wants of wealthy, entrenched interests.
Wed, 2013-01-23 07:53
"A state with regressive taxes but robust public benefits is better for lower-income people than one with progressive taxes but few benefits."
Obviously. But that's not what's under debate, really.
Jindal, like the rest of the fiscally conservative governors, realize that a JOB is of far more financial value to an individual than a dole. Or, put another way, the total received value of all entitled doles never adds up to the total received value of even a low-wage job. If it does, your society quickly goes into a tailspin and you have to readjust (if you doubt that, do a little research on how Sweden has pulled back on tax rates and beneifts over the last forty years.)
In the states, reality bites hard. There are no language or major cultural barriers between moving from California to Texas, so it happens not infrequently as the taxation AND job opportunity systems benefit the latter. Louisiana, additionally hampered by a state income tax system which has a loophole for every business that would donate to or drink with Edwin Edwards and his famously corrupt predecessors.
Bobby wants part of the Texas in-migration of business before he becomes President. To get that, he needs to reform what is likely the worst tax code in the nation (sales, property, income) which is famous for unfair set-asides. To do that, you create a backbone structure you can then adapt to future needs.
Let him do so without the armchair quarterbacking. And, to address your crocodile tears about the "poor", keep in mind that a HUGE proportion of the out-migration of low-income people after Katrina STAYED IN TEXAS, because the quality of life there for them (including services) was better than in Louisiana.,
Wed, 2013-01-23 08:07
Why don't liberals recognize that ALL taxes are regressive, if not as obvious? The only difference, as usual, is that this author believes taxation for govt redistribution - highly inefficient - while conservatives know a better economic climate will encourage growth and employment, reduced cost of living and the need for inefficient redistribution.
Thu, 2013-01-24 17:19
History has nearly always shown that societies have declined when elites have possessed too much of the overall wealth of a nation. This is exactly what is happening in the US. Our distribution of wealth is comparable to what we have seen in past nations that have begun to enter a decline. What would your recommendations be to help fix this? Or do you you believe that this is just the natural order of the world? There are ways to implement government policy that promote a more equal society. The reason we don't want to redistribute all wealth is because it ruins innovation and efficiency, but the current structure is bound to do the same. There is a middle point where we can find balance.
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Wed, 2013-01-23 08:16
"Home hospice care usually costs less than care in hospitals, nursing homes, or other institutional settings. This is because less high-cost technology is used and family and friends provide most of the care at home." --American Cancer Society
It seems to me that cutting spending on hospice care may be counterproductive.
Wed, 2013-01-23 09:40
By the moronic logic being expressed in these comments, you would expect the South to be the most prosperous region in the country, since no other region of the country has a "better" economic climate. The South was the poorest part of the country 150 years ago; after 150 years of generally benighted conservative dominance it is STILL the poorest part of the country; and it will probably still be the poorest part of the country in 2163. If they keep electing conservatives, there's no doubt of it.
Wed, 2013-01-23 12:26
The low information/slow thought process limitations of the American political left strike again - in this article and especially in this post. First, note that the South was the Solid South for DEMOCRATS during most of those 150 years, with Republicans coming to the forefront only in the last 20-30 and an uphill battle on their hands to overcome the situation that had developed under generations of monolithic Democrat control.
And they have succeeded. Steph, I know this is going to confuse you and be extremely hard for you to understand but things have changed in the South since the 60's. Everything has not stood still since the heyday of the American left. Racism is now most predominant in the northern cities (you know, the ones run by Democrat machine politics - go ahead an look up the most segregated places in America; they are not in the South. You will also find their is a steady migration of Blacks back to the South for better opportunities and better treatment - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/nyregion/many-black-new-yorkers-are-moving-to-the-south.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 )
As for poverty - wake up, the South is where the jobs are and the cost of living is cheaper. For decades, the leftist bureaucrats of the Federal government have tried to mislead people about the real nature of poverty in this country. Too many blue states needed to look superior to the allegedly poor South in order to contunue their failed experiments in welfare. However, even bureaucracy has to face reality eventually and they changed from the archaic "poverty threshold" (which was the same everywhere, regardless of cost of living) and developed the Supplemental Poverty Measure - something that much more accurately demonstrates financial reality.
So what parts of the country are really POOR! It is not the South, it is not the Midwest. Oh no, fly-over country is doing fine. This sick beasts are on the coasts with the number 1 highest rate of real poverty belonging directly to the ultra-blue state of California with a whopping 23.5% of its population living in dire straights (http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf). Who is next? Who else but the most wildly Democrat driven place in America, the District of Columbia (at 23.2)! Of course, we should have known this already because they also lead the nation in welfare recipients per capita (
Where does Bobby Jindal's state stand in terms of poverty??? A little above the national average (17 percent versus 15.8) but that still means that CA and DC have about 35% more per folks per capita than the poor downtrodden souls of LA. Texas and Mississippi are both doing better than LA that with decrepit Missisiippi actual right at the national average. Who else is doing well - both Carolinas, Tennesee, West Virginia, Kentucky and Alabama are all well below the national average.
Steph, you probably should not use the term "moronic" without looking in a mirror.
Thu, 2013-01-24 11:11
There's that "Democrat controlled South" canard again. The truth is, the ruling political ideology under today's Southern Republicans is the very same ideology (and has included some of the same politicians and voters) as the old Southern Democrats, who in 1948 ran Strom Thurmond for President under the label Dixiecrat. The national Democratic party (national meaning non-Southern) rebuilt itself with workers, some farmers, immigrants of non-Anglo-Saxon-Puritan culture, etc. after the Civil War, to fight for the economic and cultural rights of lower and middle income non-WASP voters. In the South, they had to put up with the old guard (after Reconstruction was ended too early) in order to be a viable party, and the Southern "Dixiecrats" had an uneasy alliance with national Democrats, in order to get federal funds to recover economically; they agreed not to talk about racism (see Huey Long) in order to avoid a breakup and get federal pork projects (TVA, Oak Ridge, military bases, etc.). The racists hated Eleanor, but needed Franklin and his programs.
When Truman desegregated the Armed Forces in 1948, the Dixiecrats tried to revolt, but they were not economically strong enough to do so until after the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964. Then began the long transition by which Dixiecrats became Republicans, and TRUE Democrats remained in the party of Jefferson. And all that experience with non-WASP voting blocs gave us an empathy toward the downtrodden, rather than a desire to trod them down some more, as Bobby Jindal and others propose.
However, the new GOP is worse than the old Democratic party in several ways, most notably in that, rather than allow both religious/cultural conservatives and economic-only conservatives to hold power in their own regions, they have allowed the poison of racism to rule their entire national party as well as the Southern branches.
Historically, the Dixiecrat-turned-Republican states have all (except for Texas, which is just so darn BIG its economy is better than the rest) had to accept MORE help from the feds than they send into Washington in taxes, while the "blue" states pay more in taxes than they receive (or NEED to receive) in federal benefits. Further, the "blue" states as a rule can help more of their poor before they need federal funds, because they have the prosperity to be taxed and the progressive attitudes to do so.
So, let the "red" states secede, it will be better for the budget of the new USA without them. Just wait till I can move to a blue state before a passport would be needed, then secede. The average IQ of Americans will improve also.
Thu, 2013-01-24 12:30
"First, note that the South was the Solid South for DEMOCRATS during most of those 150 years, with Republicans coming to the forefront only in the last 20-30 and an uphill battle on their hands to overcome the situation that had developed under generations of monolithic Democrat control."
This red herring will never die! The South was ruled by racist, neo-Confederates since the 1800's. Party labels did not and still do not matter. The same ruling class has morphed from 'States Rights Democrats', to Dixiecrats to the latest incarnation, Republicans. You can change the name on the letterhead but the same goals, the same practices prevail.
Thu, 2013-01-24 17:22
You are making a common mistake. The words democrats and republicans are only labels, the policies they are associated with is what is really important. The south has generally been known to have more conservative beliefs while the north has had more progressive beliefs, although there has been some fluctuation in this. Whether conservative goes with the party label of democratic, republican, whig, or federalist is really irrelevant. Certain policies promote certain outcomes. Your post shows that you are more interested in party politics and finding a victory for your party that the actually policy decisions that promote better societal outcomes.
Wed, 2013-01-23 11:30
I know facts, reason, rationality does not matter to someone like Bouie, but, a recent study done by economist Jens Arnold for OECD (you know the club of those countries that provide best prospects for their citizens) suggests that the corporate income tax was the most harmful to economic growth, followed by the personal income tax, while taxes on consumption and property had the least impact on an economy.
Even fithere a study by Arnold and four other economists using OECD data estimated that every one percent shift in tax revenues away from income taxes towards other levies produced an additional one-quarter to one percentage point gain in economic growth, you know the thing that provides, whatchamacallem, jobs.
And as far back as 50 years ago Harvard Professor Stanley Surrey, JFK's assistant treasury secretary for tax policy, did a study that suggested that spending through the tax code on social goals was less effective than direct government expenditures, expenditures that could actually be raised if your economy grows faster.
OK, this brief window on reality closes, back to your fantasy world, Bouie.
Wed, 2013-01-23 11:44
Obama said we need "bold, persistent experimentation." It seems that not all experimentation is allowed. We can experiment greatly increasing spending, greatly raising taxes, greatly expanding the size of the federal government, and greatly growing the scope of federal power over the most intimate relationships in our lives.
We can't experiment reducing taxes, reducing spending, reducing the size of government, and reducing the intrusion of government into our perosnal lives.
So the talk about experimentation is just a bald-faced lie in the end. This is the face of statism.
Thu, 2013-01-24 11:15
We did that "experiment" during the Reagan/Bush and then the W. Bush years. The result was increasing relative poverty for poor and middle class citizens, while a new Gilded Age created bigger billionaires than ever, climaxed by the Great Recession (like 1921 to 1929). If you were fortunate enough to be in the top one percent, or fortunate enough not to have lost your job and home YET, you may not have felt the pain.
And Republicans do not mind intrusive government to make sure that you follow the religious preferences of your employer and politicians (in preference to those of your OWN religion). Remember Governor Ultrasound?
Wed, 2013-01-23 11:52
Instead of "drop dead" it is more like "please disappear". We don't want your suffering to hurt business. The two themes of US politics are the split between having social programs and using a business matrix that ignores social needs. Supposedly only those paying taxes count as in only white men owning property can vote. Except even when white men had the vote, wealthy white men had court-ordered responsibility for those who needed shelter and work. Perhaps it was slave labor, but never did we totally ignore social need. Time to to get real and stop the red state posturing. Or perhaps we will divide ourselves by moving to either red or blue states. Right now the blue states pay more to the red states.
Wed, 2013-01-23 12:34
This is one more tired, platitude-poisoned article lamenting "the most vulnerable" (a euphemism for 'welfare careerist') is going to have something not given to them any longer which they have not earned. That day of reckoning is here Mr. Bouie. And it's never going back to FDR era wealth transfer again. The wealthy have sacrificed enough. It's time for people who have not managed their personal lives and finance to become accountable.
Wed, 2013-01-23 14:49
No such thing as a progressive tax. As for redistribution if it worked people on welfare would not be in poverty. Malcom X warned against taking this kind of charity as it would make you dependent on the government and destroy your character.
If the regressive tax attracts more business, which the indications are it will, then the creation of jobs that go with them will do more for the poor than all the government programs. That is why liberals are scared of them.
People on welfare wait for checks. They live in poor housing, have poor prospects, never have an opportunity for improvement. The libs are lucky they sell their sell votes so cheaply.
The poor should ask the lib patrons, "where's my house? where's my car? when do I get to spend a week at Disney or the like? Why are you flying to Hawaii, Martha's Vineyards, Las Vegas on my dime? Why do you get medical treatment in the best hospitals when I have to sit in a broken down one?"
If they would listen to conservatives they would get their job. In a few years they would have their house and nice car. A year or so after that they would take their whole family on vacations to wherever they chose. They would retire one day and watch there children enjoy the same successes they did.
That is what the "Jindahls" want for them.
Or they can do what they have done for over 50 years and get the same thing they have for that time.
Thu, 2013-01-24 17:33
The policy of other countries has shown that there are ways of implementing policy that create a safe and productive society while still promoting equality among different classes. Right now the US is stuck in the middle ground between encouraging people to fend for themselves and just handing out a monthly check for food or rent with little oversight. These are not the only two options that we have available to us.
Thu, 2013-01-24 17:26
The problem with these types of initiatives, as we have seen in nearly every state, is that the governments don't perceive the potential downfalls as the writer has pointed out. By taking away resources from one thing we can often force people to utilize something else. In this case, those will most likely be hospitals and emergency rooms, which are often times much more expensive. This is happening time and again and in reality we are saving a much smaller amount of money than we think we are.
Fri, 2013-01-25 09:32
Interesting article. It would appear that Jindal and LA would like for more people to save rather than grow the economy through constant spending. By eliminating the Income Tax and the Corporate Tax, you are placing the burden upon the lowest income classes, as to the non-disposable incomes. This will mean one of a few things could happen. Either people start buying things across the state lines (some will do that anyway), or people will quit spending money on just about anything, including medical care.
Its an interesting concept if your goal is a race to the bottom.
Wed, 2013-09-18 03:25
The policy of other countries has shown that there are ways of implementing policy that create a safe and productive society while still promoting equality among different classes. Right now the US is stuck in the middle ground between encouraging people to fend for themselves and just handing out a monthly check for food or rent with little oversight. These are not the only two options that we have available to us.
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Posted 26 February 2013 - 09:56
A slightly different point of view here:
I do not have cable TV (or satellite or fibre or som other paid-for delivery system). I do have broadband connections, but they are only for Internet usage (and, in some cases, telephone).
I do not use peer-to-peer file transfer networks to steal other companies intellectual property. I have a few programs (games) that use P2P mechanisms for updating themselves, but that's internal to the game client and does not involve any kind of copyright infringement.
If I want to watch something and it's not on Hulu, Vimeo or YouTube, I purchase the DVD or Blu-ray discs if I want to see it. For books and magazines, I can go to the bookstore and buy them, an online store like Amazon or Nook, or sometimes even directly to the publisher or author.
Personally, I look forward to having my Internet connection's speed, throughput and latency improve as the people who are abusing it through their criminal actions are kicked off.
Those are all going to improve after the infringers are removed from the equation and the networks are once again used for legitimate, legal activity, aren't they?
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Posted 26 February 2013 - 15:07
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 09:24
The problem is that nothing is done about the real theft. The Pirates that burn 1000 of those DVD's that you buy and sell them on the corner. So what to these geniuses do? Go after the the little guy, the guy that may not even be aware that what he or she is doing is illegal. I also see that you would rather watch Hulu or YouTube than have a TV. You also have multiple broadband connections. I find this very interesting......
Posted 27 February 2013 - 14:21
As far as I know, the MPAA/RIAA go after these folks, too. On the government side, though, things seem to bit more nuanced: I was in a workshop a couple of years ago with the federal prosecutor who handles high-tech crime in my region, and he indicated that they have little interest in prosecuting non-commercial infringement; there are other crimes which are higher priority to them. On the other hand, if anyone was engaging in some kind of commercial activity around the infringement (i.e., attempting to sell pirated movies, software and so forth) they would go after them and seek maximum penalties... in order to make an example out of them.
The solution, in any case, seems very simple to me: Don't take things which don't belong to you.
Whether that is a physical object (a disc) or something less tangible (a file) seems irrelevant to me.
My parents brought me up to respect other people's property, even if the other person in this case happens to be some sort of horrible company with a trade association that is less liked than blood-sucking parasites.
The secret to winning this war is actually quite simple. Don't pirate things. And don't buy them, either. That includes paying for paying for services like cable TV.
Fundamentally, this is an economic problem, not a legal one: You certainly cannot out-spend (including money spent on legislation and legislators) these creators of content you find so desirous. The only thing you can do to affect them is to vote with your dollars. If enough people choose not to pay them for whatever pablum they are offering, the content creators will be forced to seek new markets and methods of distribution, and that's when you'll get what you want.
I do occasionally watch videos on YouTube (my employer's are great, by the way) and some shows on Hulu (the free service, not the paid one). But, if there's something that's compelling enough for me to watch it in full, I'll get the discs for it. Frankly, though, I spend more time reading. And, yes, I have multiple residences so I have multiple broadband connections. Only one per location, though. Sorry if I was unclear on that.
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 14:34
You know what is also a problem.
I want to have HBO to legally watch Game of Thrones.
You see the problem is to have HBO i need to have TMN instead of Super Écran. Problem is i'm the only one to watch TV in english. So it's not possible to switch Super Écran to TMN unless i want to give up on sex ... so it's impossible for me to get HBO and legally watch Game of Thrones.
So what ******* **** ******* option do i ******* have for *** ****.
Those greedy ****** ******* ********. They want the butter and the money from it.
Posted 27 February 2013 - 14:38
Posted 27 February 2013 - 14:51
a few weeks ago i heard a very blunt conversation on NPR. The host was interviewing a spokeswoman from TWC about this issue.
They got talking about Strikes 1-4. Basically, nothing happens. They might send you a letter, or put something on a website 'educating' you about piracy. At Strike 5, they make you sign a form and will throttle your connection. Same for Strike 6. Somewhere in this process they make you take an online course about piracy. Even after 6 strikes, TWC will do nothing. They will temporarily throttle your connection, but will not cancel your subscription or report you to the Feds. TWC will not risk losing a customer.
So, you could get 30 strikes and TWC will still do nothing further than throttle.
The Host of the show even asked the woman: "what can you do about people using such things as a VPN to hide their activity?" The woman said "nothing."
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