I read today that Oracle’s profits were up 15% for Q2.
Oracle is one of the companies that is “Exporting America”, according to CNN’s Lou Dobbs.
In other words, part of that 15% profit resulted from firing “highly paid” American workers and exporting those jobs overseas.
Prediction
Capturing Saddam is a great moment for our troops in Iraq. It vindicates them as “the best of the best” and I hope will provide a morale boost to those brave and deserving women and men.
Conjecture has already begun on whether this will or won’t assure Bush’s reelection.
I predict that come November, this won’t be a major factor, and that the capture of Saddam will be largely symbolic in the long run.
GOTCHA!
Yesterday, while on a Holiday House Tour, I saw a poem entitled “Gotcha Day“.
On inquiry, it was explained that this marked the day the homeowners adopted a child.
In fact, “The Daughter” had introduced herself to me only a few minutes earlier, using that precise third person description, as if, indeed, she were another adornment or object, like an antique desk or an overstuffed chair.
The Democrats Need Libertarians to Win the White House
The mathematics of the Electoral College may lead to irrational results in Presidential elections, but it – and demographics – should make it easier for the loyal opposition to regain the White House in 2004 – if they direct their resources accordingly.
And romancing strongly Libertarian areas like New Hampshire should be part of this strategy.
Friday Five
It’s that time again, boys and girls!
Birthdays
My son’s birthday is today and I was surprised to read what he thinks about that.
7 Million Reasons that Snow Plus Snow Is Snow
The Republican anti-Democrat-attack-ad attack ad is now available on the web.
The Abercrombie Look
60 Minutes has discovered that certain retailers, Abercrombie & Fitch for example, hire sales people of a certain physical “type”.
Donkers
A woman who nursed her infant while driving 65 mph on the Ohio Turnpike was sentenced Thursday to three months of house arrest.
I knew it!
In the United States, single women are pariahs, with a social status slightly lower than that of convicted child molesters and slightly higher than that of politicians.