Tuesday, February 18, 2014

What's Better Or Worse With Florida Drugs, Stunt Resumes, Mexico's Oil, And Noisy Planes

    Florida, a state rich in corruption due to its Cracker heritage, now has a chemist in the Department Of Law Enforcement suspected of taking drugs seized in arrests of over 2,000 cases. His theft threatens with dismissal all these cases. The state is so corrupt that the gentleman hasn't even been charged.
    Resumes with a stunt don't usually work. On the other hand, these Hail Marys sometimes score a job. Companies in America receive an average of 383 applications a day and NSA-like, they are run through computers looking for key words that indicate the applicant has the needed skills- usually education and job experience. For those lacking these skills, drama is often used. One person sent his resume by carrier pigeon. Another linked his resume to his cache of erotica. One person got a face-to-face interview and after it, sent a thank-you note attached to pizza for the entire company. The pizza man was hired but proved to be a dud: He watched "South Park"
at the office and took naps. So long, Pizza Man. Drama is fun, but we vote for the hard work necessary to get education or training and then experience.
  Mexico was the first nation in the world to nationalize - steal- its oil, doing so in 1938. For a decade its production of oil has been falling due to lack of cash and the knowledge of how to drill in deep water. Except for the Arctic, Mexico has the largest unknown oil reserves (which seems a strange designation). The problem is that they are in the depths of the Gulf Of Mexico. The Mexican congress has just ended the state control on oil, thus opening its oil and natural gas to foreign corporations. The leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PDR), in the true democratic fashion Socialists are well-known for, tried blocking the halls were the voting was taking place. One of the PDR lawmakers stripped to his tightie whities to make a speech. The PDR plans to appeal to the Supreme Court to approve a referendum on the bill to allow foreign investors to develop oil and natural gas. This appeal is projected for 2015. Mexicans are planning to use their cheap natural gas from these wells to build steel, glass, and petrochemical industries. They believe they  can compete with the Chinese by paying below-Chinese levels of wages.
    It appears that you will not have to endure the din of a hundred one-sided conversations while flying. The Transportation Department is about to ban phone use on planes. However, it seems to be an unnecessary intrusion into the private economy as only JetBlue Airways is even open to considering inflight telephone service.
    These commentaries are based upon news from the Wall Street Journal, America's most trustworthy national newspaper. Peter Nickerson. Neither a Republican nor a Democrat, but an Evidentist (Show me the evidence!)

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