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23 Deans Convene for Business Ethics Conference
Business school deans from 23 Catholic universities gathered in Houston on March 31 for a groundbreaking business ethics conference hosted by the University of St. Thomas-Houston's Center for Faith and Culture in collaboration with the Cameron School of Business.
Spurred by the sobering implications of the 2008 financial meltdown, and guided by Pope Benedict's call in the encyclical Caritas in Veritate for financiers to "rediscover the genuine ethical foundation" of their work, the three-day conference was convened by the Center for Faith and Culture to explore ways to better prepare graduates from Catholic business schools for the ethical challenges they will encounter in the workplace, organizers said.
Creating the Ethos of a Catholic Business School
To help participants understand the severity and breadth of those challenges, and discern more effective strategies for teaching business ethics, the conference provided a rare combination of academic best-practices speakers, a review of the principles of Catholic social teaching, and insights from both business executives and industry whistleblowers.
The Rev. Donald Nesti, director of the Center for Faith and Culture, said the Center wanted to offer business deans a unique opportunity to reflect on ways to incorporate a truly holistic understanding of Catholic teaching throughout the curricula of their institutions.
"How do you create the ethos of a Catholic business school—this is the issue!" Nesti said.
Business Practitioners Called to Foster the Common Good
In a keynote address prepared by Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and delivered by his assistant, the Rev. Michael Czerny, S.J., Czerny said core principles of human dignity, the common good, solidarity, subsidiarity and stewardship must inform the decisions of business leaders so they "produce goods that are truly good, and services that truly serve."
Business educators, in turn, are called to form students who "lead an integrated life" of faith and work, Czerny said. In a culture that often emphasizes the notion that "ethics is costly while cutting corners is profitable," business graduates need both the formation and tools to "speak up courageously and act as needed," he observed.
To provide that formation, Catholic business schools need to do more than offer "a few ethics courses," Czerny said; their curricula as a whole must be grounded in Catholic social teaching.
"Too often, ethics are applied like paint when the building is already done," he observed. "That's not ethics—that's decoration."
"Real-World" Ethics: An Uphill Battle
But "getting ethics right in the real world," is a formidable challenge, and college ethics courses seem to be having little impact, warned speaker Bethany McLean, co-author of bestsellers such as "The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" and "All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis."
A complex and insidious mixture of self-delusion, egoism, insecurity and greed lies behind most financial scandals, she observed; "It's rarely as simple as a bunch of people sitting in a dark room plotting to take down the company."
Meanwhile, McLean noted, entry-level MBA grads are ill-equipped by most schools to identify and navigate ethical dilemmas in the workplace. Trained to focus on profit maximization and legal compliance, they consider themselves lowly industry "cogs" until they tragically discover "the law is random" and "the cog becomes someone who spends time in jail."
If business schools can teach students there is a big difference between what is legal and what is ethical, ground their discussion of ethics in practical case studies, and even help them "re-conceptualize" business as a means for human development rather than simply considering "the religion of the bottom line," the long-term impact of such broader perspectives can be "enormous," McLean said later.
Transforming Students to Approach Business as a Vocation
Catholic business schools have a distinct advantage and responsibility in teaching ethics, noted speaker Michael Naughton, Director of the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota.
Ethical values, deeply rooted in the Church's theological and philosophical tradition, "should pervade everything" at a Catholic business school, he said, and promote a truly "transformational" education that teaches students to approach business as a multidimensional vocation characterized by "good works, good goods, and good wealth."
As Churchill famously wrote, "First we shape our institutions, and then they shape us," observed Naughton's colleague and renowned business ethicist Kenneth Goodpaster, who was also a conference speaker.
Catholic business schools should stand out from their secular counterparts in their "purposeful attempt" to form students who don't simply demonstrate business competencies but also apply those skills in a way that reflects Catholic social teaching and the idea of business as a values-based vocation, said Cameron School of Business Dean and conference organizer Dr. Beena George.
"That's the key difference," she said.
The Beginning of an Evolution: 'We Can't Afford to Fail'
On the last day of the conference, deans convened in roundtable discussions to explore practical ways to more effectively teach business ethics in their schools based on current gaps and challenges.
Business faculty need more incentives, formation and resources to convey not merely ethical principles but also their "decision-point" application, deans agreed.
Others observed that Catholic business schools must network with other departments and universities as they strive to more fully integrate and reflect Catholic social teaching and their university's mission in their curricula.
Curriculum game-changers such as the Vatican's text "The Vocation of the Business Leader" and speaker Mary Gentile's "Giving Voice to Values" program, an innovative approach developed at Harvard University that teaches students how to act on their values in the workplace, are invaluable resources in these efforts, many deans noted.
A white paper outlining the complete recommendations of the conference, as well as a call for a follow-up conference next year, will be released by the Cameron School of Business.
"Hopefully this will be the beginning of an evolution in the way that business ethics is taught,"
said UST business ethics professor and conference organizer Dr. John Simms. "We cannot afford to fail—the headlines tell us the damage that is incurred when we do."
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If you happened into the Middle East for the Fleshtones show two weekends ago, you might have wondered what those kids were doing there. Working the crowd were four guys who looked about 10 years short of the legal drinking age. In fact, they were Who Shot Hollywood, the night's opening band, and they are indeed underage. The shock of the young only increased when these 11-to-13-year-olds got on stage; their angular punk pop would've been impressive for an outfit twice their age. As JJ Rassler of Downbeat 5, the next band up that night, joked, "That last band should retire. They're too old!"
Also in that crowd was Newport-born Greg "Skeggy" Kendall, a well-liked veteran of the local music scene who's best known as the songwriter and singer in Tacklebox and, before that, Lifeboat. Kendall is not only Who Shot Hollywood's biggest fan, he's also the father of bassist/singer Lucas Kendall and drummer/singer Dana Kendall. (Their mom and his wife is Connie White, the former Brattle Theatre co-owner.)
Who Shot Hollywood aren't the only second-generation band to make a name in town. Dennis Brennan's son Jake become one of the better local roots rockers, and singer-songwriter Casey Desmond's dad fronts the Bentmen and runs the Sound Museum rehearsal spaces. But WSH started even younger: when the Kendalls first performed (originally with Skeggy in the Praying Mantises, then as Bullseye), some of the members weren't even in double digits. Lucas Kendall and keyboardist Eamon Wick are now 13; Dana Kendall and guitarist Lucas Graham are 11. The polished songs on their Who Shot Hollywood EP (on Kendall's Grist Mill) don't sound like the work of such a young band, at least not until you notice that the singers' voices haven't fully changed.
The two Kendall kids are hardly strangers to clubland. "We practically grew up in the Middle East," notes Lucas by phone from the Cape. "So our experience with music and nightclubs is probably different from other kids'." It didn't hurt that the Kendall house was full of guitars and recording equipment (the family moved from Boston to Amherst three years ago), or that dad was always playing his Velvet Underground LPs. "We go to a pretty arty school, and since sixth grade I've been known as the music kid," Lucas points out. "That's a pretty cool thing to be known as."
According to Skeggy, the family jams started early. He'd strum a guitar, Lucas would improvise lyrics, and Dana would man a conga. "I started doing rock school with them every Sunday. I'd give 'em something simple to learn, basic stuff like 'I Wanna Be Your Dog.' At first, I'd give them some simple exercise, and they'd build songs out of them. But I think it really became a band when Dana had his 10th-birthday party in July of last year. They had a sleepover, and that night Lucas came up to me and said, 'Dad, everybody's playing these rocking instruments. I need a rocking instrument.' That's how he got started on bass."
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I tell everyone they are my "toys", just like a man has a motorcycle , vintage car, or what ever. I can have "toys" too.
I'm not sure how many is "too" many! Before I joined this Board, I had 2 modern ones which I loved. Then a nice lady gave me a 15-91 and oh did she sew so well!! Then she invited her friends to come play and now I'm up to 13 or is it 14...???? All Singers, except 1 Phaff. Now I want to collect "brands" so I'm looking for a Bernini...but I also want another FW (have 2...black and white/green). I am now selling regular furniture so I have room for sewing machine cabinets!! Oh well, this could be an addiction to other things that I would have to go to rehab for. Luckily, there's no rehab for collecting vintage machines....just enablers!!! LOL
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Oh, my! Well, I still have my very first machine, a singer 328K purchased in 1963. Occasionally, it needs a little adjusting, etc., but still sews extremely well. I also have a BablyLock serger, and a couple of Singer 751, and a Singer 1425 (which was my mothers, but which I inherited when she died). Unfortunately, I have no room because my aunt's china, crystal, etc., keep sakes, and all that are packed in rubbermaid tubs and stacked in my house! She's given all of this stuff to me, but I need to find a place to put it all up! LOL
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We are having company from Florida at the beginning of next month. Soooo, I decided I would clear out and spruce up the spare bedroom. These people haven't ever been in our home before and they are related to my DH. Thus, I want to make a decent impression. We removed 36 vintage and antique sewing machines (mostly Singer). Some have been refurbished and some are waiting the attention of a well meaning husband. So, I don't guess you can have too many but I think he (DH) is pressing his luck. I think I will have a garage sale soon LOL.
as soon as you run out of room in the house then you take over the garage and on to a nice shed and if your children have homes with garages -oh my the options are endless
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What's wrong with Take me Out to the Holosuite? It was a sillly, funny episode. I enjoyed it.
I hate it.
I reserve this kind of hate for episodes that are worse than awful; there's something really wrong at the core of them.
This is the episode that introduced Vulcan bashing, which became a thing for the rest of televised Star Trek. It's not enough that Vulcans are different. Oh no. They also have to be insufferable, overbearing, and nakedly emotional to the point that they can't even pretend that they're not. It's turning the idea of Vulcans on its head and replacing it with something ugly and one-dimensional.
The original series always played with the idea of Vulcans -- were they really unemotional, or were they just pretending or stifling their emotions? This DS9 episode simply makes them assholes, and that's the precedent that set the tone for Voyager and Enterprise.
That's bad enough. Then we have Sisko gleefully trying to "get" them. For as progressive as "Far Beyond The Stars" is, here we have an example of casual racism that I find appalling, doubly so coming from Sisko. It is not just the Vulcan character is a jerk, but Vulcans are jerks, and it's the job of every red-blooded Starfleet officer to show them up with baseball.
Then we get an episode which gives the term "afterschool special" (look it up) a bad name. It's treacly and simplistic and stupid.
The episode's big revelation is that it should just be a game and friends are, like, more important than winning the tournament that shows you are the superior race.
That's dumb and it's reductive. Sometimes competitions are important. Otherwise, why practice, why work hard, why field a team in the first place? Of course, winning isn't everything. But you don't just take everyone's time and effort and say they don't matter by letting complete imbeciles play. The idea that just because someone wants to play a game because it looks fun means that you should just give up on all your training and hard work is insulting and brain dead. Let's let anyone, regardless of ability level, play on our Olympic teams because that would be fair and anything else would get in the way of everyone's fun.
The really obvious answer is that you can play a frickin' game of holodeck baseball whenever you want. It's a holodeck. Rom doesn't have to come in and stink up the field on a tournament when everyone can just schedule another game against a computerized team for him anytime. It's a false dilemma that's there only to sell the vapid, heartwarming message that being nice to the village idiot is more important than showing up a bunch of arrogant pricks.
So, basically, I see the entire episode as a stupid, simplistic waste of everyone's time. The only person I think that acts with half a brain cell is Rom because he realizes what's going on and actually understands that him playing on the team is not necessary and is bringing the rest of the team down. He is the only one with more than a stimulus-response in the entire episode. Then, the episode takes great pains to show how wrong that is, and how we should let everyone play, no matter their ability level, no matter the circumstance, because for some reason that's the right thing to do.
It's bullshit. This is not the kind of message I expect from DS9. It's what I expect from a Lifetime movie, or something on the Disney channel. But it's not even consistent. Here we have this sanitized, brain-dead happy happy message that takes place in the same episode as the ugliest racism I think I've seen on Trek. It's easy to dismiss because Vulcans aren't real. But substitute any real-life ethnicity into the dialogue and you would get something that would make just about any thinking person uncomfortable. It goes beyond the Vulcan character being a jerk. It's sending the message that Vulcans are jerks and it's okay to hate them for being jerks, and that we should do stuff to make them feel bad and show we're better than them.
Finally, there's the little things. There's the fact that this episode comes in the middle of the last season, in the middle of a war. They really have nothing better to do? When I think of what an extra hour could accomplish, I really get annoyed. Fate of Cardassia? Resolution for Garak? Some denoument for Kira? Nah, let's play holodeck baseball.
And, to be really petty, Kira's uniform annoys the out of me. On her jersey, it says "Nerys". That's the equivalent of her 'first' name in Western terms. Her jersey should say "Kira" because she is Major Kira.
Rather than dismiss that as a nerdy nitpick, I hold it up as an example that no one gave a during this episode. Either no one noticed (because they were all brain dead) or someone noticed and they decided not to fix it. I'm not sure which is worse.


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Samsung announced its line of Windows Ativ tablets this past fall, but the company says they won't be bringing the RT version to the U.S. anytime soon. According to Samsung executive Mike Abary, the high cost of educating the consumer is one of the reasons they're holding back from Windows RT. SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto added that Samsung politely said they looked at the demand for Windows RT and found that there wasn't enough to warrant heavy investment in consumer education. Essentially, they were saying, "Thanks, but no thanks."
Samsung made a comment that there was still a lot of heavy lifting that needed to be done to educate the customer on what Windows RT was. Casaretto interpreted this as a long road ahead for Samsung. He said, "The notion of telling people what Windows RT was, that it was a simplified touch-only operating system. That message is not really getting across. It's lending credence to what someone said was a misstep in going to market with that naming convention."
Casaretto believes that Microsoft needs to improve the message about Windows RT and fine-tune it. He suggested that they spotlight front and center on the touch screen experience in their commercials and ads, emphasize that it is a product different from Windows 8 but yet similiar to the iOS/iPad experience that consumers are looking for.
JD Howard, Vice President of business operations & worldwide business development at Lenovo's Mobile Internet and Digital Home business group, told ZDNet Asia in an interview Wednesday that as a device manufacturer, the company will go where the market leads, in terms of deciding which operating system it will use on its future handsets. Lenovo's latest portfolio was unveiled this week at CES. It consists of six Android-based phones, including Lenovo's flagship K900 smartphone and the enterprise-ready IdeaPhone P770. Casaretto speculated that Lenovo will continue to use Android in its coming handsets, but also stated that the field could be getting crowded. He hinted that anything could happen when companies want to differentiate themselves and try to evolve and produce the next level smartphone.
We ran a story earlier this week about Microsoft's investigation into reports that the Windows RT operating system had been jailbroken to allow for the execution of unsigned ARM desktop applications. In our initial story, only very tech-savvy users were able to reproduce the hacker's method. However, now a tool exists that does most of the hacking work. Casaretto predicted that Microsoft is most likely assessing how much effort it would take to release a patch versus how much risk it would be to leave it as is. He alluded that most consumers are not tech-savvy enough or even interested enough to try to exploit this jailbreak, even with the hacking tool. See the entire segment with Kristin Feledy and John Casaretto on the Morning NewsDesk Show.


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I have been to a lot of very large conventions in the gaming industry and I'd compare PAX East to the GenCon of the video game market. Although to a tabletop geek like myself, the board gaming, miniature gaming, and role-playing was well represented. I had the opportunity to play a lot of games, observe some games, and add some new games to my games-to-play list.
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D&D Next (Wizards of the Coast): I will admit to being a long-time fan of Dungeons & Dragons since Basic, through AD&D, into 3e and Dungeons & Dragons 3.5. I really wanted to like 4th Edition but was let down by 4e. I'm willing to give this old flame a second chance so I went into D&D Next with an open mind. I played the 2-hour introductory adventure to the system and met five other gamers in the marshaling line that didn't set me on edge (they were fantastic to play with). So going into the game I had five great people to go through my first D&D Next adventure with and since we were the first game of the day our Dungeon Master had plenty of rest. The stars all aligned to give me a positive first impression of the game. The changes to the rules which resembles many 3.5 mechanics had surprised me by taking a few of the mechanics I really liked in 4th Edition D&D (such as wizard cantrips).
The adventure went smoothly and the pre-generated characters provided a well-rounded experience. The mechanic I liked the most was the advantage & disadvantage rules. The new rules have gotten rid of the big charts of circumstance modifiers, stacked bonuses, range modifiers, and situations that required players to (literally) keep spreadsheets for attack modifiers when rolling dice. If you find yourself attacking an enemy that is unaware of your presence you will have advantage and this allows you to roll 2d20 (two 20-sided dice) and select the highest result. If you find yourself shooting your bow at an enemy at long range, you would be firing at a disadvantage which means you roll 2d20 and select the lowest result. Continue Reading "My PAX East 2013 Tabletop Game Highlight Reel" »


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For the first time in more than 25 years, Marin has an ice skating rink. At least for the holidays.
With a recording of Bing Crosby crooning "It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas" filling the air, Marin on Ice opened outdoors on Saturday at the Northgate mall in San Rafael. It's believed to be the first rink with real ice set up in Marin since 1985, when an indoor rink, called Raydine's, closed in Corte Madera in what is now Gold's Gym.
Marin on Ice couldn't have opened soon enough for 7-year-old Rebecca Ward, who was there an hour before the noon opening, eagerly waiting with her grandparents and 5-year-old brother, Tyler.
"I'm excited," she said. Wearing ear muffs and a pair of bright blue skates, she was the first kid to test the 60-by-80-foot rink, its 5,000 square feet of ice looking wet in spots under Saturday's warm sun.
Her grandmother, Gayle Harrington of Greenbrae, a retired San Rafael special education teacher, wasn't far behind, taking a nostalgic skate with her grandkids.
"I haven't done that in 30 years," she said, smiling brightly as she came off the ice. "I used to do this a lot as a child. It was so much fun. It felt very good to be out there, once I was sure I wasn't going to throw my back out."
Marin on Ice owner Pete Mott and his crew worked right up until the last minute, laying down sheets of plywood, scraping the ice, getting the rental skates in order.
"It's a lot of work getting it up and going," he said, watching the first handful of skaters of the season, many of them dads and daughters from the YMCA's Adventure Princesses program.
A Napa businessman and city councilman, Mott opened Napa on Ice last year, a temporary rink that drew more than 20,000 skaters. His Napa rink opens for its second season next Friday. That success led him to try the same thing in Marin.
"We think we're going to get a good response here," he said.
There will be one other place for Marin skaters to get their skating fill. The Tiburon Chamber of Commerce sets up a one-night only rink with synthetic "ice" for its tree-lighting ceremony. This year's is set for Nov. 30.
Marin on Ice (www.marinonice.com) is open daily, from noon to 10 p.m. weekends and 2 to 10 p.m. weekdays through Jan. 13. Admission is $15, including skates. Beginners are offered free "skate buddies," a blue plastic device that's like a walker for novice skaters. There were a lot of those on the ice on Saturday.
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Boston's Jazz Composers Alliance is fearless about subject matter — this, after all, is the organization that gave us The Death of Simone Weil as an "improvisational cantata." The composer of that piece, Darrell Katz, a founder of the JCA, is the sole composer for this disc, which runs the gamut from the topical "December 30, 1994" (about the Brookline women's-health-clinic murders) to the self-explanatory "Everybody Loves Ray Charles."
All of the Katz/JCA hallmarks are here: the roiling expressionistic canvases, full of dramatic dynamic and textural contrasts (bad-dream vibraphone atmospherics, a mix of spoken and sung verse); brawling, virtuoso horn solos; free-collective outbursts; chugging rhythms; beautifully calibrated ensembles. "December 30," "Lemmings" (for George W. Bush supporters), and "I'm Me and You're Not (Ha Ha)," all settings of poems by Paula Tatarunis, match sharp-witted anger (and humor) with a range of tonal color, JCA mainstay Rebecca Shrimpton vocalizing expertly.
The sharp edges are leavened by the "What I Say" call-and-response of the Ray Charles piece, a nearly old-fashioned arrangement by Katz of Willie Dixon's title tune (with a terrific vocal performance by veteran rock and soul singer Mike Finnigan), and the dreamlike melancholy of "Like a Wind," a setting from Sherwood Anderson's Wineseburg, Ohio. Did I say fearless?
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"National Defense Resources Preparedness" executive order: Power grab or mere update?
posted at 10:30 am on March 18, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
We're getting a lot of e-mail this weekend about an executive order issued on Friday afternoon by President Obama titled "National Defense Resources Preparedness." While the timing of the EO is curious — why send it out on a Friday afternoon when an administration is usually trying to sneak bad news past the media? — the general impact of it is negligible. This EO simply updates another EO (12919) that had been in place since June 1994, and amended several times since.
Let's start with Friday's EO:
Section 101. Purpose. This order delegates authorities and addresses national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (the "Act").
Sec. 102. Policy. The United States must have an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency. The domestic industrial and technological base is the foundation for national defense preparedness. The authorities provided in the Act shall be used to strengthen this base and to ensure it is capable of responding to the national defense needs of the United States.
Sounds dramatic, doesn't it? This actually matches the language in EO 12919, however, even the part about "in peacetime." What follows is significantly less dramatic:
Sec. 103. General Functions. Executive departments and agencies (agencies) responsible for plans and programs relating to national defense (as defined in section 801(j) of this order), or for resources and services needed to support such plans and programs, shall:
(a) identify requirements for the full spectrum of emergencies, including essential military and civilian demand;
(b) assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the most critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel;
(c) be prepared, in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate resources and production capability, including services and critical technology, for national defense requirements;
(d) improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the domestic industrial base to support national defense requirements; and
(e) foster cooperation between the defense and commercial sectors for research and development and for acquisition of materials, services, components, and equipment to enhance industrial base efficiency and responsiveness.
Again, this is almost identical to EO 12919 from 18 years earlier. Note what this EO specifically orders: identify, assess, be prepared, improve, foster cooperation. None of these items claim authority to seize private property and place them at the personal disposal of Obama. What follows after Section 103 are the directives for implementing these rather analytical tasks, mostly in the form of explicit delegations of presidential authority to Cabinet members and others in the executive branch.
Why the update? If one takes a look at EO 12919, the big change is in the Cabinet itself. In 1994, we didn't have a Department of Homeland Security, for instance, and some of these functions would naturally fall to DHS. In EO 12919, the FEMA director had those responsibilities, and the biggest change between the two is the removal of several references to FEMA (ten in all). Otherwise, there aren't a lot of changes between the two EOs, which looks mainly like boilerplate.
In fact, that's almost entirely what it is. The original EO dealing with national defense resources preparedness was issued in 1939 (EO 8248) according to the National Archives. It has been superseded a number of times, starting in 1951 by nearly every President through Bill Clinton, and amended twice by George W. Bush.
Barack Obama may be arrogant, and the timing of this release might have looked a little strange, but this is really nothing to worry about at all.
Update: It's worth noting, too, that the second change by Bush to EO 12919 came through an amendment to EO 11858 that eliminated requirements of Cabinet officials to report on attempts by foreigners to invest in "critical technologies" in the US or "industrial espionage activities" targeting defense contractors (Section 801). Obama's new EO doesn't reverse that action, either.
Update II: William Jacobson comes to the same conclusion I do at Legal Insurrection:
There is enough that Obama actually does wrong without creating claims which do not hold up to scrutiny.
I'm not ruling out the possibility that this is more than it seems, but unless and until someone does more than merely state that martial law is coming, I'll consider this to be routine.
Agreed. All the links are above, so if there's something significant added between this EO and 12919 and the Bush-amended versions of it in 2003 and 2008, point it out. Otherwise, this just restates the Bush-amended 12919 with current Cabinet nomenclature.
Update III: One commenter notes that Obama has added to Section 201(b) the phrase "under both emergency and non-emergency conditions." In 12919, though, the duties of the Cabinet Secretaries were not limited to emergency situations in Section 201(b), either. And in both EOs, section 102 specifically notes that the EO is intended to ensure defense preparedness "in peacetime and in times of national emergency."
Update IV: Section 308 is new, but all it does is delegate authority already granted to the President under US statute. Here's the EO language:
Sec. 308. Government-Owned Equipment. The head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national defense is delegated the authority of the President under section 303(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(e), to:
(a) procure and install additional equipment, facilities, processes, or improvements to plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by the Federal Government and to procure and install Government owned equipment in plants, factories, or other industrial facilities owned by private persons;
(b) provide for the modification or expansion of privately owned facilities, including the modification or improvement of production processes, when taking actions under sections 301, 302, or 303 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2091, 2092, 2093; and
(c) sell or otherwise transfer equipment owned by the Federal Government and installed under section 303(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(e), to the owners of such plants, factories, or other industrial facilities.
And here's the existing statutory language that originated in the Defense Production Act of 1950 (pardon the formatting):
(e) Installation of equipment in industrial facilities
(1) Installation authorized
If the President determines that such action will aid the national defense, the President is authorized—
(A) to procure and install additional equipment, facilities, processes or improvements to plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by the Federal Government;
(B) to procure and install equipment owned by the Federal Government in plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by private persons;
(C) to provide for the modification or expansion of privately owned facilities, including the modification or improvement of production processes, when taking actions under section 301 [section 2091 of this Appendix], 302 [section 2092 of this Appendix], or this section; and
(D) to sell or otherwise transfer equipment owned by the Federal Government and installed under this subsection to the owners of such plants, factories, or other industrial facilities.
(2) Indemnification
The owner of any plant, factory, or other industrial facility that receives equipment owned by the Federal Government under this section shall agree—
(A) to waive any claim against the United States under section 107 or 113 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9607 and 9613); and
(B) to indemnify the United States against any claim described in paragraph (1) made by a third party that arises out of the presence or use of equipment owned by the Federal Government.
Again, this is nothing new or outside of existing statutory authority — and the EO makes that clear by explicitly citing that authority. All this does is delegate the authority for these actions to the Cabinet officials. This again is nothing new, just a delegation of existing authority.
Update V: Gabriel Malor concurs over at AoSHQ.
Update VI: I don't disagree at all with Doug Mataconis:
It all sounds pretty scary, and it wasn't long before the usual suspects were citing this as evidence of some kind of plan for martial law, just as there were people on the left and far-right in asserting that George Bush was going to declare martial law and cancel the elections in 2004 and 2008. Considering who it was who was spreading the meme that this was some kind of power grab by the Obama Administration, I wasn't inclined to believe it to begin with. However, once you actually look at the facts (yes, I know, how dare I muddle up a good conspiracy theory with actual facts) it becomes pretty clear that not only is the reaction to this wildly over the top in some corners, but the Executive Order itself is nothing more than a restatement of policy that has been in place in decades and grants no authority to the President or the Cabinet that they don't already have under existing law. …
There are, perhaps, some issues worth discussing that this EO raises. The fact that the President of the United States is still exercising authority granted during the Korean War and the height of the Cold War is yet another reflection of how power, once assumed by the Imperial Presidency, is never surrendered. The fact that an Executive Order like this was released on a Friday afternoon and has been largely ignored by the traditional media is an indication of just how easy it is for politicians to manipulate the news cycle. And the idea that the government has authority like that described in this document, even only in theory, and that most Americans aren't even aware of it, is a reflection of just how little we know about the things that are done in our name. Those are all legitimate issues, but they go far deeper than this one relatively innocuous Executive Order.
Indeed — but all of that was equally true before Obama issued an update to a 73-year-old effort that changed nothing about his executive authority and power. To the extent that we're all more aware of it, that's good, but we shouldn't act as though this was an Obama novelty, and we really shouldn't jump to conspiracy-think conclusions without understanding the history of these EOs.
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Akzed on March 20, 2012 at 3:26 PM
Let me break it down for Ed Morrissey, and all of the other pundits in that social circle so that you can get your heads around this. We are concerned and even, dare I say it, panicked, because we can see the big picture of the Obama regime for what it is. We can take the totality of the dataset and draw not just a logical, reasoned conclusion, but a conclusion that is supported by centuries – nay millenia – of past precedent. We are, as Patrick Henry put it, "willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it." -Ann Barnhardt.
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With the Caprice basically dead after about 6 days, I'll again raise the question, will Chevy ever have a RWD full size sedan, Chrysler/Dodge have them, Kia is getting one based off the Genesis, so why shouldn't Chevy have one?Is it because of CAFE?Of course not, the 2008 Pontiac G8 GT weighed less than the 2010 Buick Lacrosse 3.6L tested by Motor Trend, and the longer wheelbase Zeta is not even 200 pounds heavier. Usage of the 3.0L DI and 3.6L DI, would shoot up mileage possibly close to 30 MPG, diesels even farther.Is it more expensive?It's more expensive not to right now because Holden stands to lose $1billion in exports from the loss of the G8, and then if they bring it on Zeta II, they could build it alongside the Camaro in Oshawa.So what's the reason, I have no idea.There are six possibilities, for the Impala happening in 2013 when the old W-body ceases production, and I don't know when the Caprice can be brought in, probably also in 2013 in Zeta II,1. Impala goes to the overweight super Epsilon II platform, weighing in a couple hundred pounds more than a G8 GT, probably will mainly be sold as rental cars(just like now).2. Impala goes to the overweight super Epsilon II platform, and they revive the Caprice on the larger Zeta platform, to not overlap the Impala.3. Impala goes to Zeta II, on the same chassis as the Holden Commodore.4. Impala goes to Holden Commodore's Zeta II chassis, and Caprice goes to the Holden Caprice's Zeta II chassis, that's more of a dream.5. Impala goes to Alpha in 2015 with the Holden Commodore.6. Fritz will shut the hell up and let Lutz bring the Caprice soon to replace the G8, I have no idea which Zeta it'll go to.Thoughts? Comments?
Henderson says he's not a fan of rebadging.
Fastlane1:Henderson says he's not a fan of rebadging.Buick Enclave/Chevy Traverse/GMC AcadiaCadillac SRX/Chevy Equinox/GMC TerrainChevy Tahoe/GMC Yukon/Cadillac EscaladeUpcoming Chevy Cruze, and the Buick variant that will follow themall they did was change a couple of interior panels, add or take away features, and change the sheetmetal, in other words, rebadging.Fritz is an idiot
henderson is nothing more than obamas _. and he is an idiot for saying he is not a fan of rebadging. GM is the most succesful company when it comes to rebadging minus the smith era
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The traverse and Enclave look pretty different to me...inside and out. If they had to only change a few panels here and there to create such a different look for the two vehicles then color me impressed.
But they are still basically rebadged, Fritz said "I am not a fan of rebadging" which has to be the most idiotic thing said by anyone at GM.
i'm hoping by ZetaII they develope a Sedan to be built alongside the camaro in canada.maby call it the Belair or something.untill then it's financialy acceptable for them to rebadge the G8 into a chevrolet. if they don't they loose money, heck slapping a chevy badge on the G8 alone could bring in more money then if it stayed a G8 as a chevy would sell more.
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Ya know what, fudge Henderson dammit. I'm sick and tired of him!
______________________________Acura's motor got upstaged by Ford.And now that Buick is owned by Ford, I think it's safe to say that the Buick has a better motor than the TL?
We all are, Fritz really does think it is better to lose $1billion for Holden then bringing a great product to America.
That great product is already sold in America IIRC..Seriously let it go..
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NEVER!!!!And the G8 was already discontinued
So you have proven my point then.. It was sold here.. I have some friends who have some spare 2x4's and *** you can borrow to build a bridge..
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Alex:i'm hoping by ZetaII they develope a Sedan to be built alongside the camaro in canada.maby call it the Belair or something.untill then it's financialy acceptable for them to rebadge the G8 into a chevrolet. if they don't they loose money, heck slapping a chevy badge on the G8 alone could bring in more money then if it stayed a G8 as a chevy would sell more.It's financially unacceptable for GM to not rebadge the G8 as the Caprice now, Holden made $1.9Billion in export revenue last year, they stand to lose just over half of all of that if GM does not replace the G8 with another Zeta car at that plant.
Fastlane1:Henderson says he's not a fan of rebadging.to me, it's not really rebadging as much as it is saving a good model that will otherwise die...they spend the time and money developing it for it to be around for not very long..they may as well make all the time spent on it worthwhile and make it a chevy
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why didn't they just continue production of the Pontaic G8 untill it's rightful discontinuations time?they could have sold it from verious GM dealerships and serviced it formt them to.let pontiac go out with a bang, not a fizzle.
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Two hives out of 18 have these small bees. All the hives have same mite treatment.
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Children today spend way too much time inside. As Richard Louv has been preaching for a while now, we're in danger of raising a generation that doesn't know how to handle themselves in a natural environment, let alone how to appreciate it. Making a trip to a wilderness area is ideal, but even a walk around the neighborhood gives you the opportunity to start pointing out the rocks, plants, creatures, and the lay of the land. Or now that it gets dark early, step outside for a few minutes at night and point out the red giant Betelgeuse in Orion's left shoulder, or the brilliant white light of Jupiter. If you've got a Galileoscope or other telescope to search for Jupiter's four moons, all the better. And don't forget, outdoors is also where your kids will find many of the best toys around…
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I served Jim a Slippery Scotsman at Evan's party last night after finding he fucked my girlfriend. After he felt the warmth of the glass and the smell of the drink, he proceeded to vomit everywhere!
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With their help, researchers are advancing the 70-year effort to understand—and treat—hereditary ataxia.
Nissa Mollema, Harry Orr
Once diagnosed, family members researched what ataxia was. Ataxia is derived from the Greek term for "lack of order," and means having little control over muscle movements. Patients with ataxia walk with a wide stance and shuffling, small steps in an attempt to maintain balance. Their fine motor skills are also lost: They struggle to bring an outstretched finger to touch their noses. Henry's father lost the ability to tie his shoes, dress himself, and feed himself as the disease progressed. Ataxia robbed him of his ability to control both his fine and gross muscle movements, making each motion challenging and inefficient.
A variety of causes can result in ataxic symptoms. People who have had too much alcohol display temporary ataxia—they stagger and have difficulty keeping their balance. Permanent forms of ataxia, in contrast, can be debilitating and sometimes deadly. A traumatic brain injury, such as stroke or head trauma, may trigger ataxia. As the patient recovers from the injury, the ataxia may improve. More complex forms of permanent ataxia are caused by genetic mutations. In these cases, mutations that cause the disorder are passed from parent to child. Sporadic cases of ataxia, in which a patient with no family history of the disorder is diagnosed with the disease, are more mysterious. Hereditary and sporadic ataxias currently affect roughly 150,000 people in the United States and are typically progressive in nature, making the individual more disabled as the disease advances.
The doctors at the University of Minnesota took a particular interest in the ataxia that ran in Henry's family during Bert's visit to the hospital. At the time, the only form of hereditary ataxia that was known was Friedreich's ataxia, which was described in 1863. The pattern of inheritance seen in Henry's family was different from that seen in Friedreich's ataxia. Unlike Friedreich's ataxia, the ataxia in Henry's family affected members in each generation, instead of skipping generations.
Family members with ataxia also presented with a variety of symptoms that differed from Friedreich's ataxia, suggesting that they had a form of ataxia that had never been diagnosed. In this new ataxic disorder, slow, progressive symptom onset began between the ages of 20 and 30. Patients usually noticed problems with their lower limbs first and began having difficulty keeping their balance while walking. The university doctors suspected that the symptoms of ataxia were the result of degeneration in the brain or spinal cord.
To better understand the genetic nature of the disease, the doctors asked Henry to create a family tree documenting which individuals were affected or unaffected by the disorder. The Schuts' family tree supported the fact that only family members with ataxia could pass the disorder to their children and that the disease displayed a dominant mode of inheritance (50 percent of children were affected).
Although the family now had a diagnosis for the disease and a better understanding of how it was inherited, no one had information about the cause of the disease or how to treat it. Clinicians advised the affected family members to eat well and exercise, yet this did little to prevent progression of the disorder. For 10 years, Bert continued to become more disabled, until he passed away from ataxia in 1939 at the age of 30. At the encouragement of physicians, Bert's brain was sent to University of Minnesota to be studied. As doctors had previously predicted, extensive degeneration was seen within the spinal cord, which controls involuntary functions, and within the cerebellum, which controls voluntary movement. Physicians named the disease spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) because of the regions involved. But they still had no treatment or explanation for why it was occurring.
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COMPLEXITIES: Women in Mathematics. Edited by Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett. xx + 412 pp. Princeton University Press, 2005. $52.50.
A WEALTH OF NUMBERS: An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing. Edited by Benjamin Wardhaugh. xviii + 370 pp. Princeton University Press, 2012. $45.
Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett's Complexities: Women in Mathematics and Benjamin Wardhaugh's A Wealth of Numbers: An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing are complementary compilations of essays on the history of mathematics. Complexities presents papers by women mathematicians along with reflections on the history and future of women in mathematics, and A Wealth of Numbers brings together mathematical essays from a wide range of popular sources. Although the two collections approach the history of mathematics from very different perspectives, each offers a strong sense of that history, and the volumes complement one another.
Look into the calculus classrooms of the school where I teach, and you'll find that more than half of the students are young women. In 2005, according to the National Science Foundation's Survey of Doctoral Recipients, over 29 percent of tenure-track faculty in mathematics and statistics were women. Yet many of us still find this increase in the number of women in tenure-track positions counter to our expectations.
Much remains to be done in reducing gender-based inequities, particularly in academia, but it is impossible to ignore how recently and swiftly women's participation in mathematics has increased. In her essay, "American Women in Mathematics's First Twenty Years," Lenore Blum recalls a joke she was told at a party she attended at MIT as a grad student in the sixties: "There have been only two women mathematicians in the history of mathematics. One wasn't a woman and one wasn't a mathematician." She notes parenthetically, "It may not be so surprising that in those years we were often accused of not having a sense of humor."
Complexities, which includes Blum's essay along with many others, is an antidote to the myth that joke expresses. Case and Leggett, the editors, have gathered essays from more than 70 authors, grouping them into five sections. The first part, "Inspiration," contains short biographical pieces about mathematicians from the 19th and early to mid-20th century. Many of these are written by the mathematicians' family members or students, so the portrayals offer a sense of intimacy as well as primary source material. The second section, "Joining Together," traces the development of the Association for Women in Mathematics from the 1970s to the 1990s. The essays in "Choices and Challenges" reflect on women mathematicians both inside and outside the academy, as well as accommodations they do and don't make for spouses and children. "Celebration" includes mathematical articles along with papers that intertwine mathematical and biographical strands. In the final section of the book, "Into a New Century," a number of younger mathematicians reflect on both mathematics as a career and the future of women in mathematics.
Among the book's many highlights is the essay "Being Julia Robinson's Sister," by Constance Reid, the author of a number of books on mathematics, including Julia: A Life in Mathematics and Hilbert. Reid made a career of writing about mathematics, largely due to her sister's encouragement. She notes, "Julia thought of mathematicians . . . 'as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origins, race, creed, sex, age, or even time (the mathematicians of the past and you of the future are our colleagues too)—all dedicated to the most beautiful of the arts and sciences." The essay demonstrates the importance of informal connections and mentoring to success in the field.
In her essay on Sophie Germain, Mary W. Gray does a masterful job of integrating the story of Germain's life with that of her mathematical discoveries, in terms that are accessible to general readers. Germain's father tried to forbid her from studying mathematics, so she taught it to herself, hiding the candles she needed to read her books. Despite this difficult beginning, she worked at the intersection of mathematics and physics. One of her papers was used by Leonard Dickson 80 years later to prove one case of Fermat's last theorem. We learn also that Germain's work in philosophy influenced Auguste Comte.
A number of essays in the book describe the lives of black women mathematicians, such as Evelyn Boyd Granville, Marjorie Lee Browne, Vivienne Malone-Mayes and Geraldine Darden. Darden's essay, "How I Decided to Pursue a Ph.D. in Mathematics," emphasizes the role that mentorship plays in the lives of untraditional mathematics graduate students. When she met Browne at a summer institute aimed at teachers, Darden relates, Browne's first comment was "Why aren't you in graduate school?" Later she was encouraged by Arthur Sagle to go for a Ph.D. rather than a master's degree. Darden concludes with an injunction to teachers at all levels: "Please do not make prejudgments. We don't see many minority students in science or mathematics; if you see a good student, please encourage that student. If you do for them as Browne, Talbot, and Sagle did for me, I think you will see many more black women in mathematics." Like many of the essays in Complexities Darden's talk was written with the purpose of encouraging more women, in this case black women in particular, to enter the field of mathematics.
Several essays consider the life and work of Olga Taussky-Todd. In many ways her life was emblematic of mid-20th-century women mathematicians: She was trained in Europe and spent her career in Great Britain and the United States, where she taught at Bryn Mawr. Her work is referenced in several mathematical papers in the book, including one on class field theory and another on matrix theory. These papers will likely only be accessible to mathematical readers, but the essays on her life and the mathematicians she influenced are accessible to the general reader.
Fern Y. Hunt's paper, "A Mathematician at NIST [the National Institute of Standards and Technology] Today," stands out for its clarity in explaining a practical application of mathematics. Diane Lambert provides a readable account of a current application of mathematics in her essay, "What Use Is Statistics for Massive Data?"
The strength of Complexities lies in the granular level of its mostly short presentations. Readers interested in more in-depth portrayals might look to Claudia Henrion's Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference (Indiana University Press, 1997), in which she interviews nine women mathematicians active in the late 20th century and, in the process, refers back to a number of historic figures.
Although its episodic nature does not encourage continuous reading, Complexities is a good starting point for student research and a useful resource for professors and teachers of mathematics, who will find plenty of historical mathematics and biographical material to enrich their courses. Readers of women's history will find plenty of interest in the book as well.
Wardhaugh's A Wealth of Numbers is a compendium of historical popular math problems, puzzles and essays on topics including algebra, geometry, number theory, physics and astronomy. Many of the writers included sought to appeal to the ordinary, educated reader, with titles like "Dodging the Mastodon and the Plesiosaurus," "Newton for the Ladies," "A Mother Explains Comets" and "Einstein's Real Achievement." The essays span the 1500s to the 1990s, with one entry from 1481 and a good sampling from the mid-16th to the mid-20th century; Wardhaugh prefaces each one with a brief introduction that contextualizes it and suggests its significance to the field.
Some of these pieces seem to have been written to help readers move from being students or appreciators of mathematics to being users of mathematics and participants in mathematical enterprise. Take the Athenian Mercury, a weekly newspaper that ran from 1691 to 1697, which Wardhaugh refers to as "a kind of seventeenth-century quiz show." The excerpts from it are written in a question-and-answer format. One of these explains how to solve an algebra problem of three equations and three unknowns: "Now it remains to destroy all the unknown Terms but one. Subtract the second Equation out of the first to destroy z. . . ." One of the pleasures of this book is reading the texts in the language of the day. No current math text I know of refers to combining equations as a form of destruction.
The book contains a number of classic essays, such as Charles Hutton's 1796 essay on mathematical history, "It Must Have Commenced with Mankind." Of it, Wardhaugh writes, "The section chosen here illustrates a thematic rather than a biographical approach to mathematical history and gives a hint of the range of Hutton's learning. It may be compared with the other speculations in this volume, by Joseph Fenn and by Edmund Scarburgh, on the origins of algebra and geometry." The collection as a whole provides the general reader with a history of mathematics, biographical and otherwise, through popular writing. Because the writing was aimed at general readers of its time, it is usually accessible to the average mathematical reader of our time. The book would be an excellent reference for teachers of mathematics and for those researching the history of the dissemination of mathematical ideas.
Together, A Wealth of Numbers and Complexities give the reader a better sense of the history of mathematics, as well as a deeper understanding of the connection between popular mathematics and the development of mathematicians.
Carol Dorf is a high school mathematics teacher. She serves as poetry editor of Talking Writing, for which she has curated a series of features on math poetry. Her poetry is available in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Antiphon, Beltway, qarrtsiluni, Spillway, and elsewhere.
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Original post made by Independent, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Oct 5, 2011
Not sure what to make of Obama's statement towards the end of the video - "If I don't have this done in three years, there there's going to be a one-term proposition."
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And those who continue to proclaim that the government didn't spend enough will conveniently overlook that national debt has increased 40% since 2009.
How can anyone say this is a defensible track record and that the current approach is working?
a resident of Parkside
on Oct 5, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Who here is surprised? Oh, I'm sure there are still those out there who cling to their mantra, "it's all Bushes fault", but that reasoning is as limp as their continued excuses for obamas lack of leadership. even with a mandate for his first two years, the guy was and is still impotent.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 5, 2011 at 8:05 pm
We should all go work on Wall Street. They got bailed out, and now their bonuses have never been better.
It was Bush's fault. Why should the blame go away, simply because time has elapsed? We were left with one big pile of poop to clean up.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 5, 2011 at 8:10 pm
...and as I watch all the people who want Obama's job, I have yet to see anything resembling a coherent plan to clean up said pile of poop.
"Cut taxes more...that'll solve all problems." As if...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 5, 2011 at 8:38 pm
I look forward to 2 years from now when we can all blame the bad stuff on Obama and say it was his fault.
b- you should really educate yourself. Not trying to deflect from all the bad stuff Bush did, but it is just plain silly to blame the current depression on him. There were many factors that went into this.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 5, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Agreed, Citizen. I was just piling on Bush because it is fun.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Oct 5, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Where Bush went wrong is where he behaved like a liberal Democrat...excessive spending, not using his veto pen, employing (failed) Keynesian economics. He was not a true conservative...which is what we need to turn this Titanic and Captain Obama around.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 5, 2011 at 9:47 pm
"which is what we need to turn this Titanic and Captain Obama around."
Sure, but who are we going to replace him with? We need a viable independent to run.
a resident of Parkside
on Oct 6, 2011 at 8:32 am
"We need a viable independent to run" I don't think you can use the terms independent and viable in the same sentence. Maybe some day, but not now. It helps if you actually can state a position and stick to your principles, something many independents are loath to do, depending on which way the wind is blowing.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 6, 2011 at 12:50 pm
citizen and b just play with yourselfs, to try to stop the thread...shame and so pathetic.
Bad loans are mostly the fault of SPEAKERS Pelosi, Barney Frank, and Maxine Waters pushing houses on buyers who were not qualified, and ACORN threatening and pushing banks to do loans they should not have made, ....so foreclosures would have happened regardless.
Then wall street bundled bad loans to investors.
But, there have been plenty of Obama's bad deals.focusing on himself going to Solyndra over and over for photo ops, when the Administration anxiously made taxpayers responsible for $ half billion to Solyndra. CEO, owner, were MAJOR Obama DONORS! ? ! Then weeks before bankruptcy REwrote the deal pushing taxpayers into THIRD position down list for payback...which means we won't see any payback. Tracking backward, it get a bit stinky.
Then we have 'Fast and Furious", with the Atty General Eric Holder using our young guys to buy guns, trying to follow guns to the hands of drug lords in Mexico.....like he was making a Vin Diesel Fsst and Furious sequel !...it all seems to get worse not better.
Shall I go on....
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 6, 2011 at 5:55 pm
lol. I'm sure subprime borrowers spent lots of time listening to home buying advice from Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank. This thread cracks me up.
a resident of Parkside
on Oct 6, 2011 at 6:58 pm
So right you are b. None of them could understand a word those two were mumbling, even If they could speak English.
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 6, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Sarah is out but I hear that Dan Quayle is available. He could bail out the country!
tee hee hee, tee hee hee...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 7, 2011 at 1:56 pm
How did you Chicken Littles like this morning's job report? No matter how much fear you spread or how badly you want this economy to crash, you simply can't stop this on-going recovery. Odd, no?
a resident of Del Prado
on Oct 7, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Do you ever research or do you just spew whatever comes into you head? Of the jobs created, included were 70,000 jobs of Verizon workers who had been out on strike and they reached agreement on a new contract and went back to work. Hardly creation of new jobs. No, Obama should just go back underneath the same rock he crawled out from. Hardly can wait for the next election when the conservatives sweep the house, senate, and presidency............
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 7, 2011 at 10:42 pm
b, the net unemployment number did not move the needle. It STAYED at the horrific 9.1% . ( of course we all know CA is even worse at 12.1% ! ! ! ! ! ! 'Say what' is so right, the biggest chunk of jobs was the Verizon union workers who came back to work....NOT NEW jobs.
Gee, you better get your news somewhere else...you're not very informed.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 8, 2011 at 8:50 am
Funny how b accuses others of being out of touch when he/she is a prime example of such.
B – what is your agenda? Is it to obfuscate reality for others so your union constituents don't need to make reasonable concessions? Maybe?!
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By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
The jobs crisis isn't getting worse. But it isn't getting much better, either.
The economy added just enough jobs last month to ease fears of a new recession. But hiring is still too weak to bring down unemployment, which has been stuck around 9 percent for more than two years.
The nation added 103,000 jobs in September, an improvement from the month before, the Labor Department said Friday. But the total includes 45,000 Verizon workers who were rehired after going on strike and were counted as job gains.
Even setting aside that technicality, the job gains weren't enough to get the economy out of its soft patch. It takes about 125,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth. For September, the unemployment rate stayed stuck at 9.1 percent.
"Well, the sky is not falling just yet," Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors, said in a note to clients. But there was nothing great about the report, he added. "It's incredible how low our sights have been set."
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I'm sometimes known as the Queen of Quinoa for my healthy eating habits. So you can imagine the shock on a patient's face when I bumped into them at Costco's snack bar where I was face deep in the most delicious beef hot dog, bun oozing with Heinz ketchup, French's mustard and Bick's green relish. Oh, and I was also inhaling a side of fries.


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The act of conducting oneself in a frugal manner while on a Disney World vacation. Examples include excessive carryons to avoid airline baggage fees, bringing packed lunches into the parks to avoid expensive Disney dining choices, and staying in remote, low-cost accomodations.
We each had to carry two fully loaded carryons through both connecting flights in 3 airports, packed 2 to a seat into a Nissan Versa, stayed at the Motel 6 in Lakeland, and then had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that we carried around all day through the parks. It was supercashafrugalistic-expialidocious!
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