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I found another, different copy of the same article on the web, but this is not a direct scan of the printed page:

http://oi60.tinypic.com/5vu81y.jpg

Link to scan/photo of newspaper:

http://stashpit.com/upload/big/2015/08/12/55cad8f0789b6.jpg

AND...

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2a4ac681935fb990e43310ea2d1536d55afc2b40bd7765c284bd18b726637e7a.jpg

Kerry wrote THIS book with THIS cover in 1972. Note the upside down american flag-- intentional, no doubt.

Bump for posterity

Grrr. I should have known/remembered about the image source tag (shaking head now). Thank you!

No, I don't believe any of them is Kerry. The photo is the cover of Kerry's book he wrote in 1972 that he wants to keep quiet!!

Thank you for loading the photo.

PS: What tags do I use to load an image in the thread?

There is a photo... i just can't get it to load in the thread?

http://richardheymann.com/Kerry%20Cover.jpg

If the media are going to stoop so low as to engage Bush with his national guard service record, then I'm certainly going to fight the same fight with better evidence.

This information was sent to me by a close friend in the military. To the best of my knowledge, it is true. Here is a second source describing the book cover as in the photo above:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/2/prweb103472.htm

Also neglected in the article is any mention of retraining costs, and the effect of starting a new career at the bottom of the ladder. When Greenspan, et al, all spout off the mantra, "retraining", that's usually where their argument ends. Retrain for what? At what cost?

I'm an artificial intelligence research analyst and I can't find work.

So, I go back to school, get another undergrad degree and add a graduate degree to boot. I'm looking at anywhere from 15K to 50K for in-state tuition for both degrees.

And then I start at the bottom in my new career, making a recent grad's salary at age 37 (presently).

Makes me wants to start a business instead.

"Its almost as if Bush has always started off at the CEO spot of every job he's been in and is wondering why the peasants are revolting."

Excellent point. Myopia from the top of the mountain is a disease that offers no treatment. Unless Bush and others afflicted go broke and have to work their way through a master's program while waiting tables. Naw-- Won't happen.

I'm looking for work in the field I am enamored with. I'm an artificial intelligence analyst-- aka, quantitative analyst to some companies. And I'm a competent one at that.

There's not much call for that kind of work as it is.

And now, Indians take advantage of the L-1. Will it ever end?

If we displace blue collars who make furniture and textiles to China, and we displace white collars with engineering and technical degrees to India, et al... then WHO IS LEFT? Management, I suppose. And plumbers, electricians, convenience store workers. Americans are have difficulty filling American jobs these days, while Bush wants to import Mexicans by the metric ton.

And yet, my conservative, capitalistic principals tell me there is no easy answer to the problem. Stop illegal immigration for one. Beyond that, should the government really impose regulations regarding the employment of Americans exclusively? I dare say so-- already the trend in is place and most companies won't be able to compete with other companies that use the cheap labor.

America will simply continue to consolidate the wealth further into fewer hands at the top of companies and into the company treasury, leaving a starving white and blue collar middle class to rot. Once they smell rising wages in India, they will move to Indonesia. Or Siberia. Pick the second world economy of your choice. Although that may sound like a liberal speaking, it's merely an observation of the effects of these trends.

"Retrain" is often heralded as a solution. Even Greenspan mentioned it. But for what field of endeavor? Hundreds of thousands if not millions of competent engineers, scientists, programmers and analysts will become.... plumbers? Electricians? Landscapers? Whatever isn't portable overseas?

I'm struggling to see the solution. Maybe I'll sign up for auto mechanic 101 at the local community college. Indeed, such is better than working midnight shift at the local 7-11.

P.S. - Thank you, Mr. Bush for proposing to pump gov't dollars into those schools. Where is your mind, exactly? I suppose the word "retrain" has been bantered about the oval office. >removing tongue from cheek<

Regardless, a conservative will adapt... despite my extraordinary dissapointment with the prospect of losing the work I was "Called" to do, and do well.

I have met Veron Robinson on more than one occassion. I've lived in Winston Salem all my life (except for 7 years in Seattle). He's a man who likes to make a "splash". He's charismatic and commanding in a room, standing about 6'4" and he's not entirely skinny either.

I have to applaud this move! It'll play well in this tobacco & banking town of 180,000 people that largely remains conservative.

You are absolutely 1000% correct. And many on the far left (Hillary, et al) would dearly love to see this sort of practice expanded, institutionalized and canonized.

Absolutely disgusting.

I think the word "their" in the sentence you are reffering to is in regards to government agencies, not the supposed perpetrators of environmental damage. In this case, the farmers did no damage. Rather, the federal government reduced the amount of water coming from the delta basin upstream because the local government's water pumps sucked up and killed fish.

Certainly the fed's argument is a fallacy. They argued in court that the taxpayer should not have to pay end users (aka, farmers) for the government's choice to reduce water in order to save fish.

A short tangent: what happened to "life, liberty and property"?! FWIW, that phrase I just quoted was the one almost used instead of "...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". It was changed at the last moment, just before the venerable document was signed. The founders of this country knew the importance of private property, and they knew that the government needs to compensate owners at fair market value when the government imposes an easement.

We're seeing a fairly rapid deterioration of that very, very important founding principle.

Yes, I have gotten that "internal server error" several times today. I've received it both posting and attempting to load articles.

Katie is appallingly biased and liberal, making pointed attempts to villify Bush by begging the question, coming to her own little myopic conclusions before the answer is returned. This is the sort of read that turns my stomach.

With regard to O'Neill, someone must have really put the pressure on him. He's backpeddling like a circus clown on a unicycle.

The sad, sad point of all this is that the lemmings in the public will believe this tripe.

Let's take a few examples of insane liberal thinking:

O'Neill: If the cover page and the attachments were secret, the cover page was not secret.

Ok, so, "I didn't say what I said, I didn't do as I did." Yes indeed, that litmus test passes liberal muster.

Now, let's find and example of placing the blame somewhere else. That's any politician's first defense, notwithstanding republicans too. Liberals have to use this primary defense more often because they know their ideology never works in practice, and they have to resort to illegal measures to ram their tripe down the country's throat, right? Right. Ok.

O'Neill: What they will discover is the general counsel, the chief legal officer of the Treasury Department, went through all these documents and sent me things. Under the law, he's not supposed to send me anything that isn't unclassified. And so if there's anything in that file that's unclassified, the general counsel failed to be sure that everything was clear.

Ah, yes. Blame the general counsel. Liberal mantra above all others: take no responsibility for your own actions.

O'Neill: (I thought) that in the fourth quarter of 2003, the real growth rate would be 6 percent. It turned out to be 8.2 percent. I think the 2.2 percent came because of the third tax cut, but the price we are going to pay for it is enormous because it reduces our fiscal flexibility to fix Social Security, which we desperately need to do.

Ok. Myopic liberal thinking. Liberals look at the economy as a simple linear system that responds to stimuli, especially government stimuli. Stimulus, response. Stimulus, response, again.

Now, the dirty little secret none of the media wish to reveal is that under Reagan, it was proven that by decreasing taxes, the economy grew and government receipts went UP. More dollars are attracted to quality goods and services that are considered fairly priced. This creates revenue. Revenue creates tax reciepts for the treasury! Lower taxes produces GREATER income for the government.

Look at it this way. If we tax at 100%, no one will work. If we tax at 0%, we'll have no public roads or police. Therefore, somewhere in between is optimal. Economic growth is created by tax cuts, which, if the politicans were not so myopic and a little more patient, over the course of a relatively short time, they would be happy with GREATER income with which to give them their ego boost and power trip.

(shaking head) You know, I think it's about time to simply scream and check into a passport off the planet. (smile)

Vannrox wrote:

"The profile of the hardest hit:

Age > 40 years. Occupation: Technical Education: BS+ Engineering "

Indeed. And that's me.

37 years old, previously the senior research analyst at an artificial intelligence software/consulting company. Company now bankrupt. I've been looking from coast to coast since August of 2000. Yes, 2000. I even looked into other countries (ie, Canada, Ireland). Superb references to offer, a sterling resume, top notch credit history, no criminal record, etc, etc.

So, I became a realtor. Haven't made a living at it after a year now. Hard business to start up and develop a reputation, even working for one of the local "800 lb. Gorillas" in the industry. (To state the rather obvious: real estate is indeed a reputation based business. If you are thinking of it, I highly recommend becoming extremely social with the peer group you wish to target and expect about a 1 to 1.5 year lead time.)

I'm now looking for convenience store work, Wal-Mart, etc.

Talked to a friend of a friend who put me in touch with a real, living human being "HR manager" at a large bank. She told me that as of this week, they are maintaining 1600 jobs that are open for placement, and 40,000 resumes. Obviously, only a smattering get read. The jobs go to the inside networked contacts first, then people like myself who are lucky enough to get a manager on the phone, and lastly, to the huge number of qualified applicants.

I'm going to likely finger my way through my "black book", make the calls, and assemble all of my unemployed programmer/analyst/CIO friends together and start a new company.

Anyone care to chat on the subject?

ACK! I can't take the bias any longer. I'm going to implode... 1....2....3.... >Sigh<

Of course the opening lines DON'T mention the fact that Arnold has had nothing to do with college tuition increases of upwards of 40% in the last several years.

He wants to LIMIT astronomical increases to around 10% per annum-- go read his State of the State Address to CA.

Very good post. :)