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Wednesday, May 28. 2008

Weds. morning links

Why the credit and banking problems are not a "trillion dollar catastrophe"

Is your moral code deontological or consequentialist? And where did it come from?

Deceptive credit card practices.

Rock star Ken Heebner: America's hottest investor.

Carbon ration cards proposed in the UK. Hey, what a great idea.  Related: Environmentalists killing the rhinos. Related: Pres Klaus wants to debate Al Gore

Foreclosure tourism. Home sales are rising. Hmmm. That is an example of price elasticity. Prices down, sales up. Only in spec bubbles do you get prices up, sales up.

11 essays on the state of Africa, at Boston Review

Dartmouth against Democracy. WSJ

VDH on Obama:

Is it going to be this way each day of the campaign: We get some pious sermon relating the selflessness of his own past to shame us into being similarly idealistic, followed by a complete Orwellian rewrite of history? If so, it's going to be a long five months.

Image: Bumper sticker from Patriot Shop

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Ken Heebner, is just another Hedgie a big reason why we're in trouble. The picture of him and his court says it all smug, pompous, and arrogant.
#1 jappy on 2008-05-28 07:34 (Reply)
Don't scapegoat the hedgies. The world wouldn't work without investors.
#1.1 BD on 2008-05-28 08:20 (Reply)
Heebner's a good guy. Smug, pompous, arrogant are hardly accurate. Read the article. What makes him successful is his lack of hubris which allows him to acknowledge mistakes and act quickly. Hubris kills money managers.
#1.2 Tom C on 2008-05-28 08:32 (Reply)
BD, the Heebner link is duplicated at the 'foreclosure tourism' link.

Funny... almost all the links illustrate how a deontological or consequentialist view might color one's world. Or not. Clever, BD.
#2 Luther McLeod (Link) on 2008-05-28 09:00 (Reply)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/the_bum_rap_on_biofuels.html
#3 rufus on 2008-05-28 10:22 (Reply)
... would be Jefferson's ownaddendum "within his own lands."


"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms..."

This from Jefferson's proposed draft to the Virginia Constitution and Bill of Rights did not prevail but this one did in the first Constitution and Bill of Rights adopted after the Declaration of Independence;

"A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free State."
#4 Leag on 2008-05-28 10:22 (Reply)
From the above link:

In 2007, US corn production rose to 349 million metric tons. Of this, about 62 million tons were used to produce ethanol, of which 21 million tons of dried distillers grains were returned to the grain market. This left a whopping 308 million tons available for consumption and export -- an increase of 110 million tons, or about 82 percent, over the 1995 figures.


During these years, the US population increased by about 14 percent, from 264 million in 1995 to 301 million in 2007. We needed only about 25 million additional tons of corn to meet our rising domestic, non-ethanol consumption and export requirements. In fact, we produced an additional 126 million tons. Obviously, the notion that our increased use of corn for ethanol has "caused" food shortages is false.

The American Thinker article is, quite simply, the best, most logical, and concise analysis of the biofuels/ethanol project that I've read Anywhere, Anytime.
#5 rufus on 2008-05-28 10:48 (Reply)
Dartmouth Alma Mater (Hovey's original)

Men of Dartmouth, give a rouse
For the College on the hill!
For the Lone Pine above her,
And the loyal sons who love her,
Give a rouse, give a rouse, with a will!
For the sons of old Dartmouth,
The sturdy sons of Dartmouth,
Tho' 'round the girdled earth they roam,
Her spell on them remains;
They have the still North in their hearts,
The hill-winds in their veins,
And the granite of New Hampshire
In their muscles and their brains;
And the granite of New Hampshire
In their muscles and their brains.

They were mighty men of old
That she nurtured at her side;
Till like Vikings they went forth
From the lone and silent North,
And they strove, and they wrought, and they died;
But the sons of old Dartmouth,
The laurelled sons of Dartmouth,
The Mother keeps them in her heart
And guides their altar flame;
The still North remembers them,
The hill-winds know their name,
And the granite of New Hampshire
Keeps the record of their fame;
And the granite of New Hampshire
Keeps the record of their fame.

Men of Dartmouth, set a watch
Lest the old traditions fail!
Stand as brother stands by brother!
Dare a deed for the old Mother!
Greet the world, from the hills, with a hail!
For the sons of old Dartmouth,
The loyal sons of Dartmouth,
Around the world they keep for her
Their old chivalric faith;
They have the still North in their soul,
The hill-winds in their breath;
And the granite of New Hampshire
Is made part of them till death;
And the granite of New Hampshire
Is made part of them till death.

what is happening to the college on the hill?
#6 kab on 2008-05-28 11:25 (Reply)

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