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The Pragmatic Programmers Interviewed
jpkunst writes "An interesting interview at the O'Reilly Network with Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, authors of The Pragmatic Programmer, who recently started their own publishing company. Many topics are covered. Dave has this to say about outsourcing: 'To get job security, developers need to position themselves as highly effective business-value generators, working with the rest of the company to solve common goals. If you sit in your cube waiting for a spec to be thrown over the wall, then you may be in for a wait -- that spec might be in an envelope on its way to Bangalore'"
Newcomer Lynndie England in the sequel to Lynndie Does Baghdad:
Iraqui Investigations (2004)
featuring:
Lynndie England as Private Plowme
Dick "Head" Cheyney as General Boner
Filthy towelheads as gay niggers
DVD-Rip
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Comments about Lynndie's performance:
Abu Ghraib "victim" Lynndie England's defense is getting shaky. Congress just saw a bunch of photos of Private England, ass-naked, having sex with a wide assortment of unusually desperate or possibly blind GI's. Guess we can dismiss her wide-eyed "I was forced to pose" exclamations. Congress may be stupid enough to believe your superiors forced you to humiliate Iraqis. I doubt they will believe you if you claim you were ordered to pose cracking for your coworkers.
Call me cynical, Private England, but a critical person could conceivably conclude that you're a disgusting piece of white trash with the morals of a goat in heat.
In fact, Private England's new photos cast doubt on claims that her intentions toward the Iraqi prisoners were always hostile. The new material shows her making the beast with two backs (or in her case, the beast with one and a half brains) in front of her charges. It's starting to look like at least part of the time, this little slut was trying to entertain the prisoners. So maybe we shouldn't think of Private England as a sadist. Maybe, in her own little way, she thought of herself as a humanitarian. While the rest of the military went after the Iraqis' hearts and minds, Private England made a play for their willies.
I really don't get it. Generally, it's not hard for women--even homely ones--to get laid. Ordinarily, they don't have to join the Army and fly to Iraq to get action. It's a simple matter of walking from your trailer to the nearest roadhouse. Or in the case of people with Private England's level of class, to your brother's bedroom.
What a funny time we live in, when skeezes have such power over international affairs. Supposedly, the fat, vacuous Monica Lewinsky was indirectly responsible for a bombing campaign. Now a uniformed tramp threatens to take down the Secretary of Defense and give the Muslim world an excuse to unleash its poorly concealed hatred of the West.
Neither one of these women have the brains God gave a goose, but look at their influence on the world. I suppose in a way, it's a lesson for people who say the sexual morality of public servants is irrelevant to their fitness for duty.
This pig needs a stretch in Leavenworth, and so do the men who posed with her. And just to be safe, they should put a combination lock on her pants so she can't do for Leavenworth what she did for Abu Ghraib.
Middle Class Squeezed in Bush Economy, Democratic Senate Candidate Tells Radio Audience
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON June 26, 2004 -- The Democratic nominee for the Senate from Illinois took the Bush administration to task Saturday for celebrating improving economic statistics while middle-class Americans are getting squeezed.
Barack Obama, a state senator from Chicago, said in the Democrats' weekly radio address that his experience on the campaign trail shows him that ordinary citizens are measuring the health of the economy differently than President Bush.
"The new jobs being created in Illinois pay an average of $15,000 less than the jobs that we've lost and fewer offer real benefits," he said. "Health insurance premiums and the cost of a college education have skyrocketed since the beginning of the Bush administration."
Obama cited the examples of a couple in Galesburg, Ill., who lost their jobs at a Maytag plant that is relocating to Mexico, and that of an another couple from Alton, Ill., who will soon lose their jobs because Hawk Motors is moving overseas.
"Now, it wouldn't be fair or accurate to blame all of this on the Bush administration," he said. "It is fair, however, to say that they haven't done much to help."
Obama said the administration pushed through tax cuts that have been of little help to the middle class, while adding much to the federal debt, and it has supported tax breaks for corporations that export jobs overseas and failed to enforce trade agreements against countries engaging in unfair trade practices.
Obama's remarks came a week after Bush, in his own weekly radio address, said the economy is growing stronger and more jobs are being created despite Democrats' claim that he presided over a downturn for the country.
Bush noted that 1.4 million new jobs have been created since last August and said many came in industries that pay above-average wages, such as construction.
Obama recorded his address Friday the same day his expected Republican opponent in November, Jack Ryan, dropped out after a furor over details of a custody battle with his former wife were revealed.
They included allegations by Jeri Ryan that her husband took her to kinky sex clubs and tried to get her to perform sex acts with him while others watched. Jack Ryan disputed that.
The Senate seat is being vacated by the retirement of Republican Peter Fitzgerald.
don't beleive me?
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http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:H.
http://www.hslda.org/legislation/national/2003/s8
Thanks in advance for dying for Bush. Your death will make him richer.