The war of words between Lebanon's political leaders has finally turned into battles on the streets of Beirut. Today, gun battles have erupted in Beirut following a speech by Hezbollah's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, in which he labeled the Lebanese government's decision to dismantle a Hezbollah operated communication network a "tantamount to a declaration of war."
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The U.S. government fined a consulting firm $45,000 for placing online job ads for computer programmers that said only H-1B visa holders should apply. The case is just the tip of an iceberg of H-1B abuses, according to a lobbying group that filed the original complaint. The Department of Justice said iGate Mastech placed 30 online job ads in May and June 2006 asking for only H-1B visa holders. The case is one of 215 the DoJ has handled involving preference for H-1B workers over U.S. citizens since the year 2000.
read moreBarack Obama thinks a federal gas-tax holiday is a political ploy. But when he was in the Illinois Senate, he voted for a state holiday three times.
Obama took a different view on the issue when he was an Illinois legislator, voting at least three times in favor of temporarily lifting the state's 5% sales tax on gasoline. The tax holiday was finally approved during a special session in June 2000, when Illinois motorists were furious that gas prices had just topped $2 a gallon in Chicago. Seems he was for a gas-tax moratorium before he was against it.
Has algore blamed this on global warming yet ?
Yes...
"Al Gore And Climate Ka-Ching"
www.ibdeditorials.com
"Ethanol is a boondoggle supported by both parties." - Nulli
Actually the mandate cleared the Senate 51-50, in 1994
With Al Gore breaking the tie...
query.nytimes.com
I posted this because the largest useage of H1-B, L1's is that of IT outsourcing firms, mostly from Indian.
I find this an abuse of the system.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
I can understand a company not finding a particular expertise, thus asking for H1-B visa. But we have people at my company which work for Tata as L1's, and H2-B's. Just your ordinary QA, and code monkey's.
I can't understand how they can outsource someone with an L1 Visa? The purpose is to allow people to tansfer within thier company to another country.
Again, their work is good, but no better or worse than any other engineers I have ever come across.
The application process is broken, and being abused.
"Yes, he voted for it, saw it didn't work and explains---don't you read the papers Andrea?---that's why he's not for it this time around."
Another Bonehead move then.....
Obama is wrong about the gas tax
But Obama is wrong. He did not learn this lesson. In fact, the only scientific study done on the pass-through of the tax holiday savings to Illinois consumers (and those in Indiana, as well, whose citizens enjoyed a similar holiday) found that it actually worked to a large extent.
www.salon.com
"It's the information age, so try to get up to speed."
If you only knew...
Zat,
I don't understand what the news is here.....
He stated it was "childlike" many times...
www.stephenjaygould.org
"I am neither a German citizen, nor is there in me anything that can be described as 'Jewish faith.' But I am happy to belong to the Jewish people, even though I don't regard them as the Chosen People. Why don't we just let the Goy keep his anti-Semitism, while we preserve our love for the likes of us?"--A. Einstein quoted in A. Foelsing, English translation by E. Osers, Albert Einstein, a Biography, Viking, New York, (1997), p. 494;
Good thing he didn't quit his day job.....