Failure Defined

This is a real google.com search from this morning. Surprised? Not me. Guess even search engines are smart enough to see when the popular vote turns out to be not so popular a few years later. As an aside, “I told you so!”

Thanks to garrie keyman for this tip.

Go ahead and try it for yourself, visit google and type in FAILURE and see what you get.

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9/11 Conspiracy Theories or Spy vs. Spy?

BELLACIAO – Former Bush Team Member Says WTC Collapse Likely A Controlled Demolition And “Inside Job” – Collective Bellaciao
Former Bush Team Member Says WTC Collapse Likely A Controlled Demolition And “Inside Job” Greg Szymanski June 12, 2005

A former chief economist in the Labor Department during President Bush’s first term now believes the official story about the collapse of the WTC is ’bogus,’ saying it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.

“If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an ’inside job’ and a government attack on America would be compelling,” said Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D, a former member of the Bush team who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Reynolds, now a professor emeritus at Texas A&M University, also believes it’s ’next to impossible’ that 19 Arab Terrorists alone outfoxed the mighty U.S. military, adding the scientific conclusions about the WTC collapse may hold the key to the entire mysterious plot behind 9/11.

Bringing Tech Jobs Home

InformationWeek > Outsourcing IT Jobs > Onshore Outsourcing: Made In America > May 9, 2005

Startup Rural Sourcing has an alternative to offshoring: outsource IT work to smaller U.S. cities. The pitch? It’s still cheap and helps American workers.

Why send IT work to India when you can pay a little more and have it done in middle America or the South? The concept of providing IT services from some lower-cost regions in the United States made so much sense to Kathy White, former CIO at health-care conglomerate Cardinal Health Inc., that she took $2 million of her own money and started a business around it. “If we can outsource to India, then we can outsource to Arkansas,” White says.

Politicians go where angels fear to tread

The Schiavo fiasco is still hanging around in the news, but it seems that the tables may be turning on GWB and Congress who were so quick to step into a place they never should have been.

I’m not the only one that thinks that our political system is careening wildly out of control. We need less governmental interference, not more.

USATODAY.com – Politicians might feel repercussions of Schiavo case

Public opinion polls say a majority of the country supported the right of Schiavo’s husband, Michael, to remove her feeding tube. “There could be a real backlash against this intervention in the Schiavo case. The public is not at all happy about this,” said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

Bush’s approval rating took a 7-point dip in USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Polls taken before and after he signed the Schiavo bill.

The intervention by Congress in the Schiavo matter has roiled conservatives. Religious conservatives largely supported the action, while economic conservatives seem to resent federal involvement in what they see as a private tragedy.

In a CBS News poll, 82% of Americans said Congress and President Bush should have stayed out of the matter; 74% said Congress was playing politics with the issue.

The USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll found the biggest drops in Bush’s approval rating came among self-described conservatives, churchgoers and men under 50.

But I’m Not Dead Yet….

The IRS has informed a woman in Sinking Springs, PA that she is deceased, and as such, can not file a tax return… in particular receive her tax refund check. This woman has traveled to the local tax office with valid ID documents in hand and still hasn’t gotten anywhere.

Government (in)Action once again costing us time and money, and as usual, what would seem like a ‘cut and dried’ affair becomes a nightmare scenario.

Full Story: TheWGALChannel.com