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		<title>Carmine plan redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 11:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harrywelty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Duluth Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Plan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not linked to any of the recent stories about the Duluth Schools. Its sort of like kicking a dead dog. Nonetheless I shouldn&#8217;t abandon the subject completely. This recent story is more of the Red Plan&#8217;s aftermath. The District continues laying off teachers. Not that many this time. The staff is already greatly diminished. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve not linked to any of the recent stories about the Duluth Schools. Its sort of like kicking a dead dog. Nonetheless I shouldn&#8217;t abandon the subject completely.</p>
<p>This <a href="http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/231666/">recent story</a> is more of the Red Plan&#8217;s aftermath. The District continues laying off teachers. Not that many this time. The staff is already greatly diminished.</p>
<p>There are other stories I&#8217;ve missed. There was one about a new school proposed for Park Point. </p>
<blockquote><p>A new school proposed for Duluth has students, teachers and an educational philosophy all lined up with a goal of opening this fall. Now the backers of the long-planned Spirit of the Lake Community School need to find a home.</p></blockquote>
<p>It may draw from homeschoolers acording to one person who posted in response to <a href="https://secure.forumcomm.com/?publisher_ID=36&#038;article_id=230855">the story</a> (which is no longer accessible on the DNT website) Still, its creation will offer disgruntled families one more option to avoid enrolling their kids in the Duluth Schools. </p>
<p>A Duluth teacher who five years ago would often relay snide comments about the School Administraion to me, but who began clamming up when my fight with the District went into overdrive, recently told me she is looking for a way out of the District. She&#8217;s having a miserable experience in one of our new schools. That&#8217;s an anecdote not a survey but I suspect she&#8217;s not alone.</p>
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		<title>Rick Nolan becomes the establishment candidate for the DFL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 10:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harrywelty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cravaack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At this point Tarryl Clark&#8217;s and Jeff Anderson&#8217;s chief role in the DFL race will be to make people pay more attention to the actual DFL endorsee running up to the primary. Roll Call, the political news site in Washington, reports that Rick Nolan’s campaign for the DFL primary for Congress in Northeastern Minnesota’s 8th [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At this point Tarryl Clark&#8217;s and Jeff Anderson&#8217;s chief role in the DFL race will be to make people pay more attention to <a href="http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/231757/publisher_ID/36/">the actual DFL endorsee</a> running up to the primary.</p>
<blockquote><p>Roll Call, the political news site in Washington, reports that Rick Nolan’s campaign for the DFL primary for Congress in Northeastern Minnesota’s 8th District will get a boost tonight at a fundraiser where all DFL members of the state’s Congressional delegation are scheduled to attend.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Club for Growth gives Cravaack a relatively low rating</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 10:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harrywelty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cravaack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m surprised that the DNT hasn&#8217;t printed this story since they&#8217;ve started using MPR as a news source. Cravaack&#8217;s relatively low score from one of the most politically powerful groups on the right might come in useful in his re-election campaign in the DFL-leaning 8th District. Cravaack&#8217;s three DFL opponents have regularly called him an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m surprised that the DNT hasn&#8217;t printed <a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/polinaut/archive/2012/05/cravaack_ranked.shtml">this story</a> since they&#8217;ve started using MPR as a news source.</p>
<blockquote><p>Cravaack&#8217;s relatively low score from one of the most politically powerful groups on the right might come in useful in his re-election campaign in the DFL-leaning 8th District. Cravaack&#8217;s three DFL opponents have regularly called him an extremist and a member of the tea party, although Cravaack has never formally joined the House Tea Party Caucus.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Small Dead Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harrywelty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[God's Own Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Buddy sent me this video interview of one of my favorite ex Republicans US Senators, Alan Simpson. He found it on a right wingnut blog &#8220;small dead animals.&#8221; I love the comments from a colorful Senator who understands that we are sitting on future fiscal ruination. What the wingnuts of the GOP won&#8217;t admit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My Buddy sent me <a href="http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/020173.html">this video</a> interview of one of my favorite ex Republicans US Senators, Alan Simpson. He found it on a right wingnut blog &#8220;small dead animals.&#8221;  I love the comments from a colorful Senator who understands that we are sitting on future fiscal ruination.</p>
<p>What the wingnuts of the GOP won&#8217;t admit is that the Grover Norquist solution &#8220;no new taxes&#8221; is asinine. Simpson would be kicked out of today&#8217;s GOP like Indiana&#8217;s Senator Richard Luger recently was by most devoted Dead Animal readers. Enjoy the Bloomberg interview but keep in mind <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;ved=0CGIQFjAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.outsidethebeltway.com%2Falan-simpson-rejects-the-gops-no-new-taxes-orthodoxy%2F&#038;ei=REK1T_n1MqKw6QG4iu0D&#038;usg=AFQjCNFt0DphynCt7xcwwoxqBgVcun6wMw&#038;sig2=53RzEpiX_DskcBqlY3ye4g">Simpson would raise taxes.</a></p>
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		<title>Libertarian Shmibertarian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harrywelty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prez Race 2112]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a post I heartily agree with over at Sullivan&#8217;s blog. You know, it’s interesting, as an attorney, I spend a lot of time reading the libertarians over at the Volokh Conspiracy. To a man, they purport to believe in the sanctity of contract rights. During the auto bailout, they raged and gnashed their teeth [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/05/the-bain-card-ctd-1.html">a post</a> I heartily agree with over at Sullivan&#8217;s blog.</p>
<blockquote><p>You know, it’s interesting, as an attorney, I spend a lot of time reading the libertarians over at the Volokh Conspiracy.  To a man, they purport to believe in the sanctity of contract rights.  During the auto bailout, they raged and gnashed their teeth when various bondholders were forced to take losses by the big unions and their lackeys in the administration.  Remarkably, they never have anything to say when a worker gets screwed out of earned pension benefits or health care coverage.  It’s as if the contract rights of labor are somehow illegitimate or second-class compared to the inviolate rights of the One Percent.</p></blockquote>
<p>It reminds me of California when <a href="http://consumerist.com/2007/07/havent-checked-your-safe-deposit-box-in-3-years-california-may-have-seized-your-stuff.html">it passed a law</a> allowing anyone to open a safety deposit box that had not been visited within the last three years and claim its contents as abandoned forking over some percentage of the take to the cash strapped state while the &#8220;salvager&#8221; kept the rest. And Romney only has to pay 15% taxes on his earnings from the looted pension plans Bain cashed and swallowed.</p>
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		<title>The paranoid Right&#8217;s&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lincolndemocrat.com/?p=7059</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harrywelty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prez Race 2112]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;answer to Michael Moore.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;answer to Michael Moore.</p>
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		<title>How will recent patriots be voting in 2112?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harrywelty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prez Race 2112]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Veterans will be voting for and contributing to the Presidential candidate who is the least careless with their lives.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New Veterans <a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/05/the-veteran-vote.html">will be voting for</a> and contributing to the Presidential candidate who is the least careless with their lives. </p>
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		<title>Guess which of these causes of the deficit are the GOP&#8217;s?</title>
		<link>http://lincolndemocrat.com/?p=7068</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harrywelty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of them &#8211; at least most of them that are continuing to aggravate it. [T]he main drivers of projected deficits over the next decade are the wars of the oughts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts and the so-called “automatic stabilizers” — unemployment insurance spending, lower tax burdens — built into existing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/obama-romney-deficit-debt-chart.php">Most of them</a> &#8211; at least most of them that are continuing to aggravate it. </p>
<p><img src="http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20163058f224f970d-550wi" alt="" /></p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he main drivers of projected deficits over the next decade are the wars of the oughts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts and the so-called “automatic stabilizers” — unemployment insurance spending, lower tax burdens — built into existing policy to combat economic downturns. Recovery measures by Bush and Obama caused a short-term spike in deficits but have mostly phased out and thus represent only modest fractions of the national debt.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Economy &#8211; Going to hell in a hand basket?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harrywelty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In response to my Buddy&#8217;s recent email linked to an hour-long economic video lecture I sent him this typo heavy reply: I watched this in part because it was recommended by Mitt Romney&#8217;s econ advisor Mankiw. As it began I thought to myself this will be all about the boom and bust cycle or the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In response to my Buddy&#8217;s recent email linked to an hour-long economic<a href="http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2012/05/geanakoplos-on-leverage-cycle.html"> video lecture</a> I sent him this typo heavy reply:</p>
<blockquote><p>I watched this in part because it was recommended by Mitt Romney&#8217;s econ advisor Mankiw. As it began I thought to myself this will be all about the boom and bust cycle or the business cycle and I thought of the tulip bubble in Holland which the Yalie eventually mentions. </p>
<p>He also made the comment that much of what he was saying would be pretty obvious to the layman and indeed it seemed pretty obvious to me. He called the top end home buyers &#8220;optimists&#8221; but another word for it was gamblers. </p>
<p>I find it ironic that a Romney (Republican) Mankiw econ guy would highlight this because so much of this was a repudiation ofof the new GOP economic orthodoxy. Germans are bad because they who hate Kenysianism want the Greek pound of flesh. The failure to relulate banking by allowing no or low interest home loans is wrong headed so let the FED Reserve do so.  Forgive bad debt to underwater home buyers or things will simply get worse. </p>
<p>So what will Mitt do if Mankiw has his way? Has Obama made a big mistake? </p>
<p>Obama wants banks further regulated Republicans don&#8217;t. I&#8217;m not sure if Obama has giving the Fed more power to insist on higher downpayments is part of the Obama plan.  Obama is a Keynsian. Republicans and Germans arent&#8230;&#8230;.except (if memory serves)  George HW Bush did forgive debt back during the Savings and Loan crises of the 1980&#8242;s&#8217;s. I remember lots of conservative home owners objecting to the federal help bailing out incautious home and comercial building buyers. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out how any of this lecture is all that surprising. The only thing I find surprising about it is that it should seem surprising. </p>
<p>I suspect Obama would be happy to let underwater homebuyers off the hook. How about Republicans? It seems pretty obvious to me that government short term spending is a curative. Listen (or read) <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/05/13/152627865/eus-financial-crisis-doesnt-end-at-nations-borders">this</a> [from NPR].  Its much shorter</p>
<p>Harry</p></blockquote>
<p>Then I sent my Buddy <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/eurodammerung-2/ ">this grim economic forecast</a> from a liberal economist. It only takes about 45 seconds to read.</p>
<p>I also added the comment that its too bad we are in the throes of a Presidential Election because the Republicans would likely try to thwart Obama from pressuring the Europeans from backing off German enforced austerity. </p>
<p>I do recommend <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/05/13/152627865/eus-financial-crisis-doesnt-end-at-nations-borders">this piece</a> from NPR.</p>
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		<title>Bill Gates has one smart wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>harrywelty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Daily Beast: Gates believes that by focusing on the lives of women and children, and by making it clear that the agenda is neither coercive population control nor abortion, the controversy over international family-planning programs can be defused. Right now, she points out, 100,000 women annually die in childbirth after unintended pregnancies. Six [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/06/melinda-gates-new-crusade-investing-billions-in-women-s-health.html">Daily Beast</a>:</p>
<p>Gates believes that by focusing on the lives of women and children, and by making it clear that the agenda is neither coercive population control nor abortion, the controversy over international family-planning programs can be defused. Right now, she points out, 100,000 women annually die in childbirth after unintended pregnancies. Six hundred thousand babies born to women who didn’t want to be pregnant die in the first month of life. “She is somebody who really sees this as a public-health necessity,” says Melanne Verveer, the United States ambassador at large for global women’s issues. “I think she believes, and I hope she is right, that people of different political persuasions can come together on this issue.”</p>
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