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"It is the inherent nature of man (lit., 'it is the way of a person's creation') to be drawn, both in his attitudes and deeds, after his friends and associates, and to act in the manner of the inhabitants of his country.   Therefore, a person is obligated to befriend the righteous and to constantly be in the presence of the wise in order that he learn from their acts.   He should [likewise] distance himself from the wicked who go in darkness in order that he not learn from their ways.   This is as Solomon stated, '[One who] walks with the wise will become wise, and one who befriends fools will suffer harm' (Proverbs 13:20).   It also states, 'Fortunate is the man who did not walk in the counsel of the wicked, [and in the way of sins he did not stand, and in the sessions of the scorners he did not sit]' (Psalms 1:1)." --- R' Dovid Rosenfeld "Maimonides on Life: Of Cave Dwellers and Insulation"

 
 

2009 September

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"It cannot be worth any man's while, who has a means of living at home, to expatriate himself in hopes of obtaining a profitable civil office in America; and, as to military offices, they are at an end with the war, the armies being disbanded.   Much less is it advisable for a person to go thither who has no other quality to recommend him but his birth.   In Europe it has indeed its value; but it is a commodity that cannot be carried to a worse market than that of America, where people do not inquire concerning a stranger, 'What is he?' but 'What can he do?'   If he has any useful art, he is welcome; and if he exercises it, and behaves well, he will be respected by all that know him...   The husbandman is in honor there, and even the mechanic, because their employments are useful.   The people have a saying that God Almighty is himself a mechanic, the greatest in the universe; and he is respected and admired more for the variety, ingenuity, and utility of his handiworks, than for the antiquity of his family...   According to these opinions of the Americans, one of them would think himself more obligated to a genealogist wh could prove for him that his ancetors and relations for 10 generations had been plowmen, smiths, carpenters, turners, weavers, tanners, or even shoe-makers, and consequently that they were useful members of society, than if they could only prove that they were gentlemen, doing nothign of value, but living idly on the labor of others, mere fruges consumere nati [born merely to eat up the corn], and otherwise good for nothing, till by their death ther estates, like the carcass of the Negro's gentleman-hog, come to be cut up." --- "Benjamin Franklin Advises Those Who Might Move to America, 1784" (David Hawke 1966 _US Colonial History: Readings and Documents_; quoted in Jon Gjerde 1998 _Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History_ pg 42)

 
 
 

captain William Scott's flag for the Republic of Texas.

2009-09-01

senator Chuck Schumer has threatened to introduce Reprehensible Immigration Law Perversion bill within 6 days.

2009-09-01
Tim McCown _Philadelphia Examiner_
No Americans need apply: In-sourcing low-wage teachers

2009-09-01
Patrick Thibodeau _Computer World_/_IDG_
Federal prosecutors seek $5M in H-1B fraud case: New indictment against Visions System Group Inc. expands counts but reduces demand, from $7.4M
Network World
San Francisco CA Chronicle
CIO
InfoWorld

2009-09-01
Jason Scott _Cumberland PA Sentinel_
City and county unemployment rates continue to climb
city, county, state graphs
graphs

2009-09-01
_CocoaHeads_
CocoaHeads is an international Macintosh programmer's group. Meetings are free and open to the public.   We specialize in Cocoa, but everything Macintosh programming related is welcome.
Upcoming meetings:

Australia	Denmark	Tuesday	2009 September 8	19:00
Germany	Bonn	Thursday	2009 September 24	19:00
Spain	Barcelona-	Friday	2009 September 25	15:30
Sweden	Malmö	Tuesday	2009 September 8	19:00
Sweden	Stockholm	Monday	2009 September 7	18:45
Switzerland	Zürich	Thursday	2009 September 10	19:00
United States	Ann Arbor	Thursday	2009 September 10	19:00
United States	Boston	Thursday	2009 September 10	19:00
United States	Boulder	Tuesday	2009 September 8	19:00
United States	Colorado Springs	Thursday	2009 September 10	19:00
United States	Columbia	Tuesday	2009 September 8	19:00
United States	Columbus	Tuesday	2009 September 8	19:00
United States	Denver	Tuesday	2009 September 8	19:00
United States	Fayetteville	Thursday	2009 September 10	18:00
United States	Golden	Thursday	2009 September 20	20:00
United States	Lake Forest	Wednesday	2009 September 9	19:00
United States	Nashville	Thursday	2009 September 10	19:00
United States	New York	Thursday	2009 September 10	18:00
United States	Pittsburgh	Thursday	2009 September 10	19:30
United States	St. Louis	Saturday	2009 September 26	14:00
United States	Upper Connecticut River Valley	Thursday	2009 September 10	19:00
United Kingdom	Swindon	Monday	2009 September 7	20:00

Some chapters may have yet to post their meeting for next month.   Meeting times may change.   More information about CocoaHeads.
Also be sure to check for an NSCoder Night in your area.

2009-09-01
Michelle R. Smith _San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
"Man in a van" collects Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obmaa economic depression experiences

2009-09-01
_Christian Science Monitor_
There are no "Jobs that Americans Won't Do"

2009-09-01
_Dice_
Dice Report: 49,594 job ads

2009-09-01 (5769 Elul 12)
Yossi Klein HaLevi _Jewish World Review_
Incitement to Murder

2009-09-01 (5769 Elul 12)
Rosally Saltsman _Jewish World Review_
Friendship means knowing when to hold 'em... and when to walk away: The art of re-connecting2009-09-01 (5769 Elul 12)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
Suicide of the West?
"In ways large and small, domestically and internationally, the West is surrendering on the installment plan to Islamic extremists...   It is ironic that this was said in Scotland, for exactly 250 years ago another Scotsman -- Adam Smith -- said, 'Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.'"

++ S887; Durbin, Grassley; H-1B and L-1 visa program reform
Status of S877
 
 

2009-09-02

senator Chuck Schumer has threatened to introduce Reprehensible Immigration Law Perversion bill within 5 days.

2009-09-02
Thomas Kee _MarketWatch_
Expect effects of inflation to hit hard soon

2009-09-02
_Reuters_
CGC: Planned lay-off announcements fell in August: 2009 total passed 1M
NY Times
Washington Post
abc
MarketWatch
Jessica Dickler: CNN
graphs

2009-09-02
Tom Lutey _Billings MT Gazette_
Nebraska family loves traveling Great Plains, harvesting grain: another job Americans allegedly "won't do"

2009-09-02
Gillian Wong _Billings MT Gazette_/_AP_
Red Chinese government detained 15 parents for protesting lead poisoning

2009-09-02
_San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
Switzerland dings Google for Street View privacy violations

2009-09-02
Ann Coulter _Human Events_
Radical leftist lies about their national socialist health care scheme part 3
Patriot Post
US Daily

2009-09-02
Alan Caruba _Renew America_
Obama's flaming radical leftists

2009-09-02
James R. Edwards _Human Events_
Health "Reform" covers illegal aliens

2009-09-02
_San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
Stanford university plans an additional 60 lay-offs
"Stanford University has laid off 412 employees over the past 8 months..."

2009-09-02
Stuart H. Schwartz _American Thinker_
Sarah Palin vs. Dr. Death

2009-09-02
Andrew Nusca _Smart Planet_/_Ziff Davis_
Genetically speaking, ethnicity may not exist
"An international team of researchers led by Evelyne Heyer of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, France studied mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome data from several populations of 2 major language ethnic groups of Central Asia: the Turkic and Indo-Iranian groups."
2000-05-11: Michael Hammer: U of Arizona News: Jewis, Arabic people are genetic brothers

2009-09-02 (5769 Elul 13)
Robert Leiter _Jewish World Review_
Tracking Down the Past

2009-09-02 (5769 Elul 13)
Walter E. Williams _Jewish World Review_
Washington DC's Lies

++ S887; Durbin, Grassley; H-1B and L-1 visa program reform
Status of S877
 
 

2009-09-03

senator Chuck Schumer has threatened to introduce Reprehensible Immigration Law Perversion bill within 4 days.

2009-09-03 05:30PDT (08:30EDT) (12:30GMT)
Scott Gibbons & Tony Sznoluch _DoL ETA_
un-employment insurance weekly claims report: Autumn trough dips below 2003's mid-Summer peak
DoL home page
historical data
"The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 452,271 in the week ending August 29, a decrease of 5,002 from the previous week.   There were 358,730 initial claims in the comparable week in 2008.   The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 4.2% during the week ending August 22, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week.   The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 5,610,719, a decrease of 71,086 from the preceding week.   A year earlier, the rate was 2.3% and the volume was 3,097,585.   Extended benefits were available in AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, ME, MA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI during the week ending August 15.   [Note: The seasonal adjustment factors have been changed by DoL going back to at least the beginning of 2009.]"
graphs
more graphs

2009-09-03
Andrea Coombes _MarketWatch_
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. running $35G deficit

2009-09-03
Joseph Ward _Daily Illini_
Graduate Employees Organization continues negotiations
"About 58% of half-time teaching assistants make less than the estimated cost of living for the Champaign-Urbana area, which is $15,474 per year, according to the Office of Student Financial Aid.   'Our current minimum wage is $2,044 under the University's estimate of living wage.', Campbell said...   He said the GEO made some zero-cost proposals to the University, which would not burden the school financially, but University officials are not willing to bargain."

2009-09-03
Christopher G. Adamo _Border Fire Report_
Obamacare: When growing old becomes a "crime"
Renew America
"Clearly, in the minds of the founders, the purpose of government should only be to uphold a just and defensible societal structure within which the people can maximize their freedoms and interests...   Obamacare... would be far better termed as 'health control'...   To properly grasp the sinister ramifications of the situation, the somewhat recent reversal in the understood purposes and roles of government and 'the people' need to be fully recognized.   In the minds of the founders, government was truly the servant of the people.   But in the murky world of the modern statist, the people are a 'resource' to be utilized for the 'good' of the state as a whole, which means to the benefit of those in power."

2009-09-03
_Billings MT Gazette_/_AP_
Medicaid costs excessive, says governor

2009-09-03
Alan Nieschwietz _Brenham TX Banner_
Harris county judge Ed Emmett: Metro issues have impact on small communities
"When the issue shifted to health care, he told the audience that out of the roughly $1G in tax dollars spent on health care in Harris county, 15% to 20% of that goes toward indigent care and care for illegal aliens."

2009-09-03
Paul A. Ibbetson _Renew America_
The common thread: a bird's eye view of the TEA party movement

2009-09-03
_Los Angeles Times_
Leftist bit off finger of elderly health care reform advocate in Thousand Oaks
Dave Thomas: San Diego Examiner
USA Today/Gannett
Fox
Manchester Guardian
lee Cary: American Thinker
Adam Foxman: Ventura County Star

2009-09-03
Tamara Lush _San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
1.3M to lose unemployment insurance benefits by year's end

2009-09-03
Andy Arnold _DC Examiner_
H-1B visa abuse and US jobs

2009-09-03
Michelle Malkin _V Dare_
Why parents don't trust the educator-in-chief and his comrades
"Obama served with Weather Underground terrorist and neighbor Bill Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge education initiative.   Down-playing academic achievement in favor of left-wing radical activism in the public schools is rooted in Ayers' pedagogical philosophy.   Obama served as the program's first chairman of the board, while Ayers steered its curricular policy.   The 2 oversaw grants to welfare rights enterprise ACORN and to avowed communist Michael Klonsky -- a close pal of Ayers and member of the militant Students for a Democratic Society.   SDS served as a precursor to the violent Weather Underground organization."

2009-09-03
Matthew Daneman _Rochester NY Democrat and Chronicle_/_Gannett_
RIT professor says USA should be concerned about off-shoring

2009-09-03
Richard B. Rafal _Wall Street Journal_
A Doctor's Plan for Legal Industry Reform

2009-09-03 (5769 Elul 13)
Doctor Debby Schwarz Hirschhorn _Jewish World Review_
The secret to disciplining without abusing

2009-09-03
jgo
Solutions to Today's Health Care Problems: Genuine Reform
1.   Too much unconstitutional interference by the feral federal government.
 
Solutions:   Eliminate Medicare, Medicaid, the Socialist Insecurity Abomination, federal laws requiring treatment of every one who comes to a hospital funded by unconstitutional federal loans, and eliminate the federal loans.
 
2.   Too much reliance on insurance instead of savings, which has deceived people into trying to buy more health care than they can afford.
 
Solutions:   This is mostly a cultural problem.   It can be addressed by a combination of education, tax-sheltered savings, and encouragement of mutual aid societies by elimination of government barriers to them.
 
3.   Too many illegal aliens and too many legal immigrants over the last 120 years, accompanied by too much over-population and over-crowding and too little assimilation.
 
Solutions:   Build and maintain fences along 8,607 or so miles of border with Canada and Mexico.   Put armed federal troops along the borders to patrol and maintain the fences, close down tunnels, stop unauthorized fly-overs, capture illegal aliens, capture or kill invaders, etc.   End visa waiver programs.   Conduct a proper background investigation on every visa applicant and charge applicants and sponsors for the reasonable costs (of course, charities are free to donate to visa applicants and sponsors).   Eliminate [bleep] gimmick, reduce family reunification priority.   Put a hard cap on every visa program (eliminate the many loop-holes and exemptions).   Require H-1B and L applicants to demonstrate an IQ of at least 160, aggregate ACT score of 34+, aggregate SAT score 1560+ or "new" aggregate SAT score 2100+, or aggregate GRE above 1615.   Up the investment visa requirement to at least $200K and 4 US citizens employed within 6 months.
 
4.   The AMA has had too much of a lock on the profession and erected artificial and excessive barriers to entry.
 
Solutions:   Simply take them out of the loop on decisions of med school capacities, building and accreditation of new med schools, etc.
 
5.   Failure to remove bad doctors in a timely manner.
 
solution: This is a bit trickier.   We need to be able to tell an honest mistake from incompetence or evil-doing.   Reduce the AMA's influence.   Educate the public more, and hence juries.
 
6.   Outrageous malpractice awards (from juries miffed at #5, but also due to jury shopping and judicial corruption).
 
solution: Educate the public, and hence juries.   The reduction of reliance on government and insurance will improve the public's demand, supply, cost, price savvy, and so will making the books of corporate hospitals more public.
 
7.   High infant mortality (for a multitude of reasons from ignorance of certain details of nutrition and child-care to drugs to casual/promiscuous sex to under-valuing of babies due to over-population in part and the cultural support for/acceptance of abortion).
 
Solutions:   Education.   Improved economy.   Less immigration.
 
8.   The sizable socio-economic sump (and also drags down average academic performance).
 
Solutions:   Education.   Less immigration.   Improved economy.   This was actually improving somewhat before Medicare and Medicaid hit.
 
9.   Every regulatory agency becomes captive of those it was originally intended to regulate, who turn it to their own purposes, including blocking new/potential competitors.
 
Solutions:   Health care and insurance are not amongst the federal government's enumerated delegated powers.   Push this back down to the state level, for them to defend against initiated force and fraud (fraudulent claims, and fraudulent insurance i.e. failure to pay valid claims).   Encourage interstate commerce in insurance of all kinds by disallowing corporations from walling off each state's profits and losses (which currently allows them to selectively open up the spigot from states where there are profits and closing them to states in which that subsidiary has a temporary loss).   Open the insurance corporations' books to more public scrutiny by requiring that their accounts for the last decade be posted on the web.
 
10.   Violation of privacy by federal government and protection rackets.
 
Solutions:   Ban all federal government access to medical records other than massive, statewide aggregate statistics and epidemics.   Ban out-sourcing and off-shoring of medical/health records.   Restore the Hippocratic oath/affirmation.
 
This would be a good start.
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++ S887; Durbin, Grassley; H-1B and L-1 visa program reform
Status of S877
 
 

2009-09-04

senator Chuck Schumer has threatened to introduce Reprehensible Immigration Law Perversion bill within 3 days.

2009-09-04
Rex Nutting _MarketWatch_
US seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at 26-year high of 9.7%: Non-farm pay-rolls fell 216K in August, 20th consecutive monthly decline
graphs

2009-09-04
Rosemary Powers _Daily Illini_
governor Quinn to announce 5 new U of IL trustees

2009-09-04
Doug Hissom _On Milwaukee WI_
Tom Barrett and Tony Zielinski clash

2009-09-04
Jim Kouri _Miami Examiner_
Human trafficking generates giga-bucks in illicit revenues annually: Threatens US security

2009-09-04
Anne-Francoise Pele _EE Times_
Wipro-NewLogic to close site in Sophia Antipolis France

2009-09-04
Kenn Jacobine _Nolan Chart_
Non-existent "rights" have bankrupted the USA

2009-09-04
_Fox_
The Radicalization of Obama's "Green Czar" Van Jones
"In 2004 Jones signed a statement calling for then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and others to launch an investigation into evidence that suggests 'people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed [the terrorist attacks of 2001-09-11] to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war'.   The statement asked a series of critical questions hinting at Bush administration involvement in the attacks and called for 'deeper inquiry'.   It was also signed by former Georgia representative Cynthia McKinney and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans."

2009-09-04
Ben Stocking _San Jose CA Mercury News_
VietNam government arrested blogger in crack-down on critics

2009-09-04
Rick Wertz _Battle Creek MI Enquirer_
Obama out to take over our health
"Make no mistake, Obamacare is intended to be a complete government takeover of health care.   Step by step, Obama will socialize us.   Any half-wit with any knowledge of how government operates knows the drill.   The socialists will ration, will cover illegal aliens, will fund abortions and will confiscate assets when treating catastrophic health conditions.   Just like old folks now under Medicare living in nursing homes.   If these people lack other options, the government takes everything except their house and vehicle.   There are those debating whether Obama is a socialist or a fascist.   Some choice, huh?   Essentially fascism is an economic system in which private enterprise is allowed to function but government makes all the rules.   Sounds familiar, doesn't it?   Socialism (or communism) controls, and owns, the means of production.   Government already owns approximately one-third of America's economy.   This is way, way too much.   It explains our economic stagnation.   The health-care industry is about one-sixth, or 17%, of our economy.   So, when Obama takes over, government will own around half of all property, all labor, anything of value.   (The means of production.)   That is socialism.   We must look at the liberals' long-term goals, what they intend to do to us.   It goes without saying government regulations have intruded into all levels, and every aspect of our health-care system.   Peel away at the paperwork of some problem, or outrageous cost, and you will find government finger-prints all over it.   Competitive free-market solutions should be unchained."

2009-09-04
Thomas J. Rossomando _Philadelphia PA Inquirer_
Where's the concern for legal Philadelphians
"Council members Kenney, Quinones-Sanchez and Jones have decided that criminals are more important than law-abiding citizens.   They don't want illegals who commit a crime to have their finger-prints passed on to immigration [ICE].   If an American is convicted of a felony, finger-prints automatically go to the FBI.   Illegal aliens are criminals and should be deported immediately.   I always thought Councilman Kenney stood for protecting the citizens of Philadelphia.   I guess I was wrong.   I'm not surprised that Council member Quinones-Sanchez would rather protect criminals than Philadelphians.   When City Council recently returned their pay increases, she instead gave it to a charity.   Giving your raise only to some constituents when the money came from all of us is the same as favoring criminals over citizens of Philadelphia.   It's a disgrace!"

2009-09-04 11:32PDT (14:32EDT) (18:32GMT)
John C. Dvorak _MarketWatch_
Social networking invites crime

2009-09-04
Devvy Kidd _US Observer_
Claims that economic recovery is under way are a cruel deception

2009-09-04
Edwin S. Rubenstein _V Dare_
Unemployment Hits a 26-Year High -- Time for An Immigration Moratorium!

2009-09-04
Dana Blankenhorn _Smart Planet_/_Ziff Davis_
Vaccines may make sex safer

2009-09-04 (5769 Elul 15)
R' Berel Wein _Jewish World Review_
On harvesting success: An ancient ceremony has a powerful lesson about the psychological make-up of modern man

2009-09-04 (5769 Elul 15)
Amy L. Edwards & Rene Stutzman _Jewish World Review_
Judge keeps runaway Muslim-turned-"infidel" teen away from parents, seals investigative findings

2009-09-04 (5769 Elul 15)
Caroline B. Glick _Jewish World Review_
Time's up on Iran
"at its present rate of uranium enrichment, Iran will have sufficient quantities of enriched uranium to build two atomic bombs by February."

2009-09-04

DJIA	9,441.27
S&P 500	1,016.40
NASDAQ	2,018.78
Nikkei	10,187
10-year US T-Bond	3.44%
crude oil	$68.02/barrel
gold	$996.70/ounce
silver	$16.285/ounce
platinum	$1,259.10/ounce
palladium	$296.00/ounce
copper	$0.17915625/ounce
natgas	$2.728/MBTU
reformulatedgasoline	$1.7763/gal
heatingoil	$1.7205/gal
dollarindex	78.144
yenperdollar	92.98
dollarspereuro	1.4303
dollarsperpound	1.6397
swissfranksperdollar	1.0605
indianrupeesperdollar	48.90
mexicanpesosperdollar	13.37
MorganStanleyHighTechIndex	509.31

I usually get this info from MarketWatch.
 

++ S887; Durbin, Grassley; H-1B and L-1 visa program reform
Status of S877
 
 

2009-09-05

senator Chuck Schumer has threatened to introduce Reprehensible Immigration Law Perversion bill within 2 days.

2009-09-05
Gulveen Aulakh _Economic Times of India_
Tata to hire 25K people
"India's largest IT [cross-border body shop and off-shorer] Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) that is eyeing the $10G revenue mark in the years to come will hire 25K people globally this year, 90% of which will be from India."
class action against Tata

2009-09-05
Chuck Butler _World Currency Watch_
An Unemployment Lie of Epic Proportions

2009-09-05
Gerard Spinks _Atlanta GA Examiner_
H-1B visa workers should not be allowed on government contracts
"One huge reason the technology sector got obliterated over the last 9 years is due to the proliferation of lower waged technical workers shipped over here from India.   This shift has caused the average American technical worker to dip into bankrupty, lose their life savings, and be reduced to minimum age workers with a master's degree."

2009-09-05
_American Chronicle_
Songwoo Shim entenced to 46 months for conspiring to encourage and induce aliens to reside unlawfully in the United States and for manufacturing fraudulent visa documents

2009-09-05
Robert Kennedy & Doreen Kennedy _Billings MT Gazette_
HR3200 would boost illegal immigration
"While we agree that we must stick to the facts in the health care debate, we also agree that the president and Congress should not hide those facts they do not want known and that there are several giving special-interest groups an advantage.   In this letter we will focus only on the HR3200 loop-holes that will give illegal aliens the ability to enter our health care system through three sections in this bill.   All amendments to close these loop-holes have been blocked by many liberal Democratic members of Congress.   To them we have these questions: Why should U.S. citizens, who are already finding it difficult to pay for their insurance, if they have insurance, be required to provide more for non-citizens?   Don't we already provide emergency room visits, SCHIP and Medicaid to them through other generous loop-holes?   Doesn't this also encourage more illegal immigration?   Isn't it about time to put to our citizens first instead of looking for more reelection votes?   To quote the flamboyant governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, these loop-holes are big enough to 'drive my Hummer through'.   Either close them or trash the bill!"

2009-09-05
Sharon Noguchi _San Jose CA Mercury News_
134 year old San Jose Pioneers club celebrates statehood
"The 125 people celebrating the 159th year of California's admission to the union consumed barely 200 pounds of chicken, ribs, brisket and sausage; heard less than 20 minutes of speeches; and rode rather than walked across Senter Road in San Jose to see vintage fire engines.   Compare that with the first county Pioneers picnic in 1877, two years after the Pioneers' founding, when the locals hosted their San Francisco brethren.   In preparation for the daylong celebration, the hosts prepared 38 animals for the feast.   They escorted their guests on a parade through the city, and endured 2 hours of speeches and an hourlong poem before feasting on 4K pounds of beef, pork and lamb barbecued in hand-dug trenches."

2009-09-05
Joe Guzzardi _V Dare_
Half A Loaf On Labor Day 2009: With Jobs Down, Illegal Aliens Are Leaving
"The illegal population declined 13.7% (1.7M) from a peak of 12.5M in the Summer of 2007 to 10.8M in the first quarter of 2009...   The longer Obamacare is tied up in knots, the less likely an amnesty effort will come to the floor."

2009-09-05
Peter Brimelow _V Dare_
Immigration Moratorium Now!: More evidence from Canada
"Immigration into Canada is among the highest in the world.   The Canadian government's own statistical service has documented its negative impact on incomes there (and in the U.S.A.).   But it continues, and criticism of it has been made virtually illegal."

++ S887; Durbin, Grassley; H-1B and L-1 visa program reform
Status of S877
 

2009-09-06

1757-09-06: Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de la Fayette born in Auvergne, France

senator Chuck Schumer has threatened to introduce Reprehensible Immigration Law Perversion bill within the next day.

2009-09-06
Errin Haines _WSB TV_/_AP_
Lay-offs toughest on workers at each end of the age scale

2009-09-06
Doug Patton _Axcess News_
Government gets health care backwards

2009-09-06
Darrell Tapp _Phoenix AZ Examiner_
Unemployment Day: Americans need jobs, not socialized medicine

2009-09-06 09:11:18PDT (12:11:18EDT) (16:11:18GMT)
_San Jose CA Mercury News_/_McClatchy_
Parental involvement is key to high academic performance
"School spending would have to increase by $1K per pupil to achieve the same results that are gained with parental involvement, according to a University of New Hampshire 2008 study of more than 10K eighth-graders...   1. Get your child to school, prepared to learn...   2. Keep informed...   3. Motivate your child to get involved...   4. Encourage learning outside the school day...   5. Access technology."

2009-09-06
Chuck Barner _Myrtle Beach SC Sun News_
Government does not serve us constitutionally and effectively

2009-09-06
Donald A. Collins _V Dare_
Eulogy for California

2009-09-06
Donald A. Collins _V Dare_
West of the West -- A Eulogy for California
"When I moved to California in 1976, the population of the state was about 15M, plenty crowded already and real estate prices on the verge of exploding...   The population is now going north of 40M, its cities teeming with illegal migrants, crime and endless environmental devastation of which the current wild fires are only one symbol of a place getting out of control."

2009-09-06
James Fulford _V Dare_
Working America Needs An Immigration Moratorium

++ S887; Durbin, Grassley; H-1B and L-1 visa program reform
Status of S877
 
 

2009-09-07

2009-09-07
Dean Calbreath _San Diego CA Union-Tribune_
Recession sting is a lasting ache for job markets (with graphs)
"Cumulative job losses during this recession: 6.8M.   Since 2007 July, when California's employment slump began, the state has lost 952,800 jobs.   It now has about the same number of jobs as it did in 2000, even though the working-age population has grown by 3.3M...   'Things don't look good out there at all.', said JP, an unemployed systems engineer who has been looking for a full-time job since being laid off from Northrop Grumman in late 2006.   'I apply for jobs at least 3 times a week, and I'm always checking Monster.com and calling friends in the business to check for openings.'"

2009-09-07
_CNN_
Israeli government has given go-ahead for 455 housing units West of the Jordan river

2009-09-07
Patrick Thibodeau _Computer World_/_IDG_
US government expanding H-1B fraud case against Vision Systems Group Inc
Network World
CIO

2009-09-07
Robert Gavin _Boston Globe_
Durations of unemployment stretching longer
"5M Americans have been out of work for more than 6 months, a record number that forecasts a slow, difficult recovery and a long period of high unemployment, according to Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies.   Nationally, the average bout of unemployment has reached 25 weeks, the longest since the end of World War 2..."
graphs

2009-09-07
Jesica Selva _Santa Clarita Signal_
Body shopping up as economy declines

2009-09-07
_DelMarVa Now_
Job Market Recovery May Be Years Off
"Some analysts see the national unemployment rate hovering just beyond 10% until next summer.   Certainly, a jobless recovery would be disheartening, the psychological impact severe.   Americans are hard workers, at or near the top among industrial democracies in the hours they work and how little time off they take...   Since the start of the recession, the economy has shed a net total of 6.7M jobs.   It would be heartless to say so, yes, but that's out of a workforce of around 150M.   The success of the American economy has always been its ability to generate jobs.   Only a robust recovery will do, because in the 10 years from 2006 to 2016, the labor force will grow by 12.8M workers.   We will need that many jobs just to stay even, not to mention work for those who lost it in the recession.   When we get back to something like full employment -- and we will -- it will be a different kind of work-force.   A Pew Research Center study found the percentage of Americans 55 and older who were working or looking for work rose to 40%, the highest since 1961."

2009-09-07
Rick Haglund _Michigan Live_
Dreams down-sized in Michigan as jobs and wages may be crippled for a long time (with graphs)
"Michigan has lost more than 700K jobs since the last employment peak in 1999 July as the domestic auto industry went into free fall.   Economists say the state's job-loss toll could rise to 1M by the end of the decade.   That would be a loss of more than 1 of every 5 jobs in the state since 1999...   About 100K jobless workers in the state will run out of [unemployment insurance] benefits by the end of the year unless Congress decides to extend payments."

2009-09-07
Marijke Rowland _Modesto Bee_
Experts say valley jobs will take years to rebound
"Jeff Michael, director of the Business Forecasting Center at the University of the Pacific... 'in terms of really getting back to where we were before the recession, we're looking at years -- maybe 2013, 2014.'...   Go to any job fair booth or ask any human resources director what the employment picture is like and they will tell you the number of applicants for each opening is overwhelming...   Still, the jobless rate hasn't matched its record-high from the last major recession when Stanislaus County hit 19.7% unemployment in February 1993."

2009-09-07
Chris Kenning _Louisville KY Courer-Journal_
KY's long unemployment lines are a "sign of the times" (with graphs)
"others, already distraught from losing their job, seethe after hours of waiting in uncomfortable plastic chairs while babies cry nearby.   And some collapse in tears as they recount how they've lost their jobs and homes.   Day after day, they wait, sharing vending-machine chips and job tips, bouncing toddlers, signing up for computer training, telling tales of bureaucracy and shaking their heads at business lay-offs...   the state is still down 83,500 jobs since 2008 July...   University of Louisville economist Paul Coomes said the job market tends to lag behind the rest of the economy and he predicted that the unemployment rate might continue to climb for 'several years', as skittish employers remain reluctant to add to pay-rolls...   The state's data-base on a recent day had 2,680 companies advertizing jobs.   But only 206 paid $15 or more, Wise pointed out.   And companies that say they're hiring often wait a month to call people back, if they ever do, having the luxury of being picky."

2009-09-07
Jane M. von Bergen _Philadelphia PA Inquirer_
For most jobless, loss of earning power is permanent
"Twenty years out, they will be earning 15% to 20% less than what they would have earned had they stayed in the same job, advancing along with their colleagues."

2009-09-07
Dave Gibson _Virginia Beach Examiner_
It should now be called cheap/slave Labor Day
"the seeds of the current and as yet, unfolding disaster started several years ago, when both our federal government and business community betrayed American working class families.   With so many American companies now firing their American workers and opening factories in China and Mexico, manufacturing jobs have become few and far between.   We constantly hear that this nation's economy is becoming service-based.   However, with about a million illegal aliens streaming across the border every year who are willing to work for sub-standard wages, even the service jobs will soon become unavailable to Americans.   If current corporate trends continue, labor will become a thing of the past for most Americans as poverty becomes their future...   The University of California at Santa Cruz conducted a study of U.S. job losses between 1979-1999.   The study focused on manufacturing jobs in the clothing, footwear, leather, and textile industries.   The study concluded that within a three year period, one-third of laid-off workers failed to find other employment, as for the workers who found another job, half of them took a 15% cut in wages.   In 2007, the overall U.S. trade deficit was $731.2G.   In 2004, the figure was $668.1G.   That is an incredible 17% increase in over a three-year period.   Our trade deficit with China alone in 2007 was $258M, in 2008, that number increased slightly to $268M.   While the overall trade deficit dipped to $673.3G in 2008, that could be attributed to the recession and Americans' fast-shrinking bank accounts.   Every year since 1985, our trade imbalance with China has risen.   As a result, he United States has become a dumping ground for cheap Asian-made products.   However, counter top appliances and underwear are not the only items that Americans will no longer be manufacturing.   In 2006, Ford Automotive Corp. announced that it would close seven plants across the country by 2008.   Ford plans to lay-off 34K workers by 2012.   Shortly after the devastating announcement was made, The Detroit Free Press discovered documents which detailed Ford's plans to invest $9.2G in Mexico, which includes a new 280K square foot assembly plant.   Ford already produces a large portion of their vehicles in Mexico and with their plans to expand existing plants and using local suppliers, Ford will create another 37,420 jobs in Mexico.   Ford is not only replacing all of their laid-off American workers with Mexicans, they are adding another 3,420 employees south of the border!   Since NAFTA began in 1994, millions of U.S. jobs have been lost thanks to the basically free access given to products manufactured in Mexico.   The dirt cheap labor which can be found in Mexico has led dozens of companies to close their American factories, only to re-open in Mexico where the average daily wage is $4.85.   In 2007, the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition reported that 1,001,100 U.S. apparel and textile manufacturing jobs had been lost since 1994.   That represents a 52% loss of jobs in the textile industry, and a 75% job loss in the apparel industry."

2009-09-07
John W. Lillpop _Border Fire Report_
15M unemployed: Why not deport illegal aliens?

2009-09-07
_Calvert, St. Mary's, Charles county Bay Net_
Annapolis man sentenced to forfeiture, 3 years probation and 6 months in halfway house for employing illegal aliens

2009-09-07
Martin Feldstein _Wall Street Journal_
Crowding out private options: Obamacare's crippling deficits

2009-09-07
Steve Sailer _V Dare_
Paul Gottfried's encounters with history

2009-09-07 (5769 Elul 18)
Tucker Carlson _Jewish World Review_
Do you know what text-books your children are really reading?

2009-09-07 (5769 Elul 18)
Rabbi Doctor Asher Meir _Jewish World Review_
Help the needy through deception?

++ S887; Durbin, Grassley; H-1B and L-1 visa program reform
Status of S877
 
 

2009-09-08

1921-09-08: Margaret Gorman became first Miss America
1565-09-08: St. Augustine founded by Pedro Menéndez

2009-09-07 20:58PDT (2009-09-07 23:58EDT) (2009-09-08 03:58GMT)
Bob Confer _Niagara Gazette_/_Lockport Union-Sun & Journal_
Schumer's reprehensible immigration law perversion

2009-09-08
Mary Pickett _Billings MT Gazette_/_Lee_
Real American Genius: MSU Billings students help set up laser lab
"It took weeks for Shoen and Becky Jordan, a chemistry major and former U.S. Navy electronics tech, to reconnect 52 wires and 2 water lines.   The rest of the summer, Shoen constructed a harmonic separator between the Nd:YAG and dye laser, connected the dye laser to a computer and wrote software so the computer and laser could communicate.   He also undertook the tedious job of adjusting the dye laser's prisms and lenses.   Shoen continues to work on that project to get it ready for MSU Billings' first laser spectroscopy class Spring semester...   Originally thinking about studying computer science, he took as many math and science courses as he could.   A class from Synder got Schoen excited about physics.   He hopes to be able to do some research on the laser before graduating in the Spring.   He is interested in the physics of plasma, which is ionized gas that may be the next-generation power source.   Shoen is one of 16 Montana students each receiving a $1,500 Montana Space Grant Consortium scholarship this year.   The MSGC's Awards for Research in Engineering and Science also helped fund his work this summer.   After graduation, Shoen plans to go to graduate school in physics."

2009-09-08 09:49:54PDT (12:49:54EDT) (16:49:54GMT)
Chris Kahn _San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
First Solar to build 25-square-mile, 2GW solar power plant in Mongolia

2009-09-08
Dustin Bleizeffer _Casper WY Star-Tribune_/_Billings MT Gazette_/_Lee_
More Americans doing jobs "Americans won't do"
continued

2009-09-08
Donna Healy _Billings MT Gazette_/_Lee_
MSU Billings students are more worried about the economy than flu

2009-09-08
Theodore Dalrymple _City Journal_
Inflation's Moral Hazard: An age of loose money not only destroys savings; it corrodes character

2009-09-08
_PR USA_
Open letter to Fritz Henderson: No more H-1B visas
"General Motors continues to retain H-1B Employees while US Citizens are getting laid off.   H-1B employees are those who are here on a temporary work visa.   Approximately 4K white-collared employees will lose their jobs by 2009 October.   We are a group of technology workers who are also US citizens and are all unemployed due to issues faced by US auto-makers.   In spite of years of experience working in the information technology field, we are unable to find suitable positions.   It is unfair then for GM and other companies to retain H-1B workers when US citizens cannot find jobs.   There is no job out there today that a US citizen cannot be trained to do."

2009-09-08 11:06PDT (14:06EDT) (18:06GMT)
Patrick Thibodeau _Computer World_/_IDG_
Silicon Valley is shrinking: Employment down 16.5% since 2001
PC World
New Zealand
"The number of high-tech jobs in Silicon Valley industries declined by 86K, or 16.5%, between 2001 and 2008, according a federal study of employment trends in the valley.   In the study released last month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) identified 11 industries as high-tech employers in Silicon Valley and then assessed what happened to them after the 2001 dot-com bust.   The study found that while pay-checks in those industries increased by nearly 36% from 2001 to 2008 to an overall annual pay-roll of some $58G, only three of the 11 industries -- aerospace, pharmaceuticals and scientific research -- boosted their Silicon Valley work-force numbers...   Software publishers: 2001, 32,800; 2008, 25,661, change: -21.8%."
Amar Mann & Tony Nunes: BLS: After the Dot-Com Bubble: Silicon Valley High-Tech Employment And Wages in 2001 and 2008

2009-09-08
_Work Permit_
H-1B visas still available for FY2010

2009-09-08
Jim Kouri _Miami Examiner_
Corruption: Federal Reserve aiding law-breaking illegal aliens

2009-09-08
James H. Walsh _News Max_
Obamacare woudl lead to tsunami of illegal aliens

2009-09-08
Carl Braun _San Diego CA Examiner_
Illegal immigration continues, and environment loses

2009-09-08
Kimberly Dvorak _San Diego CA Examiner_
gubernatorial candidate Nightingale discusses California's future

2009-09-08
Robert Moon _Macon county Examiner_
proof that ObummerDoesn'tCare will cover illegal aliens

2009-09-08
Larry Schweikart _Family Security Matters_
New Media Triumphant

2009-09-08 13:07PDT (16:07EDT) (20:07GMT)
Greg Robb _MarketWatch_
Consumer debt paid down by record amount in July
"And on a year-on-year basis, credit is down 4.3%, the biggest drop since 1944 June...   In the sub-categories, credit-card debt fell $6.11G, or 8.5%, in July to $905.58G.   This is the record 11th straight monthly drop in credit card debt.   Non-revolving credit, such as auto loans, personal loans and student loans fell a record $15.44G or 11.7% to $1.57T...   Americans, busy paying off bills and saving money, now hold about 450 times [as much] debt [as] they did when the GIs stormed the beaches at Normandy."

2009-09-08 14:47:48PDT (17:47:48EDT) (21:47:48GMT)
Scott Duke Harris _San Jose CA Mercury News_
Complete Genomics delivered 14 complete human gene sequences
"Pfizer... Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Duke University, Brigham & Women's Hospital, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research in addition to the previously announced Institute for Systems Biology and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard...   The raw data generated by the... sequenced genomes is being analyzed to test Complete Genomics technology and for small-scale studies of 4 types of cancer, HIV and schizophrenia, the companies said.   Decoding the genome is considered vital to advances in science and medicine."

2009-09-08
Trish Turner _Fox_
Max Baucus Health Care Perversion Scheme would impose $3,800 fines on conscientious objectors (ObummerDoesn'tCare)

2009-09-08
Rachel Frommel _Northern KY University Northerner_
Grads struggle to find the paper trail
"In past economic down-turns, the safe alternative was to stay in school or join the military.   Graduate schools were crammed with students scared to graduate just to find themselves at a dead end.   Graduate schools were always seen as safe shelter from the storm for a couple more years.   That may not be the case in the current recession.   Peg Griffin, Northern Kentucky University's director of graduate programs, said the majority of applicants she has recently seen have been adults who have been out of school for some years...   This spring, only 19.7% of graduating seniors who applied for a job have one lined up for after graduation, according to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers [NACE], compared to 51% of students graduating in 2007 and 26% in 2008."

2009-09-08
Heather Clancy _Smart Planet_/_Ziff Davis_
USA is a polity of aging workaholics
"There was a survey released over the Labor Day weekend revealing that the U.S. work-force is aging.   For one thing, the percentage of working Americans who are 65 or older is expected to rise to to 16% this year, compared with 12% in 1999.   What's more approximately 47% of Baby Boomers (the median age of Boomers is 54) see themselves as mid-career."

2009-09-08
_Americans for Legal Immigration PAC_/_MMD News Wire_
Health Care, Taxation, Free Speech, and Illegal Immigration Debates Entwine

2009-09-08
Peter B. Gemma _V Dare_
Goldwater vs. Goldwater vs. sheriff Joe Arpaio

2009-09-08
Larry Dignan _Smart Planet_/_Ziff Davis_
Has the time for nuclear generation of electricity returned?

2009-09-08
_NY Daily News_/_Reuters_
ManPOWER body shop says it's harder to land a job in the USA than in other countries

2009-09-08
Andrea Koncz & Mimi Collins _NACE_
Class of 2009 sees declines in starting salary offers

2009-09-08 (5769 Elul 19)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
Listening to a Liar: Obamacare part 1
Town Hall

++ S887; Durbin, Grassley; H-1B and L-1 visa program reform
Status of S877
 
 

2009-09-09

2009-09-09
Robert Morgan _Alexandria LA Town Talk_/_Gannett_
How illegal aliens are counted will skew apportionment and hurt Louisiana
"But Elliott Stonecipher of Shreveport, a pollster and demographic analyst, said counting illegal residents the same as citizens makes the concept of representative government pointless.   Being able to elect someone to Congress to represent your views was a right of citizenship, and now it 'doesn't even mean that', Stonecipher said...   'Our population estimate as of the latest estimate was 4,410,796, the same as in the spring of 1985.', Stonecipher said...   Census officials said the agency will begin hiring workers 'in the next month or so' to be trained to do the actual count.   Pay for individuals will vary from about $9 to $14 per hour, Danos said, depending upon what position they are hired to fill."

2009-09-09
Jared Hall _Daily Illini_
"Clout kid" puts human face on U of IL admissions influence scandal

2009-09-09
Kyle-Anne Shiver & Dr. Joseph Spooner _American Thinker_
Power to the Patients

2009-09-09 14:19PDT (17:19EDT) (21:19GMT)
Kelly Evans & Sarah Murray _Wall Street Journal_
Job Openings Reach Record Low Since 2000
Rex Nutting: MarketWatch (with graph)
"The U.S. had a record low 2.4M job openings in July, the Labor Department said Wednesday, the fewest since it began tracking in 2000 and exactly half of the peak of 4.8M in mid-2007...   In July, there were 6.05 unemployed people for every job opening, according to the most recent data on labor turn-over.   In 2007 December, when the recession began, there were 1.72 unemployed people for every job opening."
JOLTS report

2009-09-09
"alstry" _Motley Fools_
2009-09-09 rioting breaking out in Europe over unemployment

2009-09-09
_eMedia Wire_
83% distrust Socialist Insecurity Abomination

2009-09-09
_South YorkShire Star_
"Apprentices" in the Dragons' Den
"One youngster who joined the course was Gemma Gelsskiy, aged 17, from Parson Cross, who has been struggling to find work since she left Yewlands Technology College 2 years ago.   Despite sending out hundreds of CVs for jobs, she did not get one call back."

2009-09-09
_Helicoptor Association International Rotor_
Immigration Update: Senate Release of Bill Delayed

2009-09-09
Brian Sommer _Ziff Davis_/_CNET_/_CBS_
8 charges added against Vision Systems Group

2009-09-09
Dana Blankenhorn _Smart Planet_/_Ziff Davis_
How Ritalin works
"Recently scientists at the Brookhaven National Lab gave 53 ADHD people and 44 controls a radioactive tracer that would 'light up' dopamine receptors and transporters under a PET scanner.   What they found was the ADHD people had fewer of these cells, meaning our brains are less capable of processing dopamine, the chemical 'attaboy', than other people.   It's all gone into the _Journal of the American Medical Association_.   If you don't have many cells that process dopamine, the best way to get a healthy dose in your brain is to flood it with chemicals that produce dopamine.   Stimulants.   That's why Ritalin and Adderall help ADHD kids.   These same chemicals over-stimulate a brain with a normal load of dopamine receptors, which is why your kid just gets high on them...   Eating... benzedrine... exercise... cocaine... Alcohol helps stimulate the natural release of dopamine...   Loud applause stimulates dopamine.   It may explain why so many other ADHDers are so ambitious...   As an ADHD kid myself, and father to two more, this may also explain something I have found troubling my whole life.   I don't react well to praise.   Tell me you like this article and I may just shrug it off.   Tell me you hate it and we can have a good argument -- well an argument at any rate.   Praise doesn't give me the hit it gives you -- I need a lot of it to feel it."

2009-09-09
Deborah Gage _Private Equity Hub_
Sexual harassment suit against Exigen executives is still active

2009-09-09
William E. Gibson _Florida Sun-Sentinel_
senator George LeMieux eager to begin serving
"LeMieux appears likely to steer clear of Martinez's controversial attempts to overhaul immigration law, which would include a path to citizenship for the undocumented.   'We need to secure our borders.', LeMieux said.   'After we do that, we can figure what happens to people already here.'"

2009-09-09 (5769 Elul 20)
Cal Thomas _Jewish World Review_
Quid but no Quo
"The Latin phrase 'quid pro quo' means ['this for that'].   Israel has given lots of quid, but has received little quo.   The Obama administration is again pressing Israel to stop building homes on its historic territory.   The political geniuses believe this will magically cause Israel's enemies to either reciprocate with a peaceful act, or at least suspend the terrorism for a while in order to give the administration political cover for another sellout of the Jews.   But as Middle East commentator Yoram Ettinger writes on his web site 'Israeli policy-makers and public opinion molders tend to accept U.S. administrations as top authorities on the Middle East.'   Ettinger lists numerous instances -- beginning with the founding of Israel in 1948 -- that remind how they have been consistently wrong in their judgments.   George Mitchell, the administration's Middle East envoy, is visiting Israel this week to continue 'negotiations'.   These are not real negotiations because only one side is expected to give anything and the other side is never held accountable for failing to live up to its promises...   No one asks Abbas what he would give in return for putting Israeli construction on hold, other than more talks that would bring more empty promises.   As Israel is pressured to stop building, Palestinian construction continues unabated.   A new Palestinian housing project has begun in Ramallah.   It is expected to provide 2K housing units, accommodating 10K people.   Thousands of Arabs are moving into Jewish areas of Jerusalem, but don't look for Mitchell to suggest they live elsewhere.   Only Israel is not allowed to determine where it's own people live."

2009-09-09 (5769 Elul 20)
Walter E. Williams _Jewish World Review_
Inflation and Deficits

++ S887; Durbin, Grassley; H-1B and L-1 visa program reform
Status of S877
 
 

2009-09-10

2009-09-10
Joseph Ward _Daily Illini_
Graduate Employee Organization marched for higher wages
"The GEO has been negotiating with the University since April, saying that graduate students are under-paid for the services they provide.   About 58% of half-time teaching assistants make less than the estimated cost of living for the Champaign-Urbana area, which is $15,474 per year, according to the Office of Student Financial Aid."

2009-09-10
Chelsea Fiddyment _Daily Illini_
Google great for privacy violation, government surveillance
"The ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California filed their concerns on Tuesday."

2009-09-10 05:30PDT (08:30EDT) (12:30GMT)
Scott Gibbons & Tony Sznoluch _DoL ETA_
un-employment insurance weekly claims report: Autumn trough dips below 2003's mid-Summer peak
DoL home page
historical data
"The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 460,516 in the week ending Sept. 5, an increase of 3,834 from the previous week.   There were 336,733 initial claims in the comparable week in 2008.   The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 4.1% during the week ending August 29, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week.   The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 5,424,564, a decrease of 197,837 from the preceding week.   A year earlier, the rate was 2.3% and the volume was 3,059,126.   Extended benefits were available in AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, ME, MA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI during the week ending August 22.   [Note: The seasonal adjustment factors have been changed by DoL going back to at least the beginning of 2009.]"
graphs
more graphs

2009-09-10
Daniel Taub _Bloomberg_
US foreclosure filings top 300K for 6th straight month
Robert Daniel: MarketWatch
Inman News
Consumer Affairs

2009-09-10
Amy Thomson _Bloomberg_
Verizon will cut additional jobs

2009-09-10
_Pittsburgh PA Tribune-Review_
A loop-hole in HR 3200 could accommodate illegal aliens
Nathan Deal: Dalton GA Daily Citizen
"A loop-hole in the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (HR3200) could accommodate millions of illegal aliens and swallow billions of taxpayer dollars.   That's unacceptable...   HR3200's toothless 'ban' on affordability credits, combined with rejection of safeguards [e.g. the Deal amendment], smacks of deliberate deceit by a Congress more interested in paying lip service to that principle than in abiding by it."

2009-09-10
Matt Krupnick _San Jose CA Mercury News_/_Contra Costa Times_
University of California regents proposed 32% tuition increase (with table)
"UC regents next week will discuss the phased increases, which for most students would include a 7.5% hike for the upcoming spring term and then a sharper increase for the 2010 Fall term.   The decision, which would bring UC tuition to $10,302, would cost under-graduates an additional $2,500 per year.   Most graduate students also would pay about 32% more in 2010 Fall."

2009-09-10
Kimberly Miller _Palm Beach FL Post_
Former administrator filed age-discrimination suit against Florida Atlantic University
Sun-Sentinel
Miami Herald/McClatchy
"He served as assistant vice president for research from 2004 to 2008, when, according to a federal lawsuit he filed this week, an interim supervisor told him he would be terminated the next year.   He was immediately demoted to a job writing alumni letters in the College of Business.   The suit was filed Tuesday in federal court in West Palm Beach.   Goldberger, who holds a doctorate in physics, earned an annual salary of about $126,475.   The university told him budget cuts were to blame for his firing.   But an April ruling from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that FAU's actions 'are perceived as having malice and intent to discriminate against older employees'.   The EEOC based its decision on evidence that of two assistant vice presidents for research, the university retained a younger employee who was earning $15K more than Goldberger.   Also, 2 weeks before Goldberger was to leave FAU, the school posted 2 job openings for duties Goldberger performed as assistant vice president for research."
Frank Brogan leaving FAU to become chancellor of 11 state universities

2009-09-10
Sherry Cooper _Financial Post of Canada_
Red China's unreal global shopping spree: Attempt to obtain hard assets as inflation brings down value of government bonds

2009-09-10 (5769 Elul 21)
Bob Tyrrell _Jewish World Review_
New generation of Churchill critics

2009-09-10 (5769 Elul 21)
Rabbi Yonason Goldson _Jewish World Review_
Two Cheers for Pain
"By opting to avoid short-term pain, however, we inevitably cause ourselves long-term pain.   By refusing to deal with problems when they are manageable, we allow them to grow to monstrous proportions until they can no longer be ignored...   if we pay attention, rather than prompting us to cry out against the injustice of our fate, our pain can make us more conscious of our own obligation to look a little deeper for the lessons that reside within every inconvenience and discomfort, before we begin searching frantically for the quickest method to make them all go away."

++ S887; Durbin, Grassley; H-1B and L-1 visa program reform
Status of S877
 
 

2009-09-11

2009-09-11
Sandy Shore _Billings MT Gazette_
Grupo Mexico and Mumbai-based Sterlite bid to buy Arizona-based Asarco mining

2009-09-11
Colleen Vest _Daily Illini_
International students still flocking to U of IL
"the percentage of international students at the University has increased over the past 8 years...   'I think students are aware that the visa process is pretty predictable and large numbers are approved each year.', said Peggy Blumenthal, chief operating officer for the Institute of International Education.   'That's not to say that some students may be delayed or denied.'...   Data specialists within the [university's] International Student and Scholar Services at the University generate weekly reports on international students, and every semester registration and course information is reported, McFarlane said...   The information gathered about international students is then reported to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, (USCIS)...   'U.S. universities are still reaching out and have become more proactive in recruiting students since 2001/09/11.', Blumenthal said.   Misa said the government continues to encourage international students to attend U.S. universities."

2009-09-11
Tim Morgan _National Ledger_
ACORN culture of corruption stepping in it again
Dianna Cotter: Portland Examiner: prostitution, illegal immigration, sex trade
Josh Geldrich: Pittsburgh Examiner: Not all the facts being told about the ACORN prostitution video
CNN
Baltimore Sun
Emily Miller: Politics Daily: Prostitute Poser Gets Housing Loan Help from ACORN
Fox
CBS/AP

2009-09-11
Kenneth Wallis _Little Rock AR Examiner_
Who truly cares about the children?

2009-09-11 01:54PDT (04:54EDT) (08:54GMT)
"Emmanuel" _Global Post_
Gary Becker: Charge $50K for H-1B visas
"Anyway, Becker's article in the news-letter proposes that migrants be charged $50K each to become US citizens.   You can listen to his presentation, too.   In theory, not only will this help raise revenue ($50G for the million immigrants the US accepts each year he says), but it will also make intake more 'self-selecting' to those most talented or determined.   Plus, doing so reduces the politically contentious charge that migrants sponge off Uncle Sam by providing a sizable revenue stream.   His reasoning is similar to that used by those who want the US to adopt skill-based preferences alike other Anglophone countries (the UK, Australia, and Canada) as opposed to current family reunification ones.   Think George Borjas...   the last time I checked, temporary H-1B work visas were drawing flies."
Gary Becker Explains the Benefits of Setting a Price for Immigration

2009-09-11 09:22PDT (12:22EDT) (16:22GMT)
Greg Robb _MarketWatch_
UMich consumer sentiment index rose from 65.7 in August to 70.2 in early September

2009-09-11 12:15PDT (15:15EDT) (19:15GMT)
Robert Schroeder _MarketWatch_
US government runs $111.4G deficit in August: 11th straight month of red ink

2009-09-11
_Chicago Business_
Allstate to pay $4.5M to settle age discrimination suit, related to declaring employees to be independent contractors
"The EEOC said it brought the case because 90% of the agents subjected to the hiring moratorium were 40 or older.   It was filed in 2004 October under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act."

2009-09-11
Kim Berry _Programmer's Guild_
Congress' H-1b program is displacing daughter of Programmers Guild president out of the job market

2009-09-11
Jonathan Katz
Cold Thoughts on Global Warming
"The climate has gotten warmer over the last (roughly) 300 years, since the end of the Little Ice Age c. 1300-1700.   Although many of the details are controversial, and some of the data may be corrupted in a variety of ways, the preponderance of evidence strongly supports this conclusion.   There is no 'Emerging Consensus'.   The physics of 'greenhouse gases' and their effect on climate has been understood since the work of Tyndall (1862).   The conclusion that anthropogenic emissions of these gases will likely warm the climate has been generally accepted for a century.   It is a consensus, but it is not emerging or new.   It has been there all along.   Only a panicky fear of the consequences is new.   Climate is a complicated system with many feed-back loops, most of which are not understood.   For example, about half of the emitted carbon is re-absorbed.   No one knows where it goes, although probably into some combination of the ocean and biosphere.   It is not possible to predict the future climate.   The computer codes all do an excellent job of explaining the past history of climate.   This is because they are calibrated to do so.   They all contain a variety of 'empirical parameters' (fudge factors) that are tuned to agree with present and past climate.   That doesn't mean the codes are right, or have any predictive value (as Paul Dirac said, and 'Yogi' Berra made famous, it is hard to predict, especially the future).   The codes disagree with each other about the future even when the same assumptions are made, with results for the warming spread over a factor of about 2.5.   Hence most of the codes must be wrong.   Perhaps they all are.   We don't understand climate, and there is no prospect of doing so in the forseeable future.   The Earth reflects 30% of its incident sunlight.   Increasing or decreasing this by one percentage point would produce a cooling or warming equal in magnitude to the warming from pre-industrial times to the present.   But no one knows how to calculate this value that is measured to be 30%.   Without understanding, better computers don't help...   PostScript (2010/01/01): 2009 November brought the 'Climategate' revelations.   Leaked [e-mail messages] from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit showed a number of prominent advocates of drastic anti-greenhouse gas measures engaging in attempts to suppress contrary opinions by a variety of unethical means.   Assertions by those embarrassed and their supporters that the leak was 'illegal', whether or not valid, amount to a confession of guilt.   For professional scientists, this was familiar -- scientists frequently engage in back-stabbing and attempt to sabotage the careers of their rivals (see, for example, the 'XYZ Affair' in my book _The Biggest Bangs_).   Usually the stakes are prestige, jobs and research grants.   In climatology the stakes are trillions of dollars of investment that might better be spent in other ways (such as food and health care for the poor)."

2009-09-11 (5769 Elul 22)
Caroline B. Glick _Jewish World Review_
Having one's enemy and eating it, too: Surveying today's myopic Middle East on the eighth anniversary of the 2001 Sept. 11 attacks
"From 1967 through 1987 -- when through their violent uprising they decided to cut their economy off from Israel's -- Palestinian economic growth in Gaza, Judea and Samaria rose by double digits every year.   Indeed, while linked to Israel's, the Palestinian economy was the fourth fastest growing economy in the world.   But since 1994 when the PLO took over, although the Palestinians have become the largest per capita foreign aid recipients in recorded history, the Palestinian economy has contracted on a per capita basis...   From Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and Indonesia, the Arab and Muslim world has preferred poverty and economic backwardness to the prosperity that would come from engaging Israel."
"The test of a culture is what it accomplishes in advancing the human cause -- what it creates..." --- George Gilder _The Israel Test_

2009-09-11 (5769 Elul 22)
Rabbi David Aaron _Jewish World Review_
Choose Good, Feel Great: Secrets to Living Your Best Life

2009-09-11 (5769 Elul 22)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
Listening to a liar: Obamacare part 2
GOP USA

2009-09-11

DJIA	9,605.41
S&P 500	1,042.73
NASDAQ	2,080.90
Nikkei	10,444
10-year US T-Bond	3.33%
crude oil	$69.29/barrel
gold	$1,004.90/ounce
silver	$16.70/ounce
platinum	$1,320.70/ounce
palladium	$294.50/ounce
copper	$0.17790625/ounce
natgas	$2.96/MBTU
reformulatedgasoline	$1.7598/gal
heatingoil	$1.7308/gal
dollarindex	76.68
yenperdollar	90.69
dollarspereuro	1.4587
dollarsperpound	1.6685
swissfranksperdollar	1.0366
indianrupeesperdollar	48.485
mexicanpesosperdollar	13.3490
MorganStanleyHighTechIndex	530.49

I usually get this info from MarketWatch.
 

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2009-09-12

2009-09-12
Doyle Woody _Anchorage AK Daily News_
Shyiak being kept as UAA coach as they go through the charade PERM process to pretend they're open to hiring a US citizen for the job
"He currently holds a non-resident visa as an H-1B temporary worker, the same status he had while an assistant coach and associate head coach at his alma mater, Northern Michigan University, from 1995 to 2005.   Shyiak said his understanding is that his H-1B, a specialty worker's permit, is valid through the term of his current contract.   The 4-year extension Shyiak signed last season runs through the 2012-2013 season."

2009-09-12
Michael Mandel _Business Week_
Earnings of Young College Grads vs. College Costs (with graph)
"In real terms, college costs are up by 23% since 2000. But real pay for young college grads is down 11% over the same period."

2009-09-12
Mark Shoffner _Huntington county ?? Examiner_
National ID KKKard core element of Reprehensible Immigration Law Perversion proposal

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2009-09-13

2009-09-13
Jenni Vincent _Martinsburg Journal News_
Locals join 1.2M to 2M strong march in DC for unity, against over-powerful, excessive-spending government: Many held local demonstrations
Pam Meister: Family Security Matters
Brad Knickerbocker: Christian Science Monitor
Judi McLeod: Canada Free Press
Jon Meyer: Idaho Press-Tribune
Don Surber: Daily Mail
Alissa Jesle: Santa Barbara/Goleta NoozHawk
Karyn McDermott: Richmond Examiner
Marci Stone: Salt Lake City Examiner
Michael Laprarie: WizBang
Edward T. Wimberly: Naples Daily News
Steven Beardsley: Naples Daily News
Clarice Feldman & Rosslyn Smith: American Thinker
Right Perspective
Michelle Malkin
image of crowd
News Busters
Time Lapse video
video 2
video 3
video 4

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2009-09-14

1814-09-14: Francis Scott Key wrote "The Defence of Fort McHenry" to be sung to "An Ode To Anacreon in Heaven" (a.k.a. "The Anacreontic Song")

2009-09-14
Mark Deen & David Tweed _Bloomberg_
Joseph Stiglitz says bank problems are bigger than before Lehman Brothers collapse
alternate link
SmartMoney

2009-09-14
Tom Lutey _Billings MT Gazette_
Montana growers expect above-average beet harvest
"Sugar beets began coming out of the ground last week in Hardin.   Prices are nearing $50 a ton, which Montana farmers haven't received for their crop since 1980...   'a 31-tons-per-acre average yield'...   drought in India and cane sugar ethanol production in Brazil...   And American food companies are using more sugar as consumers grow weary of high fructose corn syrup.   Pepsi reintroduced beverages sweetened with crystal sugar, which hadn't been a player in the beverage industry for 25 years.   Starbucks stopped using corn syrup in its bakery goods.   Kraft Foods also began cutting corn syrup out of some snacks and crackers...   The number of acres planted jumped from 14K in 2008 to 24K this year.   Fulmer said the sugar content of the beets is 18%, which is high.   The yield per acre is about 28.8 tons, up two tons from 2008."

2009-09-14
Jenni Vincent _Martinsburg WV Journal-News_
Local people plan to continue objections to out of control federal government

2009-09-14
_YouTube_
ACORN caught again in sting, this time in NY, NY
Fox

2009-09-14
Alex Ortolani _Bloomberg_
Goodyear and Cooper stock prices rise on tariffs for Red Chinese tires
"Obama announced duties Sept. 11 of 35% on $1.8G of tires from [Red China], acting on a complaint from the United Steelworkers union."

2009-09-14
David Bailey & Bernie Woodall _Forbes_/_Reuters_
Tire trade spat between USA and Red China will push tire prices higher

2009-09-14
_Salt Lake Tribune_/_AP_
What the spat between USA and Red China over tire prices means to you

2009-09-14
Shawn Langlois & Matt Andrejczak _MarketWatch_
USA's tariff on tires from Red China tied to spat over chicken
Access North Georgia
"the excess capacity from [Red China] that would become available due to the tariffs will likely to flow to other regions. As it stands now, [Red China] sent almost 47M tires to the U.S.A. in 2008, or about 20% of the replacement-tire market, according to IHS Global Insight's Harrison... Chicken has been a sticking point in the global trade world. This summer, the World Trade Organization [WTO] launched a formal investigation of the U.S.A. ban on Chinese poultry imports. [Red China] alleged the U.S. government was breaking global commerce rules by not allowing the imports... The latest data from the University of Georgia, which is for 2006, show poultry, at that time, was a $12G-a-year part of Georgia's economy."

2009-09-14
Patrick J. Buchanan _V Dare_
Globalism vs. Americanism
"At Cooper Tire, the wages were $18 to $21 per hour.   In [Red China], they are a fraction of that.   The Albany factory is subject to U.S. health-and-safety, wage-and-hour and civil rights laws from which [Red Chinese] plants are exempt.   Environmental standards had to be met at Cooper Tire or the plant would have been closed.   [Red Chinese] factories are notorious polluters.   [Red China] won the competition because the 14th Amendment's 'equal protection of the laws' does not apply to the People's Republic.   While free trade laws grant [Red China] free and equal access to the U.S. market, [Red China] can pay workers wages and force them to work hours that would violate U.S. law, and [Red China] can operate plants whose health, safety and environmental standards would have their U.S. competitors shut down as public nuisances.   Beijing also manipulates its currency to keep export prices low and grants a rebate on its value-added tax on exports to the U.S.A., while imposing a value-added tax on goods coming from the U.S.A...   Where Beijing was responsible for 60% of the U.S. trade deficit in manufactured goods in 2008, in the first 6 months of 2009, [Red China] accounted for 79% of our trade deficit in manufactured goods...   As they rebate value-added taxes on exports to us, and impose a value-added tax on our exports to them, let us reciprocate.   Impose a border tax equal to a VAT on all their goods entering the United States, and use the hundreds of billions to cut corporate taxes on all manufacturing done here in the United States."

2009-09-14
_Government Monitor_
$12.4M awarded to promote foreign language instruction in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian and languages in the Indic, Iranian and Turkic language families

2009-09-14
Bob Livingston _Personal Liberty Digest_
FAIR points out Obama's misleading claims about Obamacare
"Dan Stein, president of FAIR [said] '[Its] authors can easily remove the ambiguities from the House bill, and Senate leaders can include specific language barring illegal aliens from all non-emergency benefits in the bill that is being written in that chamber.'"

2009-09-14
James H. Shott (Smokey Shott) _Bluefield WV Daily Telegraph_
What Obama could have said to bring bipartisan effort to health reform
"He could have shown us that he had at last started listening to what most Americans were telling him and the Congress to do, and outlined proposals to address the weaknesses of the current health care system, the one that provides the highest level of care in the world.   He could have endorsed several needed reforms... changes like tort reform to lower malpractice and health insurance rates and the tendency of providers to prescribe procedures and tests that are needed only to protect them from predatory lawyers and their clients.   He could have said he would work with states to remove the barriers preventing insurers from offering their policies in all states, thereby increasing competition, improving policies, bringing premiums down and increasing the number of Americans with coverage.   He could have committed to reducing expensive and unnecessary regulation...   he could have promised to get Medicare and Medicaid to pay their fair share to doctors and hospitals, eliminating shifting costs to insured patients...   He could have cited the actual number of people without health insurance, the number that omits the [12M-24M] illegal aliens, as well as the millions with enough money to buy insurance but who voluntarily decline to, and those who are without coverage for 3 months or less; a number that is a mere fraction of the 46M so frequently cited."

2009-09-14
John Armor _Family Security Matters_
1M people prove National Socialist Radio doesn't count
picture
"Well, what was going on at the same time as Obama's speech in Minneapolis [attended by 15K supporters]?   Why, there was a gathering of 1.2M to 1.6M Americans on the Mall in Washington [DC], who oppose Obama's policies, including his health care proposals.   What did NPR say about those people?   Nothing.   Zilch.   Zero.   The real news was that 15K people supported Obama.   The fact that 100 times that amount of people opposed him in a DC Rally that was on TV and everything, was not news.   This was not an accident.   The NPR reporters and editors had to know about the DC Rally...   NPR is a public outfit.   They are paid for, in large part, with tax dollars.   We the people pay for that, and they lie to us, on purpose.   The Park Service has an office which estimates the size of crowds by looking at aerial photographs, compares those to prior events, and estimates the crowd.   That office says it was 1.2M to 1.6M."

2009-09-14
Virgil Goode _V Dare_
Legal immigrants and anchor babies weigh down Obamacare

2009-09-14
Charlie Martin _Pajamas Media_
How big was the crowd on Saturday?

2009-09-14
Scott Harrington _Wall Street Journal_
Fact-checking president Obama on health care insurance and the health care perversion bills

2009-09-14 (5769 Elul 25)
Steven Emerson _Jewish World Review_
for CAIR, duplicity is the best defense
Investigative Project: CAIR-Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood links
Discover the Networks: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
anti-CAIR
Discover the Networks: Muslim Brotherhood (MB)

2009-09-14 (5769 Elul 25)
Rabbi Doctor Asher Meir _Jewish World Review_
Investing charity money in a "sure-fire" investment
"if you are so certain that this investment is a sure thing, you might want to invest your own money and promise to give a certain fraction of the returns to the charity."

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2009-09-15

2009-09-15
Liz Bowie _Baltimore MD Sun_
8 MD schools receive Blue Ribbon
Kristina Torres: Atlanta GA Journal-Constitution: 12 GA schools receive Blue Ribbon
News2 Charleston, SC: 5 SC schools receive Blue Ribbon
Michael D. Clark: Cincinnati Enquirer: 3 schools in Greater Cincinnati area win Blue Ribbons
Lexington Herald-Leader: Paint Lick school wins Blue Ribbon
John Higgins: Akron OH Beacon-Journal: 6 area schools, 19 in Ohio, earn Blue Ribbons
Melanie Sommer: Minnesota Socialist Radio: 7 MN schools get Blue Ribbons
Jackson MS Clarion Ledger: 4 MS schools earn Blue Ribbons
Government Monitor: 314 schools awarded Blue Ribbons
David Thomas: US Department of Educationism: 264 public and 50 private schools awarded Blue Ribbons
"The Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors public and private schools based on one of 2 criteria: 1) Schools whose students, regardless of background, achieve in the top 10% of their state on state tests or in the case of private schools in the top 10% of the nation on nationally-normed tests; and 2) Schools with at least 40% of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds that demonstrate dramatic improvement of student performance to high levels on state tests or nationally-normed tests."

2009-09-15
_World Net Daily_
Zogby-O'Leary poll: Obamacare is out of step with consensus on health insurance
O'Leary Report

2009-09-15 06:36PDT (09:36EDT) (13:36GMT)
Rex Nutting _MarketWatch_
retail sales up 2.7% from July to August, down 5.3% from 2008 to 209
census bureau

2009-09-15
Tom Tancredo _News Max_
Joe Wilson is correct
"When Obama made his speech, there were a number of glaring and intentional loop-holes to the Democrats' pretend ban of illegal aliens in the House healthcare bill HR3200.   Virtually every single means tested government program requires that applicants are screened by the 'Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements' [SAVE] program to ensure that they are not illegal aliens.   But this provision is not included in HR3200.   This is not an over-sight.   Republicans twice introduced Amendments to require the SAVE program be implemented, and it was voted down by the same Democrats who hypocritically added the clause that ostensibly barred illegals.   Furthermore, the bill does not say anything about illegal aliens not being able to participate in the taxpayer subsidized 'Health Insurance Exchange' program.   The Congressional Research Service reported that it does not contain any restrictions on non-citizens whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently participating in the Exchange."

2009-09-15
Dean C. Lomis _Hellenic News of America_
Pit-falls of Obamacare

2009-09-15
Richard T. Seymour _Baltimore MD Sun_
Wilson told the truth, Obama did not
"'Kill the messenger!'   That was pretty much the gist of The Sun's editorial rebuking representative Joe Wilson for yelling 'You lie!' during Barack Obama's speech to the joint session of Congress ('The shout heard 'round the world' 2009 Sept. 11).   Mr. Wilson told the truth, and Mr. Obama didn't.   Contrary to what Mr. Obama claimed, his health care 'plan' as it now exists will not be deficit-neutral, and I believe it will allow [tax-victims'] dollars to be used to pay for abortions, allow illegal aliens to get health care insurance, deny people the right to keep their current insurance plans and doctors and cut Medicare benefits.   Proof of this is in the somewhat obfuscated details of the 'plan', which Mr. Obama (and The Sun) cunningly avoided mentioning."

2009-09-15
Paula Lavigne _ESPN_/_abc_
Immigration issues impact workers: Matching track jobs with workers isn't as easy as it seems, even in this economy
"In 2008, race-track employers applied for about 3K temporary visas to hire stable attendants from foreign countries, according to the Department of Labor.   In 2006, before the economy soured, they were asking for 4K, as well as another 155 for exercise riders and trainers.   Visa applications cost several hundreds of dollars each, and there's never a guarantee that the government will approve them.   In 2007 and 2008, immigration attorney Margaret W. Pascual requested 150 visas each year on behalf of about 50 trainers, and the government didn't approve a single one...   Julio Rubio, the Hispanic services coordinator for the Kentucky Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association...   Depending whom you ask, illegal immigrants make up 50% to 80% of the workers in the barns nationwide...   At Del Mar, many trainers remember the day in August 1985 when U.S. Border Patrol officers raided the backstretch and arrested 100 illegal aliens.   At the time, immigration officials estimated one-third to one-half of the 3K workers at Del Mar were illegal."

2009-09-15
Leah Durant _Reuters_/_UBM_/_Leftists for Immigration Perversion_
Pulse Opinion Research Poll: Even leftists oppose giving tax-victim funded health-care to ilegal aliens
Biloxi MS Sun Herald
MarketWatch/Dow

2009-09-15
Chad Groening _One News Now_
Obama asked to apologize for lies to congress and entire country

2009-09-15
April Dahlquist _Daily Illini_
Barn dance business is booming

2009-09-15 11:55PDT (14:55EDT) (18:55GMT)
Erica Dolson _Cumberland PA Sentinel_
Local wiz kid aces 14 advanced placement exams
"The number of students taking Advanced Placement (AP) exams at Cumberland Valley High School increased by more than 50% from the 2007-08 to 2008-09 academic year, district spokeswoman Tracy Panzer said.   For the 2009-10 academic year, enrollment in AP courses has doubled, Superintendent William Harner said...   Over the course of a high school career, about 69 percent of students take 1 or 2 [AP] exams, she said.   'Far less' than 1% take more than 14 exams, she added...   Although his academic career has been tightly packed with advanced math and science courses, Michael has an appreciation for the humanities and a passion for politics and social studies.   He completed the history and geography exams without taking the corresponding classes, solely because those subjects interested him, he said.   Any student can take any AP exam, Panzer said.   There is an $86 fee to take each test...   His dream is to attend the University of Pennsylvania to pursue a dual degree in international studies and business."

2009-09-15
Tom Tancredo _V Dare_
Joe Wilson's victory on illegal immigration

2009-09-15
Chuck Baldwin _V Dare_
Push for globalism continues
alternate link

2009-09-15
Michelle Malkin _V Dare_
ACORN Watch: A Stinging Indictment of Media Hypocrisy

2009-09-15 16:30PDT (19:30EDT) (23:30GMT)
Terry Jones _Investors Business Daily_
45% of doctors would consider quitting if Dems' health care perversion bills pass
"72% of the doctors polled disagree with the administration's claim that the government can cover 47M more people with better-quality care at lower cost...   65%, of doctors say they oppose the proposed government expansion plan...   The AMA, in fact, represents approximately 18% of physicians and has been hit with a number of defections by members opposed to the AMA's support of Democrats' proposed health care overhaul... The U.S.A. today has just 2.4 physicians per 1K population..."

2009-09-15
Mike Rogoway _Oregonian_
Tekronix replacing US workers with Chinese: Shifting some manufacturing to Red China
"Especially galling to some employees: Tek is asking laid-off workers to train their Chinese replacements between now and the end of the year."

2009-09-15
Thomas E. Brewton _View from 1776_
Obama is merely the latest radical leftist false messiah

2009-09-15 (5769 Elul 26)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
Fables for adults

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2009-09-16

2009-09-16 08:45PDT (11:45EDT) (15:45GMT)
Christopher S. Rugaber & Jeannine Aversa _Cumberland PA Sentinel_
US Industrial production rose 0.8% in August

2009-09-16
Juan Gonzalez _NY Daily News_
NY public schools "chancellor" Joel Klein to dump more US employees, keep over-priced guest-workers
"Before Monday, Florida-based FTA had a no-bid contract to supply 63 consultants to the Department of Education at an average annual cost of $250K apiece.   Under the new contract, FTA will supply up to 10 additional consultants this year at the same $250K average price tag.   Amazingly, the DoE issued pink slips in the past few days to 14 of its computer department employees.   Average pay for those workers is a mere $65K...   Even more startling is the [NY] DoE's plan to slash nearly 600 school aides by mid-October.   The part-time aides -- who typically perform hallway and cafeteria duty, transport sick children and do paperwork for the school lunch program -- are paid an average of $17,500 a year, including fringe benefits...   As for FTA, the Daily News previously reported 19 of the firm's employees are working with H-1B immigrant visas.   FTA told the U.S. Labor Department it was paying those workers an average of $65K -- about the same as city computer workers.   FTA's chief executive, Tamer Sevintuna, has declined to talk about his contract...   Sources in the agency tell a different story.   They say the bid specifications were geared from the start to discourage any other firm from competing with FTA.   Now that the contract has been approved, the DoE will have even more $250K-a-year consultants.   Klein will move forward with his school aide layoffs and claim with a straight face that he's cutting costs."

2009-09-16
Paul McDougall _Information Week_/_UBM_
Indian government wants to cut guest-workers from Red China

2009-09-16 08:58PDT (11:58EDT) (15:58GMT)
Rex Nutting _MarketWatch_
CPI and PPI continue to climb
"With prices rising faster than wages, real hourly earnings fell 0.2% in August, the government said.   Real weekly earnings also fell 0.2% in August.   Real weekly earnings are up 2.7% in the past year, but have fallen 1.5% since December."
graphs

2009-09-16 10:19PDT (13:19EDT) (17:19GMT)
Rex Nutting _MarketWatch_
Home builders' index rose from 18 in August to 19 in September

2009-09-16 13:25PDT (16:25EDT) (20:25GMT)
Robert Schroeder _MarketWatch_

Baucus releases senate's health care perversion bill: Would mandate purchase of insurance
Matt Canham: Salt Lake Tribune
Jerry Flanagan & Carmen Balber: Consumer WatchDog/Reuters
Matthew Daly: Seattle Times/AP
Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights
Billings MT Gazette/Lee

2009-09-16
Thomas E. Brewton _View from 1776_
Obama's Porkulus Bill
John F. Cogan, John B. Taylor & Volker Wieland: Wall Street Journal (with graph)

2009-09-16 (5769 Elul 27)
Walter E. Williams _Jewish World Review_
Education

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2009-09-17 Constitution Day

2009-09-17 05:30PDT (08:30EDT) (12:30GMT)
Scott Gibbons & Tony Sznoluch _DoL ETA_
un-employment insurance weekly claims report: Autumn trough dips below 2003's mid-Summer peak
DoL home page
historical data
"The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 407,869 in the week ending Sept. 12, a decrease of 58,429 from the previous week.   There were 382,249 initial claims in the comparable week in 2008.   The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 4.0% during the week ending Sept. 5, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week.   The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 5,270,688, a decrease of 165,485 from the preceding week.   A year earlier, the rate was 2.3% and the volume was 3,040,859.   Extended benefits were available in AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, ME, MA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI during the week ending August 29.   [Note: The seasonal adjustment factors have been changed by DoL going back to at least the beginning of 2009.]"
graphs
more graphs

2009-09-17
Patrick Walters _Cumberland PA Sentinel_
Lay-off notices sent out to Philly city workers

2009-09-17
Jenny Chung _Daily Pennsylvanian_
U.S. grad schools see rise in domestic students
"According to a recent study released by the Council of Graduate Schools, first-time enrollment in 2008 increased by 4.7% for domestic students, as compared with 3.3% for international students...   The School of Law also saw a 7% overall increase in the number of applicants this year, driving it to reduce its acceptance rate from 16% to 14%, according to associate dean for admissions Renee Post."

2009-09-17
Doug Blackburn _Tallahassee Demagogue_/_Gannett_
Will Felonious State University president be paid $1M per year?
Stephanie Salvatore: WCTV
"That's almost triple the salary of outgoing President T.K. Wetherell.   FSU's Board of Trustees met for the first time with John Hicks, the consultant hired in July to guide the university through the process of selecting a new president.   While most of the discussion focused on the desired attributes for the next president, Hicks noted that at the elite public universities, such as the University of Michigan, the president earns in excess of $1M a year...   Among the qualifications are a staunch commitment to academic excellence, ability to plant and project a sense of optimism for FSU's future, and appreciation and understanding of all facets of a renowned intercollegiate athletics program."

2009-09-17
Robert Black _Orlando Sentinel_
Florida's aerospace development board -- Space Florida -- having trouble hiring a new president: NASA to dump 7K jobs soon
Florida Today/Gannett
"The job of Space Florida president has been vacant since Steve Kohler resigned his $175K-a-year post last May under a barrage of criticism over questionable contracts and failure to create aerospace jobs.   Since then, it has been run by interim president Frank DiBello, a respected Florida space consultant.   DiBello was widely expected to be offered the top job.   But Tuesday, a five-member search committee announced that it had unanimously chosen Dale from a field of 5 candidates and was ready to negotiate a contract with her for approval by the agency's board today.   Dale's rejection of the job was almost as surprising as her selection."

2009-09-17
Mike Sunnucks _Phoenix Business Journal_
Arpaio seeks sub poena for ACORN records, saying they may be using federal funds to attack his efforts to enforce immigration law under 287(g)

2009-09-17 11:12PDT (14:12EDT) (18:12GMT)
Rex Nutting _MarketWatch_
Households' net worth rises for first time in 2 years: Consumers continue to pay down debts at record pace

2009-09-17
Katie Johnston Chase _Boston MA Globe_
Fired Hyatt workers and supporters rally in opposition to out-sourcing
"The Hyatt Regency Boston, Hyatt Regency Cambridge, and Hyatt Harborside Hotel fired their entire housekeeping staffs Aug. 31 replacing them with workers from Hospitality Staffing Solutions.   The Hospitality Staffing Solutions workers had been trained by the Hyatt employees, who said they were told the trainees would be filling in during vacations."
 
 

2009-09-18

2009-09-18
Lindsey Tanner _Daily Illini_
Swine/Avian flue affects more than half of geographical Illinois: 225 cases

2009-09-18 05:17PDT (08:17EDT) (12:17GMT)
Joseph Cress _Cumberland PA Sentinel_
County officials to state: Voters should be heard

2009-09-18
_Temasek Review_
Singaporeans object to excessive immigration of low-skill workers
Straits Times
"'By all means, bring in real talents -- people with skills which Singaporeans lack.   Let in those too, who would do jobs which locals will not.   But not the in betweens, liberal granting of 'S' passes.   These people mostly have secondary school education, even if with a uni degree, are no better than our ITE/poly grads, but they are willing to slog for meagre wages which Singaporeans cannot survive on.   Easy access to foreign workers will not goad local employers to improve their work process to be productive or to hire locals.   Our chronic unemployment is on the rise, so will social problems.'   'The problem is there seems no way of weeding out the FNTs (Foreign No Talent), who seems mostly to have a golden rice bowl at the expense of his more hardworking local colleagues, largely due to the patronage of his boss who shares the same skin colour.   This is especially prevalent in the financial sector...'   'It's perfectly right to continue to attract real talents.   What's wrong is our govt's definition of 'talent'.   The foreigners we commoners come into contact with every day are more trash than talent.   And it's this 'mismatch' that causes frustrations.   While Singaporeans acknowledge the importance of recruiting talented foreigners to work in Singapore, they disagree with the government's policy of opening the floodgates indiscriminately to semi-skilled foreigners to compete directly with locals for jobs.'"

2009-09-18
Joe Schneider _Bloomberg_
Hillary Clinton and State Department sued for age bias
"Elizabeth Colton, a former journalist and chairwoman of the mass communications department at Shenandoah University, was offered a two-year posting as chief of the political-economic section at the U.S. Embassy in Algiers.   The offer was withdrawn when human resources officials at the State Department realized Colton would turn 65 when she was 16 months into her term, according to the complaint...   Colton served since 2000 as a foreign service officer in Islamabad, Baghdad, Khartoum, Riyadh and Karachi, Bundy said."

2009-09-18
_Beaufort Observer_
Obama Lied
Stephen Dinan: Washington Times: Obama: Legalize illegals to get them health care

2009-09-18
Martha Lynn Craver _Kiplinger Letter_
Age Bias Charges Are Booming
"Charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) jumped nearly 30% between fiscal 2007 and fiscal 2008."

2009-09-18
Thomas E. Brewton _View from 1776_
Young voters getting more change than they bargained for
David B. Rivkin & Lee A. Casey: Wall Street Journal: Mandatory "Insurance" Is Unconstitutional

2009-09-18

DJIA	9,819.90
S&P 500	1,068.34
NASDAQ	2,132.86
Nikkei	10,371
10-year US T-Bond	3.48%
crude oil	$72.04/barrel
gold	$1,010.30/ounce
silver	$17.07/ounce
platinum	$1,338.20/ounce
palladium	$304.50/ounce
copper	$0.174375/ounce
natgas	$3.78/MBTU
reformulatedgasoline	$1.8324/gal
heatingoil	$1.8279/gal
dollarindex	76.49
yenperdollar	91.43
dollarspereuro	1.4587
dollarsperpound	1.6269
swissfranksperdollar	1.0295
indianrupeesperdollar	48.135
mexicanpesosperdollar	13.2800
MorganStanleyHighTechIndex	539.36

I usually get this info from MarketWatch.
 
 
 

2009-09-19

2009-09-19
"Faith" _Smart Girl Politics_
Cloward-Piven Strateby
I always like reading what the other side has to say
 
 

2009-09-20

2009-09-20
Thomas E. Brewton _View from 1776_
Keynesianism Loves the Total State

2009-09-20
Colleen Lindsay _Daily Illini_
ACORN: Association of Corrupt Overbearing Real Nutcases
"Originating in Arkansas in 1970...   Since 1994, they have received $53M dollars in federal funds to help support their causes."

2009-09-20
Phyllis Schlafly _Right Side News_
Obama Lied
Jack Kelly: Pittsburgh PA Post-Gazette

2009-09-20
Ryan Randazzo _Arizona Republic_
Arizona Public Service company exec tries to defend off-shoring and abuse of guest-workers: Time for an emergency cut in Donald E. Brandt's and James Hatfield's pay

2009-09-20
Todd Bensman _San Antonio TX Express_
Mexicans making use of business visas to work in USA
"Last month, Gama and partner Manuel Octavio Espejo Pantoja bought the Village Gourmet Grill and Bakery on Stone Oak Parkway on what's known as an L-1 visa and then moved themselves and their families to San Antonio legally.   In Mexico, the partners own a nationwide mail service for banks and a company that sells body armor and provides security guards.   In recent interviews, Gama and Espejo Pantoja recounted an escalating series of extortion plots, kidnappings and death threats against their families.   As part of an extortion attempt 6 months ago, someone placed a funeral wreath at Espejo Pantoja's home doorstep bearing the name of his youngest daughter.   That persuaded them to move.   'I had money in the bank.   I had a big house.   I have buildings and properties in Mexico City.', Gama, a husband and father of two young children, said through an interpreter.   'But I would rather wash dishes in the U.S.A. than risk my family's life in Mexico.'   The partners, neither of whom has restaurant experience, said their last concern is whether the new venture turns a profit...   Thousands of Mexican business people are moving to the U.S.A. -- exactly how many to San Antonio is unknown -- and bringing their families and personal fortunes.   'The scale is larger than anything we have seen in 80 years.', said former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a businessman whose family fled to San Antonio from Mexico in the 1920s...   Immigration statistics published by the Homeland Security Department show the number of issued E visas more than doubled from 7,893 in 2005, just before President Felipe Calderón mounted his war against drug cartels, to 16,411 through September 2008.   The number of L visas, including those for spouses and children, issued during the same time jumped from 25,429 to 33,675.   Numbers for 2009 have not been released.   Luis Escobar, a kidnap survivor who made his move on an L visa six years ago, runs a San Antonio company that specializes in helping wealthy Mexicans relocate.   He said he has brought 259 families to San Antonio since January.   But he said his ads and out-reach in Mexico have brought in more than 23K inquiries so far this year."

2009-09-20
James Carlini
4G World: The GigaByte Generation is Here part1
speed comparison table
Carlini's comments
 
 

2009-09-21

2009-09-21
_View from the Right_
Eerie duplication in multiple MSM interviews of president Obama

2009-09-21
Joseph Ward _Daily Illini_
Economy Affecting Graduate Enrollments

2009-09-21
Michael Jamison _Missoulian_/_Billings MT Gazette_/_Lee_
Northern border port projects under scrutiny by Tester, Department of Homeland Security

2009-09-21 16:00PDT (19:00EDT) (23:00GMT)
Lou Dobbs _CNN_
Cheap foreign teachers, Over-population, UN wants more money from USA to aid under-developed nations with swine/avian flue
video
American Federation of Teachers report on guest-teachers
"Rather than attending job fairs throughout the Mid-Atlantic, trying to persuade reluctant American teachers to accept positions in troubled inner-city schools, HR officials can meet all their hiring needs in one trip.   At a single career fair in Manila, they can interview hundreds of pre-screened applicants, each of whom is eager to pay for the opportunity to work in Baltimore city schools."

2009-09-21
Larry Neumeister _San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
Democrat fund-raiser Hassan Nemazee charged with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft

2009-09-21
"Brittanicus" _Talk Gwinnett GA_
Illegal Immigration: We are in this together
"The only way that Congress will pass immigration reform, is by -- FORCING -- it through the House and Senate.   There is the gigantic obstacle of public opinion on this conflagration of an issues and it will only be enacted over the dead carcasses of the American culture.   We have already seen the utter indifference of our legislators who have trampled on citizens rights to allow millions of cheap foreign labor past our borders and ports of entry.   They have spawned awesome lies, to cater to the business world, whose wealthy favors have performed for those in seats of power.   In the majority of laws passed by both Democrats and Republicans, the overall authority -- THE PEOPLE -- have intentionally been left with no redress.   This is likely to happen with another path to citizenship, whom by no means deserves such an award.   They knew full well the consequences of breaking into another country and should bare the penalty of deportation.
 
Compassion doesn't enter the situation, because in most other countries deportation is far from the worst solution that awaits you.   We are governed by the 'Rule of Law' and without it; we would become just another dictatorship.   Last time there was a very lenient AMNESTY, the whole enactment turned into fraudulent pantomime.   Our country cannot afford to keep turning a blind eye to the rampant corruption in Washington? This time the American people are fully united in a cause to stop this path to citizenship, because the outcome is exorbitant taxes to support those already here and those who will descend on us afterwards? The conveyor belt must be stopped or our beautiful country will turn into a toilet bowl of poverty stricken foreigners, who do not assimilate and have no intentions of speaking the common language.
 
In night-time committees they have secretly under funded the border fence, 287 G, a federal training program to apprehend illegal aliens on the streets and highway by the police.   They have all but rescinded the no-match-letter, to disclose illegal immigrants in the factory, office, store or any industry.   ICE raids have been smothered by a lady [Janet Napolitano] with questionable excuses.   Then pro-illegal immigration comrades senator Harry Reid, speaker [Nancy Pelosi] tried to restrain E-Verify, the verification identity process available on any computer, but were defeated by the voices of millions of the US population.   Both have very low rating in the public domain; both are elected officials of massive illegal families in their home states.
 
Now in corrupted legislation they want to count the 20M plus illegal immigrants in the 2010 census, and thereby stealing congressional seats from states with smaller populations who should be receiving the correct slice of federal billion dollar funding.   California -- the SANCTUARY STATE -- should be cut off sharply from any extra money from the government, owing that they genuflected to the foreign invasion and released millions of dollars in citizen welfare, to any body not legally in this country.   Some Border States cities are more like third world enclaves, instead of the 1980's shining metropolises.   Our health care has suffered almost irreparable damage from free treatment, our schools and other public services have also been jettisoned to attain more indigent foreign labor."

2009-09-21
J.B. Williams _Canada Free Press_
Obamacare, Aztlan, Mecha and amnesty for illegal aliens

2009-09-21
Don Finley _San Antonio TX Express_
Jury declares UTHSC mus pay $900K to researcher
WOAI/AP
Dallas TX Morning News/AP
"His employer, the University of Texas Health Science Center, licensed his patents to competing biotech companies -- effectively killing their development.   Then Klebe's department chairman at the health science center complained that he wasn't bringing in enough money from outside sources and cut his salary by 25% -- despite his tenure.   In a law-suit charging age discrimination and retaliation, Klebe claimed that it was a blatant attempt to run him -- and other older faculty members -- off.   Two weeks ago, a federal jury in Austin agreed that the health science center had retaliated against the 66-year-old scientist for seeking redress and awarded him $900K for mental anguish [though it could be lowered to $300K under a Texas Labor Code cap].   Jurors rejected the age discrimination claim...   Klebe, who trained at Johns Hopkins and Yale universities and the Salk Institute, was hired by the UT Medical Branch in Galveston in 1973.   A year later, he published his discovery of a substance he called fibronectin, the glue that bonds cells together.   It was an important discovery, and it led to his eureka moment -- a simple way to form precise shapes and patterns of skin grafts in a Petri dish using a personal computer and an off-the-shelf printer...   The fibronectin provided the foundation.   Put some of the patient's own cells on top, and they would grow and attach to the fibronectin in whatever shape was desired.   By that time, his department chairwoman, Barbara Bowman, had been recruited to San Antonio, and Klebe had followed at her invitation.   In 1987, he filed a patent application titled: 'Apparatus for Precise Positioning of Cells'.   It was awarded in 1992.   The health science center, which shared the patent rights, licensed the technology to a local company called DNAe Ventures, whose investors included businessman Larry Benson, brother of New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson; lawyer Doug Moe, son of the former Spurs coach; and Dr. Ed Cerday, a physician.   DNAe invested perhaps $160K in Klebe's lab to further his research, which led to 3 subsequent patents -- the last of which was for a method of layering cells into three-dimensional shapes, also using inkjet printers.   That raised the hope that whole organs using a patient's own cells -- eliminating the problem of rejection -- could be built.   But by that time, things had begun to sour between Klebe and the university...   In 2003, Herman informed Klebe his roughly $115K salary would be cut by 25%.   'He explained to me that he had to do it because there was financial need to do so.', Klebe said.   'I took him at his word.   Then, in November, the budget books came out in the finance office, and I went and took a look at it.   And he had hired five new people younger than myself -- two of them for over a quarter-million (dollars) apiece.   Then I saw that I'd been snookered.'...   But in 2004, the health science center's office of technology ventures licensed Klebe's fourth patent for the 3-D cell positioning to another local company, CytoScript."

2009-09-21
Paul Craig Roberts _V Dare_
The economy is a lie, too
Foreign Policy
Motley Fools
Market Oracle
Alex Jones's Prison Planet
Baltimore MD Chronicle
"1M school children now homeless...   Consumer spending is 70% of the US economy.   It is the driving force, and it has been shut down.   Except for the super rich, there has been no growth in consumer incomes in the 21st century.   Statistician John Williams of shadowstats.com reports that real household income has never recovered its pre-2001 peak...   The consumer has been chastened, but not the banks.   Refreshed with the TARP [$800G] and the Federal Reserve's expanded balance sheet, banks are again behaving like hedge funds.   Leveraged speculation is producing another bubble...   The Consumer Price Index (CPI) assumes, ever since the Boskin Commission during the Clinton administration, that if prices of items go up consumers substitute cheaper items.   This is certainly the case, but this way of measuring inflation means that the CPI is no longer comparable to past years, because the basket of goods in the index is variable.   The Boskin Commission's CPI, by lowering the measured rate of inflation, [falsely] raises the real GDP growth rate.   The result of the statistical manipulation is an under-stated inflation rate... and an over-stated growth rate.   Statistical manipulation cloaks a declining standard of living.   In bygone days of American prosperity, American incomes rose with productivity.   It was the real growth in American incomes that propelled the US economy.   In today's America, the only incomes that rise are in the financial sector that risks the country's future on excessive leverage and in the corporate world that substitutes foreign for American labor.   Under the compensation rules and emphasis on share-holder earnings that hold sway in the US today, corporate executives maximize earnings and their compensation by minimizing the employment of Americans...   The American household of my day, in which the husband worked and the wife provided household services and raised the children, scarcely exists today.   Most, if not all, members of a household have to work [for income from outside the household] in order to pay the bills.   However, the jobs are disappearing, even the part-time ones.   If measured according to the methodology used when I was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the unemployment rate today in the US is above 20%...   20% unemployment and cum laude engineering graduates who cannot find jobs or even job interviews..."
 
 

2009-09-22

2009-09-22
Greg Gross _Cumberland PA Sentinel_
Unemployment insurance benefits running out for some
"23,400 state residents lost their extended unemployment compensation benefits [Sunday] in a first wave of those who will lose their benefits in the months ahead."

2009-09-22
Ryan Young _Daily Illini_
Soy-bean aphids swarm over U of IL at Champaign-Urbana campus

2009-09-22 12:38:17PDT (15:38:17EDT) (19:38:17GMT)
_San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
Cross-border body shop Systems In Motion CEO Neeraj Gupta announced plans to employ 1K+ near Ann Arbor, MI
John Gallagher: Detroit Free Press
Nathan Bomey: Ann Arbor.com
Sven Gustafson: Michigan Live
Toledo on the Move
Toledo OH Blade
"'We're delighted to be able to join with state, county and local agencies, as well as education institutions in Michigan, to build a true public-private partnership.', Gupta said...   state tax credits [from] the Michigan Economic Growth Authority board and will also receive support from Ann Arbor SPARK, the Michigan Economic Development Corp., Washtenaw County Employment Training and Community Services (ETCS-Michigan Works!), the Michigan Department of Information Technology and Eastern Michigan University (EMU)...   chief marketing officer Debashish Sinha, who previously led marketing at $1.8G Indian IT services firm HCL Technologies"

2009-09-22
Michael Cutler _News Blaze_
Re: resident terrorists
"Finally I also want you to understand that the Visa Waiver Program should have ended on 2001 September 12.   Yet instead of terminating this program that represents a serious threat to national security, our government has expanded this program to include the citizens of 35 countries even as our expectations of freedom and privacy are slowly eroding in the name of 'national security'!"

2009-09-22
Michael Cutler _News Blaze_
Criminal/terrorist aliens

2009-09-22
David Nagel _Redmond WA Magazine_
Georgia Tech moves unemployed IT pros into HS teaching jobs

2009-09-22
Toni Bowers _Tech Republic_/_
Long work-weeks in IT
"The IT Job Board says the situation is getting worse.   In fact, 7.3% of the survey respondents claimed that this year they're working 60 to 75 hours on average each week -- that is one third higher than 2008 (at 4.8%).   75% advised that their company doesn't pay over-time (or the positions are salaried), and 54% claimed to taking work home.   [It's not just that software workers are not paid 150% for over-time hours, but they're not paid at all for that time.]"

2009-09-22 (5770 Tishrei 04)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
Choosing the Right College
"A college that would be best for a particular student could be a terrible place for that student's brother or sister...   It is about matching a student with an institution that can enable that person to flourish while there, and to graduate with an education that is a foundation for a fulfilling life in the years ahead."

2009-09-22 (5770 Tishrei 04)
Mark J. Perry
real lesson from the Great Depression: damage from over-taxation
Smoot-Hawley tariff act
 
 

2009-09-23

2009-09-22 20:48PDT (23:48EDT) (03:48GMT)
Josh Sweigart _Hamilton OH Journal-News_
Proposed Ohio law could help county officials curtail flood of illegal aliens
Oxford OH Press
Middletown OH Journal
"The bill introduced by Cates would allow county sheriffs, upon request from federal officials, to investigate and apprehend illegal immigrants for breaking immigration laws."

2009-09-23
Thomas E. Brewton _View from 1776_
Nanny Chu and the illfare state

2009-09-23
Marie J. Parente _Milford Daily News_
Anchor babies and the 14th amendment
"Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson is an anchor baby.   His mother, a Mexican citizen, married his late father, a native Nicaraguan, who worked in Mexico as an American-Citi-Bank executive...   U.S. citizenship for anchor babies brings clout, opportunity and the right to live, work and study in the United States...   A considerable number of poor, pregnant illegal immigrants, some already in labor, cross the border, surreptitiously, to give birth.   Thus, their anchor babies pull their illegal alien mothers, fathers and siblings into permanent residency.   While illegal aliens are ineligible for public benefits, their children and anchor babies qualify for public assistance that benefits all family members.   In many cases, these families receive translators, advocates, food stamps, health care and cash/credit cards, clothing allowances, fuel assistance, education and housing allowances.   The sheer numbers are unfathomable.   In 2003, 70% of the 2,300 babies born in Stockton, CA, hospitals were anchor babies...   Pennsylvania's illegal immigrant population costs its [tax-victims] approximately $728M per year for education, medical care and incarceration.   Some states, like Massachusetts, choose to subsidize certain non-reimbursable health care coverage for over 30K non-citizens.   In 2006, the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform estimated Massachusetts [tax-victims] are currently burdened with annual costs of about $580M because of illegal aliens residing in the state.   According to State House sources, exclusive of the Health Connector, the Bay State's Medicaid budget totals $9G, an increase of $2G over the last two years.   Fred Elbel, author, estimates there are currently between 287K and 363K children born to illegal aliens each year.   An estimate by Bear Stearns, an investment firm, reported the actual number of illegal immigrants could be as high as 20M or more, which would in effect, double the number of anchor babies mentioned by Elbel."

2009-09-23 06:27PDT (09:27EDT) (13:27GMT)
Joseph Cress _Cumberland PA Sentinel_
Economist predicts recovery will be slow

2009-09-23 06:53PDT (09:53EDT) (13:53GMT)
Erica Dolson _Cumberland PA Sentinel_
6th-graders learning algebra

2009-09-23 09:55:27PDT (12:55:27EDT) (16:55:27GMT)
Lisa M. Krieger _San Jose CA Mercury News_
Stanford U endowment down 27%
"Santa Clara University... suffered a less dismal 20% decline in the value of its endowment.   UC-Berkeley's endowment dropped 15.8%...   Harvard University's endowment lost 27.3%.   Yale's dropped 24.6%.   In contrast, the University of Pennsylvania shifted strategies in 2008, loading up on safe but conservative Treasury securities -- and experiencing only a 17.5% decline, according to the Wall Street Journal...   Stanford... has produced an average annualized gain of 8.9% over the past 10 years..."

2009-09-23 07:25PDT (10:25EDT) (14:25GMT)
Greg Hitt & Janet Adamy _Wall Street Journal_
Republic congress-critters object to Dem-proposed mandates for Americans to purchase health care insurance

2009-09-23 12:38PDT (15:38EDT) (19:38GMT)
Patrick Thibodeau _Computer World_/_IDG_
MSFT, Yahoo!, Elance, oDesk promote cross-border bodyshopping and other forms of abuse
Tech World
PC World
InfoWorld

2009-09-23
Mary Pickett _Billings MT Gazette_/_Lee_
Enrollments rising at Montana colleges and universities
"a total $1.2G package for the Montana University System for this academic year.   That is a 4% increase over last year's budget.   Of that total, about $218M comes from state support, including money from the Montana Legislature and the six-mill levy for higher education.   That is a 3% increase over last year.   That budget was designed knowing that about $20M in one-time federal stimulus money... won't be available for the next budget cycle, said Sheila Stearns, commissioner of higher education.   No across-the-board raises are in this year's budget, except for a $450 increase for non-union employees making less than $45K a year...   University of Montana could top 15K...   MSU Billings may reach a total of 5K...   Montana State University in Bozeman increased in every category of students.   Montana Tech the University of Montana at Butte is up 11% over last Fall.   Montana State University Northern in Havre, which had seen seriously drops in the number of students over the last 10 years, may see a 4 percent increase this Fall.   The University of Montana Western at Dillon will have 96 more full-time-equivalent students over last Fall.   The number of students is up 14% at the College of Technology in Great Falls.   The Helena College of Technology has 171 more students than what were budgeted for.   Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell has 500 students more this Fall than last..."

2009-09-23
Chelsea Schilling _World Net Daily_
Newspaper revenues crumbling: Maloney and Cardin propose federal take-over

2009-09-23
Thomas E. Brewton _View from 1776_
Echoes of the CCCP
Andrew Klavan: City Journal: The National Endowment for the Arts trying to fulfill its leftist purpose

2009-09-23 13:27PDT (16:27EDT) (20:27GMT)
Josh Kraushaar _Politico_
Candidates inspired by Ron Paul make an impact

2009-09-23 16:01PDT (19:01EDT) (23:01GMT)
"Robert F." _Gather_
New Report Shows Schools Increasingly Hiring Foreign Teachers Over Americans
"According to the report, nearly 20K teachers were working in the United States on temporary visas in 2007, and that number is increasing steadily."

2009-09-23
Conor Dougherty & Miriam Jordan _Wall Street Journal_
Number of Known Foreign-Born USA Residents Down for First Time in Nearly 40 Years: Hallalujah (with table, graphs, map)
"About 38M foreign-born people lived in the U.S.A. in 2008, or 100K fewer than in the previous year, according to an analysis of Census data by William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution think tank.   The decline falls within the margin of error, but it still represents a significant turnaround.   Between 2000 and 2006, the U.S. foreign-born population increased by about 1M people a year; in 2007, the number dropped in half...   About 700K fewer people moved from one state to another in 2008 than in 2006, a 9% decline, according to an analysis of Census data by Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire...   The median annual income fell in 27 states, including many of the same ones that saw slowdowns in migration and immigration.   Florida's median annual income fell by $1,860 to $47,800, the steepest decline in the nation.   The share of the population that owned a home fell to 66.6%, the lowest rate since 2002 and down from 67.2% in 2007.   Foreclosures have affected everyone...   about 1.1% of the population lived in crowded housing last year, up from 0.7% in 2007, according to Mark Mather, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a non-profit research group in Washington.   Commuting and marriage patterns also appear to have changed.   The share of people driving alone to work fell to 75.5% last year from 76.1% in 2007.   The percentage of the population that has never been married rose to 31.2% from 30.7% in 2007; the share of the never-married population has been as low as 27% earlier in this decade."

2009-09-23 (5770 Tishrei 05)
Walter E. Williams _Jewish World Review_
Lying propaganda vs. Capitalism
"One-third of the $15T of mortgages in existence in 2008 [were] owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration.   Banks didn't mind making risky loans and Wall Street buyers didn't mind buying these repackaged loans because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout by taxpayers.   Under a capitalist system, financial institutions would not have been intimidated or encouraged into making risky loans and neither would they have been bailed out if they did so.   [Socialist Inecurity], Medicare and its coverage of prescription drugs have an unfunded liability that exceeds $100T.   When those roosters come home to roost, they will make the financial melt-down we've been though look like child's play."

2009-09-23 (5770 Tishrei 05)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
The underdogs
"A leading historian of education has said that the New York City public schools were the best in the country during the 1940s.   That was when I went to school there.   That was enough piece of sheer good luck that came my way.   Today the classes are smaller, the buildings more modern -- but the education itself is a disaster.   I got the kind of education that people have to go to expensive private schools to get today.   Perhaps more important, nobody told me that I couldn't make it because I was poor and black, or that I ought to hate white people today because of what some other white people did to my ancestors in some other time.   Nobody sugar-coated the facts of racial discrimination."
 
 

2009-09-24

2009-09-24 05:30PDT (08:30EDT) (12:30GMT)
Scott Gibbons & Tony Sznoluch _DoL ETA_
un-employment insurance weekly claims report: Autumn trough dips below 2003's mid-Summer peak
DoL home page
historical data
"The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 434,358 in the week ending Sept. 19, an increase of 21,966 from the previous week.   There were 398,070 initial claims in the comparable week in 2008.   The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 3.9% during the week ending Sept. 12, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week.   The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 5,204,972, a decrease of 91,789 from the preceding week.   A year earlier, the rate was 2.3% and the volume was 3,014,874.   Extended benefits were available in AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, ME, MA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI during the week ending September 5.   [Note: The seasonal adjustment factors have been changed by DoL going back to at least the beginning of 2009.]"
graphs
more graphs

2009-09-24
_Daily Illini_
U of IL president White resigning effective 2010 December 31
Chronice of Higher Education
"White also said he will forgo a $475K retention bonus he would have soon earned."

2009-09-24
Rich Morin _Pew Research Center_
strong conflicts today are immigrants vs. the native born, and between rich people vs. poor people

2009-09-24
Sally C. Pipes _Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University_
The Top Myths of American Health Care

2009-09-24
Candace L. Doriott _Ancestry_
How did your ancestors vote?
"1830 Most restrictions based on property ownership and religions had been abolished.   1838 Kentucky allows widows to vote.   1855 Only 5 states allow blacks to vote.   1870 Fifteenth amendment gives voting rights to black males (although most Southern states soon found ways to hinder this).   1889 Women in Wyoming gain full voting rights.   1920 Nineteenth amendment gives voting rights to women.   1924 Indian Citizenship Act gives Native Americans the right to vote...   If you had family in Georgia, Mississippi, or Missouri in 1832 it's a sure thing that your ancestors voted for Andrew Jackson, since 100% of the popular vote in these states went for him.   In 1892, while residents of most states debated about supporting the Democrat, Grover Cleveland, or the Republican, Benjamin Harrison, if your ancestors were in Idaho, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, or North Dakota, they were debating between the Populist James Weaver or the Republican, and Weaver carried their state.   Voters in Zavala County, Texas, and Winston County, Alabama, also favored the Populists, although the rest of their states did not agree with them...   The election statistics for 1896 show that the voters of Winnebago, Waushara, Waupaca, Waukesha, and Washington counties in Wisconsin did not cast a single vote that year for either of the 2 major candidates, Republican William McKinley or Democrat William Bryan."

2009-09-24
Jessie L. Bonner _Michigan Live_/_AP_
Idaho State University asked chair of physics department to resign for fumbling of guest-worker visa transfer
2 News Boise
Chronicle of Higher Education

2009-09-24
Dana Blankenhorn _Ziff Davis_/_Smart Planet_
LEDs for lighting are improving
"Early this year Purdue scientists demonstrated a breakthrough, making LEDs on metal-coated silicon wafers, dramatically cutting manufacturing costs.   This follows by 2 years another breakthrough in North Carolina that dramatically increased the light output of LEDs...   about 625TWh [of electricity are used for lighting]."

2009-09-24
Teresa Watanabe & Anna Gorman _Los Angeles CA Times_
USCIS running $118M short, considering fee increase
"a fee increase of 69% to $675 in 2007...   a special congressional appropriation to help reduce application back-logs had run out.   To help close the short-fall, Mayorkas said, the agency has requested $206M from Congress...   Just last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that 13 organizations, including 3 in California, will receive a total of $1.2M in federal funding to expand citizenship education and preparation programs...   the agency has more than 130 support centers throughout the nation ready to accept more than 6M applications."
 
 

2009-09-25

2009-09-25
Conor Dougherty _Wall Street Journal_
The Long Slog: Out of Work, Out of Hope... or Not (with graph)
"About 5M of the jobless are what economists class as long-term unemployed, people who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more.   As challenging as it is for anyone to find a good job in this economy, it can be even harder for people out of work a long time.   Skills atrophy.   Demoralization sets in and can become permanent.   Some potential employers shy away...   The proportion of the unemployed who have been out of work for over 26 weeks, at one-third, is the highest since World War 2...   The labor-force participation rate -- the proportion of working-age people who either have jobs or are actively looking for one -- was 65.5% in August.   That was the lowest in 22 years, according to the Labor Department...   Last year, the [Socialist Insecurity Abomination] paid out about $106G in disability benefits, equal to nearly 4% of the federal budget.   The pay-out was up about a third from 4 years earlier."
graphs

2009-09-25
Robert Guy Matthews _Wall Street Journal_
Red Chinese steel processors demand cheaper iron ore: Talks stall

2009-09-25 07:46PDT (10:46EDT) (14:46GMT)
Greg Robb _MarketWatch_
UMich consumer sentiment index rose from 65.7 in August to 70.2 in early September to 73.5 in late September
"Orders for durable goods fell 2.4% in August..."

2009-09-25 09:57:37PDT (12:57:37EDT) (16:57:37GMT)
Dan Strumpf _San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
Amid low sales in the USA, Ford and Toyota set up plants/sales in Red China and India
Erika Kinetz: San Jose CA Mercury News/AP

2009-09-25
Terence P. Jeffrey _Cybercast News Service_
Illegal alien Hosam Maher Husein Smadi charged with attempt to use WMD in Dallas

2009-09-25
Josh Mitchell & Stephen Power
Tiny-car firm, backed by Algore, got big federal government loan: $529M to Fisker, $465M to Tesla

2009-09-25
Scott Duke Harris _San Jose CA Mercury News_
New technology provides deeper look into building blocks of life
"PacBio has labeled its technology with the felicitous trademark SMRT, for 'single molecule real-time'.   Essentially an ultrasophisticated microscope, PacBio's technology, researchers say, promises to make DNA sequencing faster, better and cheaper.   They say it could have a profound impact on health care, agriculture, food production and biofuels.   It is also delivering unprecedented views into the deeper roles of RNA, a nucleic acid that is an essential component of all cells, and protein synthesis.   Jody Puglisi, chairman of the Department of Structural Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has employed PacBio's technology for protein research over the last three months.   Work that might have required weeks or months using the lasers and optics in his lab, he said, was produced in a single day at PacBio...   PacBio's next iteration of a SMRT machine is expected to be the size of a microwave oven.   By 2013, Turner said, they might be deployed to hospitals, providing a patient's genome profile in 15 minutes at a cost below $1K."

2009-09-25

DJIA	9,665.19
S&P 500	1,044.38
NASDAQ	2,090.92
Nikkei	10,266
10-year US T-Bond	3.32%
crude oil	$66.20/barrel
gold	$991.60/ounce
silver	$16.06/ounce
platinum	$1,284.60/ounce
palladium	$294.90/ounce
copper	$0.17128125/ounce
natgas	$3.985/MBTU
reformulatedgasoline	$1.6205/gal
heatingoil	$1.6771/gal
dollarindex	76.774
yenperdollar	89.91
dollarspereuro	1.4665
dollarsperpound	1.5932
swissfranksperdollar	1.0311
indianrupeesperdollar	47.97
mexicanpesosperdollar	13.2247
MorganStanleyHighTechIndex	524.21

I usually get this info from MarketWatch.
 
 
 

2009-09-26

2009-09-26
Ed Kemmick _Billings MT Gazette_
CO₂ Is Green
 
 

2009-09-27

2009-09-27
_Billings MT Gazette_/_AP_
Economics of glass recycling are marginal

2009-09-27
John Fund _Wall Street Journal_
Voters want enough time to debate bills, congressional "leaders" do not
"A Polling Company survey conducted last month found 95% agreeing that members of Congress shouldn't vote on any bill they haven't read in full...   Baird and Walden filed a discharge petition to dislodge their bill from committee this week.   If a majority of members (218) sign it, their proposal can be voted on over the objections of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi."

2009-09-27
Scott Kirsner _Boston MA Globe_
programs are aimed at increasing interest in studying for STEM fields, but job markets tell them to avoid these fields

2009-09-27
Richard Wilner _NY Post_
Young, unemployed and facing tough future

2009-09-27
Michael Cutler _News Blaze_
Non-feasance, mis-feasance & mal-feasance at US borders and ports
"Meanwhile the Bush administration refused to secure our nation's borders and the fence is still a work in progress, more than 8 years after the terrorist attacks of 2001 September 11.   Let me make it clear that the construction of a fence would not represent an all encompassing solution to securing our nation's borders against the unlawful entry of millions of illegal aliens and criminals and, no doubt, terrorists among them.   Interestingly our military officials requested that Border Patrol agents be sent to Iraq to help secure the Iraqi border against the entry of terrorists and insurgents!   A secure fence would simply represent one component of many that are desperately needed to help to protect our nation against the illegal entry of aliens.   The current administration is also not really willing to focus the necessary resources to secure our nation's borders against unlawful entry of illegal aliens and take the other necessary steps to create an immigration system that has meaningful integrity.   In fact, the administration and members of Congress are, even as we speak, concocting plans to enact a sweeping amnesty program under the aegis of 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' [a.k.a. Reprehensible Immigration Law Perversion] that would require United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the overburdened and inept agency responsible for adjudicating the applications filed by aliens for a variety of immigration benefits including the securing of resident alien status and United States citizenship to administer this national security nightmare...   Don't you think that as the chairman of the senate subcommittee that has oversight responsibility over the various components of the immigration system that [Chuck Schumer] would know the abysmal and highly dangerous situation to be found at our nation's borders?"
 
 

2009-09-28

2009-09-28
Thomas E. Brewton _View from 1776_
Obama's Tough Choices
George Friedman: StratFor: Obama's move on Iran and Afghanistan

2009-09-28
Bjorn Lomborg _Washington Post_
Proposed "Climate Change" Regulation Strategies Would Hurt the Poor

2009-09-28
Andrew Vanacore _San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
Xerox wants to buy body shop Affiliated Computer Services for $6.4G
Larry Dignan: Ziff Davis/CNET/CBS
William M. Bulkeley & Joseph Pereira: Wall Street Journal
MarketWatch

2009-09-28
Thomas E. Brewton _View from 1776_
National Socialist Obamacare Will Increase Income Redistribution from Young to Old
Michael O. Leavitt, Al Hubbard & Keith Hennessey: Wall Street Journal

2009-09-28 14:35PST (17:35EST) (22:35GMT)
Timothy Hay _Wall Street Journal_
Big Government Means Big Business for Privacy Violating Start-Ups
 
 

2009-09-29

2009-09-29
Selma Haveric _Daily Illini_
Campus jobs scarce

2009-09-29
Ryan Naraine _Ziff Davis_/_CNET_/_CBS_
UMich researcher released tool to circumvent Red China's Green Dam

2009-09-29
Joao-Pierre Ruth _NJ Biz_
NJ's Citizens Mortgage Corp. accused of withholding nearly $500K in wages from H-1B workers

2009-09-29
_Wall Street Journal_
Obamacare mandate and extortion

2009-09-29 13:01:02PDT (16:01:02EDT) (20:01:02GMT)
_San Jose CA Mercury News_/_AP_
Voter Action challenges sale of Premier by Diebold to ES&S, creating a voting machine monopoly

2009-09-29 15:21PDT (18:21EDT) (22:21GMT)
Patrick Thibodeau _Computer World_/_IDG_
In letter to USCIS, Grassley seeks proof of jobs from H-1B applicants: Some foreign bodyshops have been known to have people apply first, arrange jobs for them later
Network World
InfoWorld
CIO
IT World
Roy Mark: eWeek
Gary Truitt: Hoosier Ag Today

2009-09-29 (5770 Tishrei 11)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
The Brainy Bunch and the Disasters They've Made
"In an age when facts seem to carry less weight than the visions of brilliant and charismatic leaders, it is more important than ever to look at the actual track records of those brilliant and charismatic leaders."
 
 

2009-09-30

2009-09-30 09:13PDT (12:13EDT) (16:13GMT)
Jason Scott _Cumberland PA Sentinel_
Wiremold/Legrand to close 2 plants in PA, 1 in NC, move all production to new plant in SC
"Wiremold/Legrand, a Connecticut-based maker of wire, cable and security systems, announced that it plans to close its Middlesex Township plant by the end of 2010 May.   The facility, which employs about 67 full-time workers, will be phased out along with two other company plants -- Elizabethtown (Lancaster County) and Concord, NC.   Operations will be moved to a new location in Fort Mill, SC, according to Phil LeRoux, the manufacturer's senior vice president of human resources."

2009-09-30
Thomas E. Brewton _View from 1776_
Cherry-picking data to support a preconceived hypothesis is not science
Watts Up with That?

2009-09-30
_Daily Illini_
Time for Illinois legislators to reform their own practices

2009-09-30
Brenda Walker _V Dare_
California Nightmaring, With Mass Immigration A Key Demon
"the Jarvis-Gann tax revolt of the 1970s and passage of Prop 187 in 1994 (which would have prevented illegal aliens using [tax-victim]-funded services) showed many citizens wanted the state redirected.   Never the less, the bad ideas have predominated in recent years."

2009-09-30 (5770 Tishrei 12)
Walter E. Williams _Jewish World Review_
Is disagreement with Obama racism?
 
 

2009 September Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP
US 9th circus sustains suit by Tata's non-US citizen employees in the USA

2009 September
_FAIR US_
The United States of America Is Already Over-Populated
 

 

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USA Over-Population Clock
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"In the past 15 years, a trend toward large-scale, statewide, merit-based scholarship programs has developed (W.R. Doyle 2005 'The adoption of merit-based student grant programs: An event history analysis' Unpublished manuscript. Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.).   These scholarship programs have flourished as need-based aid has dwindled (Baum & Payea, 2003; Doyle, 2005; Dynarski, 2002, 2003; Hauptman, 2001; Heller, 2001a, 2001b).   Georgia's Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) scholarship, the first and best known of these merit aid programs, was launched in 1993.   Since then, 14 states have developed similar merit aid scholarship programs (Doyle, 2005).   Missouri's A+ Schools Program should be considered a merit aid scholarship program as it shares similar eligibility criteria and benefits with other statewide merit aid programs." --- Leslie M. Galbreath 2007-05-11 "Tracking Public-Post-Secondary Enrollment Patterns of Missouri A+ Program-Eligible Graduates"

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