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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves
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Cracks in the Economy Widen as Durable Goods Orders Sink The word of the day is "awful".
Blogger profile said… Here’s your problem, Eli.By segmenting and assigning blame unearned and unwarranted amongst a whole 50% (nearly) of the population, you will alienate most of the people you wish to reach.And even more so when this happens:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3260279/Babysitter-sex-11-year-old-escapes-jail.htmland there is no discussion about reducing this sort of child rape in the babysitter community.Because it shows that only men as a group are responsible for the actions of their group (much like anti-muslim tirades never applying to Christians when one of their kind does some murdering or terrorising, it’s never because of Christianity then, and no Christian is asked to apologise for it).When one of your children breaks something by running round the house, do you blame ALL your children for breaking things and say "This sort of thing needs to stop!"? No, you explain to ALL your children that "this is why we don’t run round the house"
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Existing Home Sales Up 4.7% Following Last Month’s 5% Decline; Home Price Weakness Existing home sales bounced this month, coming in just above the high end of Econoday Economists’ Estimates . Existing home sales bounced back very strongly in September, up 4.7 percent to nearly reverse the prior month’s revised decline of 5.0 percent, a decline that now looks like an outlier. The month’s annual sales rate, at 5.55 million, is just beyond Econoday’s top-end forecast and the second best reading of the recovery.
One relative bright spot is Amazon Hiring More than Penney’s, Walmart Combined . Leaving one widely watched holiday hiring forecast in the dust, Amazon (AMZN) said Tuesday that it will add 25 percent more seasonal workers this year, outpacing many of its bricks-and-mortar competitors who plan to keep hiring flat.