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Nasty Twitter Pals

This Twitter pal sent me a Direct Message. So I asked him a few questions and he went sour on me. First look at his bio:

• Bio: Pithy, humorous, educational and hopefully thought provoking tweets from this Christian strategic thinking Human Resources Executive.

Then look at his actions: First the smilies. Then his true face.

InHISNameHR ☺ Please help us grow! We would love it if you “Liked” our Facebook Page! ☺ Sure would help us out! ☺ http://tiny.ly/hHN2 ☺

 

 

(a) did U send this to me or everyone? (b) I don't know U from Adam (c) Having people like your FB page doesnt do U any good @ all

 

 

InHISNameHR How about this a) don’t follow people you don’t want DM’s from. You followed me. B) Being rude really doesn’t get you anywhere.

 

 

We like nasty people on the @animal show @inHISnameHR - UR welcome 2B the hot seat guest if you're interested

 

 

I have to admit though that he did make some sense. If I follow him that means that I want his spam, right? But I made sense too. Having a bunch of strangers LIKE you on Facebook doesn't do anything for you at all.

UPDATE: Silly old me

Thanks to: Bridget (Weide) Brooks - http://www.rwdigest.com/

Funny story -- but there is no such thing as bad publicity -- I clicked on his FB page and saw he only needs 9 more "likes" to claim his custom FB URL!

 

Diversity Issues and Relocation

Plans for a hospice on the University of British Columbia campus have been put on hold after some neighbourhood residents said the proposed facility offended their cultural sensitivities around death and dying.

“It is all about cultural sensitivity,” said Ms. Fan, a Chinese-born immigrant who lives in a high-rise near the proposed hospice site. “We came here as new immigrants with our own belief system. And in our beliefs, it is impossible for us to have dying people in our backyard.”

Globe and Mail

"We believe that if the living and the dying are too close to each other, it will bring very bad fortune, as well as it will be harmful to the children."

CTV British Columbia

Qing Lin, who bought a Promontory apartment for $900,000 almost a year ago, said she and her seven year old daughter will have nightmares if the hospice goes ahead.

“We believe that people dying outside will bring us bad luck,” she added. “I’m very angry and upset. If I had known it was going to be a hospice, I wouldn’t buy it for half the price.”

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Martin Snyder, HRIS Guy

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Solzhenitsyn On Revolutionary Democracy

From: Solzhenitsyn Open Letter to the Soviet Leaders, 1973

Here in Russia, due to a complete absence of habit, democracy had existed for only eight months – from February to October, 1917.

Groups of emigrants, former CD and SD, who are still living, are still proud of that democracy, stating it was wrecked by alien forces.

In fact, though, that democracy was their disgrace: they had so ambitiously called out to it and promised it, but succeeded in establishing only something messy, a caricature of democracy; they proved first and foremost unprepared for it themselves, and Russia proved even more so.

In the recent half a century Russia could have only become even less prepared for democracy, for a multi-party parliamentary system.

A sudden introduction of democracy at present might come to be another sorry repetition of 1917. For a thousand years Russia had lived under an authoritarian regime and at the turn of the 20^th century it still retained the people’s physical and spiritual health.

Yet there was a very important condition fulfilled: that authoritarian regime had a strong moral base: Orthodoxy.

Then, probably, we should admit that the chosen way was wrong and premature? Probably, for the near future, whether we like it or not, whether we assign it so or not, an authoritarian regime is by all means predestined for Russia. Probably it is the only one Russia is mature for.

Some Revolutions Go Sour

From The National Post: 

I can certainly relate to the jubilation the Egyptians are feeling right now, with the departure of a man who has ruled a country with an iron fist.

When the Siad Barre regime was thrown out in my native country of Somalia, we were dancing and celebrating on the street. We all went to greet the “heroes” who did the unimaginable.

But these same warlords turned against the people they claimed to be liberating by raping women and killing people indiscriminately.

Our celebration quickly turned into a living hell, as leaders of different clans settled scores, with Islamic extremism taking control.

Since then, Somalia has never stood on its feet again. People started regretting the collapse of the former regime, which had maintained order and stability in the country.

That is why I am hesitant to celebrate events in Egypt. I only hope that the sacrifices of the courageous protesters there will not go in vain.

Abubakar N. Kasim, Toronto.

 

Tiger Mom Is Not American

From: Derbyshire - Maternity and Tyranny

Most people are not very academically inclined. If a child's natural bent is towards some other kind of excellence — social, mechanical, athletic, creative — Chua-style parenting will only misdirect him.

Children need some nagging and supervision, but they also need freedom to explore, to discover their own interests and aptitudes....

Children are entitled to a childhood, with frequent spells of play, idleness, and freedom from hovering adults.

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Carl Brickman, Online Job Tour

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Lawyers Are Tricky

Before my trial, the Crown suggested I plead guilty. I pointed to my binder of evidence with a bit of cheek, declined the guilty plea and mentioned that I had a few questions for the officer.

The officer appeared in court. We waited, but the other driver didn’t show.

“Your Worship,” said the Crown. “Since the other driver is not here, and I have no other witnesses, I cannot proceed with this case.”

Charges withdrawn. 

From: Eli Yarhi, I'm still trying to make sense of my car crash - Globe and Mail

Comment: The Crown Counsel is the government's prosecuting attorney. Don't you suspect that he knew that the other driver wasn't going to show? Justice meant less than winning.

Democracy and Religion

From Daniel Pipes - National Post (edited)

A half millennium ago, democracy reigned nowhere. The evolution of the Catholic Church from a reactionary force in the medieval period into a democratic one today, an evolution not entirely complete, has been taking place for 700 years. When an institution based in Rome took so long, why should a religion from Mecca move faster?

Muslims can be as democratic as Westerners but at this time they are not because the shariah law code has not been reconciled with modern life and democracy. It endorses the anti-democratic ideas of the will of God prevailing over that of the people, military jihad as a legitimate means to expand rule by Muslims and the superiority of Muslims over non-Muslims and of males over females. Modernization means rejecting the law’s public aspects, as in Turkey, or reinterpreting them.

The Islamist movement which today dominates Muslim intellectual life fights to apply the whole of shariah with exceptional severity, regardless of what the majority wants. Some Islamists denounce democracy but the more clever, noting their own popularity, have adopted it as a mechanism to seize power. This does not make them democrats willing to relinquish power but demonstrates a willingness to adopt whatever tactics will bring them power.