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'Bank Slate: Obama: Best President Ever
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Personal and political musings and pontification. Thursday, December 10, 2009. Obama: Best President Ever. Glenn Greenwald has an interesting post up on Salon. Comparing Obama admirers the relentless defenders of George Bush and Sarah Palin. He writes. Is there something wrong with that? Why not admire him? Isn't that something to be cherished and defended? Greenwald blasts Obama defenders saying. Has he embraced many of the Bush/Cheney executive power and secrecy abuses which Democrats once railed again...
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'Bank Slate: February 2012
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Personal and political musings and pontification. Saturday, February 11, 2012. Answers to the Fairness Quiz. The concept of “fairness” has been coming up a lot in my house. Generally, my son Isaac is complaining that “it’s not fair” that he has to eat the same dinner as the rest of the family. I’ve suggested that he appears to have a distorted concept what the word “fair” means. A recent Wall Street Journal editorial had a “ Fairness Quiz. I decided to take the “quiz” (. And included my answers below.
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'Bank Slate: May 2012
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Personal and political musings and pontification. Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Law, Morality, and Terror. President Obama began the year by signing the 2012 Defense Authorization Act. This law may, or may not, depending who you ask, authorize the government to detain US Citizens indefinitely, without trial. The President has approved, via drone missile strike, the execution of US Citizens. What’s the proper line between law enforcement and war? What do we want? Only people actively engaged in acts of war, or p...
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'Bank Slate: August 2012
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Personal and political musings and pontification. Wednesday, August 29, 2012. To Protect the Life and Health of the Mother. We found out Christine was pregnant in the emergency room. The doctors recommended an operation to terminate the pregnancy. Immediately. We agreed. After the operation we learned that the original diagnosis had been incorrect. It was not an ectopic pregnancy. The pain was caused by a substantial ovarian cyst. Christine was still pregnant. Saturday, August 18, 2012. Medicare Advantag...
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'Bank Slate: Obama: Still the Best President Ever
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Personal and political musings and pontification. Sunday, November 4, 2012. Obama: Still the Best President Ever. Back in December of 2009, before Obama had completed his first year in office, before he signed health care reform into law, I wrote a post. Proclaiming that Barack Obama the best President in my lifetime. I also predicted that he is likely to be a better President than any successor I will live to see. There are number of areas where the actions of this President have had a positive impact&#...
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'Bank Slate: January 2013
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Personal and political musings and pontification. Monday, January 7, 2013. Stopping Gun Violence in America. The goal ending gun violence in general, and horrific mass shootings in particular, is one that is shared by most all Americans. My proposal goes like this:. Existing regulation regarding the purchase of firearms is left unchanged. No additional restrictions are added on who can purchase guns or what people can do with the weapons they already own. All of this ammunition would have to remain on an...
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'Bank Slate: Star Wars: A New New Hope
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Personal and political musings and pontification. Thursday, November 1, 2012. Star Wars: A New New Hope. Not so long ago in the galaxy we call home, the assumption was that there would be no more Star Wars movies. Now we discover that a whole new trilogy is in the works. What do the Disney Star Wars movies have in store for us? My imagination runneth over. And so I offer you (and the Walt Disney Corporation) my vision of a new Star Wars trilogy. Luke is the galaxy's last trained Jedi. But he is well ...
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'Bank Slate: January 2012
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Personal and political musings and pontification. Saturday, January 14, 2012. The Truth About Bain. Newt Gingrich's PAC has new video out about Mitt Romney’s role as the CEO of Bain Capital. If you haven’t seen it, here it is:. We can praise capitalism and still be appalled by the vultures that reap obscene rewards by preying on it. Maybe there is another side of the story. If so, we need to hear it. We are owed the truth of what was going on at Bain Capital. If even a part of Romney’s vast for...What Mi...
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'Bank Slate: March 2012
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Personal and political musings and pontification. Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Of Course the Individual Mandate is Constitutional. There’s lots hand-wringing going on today about the ongoing health care reform case before the Supreme Court. I don’t get it. The commerce clause and under their taxation authority. The individual mandate is specifically designed to encourage people, who might otherwise take their chances on foregoing health insurance, to purchase policies from the upcoming health care exchanges&...
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'Bank Slate: The Way of the Gun
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Personal and political musings and pontification. Sunday, January 6, 2013. The Way of the Gun. When my son Isaac (age 12) wrote his Christmas gift wish-list this year it consisted of:. This year we had also had a 14-year-old French cousin joining us for Christmas. So, when my mother called in search of gift suggestions, I had the bright idea: Nerf guns for everyone! For a great many Americans their relationship with guns is much less distant. Around 45 millions households in the US own a total estima...