Sitting in a Starbucks waiting …

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construction management firm, free wifi, impressive knowledge, personal chemistry, postaday2012, work ethic

Starbucks on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts is much like any other Starbucks. People enjoying access to free WiFi, sitting with their laptops and iPad, sipping their lattes, frappucino’s, or iced teas. I am one of these people, sipping my Venti non-fat cafe latte, writing this post on my iPad, while I wait for my husband to be done with his second interview with the construction management firm that he would like to be employed with. It is nerve-wracking because you never know with interviews, his first one with the firm’s C.E.O was a home run which is why it progressed to interview number two, with the team that my husband would have to work with, it all comes down to personal chemistry, likeability and charisma, not to mention ego’s and self-confidence. I know my husband and he isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, I just hope that today the team that meets with him will see his impressive knowledge of the construction industry, his hard work ethic, his commitment to doing the most for the company and it’s clients and that they will ignore his weaker parts. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, on an interview you can only hope that your strengths outshine the weaker parts of your makeup. At this point in my husband’s career, all he wants is to find a firm where he can retire, he has worked at some point for all the big firms and has done his own share of being boss, now he wants to stay in one place until he can call it a day at the age of 70 something. I don’t think that is too much to ask for, at least it will get him out of the house.

Bill Clinton: Newt Gingrich And Mitt Romney Can’t Tell The Truth And Win GOP Nomination

I wouldn’t underestim­ate Romney either, the question isn’t whether he is a smart, driven and accomplish­ed business man? From his accomplish­ments in the private sector both at Bain and with the Olympics he was extremely successful in making money for himself and his shareholde­rs. A C.E.O has one major responsibi­lity and that is to make as much profit for the company and it’s shareholde­rs as possible, as Governor of Massachuse­tts we didn’t see much of his job creating expertise in action. He instituted what is now known as Romneycare and he forestalle­d a credit agency downgrade by promising corporate tax increases which went into effect after he left office. Whatever Romney says about his time at Bain, he can’t brag about job creation in MA. Romney also won’t stop lying about President Obama’s record which is really annoying, not only is Romney a flip flopper but he is also a liar, just ask Gingrich and Santorum. I think that his weak performanc­e as Governor speaks to how weak he will be as President.
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If I Made a Living from Art

It would one of two things, I would have the talent to be a Master pastry chef in France. I would spend all of my days creating the most beautiful and fanciful confections known to man. If that doesn't count as art, then I would love to be a painter in the style of Van Gogh, Manet, Monet or Gaugain. I would love to sit on a chair in from of an easle somewhere in Provence painting the surroundings and it's people.

Vegetarianism, is it for kids?

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postaday2012

I have never entertained the thought of being a vegetarian, I have enough issues with food itself that I try not to make it more complicated, but that is neither here nor there because now my daughter has decided to become a vegetarian. So I need to do what needs to be done to support her food choice. She has decided to become vegetarian because she does not condone the horrendous way factory farm animals are raised and slaughtered and she no longer wants to be part of the carnivorous food chain. She is taking control of her choice by doing the research necessary to make the right nutritional choices and she has called my sister who is a nutritionist and soon to be certified when she completes her internship, hooray for my sister! I’m so happy that my daughter can just call my sister up for advice and for support outside of just me.
So tonight the husband is feasting on left overs and I will be making baked eggs and creamed spinach for my baby girl, I have cauliflower all prepared but the baby girl doesn’t appreciate cauliflower simply sautéed, she only likes it with a béchamel sauce and then gratineed with Swiss cheese until golden brown and bubbly. Tomorrow this will bring me back to what am I going to make for a vegetarian dinner? One that makes the baby girl happy, she loves pasta, I am not crazy over pasta. This will be a learning process, it won’t hurt my daughter nor my husband eating much more vegetables and whole grains, I hope that I am up to the challenge.

The GOP: Unmasked and Undone

I think that Weber hit the nail on the head when he says that these are the war years. The republican nominees aren’t even hiding their disdain for the poor, women in general, unions, illegal immigrants­, unemployed people, federal employees and everyone else who dares to complain about how the big boys on Wall Street and the Big Banks do their wheeling and dealing. The republican­s have basically decided that the 99 percent don’t deserve any help, the republican­s seem to think that as long as their tax cuts continue, spending has to stop except for corporate subsidies, military, oil and coal subsidies and corporate tax holidays then everything will be fine for them. They refuse to acknowledg­e that the trickle down theory has been an abject failure and the 99 percent have all the data to back this up which seems to be why there is such intense opposition to the occupy movement, they are speaking an uncomforta­ble truth that the 1 percent doesn’t want to hear.
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Ed Henry Would Like To See Obama’s College Transcripts, For Some Reason

Donald Trump brought up the subject during the time he was knee deep in the birther conspiracy­. He implied that his grades at the school that President Obama attended before Columbia University were subpar and that both acceptance­s to Columbia and Harvard were due to affirmativ­e action. So he was accusing our President of not only being a fraud as President due to an illegitima­te claim on the office but also a fraud as an intellectu­al and Ivy League graduate. Evidently, Romney has taken up the bugle call to try and delegitimi­ze our President. When I was in college I got 2 C’s, one in Eco 101 and the other in Calculus related to business, I changed direction and went to Political Science where I got A’s. All this meant is that during school I had the opportunit­y to discover both my strengths and weaknesses­. At the age of 49 does your college transcript still define you? I don’t think so.
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The Romney Tax Loophole

If Romney does make through the primacy process intact and becomes the nominee, his tax rate and how it fits into his tax rate plan for the country will most certainly be discussed and analyzed. I am sure that he is going to argue that his 15 percent tax rate based on his personal success in business is what America needs and more of it. However his type of venture capitalism doesn’t seem to steadily create productivi­ty or employment­. Moreover, given that during his tenure as Governor of Massachuse­tts, my state was 47th in terms of job creation, he did not have the skills necessary when he was at the helm to facilitate the way for busineesse­s to invest their resources in creating more employment­. I would also ask the question that has been asked of our president and ask the same one to Governor Romney, given that MA was 47th in jobs creation why did he concentrat­e his energies towards pushing through mandatory health insurance coverage for all given that health insurance is obtained through employment and MA was vulnerable in that area.
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