…after slipping, breaking his leg and sustaining a concussion. This is so disturbing I emailed the Superintendent listed in the comment section. I encourage you to do the same.
Teacher makes child crawl back to class
Blackberry is headed the way of Palm. Both started out strong and had a large following for some time. Both failed to adapt…and both will have gone out of business.
RIM to sell software
I’ve been sounding the alarm about the Vegas market for awhile now, using Detroit as an example of what can happen to a single industry town. Vegas is, IMHO, particularily susceptible because the Reid-Goodman-Goodman triad is doing nothing to help the city, much less the state. The market is almost assuredly going to continue to decline, despite Mr. Nason’s assurance of it being nearly a “sure bet” market.
UPDATE: corrected spelling error
…so long as she marries him that is. I cannot imagine the horror this woman has gone through…or that she must continue to endure.
I do not think so, but it can be an indicator. Taken alone, it would (IMHO) be an unfair discriminator against a potential employee. However, it remains the employers perogative to use this as a criteria for employment. Bigger picture, I think it’s another way that those on the edge of the financial abyss are discriminated against by the FICO system.
The Consumerist has an http://consumerist.com/2011/11/allstate-denied-mans-insurance-claim-because-he-went-to-the-hospital-5-hours-too-early.html. The insurance company twice denied his request for coverage before coming back (after media pressure) and paying the claim. On the one hand, I agree with the commenters who say All State had no contractual obligation to pay the claim. On the other, what’s the ethical, socially responsible thing to do? What say you?
Indeed. If I were a betting man, or had any money to bet, I’d go with a managed (i.e., “politically spun for maximum benefit”) default.
Barry Riholtz eloquently sums up my feelings on the rule of law (and where it’s gone) in our country:
“The Rule of Law is yet another bedrock foundation of this nation. It seems to get ignored when the criminals involved received billions in bipartisan bailout monies.
The line of bullshit being used on State AGs is that we risk an economic crisis if we prosecute these folks.
The people who claim that fail to realize that the opposite is true — the protest at Occupy Wall Street, the negative sentiment, the general economic angst — traces itself to the belief that there is no justice, that senior bankers have gotten away with economic murder, and that we have a two-tiered criminal system, one for the rich and one for the poor.”
