The Jerusalem Post reports:
Top White House posts go to Jews
Let the conspiracy theories begin!
Also important to note:
The fact that White House policy is now in the hands of two Jews is not seen as significant by activists in the American Jewish community.
Still have fun with those conspiracy theories!
So is there some sort of competition going on within the Ivy League–where schools compete to be the least academically friendly to Israel?
Examples:
Columbia: MELAC Department (need I say more?)
Harvard: The recent “Israel Lobby” Paper
Yale: Taliban Student; and possibly luring and hiring Juan Cole away from “That School to the North” (a.k.a. Michigan) [See the good piece linked to at Kesher Talk]
From a recent family conversation:
Dad: So you’re really involved with your sorority
Sister: Yeah
Dad: Say something in Greek then:
Sister: et tu Brutus
*Laughter ensues*
A sign of the state of a liberal arts education?
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, accepted an invitation to speak to a convocation of students and faculty at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., the 10,000-student school founded by televangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell….–The Jewish Week
Now the really big question is what Yoffie is actually going to speak about (guesses are welcome in the comments)
So when Sen. Kerry speaks these days, is anyone seriously paying attention?
(Besides anyone who drinks Kerry kool-aid and/or is a reporter unfortunate enough to be covering a speech)
Latest example: Kerry speaking oin Vietnam and Iraq.
Look what Cleveland band is performing in Brooklyn tomorrow (for the first time in NYC as well!):
Concert/ticket information here
Yesterday morning, I went about my biweekly job of being Mr. Popular at work, by distributing the Paychecks.
This week the Company began using a new payroll company for our payroll processing.
As I began going about my duties, I had some of my coworkers began to come to me complaining that their paychecks were lower than usual. A conspiracy suddenly began that there must be some sort of “glitch in the payroll” with the new company…
Seeming that I don’t work on payroll and simply distribute the checks, I shrugged my shoulders and simply said that I’d promise to find out what exactly was going on with the bookkeeper when she arrived.
In the interim more and more complaints kept coming my way…only for me to explain that i was just as clueless as the next person…I was just the messanger.
I happened to bump into the bookkeeper as she got in and I quickly told her about the fury awaiting her. She was just as perplexed as the rest of us.
We began to speculate what may have happened. Was there a (previous) Federal or State tax-cut that had sunset this past week (April 15/17) or an increase that went into effect?
I was dispatched to start looking online for any such possibility, while the bookkeper began looking at the reports, she noticed something. The new company had inadvertantly deducted our insurance premiumns again (usually they’re taken once a month, but the new service didn’t realize that they’d already been paid)–no biggie–the credits will be rolled over to next month.
But something else was still awry. (Meanwhile the bookeper and I were both getting flack, for something neither of us did). I’m at my computer trying to pour over CBO and IRS figure tables (which made little sense to me…)
The bookeeper poured over the paperwork, and then eureka–she found something! It turns out the old payroll company was using the previous year’s tax tables (they ran their tables on the fiscal calendar) while the new company changes their tables on the normal calendar.
In the process we discovered that Federal tax rates had gone up (boooooo! Hiss! What ever happened to tax-cuts? When was an increased announced?)
So that was the culprate….but when did rates go up?
NY Post: “Franco’s Blast From Past Ignites Mets”
My first exposure to Franco was when he played in Municipal Stadium (I’ve still got his old Topps and Donrus cards as well)
From Phil Mushnick’s NY Post sports column:
After a certain hour, the likelihood of something good happening diminishes. Between midnight and 1 a.m., bad begins to make its move. At 2 a.m., bad takes the lead. After 2 a.m., it’s bad, by 20 lengths…..
…(long jump in piece)…
Take one large part booze, one large part sex. Blend. Repeat. It’s a recipe for serious trouble everywhere, and no one group holds an exclusive on it. It’s trouble: No guesswork involved, none needed
Now from Ann Coulter’s most recent column:
But these statements would roll off the tongue more easily in a world that so much as tacitly acknowledged that all these messy turns of fate followed behavior that your mother could have told you was tacky….
Now I like Mushnick’s column much, much better (for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that it avoids silly partisan accusations and hyperbole), but they do hint at one of the same points.
Question for the more economically/accounting savy individuals last year.
Was there an increase in the Federal Tax rate this past year?
(I’ll explain why I ask in a post tomorrow)
The new book Out of Ivy : How a Liberal Ivy Created a Committed Conservative
Sounds a lot like my collegiate experiences…with a few differences….
But was he exposed to as many candlelight vigils at I was at Brandeis?
The idea that the “establishment” Republican party may finally be getting the heave-ho from the Republican base in the state is not only good for the party, but for the state as a whole.
The Republican establishment in recent years has been turning out bad candidates (read: Bob Taft) and they’ve only wound up being elected since the State Dem’s were even more pathetic.
Now if the Republican actually offers some choices of candidates, and the non-establishment figures pick up the nominations–this could mark a new (and hopefully better) chapter in Ohio politics.
…no matter where you work, office politics
And here are some interesting tips in avoiding it
Why is it that it’s always very nice and sunny out during the week, when one is stuck in their office…
And then it decides to rain like crazy on the weekends…
Why?
What is it with people who when faced with not getting hat they want, instantly threaten to sue–even for minute and beyond-frivelous things.
Has society gone sue-crazy? Have hit-and-run lawyers corrupted us so?
From a post I just saw up at Red State:
If the courts decide to open themselves to lawsuits over all kind of biomedical research, then there goes a lot of science–as researchers will have their hands tied by fraudulant litigans and/or judges who are not familiar with the sciences and make errors in judgement as a result.
Granted, I don’t understand all of the legal terminology used in the piece, but that’s another thing
Duke Nukem 3D used to investigate spatial memory and spatial tasks via fMRI. Cool stuff!
I’ve actually downloaded and printed out a copy of the article today at work, but haven’t had a chance to tackle it (free PDF available here)
I’m curious to see if the results of study can/will be paired with EEG studies of memory (mostly having to do with noticed waveforms.
I’m in the market for an MP3 player and need help in figuring out makes/models that I should be looking at.
Basically I’d use the MP3 player both for music and audio-books (probably more for the latter than the former, but that’s bound to change). In that regard, I’m not looking for a 30+ gig iPod type device. It’s soemthing to keep me “entertained” on my commutes to-from work.
I’ve also had it suggested to me that I avoid the iPod because of it’s incompatability with DRM. Since a lot of the audio books I’d be getting come from the public library, this would not be too helpful.
The only other criteria I can think of is that it won’t be a budget-buster.
Thanks in advance
Powered by WordPress