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Some Alexander Technique teachers are sitting on enough potential cash to pay for a fun holiday trip to a Congress, but they have no idea that money is so easily available. It could even be you I am writing about. But I am getting ahead of my Self…
Today's blog is less about marketing, more about building a sustainable business that will see you into retirement. Some of you young creatures out there may balk at planning for retirement before your career has even got underway, but this is more about being able to do what you want to do and isn't that also appealing?
Teachers who have been practising a long time will tell you they have both short-term and long-term students. Most students come in an initial burst of enthusiasm, then fade away, while there are a few that are so solid, they come for years. That's how most businesses work, because that's how human beings are. However, the secret sauce in to-day's blog is that you can, if you are clever about it, convert some of those short terms into long term students. The average conversion is about 10~20%, but hey - would you like to increase your income this year by 15%? And that's all cream - it costs you nothing but time to build this business. And if you are reading my blog, my guess is that if you can use your time to increase your income doing what you love, time is one resource you have in abundance…
You need the concept of a back-end business.
After three months of learning, most people start to feel "I got it" or "I've had enough of this" and feel ready to move on. Move on to what? You need a bright, shinny object to dangle in front of them, but sadly, most Alexander Technique teachers have nothing like that for their students to grab hold of… So guess what? They leave. And you just lost income.
More importantly to me, the student just lost the opportunity to take the work to a much deeper level - something you know is possible, but they don't. So why not tell them? What not invite them into a special "program" that you have devised for them to move "to the next stage" in their Alexander Technique learning. People will love that concept.
Do you have a "next stage" figured out? Of course you don't, no-one does, except those teachers who decide to train teachers. An Alexander Technique Teacher Education course is a back-end business. Training School Directors teach for many years, then gather a cluster of their students who want to go deeper - and since becoming a teacher is the only option offered - they go into that.
But actually, there are many students who want to go deeper, but do not want to become teachers. Just continuing with lessons does not appeal to them - but offer them something more substantial, you'll find a whole new market that you did not know existed. That's your fun holiday overseas!
Your front end business - offering sessions to the public - is where you harvest pupils to put into your back-end business - a Teacher Education school. Some Training School Directors make a fatal mistake: they stop teaching the public and focus only on their school. So what happens? Pupils eventually get hard to find, the school shrinks, and one day they are back to teaching the public again.
So you add your back-end to your front-end: they are joined, interdependent and both need each other. The Training School is a model that Alexander Technique teachers are already familiar with. However, it is just one - your creativity is the only limit to the kinds of back-end businesses you can build for your students…
People want to feel they are progressing, they want to feel they are reaching a higher level. One of the most frustrating aspects of Alexander's discoveries is this lack of tangible form. Buzz Gummere, a graduate of Alexander's school, once described the work as "unfathomable empty" and went to speculate that Alexander developed his teaching procedures, in part, as a way for people to get a grip on what he had discovered.
Your back-end could be just that: a 6 month course where you will teach your students all of "Alexander's Teaching Procedures", help them study the books and take them 10 pin bowling to apply what they learnt! Use your imagination. Of course, if you have a niche, the job gets much easier - you can create excursions, study groups, a fun community mix around your niche theme.
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More teachers cut from Qld's regional TAFE campuses
More TAFE campuses in regional Queensland are shedding jobs.
The ABC has confirmed around 35 TAFE teachers in Cairns, Townsville, Charters Towers and Mount Isa are set to lose their jobs by the end of the year.
Of that number, more than 20 staff will go in Cairns alone due to course cuts in five areas - believed to include music, art, fashion and plumbing.
It comes on top of larger cuts in Rockhampton announced earlier this year as part of the TAFE's merger with CQ University.
TAFE officials say the redundancies are part of an annual review based on demand for courses.
But Together union spokesman Kevin O'Sullivan is sceptical of that and blames funding cuts.
"I don't think anybody who's been in TAFE or involved in TAFE would buy that for one minute,' he said.
"I think the cut in state funding is the direct result of that.
"You may be able to accept that if they were putting more resources into other areas, but they're not putting any more resources into any other areas."
The State Government says it has had nothing to do with the cuts, but says TAFEs will have to compete with private organisations for funding next year.
But under education reforms, TAFEs will have to compete against private operators for funding from next year.
Cairns Councillor Rob Pyne says he is troubled by the staff cuts at the Tropical North Queensland TAFE, in light of the huge demand for jobs from the proposed Aquis mega resort.
Councillor Pyne says any cuts are concerning and the State Government needs to take some responsibility.
"Do we want to train up local people to benefit from that employment when it does take place?" he said.
"I just think it's the wrong time to be cutting back in that TAFE sector.
"If they cared about regional Queensland they'd be resourcing our TAFEs better, especially in rural and remote areas."
But Barron MP Michael Trout says there is a review of staffing and courses each year based on demand.
He says he does not believe locals who might benefit from Aquis jobs will be adversely affected.
"Hospitality has not been squashed in this round - it was more plumbing and smaller courses," he said.
"The TAFE did take under consideration the growth in potential new hotels getting built in Cairns.
"But remember it's five years away if everything went right with Aquis, so we wouldn't hold something open for five years unless it was imminent that we required that training or skill set."
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Dry them the same way you would dry most flowers harvested for this prupose, namely, wait until they are almost fully open, then cut them off the plant, keeping a good sized stem. Hang them upside down in a warm (not dry), airy place, out of strong sunlight.
While small-flowered plants such as baby's breath can be hung together in bunches of several stems, hydrangea flowers are densely packed, they are likely to rot if bunched. To ensure good air circulation, it's best to hang individual stems and keep them well apart. For maximum color retention, hang them in a place that does not get ANY direct light.
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Those in positions of power in our government that allowed this to happen and who could have taken action to end it by impeachment or otherwise are equally responsible and should not be rewarded with pensions or other benefits likewise.
Just Days Before Leaving Office, Obama Gets News that Could INVALIDATE His Entire Presidency
President Barack Obama's legacy might soon be tarnished beyond repair. The long-awaited results from an in-depth investigation into Obama's past have just been revealed.
Barack Obama's birth certificate is a fake… a complete forgery, and now evidence to prove it is headed to Congress.
Arizona Sheriff Joe Apraio's investigation into Obama's birth certificate found multiple "inconsistencies," which could allow Congress to impeach the 44th president of the United States even after he leaves office, WND reports.
The forensic investigation into Obama's birth certificate reportedly proves the "birthers" were right all along! Jerome Corsi, Ph.D., a WND senior staff writer, is credited with forcing the Obama administration to release the document in the first place.
Corsi's book, Where's The Birth Certificate?, first brought the Obama birth certificate issue to the public's attention. The Constitution requires a presidential candidate to be a "natural-born citizen" but does not really define exactly what the entails – meaning even though Obama was born to an American woman, he still might not have qualified to run for the highest office in the land.
"I was raised as an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and as a black child and as a white child," Obama once said, according to a report by the Miller Center. Obama spent four years of his childhood living in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather.
Sheriff Joe Apraio's forensic investigation into Obama's birth certificate revealed the document presented to the public appears to be identical to and copied from another birth certificate issued in Hawaii just several days after he was born. The exceedingly similar birth certificate reportedly belongs to Johanna Ah'nee.
The items on the supposed Obama birth certificate, which appear to have been copied from the Johanna Ah'nee birth certificate, include the word "Honolulu," the word "Oahu" twice, two time stamps, and three different Xs. The identical appearance of the Xs was reportedly of particular interest to forensic investigators.
The Xs would have been placed on the original birth certificate documents by moving a typewriter carriage and rolling over the certificate at the same time. Investigators reportedly found it interesting that the stamp made by Alvin Onaka and the April 25th stamp might have been lifted from another document.
One of the expert forensic investigators who participated in the review of the Obama birth certificate was Reed Hayes. He is a court-qualified document examiner and handwriting examiner.
Reed Hayes also operates a business in Hawaii. He has been on the board of Scientific Association of Forensic Examiners for almost four decades. Forlabs, an Italian company which specializes in extracting details and information from multimedia files, produced the results of the Obama birth certificate forensic investigation.
"We had two experts from two countries in separate disciplines of forensics that came to one conclusion: Barack Obama's long form birth certificate is not authentic," the report said.
Mike Zullo, the lead forensic investigator involved with the report, quoted details from the investigation by Hayes: "The (nail in the coffin) that proves that Certificate of Live Birth is inauthentic is the exact lineup of numerous entries on both [certificates]." Zullo added the experts likened the evidence they found to prove the Obama birth certificate is a forgery to being as reliable as a fingerprint.
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Wealth Advisor Associate
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- Altfest
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New York, NY, USA
New York CityNew York
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- Salary + Incentive based on experience and Industry Standards
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- May 07, 2018
- Closes
- May 15, 2018
- Job Function
- Wealth Management
- Industry Sector
- Finance - General
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Education
- Bachelors
This position is on a Wealth Advisor career track and has significant upward potential. Our formal training program insures the growth of our Wealth Advisor Associates and supports their continuing progress at the firm.
Duties and Responsibilities
Financial Plan Creation: Support the creation of financial plans, based on client's goals and financial circumstances, that address questions such as at what age can one retire with financial security.
Investment Portfolio Creation: Review client's current investments and objectives. Provide the client with a picture of his/her current portfolio composition. Create a custom portfolio within the firm's guidelines which the firm will manage.
- Client Account Administration: Handle trading and portfolio reporting. Work with clients and their custodians to open accounts and deposit and transfer funds.
Applicants should have all of the following:
- Undergraduate degree in Finance or a related field with high grades
- Strong standardized test scores
- Some finance experience
- Focus on Wealth Management as a career
- Passed the CFP exam or progressing towards taking the CFP
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills, including the ability to simplify difficult financial concepts to educate a less knowledgeable audience
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- Of the highest integrity
- Maintain a "Client-first attitude"
- Desire and ability to work successfully in a small company environment
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· Competitive compensation based on experience and industry standards
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For consideration, please include your resume and cover letter when you apply.
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Altfest Personal Wealth Management, founded in 1983, is a pioneer in the fee-only Wealth Management movement. Fee-only means that the firm receives fees only from its clients and not from commissions and the sale of products, which can otherwise lead to conflicts of interest. The firm is dedicated to putting clients' interests ahead of its own, hiring highly talented people who work as a team to develop the best strategies for clients, utilizing internal experts that sub-specialize in a variety of technical areas and client segments, providing a personal, warm, caring atmosphere and a high level of service for clients. The firm is credited for introducing innovative methods to the profession that have increased the value provided to clients.
Services provided to clients include Investment Management, Retirement Planning, Insurance and Tax & Estate Advisory.
Lewis Altfest, Ph.D., CFA, CFP®, founded the firm after leaving Lord Abbett & Co, a large mutual fund company with over 100 billion in assets under management, where he was a Partner and Director of Research.
Karen C Altfest, Ph.D., CFP®, joined the firm in its early years and has had a strong impact on its growth. The firm has been in a growth trajectory. Karen oversees the firm's marketing activities including a very successful program for affluent women.
Altfest Personal Wealth Management is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Monday, January 16, 2017
Revise, Rewrite
If you haven't seen it, here is an article about 12 authors and how they revise. I know everyone writes and revises differently, but if you're stuck maybe it will push you out of your rut. Or, it can just be an interesting look at the creative process.
Do any of the authors revise in a similar way to you?
Do any of the authors revise in a similar way to you?
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I haven't seen the article. I LOVE to revise, so no problems for me there.ReplyDeleteReplies
For me it varies book to book. Sometimes it's the drafting that I love, sometimes the rewrites.Delete
Hi Sara, I enjoy revising. The problem I have is finding the balance between making the story better and taking the changes too far. But since I'm about to dive back into my current WIP for another round, I appreciate the article you've shared. Clicking over to check it out now. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Ooh, fun. I could never get up and read things in public like Neil Gaiman does. I can't even stand hearing someone else read my stuff out loud. My editing process looks a lot like Patrick Rothfuss' -- once I've managed to solve the really deep story/theme/arc problems, that is...ReplyDelete
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After working for a few days, I have successfully completed and fully tested the required scripts to disable the country specific Blog page links and now wherever and whenever you view my pages, they are reverted to blogspot.com instead of blogspot.country for where you live and get online.
I hope from now on every incompatibility problem that was caused by this different domain per page evil could be solved, namely, with IntenseDebate (e.g., direct links to comments have not been working for quite a while, just in case if the first response was not made via the .com page), Statcounter, Feed/Rating Burner, Alexa and etc.
Still, after several days of test, I yet found that there is a bug with the Google server and/or browsers, which I can't resolve. It happens when the /ncr (No Country Redirect) switch could suddenly stop working anymore and the Google server simply ignores the switch even when it is entered, thus causing an endless re-direction loop and the page will never be loaded. So, just be reminded that if you encounter this case unfortunately, just click the stop button of your browser, close it and re-open your browser and then re-load the page, the same problem should not happen again, for most of the time.
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Each week the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy prepares an update for its members. The following are location privacy-related links from the past week.
Revealed: how Whisper app tracks 'anonymous' users (The Guardian)
Whisper's Privacy Problem: Sen. Rockefeller Pushes for Probe While Editorial Team Is Suspended Pending Review (PoGo was right)


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Accommodation in South Africa, FIFA will be one of the best World Cup in 2010. Hotel and Hospitality Management is the first class for all travelers. Leaving South Africa, host country hospitality Being on the stone as far as all measures to provide the best for you. The hotel is making a device that can make all customers happy and comfortable. Special measures, railway lines, tourism management system has taken flight as a loophole. South African Tourism, is preparing to raise 30 new first-class arrangements for South African fans and tourists.
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Some facilities for young football fans and special options. The host country, as students can afford it, are preparing a low-cost breakfast and meal arrangements at the hotel. Yet fun at the lower rate will have a range of budget hotels for those young fans want to enjoy every bit.
Not only during the soccer tournament of this magnitude in preparing 2010 W Hotels to provide the best accommodation for tourists during the World Cup, as well as the restaurant Safarikyanpu this season to football fans pull up the socks in order to provide the best entertainment. After all, this convention week Rino Amane, this travel agency, even taking into account the fact that the most profitable time of the pan range of tourism and hospitality industry of South African vineyards, most of them period will be one of valuable time.
Destination of the playoffs for all South Africa, Cape Town, especially bearing in mind that the fan section of various economic watch the game, the price most affordable, has come at a price of business tourism. If the rate is not reduced, the image will be tainted in South Africa. After all, the world's media focuses most of the tourist arrangements. So much so, the night life is also prepared during the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament visitors, make sure that you have done so not out of the best options for evening entertainment.


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Is formatting required for Autoboot? w3stfa11 03:35, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
- No - not if the first (boot)partition is already formatted with FAT12 or FAT16. Fe50 12:38, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
FAT format for 8GB card. Edit
I'm trying to format as FAT an 8GB card with Cardtricks and am being told that Windows cannot complete the format process. What am I missing here?
- The FAT16 file system is limited to 4GB, a partition with more than 4 GB can't be formated with FAT16.
- You can format the card with FAT32 in the camera from the Canon menu. This creates a single FAT32 partition for the complete capacity of the card; CHDK then can only be started with the manual loading method (with "Firmware Update" from the Canon menu). To start CHDK automatically when the camera powers on, you have to use a multi partition setup with a FAT12 or FAT16 formatted "start" partition. Since some cameras don't support the manual loading method (ATM these cameras are: SX20, G11, SX1), you'll also use a partitioned card.
- You can also create a single partition with max. 4 GB on the card, FAT16 formatted & CHDK-bootable; the remaining capacity will not be available then...
- Fe50 04:56, June 30, 2010 (UTC)


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March 31, 2008
I Love Idiotic Stories Like This
The Independent "reports":
I view this as the growth of the welfare state rather than signs of another Great Depression. I also wonder if the reporter read his own story which contains the following information regarding food stamps:
What do these three things all have in common? They increase demand!
Here is the kicker:
5 per cent?! A depression indeed.
Economics and Markets Posted by Harrison Bergeron at 11:48 PM | What do you think? [1]
But AlexC thinks:
Wasn't there some sort of a quota system to reward people that referred "the poor" to the food stamp system?Posted by: AlexC at April 1, 2008 1:19 AM
My UK friends love to tease me about America's wicked gun culture. They'll be up on the latest Michael Moore stats. A friend who worked there for several years has a daughter who is afraid to visit the states.
I love Britain, cradle of liberty and all, but they, and my friends, and my friend's daughter purposefully miss one important crime statistic: the slope of the curve. In the UK, crime is escalating. While they lack the dramatic gang drive-bys, the risk of being beat up for your mobile phone climbs higher each year.
They have effectively disarmed the populace and convinced Britons that their personal safety and property rights will be attended to by the state. The state lacks the resources and the will to provide it. So the advice is to "not go out." I'm a big fan of Theodore Dalrymple and recommend his "Life at the Bottom." I was prepared to think that he was a little over the top in his storytelling, and that he was reporting from the worst areas in Britain.
Samizdata relates a couple personal stories and links to a TIME magazine article on Britain's Mean Streets.
The 40-year-old heads his own company advising on mergers and acquisitions, and usually strides through life like a Master of the Universe. This evening, though, he looks shaken. Two days earlier, he was accosted outside his central London home by eight kids the youngest was 11 who punched him to the ground, hustled him to the nearest cash machine and forced him to reveal his PIN number. After a series of attacks in the area, local residents have gathered in Steen's apartment to talk to the policeman handling the case. His advice: "Don't go out unless you have to."
This is the land of Churchill. "We will hide in the fields, we will hide in the beaches!"
Pardon my ghoulish flippancy. This story really does sadden me, but it also points out the first stop on the road to gun control.
Gun Rights Posted by John Kranz at 5:03 PM | What do you think? [4]
But Perry Eidelbus thinks:
In Harlem, it's become a common tactic for groups of street punks to have big kids knock a victim down, and the little ones rifle through the victim's pockets. That's pure robbery, though.
Eight kids who "forced" that Steen chap to reveal his PIN? I hope they were bigger than him and/or wielded some serious weaponry, because if they had just their fists, then that man is just a damn coward. These teens know that crime pays, because the victims appear all too ready to give up and/or unable to defend themselves adequately. People need to start stand up for themselves -- and arm themselves even with just a steak knife. After a few punks get stabbed, let's see if Brits become "outraged" over someone defending himself, or if someone defends himself and is prosecuted for it.
And then there's the lead-in picture. Oh, how sad, this Abnett wants to work but can't because he did prison time, blah blah, so he'll have to turn to crime again? It's society's fault, obviously, not his fault for doing crimes in the first place.
For these punks, the only solution isn't long prison times, but to break their legs (I say that literally) and throw them back on the streets they came from.Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at April 1, 2008 1:14 PM
But jk thinks:
It gets worse, Perry, not only have they taken firearms away, they have also prosecuted several high profile cases against those who have, as you suggested, used other weapons. If you dare to fight back in Blighty you will be prosecuted, while the yobbo who was robbing you is let off easy.
I would also suggest that Harlem would be an American area most closely resembling British gun laws (how's that working out?)Posted by: jk at April 1, 2008 1:33 PM
But Perry Eidelbus thinks:
You tell me. Broderick Hehman is pushing up daisies, and his killers get to spend just a few years in juvie.
When a buddy and I went out for St. Patrick's, we were in a bank's locked ATM enclosure when a punk showed up outside the glass, asking for money. He said his girlfriend's in the hospital, do we have a car whose windows he could wash, the whole spiel. Yeah. I was about to give my friend my wallet, just in case, then go out and beat the crap out of the guy if he didn't leave. But then *I'd* be the one charged by the police.Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at April 1, 2008 2:02 PM
But johngalt thinks:
The number of "kids" it takes to coerce a grown man to hand over his PIN number will vary with the particular grown man, but if 8 kids can't subdue him they'll try again later with 16, or 32... (Do you suppose they didn't first try with only 2, or 4 punks?)
I haven't been to NYC since 1996, or to Harlem ever; Britain is on and off of my travel list on a constant basis. I'll tell you one thing though, it will only be to visit - I'll never live in any of those places. Life imitates art.Posted by: johngalt at April 6, 2008 10:28 AM
Let Them Eat Corn!
The evil, populist Kaus-Reynolds axis is at it again. (Mickey & The Professor?) I have the highest respect and admiration for both Mickey Kaus and Glenn Reynolds, but their position as Lou Dobbs of the Blogosphere always gets me down.
Today, Kaus writes about a Pennsylvania farmer who is no longer planting tomatoes because of labor concerns. Kaus points out that tomatoes are not rotting in the fields (sad news in an election year), but that the farmer has chosen a less labor-intensive crop:
But note that no tomatoes are rotting in the fields in this story. Eckel has just decided to plant another, less labor-intensive crop: "45 acres of sweet corn, and 1,200 acres of corn for grain." Is this a tragedy, or a surprisingly painless transition away from a business that used illegal labor to a business that uses legal labor? We will buy fewer Pennsylvania tomatoes and more Pennsylvania corn. So? ...
So we are poorer, Sir, instead of using trade and comparative advantage to enrich our lives, we are choosing self-sufficiency. Enjoy your Bacon, Lettuce and Corn sandwich!
Immigration Posted by John Kranz at 11:33 AM
It's Really Society's Fault
Blog friend Perry Eidlebus brings the heart-warming tale of a woman who was robbed of $7 and chose to turn the other cheek:
"This robbery and what's happening to this community is the result of a lack of a supportive system for our youth. We need jobs," she said. "This happened in broad daylight at noon. We need a mental health support system. This is further evidence of that."
The story identifies the victim as Democrat and Perry identifies her as "a moron."
In this instance, I think blaming the victim is pretty appropriate, and Eidlebus links to a more appropriate response.
Posted by John Kranz at 11:00 AM
Times Change
Professor Mankiw links to a story in The Crimson:
When Harvards future dean of admissions and financial aid was applying to the College in 1962, the first two teachers he asked for letters of recommendation refused.
Mankiw says how things have changed: "Today at Harvard, it is almost impossible to flunk out."
March 30, 2008
Back to the Caves!
Samizdat Thaddeus Tremayne posts the "Earth Lights" pic that we use for the ThreeSources banner and says:
I never get tired of looking at this photograph. It never fails to fill me with wonder and awe at the ingenuity of my species who, against all the odds, have carved these glorious man-made islands of light out of the primordial blackness. Whenever I am heavy of heart, I open up this photograph and stare at it to remind me that, somewhere, there is light and life.
Then he tells the sad tale of "Earth Hour" where cities are turning off the light for an hour to fight global warming. Tremayne continues:
With each passing day I become more convinced that the 'green' movement is actually a millenarian psychosis; a mental and spiritual sickness borne, perhaps, from some degree of civilisational exhaustion. Not just a belief that the end of the world is nigh, but an active desire to bring it about. And soon. Ours is not the first age to witness such pandemics of madness but, in the Middle Ages at least, there was the excuse of a near-universal poverty. In such a state of interminable plight, despair may not be the wisest response but it is at least an understandable one.
Heat and light are unalloyed goods to me. Both in moderation of course, but that people are turning off the lights to prevent warming seems a potent presentation of those who would, in Karl Popper's words, "send us back to the caves."
John Rockefeller brought heat and light to poor people; he is considered a robber baron. One thinks of the old bumper sticker: "Ban Mining. Let the bastards freeze in the dark." That's what these people want.
Deleterious Anthropogenic Warming of the Globe Posted by John Kranz at 12:41 PM
March 29, 2008
Review Corner
I am late to the party, I know. I have heard a lot of good things about "The Kite Runner," both the book and the movie. Miraculously, I had not heard much about the plot or thesis. It was about Afghanistan, and a lot of my lefty friends liked it. Trepidation rules.
It was released on DVD this week and I rented it last night. This is a five star movie. I look forward to quizzing my friends about it. It comports neatly to my worldview which is orthogonal to theirs. I frequently am forced to set my politics aside to enjoy a film for its graphic achievements, but this one is both well crafted and well thought.
It's not a plot line that would suffer from "spoilers." Yet, on the off chance that I am not the last one on the planet to see this, rent it right away and just watch it unfold.
Like the man said, five stars.
Review Corner Posted by John Kranz at 11:12 AM
March 28, 2008
And They Can Call Their Doctor for Free
That socialist paradise 80 miles south of Key West is trying to do the 80s and 90s in one big gulp:
Raul Castro: Cubans can have cell phones
I will call it a free country when they are allowed to have boats.
Not Everybody Loves Firefly?
Merciful Zeus! This woman doesn't like Firefly, nor Joss Whedon. And she has some pretty unusual views about sex.
I have to say that now that I have subjected myself to the horror that is Firefly, I really am beyond worried about how much men hate us, given that this was written by a man who calls himself a feminist.
But she tries. She is disturbed that Zoe calls a superior officer "Sir," she counts the number of times men talk vs. women, and she is, let's say, generally unaccepting of Inara's occupation: For those who don't watch, Inara is a "Companion:" a highly paid courtesan who chooses her own clients and is held in such esteem by society that her presence as a tenant on the ship opens many doors for the ship and crew. She is the only respectable member of Serenity.
It is clear from the outset that a large part of Inaras service involves addressing issues of male inadequacy and fulfilling many other emotional needs of her clients. The ability to do this IS a resource and it is therefore a service that Inara must perform. BUT Inara services all of the male passengers and the Captain in this way. She also services Kaylee but the relationship between them is a little more reciprocal. In any case, Mal makes it pretty obvious that he expects his emotional needs to be serviced by Inara and she willingly obliges. Mal also allows the male passengers to demand her emotional services and does not tell them to stop, despite the terms of his agreement with Inara. Inara is not paid by any of these men for her time, energy and emotional support.
Hat-tip: Galley Slaves. Jonathan V. Last worries that it is a put on (as does Ace of Spades in a funny post). Maybe I have lived in Boulder County too long, but none of this lacks verisimilitude for me.
I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me.
Posted by John Kranz at 1:29 PM | What do you think? [4]
But Terri thinks:
Good Lord, that woman is loony.
The characters there are more than the single dimension she mentions. ie Zoe calling a superior officer "sir" AND walking the fine yet straight line of being the stronger person within her marriage without shame, yet knowingly and lovingly dealing with Wash's situation.
Or Inara being the most respected on the ship though a courtesan. Different times, different times.
She mentions Mal being sexist, but he's more of a gruff captain. It's his ship, it's his crew, things go his way and that's that. He can tell his mechanic she's too cheerful and should shutup. She doesn't "take it" or feel "threatened". She goes about her merry way like any woman with good humor would do.
But jk thinks:
Equal pay for women? Terri, let's not go off the handle into a lot of crazy talk around here...
I laugh because I read a lot of lit-crit on Buffy and Angel, 80% of which is written by academic women with strong feminist leanings. (Yes, Ma'am, perhaps a sword is phallic -- but perhaps spherical weapons are less efficacious for stabbing?) I am used to Whedon being praised.
I'm deciding whether to share this essay with my ultra-feminist niece whom I've recently sired (She's halfway through Season 2 at last report).
But TrekMedic251 thinks:
But Whedon wrecked it with "Serenity." Too many character "changes" shall we say?Posted by: TrekMedic251 at March 30, 2008 9:59 AM
But jk thinks:
Huh. I liked Serenity. As I've said, I would have preferred a few more TV episodes to the big budget movie, but I liked it.Posted by: jk at March 30, 2008 12:09 PM
Seven Figure Income, No Retirement Accounts
Many have made a big a deal about Senator & Mrs. Obama's relatively low level of charitable giving as indicated on their tax returns. That's between he and his Jew-hating clergyman as far as I am concerned (low swipe even for me, sorry!)
What concerns me more as a Prosperitarian is that the couple does not invest:
Indeed, even though Michelle Obama had income from the University of Chicago's Hospital System that exceeded $1 million during the period the tax returns were filed, she appears to have neither a 401(k) plan nor an IRA for retirement contributions. In another sign the Obama household wasn't into building a nest egg, the couple cashed out $6,260 from a pension or 401(k) plan in 2000.
Larry Kudlow hit this topic on his show last night. An excellent segment is posted on the CNBC site (I can link but not embed). I encourage you to watch. Especially Jerry Bowyer's remarks at the beginning of the clip. It really does speak to their beliefs that they choose -- not only to pass on tax deferral -- but to not invest in Corporate America at all.
Dem2008 Primary Posted by John Kranz at 10:53 AM
March 27, 2008
Vive la Difference!
I saw yesterday that Senator Obama had assailed Senator McCain for his taking a "wait and see" attitude like President Bush on the <JAWS Soundtrack swells up>housing crisis!</JAWS Soundtrack swells up>
On one hand, I am happy to have an ideological election. Senator Kerry hid his liberal light under a bushel in 2004 and neither VP Gore nor Governor Bush ran as firebrands in 2000. No doubt Obama will try to tack to the center in the general, but he has laid markers in the debates. We can really discuss the role of government this fall.
On the other hand, part of me is worried about the choice our nation will make. There is an American drive to do something. I cannot believe that lasseiz faire does well in focus groups, even though I am a big fan. The Wall Street Journal Ed Page nails the situation today, in a lead editorial that looks at the differences.
The media coverage of Mr. McCain's speech has portrayed his approach as laissez-faire, and the Clinton and Barack Obama campaigns quickly assailed it on those grounds. But that's true only in the sense that Mr. McCain didn't endorse any vast, new government rescue of bankers or borrowers. If this is laissez-faire, we've come a long way from Adam Smith.
I'll suggest that McCain offered as close to lasseiz faire as is practicable, and very likely went too close. Hands-off is not the press' first choice. And look at what awaits on the other side of the aisle:
Mrs. Clinton called this week for "immediate, bold" action "to unfreeze our mortgage markets." To that end, she would immediately freeze our mortgage markets. She wants a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures coupled with a five-year rate freeze on adjustable-rate mortgages.
Here's to clear choices -- here's to the right ones.
AP Economic Wisdom
The Republic is truly doomed. I was with some relatives yesterday who are pretty well informed. Not news junkies or blog fiends, but good, average-American, read-the-papers-watch-the-news types. They discussed how bad the economy is and the evils of predatory lending.
The lead Yahoo/AP headline today is pretty instructive: "Economy sputters with 0.6 percent growth"
I suppose you can call < 1% sputtering -- but I read it and thought "well, that's not recession." And when you get to the fourth paragraph, the AP confirms:
Under one rough rule, the economy needs to contract for six straight months to be considered in a recession. The government will release its estimate for first-quarter GDP in late April.
Under another rough rule, Zero degrees Celsius is considered "freezing," and 4 + 7 is generally considered to be around 11.
An instructive article would have pointed that out in the lede. 0.6 is sluggish but a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Instead we get speculation:
WASHINGTON - The economy nearly sputtered out at the end of the year and is probably faring even worse now amid continuing housing, credit and financial crises.
We speculate in the lede, provide a poor definition of recession in paragraph four, and put a negative headline on it -- yup, it's an AP story. Kind of surprising they didn't mention Abu Ghraib...
Media and Blogging Posted by John Kranz at 10:44 AM | What do you think? [1]
But Perry Eidelbus thinks:
In France, 0.4% economic growth per quarter is called something else: normal.Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at March 27, 2008 1:22 PM
Democrats and Religion
It seems to me that the Democrat Party finds religion only in even numbered years.
This year, Clinton has fared well among Catholic voters in early primary states and she holds a substantial lead over Obama among Catholic Democrats in Pennsylvania polls. Some analysts argue, however, that Catholic voters' race, age and economic status - rather than religion - are more likely to play a greater role in determining their vote.
Bravely Bob Casey Jr is bucking the endorsement trend and standing athwart history with his finger in the wind.
Like the general population of super-delegates, whose support remains fluid, several Jewish supporters of the New York senator said in interviews that their votes still remain up for grabs. All told, more than 70 Jewish super-delegates will make the trip to Denver this summer for the Democrats nominating convention. They account for nearly one-10th of the partys nearly 800 so-called super-delegates, the informal term for elected and party officials whose status as delegates to the convention does not depend on state primaries and caucuses.
... to the chagrin of Democrat politicians like Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Fans of the Immaculate Reception:
Steelers legend Franco Harris opened Sen. Barack Obama's campaign headquarters in Washington County.
... like which way that "fumble" bounced.
Dem2008 Primary Posted by AlexC at 12:35 AM | What do you think? [1]
But TrekMedic251 thinks:
To famously paraphrase a 1970's matron: I don't know which Catholics are siding with Hillary. All the Catholics I know are siding with McCain.
Hell, even most of the Jews I know are siding with McCain to stay above this Obama/Clinton fray.Posted by: TrekMedic251 at March 30, 2008 10:03 AM
March 26, 2008
What's He Know That I Don't?
Professor Mankiw points out that Senator Obama chooses not to defer significant amounts of income from taxation. Why?
I don't know. Maybe he is getting bad tax advice. Or maybe he is expecting vastly higher tax rates in the future when the accumulated savings will need to be withdrawn and taxed. As Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee has written, "Future increases in tax rates potentially threaten to significantly reduce the value of your retirement savings and may even mean that you should not save in 401(k) accounts at all."
Look on the bright side, Senator -- maybe you'll lose and your taxes won't go up so much.
Dem2008 Primary Posted by John Kranz at 6:10 PM
Rumor Of The Day
My favorite rumor, anyway:
BREAKING: Condi Rice Flirts With VP Possibility -- Speaks to Grover Norquist's Wednesday Group Meeting
The NFL's loss will be our nation's gain.
2008 Posted by John Kranz at 6:05 PM | What do you think? [2]
But AlexC thinks:
Is there any chance that nominating someone that gets both of the Democrats perceived strenghts "blank" and "woman" will come off looking as too calculated and craven? (Right or wrong)
It's one thing if she had one in a primary campaign.
It's another to be selected.Posted by: AlexC at March 27, 2008 12:50 AM
But jk thinks:
Boy, I don't know. I would counter that Secretary Rice is so obviously qualified. The Democrats look like affirmative action hires in comparison.Posted by: jk at March 27, 2008 10:45 AM
March 25, 2008
Praise for James Carville
I love this guy. Three cheers for Democratic überoperative James Carville:
First. One of my favorite lines from any debate ever. He was "debating" Bill O'Reilly during the 2000 election and he said [quoting from memory]: "It's important. Whether the US is run by the principles of George Bush or Al Gore is important, My wife thinks it's important that it is George Bush, I think it is important hat it is Al Gore, but we agree that it is important."
Second. He mentioned his wife. If Mary and James can keep it together, none of us has any cause to question our vows. I'm not kidding, it gives me great hope.
Third. (HT Insty) He's not apologizing or revising his "Judas" remarks:
I was quoted accurately and in context, and I was glad to give the quote and I was glad I gave it, Mr. Carville said. Im not apologizing, Im not resigning, Im not doing anything.
We need more Carvilles in our political world.
Huck-a-Whack Is Back!
C'mon, you know you missed it! Today, John Fund pens the Huck-a-Whack denouement in OpinionJournal Political Diary:
Mike Huckabee is as busy as ever since he ended his campaign for the GOP nomination. Invitations to speak and join the boards of various organizations are pouring in. But this week the former Arkansas governor took time to contemplate why he failed to best John McCain in this winter's primaries. His partial answer: his fellow Christian leaders.
Emphasis mine. Goodbye and Good Luck, Governor. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out!
GOP2008 Primary Posted by John Kranz at 5:11 PM
This Speaks for Itself
Dem2008 Primary Posted by Harrison Bergeron at 1:31 PM | What do you think? [1]
But jk thinks:
Did I say there was sniper fire? I meant that we ran out of after-dinner mints. Tragic.Posted by: jk at March 25, 2008 5:20 PM
Jury Duty
I'm doing the work of free men today as I have been called -- for the first time -- for jury duty. I'm thinking I might fashion a "Lysander Spooner Died for Your Sins" T-Shirt. That should get me home by 11:30.
UPDATE: Home by twelve without invoking my views on jury nullification.
Posted by John Kranz at 12:01 AM
March 24, 2008
Schwarzenegger Fires Clint Eastwood
Talk about burying the lede, John Fund, in the OpinionJournal Political Diary, highlights The Governor of California's firing his brother-in-law:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is not much one for sentiment. He has bounced both his brother-in-law Bobby Shriver and his fellow actor and friend Clint Eastwood from the State Park and Recreation Commission.
I think it is much more interesting that he fired Clint Eastwood. Fund asks "What Did They Expect from the 'Terminator'?"
Posted by John Kranz at 1:19 PM
Suppy-Demand Thingy Again
Home sales rose, prices fell in February
Huh. Prices down. Sales up. I can't get my head around that one.
Posted by John Kranz at 10:55 AM
March 23, 2008
"that's what sceptics have been saying"
"Well, the head of the IPCC has suggested natural factors are compensating for the increasing carbon dioxide levels and I guess, to some extent, that's what sceptics have been saying for some time: that, yes, carbon dioxide will give you some warming but there are a whole lot of other factors that may compensate or that may augment the warming from elevated levels of carbon dioxide.
That is just one of many stunning admissions in a transcript of a radio interview between Australian Journalist Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, "a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs." Christopher Pearson publishes it in The Australian and suggests "Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril."
Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth still warming?"
It gets worse from there for the warmies. No doubt Ms. Marohasy will be outed as a corporate shill for the petro industry.
Pearson closes with some overly optimistic suggestions that the fall of global warming hysteria will usher in a new era of reason and freedom:
With catastrophe off the agenda, for most people the fog of millennial gloom will lift, at least until attention turns to the prospect of the next ice age. Among the better educated, the sceptical cast of mind that is the basis of empiricism will once again be back in fashion. The delusion that by recycling and catching public transport we can help save the planet will quickly come to be seen for the childish nonsense it was all along.
I'm not so sanguine. I think recycling has been substantially discredited, yet my city council last year voted to force it onto all municipal residents.
This won't go away, but with a little luck maybe we could get a Republican Presidential candidate to disavow it.
Hat-tip: Instapundit
Deleterious Anthropogenic Warming of the Globe Posted by John Kranz at 12:39 PM
jk Defends President Clinton
Happy Easter, ThreeSourcers. We have a theological big tent here, but I think it is safe to say that we all believe in redemption, rebirth and renewal.
In that spirit, I am going to leap to the defense of President William Jefferson Clinton. Instapundit reports that the campaign is "clarifying remarks" after an Obama aide is shouting McCarthyism.
"I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country," said Clinton, who was speaking to a group of veterans Friday in Charlotte, N.C. "And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics."
Methinks the aide doth protest too much.
Also an Easter shoutout to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is making the right kind of enemies:
One could accuse me of using these stories as a cudgel against the Obama campaign and Chinese authority. That's a hell of a thing to accuse a guy of on Easter...
UPDATE ON ITEM 1: If you're not having fun... This same advisor said "I mean there's no reason why this shouldn't be a walkover" and -- even better -- "We'll be there a century, hopefully. If it works right." Both of these from a 2003 speech dug up by Tom McGuire who explains "Obama was not in the briefing that Sunday when McPeak made his controversial remarks."
Dem2008 Primary Posted by John Kranz at 12:21 PM
March 22, 2008
Congress and Obama: Freedom be Damned
Hello all. Very busy here with work. But here is an important issue to be aware of.
Ed Cline has written an excellent article, entitled Congressional Duplicity, or Treason?, about Barack Obama's Global Poverty Act.
The beginning of the article lays out his theme:
I rarely write commentary from anger, preferring a properly objective, psuedo-dispassionate approach to a subject deserving my attention. But news of the details, nature and scope of pending legislation in the U.S. Senate has caused me to make an exception to that rule.
He does an expert job of concretizing the issue, of developing the consequences of the Global Poverty Act, and of identifying the principles which the act violates: freedom and natural individual rights.
P.S. Dr. Yaron Brook has an excellent article, entitled "War On Free Political Speech," on "campain finance" law published on Forbes.com. Dr. Brook says:
"Without [campaign finance laws], advocates say, the wealthy would control political speech.
The article has solid reasoning and good examples, and it puts the issue in proper context: in context of individual rights, including the rights to property and free speech.
Dictatorship Posted by Cyrano at 1:23 PM | What do you think? [1]
But jk thinks:
That abominable piece of legislation will be hard for Senator Obama to defend in the general election. The guy has few legislative credits, and the one prominent one that bears his name cedes sovereignty to the U.N. It might be an effective Sister Soljah moment for Senator Clinton to say that he went too far and to tell superdelegates that he is unelectable.
That said, I have to register disagreement with Cline's overwrought prose (This kettle is truly blacker than this pot, hang with me). The charge of Treason is good wordplay, but I'd advise Mr. Cline to stop there. Nope, it's treason and slavery:
Perhaps "indentured servitude" is too kind a term, for as horrendous a condition as it is, there is usually a time limit to such servitude. Slavery would be the more accurate term in this instance, for what Congress is considering is servitude by Americans in perpetuity, in exchange for nothing but the privilege of laboring to "save" the world without thanks or reward, of filling the alleged needs of others, of performing unlimited "community service" for the offense of merely existing.
Now, were it treason, slavery and dog abuse, perhaps people would come out against it.
Posted by: jk at March 23, 2008 5:56 PM
March 21, 2008
If youre not having fun, youre not paying attention!
The Junior Senator from NY was awarded Four Pinocchios out of a possible four for her depiction of landing in Bosnia under heavy sniper fire and running heads-down to the base.
The WaPo Fact Checker, gives its highest prevarication rating. Click through to see Clinton kissing an eight year old Muslim girl who read a poem in English at the welcoming ceremony (no doubt the bullets whizzing around their heads are moving too fast to be captured on film).
Hat-tip: Instapundit
Dem2008 Primary Posted by John Kranz at 1:57 PM
Typical White Persons, Unite!
I was thinking "Typical White Person" would make a great blog name, but Instapundit links to some cool T-Shirts.
Dem2008 Primary Posted by John Kranz at 11:44 AM | What do you think? [1]
But HB thinks:
March 20, 2008
Can we afford to have Senator Barack Obama's racist grandmother that close to the reins of power? She might grab the nuclear football and bomb Namibia.
How about a CNN debate between her and McCain's Mom? They'd blame it all on Sammy Davis. Jr.!
Posted by John Kranz at 5:32 PM
Dirty Hippies
Another band pic (somebody is cleaning the house to move):
UPDATE: A good friend of mine did the "Bad Apples" logo. I always liked it, but on more than one occasion, somebody thought the band was named "Bad Hippies." Years before I met AlexC...
Posted by John Kranz at 5:00 PM
Welcome Mr. Mamet
I had read several blog posts and references to David Mamet's Village Voice piece "Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal." It's always good to have somebody discover Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman. I smiled and moved on.
Daniel Henninger writes about it today in his Wonderland column. His piece, as usual, is pretty good. But it got me to go to the source and read Mamet's piece in its entirety.
I am not going to excerpt it. Mamet is a writer and artist by trade, and he has written a work of art. It does not hurt that it highlights what I believe, but it is an honest, introspective finding of the values I cherish. He gets it -- whether he discovered it last week or last century.
Philosophy Posted by John Kranz at 11:47 AM | What do you think? [3]
But johngalt thinks:
Mamet also produces an excellent military themed series on CBS called, "The Unit." I look forward to reading his entire essay.Posted by: johngalt at March 25, 2008 3:00 PM
But jk thinks:
Et tu, jg? I have heard nothing but complaints about rampant anti-Americanism on that show.
I tease my brother-in-law for watching it. While I have not seen it, he has shared a few plotlines with me and I have never heard such anti-corporate, anti-business nonsense.
I admitted that I haven't watched the show, am I wrong?
But johngalt thinks:
Methinks you are a victim of "spin." Sure there are bad guys who are Americans or CIA or corporate, but nothing that implies capitalism or liberty are the problem. And beside that, most of the really bad guys are AK-47 totin' foreigners.Posted by: johngalt at March 26, 2008 3:49 PM
March 19, 2008
Hillary Loved NAFTA
ABC News reports that Hillary was for NAFTA before she was against it:
Dem2008 Primary Posted by Harrison Bergeron at 10:23 PM
Headline Of The
|Gotta love this! A quick trip through the MAD Magazine website doesn't look like GOP.com or anything, but this cover is awesome. Hat-tIp: Club for Growth
Robert Zubrin did a podcast with Glenn Reynolds a while back, and I am thinking that he slipped a bit of biomass ethanol into the good Professor's drink. Glenn has since run about 754 positive blurbs about "The Zubrin Plan" to mandate that new cars sold in the US can run on gasoline or ethanol.
"You had me up until 'mandate,'" says I.
The proponents wash over the mandates with the assumption that these will replace other and worse pieces of legislation. The way Professor Mankiw sells his carbon tax as being better than cap and trade, The Zubrin Plan is always better than some other government abomination -- yet there's very little evidence our benighted 535 won't give us both. Reynolds and Zubrin claim it is better than CAFE standards and are likely right. But how bad would increased CAFE standards and mandated flex-fuel capability suck?
Zubrin defends himself from the mean old attackers at Science Magazine and the WSJ Ed Page -- and Reynolds dutifully links. Where Reynolds likes biomass ethanol, Brother Zubrin is still pretty pleased with the corn ethanol subsidies. By his math they provide a 600% ROI:
Let's start with the allegedly misbegotten incentives. The United States invests roughly $3 billion a year through a 51-cent per gallon credit to promote the production and use of renewable fuels like ethanol. The return on that investment? Taxpayers are saving approximately $6 billion that would otherwise be spent on counter-cyclical crop price supports, plus an additional $15 billion reduction in the country's petroleum import bill.
I remain pretty excited about biomass. But I don't want to mandate solutions onto car manufacturers. Mr. Zubrin does his cause no favors with a petulant essay.
Fair to say that I acquired my dove-ness on inflation from Art Laffer and Larry Kudlow. Now, I am ready to follow Larry into greater concern. I still hold my lonely beliefs in the disinflationary effects of trade, technology, and productivity. And I am still moderately comfortable with a 2.5% core CPI.
But I am not comfortable with a $1.50 Euro. While I'm willing to defend all the Fed's actions to date as protection from deflationary shocks, I'll join Mr. Kudlow in suggesting no further cuts.
Kudlow presents a strong dollar as an opportunity for John McCain. I think he is on to something here. The GOP is always called callous because the Democrats are always quicker to enact a program to help those who are hurting. A dollar restoration platform could speak to those who are struggling, without abandoning free market principles. This is the way to close the Huckabee gap, to get Sam's Club and Country Club Republicans on board:
Folks are making fun of the dollar. Our enemies around the world are pointing to the unreliable dollar as evidence of American weakness. Its as though the administrations neglect of the dollar is peso-izing or Latin-Americanizing the greenback.
Something must be done to reverse this trend, and McCain is in a good spot to do it. Remember, McCain was a foot soldier in the Reagan revolution. Borrowing a page from the Gipper who always said a great nation has a strong currency he should argue on the campaign trail for a dollar surge.
For patriotic reasons alone it is time to reverse the decline of the dollar. A strong dollar should be emblematic of a strong America and a strong defense. Sen. McCain should insist that a President McCain will order the Treasury Department to back up its stale strong dollar is in the nations interest rhetoric with real open-market actions to boost the greenback. He should say that his Treasury will take actions to strengthen the greenback by conducting dollar diplomacy with Europe, Britain, Canada, and Japan. He should also state that a President McCain will appoint a Federal Reserve chief who will stop ignoring the dollar, as Fed Head Ben Bernanke did last week before Congress.
How about Jack Kemp for the next Fed Chairman? Yes, he's getting along in years, but he could restore monetary sanity. That and a President McCain wielding the Tax Axe could make it like the 1980s all over again.
The more I think about it, the more I fear we're looking at a repeat of the 1970s, especially with a Dem in the White House.Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at March 4, 2008 10:49 AM
I don't know that QB Kemp could get confirmed but he would have my vote.
An eerie thought on Kudlow the other night, I think from Stephen Moore. He said (quoting form memory) "Reagan raised the fed funds rate and lowered taxes, we're looking at easier money and higher taxes."Posted by: jk at March 4, 2008 6:55 PM
As crude-oil prices climb to historic highs, steep gasoline prices and the weak economy are beginning to curb Americans' gas-guzzling ways.
In the past six weeks, the nation's gasoline consumption has fallen by an average 1.1% from year-earlier levels, according to weekly government data.
This time, however, there is evidence that Americans are changing their driving habits and lifestyles in ways that could lead to a long-term slowdown in their gasoline consumption.
I point it out because I see a new promising free market solution to our soi disant oil addiction every week, and yet the insane calls for gub'mint solutions come every day.
I think Economics textbooks will be updated in a few years to include the folly of subsidizing corn-based ethanol. A corn-producing state has two powerful Senators, one in either party, so the government throws [insert magnitude here]s of dollars at a "solution" which costs more, requires more energy, and emits more greenhouse gases -- a policy trifecta!
A great friend of this blog always made me laugh by calling the inexpensive -- and good quality -- guitars that Fender started importing from Mexico "NAFTA Strats." My positions on trade were not well developed at that time and I was suspicious of NAFTA because it had President Clinton's signature.
What a difference a decade makes. I think most of the less expensive Fenders are coming from the Pacific Rim and, as we have noted, the Democrats have turned away from one of the great achievements of the last Democratic president.
An editorial in the Financial Times makes the important point to dissever jobs and trade (WARNING: British spelling and punctuation):
The purpose of liberal trade is not to create jobs the term is a badge of economic illiteracy but to change the pattern of work and raise living standards overall. As with new technology, there are winners and losers. The right policy is not to turn back integration, any more than it would be to ban the fork-lift truck. It is to ensure that the overall gains are widely shared and the victims get help.
The saddest thing is that the Democrats who understand this reasoning believe that the partys supporters are too dull to grasp it, and must be fed some protectionist red meat. The challenge, they believe, is to pander to ignorance while doing the least harm. Good policy rarely happens that way. And is the logic of trade really so hard to grasp or to sell? Bill Clinton gambled on making the forward-looking case for economic integration, and NAFTA was one of his signal political wins. Todays economic conditions are less favourable, to be sure, but the substance of the matter has not changed.
On this crucial issue, Mr Obama and the Democrats have been seized with a kind of intellectual and political cowardice. The implications of this lack of spine are grave and extend beyond economics. The next Democratic administration promises to repair US alliances and standing in the world. A worthy aim. Yet its first act, the party says, will be to tell its closest neighbours that the rules they are all agreed to are defunct and if they do not like it, tough luck.
Not NITRO-BURNING FUNNY CARS!, sorry, but this education video from Drew Carey at ReasonTV. Some parents and a caring principal at Locke High School in Watts try to wrestle a failing school away from the teachers' union.
Vikki Reyes has had it with Locke High, the school her daughters attend in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. She walked in on class one day and recalls the place was just like a zoo! Students had taken control, while the teacher sat quietly with a book.
Frank Wells has also had it with Locke High. When he became principal he says gangs ruled the campus. He tried to turn things around but ran into a brick wall of resistance from the school district and teachers union.
Locke seemed destined to languish in high crime and low test scores until Wells, Reyes, and many reform-minded teachers joined with a maverick named Steve Barr in an attempt to break free from the status quo. Their battle is just one example of the charter school education revolt thats erupting across the nation.
SIDE NOTE: I remain suspicious about the propaganda aspect of video. One watches what Michael Moore can do when he controls the editing block, or VP Al Gore, or 60 minutes. I agree with every syllable, spoken or implied on this video -- yet part of me wonders is it is fair,
The Union stooge is easy to demonize and seems to deserve it. I just wonder now that every kid with a Mac can get his inner Reni Riefenstahl on. The ReasonTV stuff is well done and carries the credibility of the magazine. I read this morning that Nick Gillespie is leaving the book for the ReasonTV site.
I have cheered the rise of blogs, the long tail, and the "Armies of Davids" but it is naive to not appreciate the polemic power of plentiful and professional-looking video.


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Each year, seasonal flu costs businesses more than $10 billion. Businesses must also be prepared for unexpected and potentially costly occurrences, like pandemics and natural disasters. The 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic, known as SARS, disrupted travel, trade and the workplace and cost the Asia-Pacific region alone $40 billion. Japan's 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster led to major, costly supply chain disruptions for automakers and electronics manufacturers. And today, emerging health threats like Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, and H7N9 are being scrutinized closely for their pandemic potential.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the nation's health protection agency, working 24/7 to protect Americans from health and safety threats, both foreign and domestic. CDC increases the health security of our nation and is vital to a healthy economy, fighting pandemics and disease outbreaks that disrupt continuity of operations and reduce productivity.
Business Pulse, developed by the CDC Foundation, provides helpful resources about CDC's work to help protect business from everyday health threats and major health emergencies. Importantly, Business Pulse also offers tips to preserve continuity of operations and protect business before a crisis strikes.
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The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) was established in the United States in 1992 by Sir Elton John, now headquartered in New York City. In 1993, Sir Elton also established his Foundation as a registered charity in the United Kingdom, headquartered in London. Both organizations pursue the same mission - to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS through innovative HIV prevention programs, eliminate stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS, and support direct HIV-related care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Together, since their inception, the U.S. and U.K. branches of the Elton John AIDS Foundation have raised over $300 million in support of worthy projects across the globe, including significant funding dedicated to programs in their respective home countries. The U.K. organization allocates similar levels of funding to programs in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The U.S. organization invests more than $6 million each year in grants to community-based projects across the United States, the Americas, and the Caribbean.
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EJAF funds programs that directly and honestly address the health of people who use drugs and of people passing through correctional systems, to encourage a significant increase in HIV testing and treatment by these populations, which then can lead to a significant decrease in population-wide HIV infections and illnesses.
6.Scale-up of government HIV programming
EJAF supports policy work, communications, and programming to push for effective sustained government funding of targeted combination HIV interventions and linkage to care. This includes support for advocacy to ensure federal, state, and municipal follow-through on the promise of national HIV/AIDS strategies and commitments, particularly commitments for increased HIV testing, increased access to care and reduction of HIV-related health disparities for key populations.
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Prizes recognise talents of two Biochemistry researchers
Excellence at both the senior and junior level has been recognised by two recent prizes to researchers in the department.
Professor Anthony Watts is a Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize winner for 2015. Daniel Yin, a third-year Biochemistry graduate, has received the Peter Beaconsfield Prize from Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division.
Tony Watts' award recognises his work at the interface between chemistry and other disciplines. His extensive work on proteins and lipids in model and natural membranes has used a huge range of biophysical, structural and molecular biology methods and techniques. Potential applications of the research include helping to deliver drugs more effectively.
Professor Anthony Watts
Since the 1990s, Tony has pioneered new high-resolution solid state NMR techniques for the study of biomolecular systems aimed at resolving sub-Å structural and dynamic details of ligand- and drug-receptor interactions in the absence of other structural information.
The Royal Society of Chemistry gives out over 60 prizes and awards, recognising achievements of individuals, teams and organisations in all areas of the chemical sciences. More details of the Interdisciplinary awards can be found on the Society's website.
Daniel, a student in Professor Watts' lab, won MSD's Peter Beaconsfield Prize with his essay: 'The Fight against the Fight against the Fight against Bacteria'. In it, he describes his work on antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and efforts to develop them as drug candidates - in particular, to tune their selectivity to kill bacterial but not host cells, and to deliver the AMP once inside the body to the site of infection.
Daniel Yin
The competition is open to postgraduate students in DPAG, Pathology, Biochemistry or Experimental Psychology who have applied for transfer to DPhil status within the previous 12 months. The prize recognises individuals who have gone beyond their narrow field of specialisation and, by presenting their work in a translational context, have demonstrated a wider grasp of its significance and potential applicability.