"Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child." ~ Lao-tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE)
This week Barney Frank (D) came out on the same side of the FBI investigation fracas at the Capitol of Representative William Jefferson of Louisiana as Bill Frist (R). Strange bedfellows, indeed!!!! These two guys could not be any more different than Mickey Mouse and Bart Simpson. But in this respect, they are correct. NO MAN, especially a member of Congress is above the law.
The reason Speaker Hasert was so opposed to the investigation was revealed over the weekend, when ABC news revealed that the speaker, himself might be under the microscope. He was laying ground work to try to keep the "fibbies" out of his offices in the near future, he doesn't give a tinkers about a democrat from Louisiana.
This is not about the buddy system. This is about survival. Planning for the future. He just looks stupid, he did not convince the right that he was the correct guy for the job because he was big fat and stupid, like Mike Moore, its because he's crafty. He is thinking about the indictment of Tom Delay, Bob Ney, "Scooter" Libby, "Duke" Cunningham, possibly Karl Rove, maybe Richard Cheney et al. So can you blame him if he starts early covering his bases?
"…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
America's Job Bank to Shut Down
From Human Resource Online
America's Job Bank -- used by federal contractors who are required to post job openings and by recruiters looking for candidates -- will be closed down as of June 30, 2007.
Scott Kaplan makes it a daily habit to check job postings at America's Job Bank, the Internet's first national job board sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor since 1995.
Later: Despite its benefits, AJB's days are numbered. After evaluating the viability of maintaining the free site, the DOL's Employment and Training Administration decided to phase it out over the next year, closing it down on June 30, 2007, according to a statement released by the DOL.
And then: Meanwhile, Michael Prencipe, principal at HR Staffing Solutions in Springfield, Va., says his regional company has been using AJB since it was launched to find mostly techies and HR professionals.
He believes the site's real value is that many talented military and government employees post their resumes on AJB who otherwise might be invisible to recruiters. On the downside, he recalls how he was inundated with responses from unqualified job seekers every time he posted a position on the site.
Left to its own devices, the Republicans will even destroy their jobs, but still figure out a way to get paid for it. Or pay Haliburton to build a new pump system to get their drinks delivered to them.
Copyright 2006© LRP Publications
"The United States has to move very fast to even stand still." ~ John F. Kennedy
America's Job Bank -- used by federal contractors who are required to post job openings and by recruiters looking for candidates -- will be closed down as of June 30, 2007.
Scott Kaplan makes it a daily habit to check job postings at America's Job Bank, the Internet's first national job board sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor since 1995.
Later: Despite its benefits, AJB's days are numbered. After evaluating the viability of maintaining the free site, the DOL's Employment and Training Administration decided to phase it out over the next year, closing it down on June 30, 2007, according to a statement released by the DOL.
And then: Meanwhile, Michael Prencipe, principal at HR Staffing Solutions in Springfield, Va., says his regional company has been using AJB since it was launched to find mostly techies and HR professionals.
He believes the site's real value is that many talented military and government employees post their resumes on AJB who otherwise might be invisible to recruiters. On the downside, he recalls how he was inundated with responses from unqualified job seekers every time he posted a position on the site.
Left to its own devices, the Republicans will even destroy their jobs, but still figure out a way to get paid for it. Or pay Haliburton to build a new pump system to get their drinks delivered to them.
Copyright 2006© LRP Publications
"The United States has to move very fast to even stand still." ~ John F. Kennedy
T-minus two days until I go back to work....
"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision." ~ Helen Keller
I will start a new job Thursday, so posts maybe limited, yet they become contagious. So I will probably post after work. Work begins at 6 AM, ends at 2:30 PM each day, off weekends. I'll be working across the street from my wife, so expenses won't go up, nowdays that is a great big deal. Insurance will actually go down since mine will now be paid for and my wife can discontinue me from her policy, a savings of over $4oo per month. Welcome to the Bush Health care plan.
State retirement, insurance and holidays will take some time to get accustomed to, but change is good. The government keeps producing lower unemployment figures each month, yet I kept seeing more and more unemployed persons at the employment office each month. The reason the rate goes down is because once the benefits run out a person is taken off of the unemployed role since they no longer file for unemployment, they are considered "NO LONGER UNEMPLOYED, BUT NO LONGER SEEKING WORK". There is a big difference in those terms. Once your benefits run out it is pointless to keep filing unless you have a political agenda. Because you don't file, your not considered unemployed and not "IN THE NUMBERS".
"Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it." ~ Emile-Auguste Chartier, "nom de plume" Alain
I will start a new job Thursday, so posts maybe limited, yet they become contagious. So I will probably post after work. Work begins at 6 AM, ends at 2:30 PM each day, off weekends. I'll be working across the street from my wife, so expenses won't go up, nowdays that is a great big deal. Insurance will actually go down since mine will now be paid for and my wife can discontinue me from her policy, a savings of over $4oo per month. Welcome to the Bush Health care plan.
State retirement, insurance and holidays will take some time to get accustomed to, but change is good. The government keeps producing lower unemployment figures each month, yet I kept seeing more and more unemployed persons at the employment office each month. The reason the rate goes down is because once the benefits run out a person is taken off of the unemployed role since they no longer file for unemployment, they are considered "NO LONGER UNEMPLOYED, BUT NO LONGER SEEKING WORK". There is a big difference in those terms. Once your benefits run out it is pointless to keep filing unless you have a political agenda. Because you don't file, your not considered unemployed and not "IN THE NUMBERS".
"Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it." ~ Emile-Auguste Chartier, "nom de plume" Alain
How was your MEMORIAL DAY?
Ours was spent preparing for the yearly garage sale. No I didn't watch the hypocrisy of the President "laying" or was it "lying" a wreath on the tomb of the unknowns at Arlington yesterday. The only reason it still remains unknown to him is that he still follows a tradition of "great republican hawkish" officials that neither served in a war zone yet seem to "know" best for veterans and the military doing their dirty work.
Many questions still remain regarding "his" service in the Alabama Air National Guard, that service entailed the election campaign of one, Winton Blount, a republican running for Senator of Alabama. Who was later appointed to the Postmaster General position under Nixon, then just happened to buy out the US Postal service went it went from a government agency to a private business. Most Americans still don't know this piece of history regarding their postage prices, and postal delivery. They still get Government benefits, still have to have civil service appointments, but it is privately owned. Funny, huh?
I'm just too old for my own good, yet competition has been good for FedEx and UPS in the meantime. But whatever happened to the 9cent postage stamp? Why as citizens do we subsidize a private company's retirement program?
Apology for the rant. Back to Memorial day. On May 29, 1932 Walter Waters and a group of veterans arrived in Washington, DC demanding their WW I bonuses; over the next few months about 25,000 other veterans and their familes joined them.
After the group had been camped in DC for approximately one month the bill finally came to the floor, passed by the House, but rejected by the Senate. Many of the group went home except the original veterans, vowing to remain until they received justice.
President Hoover ordered the Army to drive them out of Washington. Several battalions of cavalry and tanks advanced on the shantytown of veterans tossing tear gas and setting fire to the makeshift village the veterans had established.
Over the next weeks newsreel footage of the attacks on veterans and their families by the Army, as ordered by the Hoover Administration were seen all over the nation. Resulting in a public relations disaster for the beleaguered administration. FDR reading a newspaper report about the eviction commented that this would elect him and it did.
Another example of "Compassionate Conservatism" by a Republican President. Hoover supported big bid'ness, supported tax cuts for the wealthy, despised the immigrants, hated progressives . . . . . it is starting to sound very familiar.
"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision." ~ Helen Keller
Many questions still remain regarding "his" service in the Alabama Air National Guard, that service entailed the election campaign of one, Winton Blount, a republican running for Senator of Alabama. Who was later appointed to the Postmaster General position under Nixon, then just happened to buy out the US Postal service went it went from a government agency to a private business. Most Americans still don't know this piece of history regarding their postage prices, and postal delivery. They still get Government benefits, still have to have civil service appointments, but it is privately owned. Funny, huh?
I'm just too old for my own good, yet competition has been good for FedEx and UPS in the meantime. But whatever happened to the 9cent postage stamp? Why as citizens do we subsidize a private company's retirement program?
Apology for the rant. Back to Memorial day. On May 29, 1932 Walter Waters and a group of veterans arrived in Washington, DC demanding their WW I bonuses; over the next few months about 25,000 other veterans and their familes joined them.
After the group had been camped in DC for approximately one month the bill finally came to the floor, passed by the House, but rejected by the Senate. Many of the group went home except the original veterans, vowing to remain until they received justice.
President Hoover ordered the Army to drive them out of Washington. Several battalions of cavalry and tanks advanced on the shantytown of veterans tossing tear gas and setting fire to the makeshift village the veterans had established.
Over the next weeks newsreel footage of the attacks on veterans and their families by the Army, as ordered by the Hoover Administration were seen all over the nation. Resulting in a public relations disaster for the beleaguered administration. FDR reading a newspaper report about the eviction commented that this would elect him and it did.
Another example of "Compassionate Conservatism" by a Republican President. Hoover supported big bid'ness, supported tax cuts for the wealthy, despised the immigrants, hated progressives . . . . . it is starting to sound very familiar.
"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision." ~ Helen Keller
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