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Monday, January 26, 2009

America For Sale

America For Sale When exactly were the bids put up? Or was there even an auction? If America went to the highest bidder Then that at least would be fair. There would be notices, Notices that people would notice, So the people would notice that their country, That land that was supposed to be my land... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Winds of Change

The Winds of Change O, he came in on the winds of change alright As the funders of his party and of him Swept the wealth of their companies into their pockets Then shook all the change from widows and orphans Each penny that they might. O, he brought change before he took power As his party's... Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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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 Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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