Monday 29 June 2009
Jun 29
by c4life | 29 Jun 09 : 11:23 | Comment(s): 0 
Update: This is only getting better today - from USA Today
"Today's narrow decision is likely to result in cutbacks on important protections for American families. It is less likely now that employers will conscientiously try to fulfill their obligations under this time-honored civil rights law. This is a cramped decision that threatens to erode these protections and to harm the efforts of state and local governments that want to build the most qualified workforces."

The liberal group People for the American Way agreed: "The court's ruling severely limits the ability of governments and private corporations to create a diverse workforce."

In effect they are telling that people who fail the test make for a more qualified workforce! This really bothers me, how people decide to support racism when it helps their political career!

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So, I read an article that made the headlines on my Google News page. It said "The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a group of white firefighters in Connecticut were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision endorsed by high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor." So, I was excited to hear that true achievement is rewarded with a promotion. But then I dared to read past the first paragraph, and was disgusted by the fact that 4 out of the 9 justices wrote the following dissent:
The court's more liberal members joined Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissent which she read from the bench. "The white firefighters who scored high on New Haven's promotional exams understandably attract the court's sympathy," she said. "But they had no vested right to promotion."

Where in the constitution does it say that the court should have sympathy? So much for blind justice! Oh, but it's even better then that Sotomayor supports the dissenters opinion!

oc4life

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Wednesday 13 May 2009
May 13
by c4life | 13 May 09 : 12:26 | Comment(s): 0 
So, after walking about 6 miles today alone (I measured it), we came back and decided to share with everyone a short clip we recorded last night of the Eiffel Tower lit up at night.

Enjoy!

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Friday 10 April 2009
Apr 10
by c4life | 10 Apr 09 : 13:04 | Comment(s): 0 
When my family moved to Charlotte back in January 1999, it was the clean streets, the clam atmosphere and the growth potential of the city that attracted us here. Many people that live in the Charlotte-Metro area do not know the vision and visionaries behind Charlotte and its crowning jewel the Uptown.

Given that, the Charlotte Business Journal has published an interview with one of the very first visionaries of what Charlotte has become to date and is growing to be in the near future.

Hugh McColl, the retired Bank of America Corp. chief executive, is considered a founding father for uptown.

The interview makes you appreciate what the city and the corporations in our city have done to benefit our communities over the last 3 or 4 decades. Hope this interview helps you appreciate Charlotte much more! So, go read the interview and come back and let me know your thoughts -- here.

c4life
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Apr 10
by c4life | 10 Apr 09 : 12:56 | Comment(s): 0 
So, we have all been watching President Obama's first 100 days in office to see what kind of leadership we can expect the next ~4 years.

Well we sure have been surprised and even shocked at times.

Here are a couple more foretastes of what we can expect from this administration:
In the name of Change and an end to bipartisan bickering, we have a new Pew Research Poll showing some interesting facts:
Who has been the most polarizing new president of recent times? Richard Nixon? Ronald Reagan? George W. Bush?
No, that honor belongs to Barack Obama.
The Washington Post article goes on to analyze the poll results in more details that you can read here.

And then we of course all know and love hating the mean, ugly, bad banks and their greed. But it seems that Obama is the one with the greed for power here. The Wall Street Journal has a great piece on Obama's desire to control the banks! Here is a little disturbing taste
Some $340 million in TARP cash flowed back this week from four small banks in Louisiana, New York, Indiana and California. This isn't much when we routinely talk in trillions, but clearly that money has not been wasted or otherwise sunk down Wall Street's black hole. So why no cheering as the cash comes back?

My answer: The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. And for this intensely political president, mere influence is not enough. The White House wants to tell 'em what to do. Control. Direct. Command.


Boy, this "change" thing is sure getting to be more fascist in style. "I tell you what to do, you do it!"

c4life
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Thursday 02 April 2009
Apr 02
by c4life | 02 Apr 09 : 10:07 | Comment(s): 0 
So, I was watching the news the other day and the newscaster says that the US government, through the stimulus and economic fear mongering, is on its way to be the world's (note that is not the countries but the worlds, as in global) 14th largest employer! Now considering that we are not even the largest country by size or population that is saying something!
Then I stumbled upon a Forbes article that clarified some of the fuzzy logic with the administrations math regarding the stimulus' ability to generate jobs. Here is a portion:
Back in February, the government said that its $787 billion stimulus bill would create 3.5 million new jobs. This was at the very highest end of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) estimate of 1.2 to 3.6 million new jobs.

But even this high-end estimate of U.S. job creation is penny ante, when compared to a leaked memo from Gordon Brown, the British prime minister. He proposed a $2 trillion European stimulus plan that was supposedly going to create 19 million jobs. In other words, Europe can create a new job with just $105,000 of government spending per job, while the U.S. needs $219,000.

But all of this is just a pipe dream. Government spending does not cause a net increase in jobs over the long run; it costs jobs. Every dollar the government spends is either taxed or borrowed from the private sector, which means it "crowds out" private sector job creation. And because government spending is less efficient than private sector spending, the economy actually grows more slowly in the long run as the government gets bigger.


Now, that is some clear thinking... something apparently the current administration refuses to do.

c4life
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