from the Dianne Rheems show: There are five different types of people for you to reach out to. Rejecters, Disagreeables, Neutrals, Accepters and Embracers. Each one of those terms means something. You need to forget the Rejecters because there’s nothing you can do to influence them. “The[...]
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April 14th, 2011 - 2:06 pm § in America
The Decline of the Dollar
from Simply Shrug Friday, 08 April 2011 17:42 The US Dollar. The Greeback. The buck. The once most-sought currency in the world. It’s on its deathbed, and the current President and Senate seem hell-bent on watching him die a slow, agonizing death. Rather than admit their actions on w[...]
Governor LePage can’t erase history
“Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history. Among other things the mural illustrates the 1937 shoe mill strike in Auburn and Lewiston. It also features the iconic “Rosie the Riveter,”[...]
April 1st, 2011 - 12:15 pm § in America
Ohio Gov John Kasich Signs Corporate Responsibility Act
Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed a bill to limit the rights of politically active corporations to hold state contracts The Republican governor announced his plan in an email to supporters earlier in the day. A spokesman confirmed the bill-signing at the time. The bill was approved Wednesday by the GOP-l[...]
March 31st, 2011 - 9:37 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Will the American taxpayer now be subsidizing students at Yale-Singapore?
Yale Opens College In Singapore As Yale opens its Singapore Campus, shouldn’t we all ask the question …. .. is this the beginning of the globalization of American Higher Education? GE recently got a lot of bad press because it paid no American taxes. The reason for this was that GE IS [...]
Taxing the Rich: Great in Boom Times BAD now!
Nearly half of California’s income taxes before the recession came from the top 1% of earners: households that took in more than $490,000 a year. High earners, it turns out, have especially volatile incomes—their earnings fell by more than twice as much as the rest of the population’s [...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 10:58 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Engineering vs. liberal arts: Who’s right — Bill or Steve?
Vivek Wadhwa, Duke College of engineering Ed. Prof. Wadha writes about a dilemma. While he feels strongly that the humanities are essential for educating creative people in his discipline, graduates of humanities programs have huge trouble being employed. He noted that 63% of the CEOs or heads[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 10:03 pm § in America
Is MaBell Back?
Ed. We all made fun of MaBell .. she was a monopoly Then came court decisions and the internet phone. Free enterprise was great, while it lasted. from Bloomberg AT&T Inc. (T) agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) for about $39 billion in cash and stock to create America’s[...]
March 19th, 2011 - 12:48 am § in America
Labor Solidarity Rally at State Capitol, 3/17
By noon, the Capitol steps at Olympia were completely filled with protesters bearing signs and banners. The ranks were swelled by members of most of the large ones: AFT, AFSCME, SEIU, SPEIA, UFCW, OPEIU, and the Teamsters. Progressive organizations including MoveOn, Fuse-WA, US Uncut, and Real Chang[...]