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Karl Reisman Do Not buy anything from 101Phones. Bought a cordless from them. It died in 6 weeks. They have a 30 day return policy. Said I should stuff it.
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Karl Reisman Fun in Nigeria

Media mogul Raymond Dokpesi sues Nigeria’s secret police over his arrest in connection with the Independence Day Abuja bombings.
Wednesday at 10:14am · · · Share
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NEW YORK — Google and a group of technology and investment firms have set aside $1.8 billion to build a network of deepwater transmission lines for future wind farms off the East Coast. The transmission lines, which would run lead to the coast from Virginia to New Jersey, would be capable of deliver…
Tuesday at 11:46am · · · Share
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Karl Reisman ‎”Their
general conclusion is that searching for jobs can take up so much
time and resources that economies can have both a high jobless levels and
high vacancy rates simultaneously” BBC on Nobel award for economics

October 11 at 10:17am · ·

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Karl Reisman Nothing is hilarious about this election. It is an obscenity.

October 8 at 10:10pm · ·

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Karl Reisman OK I’ve calmed down.

October 7 at 12:05pm · · ·

    • Michael Dowd Well, the one city on earth with the most hotel rooms at the moment is Las Vegas.

      Do black bears play black jack?

      October 7 at 5:46pm ·
    • Gregor Shapiro You are not afraid of the Florida black bear are you?

      October 8 at 2:16am ·
    • Karl Reisman No – only the big bad wolf and some Republicans. But some of the Palm Beachers may have a time when the bear says hello.

      October 9 at 11:25am ·
    • Karl Reisman As for bears playing blackjack – with Florida bears you never know.

      October 9 at 11:27am ·
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Karl Reisman The day is coming, I am told, when black bears will again be freely walking on the streets of Palm Beach, the balance of nature will be restored, and humans will stop swarming over the earth with chain saws, and there will be no more hotels.

October 4 at 8:34pm · · ·

    • Gregor Shapiro Just wait a couple of centuries, millenia or mega years, it will happen.

      October 5 at 2:54am ·
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This is Rep. Alan Grayson explaining the crisis of foreclosure fraud and how it links to the entire securitization chain of Wall Street.
October 3 at 1:30pm · · · · Share
  • Michael Dowd likes this.
    • Gregor Shapiro Things are as usual i see…

      October 3 at 10:45pm ·
    • Karl Reisman No, worse. Have you seen the number of foreclosures this racket is doing. Imagine foreclosing on a person who has no mortgage at all.

      October 7 at 11:58am ·
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Karl Reisman In the 1960’s EST was going to eliminate hunger – hah! Now the World Bank president says 1 Billion people go to bed hungry every night. And it’s getting worse.

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“For the first time in history more than a billion people go to bed hungry each night.” Surprisingly, this shocking fact was brought to our attention by the president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, who reports that the Millennium Development Goal of eradicating hunger by 2015 “will not be achie…
October 1 at 2:43pm · · · Share
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Karl Reisman Back from 2 weeks of non-stop socializing – in pidgin Spanish. I am too old for this sort of thing and given the altitude and one bad eye, I was half asleep though sociable through the whole two weeks. Queretaro and Salamanca (in Guanajuato state). Breakfasts with 7, one dinner with 22, 7 other dinners – 2 family feas…ts with different families. drives and so on and on. Kindness everywhere.

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October 1 at 9:57am · · ·

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Karl Reisman Would you support a law called the “Analogue Act”? Who would know what it does?
“2C-I is not explicitly illegal, but that doesn’t mean it is legal either. Confusing? Of course it is, it’s American drug policy.” from The US Federal Analogue Act at Open Democracy:

Charles Shaw is a writer and activist living in the Bay Area of San Francisco. He is the author of Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics and Spirituality and serves as editor for the Dictionary of Ethical Politics and the oD Drug Policy Forum.
October 1 at 9:43am · · · Share
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Karl Reisman ‎”and (in a
characteristically mangled Chinglish phrase) his ‘ice-breaking success’.”
So this is where Pablo’s rib – (Cote de Pablo – Ziva) gets it.

September 16 at 10:53pm · ·

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Karl Reisman Off to Queretaro

September 16 at 10:20pm · ·

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Sign the pledge to vote YES on Amendments 5 and 6 because Florida voters should choose their politicians – not the other way around.
September 16 at 11:00am · · · Share
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Karl Reisman Chris Hedges — Do not fear Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. Fear the underlying corporate power structure, which no one, from Barack Obama to the right-wing nut cases who pollute the airwaves, can alter.(from Truthdig)

September 13 at 8:01am · · ·

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Karl Reisman Book TV conversation with Gordon Wood. Usually i last 3 minutes with this kind of thing. But this morning a reminder and demonstration of what the civilized use of the brain can be.

September 11 at 10:41am · ·

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Karl Reisman Heard on TV Tennis – “a lot more aggressive of a serve”

September 9 at 7:17pm · · ·

    • Gregor Shapiro Are the Swedes commenting again?

      September 10 at 1:06am ·
    • David Raymond Lee You’re rather severe of a critic, Karl

      September 10 at 8:31am ·
    • Lydia Smiley Another new us of “of” in written language: I could of gone to the movies.◄:-O►

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      I’ve added smileys to this comment. Wanna see them? Go to http://c.facicons.com/
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      September 10 at 12:42pm ·
    • Jerry McKean If this ever changing world in which we live in, makes you give in and cry …

      September 10 at 1:26pm ·
    • Gregor Shapiro The all too common replacement of “your” instead of you’re (you are) is worse in my eyes than “UR” which I can accept as an SMS shorthand…

      September 10 at 4:14pm ·
    • David Raymond Lee Karl, you are one hell of a grammarian. Ooops, sorry. That should read, “Karl, you are one hell grammarian.”

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    • Gregor Shapiro that would be: “Karl, your one hell grammarian”

      September 11 at 10:28am ·
    • Karl Reisman Oh no – not ‘your one hell grammarian’ – should be “You one hell grammarian”.

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Karl Reisman Cedars Sinai Medical Center; 8700 Gracie Allen Dr., Los Angeles

September 7 at 8:27pm · · ·

    • Karl Reisman No, Don’t worry – as some have done. I just thought Gracie Allen was a great name for the address. What could go wrong?

      September 8 at 12:35pm ·
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Karl Reisman Clearly nothing has been on my mind — Animal Breeders indeed.
Some – repeat some – good Tennis – Wozniacki – Planning for trip to Queretaro and Salamanca (Mx) and making DVD’s for everybody.

September 7 at 11:40am · · ·

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Karl Reisman Animal Breeders Models and Astronomers — among the least common jobs –

Just because a person’s job is a bit out of the ordinary, doesn’t mean it pays well. We culled through the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) most recent employment and wage data to find some of the least common jobs in America.
August 30 at 5:48pm · · · Share
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Good old time and eternity

“Time that is intolerant of the brave and innocent
And indifferent in a week to a beautiful physique
Worships language and forgives
Everyone by whom IT lives.”  – W. H. Auden

Almost 70 years ago Auden wrote those lines,
and I remember them now.
But I did not know Auden, that complex and irritating man
who apart from his words – and autobiographical writings –
is no longer with us. All that is left is caricature
to be used by others for their own purposes.

And here I am – for now almost blind in one eye
and staggering, feet good only for a block or two,
half asleep most of the time. Yet “inside”
I see myself climbing mountains and sailing
into harbors, hitching a ride with donkey wagons,
and learning new languages (with a head which
can hardly retain the words I use everyday).
.
And the patterns of my life that I repeat over and over.
The same quests for a kind of truth, the same failures
in human relations, and many others, are eternal in me.
Timeless.

This jumble is eternally me. And it will die.

So does it matter that few will read or even less remember
these words — I am not these words, I am eternal and
I will die.  No need for some wierd reification of an
“after” life. This is our reality and maybe someday
we will accept it.

Karl