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Tuesday Highlights

Good Morning.

  1. Six, of course those excited about that that ignore the 512 or more cores/processors in many high end video cards.
  2. A complete waste of time … surprised?
  3. Bigger stadia, more … screen?
  4. An offer to redefine “jury of your peers.”
  5. For the econ-readers, two books reviewed by Mr Easterly. Another by Mr Bernanke examined here.
  6. Fasting and the evangelical.
  7. For seeing … art.
  8. High school GPA is correlated with college success (as opposed to SAT/ACT test results).
  9. TED.
  10. ACORN and a really bad defence of the same noted. Another tidbit here too.
  11. Remarking in the wake of Mr Obama’s (yet another) media blitz.
  12. The title of this piece got me to me drew a wide smile.
  13. The NEA scandal/admin … will that catch fire? or just smoke and smolder?
  14. Draw to two opposing sides … with the fate of civilization at stake?
  15. Big heads, but bigness is perceived only because their chests are so small.
  16. Recalling what cruel and unusual punishments really meant.
  17. Ethical monad.
  18. Recalling Mr Obama’s campaign platforms. 
  19. Forgetting that most of us found Plato’s regime with the philosopher kings kinda repellent.

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By Mark – September 22, 2009

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  1. Boonton says

    ACORN and a really bad defence of the same noted. Another tidbit here

    too.

    Before the great hacking/upgrade event I posted what I think ACORN’s CEO

    would like to say but can’t for PR reasons. I’ll do it again here with

    slightly different wording:

    Look, we are a big organization that helps poor people. We pay

    our workers crap wages and usually we get the bottom of the barrell. This

    hurts us in all types of ways. We ask people to go to shopping malls to

    register voters and we get back a dozen forms with ‘Mickey Mouse’ because

    some crackhead signed up for the $30 a day job. That ain’t no conspiracy,

    the law says we have to turn over all those applications because if we threw

    them away we’d be accused of ditching the Republican ones

    Likewise real financial advisors demand good pay and don’t tend

    to volunteer so we get crappy ones. Nonetheless, even the ones caught in

    this ‘sting’ have on balance done good. They’ve helped poor people get out

    of giving all their money to slumlords and helped them get their own homes

    and build equity in them. Do corners get cut? Yes, you cut corners when

    you’re poor to make ends meet. Do some of those loans end up bad? Yes. Do

    pimps often show up seeking to set up front operations? Don’t worry about

    that, though, the banks have plenty of people looking out for them. While

    the bubble did allow some poor people to get in over their heads, we are

    very far down on the long list of causes. No, clearly it can happen and we

    should have people who are professional enough to stop it but we have crappy

    people. Sorry about that but lets be honest on both sides here. We are

    hated by the right not because we help pimps score mortgages or because

    voter registration officials must shift through hundreds of ‘mickey mouse’

    applications. We are hated because despite those problems we register

    thousands of people who have every right to vote but otherwise wouldn’t if

    not for our efforts. We get results and the GOP doesn’t like those results

    so, because we have a lot of F***-ups we are an easy an inviting

    target

    Not an excuse, they have to get a handle on their corruption problems

    (corruption that more often steals money from ACORN before anyone else).

    But that is keeping things in perspective.

    September 22, 2009, 10:19
  2. Mark says

    There is one problem with that tack. These investigators tried this check, coming in for help with sex slavery at 7 locations. At exactly one they were turned away. One other later called the police. This doesn’t indicate a “corner cutting” problem that only some offices and people are doing. This seems a bit more generic.

    September 23, 2009, 15:38



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