according to both his two remaining supporters.

On March 22 Brad Delong carried a discussion between  Ezekiel Emmanuel (you know whose brother he is) and Harold Pollack. 

Due to general and specific incompetence I've been unable to provide a link but if someone could do me a favor and provide one below as a comment I'd promise to demonstrate my profound gratitude either by blogging every day or just going quietly away. Your choice

Today's TPM describes a couple whose infant died but take time to remark that due to the ACA  at least they don't have to deal with staggering medical bills. 

Which prompts me to add my comments on the roll out of the ACA . Unlike the media and the Obama haters (thanks Wattree) rather than considering the roll out as a disaster I consider it almost remarkably successful.

o In 1936 Hitler hosted the Olympics 

o Later he invaded the Sudetenland  claiming  with some plausibility there was discrimination against ethnic Germans

o The League of Nations had no ability to deter him

o Last month Putin hosted the Olympics

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nope by Auden

A shilling life will give you all the facts:

How Father beat him ,how he ran away,

What were the struggles of his youth, what acts

Made him the greatest figure of his day:

Of how he fought, fished, hunted,worked all night,

Though giddy, climbed new mountains; named a sea:

Some of the last researchers even write

Love made him weep his pints like you and me.

With all his honours on, he sighed for one

Who,say astonished critics,lived at home ; 

This will be of minimal interest in this  venue so I’ll keep it short.

The laws against “insider trading”  are as unenforceable as prohibition and should suffer the same fate.There’s nothing wrong  per se with an investment advisor learning as much as possible about a target. That’s his job.

She can do it by trying to worm the information from an inside source. Or going to the favorite bar of any insider and just listening .  In fact D&B (I think) used to have a service called Key Reports-perhaps still do- where their investigator did just that.

From July 2013

  
I chose a Swedish contralto over a Kenyan American citizen last night so probably I'm echoing a million talking heads. But what else is new?

What  most interested me could be summarized as............

Obama's $10.10 wage proposal was a failure because.....(insert choice)

A. It will only be available to 200,000 (cruelly underpaid )workers says the FT' s   Robin Harding 

B. Obama's DOD budget can't afford the extra billion bucks.  Harding again.

C.John Boehner,in his own words

and snowy summits old in story

The long light shakes across the lake

And the wild cataract

Leaps to glory

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Blow, bugle blow

Set the wild echoes flying

Answer echoes ,answer

dying

            dying                    

                              dying

Tennyson

Enjoy the holidays , whatever you call it.

Flavius

From Brad Delong

Volker  first time          83

His reappointment        84

Greenspan                     91

His reappointment       100

His third term                91

Fourth                            89

Disasterous Fifth         100

Bernanke                       99

His reappointment        77

Yellen , last week         59

Perhaps  10 years ago listening to an interview with BishopTutu, the host asked him whether Mandela ever saw Helen Suzsman now that they were both retired from active politics.

He laughed and said "Every Sunday morning he phones her and asks whether she's thinking of making pan cakes today."

A nice memory

If the Republicans had contented themselves with blocking only one of Obama's nominees for that Washington appeals court they'd have gotten away with it. By blocking all three they went too far. And, given the number of vacancies,put Obama in a position to appoint enough new judges to make a significant improvement in how our laws are interpreted.

The insurance industry is shedding a lot of customers/policies that aren't quite profitable enough .Not hopeless "dogs"or they would have shed them long ago.

I ask myself "what could make all those policies profitable." And the answer  is.......... 'put them in one pile'. We know that the way insurance  works is that insuring against just one risk is....... risky even tho insuring against 5 thousand of such risks would make sense.

That's called taking advantage of the "law of averages". Or better "being an underwriter"

The White House must take control of the Obamacare registration process.

Rather than 'first come first not served' it should impose some sort of "rationing": perhaps this Friday only applicants whose names begin with "A" Monday the B's , etc until the demand shrinks sufficiently .

This is the first pan -or attempted pan-of Janet Yellen I've read. It was in Brad Delong . More below

"All the momentum is in our direction. Warren Buffett said yesterday, ‘Scrap the bill.’ ………. Everyone knows this thing isn’t ready. Everyone knows,” said Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, a former Republican Study Committee chairman…………..

Who cares ?

The debate over the Russian proposal for Syria reminds me of a season in the early 80s. With a week to go the Yankees were as usual in the lead. But during that week they "mailed in" their performances and they didn't finally clinch until the last weekend.

Reporter.

Some people are saying you backed into the pennant

Thurman Munson

They'll be saying that from second place. 

killing people is wrong. Since I get lost trying to follow complicated debates I  need some “golden thread”to hang on to. That’s it.

Sure there’s the usual suspects: Are we being lied to by the Administration? What does the Constitution permit?  Should we take sides with al-Qaeda? Does the “norm” with respect to chemical warfare trump all other considerations ?

Tomorrow I’ll have eloquent comments on all the above. Unless I decide to go to the beach. Today I’m just trying to decide what’s right.

Killing people isn’t.