So the claim is that there’s a “war on religion” going on. And when you hear that you can safely substitute “religion” for “Christianity.” I’m not sure that war is the right word, but there is clearly an over-reach by the left when it comes to the separation of the church and the state.
We know what they meant when they crafted the nation. They meant that the “officers” of the church were not to be the “officers” of the state. The two couldn’t be the same. They most certainly, and clearly, did NOT mean that there was to be no religion in the state.
It’s no secret Obama is going to bang the “It’s not fair” drum this election. Hell, he’s been bangin’ it since LAST election. He’s continually calling for the rich to “pay their fair share.” He can’t rub two speeches together without mentioning that everyone should play by the same rules. Even more, he continues to claim that the richest among us have been doing exceptionally well in the economy while the rest of us are seeing wages stagnate for the last 30 years.
The claim that the standard of living of middle Americans has stagnated over the past generation is common. An accompanying assertion is that virtually all income growth over the past three decades bypassed middle America and accrued almost entirely to the rich.
The findings reported here—and summarized in Chart 8—refute those claims. Careful analysis shows that the incomes of most types of middle American households have increased substantially over the past three decades.
So if it isn’t true, why does Obama continue to bang this drum?
There’s no chance I could speak with any depth of knowledge concerning the physics of light-speed travel. Nor can I tell you the impact of discovering that we just measured speeds in excess of light-speed. I just know that it was a really REALLY big deal when we did.
A malfunctioning cable may have been responsible for the claim that some particles may be able to travel faster than light speed, a potentially embarrassing outcome for physicists who had publicized the findings with great fanfare just a few month ago.
In September, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said that ghostlike particles called neutrinos zapped from a lab in Geneva to one in Italy had seemingly made the trip in about 60 nanoseconds less than light speed—a finding that garnered headlines around the world. It also induced much head-shaking among skeptical scientists who said they were convinced that the result was an error.
It turns out the only ghost may have been in the machine after all. CERN says it had identified two possible effects that could have affected the experiment: one relates to an oscillator used to provide time stamps for estimating particle speeds, and a possible glitch in a fiber-optic cable.
Again, I can’t say how this would have thrown the scientific community on its head, only that it would have.
The extension of UI [unemployment insurance] is found to have a positive and significant impact on the national unemployment rate…. The UI benefit extensions that have occurred between the summer of 2008 and the end of 2010 are estimated to have had a cumulative effect of raising the unemployment rate by .77 to 1.54 percentage points.
If VAT goes down to at most 20%, but better yet 15%.
If the state takes away “only” 30% of your money.
If higher income is not exponentially punished.
If the state punishes corruption instead of decent companies.
Until these things change, I won’t give a job. Until the state ferrets out corruption in every possible aspect, I won’t start a business, and I won’t create jobs.
There are things that contribute to people giving people jobs and then things that discourage such activity.
To those of you who continue to complain, and whine, and bitch, and moan about the camp – just fucking stop. We are all tired of hearing it. If you have a problem at the camp, come fix it. I can not fix everything myself. Jes can not fix everything herself. Thomas can not fix everything by himself. Nor can Charles, Susie, or any of the other people who do put an effort in.
In some ways this Occupy movement is a useful lesson to those involved. It’s perhaps their first involvement in running an organization. In generating consensus, in knowing when consensus is a paralyzing goal. For the first time in life these folks might be managing people. However, for some of the citizens of this society, enough simply became enough.
Even if you’re not a NASCAR fan, this is must see TV.
It starts out with 3 laps to go on one of the circuits fastest track; Daytona. The drivers are going about 200 miler per hour. The thing is, the way these cars are built, when going that fast and that close, the driver in back has to, HAS to drift up on the right side of the bumper in front of him. In other words, if you are not going to be directly behind the car in front of you, make sure you stay to his right side.
If you fail to follow this simple rule, the car if front of you will see the air pressure taken off his fender and he’ll enter into a “counter-clockwise” spin; his car will lurch left.
Now, in the middle of a race with dozens of cars around you, this is a good rule to follow. Never break it. However, racing for the win with 3 laps to go, this is less a rule than it is a tool. Jeff Gordon is behind the M&M car and needs to be in FRONT of the M&M car. So, Gordon “breaks” the one rule, slides to the man’s left, the car lurches left and Gordon gets by. But.
Then he gets tangled with the driver above him and wrecks.
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times, if you wanna sell more beer, lower the price. The same concept exists for labor. If you want people to buy more labor, lower the price of labor.
But even as we face unprecedented levels of unemployment, there are people in the world that wanna make it harder for people to hire people. They suggest that the real value of the current minimum wage is low and that we should consider raising it match past level.
I don’t understand how pricing low margin workers out of the job market right now makes sense. And the Economist agrees with me.
