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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Thoughts on a Sunday morning
It happened again. Thomas McClanahan and I agree on something.
Whenever that happens, I'm a little stunned. This is the 2nd time I can think it's happened.
Mr. McClanahan points out that eliminating the e-tax would be irresponsible if it's not replaced with some other tax of some kind, so the $200 million raised by this tax is done away with.
But his bigger point is that a "land tax" would make much more sense because it rewards development in the city, instead of pushing people out of the city, like the e-tax, and the property tax, which punishes and disincentivizes (I think that's a word) even the purchase of property, let alone development of it.
Good on Mr. McClanahan. This is a really eye-opening and educational column.
It would be great if a representative or better yet, some representatives in Jeff city would study this land tax option.
--Donna Brazile is terrfic.
She's most usually seen and heard, if at all, on ABC's "This Week" news program on Sunday morning.
She's smart and gives terrific, intelligent insights on American politics and society.
What's sad and unfortunate is that she's also one of very few people of color who are on the weekly sunday morning news shows. To my knowledge, she may be the only one.
--John McLaughlin (of The McLaughlin Group on PBS) is losing it, it seems.
Out of the blue this week, when they were discussing the Tiger Woods' apology this week, he asked his guests if they thought Tiger might one day run for political office.
Wth?
Seriously, John?
His guests paused at first, then laughed off the question.
Oh, and his show covered Tiger's apology before addressing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statement from earlier in the week that suggested Iran is becoming a military dictatorship.
Great priorities, Mr. McLaughlin.
Not.
--The Tiger Woods apology this week is the biggest non-story of the week, at least, if not the year.
The interest in it stuns me.
Other than his family, friends, golfers and people in the golfing industry, why the interest? It seems clearly purient.
--I was watching the Sunday morning news shows, obviously, with its scroll at the bottom, given our ice/snow storm, when I was reminded of one of my favorite abbreviations.
It's COGIC or Church of God in Christ.
I've always thought that was cute, downright funny and a great counterpoint of simple, clear, unemotional and rational thinking or
LOGIC.
Enjoy your Sunday, everyone.
Whenever that happens, I'm a little stunned. This is the 2nd time I can think it's happened.
Mr. McClanahan points out that eliminating the e-tax would be irresponsible if it's not replaced with some other tax of some kind, so the $200 million raised by this tax is done away with.
But his bigger point is that a "land tax" would make much more sense because it rewards development in the city, instead of pushing people out of the city, like the e-tax, and the property tax, which punishes and disincentivizes (I think that's a word) even the purchase of property, let alone development of it.
Good on Mr. McClanahan. This is a really eye-opening and educational column.
It would be great if a representative or better yet, some representatives in Jeff city would study this land tax option.
--Donna Brazile is terrfic.
She's most usually seen and heard, if at all, on ABC's "This Week" news program on Sunday morning.
She's smart and gives terrific, intelligent insights on American politics and society.
What's sad and unfortunate is that she's also one of very few people of color who are on the weekly sunday morning news shows. To my knowledge, she may be the only one.
--John McLaughlin (of The McLaughlin Group on PBS) is losing it, it seems.
Out of the blue this week, when they were discussing the Tiger Woods' apology this week, he asked his guests if they thought Tiger might one day run for political office.
Wth?
Seriously, John?
His guests paused at first, then laughed off the question.
Oh, and his show covered Tiger's apology before addressing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statement from earlier in the week that suggested Iran is becoming a military dictatorship.
Great priorities, Mr. McLaughlin.
Not.
--The Tiger Woods apology this week is the biggest non-story of the week, at least, if not the year.
The interest in it stuns me.
Other than his family, friends, golfers and people in the golfing industry, why the interest? It seems clearly purient.
--I was watching the Sunday morning news shows, obviously, with its scroll at the bottom, given our ice/snow storm, when I was reminded of one of my favorite abbreviations.
It's COGIC or Church of God in Christ.
I've always thought that was cute, downright funny and a great counterpoint of simple, clear, unemotional and rational thinking or
LOGIC.
Enjoy your Sunday, everyone.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Pretty cool, Bill
Okay, so the big news is that Bill "Bubba" Clinton went over to North Korea, had a sit-down with Kim Jong Il, took some pictures, had a conversation and got back the two journalists who had been held in that country for months, got tried and then convicted by the "Leader's" courts.
Outstanding.
All around, this seemed like the perfect thing to happen and the perfect person for the job.
An ex-President who knew the "Leader" so well, basically just sitting around not doing much and he goes over and pulls off a bit of a coup for the journalists and, really, the United States.
I have one question and three observations.
The question: According to reports, "North Korean media said Clinton had carried a message of apology from Obama and that the former president and Kim held wide-ranging talks, but White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said those claims were 'not true.'" Is this, indeed, correct? Did this administration not send any message of apology? I hope and assume this is not true and that no message of apology was sent or given.
The first observation: These events, along with President Kim's shooting of missiles toward Japan, among other things, however unsuccessfully, seem to point out that Kim really craves attention--international attention from other foreign leaders. It seems, if he gets that, then he's happy and docile. This may not be true but there seems to be something to it.
The second observation: I will be extremely surprised if now-former-President George W. Bush ("W") is ever called on--or even volunteers, on his part, for that matter--to do such a negotiation for the US during what will likely be his long retirement.
Finally, hopefully, this will lead to further disarmament talks between North Korea and the West. That would add more terrific results to what already turned out fairly well, thank goodness.
Links:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_nkorea_journalists_held
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_nkorea_analysis
Outstanding.
All around, this seemed like the perfect thing to happen and the perfect person for the job.
An ex-President who knew the "Leader" so well, basically just sitting around not doing much and he goes over and pulls off a bit of a coup for the journalists and, really, the United States.
I have one question and three observations.
The question: According to reports, "North Korean media said Clinton had carried a message of apology from Obama and that the former president and Kim held wide-ranging talks, but White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said those claims were 'not true.'" Is this, indeed, correct? Did this administration not send any message of apology? I hope and assume this is not true and that no message of apology was sent or given.
The first observation: These events, along with President Kim's shooting of missiles toward Japan, among other things, however unsuccessfully, seem to point out that Kim really craves attention--international attention from other foreign leaders. It seems, if he gets that, then he's happy and docile. This may not be true but there seems to be something to it.
The second observation: I will be extremely surprised if now-former-President George W. Bush ("W") is ever called on--or even volunteers, on his part, for that matter--to do such a negotiation for the US during what will likely be his long retirement.
Finally, hopefully, this will lead to further disarmament talks between North Korea and the West. That would add more terrific results to what already turned out fairly well, thank goodness.
Links:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_nkorea_journalists_held
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_nkorea_analysis
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