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Freitag, 15. Oktober 2010

Nader Unfrocked as Lead Times Columnist(2)

Von yunsi12, 03:02
 

At first, Nader delighted in his ability to pass off his opinions, and himself, as the young and increasingly well-known "Paul Krugman." But as sometimes happens -- think Dr. Frankenstein and his monster! -- the creator began to tire of his creation and the newly forged creature began to take on a life of his own. Nader disliked the love of luxury that he saw in his alter ego -- the taste for bespoke suits, fine wines and the like, and the desire to cozy up to the super-rich and super-famous (like Enron's Ken Lay). More surprisingly still, the two began to have minor disagreements over policy issues.

You might think that one knee-jerk liberal is pretty much the same as the next, and not much different than your average dyed-in-the-wool socialist. But there are subtle differences.

Born in 1903 -- the same year that the Wright brothers flew for the first time -- Nader is more of the socialist. He has fond and vivid memories of almost everything that happened in the Great Depression. Truth be told, the Great Depression was a grand time from a Naderite perspective. He rejoiced in the equal sharing of miseries. He liked the purgative effect on so many lives of a sudden and irretrievable loss of personal wealth and comfort. Now they could live as he himself chose to live -- as hermits and holy men.

Of course, his alter ego -- and the face that everyone sees on each of his columns -- has other ideas. Without any direct experience of his own, he ("Krugman") foolishly insists on the idea that FDR could have "spent his way out" of the Great Depression -- by ratcheting up spending to the levels that would later be reached during the height of World War II. He has used that argument in urging the current administration to plunge even deeper into debt and incipient bankruptcy than it has done so far in two disastrous years in office.

Though he can plainly see that "Paul Krugman" has become a serious nut case, Nader finds that he is powerless to stop the flow of Krugmanesque nonsense from coming out every time he sits down to write another column. And so he decided to take action -- going to Bill Keller and insisting that he go public with the whole story.

Keller is prepared to do so, but other higher-ups at the New York Times are in a state of revolt. If someone's head has to roll, they are saying, it ought to be Nader's, not Krugman's. Their argument is that Nader -- who turned 107 last week -- has "lost touch with his inner Krugman." They say there are at least five or six other people at the newspaper who can continue to churn out "Paul Krugman" columns that will be as good as or better than any Ralph Nader has written.

As this article goes to press, the outcome is undetermined. But one thing is certain: You will never see Ralph Nader and "Paul Krugman" in the same room. And if there is any moral to this tale, it is this: When you sup with The Gray Lady, make sure you have a long spoon

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Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2010

Tributes to UK student killed in Alps zip wire accident

Von yunsi12, 05:04
 

The family of a British student who died in a zip wire accident in the Swiss Alps have said she had planned to make a career

 

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Andrea Watton, 21, from Fordingbridge, Hampshire, crashed into a rock face on the ride on Sunday. It is understood she had

 

not secured herself properly.

 

She had been with six other sports science students on a visit to the village of Saas-Fee.

 

Ms Watton's family said she had died doing something "she really loved".

 

The Bangor University student, who had also lived in Salisbury, Wiltshire, had been on a "via ferrata" - a mountain hiking

 

route fitted with cables, ladders and bridges - when the accident happened.

 

In a statement released through Hampshire police, Ms Watton's family said the student had been on the visit to Switzerland as

 

part of her degree studies.

 

"She lived life to the full and followed her dreams by travelling the world, experiencing many exciting adventures and

 

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The statement added: "She loved outdoor pursuits and planned to make a career out of this.

 

"She was always eager to be in the great outdoors and to try all new activities."

 

Ms Watton's family added that it was a "tragedy that such a promising young woman had such a short life and will never

 

realise her incredible potential".

 

In the statement, they added: "Her final moments were spent doing an activity that she really loved."

 

A local police spokesman said previously that despite the reservations of Ms Watton's colleagues, she had fixed only two

 

hooks to the zip wire cable and launched herself.

 

The local magistrate in Haut-Valais has opened an investigation into the incident.

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Dienstag, 05. Oktober 2010

A Bruised Reid Obama Will Not Break

Von yunsi12, 05:00
 

In the 2008 primary, according to Game Change, Harry Reid judged Barack Obama by the color of his skin while Hillary Clinton honed in on the content of his character. Reid thought him sufficiently "light-skinned" for victory; Hillary thought him corrupt enough for defeat.

The book says Hillary approved of the comment made by her New Hampshire campaign co-chair, Billy Shaheen, who had said that Obama's disclosures of cocaine and marijuana use would expose him to Republican attacks. "The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight…and one of the things they're certainly going to jump on is his drug use," he said.

Press accounts at the time said Hillary apologized to Obama directly for Shaheen's remark. In reality, according to Game Change, she was overjoyed by it, saying to aides privately, "Good for him!" and "Let's push it out."

As cynical apologies go, however, Hillary still can't top her husband's mea culpa to "mafioso type" Mario Cuomo for that remark to Gennifer Flowers which he had insisted to the press he didn't make.

Hillary's now-known pride at Shaheen's slight, by the way, throws light on another glorious moment in the campaign: BET founder Robert L. Johnson cast Obama as a former drug dealer at a Hillary event while the candidate looked on approvingly. "Good for him" was apparently the thought behind Hillary's purring gaze.

But these days the Democrats, while not exactly a happy family, are a less rancorous and more pragmatic one, even if Nancy Pelosi at press conferences flinches a bit at Harry Reid's touch. They rallied to Reid without hesitation this week, judging him according to the content of his voting record. Reid enjoys the protected status of a rapper: he can use "N" words with impunity, because his "heart" is in the right place.