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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:46:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Computers</category><category>Disposing</category><category>Macintosh</category><category>Old</category><category>Quit in Iraq</category><category>just like in Viet Nam</category><title>libvscon</title><description>This blog presents my comments on current events and recent publications.</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>583</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-3500619062829726018</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-13T00:40:53.342-04:00</atom:updated><title>Addendum to Previous Post</title><description>The dilemma will be resolved when the states are made responsible for paying Social Security and Medicare benefits.  Strapped for cash, the states will see the wisdom of  setting up convenient, attractive, fast and reliable assisted suicide stations.  They will be all over the place, just like the ubiquitous golden arches.</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2009/03/addendum-to-previous-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-2145865724515372126</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-12T11:45:12.373-04:00</atom:updated><title>The Big Dilemma</title><description>Almost daily, I read in the paper about how costly Social Security and Medicare are and how their costs will rise in the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a satirical work, &quot;Boomsday,&quot; Christopher Buckley suggests a simple and obvious solution: assisted suicide for 70-year olds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, assuming diminished quality of life as we age and our bodies require more medical attention, testing, treatments and surgeries and furthermore assuming that  we oldsters recognize that the expense of our care places a huge burden on society, what are we to do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except for two states, Oregon and Washington, all the others outlaw assisted suicide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Federal Government needs us to die to save money and the states say that we must live no matter how high the costs go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How will this dilemma be resolved?</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2009/03/big-dilemma.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-3105153534916069779</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-16T01:18:29.303-05:00</atom:updated><title>What Is This?</title><description>A priest, a minister and a rabbi walk into a bar and the bartender says: &quot;What is this, some kind of a joke?&quot;</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-is-this.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-5026617025860474232</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-16T01:01:38.344-05:00</atom:updated><title>Best Quote</title><description>From participants in the rescue at the airplane that ditched in the river yesterday:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Basically, let me tell you, we were in the right place at the right time,” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorio Hector Rabanes, a deckhand on the Thomas Keane, a New York Waterway ferry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;see: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/nyregion/16rescue.html?hp</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2009/01/best-quote.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-700675153158786173</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-15T10:34:10.482-05:00</atom:updated><title>Israel Is Not So Smart</title><description>For many years, Israel has suffered at the hands of hostile Arab neighbors.  At first, the Israelis fought back and smote the Arabs mightily and survived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the last 30 years, the big neighbors have left Israel pretty much alone.  Two have have even signed peace treaties with Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arab aggression has changed.  It is no longer threatening.  What Hamas is doing is not good, but it does not endanger Israel&#39;s existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How is Israel responding?  The same old way - with airplanes, helicopters, tanks and massive amounts of explosives.  It&#39;s not effective against the Hamas rocket throwers and their elusive bosses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How should Israel (and the rest of the world) respond?   With a Marshall plan for the suffering Palestinians.  See advertisement by Tikkun (a Jewish organization):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php?story=gaza_text&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scroll down to the section entitled: &quot;A Domestic and Global Marshall Plan—Starting with Israel/Palestine.&quot;</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2009/01/israel-is-not-so-smart.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-5828121413507357715</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-10T02:33:10.431-05:00</atom:updated><title>Compare and Contrast</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51072101@N00/3183581653/&quot; title=&quot;Contrast.jpg by lwiner9, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3304/3183581653_3cea960bf7_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;369&quot; height=&quot;167&quot; alt=&quot;Contrast.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2009/01/compare-and-contrast.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-7495272587394783255</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-02T18:33:24.786-05:00</atom:updated><title>Not Morality</title><description>In today&#39;s WaPo, Charles Krauthammer published a column entitled &quot;Moral Clarity in Gaza.&quot;  He sided with Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to posted readers&#39; comments very few agreed with him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&#39;s the problem?  Discussing morality is a waste of time because different people have different ideas about what is moral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The correct issue is &quot;what works.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proper model is the one followed by the United States vs. Japan at the end of WW II - economic development.  The US brought in consultants and experts and taught the Japanese how to manufacture high-quality goods.  This policy was so successful that Japan has been at peace for 63 years and has become the world&#39;s second largest economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel and the Western (and oil-rich Arab) nations should help the Palestinians to develop economically.  Then, and only then, will there be peace between Israel and the Palestinians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Krauthammer&#39;s column at: &lt;br /&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101780.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2009/01/not-morality.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-897578262269556852</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-05T18:29:08.584-05:00</atom:updated><title>Great Page One Headline in NYPost, 12/5/08</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51072101@N00/3085470804/&quot; title=&quot;Great Page 1 Headline.jpg by lwiner9, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/3085470804_161683e4cb_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;417&quot; height=&quot;192&quot; alt=&quot;Great Page 1 Headline.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/12/great-p-one-headline-in-nypost-12508.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-5676948742983507800</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-05T14:12:58.375-05:00</atom:updated><title>Good Summary of the Big 3 Problem</title><description>GM&#39;S FANTASY RECOVERY PLAN&lt;br /&gt;By DAN CALABRESE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YOU know that $12 billion bailout, er, &quot;bridge loan&quot; we asked for? Can we make that $18 billion? So asks General Motors in its report to Congress, explaining that it needs $6 billion more than it wanted just two weeks ago - but not to worry, because it&#39;s really learned its lesson this time . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GM&#39;s &quot;recovery&quot; plan would be lucky to earn a C at a respectable business college. And what little substance it offers, the company is in no position to actually deliver. First, why is GM asking for $18 billion now, when it was only asking for $12 billion just last month? Well, this is hardly unprecedented - in a matter of weeks, this company went from reporting a cash-burn of $1 billion-a-month to reporting a $5 billion-a-month loss. Congress just might want to wonder what the figure will be next month. For now, anyway, GM says it needs to borrow the original $12 billion by March, just to keep operating, but wants access to another $6 billion line of credit just in case the economy gets even worse. Just in case? The rest of the proposal is rife with typical Detroit fantasy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GM presumes that the auto industry, which is expected to see sales fall to 12 million units in 2009, will bounce back to sell 15 million units by 2012. What&#39;s the basis for that hope? * It insists that it will make its labor costs &quot;competitive&quot; with those of transplants like Toyota and Honda by 2012. One small problem - the United Auto Workers has agreed to no such thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As GM was submitting its plan, UAW officials were huddling in Detroit to consider whether they&#39;d make further concessions to give GM a ghost of a chance of keeping this pledge.The UAW agreed only to delay an upcoming GM benefits payment. Other concessions? They&#39;ll think about it. And UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said last month that the union has already given enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GM&#39;s latest submission also raises a new, huge red flag. Until recently, GM financed more than half its customers&#39; purchases through its GMAC financing arm, overwhelmingly for customers with credit scores under 700. Now that credit standards are far tighter, it can no longer finance those customers In other words, GM can now self-finance only 6 percent of its sales. That&#39;s sure to hurt those sales even more for years to come - unless the taxpayers take the financing risk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rest of GM&#39;s &quot;plan&quot; is typical political pandering and emotional appeals about GM&#39;s past - none of which make a bailout of the company from this point forward a smart business move. Missing are any actual profit projections - perhaps the plan&#39;s one bow to reality. But GM might as well have thrown in some fat profit numbers out of thin air - it would&#39;ve been as feasible as anything else in the plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is Congress really dense enough to use taxpayer money to prop up this fiasco? GM claims it needs the first $4 billion by the end of this month or it will collapse, so we&#39;ll find out soon enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dan Calabrese, a longtime journalist and PR executive in Michigan, is the founder and editor in chief of North Star Writers Group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.nypost.com/seven/12052008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/gms_fantasy_recovery_plan_142734.htm</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/12/good-summary-of-big-3-problem.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-6002898718349060730</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-25T13:38:14.112-05:00</atom:updated><title>Good Luck!</title><description>I watched Obama&#39;s speech and he spoke well - but he did not inspire confidence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watched the speech on CNBC and as Obama was speaking the stock indexes were sinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why was that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because the problems facing Obama are so numerous and intractable that not even Obama with his clear thinking and speaking and first-rate staff will be able to solve them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Republicans have messed up the country so badly that it may not be possible to repair the damage.</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/11/good-luck.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-6339758882835458855</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-24T08:56:53.607-05:00</atom:updated><title>Two Short Articles Worth Reading</title><description>Sundays NYTimes Business section had 2 worth-while articles:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;The New Deal Didn’t Always Work, Either&lt;/span&gt;, at&lt;br /&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23view.html?_r=1&amp;amp;sq=Tyler%20Cowen&amp;amp;st=cse&amp;amp;scp=1&amp;amp;pagewanted=print&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;What if a Slowdown Is a Never-Ending Story?&lt;/span&gt; at&lt;br /&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23every.html?sq=Ben%20Stein&amp;amp;st=cse&amp;amp;scp=1&amp;amp;pagewanted=print</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/11/two-short-articles-worth-reading.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-6345831935575833332</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-15T02:23:36.697-04:00</atom:updated><title>Pi(e)</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51072101@N00/2943172395/&quot; title=&quot;Pi(e).jpg by lwiner9, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2943172395_fc8304222f_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;410&quot; height=&quot;427&quot; alt=&quot;Pi(e).jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/10/pie.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-6237693564019956456</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-08T12:19:03.779-04:00</atom:updated><title>What Needs to Be Done</title><description>If the current crisis is of a scale comparable to the depression of the 1930&#39;s, it is possible that the Government has not yet done enough to resolve the problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the problem?  The masses do not have enough money and credit to continue propping up the economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And why not?  Because the rich and powerful have taken too much money and not left enough for everybody else.  That&#39;s what happened before 1929 and happened again before 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 1929 the economy stayed depressed for a decade or more, in spite of FDR&#39;s attempts to solve the problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Starting in 1941, World War II created many jobs and made it possible to tax the very rich at almost confiscatory rates.  A side effect was to cure the depression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am certainly not recommending another World  War.  But if the Government were to tax incomes above 1 million dollars at a rate of 90% and use the revenue to start a massive public works program, our crisis would be over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my opinion, the Obama Administration will not do that.  Obama is not that progressive (liberal). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, we will suffer for a long time.</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-needs-to-be-done.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-8401204243662513143</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-30T02:29:56.308-04:00</atom:updated><title>Oh, the irony of it!</title><description>The bail-out would have cost $700 billion. That&#39;s too much, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defeating the bail-out cost American stock owners much more. On September 29, the stock market decline cost investors $1,200 billion.  (See http://money.cnn.com/)</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/09/oh-irony-of-it.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-6402384273929398516</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-16T11:13:33.721-04:00</atom:updated><title>&quot;We haven&#39;t got the man we had when we began&quot;</title><description>A quote from Fiddler on the Roof - it applies to Barack Obama for many of his supporters.  The dreamers who believed that Obama would be a &quot;different&quot; kind of politician.  Hah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no such thing.  There are only winners and losers.  Obama aims to be a winner.  So he does not hand the Republicans a weapon to be used against him.  He votes for FISA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, how did the dreamers conjure up Obama, the new kind of politician?  Did Obama help them to have that dream?  Did Obama use demagogy to win the nomination?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demagogy refers to a political strategy for obtaining and gaining political power by appealing to the popular prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public — typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda.</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-havent-got-man-we-had-when-we-began.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-3910893650807615026</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-14T03:46:47.708-04:00</atom:updated><title>Shop Til You Drop</title><description>See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51072101@N00/sets/72157606154853542/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;set of 3 photos&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/07/shop-til-you-drop.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-8872169232338913531</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-02T01:46:38.696-04:00</atom:updated><title>What&#39;s More Shocking?</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51072101@N00/2629714185/&quot; title=&quot;Jimmy Carter, xxx-Kisser.jpg by lwiner9, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/2629714185_9925b9f52d_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;481&quot; height=&quot;344&quot; alt=&quot;Jimmy Carter, xxx-Kisser.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/07/whats-more-shocking.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-7665982374883648020</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-30T17:34:32.243-04:00</atom:updated><title>Can You Figure This One Out?</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51072101@N00/2625375467/&quot; title=&quot;Down Under.jpg by lwiner9, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/2625375467_c79c29ee24_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;485&quot; height=&quot;365&quot; alt=&quot;Down Under.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/06/can-you-figure-this-one-out.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-9144876553713728699</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-24T03:27:12.267-04:00</atom:updated><title>Want to See . . .</title><description>. . . a great &lt;a href=&quot;http://view.break.com/524970&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; catch&lt;/a&gt;?</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/06/want-to-see.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-8004777301837638089</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-17T00:15:15.379-04:00</atom:updated><title>Hillary - &quot;Superstar?&quot;</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51072101@N00/2586461422/&quot; title=&quot;Hillary - Superstar.jpg by lwiner9, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2586461422_91388fd6d3_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;159&quot; height=&quot;208&quot; alt=&quot;Hillary - Superstar.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cover of the current issue of New York Magazine juxtaposes a photo of Hillary with a boldface &quot;Superstar.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have read the New York article.  It comes across as blatant attempt to sell magazines by claiming that reality is the opposite of what it seems to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in the real world, reality most of the time is what it seems to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hillary has to go back to being the junior Senator from New York, way down the seniority list.  Not a very exciting place to be at age 60, especially after a brief period as the apparent anointed next President of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like Hillary and I am sorry that she lost, but really that&#39;s what happened.</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/06/hillary-superstar.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-2929404546916519716</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-15T01:48:48.878-04:00</atom:updated><title>Bye-bye Jerry, Bye-bye Steve</title><description>In a NYTimes article entitled, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/business/14nocera.html?scp=2&amp;amp;sq=joe+nocera&amp;amp;st=nyt&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&quot;Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby,&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe Nocera spanks Jerry Yang for rejecting Microsoft&#39;s offer to buy Yahoo! for 70% above market price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s a good article, well-written and full of relevant facts.  It also follows standard Business-School doctrine that the CEO&#39;s responsibility is to maximize the wealth of the stockholders.  Yang was clearly not doing that when he turned away Microsoft&#39;s insanely generous offer.  What Yang was doing was protecting his own position as CEO of an independent Yahoo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nocera could have also pointed out that Steve Ballmer was not maximizing the wealth of Microsoft&#39;s stockholders when he made the +70% offer.  Ballmer was doing the same thing Yang was doing - feeding his own deficient self-concept by deluding himself that he was the master mind of a growth strategy for Microsoft, when he was in fact he was admitting that he had totally failed as CEO.  Neither Ballmer, nor anyone else at Microsoft has a sliver of an idea of how to create a future for Microsoft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s time for Yang, Ballmer and all the other &quot;have-beens&quot; at both companies to disappear from public view.  Maybe they should join Jimmy Carter and start their own retirement community.</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/06/bye-bye-jerry-bye-bye-steve.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-6747606532365412846</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-14T01:35:41.104-04:00</atom:updated><title>An Untimely Death</title><description>I can&#39;t get over the fact that Russert&#39;s doctors did not repair his coronary arteries and were not able to convince him to eat a lot less and to exercise more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the doctor&#39;s description published in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/russert-dies-of-apparent-heart-attack/#comment-1117104&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; NYTimes&lt;/a&gt;, Russert was allowed to live with Coronary Artery Disease without any attempt to clear up his problem.  Why did Russert not have a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can testify that I had a CABG at age 76 and it was like having a new lease on life.  I could exercise as much as I wanted and I no longer have to worry about a piece of plaque breaking loose and causing a heart attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russert could have lived many more years.  There are expert sugeons nowadays who do the CABG without having to stop the heart, without having to use the heart-lung machine totally avoiding the possibility of brain damage.  I know, beacuse I was lucky (or smart) enough to have such a surgeon do my CABG.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a rotten shame that Russert did not consult such a cardio-thoracic surgeon!</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/06/untimely-death.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-319318055866180812</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-10T18:10:30.060-04:00</atom:updated><title>Parasols in New York</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51072101@N00/2568176337/&quot; title=&quot;Parasols.jpg by lwiner9, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/2568176337_974cf4635a_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;445&quot; height=&quot;346&quot; alt=&quot;Parasols.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/06/parasols-in-new-york.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-4571049694842756204</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-10T00:40:19.521-04:00</atom:updated><title>Suddenly Unwanted Vehicle</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51072101@N00/2566192109/&quot; title=&quot;Suddenly Unwanted Vehicle.jpg by lwiner9, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2566192109_be0bae1730_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;382&quot; height=&quot;325&quot; alt=&quot;Suddenly Unwanted Vehicle.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/06/suddenly-unwanted-vehicle.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12750408.post-3803425186508360659</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-08T01:54:37.203-04:00</atom:updated><title>Low-light, No-flash Photography</title><description>See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/51072101@N00/sets/72157605483426268/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nassau County Art Museum&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://libvscon.blogspot.com/2008/06/low-light-no-flash-photography.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (librespondent)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>

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