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IBM Training Employees To Leave IBM?
lucabrasi999 writes "IBM just launched a new program that will encourage some employees to earn teaching certificates and degrees. IBM will help defray the costs of these new degrees. With those newly earned degrees, the IBM employee would then become a 'former' IBM employee who moves onto a career as a public school math or science teacher. While it seems odd that IBM would encourage employees to switch careers, the point is that IBM is trying to help offset an expected shortage in the number of math and science teachers in the United States." From the article: "While many companies encourage their employees to tutor schoolchildren or do other things to get involved in education, IBM believes it is the first to guide workers toward switching into a teaching career. The company expects older workers nearing retirement to be the most likely candidates, partly because they would have more financial wherewithal to take the pay cut that becoming a teacher likely would entail."
GNAA Mourns the Death of l0de and the l0de Radio Hour.
Impi - Political Correspondent, South Africa.
Pentagon documents leaked to covert GNAA agents working for the CIA provided proof that a deliberate plot against renowned shock jock l0de was put into effect to eliminate him. The recent sacking of CIA director Tenant, who was used as a scapegoat, to cover up the great lie perpetrated by the pentagon, against the American people to justify the war against Iraq, prompted disgruntled CIA agents to leak the document.
It was revealed that technology that was developed and refined from the research of alien artifacts from Area 51 was used to create Hurricane Katrina. Similar technology was used against Turkey and Iran when they displeased the Pentagon. Earthquakes were the preferred Weapon of Mass Destruction against those Sovereign states. Hurricane Katrina was then directed towards New Orleans in an attempt to assassinate l0de. The attempt failed.
Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was believed to be infuriated at this failed attempt as he has been a target of LRH in the past. He ordered that all aid and military convoys be delayed for as long as possible so that Delta Strike Teams could be dispatched to New Orleans. Five Delta Force assassination squads were disguised as "Cracked up Gangsta Niggahs" and sent in to finish the job.
The Pentagon underestimated the loyalty of the Negro Population in New Orleans. The once divided crack selling factions banded together in defense of l0de and decimated the Delta Force assassination squads. Pentagon moles informed l0de via Jap sponsored satellite phones that President Bush, on orders from his mother, Barbara Bush, instructed FEMA to delay relief aid to punish the Negro Population for their defense of l0de.
l0de, dying of AIDS anyway, promptly committed suicide in a bid to save the remaining traumatized population. His death, thankfully, signifies the death of LRH, they both will be missed.
About Area 51
Area 51 is a NOT SO Top Secret American Military Installation. Operation Karate Rain Urchin, which was created to assassinate l0de, was hatched and conceived here using weather manipulation technology which was retrieved from the Roswell crash site in 1947. Incidentally, Karate Rain Urchin is an anagram for Hurricane Katrina, coincidence?
The GNAA does not think so.
About l0de Radio Hour
Dead.
About l0de
http://www.instantlobotomy.com/.
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This might be a way of busting the anti-science trend that you see in Intelligent Design and various other post-modernist or new-age flakiness. Face it, a country where 60% of the population believes in Satan but only 20% believes in evolution is not going to remain a superpower or technological or scientific leader for much longer. And with the visa restrictions due to the war on terror, IBM has to settle for what they can get in America, which right now, isn't very good pickings.
I'm sorry, but most of the new-age and fundamentalist beliefs out there amount to sloppy thinking. The current plague of fundamentalism is just new-age occultism with a biblical spin. Cat Stevens was a major league acid casualty before he went all Muslim and started rooting for Khomeini against Salman Rushdie--that should give you an idea of the flake factor at play amongst the Born Agains. How much of that do you think a company like IBM can take without it affecting the bottom line? This is a company whose slogan was "Think!", and these people won't.
I'm glad to see IBM is doing something about it. I wonder how long it will be before Bill Gates catches on and wades in with all his money. Somebody's gotta do it, because, unlike England, the U.S. doesn't have a rich colony to pitch in when it reaches senile old age.