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My wife and I moved last summer and when we arrived at our new place, we had to get busy finding new jobs. I registered with a bunch of the online job banks and placement websites. One of these was Beyond.com which makes the following claims:
My background is in teaching, writing, editing and quality assurance. I was thrilled last week when I got an email "instant job alert" from Beyond.com:
The job they so breathlessly needed to call my attention to? Pool boy. Well, actually pool manager. It seems Beyond.com hasn't seen me in a bathing suit, nor read my resume.
The right people. The right skills.
The right location. Right now.
My background is in teaching, writing, editing and quality assurance. I was thrilled last week when I got an email "instant job alert" from Beyond.com:
Dear Raymond,
We wanted to notify you immediately about a new job posting that may fit your interest and skill set. Please review the information below. You can easily access the job description by clicking on the link provided.
The job they so breathlessly needed to call my attention to? Pool boy. Well, actually pool manager. It seems Beyond.com hasn't seen me in a bathing suit, nor read my resume.
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Tell a lie enough times and people will believe it. It worked for the Nazis. It's working for the global warming doomsayers. A NASA scientist is warning that we have less than four years to reverse this so-called man made climate change.
NASA scientist Jim Hansen is warning about rising oceans etc. I'm not even going to call him on the facts that ice packs are growing and the earth is cooling. Let's assume, for a moment that the oceans do rise. They won't rise overnight, it will take considerable time. People will move out of the low lying areas. Maybe people will get out of Bangladesh where about every other year thousands die due to flooding. There have been plenty of human migrations in this history of mankind. There will be more.
When high schoolers read Orwell's 1984, is it seen as tragic irony? Is it possible to write books like 1984, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451 anymore? With security cameras on nearly every corner of our major cities and politicians employing armies of spin doctors. It doesn't seem like disturbing fiction about our future is disturbing anymore.
Tell me I'm wrong.
NASA scientist Jim Hansen is warning about rising oceans etc. I'm not even going to call him on the facts that ice packs are growing and the earth is cooling. Let's assume, for a moment that the oceans do rise. They won't rise overnight, it will take considerable time. People will move out of the low lying areas. Maybe people will get out of Bangladesh where about every other year thousands die due to flooding. There have been plenty of human migrations in this history of mankind. There will be more.
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When high schoolers read Orwell's 1984, is it seen as tragic irony? Is it possible to write books like 1984, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451 anymore? With security cameras on nearly every corner of our major cities and politicians employing armies of spin doctors. It doesn't seem like disturbing fiction about our future is disturbing anymore.
Tell me I'm wrong.
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