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This is an experiment with the two column balanced layout. Making the entire text area into one large division with the added links to the table of contents works fine. This varient makes the paragraphs into separate divisions into which the two column balancing is supposed to work. I have put a horizontal rule after each one to demarkate each block. Each block should then be folded into two columns and balanced appropoiately.
The folding is done by division, not paragraph, so regardless of how many paragraphs there are the block is a logical division, folded appropriately.
It did do the right thing, with the same bug as before that the heading can be split from the rest of the paragraph if the length of the text is short enough,
TopI like the man but I do think that he is compromsing too much with the Republicans who are as arrogant as ever with no justification and we are likely to hear alot more from them in the next session. The extension of Unemployment Benefits past 99 weeks is now being linked to an extension of tax cuts to everybody including the wealthy who got a break from G.W. Bush. The Democrats wanted to give tax breaks to the Middle Class and let the Bush Tax Cust expire, meaning that the wealthiest people would have to pay more tax, and Obama is caving to the GOP pressure and alowing the government to go deeper into debt. That is the bargin that will likely be made and it is a Faustian Bargin in my view. The argument from the GOP is that if you tax the rich you will hurt the economic recovery, never mind the recession was caused by corrupt institutions run by those same rich people and the Middle Class is facing extinction because of the lopsided income distribution.
Barac Obama seemes to be too worried about his image or pragmatic expediancy than principle. When he ran for office he sounded like someone of principle, but now he seems to be giving up princlple to look good. I wrote in my blog that the biggest negative about the candidates for President in the 2008 campaign is that they were all in Congress. Obama is behaving like an insider, not someone who is going to change the way Washington runs, and this may result in the sellout of the Middle Class to international financeers.
The campaign of 2012 may be interesting if the Democrats dump Obama, which now seems more likely than it ever was. Unfortunately that may cloud the real issue which is the rich are not contributing enough to the nation and could rob the nation, maybe already have, as the Republican Party is now firmly their friend. It seems like a class war has been going on for some time, only most Americans are not aware of it as such, and they may get the idea when it is too late. As I have said before, the fleecing of America by the rich is not the end of the world because if their plan is to reinvest in China, they will eventually lose their shirts.
TopNot because I don't think that lives are in danger, they are, but lives are in danger all over the world. I am rooting for them because I don't think that information can really be stopped once it is put out on the Internet and that the U.S. deserves to be embarrased for how it behaves in the world. Hypocrasy deserves to be revealed whereever it is found in government and business. Yes, people can still be prosecuted for divulging secrets, but It is funny how there is a directive that government employees can't read the already publically disclosed stuff when the rest of us can. The government has tried to do what it accused the Chinese of doing and tried to shut down the Wikileaks site, getting ISPs to refuse or stop hosting it. This is to no avail as torrents of it will be available. It is like the effort of governments to shut down other filesharing that violate verious copyright laws, there can only be limited success. They will find people that are obvious and careless, but if people want all sorts of information that governments and business people want controlled, they can get it.
I have not read any of the primary material, but I have heard the news stories, I think most of it is innocuous, even if embarrassing.
I hope there are more disclosures, in fact I think that disclosures of how decisions are made in the world financial community are more important that gossipy memos from diplomats. They are but an effect caused by the world financial setting. It would be much more interesting to get stretegy, that was meant to be kept secret, of banks and investers, to demonstrate that they either are foolish or criminal or both.
TopI notice a conection with Obama's sacrificing principles for compromise and styles of various news people, Daine Sawyer at ABC News and some types of "happy" voice newscasters on the local news casts. At the one limit is the type of person who denies tension by reducing all conflict to truism. I once knew a man with whom conversation was quite frustrating because every thing was reduced to innocuous statements by him. Rather than being curious and analytical he was being phobic resisting every insight by turning all questions into truism. On the other limit is the person who is numb or phony of affect, or whose affect is always the same regardless of the context. It isn't that this person is simply bland, quite often they are quite animated, but their affect is wrong. These people often appear in advertizing, in commercials or the "happy" voice on store sound systems, I am thinking of a voice I heard in Safeway. Diane Sawyer is a different kind of "peacemaker", an eternal optimist, but objectionable just as much, because like the phobic, or phoney happy voice, her affect numbs the listener and destracts us from the context of the news. The affect is inapproiate to the information. I am sure that after going to the other extreme, and because of the repressive climate of public opinion in this country, the news broadcasts have gone to the opposite extreme.
As for Obama, he said today that the compromise he agreed to is necessary to get anything done, even giving voice to the Republican's support of the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy as their "Holy Grail", while critics rightly concluded that he caved without a fight. It is true that the tax cuts could be ended in two years, but I don't see Republicans compermising, even before they won a majority in the House. They have been hard liners since Obama came to power, maybe because he is a "peacemaker", but he is not protecting the people from a huge swindle of jobs and wealth by the Republicans and their supporters in business and finance.
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