Posted in Education, Politikin
on Dec 6th, 2011 | 0 comments
I stumbled across this article in the Washington Post on when an adult, who has a bachelors of science, two masters, and just shy of receiving a doctorate. A very interesting read.
Posted in Misc, Politikin
on Sep 11th, 2011 | 0 comments
I was a little hesitant to post something on 9/11. The media hoopla has been in full force these past couple weeks and I can only imagine how this constant diet of 9/11 discussions could dig up deep emotional scars and issues that still have not been dealt with yet. But we all do have a story of that day, and it profoundly changed us, one way or another.
Ten years ago it wasn’t all to typical for me. Just a week prior I was working for Porivo, a “last mile” performance metrics company in the Raleigh/Durham area of NC. I had a bad vibe that we were about to be let go. Management called...
Posted in Politikin
on Aug 13th, 2011 | 0 comments
I have swapped my thoughts earlier in the year about Obama having a very hard time winning to he should easily be able to win, I am taking a hard look at the EC map and things could be very interesting. Below is a map of what a 2012 election would look like where the toss up states are what Obama won with < 7.26% which was his national average.
He just wins with 2 EV’s if he is able to maintain a satisfactory average. If the election was held today he would probably win. The question becomes if he has the potential to lose all the < 7.26% states plus a state he “should” win like NM,...
Posted in Politikin
on Aug 10th, 2011 | 0 comments
As of today 9 out of 12 members of the new congressional super committee have been selected to determine the fate of our economic future, but will this simply be a replay of the debt ceiling discussions or will real progress be made.
At first sight there is a disturbing fact, every one of the 6 Republican members of the committee have signed Grover Norquist’s pledge to NEVER raise taxes in ANY circumstances. So if they continue to take this unwavering stance of not raising taxes this committee is likely doomed and automatic triggers should kick in and take away from defense and domestic...
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on Sep 12th, 2009 | 0 comments
Looking at the gathering crowds and the Main Stream Media (MSM) coverage of the event, it’s remarkable how much discourse the right can generate without many calling them to task. For starters there are a number of posters at the protests that speaks volumes that many of these people are not to be taken seriously, well seriously in the fact that they are against government spending or anything of that nature, but more so just against Obama and Democrats. Some of these photos can be found here at NPR, Think Progress, and searching through Flickr. Safe to say that a lot of what is making noise is...