Will they recall that Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments while Republicans sponsored and voted for them?
Will they recall that the Republicans backed the Reconstruction act of 1867; Civil Rights acts of 1866, 1875, 1890, 1957, 1960 and 1964; anti-lynching bills in 1922, 1935, and 1938; and anti-poll-tax bills in 1942, 1944, and 1946... while Democrats opposed them?
Will they recall that president Eisenhower sent troops to enforce court-ordered desegregation in schools, while Democrats were blocking the school-house doors? Will they recall that senator Barry Goldwater was a founding member of the Arizona NAACP? Will they recall that FDR put a Ku Klux Klanner on the Supreme court and opposed desegregating the military?
I get the impression that judges, politicians/"law-makers", bureaubums, and media are agreed that personal private information about, you know, private citizens, is "public record".
Disagreement comes in that the citizenry and the media believe that information about the official acts -- overt and behind the scenes -- of judges, politicians, bureaubums and officials of publicly traded corporations should be part of the public record.
That leaves the citizenry with their personal private information being spread far and wide by the judges, politicians, bureaubums (including those at "public" schools and state universities), media, FB, Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo, Oracle, SAP, AT&T, Comcast...
Pols long ago became masters of titling and touting legislation as doing one thing while doing the opposite, and this area of law provides many glaring examples.
I'm miffed at former speaker Boehner for having agreed to the "sequenstration" deal.
The annual deficit is running about $1.3 trillion, but it includes only $0.13 trillion in annual over-spending cuts. They need to cut spending by $1.3 trillion per year,
starting with pay for congress-critters, president and his staffers, judges and their staffers, ObummerDoesn'tCare, Medicare, Medicaid, the Socialist Insecurity Abomination, CPB/PBS, national endowments for the so-called arts and humanities, Depts. of Educationism, Energy, HUD (and DHS since they openly and adamantly refuse to do their jobs).
...nor with their new bodyshop at 8300 Normandale in Bloomington, MN at which they promise to employ 300 people of indefinite citizenship).
Meanwhile, the USA has about 2 million US citizen STEM workers not employed to do STEM work (based on BLS numbers, analyzed by Steve Camarota). For a decade or more they've been hiring only about one-third to one-half of our new STEM grads (Hal Salzman & B. Lindsay Lowell). Unemployment rates for STEM occupations are running 2 to 3 times what they were in full employment times (BLS). (And yes, that includes medical scientists, biochemists, biophysicists, physicists, chemists, chemical engineers, mathematicians, software engineers, software architects, programmers, computer hardware engineers, mechanical engineers, civil engineers, and petroleum engineers.)
The frackers are treated as suspect. Sure, they'll sell you what you need to keep your home warm in winter, cook your food, synthesize certain plastics, but there might be the possibility of some problem; and the media cranked up the brain-storming machine to imagine bizarre catastrophes. They have to beg to the local and state and federal governments for permissions. They have to negotiate leases by the hundreds and thousands, short-term and long-term, to have access. Their wells are inspected and tested... repeatedly. The areas around their wells are tested... repeatedly, in search of imagined problems which have not materialized. And, in short order, they deliver, handing over $1.5G to the state government coffers, and employ 38.4K people.
But still they're painted as possible malefactors; after all, they could have paid 4 times the sale value of the land they're leasing instead of just 2 times the sale value.
OTOH, Tata, based in India, is handed $19M in incentives by Ohio state and local governments (i.e. out of tax-victims' pockets) in exchange for vague promises that they may employ 1K people. Those people may be (and, based on historical practices probably will be) natives of India or Red China or various South American countries -- the state government "development" office says it would be overly burdensome to ask. They're almost all young, according to their PR recruited "from colleges throughout the region" whatever that means; US citizen STEM professionals over age 35 with actual productive experience in the field need not apply. At one point, they said they had just over 400 on-board, now it's back down in the mid-300s. Tata bluntly refuses to say how many or what percentage are US citizens, let alone how many are native Buckeyes.
Yet, the media machine has been singing Tata's praises since 2007 when they first hinted they might want to set up their "North American Headquarters" bodyshop in Ohio (not to be confused with Tata's "North American Headquarters" they set up in Buffalo, NY, several years earlier with much fanfare and speechifying by Hillary Clinton, and which employed, according to the mayor, between 10 and 25 total people of unspecified citizenship/nationality; nor to be confused with their more recently established "North American Headquarters" in Southfield/Detroit, MI at which they promised to some day employ 400 or 500 people of unspecified nationality; nor with their new bodyshop at 8300 Normandale in Bloomington, MN at which they promise to employ 300 people of indefinite citizenship)...
It'd be good if they had a "before" and "after". As it is, I'm not seeing much in the way of actual, you know, business, just a lot of government illfare spending, foreclosed office buildings, etc.
Still, najjj asked an interesting question: "Aside from the mills where did businesses begin and grow in the early years."
Typically, in the USA, they crop up at the mouths of rivers and streams or in natural harbors because of transportation and power in ye olden days. Later, it was where railroads and canals intersected or just went through. The railroads needed frequent stops for water and fuel (coal or cord-wood); the canals needed frequent stops to change mule and work-horse teams to let them rest and eat.
But sometimes, they are established at a high spot in the middle of a swampy area (Tallahassee, FL), at the fountain-head of several streams (Zanesfield, OH and near lake Constance, Switzerland as I recall). Sometimes, it was just some enterprising farmer's land (Jasper, IN).
In Youngstown there are clues to development in the name "Mill Creek" (ditto in Cincinnati there were early settlements east and west and south at mouths of rivers, but much city development followed the mill creek); and in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN; Richmond, VA; and Louisville, KY in existing water-falls.
But, after a few cycles of "renewal", the core typically shifts.
Let me know when a real hardware store opens (not one of those trashy cheapo big box atrocities)... and then a do-it-yourself electronics and additive manufacturing hobby shop, maybe a couple app shops employing more than a dozen US citizens each. Then I'll know there's been some recovery.
Yah, they should call themselves Envious Under-Achievers for Increased Government Extortion, and in a time and place of truth in advertising they would.
Government extortion is UNFAIR. Back when the socialists (it was part of their platform/program going back to the mid-1800s) foisted the federal income extortion on our parents and grand-parents back in 1912, they promised up and down that only those with the very highest incomes would be affected at all, and then they promised that the top rate would never reach 9%.
To enter the first bracket subject to the income extortion scheme, you had to earn 150% of the median, at which point you'd be extorted at the rate of 1%.
At 10 times the median your earnings above that would be extorted at the rate of 2%.
A while back I posted the old form from the Library of Congress (I recall a friend having gotten ahold of a copy of it and posted it around the university bulletin boards and such, so I looked it up), and worked out the brackets as denominated back then and adjusted for inflation since: http://www.kermitrose.com/jgoEconData...
"Rich" has always been found in academic surveys of the public to mean "a little more than what I make"; in this, the 3rd month of the 4th quarter of the 13th year of the GHWBush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression, it wouldn't require much for me to classify someone as "rich" on that basis.
When the Dems had the majority when Carter was in office, when the Dem's were the majority in Congress back when Bush was still in office, when the Dems and when the Reps had the majority when Clinton was in office, when the Reps were the majority when Reagan was in office, they couldn't agree to cut the excessive federal government spending because there were too many leftists and RINOs and neo-cons and other big-government leftists in Republican clothing, willing, even eager to keep on keeping on as long as they could get away with the con schemes, even long after all of the congress-critters were aware that they were con schemes and the media were aware and the vast majority of the public had become aware that they were con schemes. Politicians of every stripe have been addicted to giving out promises of goodies, regardless of whether the public's productivity could support the promised pay-outs.
ObummerDoesn'tCare is just beginning to come home to roost in leftist-land.
But don't worry, the regime will find some unconstitutional way to penalize less leftist areas and transfer the wealth to save their fan-boys (Can you say Solyndra, YelloDodo? I knew you could.), thus spreading the misery.
As for "paying the fine... out of your own pocket" the turnip/rock principle applies. You have to have wealth for them to extort it from you. That goose is dead.
Yes, by golly, economic recovery is a good thing... and we can be positive that another few months of such recovery as we've seen may bring us back to the worst point of the previous 2 recessions, another 10-20 years of such recovery might possibly lead to full employment.
Newport library program will recall key 1960s civil rights events
Will they recall that Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments while Republicans sponsored and voted for them?
Will they recall that the Republicans backed the Reconstruction act of 1867; Civil Rights acts of 1866, 1875, 1890, 1957, 1960 and 1964; anti-lynching bills in 1922, 1935, and 1938; and anti-poll-tax bills in 1942, 1944, and 1946... while Democrats opposed them?
Will they recall that president Eisenhower sent troops to enforce court-ordered desegregation in schools, while Democrats were blocking the school-house doors? Will they recall that senator Barry Goldwater was a founding member of the Arizona NAACP? Will they recall that FDR put a Ku Klux Klanner on the Supreme court and opposed desegregating the military?
February 18, 2013 at 3:27 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Judicial rulings weaken Ohio public-records laws
I get the impression that judges, politicians/"law-makers", bureaubums, and media are agreed that personal private information about, you know, private citizens, is "public record".
Disagreement comes in that the citizenry and the media believe that information about the official acts -- overt and behind the scenes -- of judges, politicians, bureaubums and officials of publicly traded corporations should be part of the public record.
That leaves the citizenry with their personal private information being spread far and wide by the judges, politicians, bureaubums (including those at "public" schools and state universities), media, FB, Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo, Oracle, SAP, AT&T, Comcast...
Pols long ago became masters of titling and touting legislation as doing one thing while doing the opposite, and this area of law provides many glaring examples.
February 18, 2013 at 12:34 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Workers’ suit against UAW goes forward
Echoes of MSFT's perma-temp scams -- classifying long-term employees as temporary in order to exclude them from benefits.
January 1, 2013 at 9:50 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Boehner pulls budget vote after GOP threatens revolt
I'm miffed at former speaker Boehner for having agreed to the "sequenstration" deal.
The annual deficit is running about $1.3 trillion, but it includes only $0.13 trillion in annual over-spending cuts. They need to cut spending by $1.3 trillion per year,
starting with pay for congress-critters, president and his staffers, judges and their staffers, ObummerDoesn'tCare, Medicare, Medicaid, the Socialist Insecurity Abomination, CPB/PBS, national endowments for the so-called arts and humanities, Depts. of Educationism, Energy, HUD (and DHS since they openly and adamantly refuse to do their jobs).
December 21, 2012 at 8:22 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Ohio shale jobs at 38,000
...nor with their new bodyshop at 8300 Normandale in Bloomington, MN at which they promise to employ 300 people of indefinite citizenship).
Meanwhile, the USA has about 2 million US citizen STEM workers not employed to do STEM work (based on BLS numbers, analyzed by Steve Camarota). For a decade or more they've been hiring only about one-third to one-half of our new STEM grads (Hal Salzman & B. Lindsay Lowell). Unemployment rates for STEM occupations are running 2 to 3 times what they were in full employment times (BLS). (And yes, that includes medical scientists, biochemists, biophysicists, physicists, chemists, chemical engineers, mathematicians, software engineers, software architects, programmers, computer hardware engineers, mechanical engineers, civil engineers, and petroleum engineers.)
December 20, 2012 at 2:29 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Ohio shale jobs at 38,000
Let me get this straight.
The frackers are treated as suspect. Sure, they'll sell you what you need to keep your home warm in winter, cook your food, synthesize certain plastics, but there might be the possibility of some problem; and the media cranked up the brain-storming machine to imagine bizarre catastrophes. They have to beg to the local and state and federal governments for permissions. They have to negotiate leases by the hundreds and thousands, short-term and long-term, to have access. Their wells are inspected and tested... repeatedly. The areas around their wells are tested... repeatedly, in search of imagined problems which have not materialized. And, in short order, they deliver, handing over $1.5G to the state government coffers, and employ 38.4K people.
But still they're painted as possible malefactors; after all, they could have paid 4 times the sale value of the land they're leasing instead of just 2 times the sale value.
OTOH, Tata, based in India, is handed $19M in incentives by Ohio state and local governments (i.e. out of tax-victims' pockets) in exchange for vague promises that they may employ 1K people. Those people may be (and, based on historical practices probably will be) natives of India or Red China or various South American countries -- the state government "development" office says it would be overly burdensome to ask. They're almost all young, according to their PR recruited "from colleges throughout the region" whatever that means; US citizen STEM professionals over age 35 with actual productive experience in the field need not apply. At one point, they said they had just over 400 on-board, now it's back down in the mid-300s. Tata bluntly refuses to say how many or what percentage are US citizens, let alone how many are native Buckeyes.
Yet, the media machine has been singing Tata's praises since 2007 when they first hinted they might want to set up their "North American Headquarters" bodyshop in Ohio (not to be confused with Tata's "North American Headquarters" they set up in Buffalo, NY, several years earlier with much fanfare and speechifying by Hillary Clinton, and which employed, according to the mayor, between 10 and 25 total people of unspecified citizenship/nationality; nor to be confused with their more recently established "North American Headquarters" in Southfield/Detroit, MI at which they promised to some day employ 400 or 500 people of unspecified nationality; nor with their new bodyshop at 8300 Normandale in Bloomington, MN at which they promise to employ 300 people of indefinite citizenship)...
December 20, 2012 at 2:25 p.m. permalink suggest removal
More businesses investing in the downtown
It'd be good if they had a "before" and "after". As it is, I'm not seeing much in the way of actual, you know, business, just a lot of government illfare spending, foreclosed office buildings, etc.
Still, najjj asked an interesting question: "Aside from the mills where did businesses begin and grow in the early years."
Typically, in the USA, they crop up at the mouths of rivers and streams or in natural harbors because of transportation and power in ye olden days. Later, it was where railroads and canals intersected or just went through. The railroads needed frequent stops for water and fuel (coal or cord-wood); the canals needed frequent stops to change mule and work-horse teams to let them rest and eat.
But sometimes, they are established at a high spot in the middle of a swampy area (Tallahassee, FL), at the fountain-head of several streams (Zanesfield, OH and near lake Constance, Switzerland as I recall). Sometimes, it was just some enterprising farmer's land (Jasper, IN).
In Youngstown there are clues to development in the name "Mill Creek" (ditto in Cincinnati there were early settlements east and west and south at mouths of rivers, but much city development followed the mill creek); and in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN; Richmond, VA; and Louisville, KY in existing water-falls.
But, after a few cycles of "renewal", the core typically shifts.
Let me know when a real hardware store opens (not one of those trashy cheapo big box atrocities)... and then a do-it-yourself electronics and additive manufacturing hobby shop, maybe a couple app shops employing more than a dozen US citizens each. Then I'll know there's been some recovery.
December 10, 2012 at 3:50 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Group forms in Ohio to push tax increases for rich
Yah, they should call themselves Envious Under-Achievers for Increased Government Extortion, and in a time and place of truth in advertising they would.
Government extortion is UNFAIR. Back when the socialists (it was part of their platform/program going back to the mid-1800s) foisted the federal income extortion on our parents and grand-parents back in 1912, they promised up and down that only those with the very highest incomes would be affected at all, and then they promised that the top rate would never reach 9%.
To enter the first bracket subject to the income extortion scheme, you had to earn 150% of the median, at which point you'd be extorted at the rate of 1%.
At 10 times the median your earnings above that would be extorted at the rate of 2%.
A while back I posted the old form from the Library of Congress (I recall a friend having gotten ahold of a copy of it and posted it around the university bulletin boards and such, so I looked it up), and worked out the brackets as denominated back then and adjusted for inflation since:
http://www.kermitrose.com/jgoEconData...
"Rich" has always been found in academic surveys of the public to mean "a little more than what I make"; in this, the 3rd month of the 4th quarter of the 13th year of the GHWBush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression, it wouldn't require much for me to classify someone as "rich" on that basis.
When the Dems had the majority when Carter was in office, when the Dem's were the majority in Congress back when Bush was still in office, when the Dems and when the Reps had the majority when Clinton was in office, when the Reps were the majority when Reagan was in office, they couldn't agree to cut the excessive federal government spending because there were too many leftists and RINOs and neo-cons and other big-government leftists in Republican clothing, willing, even eager to keep on keeping on as long as they could get away with the con schemes, even long after all of the congress-critters were aware that they were con schemes and the media were aware and the vast majority of the public had become aware that they were con schemes. Politicians of every stripe have been addicted to giving out promises of goodies, regardless of whether the public's productivity could support the promised pay-outs.
December 3, 2012 at 1:16 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Obamacare prompts YSU to cap hours for faculty
ObummerDoesn'tCare is just beginning to come home to roost in leftist-land.
But don't worry, the regime will find some unconstitutional way to penalize less leftist areas and transfer the wealth to save their fan-boys (Can you say Solyndra, YelloDodo? I knew you could.), thus spreading the misery.
As for "paying the fine... out of your own pocket" the turnip/rock principle applies. You have to have wealth for them to extort it from you. That goose is dead.
November 30, 2012 at 1:28 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Valley shows signs of economic recovery
Yes, by golly, economic recovery is a good thing... and we can be positive that another few months of such recovery as we've seen may bring us back to the worst point of the previous 2 recessions, another 10-20 years of such recovery might possibly lead to full employment.
http://www.kermitrose.com/images/Stat...
http://www.kermitrose.com/images/Stat...
Now wouldn't that be a welcome break from the GHWBush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression.
November 21, 2012 at 2:10 p.m. permalink suggest removal