Monday, October 31, 2011

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If you are going to learn how the world works do liberal arts.
If you want to work the world, get a professional training.
It is really best to do both. Liberal arts undergrad.  Technical school as graduate school. 
Never stop reading.

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    There is professional training that will get you through the door.
    There is a degree that will get you an interview for a nontechnical position.  
    A technical program will get you three or four years of eight oclock classes  Four credit labs and math classes.  
    Without a degree one can't get an interview.
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    Bill Gates is studying the science of education. Steve Jobs is creating the art of learning.
    Gates is a suspected authoritarian.  He believes in training.  
    Jobs enjoyed learning and by learning expanding his world.  
    I think neither of them played with ideas.
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    Which candidate is both willing to uphold Christian principles and capable of defeating the president who is not?

    • First, Rule Out Obama

      Colleen Carroll Campbell Colleen Carroll Campbell, columnist and author
      She looks like a nice girl. 
      We have separation of church and state for very good reasons.
      This looks to be an attempt at a list.
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    The Obama administration has eased the terms on student debt. What impact will the new rules have?
    Very little.  
    Borrow. Consolidate,  Prepay as much as possible.
    Know the deal before you sign on the dotted line.

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    First, Stop Destroying Jobs - Room for Debate
    The destruction of the middle class was not an accident of the market but rather was driven by policy. It can be reversed by better policy.

    Jerry Brown is jammed by a Republican party that hates him and
    believes that the business model is the only model that an organization
    can have.  If it is not a business it is a charity and it is neither.
     
    The  governor knows that the job of government is to "promote the general welfare" it is not collecting payment for services rendered.
    Government has no duty to show a profit.    
     
    The state must collect revenues if it is to pay its costs.  If it does not collect it must cut costs.  It might best do that by reducing police and fire protection, road maintenance and water supply in Republican towns.    Place the costs where they belong.  The screams would be very intense.
    "The destruction of the middle class was not an accident of the market but rather was driven by policy. It can be reversed by better policy."
    First we have to stop the death spiral that grips us.  At the moment         "Deficits Don't Matter."  When our economy is working again they can be paid.
    As to your immediate problems,  whatever I could say would probably be wrong. 
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

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Poverty has culture.  It has far more than one culture.   No one will claim that
European, African, South American or Oriental peasants had or have much in the way of wealth.  They all have culture.  All of them know how to get along with very little and they taught and teach their children. Changed environments demand different skills.  People learn to get along with what there is.  We can try to teach them to dream.  Mostly they dream of a hot meal and a place to sleep with a door that closes between them and those who would put them out in the rain and snow.  The children learn it with language.  There is little will to learn more among the children.
Call it a culture of poverty if you wish.

Business managers are those who have learned that the way to have money is to sell things to other people.  They are constantly drilled in fiduciary responsibility.  These are business managers not necessarily business owners.  Managers collect pay checks for getting goods at least cost and selling them for the greatest yield.  Yield is price times sales less costs.
There is no mention of human values there.  At this time least cost for goods is overseas.  Best price is domestic.  Normal operations are shipping money overseas.  The workers who should be making money and paying for goods are getting poor.  The production workers are not getting paid. They know how to deal with it but do not like to do that.  Living in a hovel and scratching a living leads to a nasty, brutish and short life.
 


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Saturday, October 29, 2011

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      She actually said:
      "Some writers get everything they need or want at a traditional publishing house. Others are happy to make an e-book or print up a handful of their self-made children’s book to give to nieces and nephews at the holidays. At the end of the day, all that Amazon is doing is this: helping readers and writers find each other."
      As publishers have always done.
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    It looks like a good service.
    Read the terms of use.
    computers can be had for a hundred bucks or so.
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      If you care.  Most fan product is bad.
      Shared universes can be fun. The originator(s) have final say on publication.
     
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    This is a very strange view of history.
    Debates show us people under modest pressure.  Extracting feet from mouths is the viewer's job.  
    The spin does not make it easy.
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I have been seeing very little fin fish in the market. 
Most of what is there is farm raised salmon.  Ok but not great.  There is some salt cod from Iceland. 



http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cod_fish/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=cod&st=cse

The Phantom of the Menu: Chatham Cod
By JULIA MOSKIN
Environmentalists and fishermen are working to make codfish once again a year-round presence off Cape Cod, using river herring as a lure.
April 2, 2008DiningNews
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/on-subsidies-fish-and-fishing/

http://www.edf.org/oceans/catch-shares-save-commercial-fishing-jobs

There may be some hope.
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A good few hours on the water.

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      A terrible and trivial action from our black and Democrat president.  It is also what George W. should have done and could have done.



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    Predatory lenders are still allowed to victimize borrowers with ever rising costs and penalties.
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    All I find is radical noise.  
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      The upper level north east quadrant of the central structure of the Metropolitan Museum of art is devoted to them.  I have not spent enough time there.  I have yet to get to the Noguchi Museum in L.I. City.  Almost in Raven's Wood.

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    Will people be quicker to take on debt if they know the government will eventually make the terms easier for borrowers?
    The proposition that we reserve higher education to the already privileged runs counter to the American tradition. 
    Meritocracy is our tradition and though an early training purchased by family wealth often forms part of that merit it has not been a barrier for those with luck and pluck.  Land grant colleges offering tax supported education to future leaders have taught the professionals of our nation. Scholarships and grants have recruited talent to the elite schools.  The G.I. bill provided the first sufficiency of talent to the educated ranks. 
    Penurious legislatures and trust officers of no talent have faced a inflated cohort of  offspring of the G.I. bill.  They have raised prices to limit demand while employers have raised entry requirements because of limited demand.  We as a civilization are caught between what is required for life and what the "good life" requires. 
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