Ever wanted to just take short cuts or cheat to get the darn thing over with, but still get the award or certificate everyone else got? Me either. But some personality types among us that should have been naturally selected out by now have simply had enough with meeting life a quarter or a fifth [...]
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It’s the defrauders, stupid
Real estate agents typically do the least amount of work, and yet make the most amount of money in a real estate transaction. In fact, many real estate agents only do the job part time. This is just another way society rewards the “face” of the operation; the smile that has to actually (gasp!) deal [...]
Reverse Colonization: Not Looking So Rosy Now
“The Department of Health and Human Services has declared a Public Health Emergency as a precautionary tool to ensure that we have the resources we need at our disposal to respond quickly and effectively,” Obama told a gathering of scientists, amid increasing worries worldwide about a possible pandemic. In the United States, a private school [...]
Obama’s plan: attack the upper middle class
Most liberals are middle-class people living in cities, so they are unable to save any money and are too narcissistic to have families. Their goal? To be the wrecking balls that does in the suburban upper middle class. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama tempered his pledge to substantially raise taxes for high earners with [...]
Barack Obama is a corrupt system player
[President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm ] Emanuel gave the governor’s office a list of “candidates that would be acceptable to President-elect Barack Obama” but no “quid pro quo” or “dealmaking” is suspected. Citing “a source familiar with the investigation,” Fox says that Emanuel had “multiple conversations” with Blagojevich and his chief of staff [...]
Vote for a symbol, find reality more complex
President-elect Barack Obama, who vowed during his campaign that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” said through a spokesman yesterday that he would allow lobbyists on his transition team as long as they work on issues unrelated to their earlier jobs. Obama’s transition chief laid out ethics rules – which also bar [...]
In key states, Latino vote fueled Obama’s victory
Latinos are hailed as a key voting bloc, even though they show their power at the polls only sporadically. When they turned out in record numbers to vote for Democrat Barack Obama, they not only erased recent gains by Republicans but shattered the myth of a black-Latino divide. Amid worries about home foreclosures and economic [...]
Universal Civil Service: is it that bad?
Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, President-Elect Barack Obama’s choice for chief of staff in his incoming administration, is co-author of a book, The Plan: Big Ideas for America, that calls for, among other things, compulsory service for all Americans ages 18 to 25. Emanuel and co-author Bruce Reed insist “this is not a draft,” but [...]
Some sanity on the election
Some 95 per cent of black voters backed the black guy against McCain, the white Republican. In the Democratic primaries it had been much the same, with as many as 90 per cent backing Obama against Hillary Clinton, the white Democrat. (If you’re looking for a racist vote, start here.) Two-thirds of Latino and Asian [...]
"Hope" and "Change" — not so much, actually
At the quarter point in the transition process, Obama has surrounded himself with a cadre of seasoned political operatives and Clinton administration veterans known more for their expertise than ideology. Beltway savvy and centrist policy chops have, so far, trumped partisanship. { snip } But the selection of so many centrist insiders has skeptics wondering [...]