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From: George Kerby on 4 Apr 2010 11:32 On 4/3/10 7:59 PM, in article qNudndPzOKP7eSrWnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com, "Kurt Ullman" <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > In article <jollyroger-D772A1.16425303042010(a)news.individual.net>, > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > >> In article <HfadnfXd7aAkACrWnZ2dnUVZ_hwAAAAA(a)earthlink.com>, >> Kurt Ullman <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> In article <jollyroger-81E249.13354303042010(a)news.individual.net>, >>> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> You expected the Earth to implode immediately similar to the Republican >>>> "health care reform is the apocolypse" campaign promises? ; ) >>> >>> Get back to me after 10 years when it is fully phased in. You are >>> being way too smug way too soon. >> >> You're saying the Apocolypse takes 10 years to arrive? > > Just to be fully realized. You should see some things with docs > bailing out of MCare in the next 1-3 years (probably MUCH earlier if the > 21% pull back survives. The Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services had > expressed concerns about docs limiting the number of MCare patients they > will take before passage. When the changes in MCare Advantage (they have > pulled a lot of the subsidy to "punish" the insurance companies > forgetting that the subsidy lowers the premiums for those elders using > it) kick in. Polls show that those who had it LOVED it. > You see what is happening already since they pulled the tax games > they played with Part D so that companies wouldn't just stop their plans > and dump them all in Part D. Whether or not they should have happened, > they did and removing them will cause problems. You like the Post Office, Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid? You'll love ObamaCare... <http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7n2m-X7OIuY>
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 4 Apr 2010 16:39 Phillip Jones wrote: > Tim Streater wrote: >> In article<4bb774c3$0$7730$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, >> Warren Oates<warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> In article<4bb77348$0$32097$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, >>> JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: >>> >>>> Any news reports on this being the first day of the ipad ? Will Apple's >>>> stock rise in monday (or does the exchanges reopen on tuesday ?) >>> >>> It's not a holiday in the US. >> >> I know. Dopiest thing I ever heard of. >> > I believe Good Friday is taken instead. I believe that the NYSE was open on Friday (even though my daughter's school was closed). My guess at why there isn't an official national Easter holiday is related to two things. (1) It moves too much (2) It's not a "big family" holiday, but a "small family" holiday, in that people don't travel that much to be with family at Easter. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid
From: Warren Oates on 4 Apr 2010 17:19 In article <81sbnjFgdU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > I believe that the NYSE was open on Friday (even though my daughter's > school was closed). US Post Offices are open on Good Friday, I think, which is a good indication of a holiday's official status. Nobody has as many holidays as Canada. We have "Easter Monday" which is actually a secular holiday that's given to the union goons because -- wait for it -- Easter's on a Sunday, and it's not fair having a holiday on a day we don't work anyway now is it, jeez, down tools. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Kurt Ullman on 4 Apr 2010 17:30 In article <81sbnjFgdU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > I believe that the NYSE was open on Friday (even though my daughter's > school was closed). > Just checked, in case you are interested, everything (NYSE< NASDAQ, options exchanges, etc., in the US was closed on GF. 3). Always on a Sunday which was a day of rest and thus few were working back when most of these became day-off holidays. -- I get off on '57 Chevys I get off on screamin' guitars --Eric Clapton
From: Jim Gibson on 4 Apr 2010 17:59
In article <81sbnjFgdU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > > My guess at why there isn't an official national Easter holiday is > related to two things. > > (1) It moves too much > > (2) It's not a "big family" holiday, but a "small family" holiday, in > that people don't travel that much to be with family at Easter. I think you are forgetting the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Easter is a religious observance. As such, there can be no government-mandated holiday. -- Jim Gibson |