Monday, January 9, 2012

Looking for your next job? Start with these great resources

I am pleased to offer you a job as...
I've got a couple of friends who just keep going to the same old sites looking for jobs, meanwhile there's a whole sleuth of them all over the place. 


I'm compiling this list to help my brothers out. It will be constantly updated as I find more. 


There's careers, jobs, part-time and full-time to be found at these links.


 Its 2012, time to spruce up your resumes and get back to work!


The New:




The Usual:




Government:



Specialty:


Part Time:


Friday, December 23, 2011

Final Destination: Woman Misses Fatal Air France Flight, Only to Die in Car Crash Days Later

Johanna Ganthaler, an Italian woman and a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province and her husband Kurt were on vacation in Brazil. The couple was supposed to take the doomed Air France Flight 447 back to Paris. However, they missed the plane and took a different one home instead. It was just a brief reprieve, however, as she died in a car crash in Austria a few days later. Huff Post

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

There's too much government in my life! - This Week with Christiane Amanpour

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Excellent video on the role of government on its people. Watch from the middle to see this country's history and why we have government protections in place...

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Republicans are not evil?

No mention of seccession or civil wars but brb, going out to get me a gun! (take this video with a grain of salt, its a partial and selective history lesson)

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Good Without God - Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Rafael Nadal

Look at the following list:

Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Woody Allen, Lance Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, James Cameron, George Carlin, John Carmack, Adam Carolla, Noam Chomsky, David Cross, Alan Cumming, Rodney Dangerfield, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Ani DiFranco, Micky Dolenz, Harlan Ellison, Richard Feynman, Harvey Fierstein, Larry Flynt, Dave Foley, Jodie Foster, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Geldof, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, James Gleick, Robert Heinlein, Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Hitchens, Jamie Hyneman, Eddie Izzard, Penn Jillette, Billy Joel, Angelina Jolie, Diane Keaton, Michael Kinsley, Artie Lange, Richard Leakey, Bruce Lee, Tom Lehrer, Tom Leykis, James Lipton, H.P. Lovecraft, Bill Maher, John Malkovich, Barry Manilow, Todd McFarlane, Sir Ian McKellen, Arthur Miller, Frank Miller, Marvin Minsky, Julianne Moore, Rafael Nadal, Randy Newman, Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Bob Odenkirk, Patton Oswalt, Keanu Reeves, Rick Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joe Rogan, Henry Rollins, Andy Rooney, Salman Rushdie, Bob Simon, Steven Soderbergh, Annika Sorenstam, George Soros, Howard Stern, Pat Tillman, Linus Torvalds, Alan Turing, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Steven Weinberg.

What do all these people have in common? There rich, famous, are charitable, and are all atheists or agnostics. look at this story on charitable Atheists. you can also check out the Kiva Atheist group donation page which has loaned more than $2,828,700 to people who they have never met, a true act of faith.


Atheists are often seen as arrogant, uncaring, unspirited, and or criminally minded. Just look at this post found on yahoo answers, its sad to see people put other beliefs under an umbrella but I also understand that posters point of view. The thing we have to realize is, its not always black and white.


Atheists often feel disenfranchised because there are so little of them. Often the most reasonable voice is drowned out by the masses because its the christians who are less able to have an open dialogue when they know very little about their own religion. Being an atheist myself, Ive studied alot of other religions to come to my final conclusion. I was often the "just in case" believer. But at one point after praying I though to myself, What makes me so special? There are dying children in the world from diseases, malnutrition, and im here praying for a certain sports team, a better day at work tomorrow, or hopeful in the fact that I get to see another tomorrow. Its the ultimate form of megalomania, a sad reality for me was when I became so intertwined in the belief and not the message.


Dont get me wrong, the bible has some good moral stories, but it is also filled with hateful vitriol, violence, and downright questionable myths and fables. What makes christians so adamantelly believe their got versus the 400+ others that existed? Even the ones before the Jesus myth. What about Greek Gods? The Crusades? What about the facts like flat earth, 6000 year earth, or no mentions at all about dinosaurs in the bible, unicorns (still nowhere to be found), the missing rib, the 30 years that passed after Jesus' resurection and the bible was written, and what about the poor platipus. What was God thinking with that poor animal? Christians can't even believe in how to teach the bible, verses, and teachings. Why do you think we have so many denominations? They just can't agree!!


The truth is we will never trully know who is right, religion has always fueled wars, and it does so to this day. I just wish someday christians realize that just because you are born again doesnt mean that your past is in the clear. If you dont want to repent your sins, maybe you should'nt have sinned in the first place. Just be good to you and your brothers and listen to one another, we can all find common ground, and in the end, we are all fighting a losing battle. Just always remember, God may or may not exist, but you DO! so what makes YOU so special?

See a Young Stephen Colbert's FirsTier Bank Commercial

Like fellow Second City alum Tina Fey, a young Stephen Colbert works his financial pitchman magic for Nebraska's FirsTier Bank. It may be hard to notice, but there is some excellent use of early green screen technology in this commercial.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Herman Cains 999 Problem

Herman Cain - CEO of self
“Nine percent corporate business flat tax, nine percent income flat tax and a nine percent national sales tax,” he said, explaining the plan once again during Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate.
First off you should know a family of 4 earning 50k/yr will go from $3850 in fed taxes a year to $6250! *further explained below.

Herman Cain wont explain his tax plan to lower and middle class, because he doesn't have to, all he says is DO THE MATH, and YOU SHOULD! Lower and Middle class will pay more because they will pay the full 27% because wages are earned by the lower and middle and not the rich. This means LESS taxes for those making more than $100,000 a year!
Cain’s tax plan consists of three different 9 percent taxes — one on wage income (investment income is exempt), one on sales of goods and services (including food, housing, and medicine), and one on business income (investments and purchases from other businesses are deductible; wages, however, are not). But most Americans will end up paying all three of those taxes, for a combined tax rate of 27 percent of their income.
That’s because middle and low-income Americans get all, or nearly all, of their income from ordinary wages — all of which would be subject to Cain’s 9 percent wage tax — and then they spend all of their income, which means it would be taxed again by the 9 percent sales tax. Finally, the burden of the 9 percent business income tax would be passed on to them as well, either in the form of lower wages — since wages are not deductible — or in the form ofhigher prices for goods and services.
The bottom line is that most Americans will pay all three of Cain’s taxes, making their real federal tax rate 27 percent. Compare that to the current tax code, under which someone in the bottom quintile pays two percent of their income in federal taxes and someone in the middle quintile pays 15 percent.The fact is that pretty much everyone making up to around $100,000 a year would pay more under Cain’s plan than they do now.
Not to mention this simplified tax plan has already been done before, IN A VIDEO GAME, its called SIM CITY and when Electronic Arts, the game maker, was asked about this: 
"We encourage politicians to continue to look to innovative games like SimCity for inspiration for social and economic change," said Katsarelis. "While we at Maxis and Electronic Arts do not endorse any political candidates or their platforms, it's interesting to see GOP candidate Herman Cain propose a simplified tax system like one we designed for the video game SimCity 4."
Adopting such a simple tax structure, Katsarelis said, would allow fantasy political leaders to focus their energy on infrastructure and national security. "Our game design team thought that an easy to understand taxation system would allow players to focus on building their cities and have fun thwarting giant lizard attacks, rather than be buried by overly complex financial systems."
I think the words "simplified, fantasy, and giant lizard attacks" pretty much explains what the game makers think of this idea.

The family of 4 example above breaks down as such:
If you have a family of four with an income of just under $50,000, they could end up paying more under the Cain plan. Currently, they are taxed around $3,850 in income tax. Under Cain’s plan, they would be taxed at 9 percent or pay $4,500. That’s $650 more. 
Although the family would save almost $4,000 in Social Security taxes, it would have to give up the child tax credit worth the same amount. Furthermore, it would pay an additional national sales tax of 9 percent on everything purchased, including groceries and clothes, which totals about $2,000.
That means under the Cain plan that family could end up paying $2,725 more.
Its almost as if a businessman like Cain can't do math, but wants you to DO THE MATH! Thanks Cain, I'm glad I did.

PolitiFact even gave Cain's explanation that a "family making $50,000 would have $2000 left over" under his plan, giving it a big FALSE on the truth o meter with three accountants saying Cains math doesn't add up. - PolitiFact

and the final nail in the coffin:
“It’s going to raise the price of just about everything by about 9 percent,” said former George W. Bush economic policy adviser Bruce Bartlett. “We know from experience and analysis that that tends to hurt people with low incomes.”
The Cain campaign says that his plan will not hurt people with lower incomes because under his plan employers would save $4,000 in social security taxes.  That money could then be passed along to the employees creating a system in which everyone benefits.
because businesses loves to give their employees a raise... 

also taxes on groceries?
I don't think so!

sources:
ABC News - Herman Cain plan would effectively double the taxes on the middle class
Huff Post - Herman Cain and Sim City
Think Progress - Herman Cain I have no idea how 999 would work
Think Progress - The three things you need to know about 999 plan

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Princess hears a strange noise and Princess Meets Officer Friendly NSFW

On December 8, 1999, Daily Variety reported that Trey and Matt of Southpark were going to produce 39 shorts that were to be 3-5 minutes long.

Princess hears a strange noise:
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Princess meets officer friendly:


At the end of the "Officer Friendly" episode, the viewers are invited to see the next installment, "Princess Finds A Red Balloon". However, according to South Park Studios, the episode was never produced following the rejection of the first two. [wiki]

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