Frodo, Keeper of the Ring

Saturday, March 5, 2005

Frodo Has Found His Candidate for 2008
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vegas lucky
Topic: "Goodman is Hard to Find"
Mayor Oscar Goodman, Las Vegas, Nevada, may be the penultimate political pharoah. While speaking to a group of students, the Mayor unapologetically identified drinking as one of his hobbies. He added that if he were stranded on a desert island, a bottle of gin would be the one thing he would want with him. "I'm not going to lie to children. I'm not going to say I would take a teddy bear or a Bible or something like that."
Overnight polls revealed an 18 point gain in the Mayor's popularity.

Posted by loveysdaddyga at 6:17 PM EST

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Friday, March 4, 2005

Why Would Anyone Ask a Politician? Ask an Actuary!
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bright
Topic: "Social Security Reform"
Edward C. Lane, a retired Actuary, who participated in the project to reform the federal retirement system in the 1980's, has written a partial summary of the impact of a transition to individual accounts;
---Investment risk is transferred to the participant,
---Longevity risk is transferred to the participant,
---Inflation risk is transferred to the participant,
---Late entrants to the workforce lose out,
---Low wage earners lose out,
---Non-working spouses lose out, and
---Transition to individual accounts for those under age 55 will NOT leave older workers in status quo.
He writes, "In summary, individual account plans have their place in retirement planning. But, it needs to be recognized that these plans do not promise benefits of any type. Rather, they focus on the cost of those benefits and the control of that cost. All risks are transferred to the participant, including the ability of the benefit to meet basic needs."
For a complete transcript, see http://www.actionforum.com/forum/scores.html?&comment_id=213193

Posted by loveysdaddyga at 8:12 PM EST

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Thursday, March 3, 2005

63,000 Laptops for Sale On eBay
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silly
Topic: "Life In A Red State"
Cobb County, Georgia, the land made famous by Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr, and the Cobb County Board of Education is in the funny papers again. After appeasing the Christian Coalition by adding a sticker to High School Science Textbooks in which the "Theory" of Evolution was denoted as only a "theory," and should be evaluated as such, Georgia's most "well off" County is racing to become the best educational system in the State ranked 49th nationally. How, you ask, will this feat be accomplished?
We're buying every little Mother's Son a computer! A highly portable laptop I might add. An Apple, no less.
What happens if Little Sean loses it?
We'll make each parent buy a $50 Insurance Policy answers our leaders.
Wrong answer. That is illegal under Georgia law.
We'll put tracking devices in each one is the next suggestion.
How much do tracking devices cost?
We'll pay for them by selling them to the students after FOUR years.
And how many of you have a four-year old computer?
Get a grip.
This will make a future edition of the "Fleecing of America." Senator Proxmire, where are you now that we really need you?
How will it all end? Just watch eBay, you'll know.

Posted by loveysdaddyga at 8:01 PM EST

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Wednesday, March 2, 2005

My Heroes Have All Been Jayhawks
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special
Topic: "Proud I Am"
Today the people of Topeka, Kansas, did something very good. They voted and they said that it was wrong to treat one group of people differently, simply because they are different. The momentum to limit the rights of certain American citizens may have changed.
We are told that the people of Topeka are religious, that they are patriotic, and that they share a common civic pride. This is the community which provided the setting for an an attorney named Thurgood Marshall to argue in Brown v. Board of Education, that it was wrong to discriminate. The voters of this community reminded us all of that fact today.
I would be prouder had it been the voters of Marietta. I have to remind myself that this isn't Kansas, Toto.

Posted by loveysdaddyga at 10:30 PM EST

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Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Sometimes You Realize You Are Not Alone
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lyrical
Topic: "Welcome Home, Soldier"
The ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION developed a reader submitted column called "The Vent." The purpose being that readers could submit something, be it humorous, angry, moronic, or whatever, anonymously. It is probably the one aspect of the paper on which all agree, it is regularly funny, entertaining, sometimes heartfelt, and always creative. Following is a submission from todays' paper: "I'm a Vietnam veteran and I'm glad President Carter pardoned those who managed to avoid the draft. About 57,000 of my peers were killed for nothing, a sentiment backed up by former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara himself. Vietnam did not attack the U.S. Neither did Iraq. Freedom was the convenient excuse back then, just as it is today."

Posted by loveysdaddyga at 8:56 PM EST

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Monday, February 28, 2005

First there was the Earth. . .
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celebratory
Topic: "In the Beginning"
"Comes the Horseman" begins a trilogy by a Southern author not terribly older than Frodo. His book begins as does this first post. It took the Earth to make the Farmer either necessary or possible. All that is said or that follows from this point is so rooted.

Posted by loveysdaddyga at 9:11 PM EST

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Tuesday, January 1, 2002

Here's One For My Baby, And One For The Road
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silly
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Posted by loveysdaddyga at 1:00 AM EST

Updated: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:55 PM EST

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There Will Be Peace In The Valley
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