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Well-ordered self-assembled mono layers using Trito n X 100 were formed on the carbon steel surface by immersion method. This leads to ordered, strong mono layers b ound to the surface. Monolayer formation takes plac e when carbon steel is immersed in well water in presence of 200 ppm of Triton X 100 and 50 ppm of Zn2+ for one day and rinsing the adsorbed molecules in distilled water a nd heating in a hot air oven. The formulations of m ono layers were confirmed by FTIR spectra. The self-assembled mono layers were tested by polarization and SEM ana lysis. The nano film is found to be hydrophobic in nature. This is confirmed by measurement of contact angles .
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Is D3 supplementation safe? Saw there is conflicting evidence that it can cause issues such as calcification of heart valves? Better to just use sun?
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I read some article online a while back saying that supplementing with vitamin D3 could cause calcification of heart valves/ arteries? Is it safe?
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If you ask most people the primary concern of chiropractic is "fixing bad backs" or "relieving back pain". With this understanding many people with the following conditions get relief from chiropractors everyday.
Although it may appear that Chiropractic treats the above conditions, this is not entirely the case. Within your body there resides an innate wisdom that heals, coordinates, inspires and motivates every action and reaction in your body. The nerve system (NS) is the master communication system that transmits this intelligence through neural and chemical impulses. The NS is also the body's memory and perception system that continually receives and stores information from our internal and external environment. When we are not adapting to the experiences in our life our NS gets overloaded with input and similar to a computer it begins to breakdown and eventually will crash. Now unlike a computer our NS and intelligence can adapt, change and self correct. So instead of completely shutting down, our body compensates and localizes the damage creating what we call subluxations (interference patterns within the NS). These are areas of stored tension and potential energy so the entirety of the whole is not compromised.
Generally speaking, a few areas of interference may go unnoticed; however, as they begin to accumulate the EFFECTS become greater as the NS becomes progressively more rigid. As the structure of the body is impaired, optimal functioning will also decrease. Our body's ability to adapt to the environment decreases, our perceptions become distorted, our ability to fully experience joy decreases and the natural healing ability of the body diminishes. As a result we begin to experience the unpleasant sensations of the conditions noted above.
The amazing thing is that our bodies' ability to adapt is so great that it will continue to function even when greatly compromised. What is even more magnificent is that our bodies' desire and ability to heal and move towards greater balance is so great that even if given the slightest opportunity to improve, it begins the process of self-correction.
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Talk:Solar cooker
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Merge from Solar oven[edit]
Solar oven should be a subsection of here. I started to merge a while back, but it seems that I forgot to delete and redirect the other page. D'oh - sorry!. And there's been further edits to Solar oven now, so it needs careful merging. --Singkong2005 03:18, 10 February 2006 (UTC) jhfgujfjkgrgcgedghheat" - isn't it already heat? DavidFarmbrough 17:00 (BST) 12 September 2005
- Light would go under the category of "radiant energy". It all depends on how you define "heat".
-User: Nightvid
I'm new to solar cooking technologies but it seems the main content applies only to solar ovens, not all types of solar cookers or parabolic solar cookers. For example. under Operation, paragraph 4, this applies to a solar oven but not a parabolic--correct? If so, I'll try to re-organize and categorize the information as I learn more about this fascinating topic. Lester Woods (talk) 05:57, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Reasons for unpopularity[edit]
I've read that they're not popular because they involve standing in the sun for hours.
Another potential downside is safety, if the food isn't heated to a sufficient temperature.
Something should be added about these points. I don't really know much about this topic though. --Singkong2005 07:43, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
- People don't stand in the sun for hours; the solar cooker does. In fact, the food cooks slowly and does not need to be stirred, so this liberates the cook to do other productive work.
- Insufficiently cooked food is of course a safety issue no matter how food is cooked. This is not a problem for solar cookers, which can easily reach temperatures necessary to sterilize food or water (over 70 deg. C). Parveson (talk) 20:05, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
my 2¢ 's worth: this is pathetic. Has any of these "change agents" ever asked themselves what is going to happen to those Lesotho women if their husbands come home and supper is not ready? You have got to be able to cook a meal regardless of the weather, and this technology fails to address that basic need. Without some way of storing energy, and using that stored energy whenever needed this is bound to be a total failure. Conclusion: perhaps fun to try out on a camping trip when you have nothing else to do, but totally worthless under any other circumstance. JdH 13:42, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- That's a POV that's not terribly helpful of itself for the article. The point about lack of storage is your best one, but any facts beyond the obvious that solar cookers don't store energy and can only be used when the sun is shining would need research and citation. In areas with consistent sunshine they're probably very effective especially if a backup method is available. A large enough collector would probably be useful even in some overcast situations. Anyway, research is the answer and with that expanded information on their lack of popularity and the factors affecting that would be useful. - Taxman Talk 15:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- I put in a reference to a review; did you read that? But my negative reaction was really triggered by that term "change agents": If the technology doesn't sell itself by proving itself to be useful then it is counter productive to try to "convince" people. Rather than "convincing" you need to listen to what people's needs are, and see how you can address those needs. JdH 16:19, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- I hadn't sorry. But it's not the highest quality review and not exaclty the highest quality reference of course. Now that I'm on it I'll see what I can dig up. But the change agents stuff is unsourced and should be modified too so you're right on that. But don't forget even good technology doesn't sell itself. Refrigerators had to be sold too, door to door in fact; there was significant resistance to those too. Before things hit critical mass natural resistance to change and lack of information on choices prevents the change. - Taxman Talk 16:27, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- I put in a reference to a review; did you read that? But my negative reaction was really triggered by that term "change agents": If the technology doesn't sell itself by proving itself to be useful then it is counter productive to try to "convince" people. Rather than "convincing" you need to listen to what people's needs are, and see how you can address those needs. JdH 16:19, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
A magazine article covering attempts to get these adopted in India? maybe in the 1960's said that a cultural reason for not adopting these in some communities was that "food cooked outside the home" was an invitation to neighbors and others to join in the feast.
If your already a poor family, having to give away your meager ration just because your using a solar cooker outside is going to be a non starter. Bobpage (talk) 03:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
windy day[edit]
what would u do if it were a wndy day and u wanted to use the solar cooker that u made?
- You would use the firewood that you saved on the days when you were able to cook with the sun. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 18:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC).
Mild to moderate winds won't make too much difference with a box style cooker, and even a panel cooker can perform fairly well in some winds, though the panels do catch the wind and may try take off if not secured. A box style cooker also gives more margins as to overcast. A completely clear sky is not necessary to successfully cooking in a box cooker. Since a well-made box cooker holds the heat as well as collecting it, short periods of shade from an occasional cloud going over will not disrupt the cooking process, though it might lengthen it slightly.--SharonID 06:46, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Article needs better formatting[edit]
somebody practically deleted the whole page, and i got it back up, but there are still some problems. thanks Bobguy89 20:06, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
- Working on it. I think the basic structure makes more sense now. Blue Rhino 03:30, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
I did some looking around about the HotPot, and it doesn't seem like it's worth devoting a whole section to. Maybe we should include it in a list of humanitarian organizations that are solar-cooker related. But I don't think it has enough significance to discuss at length in this article. Blue Rhino 03:29, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
- I've also looked at it, and I'm not convinced that it is a solar cooker at all. It seems to be a replacement for using an oven bag and a normal pot in panel cookers (like the CooKit). Does anyone know more about this? Can the Hot Pot be used by itself as a solar cooker? WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
- I don't know where you are looking, but the HotPot is a very effective, durable and widely-used solar cooker. It was cleverly designed by engineers to provide thermal gain via the greenhouse effect, as well as by reflection from polished aluminum panels. The panel, by the way, is designed to fold flat for easy packing. I replaced the image with a clearer one. For more details see the site of Solar Household Energy.Parveson (talk) 19:53, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Solar kettles[edit]
The image does not go with this text. The image shows a tea kettle heated by a parabolic solar cooker. The text describes evacuated tube solar collectors, which is an entirely different technology that is generally used for solar water heating. The paragraph refers to a specific device created by one individual and ambiguously named. Parveson (talk) 00:01, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
More solar cooker types needed[edit]
See solar cooker models and all solar cooker designs list for a list of all solar cookers on Solarcooking wikia (still many of them not imbedded into article. DIY-solarcooker construction and extra models may also be derived from this site
Finally, look into this site for even more solar cookers KVDP (talk) 08:35, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
There are hundreds of inventions related to solar cooking that have been devised by individuals; many of them are catalogued in the above-mentioned places. Those are the appropriate places for them. This page should be used for organizing these devices into various categories based on their design, size, appropriate foods, cooking power etc. This is what is needed. Parveson (talk) 00:11, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to replace the Environmental technology template with one that matches the standard navbox style, i.e. horizontal instead of vertical, collapsing and typically placed at the bottom of article pages. I've done a mock up of what this would look like at {{User:Jwanders/ET}}. Figured this was a big enough change that I should post before going ahead with it. Please discuss here--jwandersTalk 22:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
External links[edit]
Just wanted to give this page's regular editors a heads-up that it's time for a review of the External Links section. You may want to familiarize yourself with the official policy on external links, and I encourage everyone to remove links that do not seem to meet these guidelines. In general, however, the goal is to have:
- only links which provide "encyclopedic" information about solar cookers (=something useful to student writing an essay for school)
- no links that are primarily trying to sell things
- no links that are (or should be) used as references higher up in the article
- the fewest number of links possible (so that only the "best" links are included)
The goal is not to list all possible organizations, manufacturers, and so forth: Wikipedia is not an advertising opportunity. I've put this article on my list for a day or two from now, but anyone who feels like it can get started now. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:30, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
- I've just done a quick organization-of-links on the External links section. If you think any are miscategorized, please make appropriate changes. I've also removed a dead link and a duplicate link, and repaired another so that it works again. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
few facts[edit]
"The tripod hybrid grill is revolutionary in that many, if not all, of the parts required to build them can be scavenged from commonly thrown away items."
thats true of nearly all cooker types. hardly revolutionary
"Solar ovens can be used to prepare anything that can be made in a conventional oven or stove "
the temperature's much too low for frying or roasting.
Reasons for unpopularity were mentioned further up: ths is quite an important aspect of solar cookers imho, and currently missing from the article. Tabby (talk) 03:27, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
- Most (home-sized) solar ovens are sufficiently hot for roasting, which can be done at a mere 200 degrees F. Rather, the problem is that solar ovens are not dry heat, and so your "roasts" are instead braised or stewed.
- For frying, a small amount of frying can be done: heat a heavy (e.g., cast iron) pan and oil to frying temperature (300+ F) in a decent box cooker, remove it from the cooker, and fry your egg. It takes about three minutes to fry an egg, and a heavy pan won't cool down that quickly.
- As for the tripod grill: that language is certainly WP:PEACOCKing if nothing else, and should be re-phrased to be a neutral, detached, encyclopedic statement. Would you like to do that? WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:40, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Indian low-cost cookers[edit]
Include following line to the article (reformulate text):
Gandhian activist M K Ghosh can rightly be called the father of the solar cooker which is being promoted in India today. Ghosh's cooker was a double-walled wooden box with a double-layered glass window and an adjustable mirror. Solar radiation, which entered directly through a glass window and through reflection from the mirror, got absorbed by the black inner surface. Temperatures reached up to 90 C. Mohan Parikh of the Agricultural Tools Research Centre (ATRC) made improvements on M K Ghosh's cooker in 1976 and came up with an inexpensive model which rural people could afford. It was made of wood and used paddy husk for insulation.
Materials like hardboard, cement sheets and boxwood were also employed by M M Hoda of the Appropriate Technology Development Association (ATDA) in Lucknow to build his janata cooker. ATDA came up with a still cheaper kisan cooker, insulated with paddy husk and plastered with dung. Costs were thus cut down by 50 per cent. Hoda incorporated a 200-watt electric light bulb into the existing design and demonstrated how the cooker could be used even at night to cook rice, dal and vegetables within two hours. Nearly 50 per cent of the cookers sold by ATDA have had these bulb attachments.
The first parabolic solar cooker was developed in the early 1950s by M L Ghai at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Delhi.
See http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/5799 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.96.36.199 (talk) 09:29, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- This is interesting information. Do you realize that most of this would be re-written without names? It might look something like this:
An early model of solar cooker in India was a double-walled wooden box with a double-layered glass window and an adjustable mirror. Temperatures reached up to 90 C. Improvements in the 1970s reduced the price by using paddy husk for insulation. Lower cost materials such as hardboard, cement sheets and boxwood were employed later; with the use of paddy husk for insulation and dung for plaster, costs were eventually cut in half. Many solar cookers in India are sold with an attachment for a 200-watt electric light bulb, so that the oven can be used at night.[1]
- Wikipedia is not trying to make individuals famous. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
this solar power is tremindes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 16:40, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
- This is a cultural matter. In the "west", we tend to avoid putting people's names in articles like this. But in other parts of the world, notably India, it is regarded as highly disrespectful, bordering on theft of intellectual property, to describe someone's work without giving him credit for it and mentioning other notable things he has done. Wikipedia is supposed to be international, so it must make some sort of compromise over this. DOwenWilliams (talk) 20:34, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Illusion of precision required for parabolic cookers[edit]
The math shown for design is way too precise.
All solar cookers use the sun. The sun is not a point source of light. It is roughly half a degree wide.
All solar cookers use a pot, kettle, container of some sort. Say two liters or four quarts in size. The target container is unlikely to be a point or even to be a half degree in size. Even a target pipe in a trough style collector is unlikely to be just 1/2 a degree wide.
The article should explain that a practical design can be very sloppy in terms of the math and still every bit as practical.Bobpage (talk) 04:22, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- Approximately, a litre is the same as a quart. It's a bit bigger than a U.S. quart, and smaller than an Imperial quart. Suggesting that two litres equal four quarts demonstrates a great tolerance for errors!
- Yes. It's true that solar cookers can often work well if they are only roughly constructed. But guesswork has limitations. Some people's guesses are very poor. Calculating things accurately is easy to do with a pocket calculator, and eliminates poor guesswork. It may be impractical to construct the cooker to the exact calculated dimensions, but attempting to do so will make sure that it is close enough to work.
- DOwenWilliams (talk) 04:51, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Much food just needs heating[edit]
Quite a lot of food does not require cooking, as much as it benefits from heating. Also recipes, to make use of convenient tests such as boiling point, are often quite precise and specific, when anything loosely approximating the process might also work. Manufacturers recommend cooking of many things -- often just for their own protection. Fresh, carefully stored hot dogs can be eaten out of the package. Obviously very fresh fish from unpolluted sources can be eaten raw, as in sashimi. Some people would say that tea and coffee should not be made with boiled water.
The nub of the comment is that solar cookers might be a lot more popular were it not that so much of our information about food depends on conventional cookers and conventional recipes. There's been good effort in the article to discuss, for example, cooking vegetables, but it might be of benefit to characterize broadly the scope of kitchen cooking that is primarily solar. Is it possible to cook that way, primarily?
Also, there's the issue of low solar power on overcast days, winter, and near the poles. This would seem simply to require a larger reflector, it's not an inherent problem with solar cooking, as such. 188.8.131.52 (talk) 03:18, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- No, a larger mirror won't help you on an overcast day. Parabolic mirrors conserve flux, as measured in watt per square metre per steradian. They convert highly directional low intensity radiation into low directional high intensity radiation. It doesn't matter at which point of an overcast sky you point the mirror, as long as the light source is isotropic it won't give you any increase in intensity (as measured in watt per square metre). From a thermodynamic instead of optical point of view, a working solar concentrator under overcast skies would be a violation of the Second Law.
- Winter or high latitude doesn't matter in se, but when the sun is low in the sky, its light has to travel further though the troposphere, greatly increasing the chance it hits a cloud before reaching the mirror. From the point of view of the solar cooker the sky is usually overcast when the sun is low, even when lots of blue sky is still visible around the zenith. So solar cookers are not particularly practical outside the desert and steppe zones, which isn't that bad, as those are exactly the regions where conserving firewood is important. PiusImpavidus (talk) 14:30, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
- Nice theory but I don't buy it. If an overcast sky radiates more heat than the ground, e.g. clean snow radiating very little, then an object under an overcast sky will collect more heat from above than below.
- If you now put a small perfectly reflecting flat mirror under the object it will collect a little additional heat from below. As you keep enlarging the flat mirror the amount of heat from below will keep increasing.
- Granted the increase asymptotes to a factor of at most 2, but you weren't allowing anything let alone a factor of two.
- Not enough to fry an ant on an overcast day though, surely a disappointment to future generations of young sadists. Vaughan Pratt (talk) 07:22, 16 June 2015 (UTC)


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The Ambassador of Norway to Nigeria, Mr. Jens-Petter Kjemprud, was shocked on Wednesday after touring the demolished Otodo Gbame community in Lekki area of Lagos.
Bulldozers raced to the water front community on Friday March 17 and demolished hundreds of houses, leaving about 5, 000 already impoverished people homeless, including a baby that was born last Sunday.
Ambassador Jens-Petter Kjemprud told THE SIMON ATEBA TV that he was "shocked" at the "unbelievable level of destruction" he saw.
He said he came to see things for himself and had hoped that a peaceful resolution would be found after a court order in January.
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March 3, 2013
A couple of years back I posted a series of blogs about places. Thinking about the place you eat is on the lighter side of food ethics, so we should start out by thanking our lucky stars, or whoever and whatever it is that gives us the luxury to consider where and how we eat, rather than just scarfing down a meal wherever it becomes available. The fact that many people who could be a little more deliberate also scarf down chow wherever it becomes available shows why there's any ethics point to be made at all. Another one of those "quiet desperation" things.
But I fear that we are getting entirely too serious on a weekend when the Federal government has provided ripe comic opportunities. If any self-respecting blogger is going to ignore the openings for satire and sarcasm that sequestration affords (and I plan to), then they had sho' 'nuff better find something else to talk about that's at least nominally amusing. So I thought I would talk about my breakfast on Friday.
It seems that I found myself in Schilo's Delicatessen down on Commerce St. in San Antonio ordering up a plate of their wonderful potato pancakes served with applesauce and sour cream. Now this sentence alone should be worth a few thrills on any March weekend. First of all, it gives me the opportunity to point out that Schilo is not pronounced like the name of the Civil War battlefield, but like the nickname Jennifer Lopez's lesser know sister Sheila. (Hint for anyone over sixty: Jennifer's nickname is J-Lo). But the deliciousness doesn't stop thee.
There are, of course the potato pancakes themselves, a delicacy that seldom appears on contemporary gluten-free menus, and that is even more infrequently prepared with the simple skill and grace of the chefs (they probably call themselves "cooks") at Schilo's. We wouldn't be bringing this episode up at all if there wasn't something decidedly worth eating on the table. And then there is Schilo's Deli itself, unpretentiously situated at street level just a couple of storefronts from the Commerce St. Bridge over the San Antonio Riverwalk. I mean there's also just the fact that it's on Commerce St. I find any city that has a "Commerce St." to be strangely comforting in its willingness to orient both visitors and long time residents alike, but that's probably a story for another time and place.
So it's place that is so rich at Schilo's Deli. The sign outside says "Since 1907" and it's pretty easy to imagine that Teddy Roosevelt wandered the two or three blocks from the Menger Hotel for his potato pancakes, just like I did, though he probably did not pass a McDonald's on the way. In fact the menu says that Schilo's has been operating out of this building only since the early forties, so that particular imaginary is a little off base. Still and all, things look old and profoundly right at Schilo's and the place is supremely fit for knockwurst, corned beef or, if you happen to be there before eleven, potato pancakes.
Just as I was starting to enjoy my order a couple walked in and sat down at the table next to me. They could have come out of Texas central casting. The woman was wearing a stylish and probably expensive pants suit with heels. It set off the big hair and the loads of jewelry she managed to support on her frame. The man was rotund, balding and his ruddy complexion suggested that he had spent many years working outdoors. He was wearing a plaid shirt, blue jeans, boots and suspenders. Let me just say that you would not see this pair in Michigan. I looked around the joint and noticed that I was the only person wearing a tie.
Nobody seemed to care.
Paul B. Thompson holds the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University


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SEC and
Law Enforcement
The difference
between an illegal pyramid or Ponzi scheme and a legitimate
multi-level marketing ("MLM") program is never
obvious, even to the most trained eye. Almost all of the present
illegal Internet pyramid or Ponzi schemes are posing as legal
MLM companies.
Pared to their essence, MLM
programs akin to Amway survive legal scrutiny by making money
off product sales, not new recruits to the programs. In contrast,
"pyramid schemes" reward participants for inducing
other people to join the program. No clear line separates
illegal pyramid schemes from legitimate multi-level marketing
programs. This lack of a red line is the gray area that fraudsters
exploit to give their scams an image of legitimacy.
Very typically, in order to differentiate between an MLM and
an illegal pyramid, securities laws regulators evaluate the
marketing strategy of the issuer (e.g., emphasis on recruitment
of new investors versus sales) and the percent of product
sold compared with the percent of commissions granted.
The term "pyramid scheme",
as used by securities laws regulators, refers to a pyramid-structured
program that chiefly exists to reward participants for inducing
other people to join. Pyramids that can be considered MLMs
are not 'schemes' at all, and are legal. All multi-levels
are not considered per se deceptive and unlawful. So, it is
possible that an Internet investment can have a pyramid structure
and not run afoul of the SEC or Federal Trade Commission's
(FTC) laws. But I don't think it's likely, nor
is it likely that the typical investor, can really tell pyramid
scams from legal MLMs on the Internet.
The term 'Ponzi scheme'
typically means a program that pays earlier investors with
money tendered by later investors. The original scheme by
Carlo Ponzi in the 1920s was simple: investors paid him one
dollar on the first day of the month, and he would commit
to pay them two dollars on the last day of the month. To make
that last day of the month payment, Ponzi used new investors
money attracted to the program by the promised high returns.
After Ponzi's program failed, he went to work for Mussolini.
In the original Ponzi scheme,
there was no recruitment down line and no commissions paid
for recruiting investors to join below the founders. For this
reason, securities law enforcement authorities, unlike the
general public (and some courts), do not use the terms 'pyramid
scheme' and 'Ponzi scheme' to mean the same
thing. The difference is in the contractual relationship:
all Ponzi's investors had direct 'privity,'
which means a contract connection, with his company, whereas
a pyramid has privity down line between the members and recruits,
and their recruits, on and on.
The legal differences in structure
between a pyramid scheme and a Ponzi scheme are indistinguishable
to investors: both schemes pay old investors with new investors
money. But because there is technically a difference, fraudsters
will huckster their program by declaring loud and clear: 'this
is not a Ponzi scheme.' Sometimes they may even have
legal opinions that state there is not Ponzi scheme, because:
a) there is no SEC definition of a Ponzi scheme and b) the
issuer's program does not exactly replicate the terms
and conditions of Ponzi's 1920s program. So the disclaimer
"This is not a Ponzi Scheme" is well nigh meaningless.
You see: a MLM pyramid is legal.
Coupled with the nuances of legality arising out of regulatory
decisions with respect to the famous Amway program, discussed
below, it is confusing but true to state that a Ponzi scheme
is not a pyramid scheme, and a pyramid may not be a scheme
at all!
With all due respect,
you likely cannot tell the legal differences between Ponzi
and pyramid scheme without great study. The FTC and SEC seek
to enjoin both Ponzi and pyramid schemes on the basis that
they will inevitably harm later investors. Very simply, the
money has to come from somewhere, and when it stops coming,
those who contributed last lose their investment. One Court
held that these investments are "nothing more than an
elaborate chain letter device in which individuals who pay
a valuable consideration with the expectation of recouping
it to some degree via recruitment are bound to be disappointed".
The FTC, not the SEC, first
went to Court to combat the "serious potential hazards
of entrepreneurial chains" and urged the "summary
exclusion of their inherently deceptive elements, without
the time-consuming necessity to show occurrence of the very
injury which justice should prevent." In a leading decision,
the FTC enjoined a promoter from "offering, operating,
or participating in, any marketing or sales plan or program
wherein a participant is given or promised compensation (1)
for inducing other persons to become participants in the plan
or program". This FTC opinion had nothing to do with
the federal securities laws. The holding was based on common
law fraud concepts on the theory that such programs will inexorably
fail because eventually there are not enough people on earth
to support it.
The FTC test for determining
what constitutes an illegal pyramid scheme holds that they
"are characterized by the payment by participants of
money to the company in return for which they receive the
right to sell a product and the right to receive in return
for recruitment, rewards which are unrelated to sale of the
product to ultimate users". The key concept is the 'unrelated'
idea, that the program is so divorced from economic reality
or mercantile endeavor, as to be merely a chain letter passing
around money.
The FTC later recognized the
distinction of "saturation" between legitimate
pyramid structured programs and illegal pyramid schemes. In
1979, the FTC determined that the MLM program operated by
Amway was neither fraudulent nor illegal. The FTC found that
Amway is essentially structured as a pyramid, not a Ponzi
scheme, with an ever increasing down line privity of recruits.
Nonetheless, the FTC determined that the plan did not constitute
an illegal pyramid because certain Amway rules ensured a focus
on retailing merchandise over pyramiding of members. This
effort at retailing, the FTC found, meant that the program
would never be 'saturated' with members sending'
money to each other until there were no further people to
join. It was these 'anti-saturation' rules that
saved Amway' from the ambit of the anti-Ponzi and pyramid
scheme rules, not the specific structure of the enterprise.
So, an Amway-like program that happened to pay participants
a small fixed fee for bringing in recruits probably could
constitute a 'pyramid', but such a program would
not constitute a scheme to defraud because saturation will
not occur.
Securities regulators
examine MLMs, pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes for an investment
contract, and therefore, securities, as defined by Section
2(1) of the Securities Act and Section 3(a)(10) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. The term "investment contract"
is defined as (1) an investment of money; (2) in a common
enterprise or venture; (3) premised on a reasonable expectation
of profits and (4) to be derived from the entrepreneurial
or managerial efforts of others. After the leading case on
the subject, this is the famous Howey test.
An investment contract analysis
considers each of these four factors:
The common enterprise
element has been discussed in concepts known as 'horizontal
and vertical commonality'. Horizontal commonality
requires the fortunes of each investor be linked to
the others. Vertical commonality requires a finding
that the fortunes of the investor are interwoven with
and dependent upon the efforts of those seeking investments
by new third parties. An investment plan is typically
a common enterprise under both the horizontal and vertical
common interest criteria. The fortunes of each investor
are dependent upon the success of the issuer in either
retailing merchandise in a legal MLM, or attracting
new recruits in an illegal pyramid scheme, or attracting
new investors' money in a classic Ponzi scheme.
Investors have a "vertical" common interest
with the promoters of the plan, or third parties, and
a "horizontal" common interest with other
The concept of an investment
contract does not require that the efforts of promoters
or third parties be the sole efforts upon which the
failure or success of the enterprise is based. Historically,
there was some controversy on this point. The Supreme
Court wrote of this prong of the test as "with
profits to come solely from the efforts of others".
The present general rule virtually ignores the adverb
"solely" in Howey and holds that investments
where decisions made by those other than the investors
are the essential, though not the exclusive, efforts
effecting the failure or success of the enterprise.
In any investment,
income is earned by raising money and then developing and
retailing the good or service, until ultimately, profit is
generated. Accordingly, returns are due to the results of
efforts by persons other than the investor. MLM defenders
often state that success is not due to the "efforts
of others", and so not a "security" because
the member has to recruit others, and that takes work.
As to these "efforts"
by the investor, there is one very critical distinction. Efforts
to recruit new members to an MLM are not considered a bona
fide "effort" to take the program out of the realm
of an investment run by the "efforts of others ".
The regulators consider that recruitment effort is not what
the normal investment contemplates. Why? Because they view
it as closer to a meal recipe swap chain letter, then a real
business. If the business is basically a system that sends
money up the pyramid, it's not a business at all.
Playing on the needs of MLMers
to find new members, companies will sell them help. There
are magazines for MLM marketing. For example, you can see
for sale: "auto-pilot" advertising systems that
work while you're at the beach, "hot" prospect
leads including 10,000 fax phone numbers, lists of other "networkers"
in peel and stick label format and – of course- cash
loans and "grants." Here are some of the headlines:
Observation: how many Internet
investors can tell if an on line opportunity is a legal MLM
or an illegal Ponzi or pyramid scheme pretending to be a legal
MLM? Answer: few to none.
One person has come forward
with a very serious analysis questioning the Amway case logic
whereby it is not considered an illegal pyramid scheme. His
comments deserve serious consideration, because of his experience
and because of what appears at least to be, sincere motivation.
Bruce A Craig, an assistant attorney general for the State
of Wisconsin Department of Justice prosecuted a significant
amount of pyramid schemes, in his 30 years of service. The
list includes the Koscot Interplanetary case, which was the
major original case in this area of the law. Mr. Craig wrote
a letter to Robert Pitofsky, Chairman of the FTC, who was
the person who drafted the original Amway opinion in 1979.
Mr. Craig wrote that since the
Amway decision, "investments in pyramid type offerings
have resulted in billions of dollars over the years".
I certainly agree with him there. He highlights that "the
FTC Amway decision has created a good deal of uncertainty
in respect to private and public legal efforts to deal with
abuses of pyramid plans" that "will only increase
with the onset of marketing over the Internet".
Every time I prosecuted a pyramid
or Ponzi or whatever, the first words out of the founder's
mouth were: "I set this up just like Amway". Mr.
Craig has called for the FTC to re-examine the aspects of
Amway that make it legal because "the premise of 'multi-level
vs. pyramid' may well represent a distinction without
a difference". I agree, as Mr. Craig is correct when
he asks "whether these exculpatory factors can be effectively
evaluated in time to prevent losses to the consuming public".
In my experience, the fraudsters know that, and that is why,
unfortunately, when the SEC Enforcement Division comes in
with an asset freeze, the money is long gone.
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Kabuki Syndrome
Kabuki syndrome is a pediatric congenital disorder of suspected genetic origin with multiple congenital anomalies and intellectual disabilities. It is very rare, affecting roughly one in every 32,000 individuals. It was discovered and described in 1981 by two Japanese groups, led by the scientists Niikawa and Kuroki. It is named Kabuki Syndrome because of the facial resemblance of affected individuals with white Kabuki makeup, a Japanese traditional theatrical form.
At present diagnosis is based on the recognition of four (out of five) main characteristics, with the distinct facial features being imperative.
- Facial features: long palpebral fissures with eversion of outer third, arched eyebrows with sparse outer half, prominent eyelashes, prominent and/or misshapen ears, and depressed nasal tip
- Skeletal abnormalities: may include brachydactyly (shortness of fingers), brachymesophalangy (abnormal shortness of bone) and clindactyly (turning aside) of the fifth finger, and vertebral anomalies including scoliosis
- Dermatoglyphic abnormalities: including persistent finger fetal pads
- Intellectual disability (mild to moderate)
- Postnatal short stature
Kabuki is a complex syndrome with many associated findings. Co-existing conditions support a diagnosis but are not, separately, considered cardinal traits. Here is a list of some of the more common traits.
- Hypotonia
- Hyperextensible joints
- Feeding difficulties
- Behavioral difficulties
- Recurrent infections
- Hearing impaired and/or inner ear malformations
- Congenital heart defects
- Renal (kidney) / urinary tract anomalies
- Other organ anomalies (less common) – malrotation of colon, anal atresia (closure), diaphragm eventration or hernia
- Small mouth, micrognathia (smallness of the jaws), cleft or high arched palate
- Hypodontia (missing teeth), unusually shaped teeth, and misalignment
- Sudden weight gain during puberty years
- Early breast development and/or precocious (early) puberty
- Immunological abnormalities – may include ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura), hemolytic anemia, and growth hormone deficiency
- Seizures


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Oh Yes, Please! Please, Please, Please!
Come on, Deval. You know you want to:
Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), whose 32 year career in the House of Representatives came to an end yesterday, said Friday that he's told Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) that he would welcome an interim appointment to the seat expected to be vacated by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA).
Frank said that the fiscal cliff deal that passed the House of Representatives earlier this week and set the stage for a return to the same legislative fight in a matter of months "means that February, March and April are going to be among the most important months" for the American economy….
"I'm not going to be coy. It's not anything I've ever been good at," Frank said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I've told the governor that I would now like, frankly, to do that because I would like to be a part of that. It's only a three-month period. I wouldn't want to do anything more. I don't want to run again."
If this happens, it will be proof that the Flying Spagetti Monster is a kind and generous fiction. I can't believe I've been good enough to merit a benison* such as this.
*Yes, that does raise images of rack of benison, but this is a family show, so I'm not going there.¤
¤And yeah, I would pick your pocket.
Image: Francisco de Zurbarán, St. Francis in Meditation, 1635-1639.
We need more Dems like Frank – itching for a fight. Let's bring it to 'em!
Senator Barney Frank; I like the sound of that…
What's St Francis holding? It looks like a bag of coins.
I hope Frank is picked. He would be a welcome relief from the Republicans.
maybe it's just me but I think it's a terrible idea. I read somewhere else (or maybe here) that it is better to have someone in the position that can begin campaigning from day 1 for the special election. Frank would be fantastic if he were to run in the special election, but as a placeholder, it puts whomever the Dems put up against Brown at a clear disadvantage, not only in name recognition, but they lose the status of being the "incumbent" regardless of how long they have served.
How dare you describe his noodliness as a "fiction"!
Thanks, Tom. I was hoping/expecting that this TREMENDOUS news would soon appear on the "front-page" (and appropriate that it would come from one of its two Bay Staters).
I have to believe that Deval Patrick will accept (and Ed Markey welcome) this offer.
And to imagine that Massachusetts and nation-wide members of the "reality-based community" would be represented by both Senators Barney Frank and Elizabeth Warren during the upcoming fiscal hullabaloos makes Frank's declaration this morning all the more celebratory.
@Seanindc: Patrick's philosophy seems to be that interim appointments SHOULD be placeholders. He did the same thing with Kennedy's seat when the Lion died. I can see his point.
On the other hand, I'm taking the inch that Barney's giving and hoping for the whole yard. It would be absolutely fantastic if Frank decided he wanted to run after all once he's had a taste of interim Senate power. Please please please, Barney!
@Mark S.: an upside down skull
@Seanindc: Governor Patrick has said that he won't appoint anyone who doesn't promise not to run for election to the remainder of the seat. That's what he said, and did, when Senator Kennedy died.
I'll accept this, but only if Frank also gets to appear on Meet the Press one more time so that he can slap sense into David Gregory and whatever "nonpartisan" hacks get lined up for that week.
I sent the gov a letter last week suggesting that he name Frank to that placeholder slot. Maybe you guys should do something similar.
@jayjaybear: "I'm taking the inch that Barney's giving and hoping for the whole yard."
Not me, too old. He is 72, right?
Brilliant! Barney hasn't lost his will to fight, if only to get through the deficit brawl (which we need him for–not a rookie). That would free up Markey to do some serious planning for his campaign because, well, Republicans.
This sounds like a win-win-winnnnnnnnnn.
@catclub: Fool, please. I'll be 72 next month and I'm raising a 3 yr old. I'm in reasonably good health (no longer even need glasses for distance or reading–some kind of metamorphosis) and drive my 5 spd like a pro still. I think I'll see my great-grandson grown up at this rate.
Frank's treatment of the King of the Village, Bob Woodward, on "Morning Ho" this morning was a joy to behold. To his boundless credit, Frank doesn't suffer fools gladly.
Village princeling Dancin' Dave does not abide such treatment by Democrats on his program. Besides there may not be any room around that table, as I imagine that ex-Senator Holy Joe, "the national conscience," will likely be a permanent guest there.
@catclub: Why, will they force him to join the Senate Triathlon team or something? I only object to old elected officials when their view and minset have calcified, and calcification is neither something that only happens to old people nor something that's ever happened to Barney.
Someone running in a tough race won't be that effective as a senator. We need someone who is both adept at capitol hill stuff, and isn't encumbered by further ambition.
I'm never sure what incentive anyone has to deal with someone they know will be gone in 90 days or less.
Barney probably doesn't have any influence over Senate R's and he's certainly not going to persuade any House R's.
So I'm not convinced he makes one iota of a difference in that spot, as far as legislating, or forming legislation, goes.
Would Frank inherit Kerry's committee assignments?
I think it'd be great to see Barney in the Senate, just so he can co-sponsor a bill with Al Franken and then we could have the Frank Franken law.
Sorry, but appointing another Wall Street shill and AIPAC stooge is not progress. His behavior towards Chuck Hagel over the past 2 weeks, calling him everything short of a homophobic anti-Semite, was pathetic.
@Corner Stone: Franken-Frank. Al would be senior. Still funny though.
@Omnes Omnibus: Actually I think Franken-Frank sounds funnier.
@KXB: Who, then, would you suggest?
Going from JK to BF is like a change from Montgomery Burns to Homer Simpson. The quotes and antics are going to be epic.
@KXB: Although I want to learn more about Hagel's views pertaining gays, I thought Frank was to hard. The President has evolved overtime on his own views.
Hagel is not a neo-con and that's a plus.
@Corner Stone: Morning sunshine. How's your hangover?
If the temporary Senator was supposed to be there until the next election in 2014, that would make sense, but Massachusetts is one of the states that requires and holds a special election within a very short time of the seat being vacated. (IIRC, the entire process from nominations to election needs to be completed within 6 months of the seat being vacated.)
So IMO we want the Democratic nominee for that seat to spend his/her time campaigning inside Massachusetts, not arguing with Republicans in the Senate.
@jayjaybear: Seniority matters in the senate. A lot. Someone just asked if Frank would get Kerry's committee assignments. I am pretty sure the answer is no.
Having Barney in the Senate would torment the Turtleman.
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought that was true. Actually, I'm not familiar with how they name things but I thought they try and get one D and R name to put down as co-sponsors?
Franken-Frank is funnier but I thought Frank Franken harked back to old SNL comedy skits much better.
@Mark S.:
What's St Francis holding? It looks like a bag of coins.
It's a skull. It represents meditation on death.
The Senate could use some Frank talk.
Barney for the win!
@JPL: Well, sometime back in the 1990's, back when gay-friendly Bill Clinton signed don't ask/don't tell and gay marriage was not even an idea, Hagel said he would object to appointing an openly gay man to an ambassador's job. Since then, his views, like Bill Clinton's, like Obama's, like most of the country – have changed. But Frank wants to hang him on his view views from 15 years ago.
That is for public consumption anyway – Hagel's real mistake was pointing out the obvious – that he was an American senator, not an Israeli one, and American interests would be paramount in his decisionmaking. He broke the first rule of Fight Club.
OMFG – this is off topic, but might be, by far, the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen written at Forbes.
Some samples of the stupidity…
The most perfect monetary system humans have yet created was the world gold standard system of the late 19th century, roughly 1870-1914. We don't have to hypothesize too much about what a new world gold standard system could look like. We can just look at what has already been done.
The Panics of 1873, 1879, 1884, 1887, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1896, 1901, 1907, 1910, and 1913 would be fine examples of the perfection of that gold standard, not to mention that the extreme wealth inequality that resulted therefrom led to sociopolitical conditions that made the Great War something which seemed like a great idea.
It was the first great age of globalization. Net foreign investment ("current account surplus") was regularly above 6% of GDP for Britain, and climbed to an incredible 9% of GDP before World War I. From 1880 to 1914, British exports of goods and services averaged around 30% of GDP. (In 2011, it was 19.3%.) In 1914, 44% of global net foreign investment was coming from Britain. France accounted for 20%, Germany 13%.
This river of capital flowed mostly to emerging markets. The United States, which was something of an emerging market in those days although one that was already surpassing its European forebears (much like China today), was a consistent capital-importer ("current account deficit"). Most British foreign capital went to Latin America; Africa accounted for much of the remainder.
All of which was freely given and not related to worldwide colonial policies of European governments, y'know.
This explosion of European capital translated into tremendous investment around the world. British-governed India had no railways in 1849. In 1880, India had 9,000 miles of track. In 1929, there were 41,000 miles of railroad in India, build by British engineers, British capital, and Indian labor. British-governed South Africa opened its first railroad in 1860. This grew to 12,000 miles of track, not including extensions into today's Zimbabwe and elsewhere in Africa.
I need bandages for my forehead, as I'm banging it into my credenza repeatedly. Amazing how rail lines first get run intercity in the UK in 1830 and it takes 20 years for the Brits to start laying track to support a British innovation in a colonial possession thousands of miles away, and to do it, they used what was, in essence, captive labor to support the British economy. Colonial extraction completely sucks ass.
@JPL: Either Atrios or Political Animal put it about Hagel: "He seems like an asshole to me, but if the WAPO and all the neocons hate him, I better give him another look. He has all the right enemies."*
* gist quote not intended as a factual statement.
@muddy: Especially if it was a bill to regulate hot dogs.
@Todd: I presume the author is a complete gold bug. They do make mighty fine historians.
Just ask Ron Paul.
@Cassidy: I don't get hangovers.
@Corner Stone: Good. Glad to hear you're well.
Who the hell would kill narwhals for their tusks? Has no one seen the Will Ferrel movie Elf, for FSM's sake?!
I don't get hangovers.
You must be under 40 still. Don't worry, your day is coming.
"Barney probably doesn't have any influence over Senate R's and he's certainly not going to persuade any House R's."
Substitute Elizabeth Warren for Frank and your statement is no less true. However, it is their respective fiscal expertise as well as verbal dexterity, rather than any influence over GOP nihilists, that makes each such potent Democratic figures in the ferocious debates soon to dominate Washington.
That Warren and Frank both possess such skillful media savvy, albeit expressed very differently, is another crucial asset as effective "framing" and sound bites must be part of the Democratic arsenal.
And serving as "placeholder" Senator, Barney Frank will be even more motivated (and fearless) to continue his long-running role as a Republican scourge.
I presume the author is a complete gold bug. They do make mighty fine historians. Just ask Ron Paul.
The guy thinks he can contain five gallons of stupid in a two gallon bucket.
@catclub: Hopefully Sen. Franks gives Hagel a hearing for all the reasons mentioned. Hopefully Obama nominates Hagel.
A gold standard is great for imperial powers: You extract wealth from whichever local group of "savages" you've generously chosen to "civilize", lock the value into your gold-backed currency, and do so secure in the knowledge that people who work for a living will never be able accumulate enough capital to challenge you economically or politically.
(Well, until the locals decide they'd rather risk death than be your serf. But that tends to take awhile).
Who the hell would kill narwhals for their tusks?
@Corner Stone: Is this a recent development? I don't know, need a bit more info.
Back in the day (i.e. "predating my birth by quite some time") I know that narwhal tusks were sold as unicorn horns, and that the powder thereof was supposed to be a sure-fire antidote against any poison. So quite a few of the creatures were slain for the benefit of unpopular royalty.
The Panics of 1873, 1879, 1884, 1887, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1896, 1901, 1907, 1910, and 1913 would be fine examples of the perfection of that gold standard, not to mention that the extreme wealth inequality that resulted therefrom
Feature, not bug. The ultra-wealthy love the idea of the gold standard, because it creates a deflationary economy and enhances their wealth. Regular financial panics are a small price for the little people to pay so that their betters can become ever richer.
A manwith a proven ability to make trenchent pithy memorable comments unleashed from thoughts of future campaign sound-bites and roaming free in the Senate during a critical period of negociation and grandstanding? I'm in, especially given the proven sanity, temperment and style of those across the aisle.
I know that narwhal tusks were sold as unicorn horns, and that the powder thereof was supposed to be a sure-fire antidote against any poison.
I submit that no where, on any blog anywhere, anywherez on the intertoobz,has anyone so clearly discussed the history of the narwhal tusk trade.
Fuckin christ, now I'm supposed to learn shit on this site?
BING! Yes!
It would be wonderful to hear Senator Frank speaking under the rules of the Senate.
Anyone know the phone # for the Govs office in MA?
And serving as "placeholder" Senator, Barney Frank will be even more motivated (and fearless) to continue his long-running role as a Republican scourge.
I'd suggest the obvious difference bewteen EW and Barney is that EW is there for at least 6 years, and with the incumbent racket and her being a D from MA, very likely as long as she wants to be there.
So people may not be "influenced" by her but they realize she's going to be a player in the calculus for some time to come. Relationships used to matter in the Senate, or so they keep telling us.
Barney may have the knowledge but not the status. And his role of "scourge" is more likely to do harm to a bunch of self-satisfied ego filled pricks like Senators.
I don't see a level comparison of EW and Barney in this context.
Who the hell would kill narwhals for their tusks?
The same kind of people who kill sperm whales for their blubber, buffaloes for their tongues, and baby harp seals for their pelts, i.e. humans who forget that natural resources are limited.
@Corner Stone: You stay drunk?
Also, unicorns are a symbol of purity (ergo christ) whereas as someone noted the skull St. Francis is holding is a symbol of death and the transience of earthly life.
Either that or he's rehearsing Hamlet.
My guess is the old turtle has been hot for Barney for a long time. Maybe they could find a way to new compromises 8-{D
@Forum Transmitted Disease: Well it seems that when our illustrious FBI isn't locating mentally deficient people to set up on terrorism charges, they also crack a few smuggling rings:
Feds Crack Alleged Narwhal Tusk-Smuggling Ring
"A smuggling ring brought narwhal tusks from the Canadian Artic into Maine in a trailer with a secret compartment and then illegally sold them to American buyers, officials said."
OT: Most fun comments section on the Internet of the day.
Read starting at 44. It gets pretty good.
@Corner Stone: One, there was the whole deal of their different styles being a part of the equation (multi-front too) and two, there's a larger stage and audience than mere Senators.
@Todd: The Panics of 1873, 1879, 1884, 1887, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1896, 1901, 1907, 1910, and 1913 would be fine examples of the perfection of that gold standard
WELL – EXCEPT FOR A FEW HICCUPS IT WAS JUST FINE – you silly liberal whiner
Pasta save us from our economic masters.
This painting is unbelievably awesome. Almost as awesome as some of my crayon on velvet schmearings.
And almost as awesome as would be a Senator Barney Frank.
@Roger Moore: Don't forget people who run SUVs continuously on Earth Day.
@Omnes Omnibus: Indeed, my man. Indeed.
Furthermore, as a Boston resident, I am beside myself with joy at the prospect of my senators being Barney Frank and Elizabeth Warren.
Which is why I will believe it when I see it.
Perhaps I shall have to render new tacky portraits of both of them, in velvet and crayon of course, and ready made for my fawning trailer park clients.
Good Sweet Christ Protect and Keep Me!!
Arrrggghhhh I've been attacked by a surprise showing of Megan McArgle as a panelist on MSNBC!!
NoooOOOooOOOooooOOO! My eyes! I'm not sure my django's gonna recover from this one.
Let's enjoy this delicious moment one more time!
Do it, Governor Patrick. Please, just do it.
@Roger Moore: yeah, but those other things are kinda cool. But narwhals for goodness sake? Have they no decency? No humanity?
Not me, too old. He is 72, right?
If Strom Thurmond could go until he was 90+ Barney Frank could do it as well. I know he's not going to, but 72 isn't that old anymore.
I just cruised Kos (it helps not to visit the comments sections)and this is what's on the front page:
– House passed a $9.7B bill for FEMA for Sandy relief. Not much, but it's a start, right Mr. Boehner?
– Awesome pic of now-Senator Warren being sworn in. Mr. Senator Warren holding the bible is looking mighty proud.
– And the list of the ten Republican geniuses who voted against Boehner as speaker in the full knowledge that he would in fact be re-elected. The Dave Weigel tweet on it is spot on, too. Good luck with those committee assignments!
@Percysowner: I believe Ed Markey is 66. If the person running for the seat were in his/her early 50s or younger, then the age argument might make sense. The thing is, Frank doesn't seem interested in the long term job and Patrick has particular ideas about how the process should work, so it is what it is.
Well, he's smarter than Ron Paul, who thinks that you can fit five gallons of stupid in a 16 oz cup.
I'll readily concede the obvious difference between the Senate terms of Warren (hopefully long) and Frank (if all-too-brief).
But on issue of "status", I'd say that Frank, through his 32 years in Congress, would amply possess that precious Washington commodity, while Warren has yet to lay claim. (Being a Conquering Hero to progressives and most Massachusetts voters is not the same thing.) Also, the "bunch of self-satisfied ego filled pricks like Senators" will not easily forgive Warren for her exposing those puny privates (and the ones of their House confederates) during hearings on the Consumer Finance Protection Board.
Anyways, this may be nothing more than a case of YMMV. Perhaps more importantly, re hangover: are you a teetotaler or just someone with an enviably speedy metabolism?
Please let the bill sponsored by Franken-Frank be about hotdogs but also about reform of Congressional postal rights, aka franking privilege.
Throw in some import restrictions on frankincense (you know, for the war on Christmas) and we'll be all set.
I like Frank except for his blindspot re: Israel.
"A smuggling ring brought narwhal tusks from the Canadian Artic into Maine in a trailer with a secret compartment and then illegally sold them to American buyers, officials said."
@Corner Stone: Thank you. That's fucking depraved.
@Poopyman: have the couch fires burned out yet?
@M31: Throw in something about Charlemagne as well. Maybe name a bridge after him?
At one time the Pope had a standing order that all those tusks be sent to him at the Vatican! They believed they were the horns of unicorns and that ground up they made a very powerful boner pill! I'll leave it to you to decide why a man committed to chastity and celibacy would require boner pills
@M31: Something involving trade in hoisery with Transylvania would be a nice touch.
Release the Kraken!
You left out what he said immediately after that quote – "Put me in, Coach!"
Anything that gets me humming summer baseball songs in January is a good thing.
@Roger Moore: The only quibble I have is this one "baby harp seals for their pelts"
If you have ever been on Madeleine Island in winter, you would completely understand wanting a thick fur coat.
Sending it to someone in Miami, not so much.
@Punchy: A bill to regulate the candid disclosure behind any use of vienna sausages as images on postage stamps:
The Franken-Frank Frank Frank Franking Act
(i will be here all week, tip your waitrons)
@Corner Stone:
Note, though, that if you read the article it doesn't sound as if the narwhals were killed specifically for their tusks. They're an apparently profitable byproduct of legal hunting by Canadian First Nations, who are allowed to hunt them under the limited subsistence hunting exemption in international whaling treaties. The hunters are killing them for food, and money they get from the tusks is a nice bonus. The smugglers were apparently buying them legally in Canada and then smuggling them into the USA, where they are illegal (except, IIRC, for similar subsistence hunting by Native Alaskans).
@Roger Moore: But..but..narwhals!! I guess it is midnight indeed for those poor creatures.
I'll leave it to you to decide why a man committed to chastity and celibacy would require boner pills
Probably trying to keep them out of the hands of all the local priests.
Perhaps more importantly, re hangover: are you a teetotaler or just someone with an enviably speedy metabolism?
Years of practice.
The Johnson-Johnson Udall-Udall Franken-Frank Frank Frank Franking Act
The smugglers were apparently buying them legally in Canada and then smuggling them into the USA, where they are illegal (except, IIRC, for similar subsistence hunting by Native Alaskans).
Further proof that gun control can never work.
The Franken-Frank Fracking Act
For 3 blissful months the Commonwealth will be represented by Senior Senator Elizabeth Warren and Junior Senator Barney Frank. Massachusetts as Blue as it should be.
And probably getting more than its share of prime time interviews. Senator Frank unleashed. TV dream. Barney explains it all for you, especially exploding the falsehood that voting against raising the debt ceiling is about taking a principled stand against spending, when it's really crazed and sleazy welching and destroying the future of the Republic.
Besides, for the rest of his days – and may they, knock wood, be long – he will be referred to as Senator Frank. Proper reward for his long service.
At one time the Pope had a standing order that all those tusks be sent to him at the Vatican! They believed they were the horns of unicorns and that ground up they made a very powerful boner pill! I'll leave it to you to decide why a man committed to chastity and celibacy would require boner pills
Standing order. Tee Hee.
I guess the Pope has a commitment to celibacy (being unmarried). Not sure about the chastity thing.
@Corner Stone:
Everybody (you know who you are) who advises "Just ignore McMegan" has it wrong–she's a paid shill with access to high-profile platforms from which to spew her idiocy and therefore,
a witchdangerous to decent people. McMegan skewerers are to be applauded and encouraged. I won't be happy until she's reduced to hosting a cooking show on which she can demonstrate automatic German open-face cheese sandwich makers.
If Patrick is against putting anyone in who will run for the seat, than anyone else will have the same weakness as a placeholder and be unable to make deals with other senators. Anyone picked will be the 100th most Junior Senator and get the Committee leftovers and crumbs.
At least Frank has a proven ability to get on TV, and for quotable lines that can plausibly affect the wider debate.
Frank also seems to be immune to lobbyists and the like, being old enough to want to retire completely means he doesn't want to be the 7 figure President of some lobbying firm. The fact that he wants to take a Senate gig says he doesn't already have such a thing lined up.
No, I think he'd be a good pick and could do some good. More that anyone else I can think of in that spot.
This was my reaction too when I saw this news this morning.
Barney *and* Liz as my Senators, if for only 3 months, causing all kinds of gleeful mischief and kicking all kinds of ass, especially with the debt ceiling insanity looming?
Bring. It. On.
@Poopyman: The video of Warren being sworn in is even better than that photo, imo :-)
Barney Frank is by orders of magnitude the smartest and most effective guy in congress, and has been for quite a few years. Putting Barney Frank in the senate is an incredibly smart idea.
The only thing that would top that one is for Senator Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016 with Alan Grayson on the ticket as vice president.
Everybody (you know who you are) who advises "Just ignore McMegan" has it wrong–she's a paid shill with access to high-profile platforms from which to spew her idiocy and therefore, a witchdangerous to decent people. McMegan skewerers are to be applauded and encouraged.
I think people interested in monitoring and mocking this shill idiot ideologue cretin should do so, and be applauded for it.
I think that people not interested in being among that action team should limit themselves to reading up on the former group.
I think that no one with anything better to read and not expressly intent on engaging in monitoring & mocking should waste a single, solitary instant in reading McAddled or any other of the variety of fully-funded turds filling up our public sphere.
If Governor Patrick appoints Frank rather than the Democrats' strongest candidate for the special election, Massachusetts loses 3 months of seniority in a body where power runs toward seniority.
Frank would be effective from day one, sure, but only through April. A longer view might be in order, here.