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[xiphias]

So, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has come out with a 60-second television spot about how greenhouse gas emissions aren't important. It's called "CO2 -- We Call It Life", and is all about how you need carbon dioxide to live, and therefore it can't possibly be dangerous.

I'm looking forward to the other spots they will be producing soon, "You'll Die Without Water, So Shut The Fuck Up Already, New Orleans," and "Plants Grow Buried In Dirt: Why Mine Safety Standards Are Bad."

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"The Future of Financial Privacy"

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

"In The Future of Financial Privacy, a new book from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an array of US and European legal and economic experts attempts to answer those questions and clear up some of the muddle surrounding these complicated issues. Privacy is an amorphous concept, clouding and confusing public policy debates on financial-services issues ranging from the confidentiality of what’s in your bank account to the mining and sharing of data. The Future of Financial Privacy shows how to protect consumers’ privacy while preserving the benefits of free flows of information, and explores what role the government should play in all this."

This is a real title available on their site.

I'm sure they want to "protect consumers' privacy" in their own special, free-enterprise kind of way.

Next: "You call it your dead uncle; we call it Soylent Green."

Re: "The Future of Financial Privacy"

[(Anonymous)]

Slightly off topic, by my spouse, rebmommy, has a condition requiring the introduction of fresh ducks on a regular basis. May I inquire where/how the duck bonnet was obtained/fabricated?
dave, dave-0@comcast.net That is "hyphen-zero" in the middle...

Ducks!

[cheshyre]

Can't help with the hat, but I saw this set of photos and thought RebMom needed to see it...