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Monthly Archives: September 2009

The rewards of faith

Thursday, September 10, 2009

I had my doubts about the authenticity of this story, but I considered it too funny not to pass along: A devout Catholic who popped into church to thank God for a his rescue from a lift was crushed to death by a 860lb stone altar. Police spokesman Roman Hahslinger explained that Gunther Link, 45, […]

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One Day Sabattical

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Taking the night off to watch Obama.

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Obama’s speech

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Obama has painted himself into a bit of a corner. He allowed the debate on health care to get away from him at home, and to be held hostage to Max Baucus and the Republicans to whom Baucus ceded control of the debate. Now, Obama has to rescue a deteriorating situation, with all signs pointing […]

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Headline from the Day

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

This Morning’s Paper: In controversial remarks today, students urged to work hard in school. It’s also rumored that Obama, taking one more step on the road toward fascism and/or socialism, will soon announce that puppies are cute. Actually, I’m not sure whether the Day was serious, or the writers were having some fun. Either way, […]

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Arbitrary and Capricious

Monday, September 7, 2009

I’ve mentioned before that I do a lot of disability work. 99.9% of my work is for folks seeking Social Security Disability. That system is fair, by and large. Every once in a while I get a case involving a private disability plan-one that my client got through work. These private cases tell a lot […]

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Van Jones

Monday, September 7, 2009

Obama’s capitulation in the face of the coordinated assault on Van Jones may very well spell the end of his Administration. It put out a signal of weakness that the Republicans will understand perfectly. Jones did and said nothing that Republicans don’t say and do every day. Republicans are assholes. He was right about that. […]

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Wall Street’s newest scam

Sunday, September 6, 2009

This morning’s Times headlines the newest Wall Street money grab: the securitization of life insurance settlements: The bankers plan to buy “life settlements,” life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash — $400,000 for a $1 million policy, say, depending on the life expectancy of the insured person. Then they plan to […]

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Election season starts

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Before the days of permanent campaigning, Labor Day was the traditional start of the election season. It still is, sort of, on the election front. Today the Groton Democratic Town Committee took possession of its new headquarters, located at 780 Long Hill Road, located in the front of the Groton Shopper’s Plaza. It’s actually next […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, September 4, 2009

These two songs have, so far as I can see, nothing much in common, though they were only one degree of separation in the youtube stream of consciousness. One of the truly great rock songs, truly unintelligible at any speed. This one occurred to me last week. It illustrates something about rock music in the […]

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Contagious

Friday, September 4, 2009

Couldn’t resist borrowing this from Colin McEnroe. Give it some time. It takes a minute or so to get going.

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