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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The Deadhead
Published Letters: 20 Editor's Choice: 2
Great line on the Lions!
After 25 years as an engineer I quit, went to law school and am going to graduate this May. Corporate greed has ruined what once was a good career choice, by overworking, outsourcing and otherwise suppressing engineering labor costs to chase unrealistic profit margins. Know Bill wants help from the government to help him with the problem he helped create. Worse, his solution, importing talent, will only further the problem by further diluting the bargaining power of homegrown talent.
Corporations must be forced to stop externalizing their labor costs on the taxpayer. They must spend their own money to redevelop engineering staffs, thereby using market forces to attract both new and experienced technical personal. Until they resist the MBA influenced, short sighted, goals of reduced labor costs our country can not maintain its technical supremcy.
Why does W continue to rely on the very questionable legal skills of the people who got him into this trouble? Is he really so dumb that he doesn't remember Clinton and Nixon's problems?
There doesn't seem to be any federal investigations into election fraud in Ohio, but the state appears to be acting. Where is the DOJ on this? Oh that's right the Dems are now in charge in Ohio.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/16947063.htm
It is about time that someone pointed this out. I would not trust Rove as far as I could throw him. I am willing to wager he will lie to congress whether under oath or not. Of course, this assumes that the long drawn out court cases on presidential priviledge get settled in by the Supremes correctly. Unfortunately, I doubt he ever will be seen under oath. That doesn't mean the Dems shouldn't go forward all the way to the SCOTUS. It will not only keep the public eye on the Bushie's misdeeds until 08, it will also highlight the R's hypocrisy during the Clinton Impeachment.
P.S. Miss your weekly commentary on the Franken Show! You two made a great pair.
I guess that means we can conclude that AG Gonzalez has executed his job exactly as W. wanted. Seems to reason then that W. wanted investigations into republican scandals stopped and ones into democrats ginned up. Sounds impeachable to me.
The Gerbil is an has always been a moron.
Jane went right to the weakness of Stephen Colbert super pundit. He is not the macho, super male selling his sperm over the internet, he is actually a very intelligent funny man. It is the one and only time I have seen him come out of character, ever. He was completely befuddled, he knew it, Jane knew it. She was perfect. Hanoi Jane, turned super sex kitten totally destroying supermacho right wing pundit. She was perfect. Her talent is amazing. I find it hard to believe you are missing the big picture here. Think about it, who won that debate? Could she have been more effective defending the environment or arguing against the war?
I stopped worrying about sports "scandals" when I read "Ball Four" as a kid in the 70s. It doesn't matter what today's athletes do or don't do, it is the enjoyment of the game that that has value. Everyone forgets that Mickey Mantle was a drunken womanizer, Pete Rose did 'greenies" (why do you think he was called Charlie Hustle) and Doc Ellis pitched on acid. I also remember a wife swapping controversy, Karras and Horning gambling, etc., etc. No era is free or particularily blighted by scandals.
Young people do stupid and dangerous things. When they have access to lots of money they are able to act on more of these stupid impulses.
Nothing has really changed, people just are ignorant about the past. There are no more or worse scandals now, we just forget or compartmentalize the past.
Sports figures are not heros, they are entertainers. Just like one grows too old for the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, hero worship should also end with childhood.
Interesting that a Republican who hates Hillary so much would choose Canada as the place to flee to? Why? A followup question would have been great.
The best satire is always true, that is what makes it so funny. The Post is afraid of the truth. The truth here is fundamentalist religions of all types are the fad these days, and all flavors of these treat women as subordinate to men. Interestingly, when any kind of Conservatism (Muslim or Christian) looks to the past for guidance, it always seems to bring back this choice for the social order. Some might wonder if they are overcompensating for their shortcomings.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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