Comments on: SRLC: Opening Session

By: AlphaPatriot

AlphaPatriot — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:51:39 +0000

Stormy, consider this: India invested millions into their higher education system, started training kids to be engineers and computer programmers and now they are employed all over the world and huge outsourcing companies are established all over the country — and billions are flowing into the country.
The standard of living is going up, the infrastructure is being strengthened, and the future looks quite bright.
I’m not saying it’s philosophically right, but it may have been the right thing to do.

By: AlphaPatriot

AlphaPatriot — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:28:51 +0000

Indeed, ten minutes of video shot and they use the five seconds that show how much hair has jumped ship. Sheesh.

By: mike hollihan

mike hollihan — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:30:32 +0000

Alpha, you made the 10PM news on 5 tonight. They did a very short piece about bloggers, emphasising their independence and “own voices.” Saw the back of your head (har har) and Mick.

By: Stormy Dragon

Stormy Dragon — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:40:53 +0000

>He talked about how we are no longer leading the
>world in turning out engineers and the like, and
>how this was affecting outsourcing and American
>jobs. Best quote:
>
>I don’t want America to become the France of the
>21st century.
As long as the USA continues with the philosophies that lead one to conclude that the number of people graduating with engineering degrees is a government issue, we’ll continue following along in France’s footsteps.
If this post is an indication of what the party leadership is up to, they’ve learned absolutely nothing from the numerous mistakes of the last six years and have decided to continue the party’s slide into quasi-socialist populism.

By: NewSisyphus

NewSisyphus — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:07:03 +0000

Your surprise about Sen. Coleman is not unusual. Being a senator from Minnesota, people tend to assume he’s a Midwestern nordic/protestant type, only to find out he is a Jewish guy from Brooklyn. (What you were hearing was a Brooklyn accent, not Boston). In fact, if you close your eyes he sometimes can sound like he is channelling Bugs Bunny.
He is a standup guy, in my opinion, and one of the better of an admittedly sorry bunch.