Correspondence: Sound Bytes, PR GOP &c.
CORRESPONDENCE Pinochet Nous If it is not a joke, where is RET's judgment? It's utter nonsense to compare Augusto Pinochet to FDR (The Continuing Crisis, TAS, May 1998). Whatever is said about...
...I did find an entry level job as an operator/programmer at the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, Local #8 (I was theonly Republican on staff), and moved on to Starbucks Coffee (1989-91), where I had to have a second job in order to be able to afford to work for CEO Howard Schulz...
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...I have always shown myself capable of learning new applications (such as IDMS) rapidly, often with little or no help...
...and would prefer to hire young foreigners because they can threaten to revoke their work permits if they make trouble...
...from my recent downtown office address, I could look out the window and see no less than eight public housing projects where Morial and LIFE sow empty promises and twenty-dollar bills on election day and reap votes...
...That thesis rests squarely upon the principle "that all men are created equal," a thesis whose constitutional status conservatives, as much as or more than liberals, have been fanatical to deny...
...That Rosario has called herself, recently, a statehooder is about as believable as a Mother Goose story...
...To James Madison, and the other framers, the Constitution had no more urgent purpose than to avert the tyranny of the majority...
...Emmett Tyrrell, publish such trash...
...I am a 47-year old software engineer...
...For those who miss the humor, computer operations is a step below and a different career path than being a computer programmer...
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...I was told that I was one of the hardest working employees in the department, and I had great performance appraisals with high ratings in technical knowledge and quality of work...
...talent is an exacerbation of an overworked and undercompensated career field, not the cause of the shortage...
...The fact is that a New Europe — independent of both Soviet and American hegemonies which threatened its very identity after World War II—is emerging on the world scene: a Europe which is assuming a leadership role in the preservation of world ecology...
...I have two major problems, however: I am a mother and I have a hearing loss...
...It was generated by unfettered private practice medicine and research, which will now crash and burn under "managed care" and government regulation...
...is repeatedly soiled by commentaries which distort and disfigure the truth...
...For a long time, I have read about the shortage of information services (I.S...
...The political reality in New Orleans is much dirtier than he has portrayed it...
...For further enlightenment, I would refer your readers to my Original Intent and the Framers ofthe Constitution (Regnery, 1994), and to my debate with Judge Bork in the pages of National Review, May 14, 1994...
...Can you not see the damage that you are doing, or is it that you simply don't care about freedom and democracy for all...
...Karatnycky takes comfort in the observation that though the world bristles with various weapons of mass destruction, the total body count, currently, is relatively low, but who, need we ask, is at the control panel should things turn sour...
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...The "laws of nature and of nature's God" defined the purposes the Constitution was intended to serve, and provided the guidelines as to how it was to be interpreted...
...an insect's an insect at most, Though it crawl on the curls of a Queen...
...I have seen nothing to suggest that he has now become a legal positivist...
...From personal experience, these disincentives to become an I.S...
...One of my Air Force contemporaries (we were Pararescue Specialists) took a different career path: he became a commercial finish carpenter in Atlanta...
...To this Stein adds the legal homicide each year of one and a half million very young Americans...
...And as far as Kenneth Starr, he has become a henchman for that party, whose agenda is not the truth, only the destruction of the president, and The American Spectator has become the tabloid for the printing of this destruction and hate...
...Gold also missed a great example of the New Orleans way of doing "bidness" by not mentioning the Flamingo Casino that was moored on the Mississippi River in the heart of the French Quarter...
...He thus severed the Fourteenth Amendment from any connection with traditional constitutional jurisprudence, leaving the Court to reinvent the Constitution whenever it suited its purpose to do so...
...MARK S. PULLIAM San Diego, California Welcome Aboard I much appreciate TAS's printing my "country music" letter in your May issue...
...ASH LOBAR Asheville, North Carolina Morial the Merrier Mr...
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...What's needed are people who can write code, debug it, figure out whether it's the hardware or the software that's not working properly, and help get a finished product out the door...
...Immigration restrictions on I.S...
...My own background consists of one college course in FORTRAN in 1972 (a mainframe language, not a PC language as stated in your article), a second course in IBM Assembler in 1974, a degree in Classics, and lots of good experience along the way...
...Antonio Fern& (son of a former Resident Commissioner, Dr...
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...Unlike many of my Republican brethren, and apparently Victor Gold, I support and believe in the gambling industry...
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...Cony's tour de force of equivocation...
...Why go into engineering especially when industry wants to import hundreds of thousands of immigrant engineers...
...JOHN MELLA Chicago, Illinois Cultural Exchange As a Clinton supporter and defender of freedom and democracy in this country I must let my opinions be known to you...
...on every quote...
...For instance, I learned that The American Spectator will print ludicrous and offensive statements like the one contained in "Byting the Hand That Feeds Us," in which author William Tucker writes: "Learning curves flatten after age 40...
...trade journals at the time said facetiously, but truthfully, that new computer programming graduates could expect at least two job offers: second shift computer operations and third shift computer operations...
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...I have been unemployed for four months and am very discouraged...
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...It is those like you that convince me to stay with the Democratic parties of this country...
...employers always have loved foreign workers — they'll work harder than an American, they'll work cheaper than an American and if they complain you can't understand what they're talking about anyway...
...If I were to design a curriculum that would enable someone to duplicate my career, it would have a few simple elements: 1. math proficiency equivalent to first year college algebra (my trig and calculus have been of no benefit whatsoever in programming...
...Computer scientists are trained in such esoteric subjects as compiler construction, neural networks, fuzzy logic, advanced calculus and differential equations...
...Outside the city, in Jefferson Parish, and on Lake Charles to the west, the casinos are flourishing, as are they in Mississippi, 6o miles to the east...
...And a great percentage of the rest belong to or are openly sympathetic to the Independence movement (in its various forms: nationalism, autonomism, "associated republic," etc...
...I appreciate your editing but someone, obviously under the age of 4o, changed (twice) "8 wheeler" to "18-wheeler...
...Tyrrell, why do you allow the publication of such uninformed trash in your magazine that prides itself on truthfulness and the moral courage to be ingenuous...
...Justice Thomas, on the other hand, unlike Bork and Scalia, refers favorably to my writings on natural rights and natural law, in the articles he published before going on the Court...
...Since he had no college degree to complete, he was earning money and reached the top dollar journeyman level faster than myself...
...Most of the paper's staffers and feature writers belong to or are openly sympathetic with said political organization...
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...BILL HALCHIN Arlington, Texas Who's Who in Puerto Rico I have read with dismay and even disgust John Corry's article "A New Day in the State of Puerto Rico" (TAS, May1998), an incredible collection of half-truths and untruths the likes of which I had not seen in a long time...
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...Antonio Luis allowed the Castroite Carlos Castaneda (who is still in El Nuevo Dia as editorial vice-president) to publish vicious attacks on don Luis...
...Surely Hand deserves at least an honorable mention for his series of lectures at Harvard Law School in 1958, entitled "The Bill of Rights," which questioned the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education and coined the phrase "Platonic Guardians" for activist judges...
...Puerto Rican politics are Byzantine in intricacy and need a very long period of study to be anywhere near understandable...
...The police chief, Richard Pennington, has made progress with the NOPD, but at a high price—a $5o,000 a year raise, and a $50,000 per year increase in his pension...
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...ALLAN E. HOKANSON Cincinnati, Ohio "Byting the Hand That Feeds Us" by William Tucker evoked strong emotion for me as a struggling career computer programmer...
...Probably could not remember when most travel of any distance was done by means of rail...
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...As a recent resident of the Mississippi Coast, I have a great fondness of the "City That Care Forgot...
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...Eight-wheeler refers to the 8 drivewheels on the largest of locomotives—four to each side...
...In his case, he thinks he has a hereditary right to the governorship of Puerto Rico...
...in order to beat the traffic...
...Gold and the Spectator do a disservice to their credibility by letting personal feelings about gambling flavor your articles...
...Your staff needs some older folks...
...This was truly an example of everyone taking a little slice...
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...However, in the many hostile critiques of Warren's opinion by leading conservative jurists, not one, so far as I know, has endorsed Harlan's color blind thesis...
...Until then, I will be skeptical...
...If people who don't know English are in demand (I wish them luck), then why did my communication problem make me a second-class citizen at work...
...Scalia is as far from the intent of those who framed and ratified the Constitution as Bork...
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...Antonio Ferntis-Isern, a Popular Democrat with Nationalist leanings...
...My husband and I did everything that we could to handle parenting and my hearing loss in a way that would help me do my job...
...and ad nauseam...
...And Antonio Luis's whining is that of a spoiled brat who has been denied a toy...
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...By moving from my small town to the big city, I could increase my salary by an underwhelming 15 percent, but my standard of living would actually decrease...
...But in order to keep this letter short I must refrain from rebutting all of the misinformation contained in Mr...
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...There is no sign that the recent foolishness of the school board (a huge raise to the superintendent, whom the DA is trying to indict on malfeasance charges and the unwarranted changing of admission requirements to magnet schools, to name two instances) will end soon...
...Those who framed and ratified the original Constitution believed that govemments were instituted "to secure these rights," viz., the unalienable rights with which all men have been equally endowed by their Creator...
...According to the law of supply and demand, there is never any shortage of anything...
...Morial's racist politics don't play well with either white liberals or white conservatives in the suburbs...
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...Marco A. Rigau (former senator, Popular Democratic Party...
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...Earl Warren, in the opinion for the Court in the Brown case (1954), flatly rejected the color blind Constitution as the ground for declaring school segregation unconstitutional...
...Even if don Luis likes to call himself "Mr...
...JOHN LEMING Bethlehem, Pennsylvania While I am a conservative and many times enjoy your magazine, I disagree with William Tucker's "Byting the Hand That Feeds Us...
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...Wilson's objections) and forfeit their First Amendment right of free association...
...Before the birth of my second child, I had been a programmer analyst for ten years, both as a full-time employee and as a contractor...
...DAVID SHOUP Dublin, Georgia I think your article stopped just short of the real problem: Academics have developed a discipline (Computer Science) for which there is little need and less interest...
...In my last job, I felt myself being pushed aside when there were possibilities for advancement, especially after the birth of my first child...
...Troy has also written of Judge Robert Bork, that, "at a time when few argued that courts should interpret the Constitution'stext in accordance with its original understanding, Bork kept the flame of originalism alive...
...Why become an engineer when the income of doctors and lawyers is three times that of engineers...
...A major recent offender is the article "Sick Men of Europe" by Michael Ledeen (TAS, April 1998...
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...HARRY V. JAFFA Distinguished Fellow The Claremont Institute Claremont, California Daniel Troy's list of the most influential conservative judges overlooked Learned Hand (1872-1961), generally regarded as the most capable federal judge (prior to Robert Bork) never to serve on the U.S...
...This is but a tip of the "iceberg of truth" concerning the New Europe—which the aforesaid article in TAS buried under a stinking pile of sick prejudice...
...Meanwhile, I will make sure that my husband and I teach our kids the math and science skills that they need (even if they don't get it in school...
...DONNIE R. SHACKLEFORD doncon@yahoo.com 78 July 1998 The American Spectator...
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...they aren't willing to pay a decent, middle-class wage...
...His writings provided the intellectual foundation for a return to originalism later taken up by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas...
...The article itself is internally inconsistent, saying on one hand that advanced computer skills like Java are critical, but on the other saying many old mainframe computers will need to be reprogrammed to handle the year z000 problem using COBOL, which still is common in less-developed nations, and therefore we desperately need to hire hordes of foreign COBOL programmers...
...Eighteen-wheelers are those monstrosities which frighten children into adulthood and cause us old farts to change Depends on the interstate...
...He preferred instead Kenneth Clark's doll tests, as evidence from modern psychology that segregation damaged black school children...
...What the country needs is computer programmers, not computer scientists...
...The newspaper El Nuevo Dia can be considered the house organ of the Popular Democratic (sic) Party...
...BARBARA HODGE via the Internet Despite my advanced age (I'm 45), I manage to learn something new just about every day...
...Whatever is said about him, Pinochet did not sell other nations to the Soviets at Yalta (or anywhere else...
...Although cronyism runs rampant at both the state and local levels, I remain hopeful that it will take more than 98 per12 July 19 9 8 • The American Spectator cent of the black voters in New Orleans to elect Marc Morial governor of Louisiana...
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...If "originalism" refers to the framers and ratifiers of the original Constitution, then Bork's writings are at the last remove from them...
...There is only a refusal of the supplier to match the demand at the going price...
...Ted Kennedy, and lazy talented Americans—for a so-called shortage of 345,000 computer engineers...
...Antonio Luis's family is not exempt from left-wing ideologies: His wife, Luisa Rangel (a Cuban exile) owned Hermes bookstore, where conservative publications were nowhere to be seen...
...specialist are not confined to the South...
...JOSEPH F. BUSH, III Harvey, Louisiana I enjoyed your article on N'awlins politics...
...Awilda Palau (Nationalist...
...By the way, I'm not a computer programmer, but I grew up in a steel company town and I learned at an early age that U.S...
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...Engineering is increasingly a field of decreasing prestige and income caused by the influx of immigrants over the past thirty years willing to accept low pay...
...Republican," his son and daughter (the soi-disant novelist Rosario Ferre) have chosen other ideological paths...
...It did not take long for this usually profitable business to decide that New Orleans was not for them...
...Yet, when I test the market place, I either find no interest, am confronted by I.S...
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...Biloxi and Gulfport, located in Harrison County, almost thirty miles from Pascagoula comprise the gaming center...
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...her sister, Rosario Rangel de Enjuto, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico, is the widow of the late Socialist vice-mayor of Madrid, Spain, during the Felipe Gonzalez regime...
...MICHAEL S. VOLLMER Minneapolis, Minnesota I read William Tucker's article with great interest, and some disbelief...
...Supreme Court and one of the most eloquent proponents of judicial restraint...
...While in Seattle ten years ago, I approached Microsoft, Boeing Computer Services, and others, and received the cold shoulder...
...He is incorrect, however, in saying that "that vision is a defining tenet of modern legal conservatism...
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...The typical programming project has zero need for any of those subjects...
...STUART FLINN Lynchburg, Virginia The Big Ten Daniel Troy, in "The Rule of Law Ten" (TAS, May 1998), writes truly of Justice John Marshall Harlan, that "he articulated the vision of the color blind Constitution...
...Unlike Bork, Hand was never nominated...
...Thank you...
...2. an introductory programming course (today that would be C/C++ rather than FORTRAN...
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...So vicious, in fact, that Castaneda had to go into "exile" for a few months...
...Which is it...
...that requires hands on, practical experience that you just don't receive from academia...
...The head of the New Orleans Police Department Pedophile Unit has just been arrested, on charges involving child pornography...
...Athens, Georgia Reality Bytes William Tucker in his article "Byting the Hand That Feeds Us" (TAS, May 1998) strews blame all over the lot—the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Depat hnent of Education, Sen...
...Even now, it is not uncommon for him to earn more than me, because he receives time and a half for overtime, while my compensation stops at five o'clock...
...managers with io-inch magnifying glasses and the comment, "You aren't good enough to work for me," or am offered a position for a mediocre fixed salary...
...The cast is too numerous to mention so I will just pick at random: Carlos Castaneda (a Cuban exile, Castro sympathizer...
...And Antonio Luis's children play at being proletariat (much like Marie Antoinette in her hameau played at being a shepherdess...
...Pangloss (Adrian Karatnycky) that this is the best of all possible worlds, with the essay by Ben Stein that it is a Golden Age for Thugs, and Stein wins...
...Gold's whitewashing of the New Orleans political scene is regrettable ("let's Get Togedder," TAS, May 1998...
...The Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Dia owned by Antonio Luis Ferre, son of former Governor Luis A. Ferre, is not a "Republican" publication...
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...Judge Bork, however, is an unrelenting legal positivist, who will concede no constitutional status whatever to the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence...
...I love to program computers, but I do not recommend this career to others...
...I am proficient in mainframe COBOL programming with working experience in a number of other mainframe and PC languages and applications...
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...The city taxed the casino at 18 percent, and there was a $5.00 fee paid to the city by each person who entered the boat...
...Today I am doing very well as a 1 0 July 19 9 8 • The American Spectator software consultant and contract programmer, far better than I ever imagined when I took that first programming course...
...Gambling has created a boom in Mississippi that has ignited the entire economy...
...As a 26-year resident in Jefferson Parish, I can tell you that Mr...
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...DON BEACH Falls Church, Virginia Coyote's Curls Marc Carnegie's deft skewering of the soidisant Peter Coyote (TAS, May 1998), in his tie-dyed acid- and name-dropping mode ("such luminaries as David Geffen and Steven Spielberg" and so forth), calls to mind lines written over zoo years ago by Robert Burns ("The Toad-Eater"): What of earls with whom you have supt, And of dukes that you dined with yestreen...
...The Republican party has become nothing but a party of hate...
...Please set the bar higher for yourself than the networks and major newspapers set for themselves...
...Given the fact that the United States has a population of about 269,500,000 people, I find it hard to believe that companies can't find the workers they need, unless, of course, they aren't willing to train...
...a Europe which will provide a "Third Center" of cultural and political power, as a stabilizing factor, in this troubled world which was hitherto divided (and polarized) between the eastern center and the western center...
...If employers are all that desperate, prove it to me when I am ready to go back into the work force when my children are older...
...Karatnycky may find a bright spot here and there in the world, but America is in a cultural quagmire, and for some of us, we are a long way from the claim that "this is as good as it gets...
...I only pray that you and all the conservative right-wing fanatics of this country wake up and realize what they are doing before it is too late...
...They are a party for the people, all people, a party with compassion for the people...
...Unfortunately, many of these same old (conservative) persons who read my letter probably think my memory of the old country songs is fading...
...I also had a great time following the politics of the Crescent City...
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...As a matter of fact, their antics cost don Luis his bid for re-election in 1972: Rosario blasted her father's policies in no uncertain terms and joined the Independence movement...
...Evidently Ledeen and his ilk would love Europe as a playground for the bored rich of America...
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...and 4. supplementing the internship would be a weekly seminar to expose the students to more advanced programming concepts and technologies...
...The great American system of education has been on a slide into the swamp since at least 196o...
...Pascagoula, Mississippi, does not have any casinos...
...According to Justice Scalia, "the whole theory of democracy," the theory which (Continued on page 78) "WOW, I can't believe you have that CD...
...Gold should check his facts more carefully when naming Casino cities...
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...CARLOS F. MENDOZA-TIO Editor Revista Al Margen San Juan, Puerto Rico Euro-Trashed The proud motto of your magazine—"To reveal the truth...
...Mardi Gras is still reeling from the loss of two old-line krewes, who disbanded rather than open their membership rosters as mandated by the city council (over Mrs...
...If industries could get over their fixation on four-year degrees (most coursework being irrelevant to a programming career), then a joint effort between community colleges (to provide the basic coursework) and industry (to provide the internships) would go a long way toward solving the programmer shortage...
...Why do you, brilliant Mr...
...The software industry says there are no skilled American software engineers (hence the need for Hi/J1 visa waivers...
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