Wow, Praise the Lord, I made it through another week!
What a week this has been. I believe the world is getting
crazier by the minute. Take a look at this for an example:
Bloomberg’s Tightie Whities Must Be too tight!
By SARA KUGLER
NEW
The rewards have been used in other countries, including
In
The theory behind cash rewards is that poor people are trapped in a cycle of repeated setbacks that keep them from climbing out of poverty. A person who doesn't keep up with his vaccinations and doctor's visits, for example, may get sick more often and struggle to stay employed.
Bloomberg, a billionaire Republican, said he believes paying people in such circumstances to make good decisions could help break those patterns. The program "gives New Yorkers in poverty a financial incentive to look ahead and make decisions that will improve their prospects for the future," he said in a statement.
But some critics have raised questions about cash reward programs, saying they promote the misguided idea that poor people could be successful if they just made better choices.
"It just reinforces the impression that if everybody would just work hard enough and change their personal behavior we could solve poverty in this country, and that's not reflected in the facts," said Margy Waller, co-founder of Inclusion, a research and policy group in
Waller, who served as a domestic policy adviser in the
Among the possible rewards in
The World Bank model for cash reward programs in other countries is that the value of the incentive should equal about a third of a household's income to have any lasting influence on changing behavior. The average amount that a family or adult can earn through the rewards each year is about $3,000 to $6,000; a family of three living in poverty earns about $17,000 a year.
Recipients, who are being selected this summer before the program begins in the fall, will be able to have the money deposited directly into their bank accounts. If they don't have accounts, they can get cards that are like debit cards but cannot be overdrawn.
The city is asking the federal government to excuse the payments from being taxed. Participants will be divided into three smaller programs that have different criteria and awards: one for about 2,550 families, one for 2,400 single adults and another for 9,000 children in grades 4 to 7.
To measure the effectiveness of the rewards, control groups of similar size will not be paid but will be studied by participating in regular surveys and reviews from an outside social policy research group, Gibbs said. The control participants will receive small incentives, such as weekly MetroCards for paying bus and subway fares, for their time and trouble.
Or This:
Perversion parade pollutes
June 21, 2007
Jerusalem's High Court of Justice Thursday gave men and women who have not only chosen to engage in unnatural sexual relationships, but insist on parading those relationships in public, permission to do so in the streets of the capital - a city cherished as holy by more than half the population of the planet.
As a result of the ruling, tens of thousands of normal Jerusalemites - Jews, Christians and Muslims - had their basic rights and freedoms, as well as their religious sensitivities, trampled underfoot.
Early Thursday morning, traffic in and out of the central business district was choked up when a 7,000 strong police force began cordoning off main thoroughfares in the heart of the city.
Tempers boiled over as hundreds of children were late getting to school, adults were delayed reaching their work places, students and employers had to return home early, and people had to endure a thousand-and-one other resulting complications in the heat of the day.
The police were unmoved. Their task was to ensure that a few hundred residents, plus a few hundred more participants from around the country, could have their two-hour event later in the day free from molestation, even though they (the demonstrators) would molest the minds and hearts of the people who would see them in action.
Giving the "V" for victory sign, the homosexual and lesbian marchers and their supporters walked the few hundred designated yards from assembly point along
The staff of Open House, a militant organization that has fought to get a foothold in this city, was clearly elated at its achievement.
With this march it believes it has taken another giant step for homosexual kind, humiliating religious Jews in the municipality, including Mayor Uri Lupolianski, spitting in the face of God-fearing Jews and Christians, and flaunting its perverse ways in very face of the God of Israel.
He, however, has declared these lifestyles to be an abomination, and has warned that He will give those who practice such things over to their "uncleanness" to "vile passions" and to a "debased mind," and will allow them to "dishonor their bodies among themselves."
Now for a Laugh!!
It's that time of year to take our annual senior citizen test.
Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important to keep mentally alert. If you don't use it, you lose it!
Below is a very private way to gauge your loss or non-loss of intelligence.
Take the test presented here to determine if you're losing it or not. The spaces below are so you don't see the answers until you've made your answer. OK, relax, clear your mind and begin.
1. What do you put in a toaster?
Answer: "bread." If you said "toast," give up now and do something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, bread, go to Question 2.
2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows drink?
Answer: Cows drink water. If you said "milk," don't attempt the next question. Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat. Content yourself with reading a more appropriate literature such as Auto World. However, if you said "water", proceed to question 3.
3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a green house made from?
Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said "green bricks," why the hell are you still reading these??? If you said "glass," go on to Question 4.
4. It's twenty years ago, and a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over
Answer: You don't bury survivors. If you said ANYTHING else, you're a dunce and you must stop. If you said, "You don't bury survivors", proceed to the next question.
5. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from
Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember your own name? It was YOU!!
95% of people fail most of the questions
See ya all next week, Lord willing and
the creek don’t rise.
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