Rogel @ March 31, 2008 # One Comment
A should be simple upgrade of the blog’s platform become a rather hectic mess today, but with the assistant of my hosting service everything seems to be in order now. In the meantime here are some links I collected today:
A new research that checked people cooperations in different cultures had rather interesting finding:
Researchers use economic […]
Rogel @ March 30, 2008 # One Comment
Here she is, in the first installment of her birthday party:
Both of the girls had a lot of fun:
more pictures can be found here and here.
Rogel @ March 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Tseela turning 6 this weekend and the first event marking her birthday was in her Kindergarten. I spent an hour with her yesterday morning, enjoying the children morning activities:
I had so much fun that I needed to be reminded that I actually need to go to work…
Rogel @ March 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
What is the best way to protect your city workers interests? By limiting job opportunities!
Rogel @ March 27, 2008 # One Comment
I breaking my old decision not to right about the UN Human Rights Mockery Council, I simply can’t resist the irony:
Switzerland’s Jean Ziegler has been appointed to a United Nations advisory body for human rights.
He won most votes for the seat designated for western countries at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in […]
Rogel @ March 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Whenever I think that nothing will surprise me someone like Mike Gravel shows up and prove me wrong. The former Democrat Senator from Alaska and former candidate seeking the democratic nomination joined the Libertarian party. One of the reasons he gave for seeking the LP nomination is:
The fact is, the Democratic Party today is no […]
Rogel @ March 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I regard politicians who promise to promote policies of:
“serving a cause greater than self-interest.”
[…]
“We are fast becoming a nation of alienating individualists, unwilling to put the unifying values of patriotism ahead of our narrow self-interests,” Mr. McCain warned in a speech during his 2000 presidential campaign. He added that “cynicism threatens to become a ceiling […]
Rogel @ March 26, 2008 # One Comment
My position on the bear-streans bailout was, and still is, that it was simple case of robbery. Having the taxpayers fund, directly and indirectly, welfare programs for banks, airlines companies, pharmaceutical companies or any other corporation doesn’t change the fact that this is improper use of the public trust. The only support a company should […]
Rogel @ March 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When it is more important to win regulatory favors than winning consumers where would the money be invested?
Rogel @ March 25, 2008 # 2 Comments
How can one reconcile this statement:
“We need a president who can restore our confidence,” she said. “We need a president who is ready on Day 1 to be commander in chief of our economy.”
with this:
When asked why she’d appoint Alan Greenspan to a working group of financial leaders to design a response to the housing […]