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Julie Andrews on May 15, 2012 2:13 PM

Oh, silly Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times financial columnist and co-host of CNBC program “Squawk Box.” Today, on Trump Tuesday, he wanted to discuss Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan’s recent $ 2 billion loss. While Donald Trump entertained that topic for a bit, he soon enough got to his chosen topic: Facebook.

According to Business Insider’s Silicon Alley Insider, the conversation went like this:

Trump:

Here’s my question…I was thinking about Facebook and do I put some money into Facebook? You tell me he’s [Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg] got a girlfriend [Priscilla Chan]: Does he marry his girlfriend, and if he does, does he get a pre-nup? You’ve been talking about the banks, and that’s so boring compared to this.

Sorkin:

Let’s go to the pre-nup. Would you like to advise Mark on this?

Trump:

I’ll be one of the great professionals and advise him. So he’s got this lovely girlfriend, I’m sure she’s lovely, and they get married, and then for some reason, over the next couple of years, they get divorced, and then she sues him for $ 10 billion. And she’s hits the jackpot like nobody, because in New York, she would get a big chunk of what he has. I could see the lawyers and the lawsuit right now. Without her brilliant decision-making, he would have never come through. She advised him, she made dinner for him, she’s entitled to at least $ 10 billion.

What would Trump give? $ 1 million.

Co-Host Becky Quick:

The next question, how much should he spend on an engagement ring?

Trump:

The good news about that — that’s irrelevant.

Sorkin:

If he wants to have kids, I would understand the getting married, but why would you get married at 28?

Trump:

Some people like getting married. Some people like … they like the security.

Sorkin:

I would see no rush whatsoever. (After saying he got married at age 43) I was waiting for everything to come together.

Readers: Is The Donald right, or should he keep his nose out of it?

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“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country,” President John F. Kennedy famously said in his inaugural address.

In his bid for re-election, the hope-and-change president, Barack Obama, clearly has decided to ditch JFK’s country-first approach. The Obama-Biden campaign is all about what this country can do for voters.

Last week, the Obama campaign introduced “The Life of Julia,” a slide show about a fictional American that contrasts and compares the programs and services that would be available for her from age 3 under an Obama administration with those that would be available under a Mitt Romney White House.

GOP budget hawk Paul Ryan called the “Julia” infographic “creepy” and “demeaning.”

He’s right. Creepy? Until her son goes to kindergarten, Julia’s cartoon world does not depict any males, except one, as shown in this quote: “Under President Obama: Julia decides to have a child.”

Demeaning? The slide show sends the message that Julia needs Obama to protect her from cradle to grave — which, in Julia’s world, means from Head Start to Medicare.

When Julia does succeed, it’s not because she worked hard and prevailed but because a paternalistic program was there to support her. She gets into college, for example, because her high school is enrolled in Obama’s Race to the Top education reform.

When Julia graduates, she easily pays off her student loans because “Obama capped income-based federal student loan payments and kept interest rates low.” Under what Team Obama calls a “Romney/Ryan” budget, however, student loan interest rates double. PolitiFact.com found that claim to be “false,” as Romney supports keeping Stafford loan interest rates at 3.4 percent.

What happens if Julia cannot pay off her low-interest loans because she cannot get a good job in a moribund economy? “The Life of Julia” does not illustrate its heroine moving back into the home of her parents, whom we never see.

Does Julia ever pay federal income tax? Don’t know.

The Tax Foundation estimates that 41 percent of tax filers pay no federal income taxes. The infographic is mute on how much Julia pays in taxes. Thus, all benefits appear as if conjured by a wave of Obama’s wand, not thanks to American taxpayers.

“The Life of Julia” closes when Julia is 67. She retires and signs up for Social Security. With no fear of running out of money, thanks to Obama, Julia is free to volunteer at a community garden. Under Romney, the infographic warns, Julia’s benefits could be cut by 40 percent. Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler found that frame to be “fairly misleading” — as the Social Security system is on the road to insolvency. Social Security will need to be cut one way or another; the only question is when and by whom.

Back to Julia and Obama’s role as her champion in what Democrats like to call the GOP’s war against women. “From cracking down on gender discrimination in health care costs to fighting for equal pay,” the infographic ends, “President Obama is standing up for women throughout their lives.” Yes, he’s standing up for women as men have done for millenniums: He’ll say anything. 

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In the competition for the creepiest campaign material of 2012, we may already have a winner. It is “The Life of Julia,” the Obama reelection team’s cartoon chronicle of a fictional woman who is dependent on government at every step of her life.

The phrase “cradle-to-grave welfare state” originated with Clement Attlee’s socialist government in post–World War II Britain. Back then, it was meant as a boastful description of a new age of government activism. Subsequently, it became a term of derision for critics of an overweening government. In the spirit of Attlee, the Obama campaign revives the concept of “cradle to grave” as it highlights Obama-supported programs that take care of Julia from age 3 to her retirement at age 67.

Julia begins her interaction with the welfare state as a little tot through the pre-kindergarten program Head Start. She then proceeds through all of life’s important phases, not Shakespeare’s progression from “mewling and puking” infant to “second childishness and mere oblivion,” but the Health and Human Services and Education Departments version: a Pell grant (age 18), surgery on insurance coverage guaranteed by Obamacare (22), a job where she can sue her employers for more pay thanks to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (23), free contraception (27), a Small Business Administration loan (42) and, finally, Medicare (65) and Social Security (67). (In a sci-fi touch, these entitlements are presumed to be blissfully unchanged sometime off in the 2070s.) 

No doubt, the creators of Julia — imagine a dour and featureless version of Dora the Explorer who grows old through the years — weren’t seeking to make a major philosophical statement. But they inadvertently captured something important about the progressive vision. Julia’s central relationship is to the state. It is her educator, banker, health-care provider, venture capitalist, and retirement fund. And she is, fundamentally, a taker. Every benefit she gets is cut-rate or free. She apparently doesn’t worry about paying taxes. It doesn’t enter her mind that the programs supporting her might add to the debt or might have unintended consequences. She has no moral qualms about forcing others to pay for her contraception, and her sense of patriotic duty is limited to getting as much government help as she can.

The alleged benefits to Julia are exaggerated or nonexistent. Pity the poor thing if she depends on Head Start for her launch into the world. A study by the Department of Health and Human Services last year found that positive educational effects tend to wear off by the first grade. The government assistance she gets for financing college feeds into the maw of inexorable tuition increases. The chances that the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is going to boost her pay, as a web designer, are essentially nil. Julia is getting punked.

Her life is framed to show that she gets more from President Barack Obama than from Republicans. The same contrast could be achieved differently. She could lose her web-design job and go on unemployment, which President Obama always wants to extend despite Republican objections. With her family’s income dropping, she could resort to the food-stamp program, which has expanded massively under President Obama despite Republicans’ inveighing against the trend. These examples don’t suit the campaign’s purposes, though. They show government to be a poor substitute for the robust recovery that President Obama hasn’t delivered even as he has endeavored to make Julia’s birth-control pills free.

The point of view of “The Life of Julia” is profoundly condescending. It assumes that giving people things will distract them from larger considerations of the public weal — the economy, debt, the health of the culture. This view’s infantilizing tendency is captured by Obamacare’s insistence that, for purposes of health insurance, young adults are children who belong on their parents’ policies until the age of 26. It devalues self-reliance and looks at us less as independent citizens than as drab Julias, bereft without the succor of our life partner and minder, the state.

No thanks. 

Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review.

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“Fifty Cents [sic] has not denied the infringement, but appears to be basing his defense solely on a frivolous and immaterial claim that the illegal version is not being commercially exploited, but is given away for free,” said Robert Poindexter, the song’s author, in a lawsuit filed in New York.

Poindexter is reportedly seeking $ 600,000 in punitive damages, plus interest, as well as unspecified amount for statutory damages. The rhymer’s reps have yet to respond.

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Julie Andrews on April 19, 2012 6:08 PM

Trading stocks on Facebook will be possible as of this June.

Through the company Loyal3, based in San Francisco, trading stocks will be as easy as a trio of clicks on Facebook, for a flat monthly rate of $ 10, $ 25 or $ 50.

Consumers will be able to forego brokers and their associated red tape to buy stock directly from companies’ Facebook pages, Business Insider reported.

A letter from Loyal3 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Barry Schneideron on the company’s website reads:

Studies by Bain and Co. and Opinion Research Corp. show that customers who are also owners are more loyal and valuable than ordinary customers. As a result, our clients are motivated to make it easy and affordable for their customers to buy stock online.

The brochure makes it all sound so lovely — you can “easily set-up automatic monthly investments and opt out at any time. You can sell some, or all of your stock anytime you want. Selling is done on a batch basis, once daily.”

To keep day traders at bay, a $ 2,500 monthly cap was  established.

With catchy tag phrases such as “Own What You Love,” and “Ownership Changes Everything,” we’re so far liking this tasty punch and seeing how this could positively engage more citizens in the capitalism the US was built on.

However, that doesn’t make us any less curious — ahem, or skeptical — about what flubs may occur in the first round of buying high and selling low that will take place on the social network in June.

Readers, would you try trading stock on Facebook, or are you wary of it?

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- Dual Viewers
- MXF Plug-in Support
- RED camera support

Jordan goes into some light details about some of the new features. FCP X will be able to read MXF files directly without the need to convert to QuickTime. The same can be said for RED camera support whose files will be able to be edited natively. Finally, Apple explains that Duel Viewers is analogous to Source and Record monitors and that they will try to do it better than has been implemented in the previously.

While those are the only features officially announced, Apple indicated that they wouldn’t be the only new features coming this year. Jordan also asked for hints about upcoming hardware, but Apple didn’t provide any information.

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference kicks off this week in Las Vegas. Apple has not held a major presence at the show in recent years, but did use the venue last year to introduce Final Cut Pro X. Apple again appears to have a presence at the show and is at least meeting with some prominent figures. The NAB runs through April 19th.

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