Yesterday, I didn’t get my housework done. It’s patient and always waits for me. However, I did go out to run errands, caught up an email backlog (self-renewing daily), purchased a couple needed items online, cooked a three day meal, set my fantasy football lineup, and got enough sleep for a change. I’m current on replies. Today I have that housework and volunteer paperwork to do.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 4:21 (average 5:33). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Reuters: Jon Corzine resigned as MF Global Holdings Ltd’s chairman and chief executive in the face of mounting pressure from regulators searching for customer money that has gone missing from the brokerage’s accounts.
Corzine, a former chief of Goldman Sachs & Co , called his departure "difficult" but voluntary, capping a rapid downfall for one of Wall Street’s best-known stars.
Could we possibly get a Bankster behind bars?
From Washington Monthly: Faced with increasing push-back from the public, the media, government watchdogs and a bipartisan list of lawmakers, the Department of Justice Thursday agreed to drop a proposed regulation that would have allowed government agencies to lie to members of the public seeking records through the Freedom of Information Act.
I consider it reprehensible that such a rule was even considered.
From Alternet: The Cuban government has approved a law allowing individuals to buy and sell homes for the first time in 50 years, in the latest instalment [sic] of President Raul Castro’s reforms of the island’s Soviet-style economy.
It is time for the US to end our embargo of that nation. The cold war is over.
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