SWEET CAROLINE

THE NEW REPUBLIC (2008)7/9

There is more to this. It at first appeared honorific except that she has done a  damn good job

and informs Barak frequently. She has also impressed the hill and the white house. And so she marches on. Compared to some of her brothers and cousins, she has lived what appears to be a stellar life. Her appearanced in the public have been modest.

Anthropologist have argued for years that male disruptions are quieted but not eliminated when young males are given the equivalent of important jobs in the tribe. However, when the urbanization comes along, you have macho types that fight and rebel without cause. They don't have enough to do. China is learning the hard way, that you don't mess with Mother Nature. Females with one seventh the testosterone have the ability to quiet a group of males. However, women gain power if there are so manymales and not enough females. Out come the porn, fights, and every lousy violent type of activity to one can think of. So males not only  fight each other but they also find

gal boys that are feminine and will do feminine sex. In this situation, it is clear are gay men who are very popular with the straights. Aging out of aggression is around 23-25 and if the

male is not a marriage that has sex and love in it, there is trouble.

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There is a revolution of sorts in economics. Neoclassical states that humans are rational, make rational choices, and any government interference screws things up.  New comers find in

numerous preliminary studies that humans are non-rational and do make choices that do not always maximize their best interest. In doing so, this new group has drifted into sociology and psychology.

This change may be too much for the dismal science. Economics has generally  prided intself

into advanced math, hard ratio numbers to human activity. This hedonitic economics

falls in to Likert scales and the like that are not ratio and for old school types just too soft.

The reviewer Alan Wolfe suggests that they lighten up on too much soft science but keep

moving toward how humans make non-rational choices.Let's also bring back

Keynesian economics..

U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2008) 7/7&14

PALMER/16

Interviewing Nan Mooney on NOT MAKING IT LIKE YOUR PARENTS DID

, she states that basics have gone from 53% to 75% of total income. Many young middle income couples are doubling up and moving back in with their parents. What she did not mention is

that in 1970, the median family made into today's salary S70,000. Today, the median is

$40,000. Mooney lived with a room mate and then finally went back to living with her parents.

She has a good job, but the basics keep her strapped.

She wants her tax money to go to domestic issues that will help her and other

middle income people prosper.

Certain Christian sects in which everyone knows each other and trusts one another, are booming self

insured. At the beginning of each month,  they see where there money went and how

much has been spent on each person.

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Tthings really look like crap in the mortgage market. CDO's and ARMs help build the

housing bubble in the first place. Now everything is beginning to cave. The drop

in earnings in the last year was the worst since early 40's. of the last century. There are tons of bad mortgages/ constructed by funny money financial instrument/ making the banks almost stop lending/ encouraging owners to walk away  from the house/ dumping the house on the market/ driving prices down ward.. There is legislation now in the senate and the house where

the feds force the bank to lower the price on the house and the interest rate so that home owners can stay in their homes. That is the upside. The downside is that lenders will dump

their worst properties on to the fed.

24/ Nuclear power is great except it needs a lot of money to build and storage is still

contrversial.It is still a viable option.

25/ Wind is great in some places but not others. It is okay in Kansas but great in

Texas. It is even better out at sea, but more costly to build..

NEWSWEEK (2008) 7/7-7-14

27-29 On the whole, Americans don't know very much. They are fairly

bad on civics.

37/ Candidates are going to flip and flop if they want to be president.

Does that bother you?.

43/ Evangelicals are crucial to winning the election. It used to be that way and it may be that way again. However, there is generation gap and fragmentation at the moment. So this time

it is not as important.

44/ About half the oil that we use is from here in the USA. The rest we get from Canada,

Saudi Arabia, and Mexico.

50/ Who has the most billionaires in real terms. USA and Russia are on top.

53/  Global Warming  has caused this extreme weather this year.