My eye was caught by the e-mailed head-line picture, which, in my imagining, might be captioned: Former Software Architects, Scientists, Engineers Seeking Retail Sales Opportunity... Anything...
Everyone should be able to opt out of the unconstitutional Socialist Insecurity Abomination, Obummercare, Medicare, and Medicaid.
This is the kind of thing that people, neighbors, just used to do on their own, or church groups, or Boy Scouts would do as organizations.
The values systems have been all perverted. Many today don't believe it's worthwhile unless the guberment is forcing people, the "everything not mandatory is forbidden" mind-set, extorting people's earnings and wealth to use in various ways the guberment bosses desire rather than wise exercising individual judgement and generosity. Charities are dicouraged due to risks of law-suits, or because they're not "politically correct" in some way. And still, there are genuine crime problems -- people initiating force and fraud -- while phony-baloney "crimes" are vigorously prosecuted.
From an outsider's POV, the neighbors need to either become neighborly and pitch in to help clean up the yard or learn to live and let live, to mind their own business (as one of the USA's first coins suggested as the USA's motto). It's NOT YOUR HOUSE or land.
But it could be worse. Back in 1996 there was a case in which the city first sent spies to trespass, and then a paramilitary squad which sealed off the whole neighborhood before they murdered an elderly guy who required crutches or a wheel-chair to get around because his yard was messy. He was sitting on his front porch with his crutches propped against the wall next to his front door, behind him, which fact could be seen in the photographs of the shot-gun shot pattern on the siding.
This is something I just don't "get" about current diplomatic practices. Sure, talk with Cuba's ruling thugs. Talk with Red China's ruling thugs. Talk with the ruling thugs in Syra and Egypt and Iran. But also talk with the Republic of China's leaders. Talk with them all.
It was OK for Chamberlain to talk with Hitler... while the British government groped about for a rock big enough, as Will Rogers said. (That was their mistake, putting off the necessary defense measures.)
Talk with each one in a way appropriate to their behavior. Don't pretend you respect people who are not respectable. That doesn't mean you have to be mean. Just speak plainly. Talk truthfully.
It has nothing to do with reluctance to re-tool. It's lack of funds to re-tool. If someone already has a bachelor's, master's or PhD in a hard science, engineering, or computer science, and needs to re-tool, it is going to be very expensive.
If someone has been -- e.g. developing computer-aided engineering software, designing highways or sky-scrapers using CAD/CAM/CAE tools, doing biophysics research, developing operating systems or software development tools -- it's not as though he can go to the juco for a 10-week "elementary introductory key-boarding" class and that will miraculously land him a solid long-term job that will support the family and put the children through their degrees.
Yes the Obummer phase of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression has been devastating to aging baby-boomers, including US scientists, engineers, computer wranglers, carpenters, brick-masons, and machinists.
For several decades, Iran systematically has built up its military and terrorism operations (Hamas, Hizbullah) specifically for attacks on Israel, with the stated aim of obliterating it. Meanwhile, the Muslim states and violence-backing NGOs like the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have been fooling the West into subsidizing the Palestinian occupiers of Israel via the UN and other international operations, and maintaining them as a chronic disruptive 5th column while extending their tendrils throughout the world.
As the media and politicians gloss over the complications once again.
There are good cops and bad/corrupt cops (good politicians and corrupt politicians, good judges and corrupt judges, good executives and corrupt executives...).
Unfortunately, there is no perfect mechanism to sort us all out and determine who is innocent and who is guilty, let alone just how innocent or guilty, but, in every case, we have to make a conscientious attempt to do so.
I'd like to see a table with the "skills executives say they need" but actually only want at below-market rates in one column, and "skills they actually need" in the other.
And a graph with 3 lines showing how much the average executive/corporation has invested in new-hire training/education per new employee, retained employee education/training per employee, and total per employee, from, oh, say 1939 to present. And a second just like the first adjusted for inflation using CPI-U or the ShadowStats inflation index. (No, not as a percentage of state GDP, not as a percentage of pink bunnies or flying pigs... just the dollar amounts.)
I hear you, ytownsteelman. Part of the trouble is that we're trading with the ruling Red Chinese thugs, who are very heavily cross-subsidizing targeted industries (US industries), just as the FSU did in their day, but in this case, they're being more clever about it, stealing cutting-edge US intellectual property, including research methods and capital equipment, and even detailed data on a continuous basis.
2012 Columbiana County Economic Development Summit
My eye was caught by the e-mailed head-line picture, which, in my imagining, might be captioned: Former Software Architects, Scientists, Engineers Seeking Retail Sales Opportunity... Anything...
Everyone should be able to opt out of the unconstitutional Socialist Insecurity Abomination, Obummercare, Medicare, and Medicaid.
May 8, 2012 at 1:38 p.m. permalink suggest removal
These offenders save tax dollars
This is the kind of thing that people, neighbors, just used to do on their own, or church groups, or Boy Scouts would do as organizations.
The values systems have been all perverted. Many today don't believe it's worthwhile unless the guberment is forcing people, the "everything not mandatory is forbidden" mind-set, extorting people's earnings and wealth to use in various ways the guberment bosses desire rather than wise exercising individual judgement and generosity. Charities are dicouraged due to risks of law-suits, or because they're not "politically correct" in some way. And still, there are genuine crime problems -- people initiating force and fraud -- while phony-baloney "crimes" are vigorously prosecuted.
It's very frustrating.
May 3, 2012 at 4:54 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Neighbors call Volney Road home unsanitary eyesore
From an outsider's POV, the neighbors need to either become neighborly and pitch in to help clean up the yard or learn to live and let live, to mind their own business (as one of the USA's first coins suggested as the USA's motto). It's NOT YOUR HOUSE or land.
But it could be worse. Back in 1996 there was a case in which the city first sent spies to trespass, and then a paramilitary squad which sealed off the whole neighborhood before they murdered an elderly guy who required crutches or a wheel-chair to get around because his yard was messy. He was sitting on his front porch with his crutches propped against the wall next to his front door, behind him, which fact could be seen in the photographs of the shot-gun shot pattern on the siding.
April 20, 2012 at 6:40 a.m. permalink suggest removal
US, Canada stand alone
This is something I just don't "get" about current diplomatic practices. Sure, talk with Cuba's ruling thugs. Talk with Red China's ruling thugs. Talk with the ruling thugs in Syra and Egypt and Iran. But also talk with the Republic of China's leaders. Talk with them all.
It was OK for Chamberlain to talk with Hitler... while the British government groped about for a rock big enough, as Will Rogers said. (That was their mistake, putting off the necessary defense measures.)
Talk with each one in a way appropriate to their behavior. Don't pretend you respect people who are not respectable. That doesn't mean you have to be mean. Just speak plainly. Talk truthfully.
April 16, 2012 at 11:55 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Boomers strain to gain foothold in new economy
It has nothing to do with reluctance to re-tool. It's lack of funds to re-tool. If someone already has a bachelor's, master's or PhD in a hard science, engineering, or computer science, and needs to re-tool, it is going to be very expensive.
If someone has been -- e.g. developing computer-aided engineering software, designing highways or sky-scrapers using CAD/CAM/CAE tools, doing biophysics research, developing operating systems or software development tools -- it's not as though he can go to the juco for a 10-week "elementary introductory key-boarding" class and that will miraculously land him a solid long-term job that will support the family and put the children through their degrees.
March 26, 2012 at 10:58 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Graying Matters: Baby boomers come of age, face struggles
Yes the Obummer phase of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression has been devastating to aging baby-boomers, including US scientists, engineers, computer wranglers, carpenters, brick-masons, and machinists.
March 25, 2012 at 12:40 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Poland physician accused of carrying weapon at airport
"A Cleveland police officer" should be imprisoned for egregious violation of the doctor's civil rights in the form of the 2nd amendment.
March 22, 2012 at 6:39 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Israeli plans for Iran go back years
For several decades, Iran systematically has built up its military and terrorism operations (Hamas, Hizbullah) specifically for attacks on Israel, with the stated aim of obliterating it. Meanwhile, the Muslim states and violence-backing NGOs like the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have been fooling the West into subsidizing the Palestinian occupiers of Israel via the UN and other international operations, and maintaining them as a chronic disruptive 5th column while extending their tendrils throughout the world.
March 13, 2012 at 4:09 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Ohio’s new system targets those who kill, hurt cops
As the media and politicians gloss over the complications once again.
There are good cops and bad/corrupt cops (good politicians and corrupt politicians, good judges and corrupt judges, good executives and corrupt executives...).
Unfortunately, there is no perfect mechanism to sort us all out and determine who is innocent and who is guilty, let alone just how innocent or guilty, but, in every case, we have to make a conscientious attempt to do so.
March 11, 2012 at 2:18 p.m. permalink suggest removal
State of State: ‘We’re a powerhouse’
I'd like to see a table with the "skills executives say they need" but actually only want at below-market rates in one column, and "skills they actually need" in the other.
And a graph with 3 lines showing how much the average executive/corporation has invested in new-hire training/education per new employee, retained employee education/training per employee, and total per employee, from, oh, say 1939 to present. And a second just like the first adjusted for inflation using CPI-U or the ShadowStats inflation index. (No, not as a percentage of state GDP, not as a percentage of pink bunnies or flying pigs... just the dollar amounts.)
I hear you, ytownsteelman. Part of the trouble is that we're trading with the ruling Red Chinese thugs, who are very heavily cross-subsidizing targeted industries (US industries), just as the FSU did in their day, but in this case, they're being more clever about it, stealing cutting-edge US intellectual property, including research methods and capital equipment, and even detailed data on a continuous basis.
February 8, 2012 at 11:44 a.m. permalink suggest removal