Smith Street Grocery has Met It's End

Not terribly surprising as a redevelopment site, but it's a bit puzzling that someone would pay that kind of money to tear down a one story retail space to replace it with a two-story retail space. 

At least, to the layman. 

Met Foods Grocery Store on Smith Street in Boerum Hill to Be Demolished

"A group of investors are in contract to buy the property at 205 Smith Street in Boerum Hill. They plan to demolish the Met Foods supermarket currently on the site and build a two-story retail building there, reported The Real Deal."

http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2014/05/met-foods-grocery-store-on-smith-street-in-boerum-hill-to-be-demolished/

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Protecting Kids Online

Food for thought. 

Kids are mostly sexually solicited online by classmates, peers, teens

"The respected Crimes Against Children Research Center reports that one in seven children is sexually exploited online. This figure is both credible and alarming. But the context is vital: as danah boyd writes, the average predator isn't a twisted older man trawling for kids; rather, "most children are sexually solicited by their classmates, peers, or young adults just a few years older than they are." Now, it's absolutely possible for a child to sexually exploit another child, so this isn't to minimize the potential harm to kids. But for so long as we model the threat to kids as being weird, strange grownups, rather than the young people they know and see every day, we will fail to prepare them to comport themselves wisely and safely."

http://boingboing.net/2014/05/06/kids-are-mostly-sexually-solic.html

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“Ronald Reagan’s Benghazi”

Or, yes Lindsay Graham, you are the biggest scumbag on the planet.  The modern GOP is a disgusting best of amoral vipers. 

History Lesson: "Ronald Reagan's Benghazi"

Jane Meyer , in the New Yorker : … Around dawn on October 23, 1983 , I was in Beirut, Lebanon, when a suicide bomber drove a truck laden with the equivalent of twenty-one thousand pounds of TNT into …

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/05/06/history-lesson-ronald-reagans-benghazi/

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INCREASE SOCIAL SECURITY

We need to increase Social Security.  The idiots and shills that actually get paid to talk about this on TV won't say it. But it's the truth. 

MOOOOARRR SOCIAL SECURITY

It really is the only option. We can debate what our overall retirement program should be like for now-25 year olds if we want (and, yes, given tax treatment and other issues 401(k)s are as much a gov…

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2014/05/mooooarrr-social-security.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FbRuz+%28Eschaton%29

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Are Goldman Investors Responsible For High Con Ed Prices?

Electricity "deregulation" is, and always was, a sham.  Capitalism!

Enron 2.0: Goldman-Linked Investors Set to Manipulate East Coast Electricity Prices

"Yes, sports fans, the "rules" that Enron devised so it could game energy markets are still in force! So what, exactly, is the Energy Partners scheme? It bought three energy generating plants in New England for $650 million. A mere five weeks after the deal closed, it said it needs to shutter Brayton Point, the second largest producer in New England, claiming it will cost the investors more than it's worth to keep the plan running. Regulatory filings show that the electricity system in the region has gone from surplus to deficit, and baseline prices were already projected to double. Clearly, removing a major producer would lead to even greater price increases."

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/enron-2-0-goldman-linked-investors-set-manipulate-east-coast-electricity-prices.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29

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The Worst Person In The World

Milton Friedman.  I know he's dead, but I hope they took precautions with his remains along the lines of what you'd do with those of a vampire. 

Guess Who is Responsible for the "Corporations Exist to Maximize Shareholder Value" Myth?

One of my pet peeves is the degree to which the notion that corporations exist only to serve the interests of shareholders is accepted as dogma and recited uncritically by the business press. I'm old …

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/guess-who-is-responsible-for-the-corporations-exist-to-maximize-shareholder-value-myth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29

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Rules Of The New Aristocracy

Your weekend read. 

Straczynski: "The New Aristocracy"

""We are the New Aristocracy because we were born into it. We got our money the old fashioned, Medieval way: our parents gave it to us. We were born into the wealth that we stole from you and your family over the last fifty years.""

http://boingboing.net/2014/05/03/straczynski-the-new-aristoc.html

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