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So a guy (in Lee's case) is traded 4 times (I think Montreal-Cleveland Cleveland-Philly Philly-Seatle Seattle-Texas) and becomes free agent and choses to move back to a place his family was happy before, and he's a villian? I don't get the logic.

Pick any novelty 12 days of Christmas song. On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me......

I think the key word she mentioned is Charter. There are a lot of good Charters. But chances are with an entirely new or young teaching staff (like many charters), and most likely an inexperienced principal, a pretty lady that lives in Amherst doesn't stand much of a chance in a Charter filled with high-risk kids.

I'm with you on this. Maybe we should start talking up mops.

I'm not sure how the numbers go, but my inclination is that job openings have to be a heck of a lot stronger just to account for people entering the job market for the first time who are never counted as unemployed. The population isn't getting smaller. (I think that is a fact too)

I'm not sure. The maximum benefit in New York is probably close to $400/week. The average benefit is probably close to $300. But the moral hazard seems to me a temporary risk. With unemployment so high I think i would suspend any assumptions about moral turpitude. The macro rate isn't coming down soon. A fall in consumption could drive it higher.

Although extending unemployment benefits so far out seems to smack me a bit wrong. That is money that goes right back into the US economy at local levels. It all gets spent.

Liberal and Conservative are meaningless labels that exploit you lemmings. Liberals and Conservatives believe in 99% of the same stuff. It's the proportions they differ on. Just think about it. You can't really talk about Liberality or Conservation without portions and proportions. If it makes you feel special to be a Conservative. That's swell. If it makes you feel special to be a Liberal. That's swell to. You still agree on most of the stuff. It is the portions that bother you.

Is there any logical discrepancy with wanting the Plame leaker and the WikiLeaker leaker prosecuted (on legal grounds), and at the same time believing the press is free to use whatever they have. (on 1st Amendment principles). I don't see a problem with this stance.

Interesting. But I think you are abstracting this to think Kennedy wanted/believed this in principle and not as a pragmatic posture. The highest tax rate in 1960? 90% or higher. Today it is around 35%. 15% lower than the Reagan years. If we tried to go back to the Reagan's tax brackets people would be screaming communisism. At least the board knows where to turn if we ever need to keep discipline in a Greek Hoplite Phalanx.

Hardly the case. BTW, I am not sure I'm at all decided about the best course with this. I think however that eventually a repeal is inevitable. I also don't think it needs to be a logistical nightmare - but I could see it becoming one. I talked to two colonels (army) in the last week. When DADT came up it, they seemed to shrug: "The army I joined isn't going to be the one I'm leaving, and the army that the recruits are joining won't be the one they leave either. That's military life." (paraphrase) Admittedly, and somewhat embarrassingly, I'm not above having some prejudices against a repeal. But at the same time, I haven't found a well-honed logical reason for not resolving this.

I wasn't referring to you. Sorry if you thought so. I'm not a neo-Nazi either. Just screwing around. But I always ask if I'm allowed to transport fertilizer as part of my rental contracts.

Mythologically speaking, you don't see Gorgons nearly as much as you used to. Word.

Cue Orchestra .... To hell with your Ma, I'll do your Pa said Barnacle Bill the Sailor.