http://www.dzllxx.com Top, Best Headlines and Opinions Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:34:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.dzllxx.com/an-opinion-on-unlimited-vacation-a-benefit-or-a-burden/ http://www.dzllxx.com/an-opinion-on-unlimited-vacation-a-benefit-or-a-burden/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:34:17 +0000 admin http://www.dzllxx.com/an-opinion-on-unlimited-vacation-a-benefit-or-a-burden/ In some parts of finance they require people to take off one week blocks, but I know far more managers who think that if the multiculture organization can survive without someone for more than 1 week, the organization can survive without that person for the other 51 weeks in the year. In the software industry, since the arrival of the agile methodology, each and every day requires the push that used to come before a deliverable, and each sprint is to packed that no one on any team involved can afford Read more [...]]]> http://www.dzllxx.com/an-opinion-on-unlimited-vacation-a-benefit-or-a-burden/feed/ 0 http://www.dzllxx.com/some-thoughts-on-stephen-moore-warren-buffett-is-wrong-on-taxes/ http://www.dzllxx.com/some-thoughts-on-stephen-moore-warren-buffett-is-wrong-on-taxes/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:31:05 +0000 admin http://www.dzllxx.com/some-thoughts-on-stephen-moore-warren-buffett-is-wrong-on-taxes/ Overall, Buffet's point is the tax deductions 2012 code needs to be reformed. And he's right. Special deductions from income prior to paying taxes have gone overboard. Our system is wacky and has been for a long time. Did you know there is a negative correlation 0.18 between the top marginal tax rate and taxes collected as a percent of GDP going back to 1946? Further, the predictive value of tax rates for tax revenue as measured by r-squared is 0.03? The code is filled with deductions from income Read more [...]]]> http://www.dzllxx.com/some-thoughts-on-stephen-moore-warren-buffett-is-wrong-on-taxes/feed/ 0 http://www.dzllxx.com/a-response-to-a-three/ http://www.dzllxx.com/a-response-to-a-three/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:49 +0000 admin http://www.dzllxx.com/a-response-to-a-three/ Completely agree, a college degree is extremely overvalued. I think what is most important is that your kid actually KNOW what they want how to decide on a career do for a career before they spend so much money going to a college. 16 year old kids typically have no clue what they want for a career, yet they are told they must decide which college to apply to. I suggest kids take a few years off from education after high school. They can spend a few years working in the real world, or join the military, Read more [...]]]> http://www.dzllxx.com/a-response-to-a-three/feed/ 0 http://www.dzllxx.com/my-view-on-the-divorce-generation/ http://www.dzllxx.com/my-view-on-the-divorce-generation/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:48:52 +0000 admin http://www.dzllxx.com/my-view-on-the-divorce-generation/ My parents were one of those old fashion Catholilc families that had five kids and did not get divorced parents. My wife and I are the same boring couple married twenty five years. I don't know what we are doing right or wrong. I do what my dad did. He tried to put his spouse and marriage first. the children are well cared for but my relationship with my wife is first and and the children are second. hopefully stable parents are a better gift for the kids than trips, soccer, cars, etc. My 19 year Read more [...]]]> http://www.dzllxx.com/my-view-on-the-divorce-generation/feed/ 0 http://www.dzllxx.com/thoughts-on-rove-obama-takes-a-page-from-nixons-handbook/ http://www.dzllxx.com/thoughts-on-rove-obama-takes-a-page-from-nixons-handbook/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:48:24 +0000 admin http://www.dzllxx.com/thoughts-on-rove-obama-takes-a-page-from-nixons-handbook/ If anything is clear and consistent about democratic campaigns, it's that they aren't interested in truth, nor are they interested in running on their records. They're much better at playing on people's fears rather than on providing real solutions how to keep a guy interested people's biggest problems. Obama won't be distancing himself from that strategy. Trusting that Obama cares about deficit reduction, entitlement reduction, transparency or bi-partisanship requires the willful suspension of reason. Read more [...]]]> http://www.dzllxx.com/thoughts-on-rove-obama-takes-a-page-from-nixons-handbook/feed/ 0 http://www.dzllxx.com/commentary-on-the-elite-is-revolting/ http://www.dzllxx.com/commentary-on-the-elite-is-revolting/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:43:47 +0000 admin http://www.dzllxx.com/commentary-on-the-elite-is-revolting/ If N. Ron Krugman thinks President Obama had any credibility to squander, he's got another think comin'. What credibility could a president have when he enters office with less executive manager training and experience than the average Stop 'N Go manager? How could he lose more credibility when he's already gone back on his promises to campaign using only public funds, turn Gitmo into a high-school basketball camp, avoid new wars, and convince the Muslim world to love us, among other things? Bill Read more [...]]]> http://www.dzllxx.com/commentary-on-the-elite-is-revolting/feed/ 0 http://www.dzllxx.com/opinion-on-sat-act-admissions-costs-tutor-costs-the-college-frenzy/ http://www.dzllxx.com/opinion-on-sat-act-admissions-costs-tutor-costs-the-college-frenzy/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:39:11 +0000 admin http://www.dzllxx.com/opinion-on-sat-act-admissions-costs-tutor-costs-the-college-frenzy/ If you look at the world's most successful people they aren't necessarily more likely to have graduated from Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, etc. or any of those other schools than from secondary or tertiary schools . The real problem is that parents believe it gives their kids a leg up in life, and because people have perceptions about those who have graduated from these institutions it does (at least at their 1st job); however, once these kids are competing by employee performance evaluation Read more [...]]]> http://www.dzllxx.com/opinion-on-sat-act-admissions-costs-tutor-costs-the-college-frenzy/feed/ 0 http://www.dzllxx.com/opinion-on-shutter-fraternities-for-young-womens-good-home-land/ http://www.dzllxx.com/opinion-on-shutter-fraternities-for-young-womens-good-home-land/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:36:18 +0000 admin http://www.dzllxx.com/opinion-on-shutter-fraternities-for-young-womens-good-home-land/ Ok, so let's get rid of the military since women have been mistreated in that institution as well & it's been covered up. While we're at it, let's get rid of the Catholic church since some of the priests have been accused of emotional abuse signs & that was hushed up. Oh, and how about government, and the office of the president, since under Bill Clinton there was sexual immorality going on (some would say abuse of power at the very least--a grown man, leader of the free world going after a 20 year Read more [...]]]> http://www.dzllxx.com/opinion-on-shutter-fraternities-for-young-womens-good-home-land/feed/ 0 http://www.dzllxx.com/a-response-to-when-a-depressed-person-wont-seek-help/ http://www.dzllxx.com/a-response-to-when-a-depressed-person-wont-seek-help/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:57:44 +0000 admin http://www.dzllxx.com/a-response-to-when-a-depressed-person-wont-seek-help/ Hi Sundar, This is not a new breakthrough. It has been around since the beginning of time. It was ordained by the One who created us, who knows us better than we know ourselves. Yes, really, it is not that complicated, so please call me a simpleton. Those with childhood depression are in despair, holding little hope and experiencing little joy. Knowing Jesus and following the way that He showed us as explained in the Bible gives us a lively hope and an abundance of joy. It is the complete opposite Read more [...]]]> http://www.dzllxx.com/a-response-to-when-a-depressed-person-wont-seek-help/feed/ 0 http://www.dzllxx.com/criticism-on-merrill-matthews-perry-is-rightthere-is-a-texas-model-for-fixing-social-security/ http://www.dzllxx.com/criticism-on-merrill-matthews-perry-is-rightthere-is-a-texas-model-for-fixing-social-security/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:12:59 +0000 admin http://www.dzllxx.com/criticism-on-merrill-matthews-perry-is-rightthere-is-a-texas-model-for-fixing-social-security/ There could be advantages to the Galveston Pllan, but if it is a true retirement plan, it is comparing apples and oranges to talk about it as an alternative to Social Security, an insurance program. At the time of divorce advice for men, a spouse having a retirement plan must put it on the table as a community asset to be divided in some manner. A spouse having Social Security benefits accrued during a marriage would never have to divide these. Divorce clients in my mediations never realize the difference Read more [...]]]> http://www.dzllxx.com/criticism-on-merrill-matthews-perry-is-rightthere-is-a-texas-model-for-fixing-social-security/feed/ 0