Month: April 2004

Wow. We finally had a month of strong employment growth.

Among other leadering factors for this jump are the 72,000 idled grocery workers in california who are no longer striking, and are working again, and are thus now being counted as new jobs, and that it is spring again, so construction (the other leading industry in hiring) begins anew.

Wait – we don't mean to be this cynical – the market may actually be improving, and all we had to do was drive the country three trillion dollars into debt to get it.
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My two cents, before everyone else jumps in and starts slapping each other on the back:

($500billion yearly deficit) / (4 for quarterly) / (revised 171,000 jobs created per month * 3 months) = we are taking $243,664 in debt per job created.

Now granted, I'm sure those grocery workers and all the other jobs our economy created this past quarter are paying above the $250,000/yr mark, but let's pretend they aren't.

I'm not an economist by any means, (I've always run to math equations instead of theory) so I'll need someone to explain to me why this is an efficient system.

I'll probably believe you, because like most americans I'll believe anything if there are enough fancy words used – and before we start revising history the sole stated reason for taking this deficit (100 or so billion for Iraq aside) was to save the economy. And no, I'm not a centralizing fan or a socialist – I just think there has to be a way to create a bunch of crappy service-industry jobs that is more cost-effective than this trickle-down – and I want to stop the debate from being "Wow – look how trickle-down saved the country" and turn it into "so, was this worth it? Was there possibly another way?"

It takes no more than a brief look around this site to realize the intense love all of its authors feel for the enigmatic and often misunderstood media personality, Sean Hannity.

However, in light of the new launch of Air America and the potential clear-channel cable network and talk radio show (rumored to be hosted by Al Gore and Jesse Jackson) Sean Hannity might be at risk of having his strangle hold on america's talk radio listeners slowly loosen.

It is a good thing that it is time once again for the "Hannitization of America" tour. If you live in Chicago and don't get enough of Mr. hannity from 7-10pm weekdays on News talk 890 WLS am or on the Fox News showHannity and Colmes 8pm weeknights.

The Hannitization of Chicago is scheduled to occur on May the 7 at the Plaza Hilton. Tickets are available right now at:

*update: After checking for myself, it looks like the tickets are not actually on sale now. I got some dodgy information from Roe Conn on WLS yesterday.

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To the best of my knowledge the Hannitization of America tour is still going to be in Chicago on May 7th.
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I will keep you posted as to when I actually find the tickets on sale.

Perhaps you think that you can live a fully self actualized life without being Hannitized, but I think not!

With the tragedy in Fallujah, where four private contractors from Black Water Security were killed and dragged through the streets, fresh in our minds it may be a good idea to re-evaulate the idea of a large, privately controlled force taking over for our military. There are no official records, but conservative estimates place contractors in Iraq between 10,000 and 20,000, making private companies the largest contributor of manpower in the entire Coalition of the Willing (England has around 11,000 troops there, and all other countries together are about 15,000 troops.)

I'm not saying if those four victims had proper military training, and co-ordinated their efforts through the local military base, they would be alive today (several other military targets were hit in the same round of violence). But it's certainly would have increased their odds. More importantly, companies are there because they are being paid to do so – democracy building is not in their mission statements – and now that their employees may be targeted will they stay?
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We know that the majority of our fan base consists of investment bankers, titans of industry, and rising entrepreneurs – these are the links for you! In response to these attack we must double our efforts in using private industry and regular citizens to nation build. In order to make sure we can "stay the course" ginandtacos.
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com has compiled a list of where to go if you'd like to secure yourself a fat juicy iraq re-building contract:

Coalition Provisional Authority Business Center.
Department of Commerce – Your Link to Information on Rebuilding Iraq
Iraq Program Management Office

Here are three Monster.com-esque postings of job opportunities:
Jobs in Iraq
USAID – specific government jobs, and
Requests for proposals/applications – good old fashioned private sector proposals. There's a particularly nice one for plans on rebuilding Iraq's media sector.

I'm off to think of how to corner the market on cheap gin and taco stands in the sunni triangle (I imagine they respect a quality made Tom Collins there).
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It's "Back To School" time again following spring break, and here's the first pop quiz. No, it's not for the kids. It's for parents, and they have to answer only one question: Do you know what your children are learning in sex-education classes?

Now that I'm finally getting involved with teaching the youth of america I can tell you that the answer is no. But if the program is billed as "abstinence-based," you probably don't feel particularly concerned.
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The important thing, as far as you're concerned, is that your kids are being taught to say "no" to sex.

But are they? The fact is, nearly all of the government-funded abstinence-based or "abstinence-plus" programs delivered in schools nationwide contain little, if any, reference to abstinence. They may mention it briefly, but it's often presented as something that (wink, wink) kids in the "real world" will ignore.

Far worse, though, is what abstinence-plus programs do contain: explicit demonstrations of contraceptive use — especially condoms — and direct encouragement to experiment sexually.
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This despite the fact that parents consistently say they don't want their children to be exposed to such messages. A recent Zogby poll found that three out of every four parents disapproved or strongly disapproved of abstinence-plus curricula. About the same number say they want their children to receive an authentic abstinence education.

The dangers of early sexual activity are well documented. It leads to higher levels of child and maternal poverty, elevates the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, and often leaves teenage girls depressed, even suicidal. It contributes to marriage failure in adulthood.
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It's bad enough that these sex-ed programs hide under an abstinence-plus label while completely undermining what most parents want for their children. But when they encourage indiscriminate condom use and sexual experimentation, they're sending kids a troubling message — that we expect them to be sexually active and approve of it, provided it's "safe." And it's all billed to you, the taxpayer. Is that what we want?

I encourage all of our readers to check out True Love Waits, a site that shows an emphasis on drawing a community together to raise the banner of sexual purity and to present students with a united message from churches, businesses, doctors, schools, and the government.