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[Dan (the Man)]

Barbara Bush:  All In A Day's Work...

Interesting pic when you consider what else happened today...

[bk]

Back from shipping and banking.

[JMK]

Barbara Bush:  All In A Day's Work...

Interesting pic when you consider what else happened today...

I wonder what Barbara's "beautiful mind" (her own quote regarding not thinking about the Katrina victims) is full of after that. 

[DERBRUCER]

I do not see any screaming, blaring headlines today stating that Civilization As We Know It has come to an end because of the switchover to digital television transmission.

The stations have until midnight to make the transition - many have not even begun

der Brucer

[bk]

eBay has done it again - I've been using basic search for years - and, for example, if I were to type in the letter "b" I would see all the items starting with "b" that I ever searched for.  The basic search page seems to have disappeared and only advance search with its endless options is coming up, which means that all those searches I've made that used to show in a list are now gone forever.  Bravo, eBay, and take your "improvements" and stick them up your rectal cavity.  And before someone comes on and tells me that basic search is that bar at the top, that's not what the basic search page was - it was like the advanced page but much simpler with only the options for highest priced/lowest priced and that sort of thing.  So, instead of purchasing an LP I needed I simply went to amazon and got it there.

[DERBRUCER]

DR TCB...   you asked about my reaction to the news about Chastity.  First surprise, I suppose. 

Well, I am hoping Chastity will be better looking as a man, as a woman, she is a dog!

Does Sugar know you equate ugly with dog?

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

(look, the little gloved hands are open in praise, raised toward heaven --

I think that's Michael Jackson.

der Brucer

[elmore3003]

Well,

Barbara Bush:  All In A Day's Work...

Well, if it keeps her heart beating, good for her!

[elmore3003]

DR Jose - would you like for one of your revisits to Twelfth Night to take place during the week of June 29?  Our only definite plans, so far, are Blithe Spririt on Tuesday.

It could.  It will probably depend upon the weather and how crazy the lines will be by then.  But sounds like a good plan.

I wanna go too!

[elmore3003]

TOD:
VCR-- "Miracle on 34th Street"-- the original and th eremake

I have a friend in the remake. He's in BLITHE SPIRIT at the moment.

[Jane]

I found this to be a sweet story about Julian Lennon & Lucy from “Lucy in the Sky”.

[Ginny]

DR Jose - would you like for one of your revisits to Twelfth Night to take place during the week of June 29?  Our only definite plans, so far, are Blithe Spririt on Tuesday.

It could.  It will probably depend upon the weather and how crazy the lines will be by then.  But sounds like a good plan.

I wanna go too!

We'll keep a couple of evenings open, just in case...

[Dan (the Man)]

Alright, now I have to add SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB to my MEdia Check for today...

[Jane]

[DERBRUCER]

The just-pased smoking regulation bill:

The bill aims to could curb the roughly 400,000 deaths a year attributed to smoking. It would allow the FDA to reduce how much nicotine is in cigarettes.

Well guess what? If you reduce nicotine content you will INCREASE smoking deaths! Nicotine is not the killer, the smoke pollutants are. When you decrease the amount of nicotine per cigarette, smokes , who are addicted to the drug, need to smoke more cigarettes and thus inhale more pollutants.

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

Something for Fred to mull over:

WSJ

IRS Considers Taxing Personal Use of Work Cell Phones as 'Fringe Benefit'

The IRS is weighing proposals to tax up to one-quarter of employees' use of work cell phones as private use -- and thus subject to taxation by the government.

der Brucer

[ArnoldMBrockman]

And the word of the day is: MEGRIM!

And The Song Of The Day Is:  NO STRINGS(I'M FANCY FREE)

[ArnoldMBrockman]

ME GRIM -   NO WAY!

[Jane]

I think that is a rather crummy idea.  If Keith weren't working so much he would not have had to use his cell phone for personal calls, basically to me.  How on earth do you prove every call is work related & I'm sure they don't care if the calls are made because you are stuck someplace working overtime.

[DERBRUCER]

I think that is a rather crummy idea. 

Is that Lady-speak for "THAT SUCKS!"?

der Brucer

[Jane]

Yup.

[Kerry]

DR TCB...   you asked about my reaction to the news about Chastity.  First surprise, I suppose. 

Well, I am hoping Chastity will be better looking as a man, as a woman, she is a dog!

Does Sugar know you equate ugly with dog?

der Brucer

Good point, but I don't consider Sugar a dog-- more like a four-legged human being.

[Kerry]

TOD:
VCR-- "Miracle on 34th Street"-- the original and th eremake

I have a friend in the remake. He's in BLITHE SPIRIT at the moment.

OH, who?

[DERBRUCER]

Proof that I'm a Progressive:

LATIMES

California can't afford the death penalty

Eliminating capital punishment, which is rarely carried out anyhow, would save the state $125 million a year.
By John Van de Kamp
June 10, 2009

Here's the math.

Today, California has 678 offenders on death row, more than any other state. Yet, in the last 30 years, we've had only 13 executions. With 20 more people sentenced to death each year -- and an average wait of 25 years from sentencing to execution -- the number of inmates on death row is continuing to climb.

Now consider what capital punishment costs. According to the final report of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, which I chaired from 2006 to 2008, the cost of a murder trial goes up by about half a million dollars if prosecutors seek the death penalty. Confinement on death row (with all the attendant security requirements) adds $90,000 per inmate per year to the normal cost of incarceration. Appeals and habeas corpus proceedings add tens of thousands more. In all, it costs $125 million a year more to prosecute and defend death penalty cases and to keep inmates on death row than it would simply to put all those people in prison for life without parole.

On top of that $125-million extra cost per year, California is also facing the need to build a new death house for death penalty inmates at an estimated cost of $400 million.

For capital punishment to be an effective deterrent, the sentence must be carried out swiftly, and in public! Not likely to happen.

For capital punishment to be accepeted, its adminstration must be perceived to be inerrant and impartial. Not likely to happen.

So why not save the money?

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

Lots of love to go around:



der Brucer

[Ron Pulliam]

Proof that I'm a Progressive:

LATIMES

California can't afford the death penalty

Eliminating capital punishment, which is rarely carried out anyhow, would save the state $125 million a year.
By John Van de Kamp
June 10, 2009

Here's the math.

Today, California has 678 offenders on death row, more than any other state. Yet, in the last 30 years, we've had only 13 executions. With 20 more people sentenced to death each year -- and an average wait of 25 years from sentencing to execution -- the number of inmates on death row is continuing to climb.

Now consider what capital punishment costs. According to the final report of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, which I chaired from 2006 to 2008, the cost of a murder trial goes up by about half a million dollars if prosecutors seek the death penalty. Confinement on death row (with all the attendant security requirements) adds $90,000 per inmate per year to the normal cost of incarceration. Appeals and habeas corpus proceedings add tens of thousands more. In all, it costs $125 million a year more to prosecute and defend death penalty cases and to keep inmates on death row than it would simply to put all those people in prison for life without parole.

On top of that $125-million extra cost per year, California is also facing the need to build a new death house for death penalty inmates at an estimated cost of $400 million.

For capital punishment to be an effective deterrent, the sentence must be carried out swiftly, and in public! Not likely to happen.

For capital punishment to be accepeted, its adminstration must be perceived to be inerrant and impartial. Not likely to happen.

So why not save the money?

der Brucer

So...you're advocating they spend life in prison, yes?!

[DAW]

A sneak peak from the upcoming Chess in Concert:   Groban singing "Anthem"

[DERBRUCER]

Must-carry rules requiring digital-only subchannels to be carried have been a source of contention."[/i]

Our cable company carries one of the local sub-channels (weather).

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

So...you're advocating they spend life in prison, yes?!

Yes - and no parole.

der Brucer

I would consdier a death peanly excepetion for a prisoner serving life for murder who was then convicted of another murder while in prison.

[Matt H.]

Just as I imagined, the weather turned very hot and muggy. Ugh! Was glad to get in and out of my several stops and get back home without melting.