French Economics Class

Note: I was going to post a pic of the fwench flag in distess mode, but a white flag looks the same right-side-up or up-side-down.

I have been watching the fwench riots over the new employment law proposed for new entries into the job market. I am completely asstounded that the attendees of the pre-emminant universities in fwance, do not have the slightest clue how the job markets work.

Jeanne Tonnabel, 20, student

Under this law, the young will become a disposable commodity. Employers will take people on, train them quickly, keep them for a while and then chuck them out to hire replacements.

This law legitimises the exploitation of people.

I don't think I have ever heard of this practice by business. It usually takes about two years to train an employee in all the facets of a new job. Once you have invested that amount in time and money in a person to teach them to handle a job, you don't just chuck them. However, if after two years the employee cannot perform the job, or shows no interest in doing the job, you chuck them and get someone who will perform.

Emilie Lagand, 20, student

I am against a law that allows bosses to do whatever they want with us. It makes me laugh when the government says it will create jobs - what it will create is more insecurity.

It makes things worse for young people.

OMG, a boss being able to decide how to run a company? How can this be a good thing. Since when did letting the inmates run the asylum become a business model?

It will create more insecurity? I hope so. If you cannot learn to do the job you are hired for, you need to find what you are able to do and move on. Just because you have a university degree in a field does not necessarily mean you are cut out to handle the work in the real world. The way they hand out grades today, just for trying, won't cut it in the work place. You are there to make money for the company and this seems to be the part they aren't teaching. Where do they think the company gets the money to pay them?

"It makes things worse for the young people." Tough shit. If you like having 20% unemployment, stay the course, but if you do, realize that things can actually get worse than they are now. Without allowing a company the ability to "test drive" a new hire, they will just stick with the old dependable clunker that has gotten them around so far. No need to go out on a limb and invest in the shiny new model that maybe isn't everything it promised in the advertising pamphlet.

Now, What Was I Going To Say?

I have calmed down since yesterday, but I am actually madder at this whole situation than I was. The more I read and see, the more I just want to start sweeps of the neighborhoods and load these people up and ship 'em back to there home country.

They show no respect for this country and no respect for the education that they are receiving here. I could rant on for pages on this, but I think I will just link to some sites that cover what I would be saying.

This hits on El Presidente Vincente Fox's total disdain for anything we do to try to stem the flow accross our southern border.
Vicente Fox Needs a Lesson in Civility from Human events Online

Using some revisionist history (maybe they did learn something in our schools) the groups sponsoring the marches (riots) have decided that the gringos have to leave their land. What about the Indians that the Mexicans killed and displaced to take this land.
Marchers say gringos, not illegals, have to go from WorldNetDaily

From Joseph Farah at WorldNetDaily
Notice how these people are not asking for a favor, they are demanding their "right" to stay in a country they violated with their first act.

I was the only white employee at a company for 30 years. All the guys that I worked with were Mexican and came here legally, and I had a hard time understanding why they were always so pissed off at the illegals that we'd see while working out in the oil field. They would tell me about a brother or cousin that was all cleared to come here, had a job lined up, only to be told the job went to some illegal that (of course) would work for less.

I went through the previous two amnesty programs that were suppose to take care of the problem. All they did was make it worse. They now know if they can get in the country and lay low for 5 to 10 years, there'll be another amnesty, so why wait and try to do it the correct way.

I Am Just Too Spitting Mad

I was going to expound on the riots in France (socialist idiots) and/or the Immigration Bill (sellout of our sovereignty), but I'm still to steamed about them to write.

I did find an article by Sig94 with a comparison of crimes between Australia and the U.S. since the Aussie's passed gun restrictions.

Fun With Numbers: Part I Anti-Gun BS Alert

After all this time: More remains discovered near WTC site, From CNN.com

Ok one thing on illegal immigration from the Emperor: A Brilliant Proposal To Deal With Car Theft.

UPDATE: Sig94 has added Fun with Numbers Part II, covering the way the Brits skew their numbers for violent crimes.

It's Party Time

I saw an ad tonight for what has got to be the worst product ever offered by cable On-Demand. For the meager sum of $6.95 per month you can have On Demand Karaoke.

Now why anyone would be willing to pay 84 bucks a year for this service is beyond me, and if any of my neighbors subscribe to this, I pray they are waaayy beyond my (and my dogs) range of hearing.

Immigration

If you think that this picture is out of the ordinary for the rally, you would be mistaken. This is a pretty good example what flowed by my workplace today. There were some American flags, but not nearly as many as foreign flags.

From Boxer blasts migrant proposal: sbsun.com

Boxer said a jobs program needs to be created for illegal immigrants that would help them receive proper documentation.

Here we go, another program paid for by the taxpayer to reward law breakers. When are the elites like Sen. Boxer going to understand that the people are fed up with paying for subsidies for illegals. Hospitals closing, states going backrupt all so they can get the latino vote.

From The Washington Post
Calif. City to Enforce Immigration Law

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- A new city policy that would give police the authority to enforce federal immigration law is hurting local businesses even though it has yet to be implemented, merchants say.

G-d forbid that someone should enforce the law. The businesses that are complaining about losing customers? They deal with the illegals that do not speak English, so they buy exclusively from these stores that cater to the unintegrated.

From CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Some never adopt English as second language

Nearly everything the 44-year-old janitor needs can be had in her mother tongue. She shops in Spanish, files police reports, talks to nurses and teachers and voice-mail systems. For 17 years, Alvarado has lived in a Spanish-speaking world, first in Los Angeles and now in Concord's Monument Corridor.

17 years and can't speak English.

About 10 percent of the households in the Bay Area are considered "linguistically isolated" with no adults speaking English proficiently.

Dozens of businesses up and down Monument Boulevard cater to Spanish speaking customers. Spanish is heard on every corner. Alvarado says she can get everything she needs without having to speak English.

"The world is changing for them and it's hard for them to accept those changes," said Yee [Assemblyman Leland Yee, D-San Francisco-ed.], who is also a psychologist.
"I understand how these individuals feel. The reality, however, is that is America - America was made of immigrants who came with all different languages and customs and cultures."

And, in the past, learned to communicate.

If the U.S. continuse to cater to the law breakers, the citiaens are going to lose respect for the law. Things are just to tight, we cannot afford to pay for everyone to come here and live the good life if that person is not equipped to move up the ladder of success offered because they are unable to communicate with the people they work with.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has her as always excellent coverage of this. Please scroll down to the quotes from past presidents on immigration.

The Prez Speaks

I was off work today and was able to watch the President's speach and Q&A today in West Virginia. The tone of his speach was something I hadn't heard from him in quite a while. It dovetailed off his exchange with Helen Thomas yesterday and made his rating, in my eyes, go up a couple of points.

I'm still not completely behind him on all issues, but at least he's out and explaining what and why he has made the moves he has. I have always been behind going to Afganistan and Iraq, though not to thrilled wiht how it was being handled. The difference now is he is saying we made mistakes and this is how we have changed policy to adapt. That is what I and the rest of the country needed to hear from him.

I must point out that the favorite part of the Q&A session was when the wife of the military media soldier said her husband had multiple DVD's of the goood things that were happening in Iraq and why weren't the MSM showing this side of being there? The standing ovation said it all. People are aware that we are doing more than just running around shooting at terrorists, and why doesn't that ever get on TV?

I hope the major media outlets take note of that responce and gets off their butts and make an effort to at tleast appear to present a balanced presentation.

Student Riots Over Jobs

With excerpts from"French police subdue riots over jobs law
by
ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press

With youth unemployment at 24% nationwide and 50% for "impoverished youth" (wonder who that could be), fwench students are rioting in the streets about a new bill that would make it easier to fire someone during the first two years of employment. In fwance that isn't a lot of time on the job with a 35 hour maximum work week, 5 weeks vacation and 12 holidays, damn, they get more days off than my kid in high school, and I wonder when he has time to learn anything being he always seems to be off.

In an apparent effort to set fire to a police van serving as a blockade, protesters instead torched the entrance of a nearby Gap store, apparently by accident, engulfing the small porch in flames.

Appearantly, they're going to need the job security if they are so inept that they set a store on fire instead of a van.

Companies are often reluctant to add employees because it is hard to let them go if business conditions worsen.

Obviously they do not teach economics in college there. A business that is doing good now may want to expand to increase production, if it doesn't work out you would want to lay off people. In fwance you can't, once you hire someone they are your's for life. The answer, don't hire anyone and don't take a chance on growing your business.

Critics say the contract abolishes labor protections crucial to the social fabric.

The socialist fabric is more like it. Employment for life regardless of whether you can do the job or not.

"Aren't we the future of France?" asked Aurelie Silan, a 20-year-old student who joined a river of protesters in Paris.

If you are Aurelie, the country might as well just turn out the lights now and save the electric bill.

If someone is not capable of stying interested in their job and trying hard to make money for the company for two years, what kind of employee are they going to be in 5, 10, 15 years? Remember, if you hire them, you cannot fire them. You pay their salary for life.

The shortened work week was originally set up to enable companies to hire a few more people to fill those extra five hours each week from the other employees, but it didn't work that way. Instead everyone just worked less time.

fwance is coming to a crossroad on this, with unemployment so high they are not going to be able to pay the retirement benefits promised. They were counting on being able to tap into the Euopean Union to stave it off longer, but it looks like the EU is not going to be what fwance intended it to be.

Understanding Each Other

Someone brought in a Time Magazine to work and I was looking for something to peruse while stuck on the other side of the yard watching a tank drain.

There was an article "10 Questions for Karen Hughes", she is the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, and one Q&A got stuck in my head.

From Time, February 20, 2006

Q:Any surprises during your Middle Eastern listening tour last year?

A: When I was in Saudi Arabia, women there kept saying, "You media said this, your media sad that," and I finally realized they were talking about an Oprah Winfrey show about domestic violence in Saudi Arabia. Because they don't understand the independence of our media, they thought I put Oprah up to that.

If they cannot grasp the simple idea of the freedoms of this country and how the media works within it, it is no wonder we aren't getting anywhere with understanding each other. That they would think that Oprah was a mouthpiece for the government really makes me wonder what the hell they are being told about this country and what could they think. G-d help us if they’ve seen Jerry Springer or Cops.

I can believe that they could think our media is controlled, or at least influenced, by our government because, I assume, they know that theirs is. But that would lead to the question of why would they believe anything that comes out of either side? Perhaps that is the problem, they know their government lies to them and just assume that ours lies also. The only difference seems to be is as American’s get feed up with their news sources, they find or create new ones. The rest of the world just gets mad at America.

Katrina Gun Confiscation and Other Things

Still being on shaky ground from covering a sick workers shift for the last two days, I will just point you to some other good stories and blogs for now.

On the gun confiscation following Hurricane Katrina, the official denial and now admittance of wrong, I give you the article from U.S. Newswire and then Kim du Toit's excellent (as always) take on the situation.

Over at Vince Aut Moirre, a new Muslim blogger, Muslihoon, has joined the other writers their to give his take on On the West's superiority (with questions for relativists).

Working Double Shift

I am dead tired today. It's my Monday and my relief called in sick. I've be at work since 5AM (it's 7 PM now)with 2 hours to go. So just things I ran across/

From CNSNews.com on the Takeover of the White House that had been scheduled for today. Turns out the organizers are to busy fighting each other to pull off their coup.

That is all.

Oh, I did see a cool police chase that went right by work today. Must have been 20 to 30 cop cars after a SUV.

Brucia's Killer Sentenced to Death for 11-Year-Old's Murder

I just happened to be on the phone with my Dad while the judge was reading the sentence. My Dad said the judge had been reading his sentence for over an hour. this really made me nervous, usually when it takes this long to explain something, it more often than not isn't good news. The sentence was death.

Did we high five or go whoo-who? No. We just went thank you that this animal will have to pay the ultimate price for what he did. He tortured and killed an eleven year old child.

From FOXNews.com

During a hearing last month, Smith tearfully apologized for his crimes, telling the judge that he took large amounts of heroin and cocaine in an attempt to kill himself on the day he abducted Brucia in 2004.

Well, you didn't take enough to spare us the resposibility of having to do this for you. Your instincts were right, you no longer are fit to live in this society.

Smith said he did not remember much about that day and asked the judge to spare him for the sake of his family.

This statement make me wonder, do you not remember what happened that day because you were blitzed before the crime, or you realized what pond scum you are and then took the drugs to wipe out that image of yourself? And spare him for the sake of his family? What, do you think your family will want to visit you to discuss your imput on their science fair project? Your wife is going to wait for you? I would think your family would be the first to want you blotted out so they never have to think that they were related to you. Every time you appeal to stay your sentence, your family will be spotlighted by the media to find out if they want their Husband/Dad dead. How would you feel if you had to say "Yes, my father was an evil person who did a dispicable thing and should be dead"?

I Hit 100

A milestone in my blogging history has been reached this very night. I crossed over 100 visitors. Of course by going to the Site Meter page, I find that 80% of the hits are people just cruising through Blogger hitting the "next blog" button with a view time here of 0 seconds. But I don't care, I'm going to celebrate and set my next goal. I aim to get to 132 by no later than the end of May.

When Do I Sleep?

In case anyone wonders why it seems that I can post to blogs at all hours of the day and when the hell do I sleep, I'’ll give you my work schedule. I work what is called a line shift. Somewhere, someone came up with what is supposed to be the fairest and easiest to adapt to schedule to cover a 24 hour site with 4 operators. It goes like this:

Afternoons: 1PM to 9PM X 7 days Tuesday to Monday
Off X2 days
Days: 5AM to –1PM X 6 days Thursday to Tuesday
Off: X1.75 days
Graveyard: 9PM to 5AM X 7 days Wednesday-Thursday
Off: X5.25days

Now, I have been doing this for over two years now, one would think you would adjust to it. No, you don'’t. My brain and my body are constantly at war, one wants sleep and the other wants to go do something. This frequently results in inertia. I'’m physically ready to tackle a project, but my mind is wandering, or, I'’ve got this great idea to get this done and my body just goes "“it ain'’t gonna happen."

The other fun thing about living like this is try to figure out what you're available for in a month or two on weekends. In order to do this I have to have my handy-dandy schedule (Pictured above).

Easy, no? At some point, at some time, I'’m going to post somewhere, something that anyone who reads it is going to go "“What the Hell??". That is when the accumulation of this rotation has caught up and lapped me. I will probably disappear for a short time to hibernate and resynch my internal clocks.

Imagine

While I was in the shower, the radio which my wife had set to an Oldies station, played John Lennon's "Imagine". I've always liked the song, the idea that we all could get along is a nice ideal to strive for.

It got me to thinking, with all of the groups around to promote understanding of a particular cause (CAIR, GLAAD, JDL ect.), why does it seem we haven't made any progress? The conclusion I came to was that these groups are not promoting an understanding, they are only pushing that those disinclined to their position accept it, no if, ands or buts. They do not care about your opinion at all. No compromise, no agreement to disagree. It's full acceptance or nothing.

Truthfully though, it doesn't matter whether you arrive at an understanding, they say fine, now we want this. No matter how much you allow them, they move the end zone and start crying about how intolerant you are.

What about understanding my side of the issue. That never seems to happen. If your religion says that you should kill me, a good way of getting me to try to understand the rest of your faith would be to definitively state that this is not your goal, or that is going to be what I'm going to be concerned about. The rest is unimportant if you are going to do me in because I won't join you.

I don't hate gays. I don't care if you're gay. I just don't want it in my face. Two guys walking down the street holding hands doesn't make me freak out, it just isn't my thing. But two guys tongue wrestling in public is as offensive as a guy and girl doing it in public. If you insist that I accept a person walking down the street wearing leather chaps and a jock strap with a harness vest on...it ain't gonna happen.

You may say thay I am intolerant or unwilling to understand, actually all I want is for my beliefs to be respected too.

Lennon's song was based on the idea that all things are equal, no judgement of anything, no Heaven, no Hell, no good, no evil. It not realistic, there is right and wrong, your opinion and my opinion of what falls where. Wishing it away doesn't change reality.

Some Good Reads

"We can do better" by David Limbaugh updates us on the Dem's agenda for the 2006 elections.

For some good news, this is a good article on the state of how the average person's life by Jim Ruiz - The trouble with ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and that crowd

Goodbye Jerome "Chef" McElroy

Isaac Hayes has left South Park. He will no longer be providing the voice of Chef. The reason, he feels the show does not show respect to religion. If you have every watched South Park you might be surprised that after all this time he had now decided that the show is disrepectful of different religions. Every week they pick on Kyle for being a Jew not to mention the Jesus v Santa Claus show. They have let the muslims have it in a few episodes. They figure there is something to skewer about any subject. However it seems that they stepped over the line, as far as Hayes is concerned by attacking Scientology. He never comes out and says that is the specific reason, but after 9 years, he finally realizes that they make fun of religion. This revelation came to him after they did a spoof on Scientology. I probably should memtion that Isaac is a Scientologist. Guess it isn't so funny when it's your ox being gored.

Teacher's Union Upset Again

The Teacher's Union in Chicago is upset. The district is going to post the number of sick days a teacher takes on the internet and on student report cards.

The average number of days missed is 12. The district considers 18 days a teaching month (4 weeks x 5 days = 18? new math), so teachers miss 1 month out of the 9.5 they are suppose to be on the job. I know they are trapped in a room with disease ridden children, but give me a break. I have worked for the last 30+ years outdoors in all kinds of weather and I have taken 8 sick days, and a couple of those were half days where I went home after trying. I went in, told them I didn't feel well and was willing to work until they could do without me. I went home slept llike the dead, and made it to work the next day.

The Teacher's Union is saying this is "UNFAIR" to let the public know how many days a teacher weren't at their job. The teacher's employer is THE PUBLIC. We pay you to teach our kids, you are a public servant. Get that into your head. We always hear how you went into teaching because you care about the children. Well, provide an example by showing up to work and teach them that sometimes sticking to something even when you don't quit feel like it is the way life goes. or is it I don't feel like doing this today so "Mental Health Day", screw my employer?

Oh. I almost forgot the most often missed day was Friday.

Respect or Fear

The University of Saskatchewan publication The Sheaf refuses to publish the "controversial" mohammed cartoons "out of respect for the islamic religion", has published one of the most vile anti-Christian cartoons I have run across. I am not going to post it here, but if you want to see it you can go to Lost Budgie Blog. I am by no means a prude or a devote Christian, but the complete lack of any respect towards the Christian faith is appalling.

The total hypocrisy of the stance of this newspaper is galling. They obviously do not fear militant Christians rising up and burning their office or threatening the staff with beheading. Although they are comfortable with equating the Christians with the muslims. If they fear reprisal by the muslims, just say it, don't hid behind a false claim of respect. I honestly believe the publishers of this cartoon have no respect for anybody or anything. They do fear the muslims.

UPDATE: Dubai Port Deal Sunk

Back on March 10th I did a post Dubai Port Deal Sunk. In it I expressed my concerns about after all the hue and cry that nothing was changing as far as actual port security, I came across an article today that is written by a man who is much smarter than I (Mheh) who covers this exact problem in detail. Want to scare yourself go read this article, then write your congresscritter to do something that will really do something about the ports that will make a difference.

The day a nuke hit our port by Robert Pfriender.

This and That

Tom Fox was found dead in Iraq. Shot in the head. This man wasn't on a side, all he wanted to do was to help the people of Iraq, so the Swords of Righteousness Brigade kidnapped him, tortured him, killed him and threw him in a garbage dump.

I don't necessarily agree with his position on the was, but neither do I wish him ill for trying to see that medicine got to clinics and provided a link between jailed Iraqis and their families.

Religion of Peace--my ass.
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This ones should disturb everyone. Google, the most used search engine for the internet has started censoring their search results here in the United States. If you run a search on The Peoples Cube, a satirical website that pokes fun at the left, it has disappeared. This happening here should strike fear into everyone who uses the net to find information. Google has now set themselves up as the arbiter of what is worthy of being read, rather than letting the internet users themselves decide by how often a site is searched.
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Enough for today, work was busy and even though there were a lot of things that irked me I have just run out of gas.