THE WORLD WIDE KILLING OF BABY GIRLS

THE WORLD WIDE WAR  ON KILLING BABY GIRLS/77-80

THE ECONOMIST(2010) 3/12

The largest killings of baby girls is in Asia. For the purpose of this article, we will include abortion and infanticide. The source of this number is hard to verify. However, it appears that roughly 100 million little girls

from 1995 to 2005 died from human termination.

The ingredients for abortion is the first form of sex selection. In China it is most pronounced. There are 120 boys to 100 girls. The other is

killing the child as it is delivered from the womb. This is most likely in rural areas. As the baby comes out,  if it is a girl, it is thrown into a slop

bucket and dies in minutes.

Abortion has increased  because technology can now  determine

the sex before hand. In the USA, abortion is favored in the early stage where the fetus or the unborn is the size of the period at the end of this sentence.  It is also favored in rape, incest, and the death of the child before delivery. Further, the morning after pill is approved appears to be tolerable.

After that,

most us become pro-life. Most research about the unborn or fetus lately has supported the pro-life position. However, the population ultimately supports that if the health of the mother is in  jeopardy, abortion is necessary.

By not having little girls, countries has placed themselves in the position that girls are rare and thus more powerful in terms of parents finding a mate. Where the female can make that choice she is indeed powerful.

Many males are called bare trees. There are few women and so they may remain celibate, turn to prostitutes or situational homosexuality.

NEWSWEEK (2010) 3/15/ 52-55

NAZI MUSIC,

This includes Nazi inspired music, that which was written by Jews in

camps and music created before the Nazi came to power. Further art is

discussed. On balance, it is being rediscovered and for the most part, much of it is forgettable. The rise of Nazism was not the time for the

rise of the humanities.

THOMAS AND WINGERT 24-33

The best education strategy is paying for as well as hiring great teachers. Or not hiring and  firing bad teachers. Further, a teacher

must also be able to control the class.  The problem is attracting good teachers and paying them. There is considerable turn over. Further,

teachers unions at the moment this is being written fight for life long tenure. Bad teachers do bad damage.

As a teacher of 44 years, my only contribution is to say that it is easier to fire bad teachers as there appears to be a consensus on that. However,

good teachers are harder to pick. They may use different strategies to get higher scores for their students. However, what is good to me may not be good to you. Tenure should be honored in the sense that teacher is given an extra semester or a year to improve or they are fired. Bad teachers hurt students, schools, administrators, and the students.

BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK (2010) 3/14

Golden/ HOW COLLEGES ARE BUYING RESPECT

51-53

Let's taking a little liberal arts school that is quite good, but is barely

making a living. Enrollment is small and the campus needs repair. They are approached by sharks. They represent huge on-line schools who

are not exactly accredited or accredited by inferior organizations. They tell the little liberals college that all their problems will be solved in terms of money and the overall attractiveness of the campus. What they ask is that the curriculum be the same but that on-line courses be added. The small school takes the bite.

At first, things go swimmingly. Salaries are raised, the campus looks pretty and the curriculum is decided by the administration and the

faculty. Further, the number of full time students explode. All is well.

Then slowly, faculty are reduced and hires are made by the on-line corporation. That corporation has taken over the administration. Classes on campus are created to compliment the corporation not the college. Soon faculty not only teach in class, but also part time on-line.

By the end of the relationship, the on-line corporation has the accreditation and control of the college. The turnover is great and a

number of special courses that once were the pride of the school are

dropped.  Students who are on campus now can get federal dollars for scholarships.

The school may look better and have the same buildings that have

made the campus nostalgic, but that is it. It is all new with most of the

faculty gone, along with other activities special to the school. It is now a

corporate outlet and each activity is measured by cost-benefit. The sports  program may be gone along with any other not so profitable

activity.

KELLY AND KEHNER

PRIVATIZE THIS! 54-55

A city or town is approached to take over a social or physical challenge in the area. By privatizing and signing long term contracts the corporation can cherry pick, slash staff, and put the city in dire straits

The authors summarize three examples.

BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK (2010) 3/8

WHAT I LEARNED FROM MY DAD

BUFFET

Peter Buffet when he graduated from college was given $90,000

dollars to do with in any way he wanted. If he wanted to , he could

keep the money in Warren Buffet's BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY. Today,

he would be worth 72 million. However, he lived very fugally and had

an old car. He put his money into a recording studio and was able to create some songs. However, a neighbor suggested that he call a cousin

who wanted to do 10 second commercials. He hired Peter and he became involved in a fledgling little company called MTV. After that it was all sunny skies.

HIs older siblings blew their money and he didn't want to work for his

father. So he got lucky and worked hard. He did okay.