Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Hey in today’s economy, it’s harder to get a job at McDonalds than it was for Obama to get into Harvard back in the day.
Ow! That’s gonna leave a mark!
The low rate is not surprising, considering those 1 million somehow had to wait for an invitation to apply. Every McD’s I’ve been to in the past year has had a “Help Wanted” sign out. Motivated, much?
The sad part is my fellow NE Ohioans can’t even seem to queue up for a job without a riot:
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/04/woman_charged_in_mcdonalds_ass.html
Those hired had experience with multimedia productions and active You Tube accounts.
Timothy Geithner affirms that a 6.2 selection rate CONFIRMS that the economy is rockin’and rollin’ to FULL RECOVERY! Just think of the tax windfall from those 62K making minimum wage!!!!
I worked at McD’s for two whole weeks (1972) prior to joining the Navy. My oldest brother managed 10 years while he was attending college part time. I can tell you from family experience that the vast majority of those hired will not last more than a month. I think the whole hiring project was a publicity farce including the “hiring more than planned”. Call me cynical, but in that business you ALWAYS over hire because the fallout rate is horrendous. So I find the whole press around a staged event like this a bit curious. Of course, I am waiting for the followup on the people employed in 5…4…3..2……
(OT aside: Fortunately I already have my passport. I saw the new alternate data form for a passport application that requires an employment history including manager’s names and phone numbers. It would be impossible for me to list that information. McDonalds? Howard Johnson’s? Manpower (how many temp jobs there? 8? 10?)? Stereo Village? Ole wazzis name when I bucked bales for .20/bale? Sheesh! And remember that 40-45 years later? Uh-huh. Riiiiight.)
I find it scarier that only 6.2% of a sample of unemployed America is up to Micky D’s standards…
My understanding is that things didn’t work out so well in Cleveland.
http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/8022.aspx