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49ers vs. Cardinals: Brian Westbrook Revives Career in MNF Rout
San Francisco Chronicle Brian Westbrook, whose career seemed to have hit a dead end in San Francisco, showed up as his old self Monday night in the 49ers win over the Cardinals. Westbrook looked like he was in his prime with the Eagles darting through holes in the middle of … Tim Kawakami: Arizona Cardinals make San Francisco 49ers look good Frank Gore Reportedly Suffers Season-Ending Hip Injury 49ers can take solace: At least they aren't the Cardinals |
Law and Faith at Center of Ky. Labor Lawyer’s Career
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Dave Suetholz says he wanted a career built on his Catholic faith. So he became a labor lawyer.
“Look at the principles of the labor movement—solidarity, standing with your neighbors, caring about your neighbors. That’s a fundamentally Christian idea that flows directly from the love commandment. Unions are a vehicle to a more just world. The Lord’s Prayer says, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
Suetholz, 33, is general counsel for the Kentucky Labor Cabinet, the Bluegrass State’s name for what most states call the Department of Labor. The Fort Mitchell native started his career as a law clerk for the Mine Workers (UMWA) in Washington, D.C. He went to work for Kentucky Labor Secretary J.R. Gray after becoming a partner in Segal, Lindsay and Janes, a Louisville law firm that represents unions.
He admits he is a rarity in Kentucky. “I’m a liberal Democrat,” he says, grinning. He also confesses he wasn’t born union. “My parents are Republicans. My dad is a family doctor.”
Suetholz planned to be a physician, too. A class far afield of his major changed his politics and his life.
I was in pre-med at Villanova University in Philadelphia. Then I took this peace and justice course, which was my introduction to liberation theology. The professor, Suzanne Toton, set me ablaze. I changed my major to theology and history so I could study more about liberation theology.
The labor lawyer explains liberation theology “is about changing social structures that cause suffering for the poor.”
I wanted to become part of the labor movement because it gives people a chance to change oppressive social structures for the better.
Suetholz says a Villanova-sponsored trip to Mexico “connected the dots between my class and the real world.”
The poverty I saw shook me to my core. Some nuns took us to a village where we went on a scavenger hunt with the children. I told a little girl we had to get a kernel of corn and she took me to the tar paper hut where she lived. Her parents slept on hammocks. She slept on a dirt floor.
She dipped her little hand into the family’s jar of corn and offered me a handful of kernels. She thought I was hungry. That devastated me. So I decided to spend every day from then on trying to earn that handful of corn.
Since, Suetholz, who earned a law degree at Notre Dame, hasn’t just spent his days behind a desk or in a courtroom. He has walked picket lines with union members he represented.
He was on the line with striking members of Louisville United Steelworkers (USWA) Local 1693 when they nicknamed his big, black 2004 Ford F-250 pickup. “They called it ‘scab crusher,’” he says with a laugh.
Suetholz is proud that members of UAW Local 862 in Louisville built the truck. Suetholz customized it with rear window decals proclaiming “TOGETHER WE ARE STRONG” and “UNION YES.” “UNION” says the novelty license plate on the front bumper.
Suetholz plans to return to private practice after he leaves the Kentucky Labor Cabinet. Meanwhile, he is lining up support for a Kentucky institute for labor education and research.
He says his faith will fire him no matter what he does.
Serving working people is my way of serving God.
Barack Obama’s Worst 10 Days of Poltical Career … The One Comes Home Empty Handed with ‘Bupkis’
The Obamamessiah comes home from his “get out of Dodge” trip overseas empty handed …
If there was any doubt following the 2010 midterm election shellacking that the Democrats took on November 2 that the Obama bloom was off the rose, it was confirmed by his overseas unmitigated disaster trip following the midterm tsunami. The once crowned prince Obamamessiah comes back from his trip pretty much empty handed.
After watching his party take a beating in the midterm elections, Obama wasn’t able to secure even a symbolic victory on a trip that was expected to give him plenty of opportunities to claim a win.
“This certainly was the worst 10 days of his political life,”said Baruch College political scientist Doug Muzzio. “Given that he’s not going to be able to get any domestic achievements with the Republicans in control of the House … if he doesn’t do it in foreign policy that’s a big problem for him.
“He came back with bupkis [Yiddish for ‘nothing’].”
Obama’s inauspicious 10-day, four-nation trip included a failure to land an anticipated slam dunk free trade agreement with South Korea.
It also included a botched effort to rally Western allies to press China to budge on a monetary policy that threatens to keep the U.S. economy in the tank.
Is it any wonder why Obama has a -16 Daily Presidential Presidential Index and a -7% jobs approval rating.
As stated at Weasel Zippers regarding the “Empty Suit” in Chief with an accompanying most appropriate picture, the Obama ship is continuing to take on water and sink.
It’s official, Obama’s policies have been rejected in the United States as witnessed by the shellacking taken during the 2010 midterm election and rejected overseas. Obama’s trip overseas is looked upon as a failure as The One struck out looking. Obama claimed that this trip over seas was not to escape the aftermath of the political carnage of the midterm elections, but instead to “to bring jobs to the United States”. His trip has become what his presidency has also become … a total failure.
O’Donnell Begins Career as Political Celebrity
In a Tonight Show interview with Jay Leno, Christine O’Donnell said she’s fielding many job offers in the aftermath of her U.S. Senate race defeat in Delaware.
Said O’Donnell: “The offers have been interesting. Anything from a book deal to a reality show… I am not necessarily interested in a reality show…I would like to do something like a watchdog-type show.”
She also suggested she might run for public office again: “I don’t know if I will run again. I want to keep that option open.”
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Katie Couric Career Deathwatch – Yes, She Is Investigating The Afterlife
Hey, Katie, 411, there’s a midterm election in just two days, in which the policies of your Messiah will be repudiated. You might want to pay attention. Then again, maybe that’s what this “investigation” is about (?)
Clint Eastwood has made a new movie about the afterlife. Does he know anything about that? Katie Couric decided to find out …
When asked what he thinks happens when you die, Clint Eastwood responds, “I haven’t the foggiest idea.”
Generally, when Clint Eastwood wants you dead, you’re dead. But in “Hereafter,” the new movie directed by Eastwood, death is only the beginning.
“It’s the one unknowable thing, isn’t it, in terms of what happens to us when we die?” Couric asked.
“Exactly – and nobody’s in a rush to find out,” he replied.
At least 50 Democrats will surely join the political afterlife in a little over 48 hours, not including those who will be Freddy Kruegerized in State government. Based on Katie’s ratings, I’m surprised she isn’t there already.
More: Meanwhile, Arianna Huffington has apparently donated her brain to Dr. Frankenstein
“This victory by Republicans, which I fully expect … does not mean that the nation is rejecting Democrats and affirming Republicans. It means they are rejecting the way our institutions are working, that they have deep mistrust of all establishments. That basically, our system has not worked for them,” Huffington said.
Uh huh.
The Elite’s Career Accelerator
Here's a recent Ivy League grad describing why she applied to work at McKinsey despite being committed to a career in public health:
It is increasingly difficult to get into Gates or Clinton foundation without experience in management consulting. I saw a number of jobs advertised at these places that required at least 2 years of consulting experience. That’s what made me apply to McKinsey. During the application process, I discovered a number of my friends from med school, who also do international health, were already part of McKinsey. One of them described it as a “career accelerator” in which 1 year at McK was equivalent to about 4 years working in government or an NGO. People come, do their 2 years at McK and leave to take management positions at NGOs or foundations, leap-frogging the whole toil-for-10-years process that you would have to do to rise through the ranks.
The account got Conor wondering whether this leap-frogging process – so common in professional fields – is making meritocratic elites inadequately familiar with the organizations that they wind up running.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
What Was Behind Rick Sanchez’s Agonizing Twenty Minute Crawl to Career Suicide
He started with a story about how a CNN administrator didn’t want him to become an anchor because he was Cuban. Then he railed into John Stewart for making fun of him claiming Stewart is a bigot. Sanchez believes that Stewart portrays him as stupid because he is Cuban.
“I think he looks at the world through, his mom, who was a school teacher, and his dad, who was a physicist or something like that. Great, I’m so happy that he grew up in a suburban middle class New Jersey home with everything you could ever imagine.”
Look at his show, I mean, what does he surround himself with? That’s what happens when you watch yourself on his show every day, and all they ever do is call you stupid…. If I did just sit there and read the teleprompter every day, Jon Stewart would never say a word about me. He’d say I’m a good Hispanic anchor, “Way to go, you’ve done a good job, stay right there.” … I am a complex human being; I’m not some moron to be…”
Pete Dominic reminded Sanchez that Stewart wasn’t a bigot that he was a comedian and Stewart, a Jew, made fun his own people more than any other. Dominic told Sanchez that Jews are sensitive to bigotry because of everything they had faced as a people.
“Yeah,” Sanchez snickered sarcastically at the idea that Jews are as much minorities as Latinos in the US, “Very powerless people”
He’s [Stewart] such a minority, I mean, you know…Please, what are you kidding? … I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they — the people in this country who are Jewish — are an oppressed minority? Yeah. [sarcastically] “
At 3:00 the next day, Rich Sanchez was not on-air for his CNN time slot. After spending the next three hours chasing CNN Corporate Communications for a reason (he was also due to go on a tour to sell his new book), at 6:19 PM I received this simple email from Bridget Leininger of Turner Corporate Communications
“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well. We will broadcast CNN Newsroom from 3-5pm for the foreseeable future.”
During his tenure at CNN Rick Sanchez developed pattern of making outrageous statements. Sure he was biased with the constant rants against Fox News “The Voice of Fox News” and the Tea Party “Ronald Reagan would be too liberal for certain Tea Partiers” but it was some of his nonpolitical comments that made him look the worst, like “Isn’t it too cold in Iceland for a volcano?” “How much nine meters is in English?” or my personal favorite when he read the stage directions off the teleprompter “”Up next: Ad lib. A tease. That’s what it says right here.”
Rick Sanchez’ problems as a CNN reporter had nothing to do with his liberal bias, if that eliminated someone from a news job there would be many more openings in the Media. Nor was his constant malapropos or questions that made him seem uninformed, because handled right, that could be made into an endearing quality. Sanchez didn’t even lose his job because he is a bigot because; quite frankly despite what he said on the Pete Dominic show bigotry was not behind the inappropriate statements he made.
What caused Sanchez to lose his job at the Cable News Network were two very important personality flaws. Mr. Sanchez’s thin skin and inability to laugh at some of his on-air flubs allowed the comments made by John Stewart to get under his skin. It was that thin skin that caused the former CNN anchor to start ranting on radio.
The other flaw is may be too big to overcome. It is the reason why Sanchez could not stop talking when he approached the line, it is the reason that people like Stewart, and Glenn Beck use Rick Sanchez as a constant target. Unfortunately the real reason Rick Sanchez lost his CNN gig is that he is not the sharpest tool in the toolbox.
In the end, CNN decided that it could handle a news reporter that said nasty things, and they could handle a news reporter that says stupid things, but together in one news reporter it was just too much to handle
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Rick Sanchez’s Agonizing Twenty Minute Crawl to Career Suicide
On Thursday Rick Sanchez spent twenty minutes on the radio committing career suicide in a most agonizing manner. Appearing on the Sirius/XM satellite radio program, Stand Up! with Pete Dominic he started out placing himself in a little hole and kept digging until he exposed a giant pink slip.
He started with a story about how a CNN administrator didn’t want him to become an anchor because he was Cuban. Then he railed against Jon Stewart for making fun of him, claiming Stewart is a bigot. Sanchez believes that Stewart portrays him as stupid because he is Cuban.
I think he looks at the world through, his mom, who was a school teacher, and his dad, who was a physicist or something like that. Great, I’m so happy that he grew up in a suburban middle class New Jersey home with everything you could ever imagine.
Look at his show, I mean, what does he surround himself with? That’s what happens when you watch yourself on his show every day, and all they ever do is call you stupid…. If I did just sit there and read the teleprompter every day, Jon Stewart would never say a word about me. He’d say I’m a good Hispanic anchor, “Way to go, you’ve done a good job, stay right there.” … I am a complex human being; I’m not some moron to be…
Sanchez would still have a job if he stopped right there, but maybe because of some deep-seeded insecurity, he was driven to proving to the world that Stewart’s taunts were true. That’s when he crossed the career Rubicon.
Pete Dominic reminded Sanchez that Stewart wasn’t a bigot that he was a comedian and Stewart, a Jew, made fun his own people more than any other. Dominic told Sanchez that Jews are sensitive to bigotry because of everything they had faced as a people.
“Yeah,” Sanchez snickered sarcastically at the idea that Jews are as much minorities as Latinos in the U.S., “Very powerless people”
He’s [Stewart] such a minority, I mean, you know…Please, what are you kidding? … I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they — the people in this country who are Jewish — are an oppressed minority? Yeah. [sarcastically]
That was the death blow, Sanchez basically said Stewart is a Jew, Jews like Stewart run CNN, and in fact Jews run all of the news organizations.
At 3:00 the next day, Rich Sanchez was not on-air for his CNN time slot. After spending the next three hours chasing CNN Corporate Communications for a reason (he was also due to go on a tour to sell his new book), at 6:19 p.m., I received this simple email from Bridget Leininger of Turner Corporate Communications
Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well. We will broadcast CNN Newsroom from 3-5pm for the foreseeable future.
During his tenure at CNN Rick Sanchez developed pattern of making outrageous statements. Sure he was biased with the constant rants against Fox News “The Voice of Fox News” and the Tea Party — “Ronald Reagan would be too liberal for certain Tea Partiers” — but it was some of his nonpolitical comments that made him look even worse, such as: “Isn’t it too cold in Iceland for a volcano?” “How much is nine meters in English?” or my personal favorite when he read the stage directions off the teleprompter “”Up next: Ad lib. A tease. That’s what it says right here.”
Rick Sanchez’ problems as a CNN reporter had nothing to do with his liberal bias, if that eliminated someone from a news job there would be many more openings in the media. Nor were they his constant malaprops or questions that made him seem uninformed, because handled right, that could be made into an endearing quality. Sanchez didn’t even lose his job because he is a bigot because; quite frankly despite what he said on the Pete Dominic show bigotry was not behind the inappropriate statements he made.
What caused Sanchez to lose his job at the Cable News Network were two very important personality flaws. Mr. Sanchez’s thin skin and inability to laugh at some of his on-air flubs allowed the comments made by Jon Stewart to get under his skin. It was his thin skin that caused the former CNN anchor to start ranting on radio.
The other flaw is may be too big to overcome. It is the reason why Sanchez could not stop talking when he approached the line, it is the reason that people like Stewart, and Glenn Beck use Rick Sanchez as a constant target. Unfortunately the real reason Rick Sanchez lost his CNN gig is that he is not the sharpest tool in the toolbox.
In the end, CNN decided that it could handle a news reporter who said nasty things, and they could handle a news reporter who says stupid things, but together in one news reporter it was just too much to handle.
A career ally keeps ‘Daschle Inc.’ steady
Editor’s note: Before joining CNN, Senior Political Editor Mark Preston spent six years as a staff writer for the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, writing stories on powerful lawmakers and key staffers such as Pete Rouse. Rouse, whom President Obama named his interim chief of staff Friday, is low-key but very well respected for his knowledge of the legislative process and straightforward approach when working with Republicans. This story, which appeared in Roll Call in 2004, is from one of the few interviews Rouse has given on the record. Although this article was written six years ago, it still provides readers with an inside look into one of the most powerful people in government.
Pete Rouse is no stranger to tough battles as Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle’s (D-S.D.) top aide. He was part of the team that catapulted Daschle into his leadership post in 1994 and four years later helped negotiate the terms of former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial.
In recent years, he has had to navigate a flip-flopping Senate majority, the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and an envelope full of anthrax opened in Daschle’s office that exposed more than a dozen staffers to the potentially deadly spores.
Cynthia Tucker: Wrong career, wrong time, just wrong
I find it hard to accept that any of my fellow humans are truly, deeply stupid. I begin with the proposition that we are all God’s creatures. I can understand that He would want a variety of opinion amongst us. But to create a blindingly stupid person? I don’t get it. Yet I found one: Cynthia Tucker.
My awakening began here – her piece on the Republican Pledge. It meanders from the repeal of ObamaCare would jack the 10-year deficit by $ 4 trillion to talking about the W Decade of allegedly zero job growth by using terms (“voodoo economics”) from the Reagan Decade with 20% job growth. Hunh? And if we fail to astronomically expand the Medicare roles, it will cost more? I love these drive-by commentators. They always fail to back up what they throw out. How utterly shallow.
So I went back a bit to read some more of this woman’s writings. I’ll share this: I never heard of her before today, and will most likely forget her by tomorrow. Didn’t take long to find this discussion about her: Ah, she’s one of the “you’re angry because you’re a racist. You can’t stand Obama being in office!” crowd. I laugh so deeply when I read tripe like that. These are the same people that said Condi Rice wasn’t “black enough.” That said Sarah was “not the right woman.” Does that mean that Log Cabin Republicans are not gay enough? These people can’t stop classifying everyone by the color of their skin or the uniform nature of genitalia of two people sharing a bed. Yet they’ll condemn Glenn Beck for holding a rally on MLK Day. MLK – the Republican – the pro-life citizen – the guy who had a dream of judging only by character. Yeah, that one. The one whose bloody shirt was grabbed by Jesse Jackson only after he confirmed he was in camera range.
Let me ask you, Cyndi: Does any of this dawn on you? Are you so drawn by hatred that you’re utterly blinded by your own?
She’s also a Warmist. She was probably a J-School grad, so I’ll forgive her inability to understand the nature of “peer-reviewed science.” But, man, all she needs to do is read the softly worded Nature News article to gently guide her into reality.
People should find careers within which they can be both competent and happy. For probably a bushel full of reasons, Cyndi has chosen neither. She needs to reevaluate her choices. She could be so much more at peace with herself and the world around her.
I worry for her. I’m nice like that. Cynthia who?
