Daily Archives: 03/11/2010

(Community Matters) Reminds me when Steven and I were driving my nephew to the family farm. He was maybe 4 years old.  He said something like “two boys together, that’s weird.” When I told him it wasn’t weird, that sometimes it’s a boy & a girl, sometimes two girls,and sometimes two boys, he thought about it, then just said “ok.”  It became a nonevent.

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(Community Matters) This guy my new hero: Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) blasted the “incrementalism” approach to fixing the nation’s broken financial system. Rather than nibbling around the edges, Kaufman wants to impose strict limits on financial firms’ activities; significantly cut them down in size; and wants Congress to act more forcefully because federal banking and securities regulators failed to protect the public from an increasingly dangerous financial industry.  huffpost story

(Community Matters) ending earmarks, filibuster reform. Congress is finally on a roll. Now, let’s address the deficit, reform healthcare & the financial industry and spur economic activity.