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NY Times, March 3, 2006

“People do lose jobs as a result of globalization, and it’s painful for those who lose jobs,” Mr. Bush said at meeting with young entrepreneurs at Hyderabad’s Indian School of Business, one of the premier schools of its kind in India. Nonetheless, the president said, “globalization provides great opportunities.”

Mr. Bush strongly defended the outsourcing of American jobs to India as the reality of a global economy, and said that the United States should instead focus on India as a vital new market for American goods.

Now I understand that it is hard for a man who has never had to work a real job a day of his life to sympathize with some one that has to, but come on Bush. Your approval ratings are at 34%, the lowest of any president in at least 25 years. Do you really think a trip and comments like this are going to help you?

Who are you to provide ANY advice on business? Everything you have ran, has been ran into the ground, including America. Our national debt went from having a surplus to having a record high debt level. I sure hope China doesn’t want any of it’s money back in the next 100 years. Great Job!

If president Bush, and presumably the rest of his administration, support outsourcing of jobs, why is it that when a federal employee calls for tech support and a call center in India answers the phone, they can say, “I’m a US Federal Employee.” The support center then has to transfer them to an American call center. If it’s not good enough for you and your employees, then it’s not good enough for the rest of us. Practice what you preach Bushy!

So here is what I propose, George. If outsourcing jobs is so great for America, lets outsource your job. They can’t do any worse. In fact I bet your approval ratings will go up. In the end it might restore the people’s faith in the GOP.

I seem to remember in the 2004 campaign Bush talking about having less outsourcing, and providing a level playing field for Americans. Oh wait, that was Kerry. Great job America. Let’s elect another person who puts America’s interests above his own in 2008.

I’ve been a big fan of David Letterman since I was old enough to actually stay up and see his show. I’m also a big fan of The Family Guy. I was one of the few that watched it back in the 90’s before fox canceled it. Anyway, I came across a mixture of the two. Here’s a video of Peter Griffin doing a top 10 list on Letterman.

I promise this blog won’t turn into a video dump. I’ve just found a couple I couldn’t resist in the past few days. Thanks to www.youtube.com for the bandwidth hosting the files.

This video kind of sums up WVU men’s basketball since Coach Beilein came in 2002. The emphasis is mostly on what WVU did last year on there run to the elite 8, and it doesn’t have anything from the current season. I had seen it before but came across it again today. I’m putting it here for anyone else who might not have seen it. It’s a definite watch for any Mountaineer fan. Enjoy!

Tonight is the last home game of the 2005-2006 Men’s basketball season. We’re playing Pitt. It’s also going to be the last time Pittsnogle, Gansey, Herber, Collins, and Beilein play in a game at the Coliseum. People are reporting on the message boards that at 5:30am there were already students waiting in line for the game (tip off is at 7:00pm). It should be a great game. Here’s a good story about the 5 graduating seniors:
http://msnsports.net/page.cfm?story=9015&cat=exclusives

One last thing…. Eat Shit Pitt!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/10/employees_chipped/

This company in Cincinnati is requiring employees that need access to there data center to have an RFID chip injected into there bicep. I hope this doesn’t become a widespread practice. I think if WVU ever started this I’d be looking for a new job. I don’t mind having to carry a card with an RFID chip on it, but having one implanted in me takes it to far. If I were to ever leave the company I could just give them the card back, but this chip in my arm would be with me forever.

Scary!

Well I did it. I’ve been telling support for months that if things didn’t change that I was moving to a new host. They didn’t seem to believe me. So tonight I signed on with some one new. My current host has been nothing but trouble since I registered. The constant outages, high loads, and unannounced system changes pushed me over the edge.

I still have a couple of months left on my contract with my current host. So I am going to try and get all of my content migrated before I change the DNS entries for thehaggertys.net. Regardless, there might be some time where my pages won’t load while the DNS changes make there way out to everyone on the web.

My new host gave me a free domain name. So I registered www.treah.com for my wife. It was the deal maker. She didn’t want me to spend the money until I told her she’d have her own domain name. So I’ll be migrating her blog over to it.

I’d just like to close with a strong word of warning for anyone who is considering using Web Hosting Buzz as a web host. The prices are cheap, but you get what you pay for. Stay away!