Well now, this could get interesting. A South Korean taking over from Kofi Anon. I just hope he can stay out of the scandals. And it’d be great if he gave the U.N. a big klick in the pants.
Posts Tagged ‘Newsworthy’
Outsourcing 2
Check out this article on Delta Air Line’s outsourcing some work to IBM and the one I posted yesterday. Quite a difference. Yesterday’s was all doom and gloom and this one isn’t so bad. In fact, it might even be a good thing for everyone involved.
Outsourcing
Delta asks to outsource tech maintenance Talk about slanted. Maybe they just don’t know anything about the situation. I’m looking for other stories about this. OK, I looked. They all carry the same AP article by Harry Weber. I wonder if he’ll eventually get the facts right. Probably not, saying “About 200 of the 1,800 [...]
The Big Picture
Why is it that Mel Gibson gets slammed but Hezbolah gets praised for bombing Jews?
Know Thy Enemy
This is who we’re up against. Before you go vote this year (the few who will actually do it) please read this article by Orson Scott Card.
US Schools…
The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile. “It’s no secret that the US educational system doesn’t do a very good job. Like clockwork, studies show that America’s schoolkids lag behind their peers in pretty much every industrialized nation. We hear shocking statistics about the percentage of high-school seniors who can’t find [...]
working…
Looks like I won’t be working for Delta much longer. Details to follow…
Will all autos have breathalyzers?
No fucking way! But it could very easily happen. From USATODAY.com
Taxes???
Your tax burden is bigger than Tax Day by John Stossel by 1999, government cost every man, woman and child an average of more than $10,000 per year — more than housing and health care combined. The price went down a little after that, but then it started climbing again.
Unions???
Investor’s Business Daily: Delta’s Dark Skies I understand not wanting to take a pay cut. But when they strike and Delta shuts down, where will they fly then? Aprox 6,000 pilots can directly put 60,000 (if the article’s numbers are right) people out of a job. That doesn’t include thousands more from other companies such [...]
