Monday, January 19, 2009
Repudiation , An Anti-Inaugural Poem
Repudiation The People had spoken twice And your Party did not command Though they tried to pin their vice Onto the others hand -- For I was not deceived: My early computer work Included punching through Some stacks of perforated cards With a number two pencil Which when too thick would leave What...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Prayer Translated
Prayer Translated My Spirit Daddy, Your Name of Love Is the purest good, May it rule our world Giving us daily its fruits. Copyright © 2009 by C. P. Klapper I was inspired to write this new translation of the Lord's Prayer after hearing news reports of a devout member of the Atheist Religion...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
The Great Crash 2008 (Reduced Version)
The Great Crash 2008 (reduced version) I worked with the CMOs back in 2001 and my concern at the time was with the way default risk was handled, namely as entirely prepayment risk. Collateral value risk was not considered. More simply, the risk was that the payments of expected size and return would...
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Monday, January 5, 2009
The UnAmericans
The UnAmericans Who are the UnAmericans Who should go back from whence they came But the unwelcoming, the intolerant, Who cannot treat all the same Yet where can we send the bigots So ignorant of their past Ancestral lands would now shun The prejudicial caste Perhaps if they learned humility From a...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
The New Jersey Bank and Tomato
In my general exhaustion from the last few days, I have been sleeping and thinking today about how a state script would work in practice and this is a rough description: 1. A branch of the Bank of New Jersey (BoNJ) would be established in each state assembly district(SAD) in the largest pedestrian...
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Caruso's Blood
Caruso's Blood In the great tenor's final days He had to take some blood And worried overmuch That made him less Italian So what am I to make Of my own blood now made thin Will my writing now be wispy Clouds of what it had been? Copyright © 2009 by C. P. Klapper
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Last Blog for 2008: An Economic One
Though I have written several posts that have presented economics through verse, I feel I must express a few notions before the year ends with clear and explicit prose. Some of these have to do with my recent reading of John Kenneth Galbraith's economic history of the events leading up to the Great...
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Not where I thought I would be tonight
Back around Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, I started having some mysterious pains. First, there was some pain on my left side, which my doctor though might be related to the kidneys. As that subsided, and as I was still undergoing test for it, I awoke with tightness in the chest and pain when...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
A Suggestion: Blog Post Ratings (Zero to Five Stars)
A Suggestion: Blog Post Ratings (none) to ( ) I have made this suggestion on one of the Community sections, but it is also pertinent to the debate about short comments and the characterization of the use of them as "spamming". Personally, I have no problem with having people leaving short comments...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Open House
Open House I see reflections of you everywhere In the mirror of even a parking lot That beauty opens a door to sit beside Her beau to ride to somewhere home While I start my car to ride to where? Then I remembered a very small sign That told me of an open house But why should I go there now? If it...
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