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Well, the Bensons adopted a shelter dog this weekend at North Shore Animal League. Mrs. Benson is very happy. It will take time for the new dog to grow on me. I like small, high-energy, high-spirited dogs like my recently-departed Westie. We wound up adopting a mushy, big oaf of a dog. On the plus side, she’s two year’s old and already housebroken. She’s a mutt, and it’s hard to say what breeds are thrown in, though my wife thinks she’s part Chow.
I was impressed with the screening at North Shore. In the time we were there, they rejected three of the five applicants that were there to adopt a dog or a cat.
I still can’t believe that woman posted her family’s real names. “Have you no sense of decency, [madam]? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
whoops, the Post A Comment demon removed the quote:
How much should you tell a small child? What is honesty and what is crossing a boundary? And speaking of boundaries, Thompson has been sharply criticized by Brooklyn Paper readers for writing about this in so public a forum, and using not only her own name but also her son’s.
CApitalist rant of the day…..
The
powers of government here in the US are far too
severe and far too egregious and nowhere is that more
evident than in the “insider trading†case being brought
against two lower level employees of the Florida East
Coast railroad who were not in a position of any real
authority and who simply put “one and one togetherâ€
about some unusual movements by outsiders and
ranking insiders in the company and came to believe
that their company was “in play.â€
The SEC is taking Gary Griffiths and Cliff Steffes… two
men who worked in the “yard†and not in managements
at the railroad… to task for trades they’d done in the
stock and options of their company when they noticed
a large number of non-company individuals walking
around in the “yard†and who were asking a surprising
number of questions regarding railcar movements,
tonnage carried. The SEC’s claim is that when the
men, and their families, bought a rather surprisingly
large amount of options on the company’s shares
because they had noticed “an unusual number of
daytime tours†of the “yard†by “people dressed in
business attire†and had assumed that perhaps their
company was “in play†that they were in receipt of
illegal “insider information†and thus must not only
disgorge any profits they’d made, but must pay a
massive fine and may even have to serve time in jail.
From our perspective, Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Steffes
were simply doing excellent “research.†They’d seen
something unusual taking place; they made an
educated guess as to what the unusual activity meant;
they acted upon their guess by buying options on their
company’s stock and they profited by the wisdom of
their “research.†The SEC thinks otherwise and the
SEC is wrong.
Lechacal,
There is mention of and a link to the comments:
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Sorry they didn’t use your nom de blog.
lossforwords, where have you been? Haven’t seen you in quite a while!
My wife keeps seeing Jake around the slope and has the super hots for him. I’m super jealous about it.
I saw some ad in Grand Central Station today for a new shaving system that uses “quad” cartrdiges. Great! Just what we need.
I look forward to the year 2020, when Gillette will announce their “Mach 16” shaver, priced at $45 a cartridge.
“despite the taste of St Germaine in my mouth all day”
LMAO. Friends were good enough to get me trashed Friday, Saturday and, for good measure, last night too.
“Anything else that I was able to accomplish is on a “need to know” basis.”
But, you already said you got your bulbs planted!