From the WestWingReport: If Rice is nominated for SecState GOP may want to rethink (given its electoral troubles w/minorities) its threat to filibuster a black woman.
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. Anne Rice
Did you know that…It is possible to die from a broken heart — This condition is called Stress Cardiomyopathy. Remember to tell as many folk as you can you love them this season.
GOP senators criticize Susan Rice after meeting: Rice’s meeting with Sens. John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Kelly Ayotte on Capitol Hill came as the White House has signaled it may nominate Rice to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State. McCain, R-Ariz., has said he may oppose her nomination because she should have known her statements on the Sept. 11 attack were false.
Rice said in a round of interviews days after the deadly incident that the attack may have emerged from a protest outside the consulate in response to an anti-Islam video produced in the USA. It was later learned there was no protest, and the attack was a well-organized terror plot likely timed for the anniversary of Sept. 11.
“The information she gave the American people was incorrect when she said that it was a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a
“The information she gave the American people was incorrect when she said that it was a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video,” McCain told reporters after the meeting with Rice. “The bottom line is that I’m more disturbed than I was before … about how four Americans died in Benghazi, Libya,” Graham said.
President Obama has defended Rice, who rose up through Democratic circles to advise presidential candidates on international issues. Under President Clinton, she weighed in on key foreign policy decisions, some of which remain controversial. White House spokesman Jay Carney wouldn’t say Monday whether the president will nominate Rice, but suggested that if he did, she would be a good candidate. Sen. John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, may also be in the running for the job, analysts say. “Ambassador Rice has done an excellent job at the United Nations and is highly qualified for any number of positions,” Carney said. Rice appeared on several Sunday talk shows on Sept. 16 and insisted the attack was prompted by the video. She recently said she was only relating the intelligence information she was handed by the White House, and Obama defended Rice, saying it was not her fault.
5 Things for your “Not To-Do” List
1. Don’t send emails first thing in the morning or right before bed.
Sending out emails first thing in the morning is a gateway that will lead you to continually disrupt your schedule, and sending out emails before bed will ultimately cause your mind to run and negatively affect your ability to sleep.
2. Don’t agree to meetings that don’t have a set agenda and clear ending time.
Believe it or not, people love the sound of their own voices and have an uncanny ability to turn 10 minute meetings in to 45 minute marathons. Just because someone else is not managing their time correctly doesn’t mean that it has to affect your schedule.
3. Stop greeting people with open ended questions.
In an effort to be friendly, many of us greet people with an opening like, “Hey! How’s it going?” This can lead to a 10 minute discussion what is going on in their life or what the weather is like. Learn to greet people in a friendly manner and remember to GET TO THE POINT!
4. Stop being a slave to email
Too many of us spend our day sitting in front of our computer waiting for the next email so we can get our marching orders. We find ourselves hitting the refresh button on our phone throughout the day so we can feel good about the fact that someone is sending us something. Instead, pick times throughout the day and batch your emails. Start small and check every hour at first, but eventually you should make it your goal to only check emails 3-4 times a day.
5. Don’t leave your social media page open all day
Social media is an awesome tool, but just like email we have to batch our responses or we will find that our time has been hijacked by our desire to always be the quickest to respond.
-RISMedia’s Real Estate, November 2012
The 129 Bangladeshis who died in a fire caused by poor fire safety conditions in their garment factory should be thankful for their jobs, according to Fox Business host Charles Payne. Speaking with Neil Cavuto on Fox News this Monday, Payne excused this Sunday’s fire as a rare event and labelled all critics of the unsafe conditions that contributed to the tragedy as anti-Capitalist:
PAYNE: It is tragic. The people in Bangladesh who perished didn’t want or need those jobs, as well. I know we like to victimize everyone in this country, particularly when it comes to for-profit motivation, which is being assaulted. But, you know, it is a tragedy but I think it is a stretch, an amazing stretch, to sort of try to pin this on Walmart but, of course, the unions in this country are desperate.
The Bangladeshi factory in question, Tazreen Factories, had no functioning extinguishers, locked the exits, and employed managers who told factory workers to go back to their stations when the fire alarm went off. Since 2006, over 200 people have died in Bangladeshi garment factories as a consequence of the substandard safety precautions prevalent in their factory. Some believe companies like Walmart — whose brands were found in the burnt factory — would move if production at the faculty were more expensive; that is, if things like basic safety precautions were implemented.
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During his defense of the factory, Payne referred to himself as “a spokesman for capitalism and the American Dream” and said “for a lot of people, this [Walmart business practice] is a step in the right direction.”
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