- Economist’s View: The Social Security Obsession – Remember that the "Beltway obsession with Social Security reflects ideology and fashion, not the real problems facing America." They may think that they can wait until health care reform is completed before turning to this issue, but if they continue to have these meetings and push this agenda, there's a good chance Social Security will become a bargaining chip during the health care debate. However, trading Social Security against health care is not an outcome I'd like to see. There is no pressing need to modify the Social Security program, fairly minor changes will solve whatever problems the program has, and there are many other possible tradeoffs within the budget that could fund a new health care system (on both the revenue and spending sides). But I'm sure conservatives would love the chance to pit these two porgrams against each other as part of the health care reform process.
Posts Tagged: BBC
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Nov 07
Daily Links
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Some more chart porn for you Countrywide (CCF) fans: Note the outsized-risk Countrywide was taking as insiders were dumping shares worth $100s of millions of dollars . . .
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So add hi5, Ning and Plaxo to your list of OpenSocial-compatible sandboxes, right next to Orkut. We’ve seen the first (buggy) implementation of OpenSocial on Plaxo and hi5, and we were pretty excited when OpenSocial finally opened its doors.
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Feb 07
Daily Links
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They “lost” the footage from one of the more horrible events in recent human history due to a “cock-up”? (Ah, the British!)
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Some of the graphics from the Mike Judge movie, Idiocracy.
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Feb 07
US ‘Iran attack plans’ revealed
US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure, the BBC has learned. It is understood that any such attack – if ordered – would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control centres.
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Jan 07
Daily Links
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Slickr Gallery is a bandwidth-friendly AJAX photo gallery plugin for Wordpress. It allows you to pull your Flickr-hosted photos into a gallery section of your blog, as well as easily add Flickr-hosted images to your posts and pages.
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Some thoughts on UI design, and why it's better to emulate webapps and desktop apps in layout to facilitate the user experience.
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Jan 07
Daily Links
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“But as soon as [the letter of Iranian concesions] got to the White House, and as soon as it got to the Vice-President’s office, the old mantra of ‘We don’t talk to evil’… reasserted itself.”
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“Thus the MSM today stands condemned by its own record: by crucially important news untold, and by lies and misinformation told. [...] The internet is a spontaneous public response to these failures.”
