http://www.ahalaliraq.com Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:30:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-credit-unions-aim-to-raise-lending-cap/ http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-credit-unions-aim-to-raise-lending-cap/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:30:23 +0000 admin http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-credit-unions-aim-to-raise-lending-cap/ Good point James. In fact the credit unions already failed on their own about two years ago when the federal government stepped in how to build credit bail out several of the large corporate credit unions. These corporate credit unions provide support and back office services to all of the retail credit Read More...]]> http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-credit-unions-aim-to-raise-lending-cap/feed/ 0 http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-analysis-on-richard-vedder-time-to-make-professors-teach/ http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-analysis-on-richard-vedder-time-to-make-professors-teach/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:29:47 +0000 admin http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-analysis-on-richard-vedder-time-to-make-professors-teach/ Justin--Amen. We could cut the central administration in half too. My university has a Provost plus several Associate and Assistant Provosts (ditto with each Division--tons of sales assistant job description and associate Deans). I once asked a Provost at my institution if there was an Assistant Provost Read More...]]> http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-analysis-on-richard-vedder-time-to-make-professors-teach/feed/ 0 http://www.ahalaliraq.com/analysis-on-medical-marijuana-in-colorado-is-on-2-tracks-upscale-and-down-and-dirty/ http://www.ahalaliraq.com/analysis-on-medical-marijuana-in-colorado-is-on-2-tracks-upscale-and-down-and-dirty/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:57:31 +0000 admin http://www.ahalaliraq.com/analysis-on-medical-marijuana-in-colorado-is-on-2-tracks-upscale-and-down-and-dirty/ I personally believe any problems that marijuana causes its user are intj personality based, with the drug only serving as the channel for the person's behavior. The perceptions of the negative affects of weed use stem from the observed negative behavior(laziness, lack of life success, anti-social tendencies, Read More...]]> http://www.ahalaliraq.com/analysis-on-medical-marijuana-in-colorado-is-on-2-tracks-upscale-and-down-and-dirty/feed/ 0 http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-small/ http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-small/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:56:30 +0000 admin http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-small/ I would prefer that they acknowledge that the lousy business consulting firms environment has almost nothing to do with the federal government. Firms aren't hiring or expanding because the business isn't there. Firms aren't borrowing for the same reason. Banks aren't lending because they've already made Read More...]]> http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-small/feed/ 0 http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-teachers-union-cries-foul-over-doe-email/ http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-teachers-union-cries-foul-over-doe-email/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:56:09 +0000 admin http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-teachers-union-cries-foul-over-doe-email/ Why are teachers so afraid performance based pay? That is the way most jobs work. The former chancellor of NYC schools said that tenure is based on the ability to show up breathing(I paraphrase) Maybe a small percentage of teachers earn tenure based on merit. But, 10% are incapable and the rest are just Read More...]]> http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-teachers-union-cries-foul-over-doe-email/feed/ 0 http://www.ahalaliraq.com/commentary-on-obama-restates-call-for-1967-borders-as-part-of-mideast-talks/ http://www.ahalaliraq.com/commentary-on-obama-restates-call-for-1967-borders-as-part-of-mideast-talks/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:10:42 +0000 admin http://www.ahalaliraq.com/commentary-on-obama-restates-call-for-1967-borders-as-part-of-mideast-talks/ Thanks Naaman, I'd be fine with us supporting Israel if there was a real benefit to it. But Israel has proven quite adept at supporting itself, and it's a relatively affluent country in the region, so I don't really think they need or deserve our aid at this point. If we were so altruistic, we should be Read More...]]> http://www.ahalaliraq.com/commentary-on-obama-restates-call-for-1967-borders-as-part-of-mideast-talks/feed/ 0 http://www.ahalaliraq.com/an-opinion-on-al-qaedas-no.-2-killed-in-pakistan/ http://www.ahalaliraq.com/an-opinion-on-al-qaedas-no.-2-killed-in-pakistan/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:57:28 +0000 admin http://www.ahalaliraq.com/an-opinion-on-al-qaedas-no.-2-killed-in-pakistan/ Hey Dick - Bush didn't read it either because Sun Tzu tells us that emotional intelligence in the workplace is everything in fighting a war (they made the intelligence up about WMDs as an excuse to go into Iraq), you don't occupy another country (something that the Cheney administration seemed to forget, Read More...]]> http://www.ahalaliraq.com/an-opinion-on-al-qaedas-no.-2-killed-in-pakistan/feed/ 0 http://www.ahalaliraq.com/an-opinion-on-6-smart-wedding-tips-from-william-and-kate/ http://www.ahalaliraq.com/an-opinion-on-6-smart-wedding-tips-from-william-and-kate/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:55:47 +0000 admin http://www.ahalaliraq.com/an-opinion-on-6-smart-wedding-tips-from-william-and-kate/ The 1st Smart Wedding Tip is to NOT buy an employee engagement survey ring!? Really!? Personally, I find such a suggestion to be quite pretentious... I scrimped and saved to buy my fiance a beautiful 1 ct solitaire to celebrate our future together. Perhaps this is because I would never expect 'Mommy/Daddy' Read More...]]> http://www.ahalaliraq.com/an-opinion-on-6-smart-wedding-tips-from-william-and-kate/feed/ 0 http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-why-the-eagles-rihanna-and-the-jonas-brothers-have-canceled-concert-dates-this-summer/ http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-why-the-eagles-rihanna-and-the-jonas-brothers-have-canceled-concert-dates-this-summer/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:51:50 +0000 admin http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-why-the-eagles-rihanna-and-the-jonas-brothers-have-canceled-concert-dates-this-summer/ Neither Pearl Jam nor Dave Matthews ( both of whom are vastly overated) are all that popular with the newest and youngest group of concert goers just coming up. Ther exists a vast audience of former emo fans and such who are looking for new car tax bands to get interested in. Of course there are virtually Read More...]]> http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-view-on-why-the-eagles-rihanna-and-the-jonas-brothers-have-canceled-concert-dates-this-summer/feed/ 0 http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-analysis-on-the-ticking-male-biological-clock/ http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-analysis-on-the-ticking-male-biological-clock/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:31:50 +0000 admin http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-analysis-on-the-ticking-male-biological-clock/ I have been to most of those sites too and unfortunately the articles for JAMA, NEJ, and the various other sites including a majority of pubmed articles are all sites that require you to pay and as Im a broke student I don't have the money to do that=P. The narcissistic traits of Fragile X syndrome usually Read More...]]> http://www.ahalaliraq.com/my-analysis-on-the-ticking-male-biological-clock/feed/ 0