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John D. Spivey, 79, a longtime resident of Peachtree City, passed away on October 30, 2013.
John was the devoted husband of Ethel (Penny) Spivey for 46 years. He was the father of John Kirby Spivey and father-in-law of Jennifer M. Spivey. John was much loved and respected by his many nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.
via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/john-d-spivey-79-peachtree-city
Donald E. Jones, 80, of Peachtree City, passed away October 30, 2013.
He was the previous owner of Omega Book Store in Peachtree City and was retired from Photocircuits of Peachtree City where he worked as an Industrial Engineer.
via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/donald-e-jones-80-peachtree-city
Mr. Daniel T. Earhart, age 57 of Tyrone, Ga. passed away on November 1, 2013.
He was born July 8, 1956 to Gordon and Eileen Earhart. He was a loving husband and father.
Daniel is survived by his wife, Marcia Earhart; a son, Dale Earhart; two daughters, Amanda Jones (Bryan), Ali McCraw (Hill); four grandchildren, Morgan Jones, Peyton Jones, Brady Jones and Mac McCraw and one brother, Bruce Earhart.
Carmichael-Hemperley Funeral Home & Crematory, 135 Senoia Road, Peachtree City, Ga. 30269 is in charge of these arrangements.
via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/daniel-t-earhart-age-57-tyrone
On Saturday, November 9, veterans of the Vietnam War will be recognized at Peachtree City’s 2013 Veterans Day Observance hosted by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Dixie Wing. The program will be held during the flying museum’s third annual Veterans Day Open House from 9 a.m.-noon. The open house and program is free to the public.
via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-05-2013/vietnam-vets-be-honored-sat
It would appear the main FOX News homepage has been hacked (most likely a DNS hack given some see no changes)… or perhaps this is what the mainstream media has become… "stuff yo!"… although the lack of slideshows and kittens suggests otherwise.
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It would appear the main FOX News homepage has been hacked (most likely a DNS hack given some see no changes)… or perhaps this is what the mainstream media has become… "stuff yo!"… although the lack of slideshows and kittens suggests otherwise.
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On the day when the CFTC begins considering ‘speculative position limits’, believed to be “the signal rule of [his] tenure at the Commission,” Bart Chilton has had enough. Having “left traders in their own” during the shutdown, Chilton expressed “excitement” at his new endeavours after sending his resignation letter to President Obama this morning (more poetry? – or body doubles?) “I’m reminded of the old Etta James song, ‘At Last,'” said Mr. Chilton, one of the agency’s three Democratic members. “At last, we’ve got this rule here,” and at last, he would be leaving the CFTC. This leaves us wondering whether Chilton, no longer burdened by the shackles of his meagre compensation, perhaps can finally do what he has been promising to do for years – become a whistleblower – after all he has insinuated so many times he knows where all the “dirt” is; unless, of course, it was all for show.
“At Last”
Statement of Commissioner Bart Chilton, Dodd-Frank Meeting on Position Limits
November 5, 2013
For two reasons, this is a significant day for me. I am reminded of that great Etta James song, At Last.
The first reason is that, at last, we are considering what I believe to be the signal rule of my tenure here at the Commission; I’ve been working on speculative position limits since 2008.
The second reason today is noteworthy is that this will be my last Dodd-Frank meeting. Early this morning, I sent a letter to the President expressing my intent to leave the Agency in the near future. I’ve waited until now—today—to get this proposed rule out the door, and now—at last—with the process coming nearly full circle, I can leave. It’s with incredible excitement and enthusiasm that I look forward to being able to move on to other endeavors.
With that, here is a bit of history on the position limits journey that has led us, and me, to this day. The early spring of 2008 was a peculiar time at the Commission. None of my current colleagues were here. I and my colleagues at that time watched Bear Stearns fail. We had watched commodity prices rise as investors sought diversified financial havens. When I asked Commission staff about the influence of speculation on prices, some said speculative positions couldn’t impact prices. It didn’t ring true, and as numerous independent studies have confirmed since, it was not true.
I began urging the Commission to implement speculative position limits under our then-existing authority. And I was, at that time, the only Commissioner to support position limits. Given the concerns, I urged Congress to mandate limits in legislation. A Senate bill was blocked on a cloture vote that summer, but late in the session, the House actually passed legislation. Finally, in 2010, as part of the Dodd-Frank law, Congress mandated the Commission to implement position limits by early in 2011.
Within the Commission, I supported passing a rule that would have complied with the time-frame established by Congress—by any other name—federal law. A position limits rule was proposed in January of 2011 and finally approved in November.
In September 2012, literally days before limits were to be effective, a federal district court ruling tossed the rule out, claiming the CFTC had not sufficiently provided rationale for imposing the rule. We appealed and I urged us to address the concerns of the court by proposing and quickly passing another new and improved rule. I thought and hoped that we could move rapidly. After months of delay and deferral, it became clear: we could not.
But today—at last—more than three years since Dodd-Frank’s passage, we are here to take it to the limits one more time.
Thankfully, we have it right in the text before us. The Commission staff has ultimately done an admirable job of devising a proposed regulation that should be unassailable in court, good for markets and good for consumers.
I thank everyone who has worked upon the rule: Steve Sherrod, Riva Adriance, Ajay Sutaria, Scott Mixon, Mary Connelly, and many others for their good work.
In addition, I especially thank Elizabeth Ritter, my Chief of Staff, Nancy Doyle, and also Salman Banaei who has left the Agency for greener pastures. I thank them for their tireless efforts on the single most important, and perhaps to me the most frustrating, policy issue of my tenure with the Commission. I have had the true honor of working with Elizabeth since prior to my confirmation. I would be remiss if I did not reiterate here what I have often said; nowhere do I believe there is a brighter, smarter, more knowledgeable and hard-working derivatives counsel. She has served the public and me phenomenally well. Thank you, Elizabeth.
And finally to my colleagues, past and present, my respect to those whom we have been unable to persuade to vote with us on this issue, and my thanks to those who will vote in support of this needed and mandated rule. At last!
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Even if Democrat Terry McAuliffe wins today’s Virginia
governor’s race, the
generally Democrat-friendly Mother Jones will be
disappointed. Reporter Stephanie Mencimer has covered him since
the 1990s and she is:
dumbfounded that he (according to the polls) is poised to
become the next governor of Virginia.
Allow me to explain. McAuliffe represents an unseemly slice
of Washington. His primary role in politics for the past two
decades or more has been raising money—most notably, for the
Clintons. He cooked up the idea of essentially renting out the
Lincoln bedroom during the Clinton administration as a fundraising
vehicle, and he smashed all previous presidential fundraising
records in the process. When McAuliffe was the Dems’ top
fundraiser, a campaign finance scandal besieged the Clinton White
House. Coincidence? No. McAuliffe was all about pushing the
envelope when it came to the political money-chase.That alone might not be enough to render him a distasteful
political candidate. What’s diff#mce_temp_url#erent
about McAuliffe is his brazen mixing of his campaign
fundraising activity and attempts to enrich himself
personally. Many of McAuliffe’s business deals
have come about due to his place in the political cosmos, not
because he possesses a wealth of business skill. That tangled
history has linked him to a long list of unsavory
characters.
The rest of the story details many of those specific unsavory
associations.
In other Virginia race news, revisit various Reason
pieces examining surprisingly high-polling Libertarian candidate
Robert Sarvis, including hopes that he can cause permanent breaks
in Virginia’s crummily choiceless party system from
Ronald Bailey and
Skip Oliva, Nick Gillespie’s
stirring defense of Sarvis from accusations of allegedly
stealing votes from a somehow worthwhile Republican, my
interview with Sarvis from last month, and Scott Shackford on
polls indicating
that if he’s “stealing” votes from anyone, it’s McAuliffe, not
GOPer Ken Cuccinelli.
That alone might not be enough to render him a distasteful
political candidate. What’s different about McAuliffe is
his brazen mixing of his campaign fundraising activity and attempts
to enrich himself
personally. Many of McAuliffe’s business deals
have come about due to his place in the political cosmos, not
because he possesses a wealth of business skill. That tangled
history has linked him to a long list of unsavory
characters.
from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/05/virginia-governors-election-today-mother
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Even if Democrat Terry McAuliffe wins today’s Virginia
governor’s race, the
generally Democrat-friendly Mother Jones will be
disappointed. Reporter Stephanie Mencimer has covered him since
the 1990s and she is:
dumbfounded that he (according to the polls) is poised to
become the next governor of Virginia.
Allow me to explain. McAuliffe represents an unseemly slice
of Washington. His primary role in politics for the past two
decades or more has been raising money—most notably, for the
Clintons. He cooked up the idea of essentially renting out the
Lincoln bedroom during the Clinton administration as a fundraising
vehicle, and he smashed all previous presidential fundraising
records in the process. When McAuliffe was the Dems’ top
fundraiser, a campaign finance scandal besieged the Clinton White
House. Coincidence? No. McAuliffe was all about pushing the
envelope when it came to the political money-chase.That alone might not be enough to render him a distasteful
political candidate. What’s diff#mce_temp_url#erent
about McAuliffe is his brazen mixing of his campaign
fundraising activity and attempts to enrich himself
personally. Many of McAuliffe’s business deals
have come about due to his place in the political cosmos, not
because he possesses a wealth of business skill. That tangled
history has linked him to a long list of unsavory
characters.
The rest of the story details many of those specific unsavory
associations.
In other Virginia race news, revisit various Reason
pieces examining surprisingly high-polling Libertarian candidate
Robert Sarvis, including hopes that he can cause permanent breaks
in Virginia’s crummily choiceless party system from
Ronald Bailey and
Skip Oliva, Nick Gillespie’s
stirring defense of Sarvis from accusations of allegedly
stealing votes from a somehow worthwhile Republican, my
interview with Sarvis from last month, and Scott Shackford on
polls indicating
that if he’s “stealing” votes from anyone, it’s McAuliffe, not
GOPer Ken Cuccinelli.
That alone might not be enough to render him a distasteful
political candidate. What’s different about McAuliffe is
his brazen mixing of his campaign fundraising activity and attempts
to enrich himself
personally. Many of McAuliffe’s business deals
have come about due to his place in the political cosmos, not
because he possesses a wealth of business skill. That tangled
history has linked him to a long list of unsavory
characters.
from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/05/virginia-governors-election-today-mother
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Maybe it’s not
just Obamacare.
Maybe NSA spying
revelations,
rough treatment of critical journalists, a
lack of transparency, and other presidential foibles have also
played a role. However it breaks down, though, Gallup reports that
President Barack Obama’s
approval rating now stands at 39 percent, which is the lowest
it’s been in the past year. It’s also only one point higher than
his all-time low, which he hit October 14-16, 2011. That’s a bit of
a tumble from the early hopey-dreamy period, when he scored 69
percent in January 2009. Oh, how jaded we’ve all become. Our once
shiny, new president has lost our favor. Well…Maybe he actually
pushed the favor away.
Interestingly, Gallup has a tool that allows you to compare
approval ratings over time among presidents. It seems that
Americans have become a bit tougher on national chief executives
than was once the case. Of course, we’re probably a bit less naive,
and more knowledgeable of their flaws than we used to be, too. How
does the current guy stack up? Well, Obama may rank generally lower
than his predecessor (and let’s concede that 9/11 gave George W.
Bush an early advantage, public-perception-wise) though it’s
practically a dead heat this far into their administrations, but he
at least pulls greater support at this point relative
to…(drumroll, please)…Richard M. Nixon.
So…He has that going for him.
Of course, approval rating or no, we’re stuck with the guy.
from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/05/gallup-president-obamas-approval-hits-a
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