ET Williams

The Doctor of Common Sense

What Ever Happen To Common Sense

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Federal Government Spends Money Trying to Measure ‘Happiness’

When You Find Common Sense, Please Tell Her That I Am Looking For Her Also

 

It might be common sense that happiness is in the eye of the beholder, but don’t let a little thing like that stand in the way of the Federal Government spending money to try to quantify it. A new study being undertaken by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is dedicated to trying to put a number to the amount of happiness any given person feels. Why the government wants to study topic has not been explained, though presumably, it could be applied to manipulating poll numbers.

One potential reason why the study is being done is due to widespread dissatisfaction among liberal social scientists with the prevailing idea that Gross National Product (GNP), or Gross Domestic Product (GDP), are good approximations for national happiness. The Washington Post, which caught this story, quotes a Robert Kennedy speech on this topic.

“Our gross national product, if we should judge America by that, counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage . . .it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile,” Robert Kennedy said in a 1968 speech.

In other words, GDP is just too objective and economics-focused for HHS, which wants to measure feelings. Certainly President Obama has welcomed the effort, to the point of naming a researcher on the concept of happiness, Alan Krueger, to be Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

The Post picks up the story from here:

According to proponents, a measure of happiness could help assess the success or failure of a range of government policies. It could gauge the virtues of a health benefit or establish whether education has more value than simply higher incomes. It might also detect extremes of inequality or imbalances in how people divide their time between work and leisure.

The phrase ‘pursuit of happiness’ is in the Declaration of Independence, so it’s not a huge stretch to say we might want to measure life satisfaction,” said panel member Carol Graham, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of a book on the topic.[…]

In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has embraced the idea, and last year the government began asking survey respondents things like “Overall, how happy did you feel yesterday?” and “Overall, how satisfied are you with your life nowadays?” The U.K. Economic and Social Research Council is also funding the U.S. panel’s $370,000 budget. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008 launched a commission including two Nobel winners, Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, which opined that the “time is ripe for our measurement system to shift emphasis from measuring economic production to measuring people’s well-being.”

Reportedly, a number of methodological approaches have been proposed to try to measure “happiness.” Most of them contain obvious methodological problems, but the government experts responsible for this study are presumably prepared to try to iron those out.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/federal-government-spends-money-trying-to-measure-happiness/

 

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Rush Limbaugh calls Sandra Fluke a Slut

 

Rush Limbaugh & Sandra Fluke

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Law Student Sandra Fluke Wants You To Pay For Her To Have Sex

(Everyone is a Freaking Victim! If the condom fits, just wear it.)

Georgetown University officials have released a statement defending law student  Sandra Fluke, calling Rush Limbaugh’s attacks “misogynistic” and Fluke “a model of civil discourse.” And President Obama has called to thank her for “speaking out about the concerns of American women,” according to Fluke. The Georgetown law student derided as a “slut” and “prostitute” by Rush Limbaugh for her support of women’s access to birth control spoke out against the conservative talk show host Friday morning.

Appearing on NBC’s “Today,” Sandra Fluke said she was
“stunned” and “outraged” by Limbaugh’s comments, which she deemed “an attempt
to silence me, to silence all of us from speaking about the healthcare we
need.”

Fluke, a third-year law student, testified about
Georgetown’s policy on contraception during an unofficial hearing last Thursday
that was led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). She argued that
birth control should be covered by health insurance at religious institutions.

Pelosi arranged for
Fluke to testify after she was excluded from an official congressional hearing
on the contraceptive mandate in the nation’s health-care law. Republicans who
ran the hearing said Fluke’s name was submitted too late (Democrats disagree).
None of the women who testified at the congressional hearing spoke in favor of
the mandate.

At Pelosi’s hearing, Fluke said her fellow students at
Georgetown, a Jesuit university, pay as much as $1,000 a year for birth control
because campus health plans do not include coverage of contraceptives for
women.

“What does that make her?” Limbaugh said on his show
Wednesday night. “It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute.”

“She wants to be paid
to have sex,” Limbaugh continued. “She’s having so much sex she can’t afford
the contraception.”

On Thursday, Limbaugh expanded on his thoughts but offered
no apology. Referring to controversial remarks by Foster Friess, a supporter of
former senator Rick Santorum, Limbaugh said, “I will buy all of the women at
Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want.”

That afternoon, there
were reports of a bomb threat at Limbaugh’s South Florida home, but an
investigation revealed that the suspicious package was not dangerous and
unrelated to Limbaugh’s remarks.

According to the Palm Beach Daily News, the package turned
out to be an electronic plaque commemorating the assassination of President
Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.

`Thursday night,
Fluke appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show,” calling Limbaugh’s comments “outside the
bounds of civil discourse.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-buzz/post/rush-limbaugh-calls-georgetown-student-sandra-fluke-a-slut-for-advocating-contraception/2012/03/02/gIQAvjfSmR_blog.html

 

 

 

 

 

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Treasurer Lockyer Wife having sex with the Construction Man

 

The Construction guy laying the road to Lockyer’s Wife

Men Who Wife\’s won\’t let them be men 

 

 

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, a fixture in the capital for 40 years, is at the center of an emerging sex scandal between his wife, who’s an Alameda County supervisor, and another man.

 The San Francisco Chronicle reports Treasurer Lockyer was sent a sex tape of his wife with the man.

 And the treasurer, thinking he was being blackmailed, called the Alameda district attorney to get his wife a stay-away order imposed against the man, identified by the Chronicle as 35-year-old Stephen Chikhani, a construction worker from San Jose.

But the DA’s investigation concluded her relationship with the man was consensual and that no crime occurred.

According to the Chronicle, that affair became public only after Nadia Lockyer called the cops on her boyfriend at a Newark hotel room, accusing him of assault. But no charge was filed in that case either.

 Supervisor Lockyer, 40, is now back in rehab, where she first met Chikhani, her political career in question.

 Nate Miley is also an Alameda County supervisor, and he doesn’t like the attention his colleague has generated.

 “We are very concerned about how the county looks and is perceived,” he said. “We want to go about our business in a professional manner.”

 Meanwhile, when asked about concerns over how the treasurer looks or is being perceived in the ordeal, his communications director told CBS13 the career politician is “focused on doing the job he was elected to do.”

 Tom Dresslar added there was “no comment other than to say we’re in the middle of a $2 billion dollar bond sale to save the state a boatload of money.”

 The fallout between the Lockyers comes after the treasurer bankrolled his wife’s campaign for supervisor with massive amounts of money, a practice political watchdog group Common Cause has tried to end.

“It’s a priority of ours that we can see and track where all our money’s going,” Common Cause’s Phillip Ung said.

 From his own election war chest, Lockyer gave his wife $1.5 million dollars for a county race.

 “I can’t point to any other instance where that amount of money has been used in a local race,” Ung said.

 A Democrat, Bill Lockyer first won a State Assembly seat in 1973. He served 25 years in the legislature and also served two terms as the state attorney general.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/02/29/treasurer-lockyer-reportedly-sent-sex-tape-of-wife-another-man/

 

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Daddy gave Jr. the job ("Whatever Happen To COMMON SENSE")

Tell Jr. To Earn His Keep

 

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Daddy gave Jr. the job

What I find absolutely fascinating is that everyone likes to look like the big shot but no one wants to work like the big shot. I am so tired of people who have not earned a damm thing pretending to be significant. They do not work well under pressure, but it is very important for everyone to see how crucial they are to the company. I can tell you without a doubt what’s wrong with a lot of companies. Companies have too many damm chiefs and not enough Indians. They want to lead but they have never learned to follow. Everyone has a coworker who constantly comes up with ideas but when it comes time for work, they are nowhere to be found. They talk a good game but they can’t burst a grape in a fruit fight.

 If you want to be the chief, you must sacrifice like the chief. The chief should make sure that he or she leads by example. The chief should show up first, leave last, and work when no one else is working. He or she looks out for the well-being of the entire tribe, not just himself or herself. It is always a good thing to lead by example. People do not mind following a leader who is willing to do everything that he or she can do in order to accomplish a job.

 Many companies hire people who are not necessarily qualified for or have not earned the right to a particular job. This type of character will make an attempt to supervise people on jobs that they have never performed themselves and do not have the expertise to adequately oversee. The only reason they have the position is because of Daddy or because someone that Daddy knows gave them the position.

That’s one of the problems with our leaders. They talk a good game about sacrifice but they make no sacrifices themselves. I don’t believe that anyone wants to follow a person who does nothing more than talk about what he or she wants the team to do, all the while refusing to get his or her hands dirty but always saying “we did this” or “we did that.” You would think they were French given the way they use the word “we.” Sometimes it makes you want to wee-wee listening to these clowns. Some of these so-called managers or supervisors come to work late and spend thirty minutes in the coffee room on a regular basis. They take two-hour “business” lunches but never discuss business. If they smoke, they are always outside sucking on cigarettes, talking about absolutely nothing.

 What’s even worse is that they always want to have meetings or meet to discuss how the company could operate better and more efficiently. Well, I believe that the first thing the company could do to be more efficient is to get some damm work out of you or fire you to free up some budget space.

 Sometimes you will notice that the “boss man” or “boss woman” wants to implement new procedures that do not make any sense. It would be one thing if the new process made the operation run more smoothly, but instead it causes more problems without producing a better product. You would think that the genius who came up with the plan would simply abandon the boat, but that will never happen because the moron in charge will never admit to being wrong. Nepotism or cronyism has put them in this position, not hard work.

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House Economic Adviser, Thinks We Need A Global Tax.

"Hell Yes" We Should Tax the People for the Environment

By: DANIEL HALPER

“Whatever Happen To COMMON SENSE”

Gene Sperling, director of the White House’s national economic council, said today at an official meeting that “we need a global minimum tax”:

“He supports corporate tax reform that would reduce expenditures and loopholes, lower rates for people investing and creating jobs in the U.S., due so further for manufacturing, and that we need to, as we have the Buffett Rule and the individual tax reform, we need a global minimum tax so that people have the assurance that nobody is escaping doing their fair share as part of a race to the bottom or having our tax code actually subsidized and facilitate people moving their funds to tax havens,” Sperling said.

The White House adviser then said that more details would be forthcoming, though “not in gory detail.”

“But we will say more, perhaps not in gory detail, but in more detail, before the end of the month. And in terms of the revenues, the president is looking for shared sacrifice. This budget is a Democratic budget that has savings in Medicaid, it has savings from new beneficiaries, Medicare in 2017, it has agriculture civilian retirement savings. It has a lot of very tough choices.”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/white-house-economic-adviser-we-need-global-minimum-tax_626749.html

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UFOs (Drivers), Riders, and Pedestrians

 

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 From Chapter 6 of The Book “Whatever Happen To COMMON SENSE”

By: Elmer Williams

For a long time I didn’t believe in UFOs, but there are aliens among us—sometimes I share the road with drivers who appear to be from another planet. UFO could easily stand for Unthinking Foolish Object.

They commute to work via the same route everyday. And even if they are aware that construction is going on and will continue for the next three months, they insist on going the same way everyday. They recognize that there are five other routes that they could take to get to work, but they don’t have the common sense that God gives an ostrich and are suffering from an incurable case of tunnel vision.

There are Albert Einstein drivers that grace our streets known as rubberneckers. You know what a rubbernecker is, don’t you? A rubbernecker is someone who drives around looking for a reason to stretch his or her neck searching for accidents. I can think of a particular incident where I was driving on I-45 headed north on my way back toHouston. The traffic was absolutely horrific. Cars headed north in both directions were backed up on the feeders and freeway. I was in a hurry and thought there must be a terrible accident up ahead.

 I wondered if someone was seriously injured and needed a paramedic. To my amazement, when I approached the wreck on the feeder headed north, the people headed south on the freeway were coming to a complete stop just to stare. It was only a fender bender, but these very skilled drivers were stopping to stretch their necks to see what was happening. If you want to help someone you believe may be injured, make the U-turn, get out of your vehicle, and go over and help. If not, take your elastic neck on down the road and stop holding up traffic.

 Then there are the drivers who get upset at eighteen-wheelers because they think the big trucks get too aggressive. What did the eighteen-wheeler do? He sped up at the last minute and went around the car. Now, the driver of the truck is in the wrong, and two plus two equals four, but two wrongs don’t make a right. To get back at the driver of the eighteen-wheeler, this UFO will cut in front of the truck and hit their brakes. Talk about no common sense. What would make a person think that it’s a good idea to cut in front of a vehicle that carries thirty thousand to forty thousand pounds of freight at any given time? If the truck hits you, do you really think you made your point?

 There are also drivers who, as soon as they see you put on your signal, speed up to prevent you from changing lanes. Get a life, people. And we wonder why road rage is so rampant. These UFOs drive more like bats coming from the pits of hell, whatever that looks like. I wonder who came up with the phrase “driving like a bat out of hell.”

Excerpt from the Book “Whatever Happen To COMMON SENSE”

By: Elmer Williams