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I heard an interesting theory this weekend. The theory is that you can judge a person’s intelligence by their degree of quirkiness.
The theorist stated that you can be quirky, and not intelligent. But then they went on to reiterate that as IQ increases, quirkiness increased.
Any thoughts?
It must be the onset of senility. I could not remember which way I put the toilet paper on the roller. Do I put in on so it comes over the top, or do I pull from the bottom? In my frustration I just tossed the roll onto the floor. Now the Charmin’ sits on the tiles and mocks me with squeezable soft whispers of, “Geezer…Geezer
Gee whiz, what a surprise!
“The indictment charges that the methods used by Vision Systems “have substantially deprived U.S. citizens of employment.”
Link to article below:
U.S. expands H-1B fraud case against IT services firm
I was working at a Fortune 500 financial company. My consulting firm stop sending over folks as they were paying Indian H1-B workers $20 – $25 an hour less than old consultants were receiving. Guess whose contract was cut short. Apparently they had an arrangement to bring over these young workers with a firm in Indian. No proof, but that was the general supposition.
This is one of the best succinct explanations that I have seen.
It is from this blog DJ Allyn – The Soundtrack for my Life
The following is an accurate Description of the three Abrahamic Religions:
There are three major religions in this world — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All of them worshiping the same God — the God of Abraham.
Each has their own religious book that outlines their story, their history, and rules to live by.
Think of each of them like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, and it reconstructs the last one like it never happened. there is still Jesus, but he is not the main character any more, and the messiah hasn’t shown up yet.
Jews like the first movie but ignore the sequels, (Matrix Trilogy) Christians think you need to watch the first two but the third movie doesn’t count. (The Godfather Trilogy) Muslims think the third one was the best (The Starwar prequels), and Mormons like the second one so much that they started writing fan fiction that doesn’t fit with ANY of the series canon.
Of course, the author of this seems to have forgotten Hinduism and Buddhism which are also major world religions, but they do come from a different movie studio.
As I find them I am going to add links about the H-1B / outsourcing issue that is quickly eroding the life style of middle class worker in this country. All in the name of profit at any cost.
See link to blog below. But I can answer this question with one word, greed.
And contary to the report’s opinion, they do promote and put H1-B workers into advance position.
And what irratates me to no end, is that most of the recruiting companines for contract programmers seem to have fallen into the hands of folks from India. Add to that the fact they do not pay these workers the prevailing wages like the law dictates, and you have another screwing of the American worker.
Why high-tech firms bring in foreigners — Link removed
I’m not the only that thinks our leaders have let corporations sell us down the river for quick profits. I’m not for protectionism, but if we are going to have “fair trade”, let make it really fair and equitiable.
There is a vast concentration of wealth with a very small group in this country. They do not care what happens to the rest of us as long as they maintain and grow thier greedy portion of our communal wealth.
My argument was and remains that I do not care if you have more than one piece of pie as long as every has at least one. That is not happening. These folks have 90% of the pie and 95% of us are fighting over the remaining 10%.
How the Middle Class has become Globalizations designated losers (They no longer have the article up at the Philadelphia Examiner)
This is the cause of my life. It is a key reason that I defied my illness last summer to speak at the Democratic convention in Denver—to support Barack Obama, but also to make sure, as I said, “that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American…will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not just a privilege.” For four decades I have carried this cause—from the floor of the United States Senate to every part of this country. It has never been merely a question of policy; it goes to the heart of my belief in a just society. Now the issue has more meaning for me—and more urgency—than ever before. But it’s always been deeply personal, because the importance of health care has been a recurrent lesson throughout most of my 77 years.>
— Ted Kennedy
Perhaps I should have phrased it a little differently… an email to the White House via their website.
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I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed I am in Obama and his wavering on the public option. Without a public option, IMHO, there is no health care reform.
I wish he would stand up to Right that are doing everything they can to defeat health care reform. It is time to grow a pair.
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I had some much hope when he got elected. He is turning out to be much too conservative for my taste, and too willing to compromise. To throw something as important as health care reform into the dysfunctional family that is Congress was a bad, bad, move. And now he is about to surrender about the public option. Where is Hillary when you need her? She has a pair.