Sunday, April 16, 2017
Dina Powell, Rising Star
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Dina Powell Is Breaking Up the President's Boys' Club
She's a rising star on Trump's national security team
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Posted Apr 13, 2017 8:30 PM CDT
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In this image provided by the White House, taken April 6, 2017, Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell, right, joins President Donald Trump, and others, as he receives a briefing on the Syria military strike from his National Security team after the strike at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (Uncredited)
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(NEWSER) – The photo from inside Donald Trump's makeshift situation room at Mar-a-Lago affirmed what White House insiders have recognized for some time—that Dina Powell has quietly established herself as a White House power, the AP reports. Though sandwiched between other administration officials, the deputy national security adviser stands out as the only woman among 13 staffers in the room on the night the president ordered the missile attack in Syria. And in a White House that is split between outsider ideologues and more traditional operators, Powell is viewed as a steady force in the growing influence of the latter.
A newer addition to the team, Powell's West Wing experience, conservative background, and policy chops have won over Trump's daughter and son-in-law. Now, Powell is at the table as the president turns more of his attention to international affairs, attempting to craft a foreign policy out of a self-described "flexible" approach to the world. She is a rare Bush veteran in a White House that has largely shunned its Republican predecessor's legacy. She came via Goldman Sachs—decidedly not a rarity for the new president—originally to work on economic development at the behest of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. She was soon moved to the National Security Council. Learn more about Powell and her growing influence here.
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DINA'S OATH
I'll pledge allegiance to the United States
Flag and the country for which it stands ....to the max...
from those "amber wavers of grain"
to Goldman Sachs.
And let our "purple mountains majesty"
confirm that this is no travesty
for my allegiance always will be plain,
and from hard work I'll never shirk..
Let's hope that Peace and Justice for all may reign--
at least for those far enough up in income brackets---
despite Islamic terrorists, nuclear missiles or
even clever Wall Street rackets.
HzL
Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Itzhak Perlman's Seder Celebration and Matzos, a Reform View?
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Mar 25, 2013 - A Musical Feast for Passover with Itzhak Perlman ... in Ladino, the zany Moishe Oyshertreatment of “Chad Gadya,” and “Go Down, Moses” ...
Today is the first day of Passover which coincides this year almost exactly with Easter.This is no accident since they are exactly the same holiday, or at least once were since almost all the first Christians and and Jesus himself were Jewish.The differences that have arisen since then are too numerous and harrowing to recount in detail but one of the major discrepancies is due to the different calendars lunar versus solar.
This summary of the Seder celebration is thankfully a minute or two shorter than an an hour. It always ran on too long in my childhood until my father shortened it when he sensed people getting too hungry sleepy or bored.
A to the historical accuracy of this tale (or mainsah in Yiddish) I believe it is more soap opera than reality, but it ought to have been true, at least emotionally.Anyway it has been argued about ever since.
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MATZOS, A Reform View?
Matzos,are also known as the . "the bread of affliction"
because unleavened and supposedly baked by Jews fleeing Egypt in haste,
But the lack of yeast for some may ruin the feast.
Anyway all this could well be fiction
and perhaps they are simply the result of ancestral bad taste?
Furthermore, though your chance of liking them may be dicey,
if purchased this week they could still be much too pricey
while still making the Seder meal somewhat bleak and stiff--
So why not buy them next week more cheaply, what's the diff?
HzL
4/12/17
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Monday, April 10, 2017
Seniority
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What does the junior Supreme Court justice do? Kagan tells Gorsuch it starts in the kitchen
By Robert Barnes April 9 at 6:29 PM
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SENIORITY
'The Supreme Court is a place that runs on seniority'
according to the the Justices --and they should know ,
but take it from me--though I'm hardly an authority--
in the outside world -- this is rarely so.
Young women, of course, know this all too well
and panic at the sight of a wrinkle or hair turning gray
often spending fortunes on whatever others may sell
to postpone their senescence for another day
While politicians, too, at least as clever ,
will do almost anything to hang on to power
but even they can not rule forever
and eventually too must have their final hour.
Ah, that the rest of us could just grow old
without our being either bought or sold !
HzL, 3/10/17
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No one could have known it at the time, but at the end of last summer, Justice Elena Kagan gave Neil M. Gorsuch a face-to-face tutorial on what it means to be the Supreme Court’s newest justice.
It starts in the kitchen.
“I’ve been on the cafeteria committee for six years. (Justice) Steve Breyer was on the cafeteria committee for 13 years,” Kagan said at a Colorado event where she was being interviewed by Gorsuch and Timothy M. Tymkovich, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
[Trump picks Colorado appeals court judge for Supreme Court]
Gorsuch and Tymkovich both were on President Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees at the time, and it just so happened that they asked what it was like to be the most junior justice.
Kagan is a storyteller, and knows this is a topic that audiences usually eat up, so she played it for all it was worth.
The junior justice has three unique responsibilities, she said. But in recounting them, she always starts with the fact that the newest justice is assigned to cafeteria duty and keeps it until the next justice is confirmed.
[Gorsuch’s impact might be felt immediately]
“I think this is a way to kind of humble people,” she said during the “fireside chat” at the elegant Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs. “You think you’re kind of hot stuff. You’re an important person. You’ve just been confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.
“And now you are going to monthly cafeteria committee meetings where literally the agenda is what happened to the good recipe for the chocolate chip cookies.”
The justices eat lunch together on the days when they hear oral arguments, Kagan explained.
“Somebody will say, ‘Who’s our representative to the cafeteria committee again?’ Like they don’t know, right? And then they’ll say, ‘This soup is very salty.’ And I’m like supposed to go fix it myself?”
You might guess it was not the first time Kagan has told the story. But, as she says, she’s worried about the cookies and the soup since 2010--her biggest contribution has been to install a frozen yogurt machine--so who would begrudge her?
Monday, March 20, 2017
An Apercu
David Rockefeller has died at 101
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An Apercu*
Mr Rockefeller had 3 billions more than I,
at least
and still he went on to die
like any other mortal beast.
Reaching past one hundred once sounded very old to me
but that's no longer the case,
since it is only eleven and one half years from now you see--
and as you probably can even tell from my face,
so if they are going to produce immortality
they'd better get on the stick---
for though so far I've escaped serious illness or beheading--
I can almost feel my telomeres** shredding--
so please Science do something---quick, quick, quick.
HzL
3/20/17
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In French, aperçu is the past participle of the verb apercevoir ("to perceive" or "to comprehend"), which in turn comes from Latin percipere ("to perceive").
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Sunday, February 12, 2017
This is your Pilot
New York Post: Crazed pilot rants about politics and divorce over ...
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4 hours ago - Topic from New York Post: A hysterical pilot dressed in civilian clothing ... starting ranting about politics and her divorce, according to a report.
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"Attention All Women and Men:
This is your Pilot, and not CNN"
Thus, with tears and talk
began a scary rant--
making passengers want to walk
but then finding that they can't
they let her rave on to find some surcease
hoping she'd go leaving them still in one piece
which happened and so they avoided anything gory.
And that's more or less the end of this story,
except it seems that turbulence reports this year
may not merely be confined to the atmosphere.
HzL
2/12/17
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Good MEDICINE may be bad ECONOMICS
Good MEDICINE may be bad ECONOMICS
(From today's Wall Street Journal and MARKETWATCH in the articles cited below)
"Hepatitis C drugs usually cure patients in a single course of treatment. That is great news for the patients; but is a different business proposition than for drugs for chronic diseases."
Gilead has accumulated more than $45 billion in cumulative revenue since 2013 but patients are becoming fewer.
ADVICE TO DOCTORS AND DRUG COMPANIES
When you have expenses, I say discreetly,
as well as too many bills to pay
beware of curing your patients completely--
it's better if they'll return another day.
So give lots of encouraging advice
as well as comfy messages and perks
but you'd better think at least twice
before doing something that REALLY works.
Of course, psychiatrists have known this for years,
so they'll alleviate --but rarely dispel -- fears.
However,
if you can't avoid using a "breakthrough" drug that works too well,
you should at least be quite sure to make it expensive as Hell.
HzL
2/9/17
Gilead's Boom Fades and Bust Will Linger - WSJ
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1 day ago - Gilead Sciences' great success with hepatitis drug says a lot about drug pricing and risk for the future.
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Gilead’s 2017 sales guidance was far below even reduced Wall Street expectations.
Gilead Sciences Inc. achieved a scientific breakthrough when it developed a cure for hepatitis C, the viral infection that can have severe and deadly complications.
The company’s biggest problem these days appears to be that it works.
Gilead GILD, -1.86% shares sunk 9.7% in heavy volume Wednesday morning after the company issued 2017 sales guidance far below even reduced Wall Street expectations.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
23 and Thee
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5834cf91ba6eb61b008b5e35-480/spit-23andme-test.jpg
23 and Thee
Expectorate, expectorate
and then perhaps you'll find a mate
or far more likely, ancestral genes
from long past scenes
when people cohabitated
more or less as rabbits did--
whether with friend or foe--
leaving behind a faulty esophagus or Morton's toe,
as well as many other defects that may be there--
Including whether or not you'll keep your hair?
But though Science has learned much about DNA
all of that is what happened yesterday
and since then the world has changed,
becoming so much more deranged.
Who 's now to say what and who's genes will last
after a future deadly radioactive blast?
HzL
2/1/17
AncestryDNA vs. 23andMe best DNA test - Business Insider
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