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Next time you hear an economist or denizen of Wall Street talk about how the "American economy" is doing these days, watch your wallet.

There are two American economies. One is on the mend. The other is still coming apart.

The one that's mending is America's Big Money economy. It's comprised of Wall Street traders, big investors, and top professionals and corporate executives.

The Big Money economy is doing well these days. That's partly thanks to Ben Bernanke, whose Fed is keeping interest rates near zero by printing money as fast as it dare. It's essentially free money to America's Big Money economy.

Free money can almost always be put to uses that create more of it. Big corporations are buying back their shares of stock, thereby boosting corporate earnings. They're merging and acquiring other companies.

And they're going abroad in search of customers.

Thanks to fast-growing China, India, and Brazil, giant American corporations are racking up sales. They're selling Asian and Latin American consumers everything from cars and cell phones to fancy Internet software and iPads. Forty percent of the S&P 500 biggest corporations are now doing more than 60 percent of their business abroad. And America's biggest investors are also going abroad to get a nice return on their money.



So don't worry about America's Big Money economy. According to a Wall Street Journal survey released Thursday, overall compensation in financial services will rise 5 percent this year, and employees in some businesses like asset management will get increases of 15 percent.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is back to where it was before the Lehman bankruptcy filing triggered the financial collapse. And profits at America's largest corporations are heading upward.

But there's another American economy, and it's not on the mend. Call it the Average Worker economy.

Last Friday's jobs report showed 159,000 new private-sector jobs in October. That's better than previous months. But 125,000 net new jobs are needed just to keep up with the growth of the American labor force. So another way of expressing what happened to jobs in October is to say 24,000 were added over what we need just to stay even.

Yet the American economy has lost 15 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession. And if you add in the growth of the labor force -- including everyone too discouraged to look for a job -- we're down about 22 million.

Or to put it another way, we're still getting nowhere on jobs.

One out of eight breadwinners is still out of work. Most families in the Average Worker economy rely on two breadwinners. So if one out of eight isn't working, chances are high that family incomes are down compared to what they were three years ago.

And that means the bills aren't getting paid.

According to a recent Washington Post poll, more than half of all Americans -- 53 percent -- are worried about making their mortgage payments. This is many more than were worried two years ago, when the Great Recession hit bottom. Then, 37 percent expressed worry.

Delinquency rates on home loans are rising. Distressed sales are up as a percent of total sales.

Most people in the Average Worker economy own few shares of stock, if any. Their equity is in their homes. But with all the delinquencies and distressed sales, the housing market has a glut of homes for sale. As a result, home prices are still dropping. So the net worth of most Americans is still dropping.

And even though interest rates are falling, most people in the Average Worker economy can't refinance their homes. They can't get home equity loans. Banks don't want to lend to the Average Worker economy because people in it are considered bad credit risks. They still owe lots of money, their family incomes are down, and their net worth has fallen.

And according to the Reuters/University of Michigan survey of American consumers, expectations about personal finances are at an all time low.

Inhabitants of the Big Money economy are celebrating Republican wins last week. They figure financial regulations will be rolled back, environmental regulations will be canned, the Bush tax cut will be extended to the top 1 percent, and it will be harder for workers to form unions.

Inhabitants of the Average Worker economy aren't so sure. The economy has been so bad they're angry at politicians. They showed their anger at the ballot box. They took it out on incumbents.

But if nothing changes in the Average Worker economy, there will be hell to pay.

Robert Reich is the author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, now in bookstores. This post originally appeared at RobertReich.org.

TV is coming to the Web and there is nothing that can stop it. Just ask Avner Ronen, the CEO of Web TV startup Boxee. Later tonight, he will announce the general availability of his Boxee Box, a small device you hook up to your TV and the Internet so you can watch video from the Web on your TV. The videos come not only from YouTube, but also from ABC.com, NBC.com, CBS.com, Comedy Central, and many other video sites on the Web. I visited Ronen today at his New York City offices where he gave me a demo of the Boxee Box (more on that in a later post), but we also got into a very interesting discussion about how the major TV networks and media companies are reacting to seeing their Web videos increasingly turning up on large-screen TVs.

As he describes in the video below, Ronen argues that the media companies should be more consistent: either charge for videos on the Web or make it free, or go for the freemium model and offer premium video watching experiences on devices like Boxee and the iPad or an additional fee. He reveals that Boxee is working on a payments platform to support such subscription business models on the Boxee service. Furthermore, Hulu Plus will become available on Boxee as a paid option. Yup, the same Hulu that previously blocked Boxee

It is not a foregone conclusion that the media companies who control the most popular TV shows and movies will play along. Just last month, when Google launched its competing Google TV, it was almost immediately blocked by the major TV networks even though it was simply grabbing video freely available on the Web. Hulu also blocked Google TV. Effectively, the media industry is now discriminating based on device and what kind of browser you are using.

Why wouldn’t they do exactly the same thing to the Boxee Box? “I think that is a reasonable assumption to make,” admits Ronen. But he believes that eventually they will come around. “Our view is that ultimately it does not make sense for content owners to discriminate based on browsers and screen size. It is an endless battle. ”

I pointed out that what seems to be happening instead is that the TV networks and movie studios are trying to replicate the business model of cable TV on the Web, by granting access only to services which pay them hefty fees like Netflix does (to the tune of an estimated $2 billion next year).

Ronen is actually fine with making people pay for content, and in fact says that he will make one-click payments part of the Boxee service itself. Next year,” he reveals, “we will launch a payments platform on Boxee. With one click you will be able to subscribe. We think that will be part of the solution.” You can watch videos behind Web paywalls today on Boxee, but you have to enter a different username and password for each site. Boxee’s payment service would be single sign-on and manage all the subscriptions in one place.

What he suggests is a classic freemium model. If you want new shows and videos as soon as they come out in HD, you pay a few bucks a month to NBC or HBO and you can watch those shows on Boxee, your iPad, your computer or anywhere you want. Then a week or so later, it comes out free on the Web in standard definition with ads. The we-support-subscriptions argument is also one the Google TV folks are making.

The media companies are fine with Netflix streaming their movies and shows because Netflix pays them a bunch of money. But where their model breaks down is that often they offer the same TV shows on their own Websites for free. “While they are comfortable with the Netflix model, they are not comfortable with their own services online. I think it is better if they have an online business model that they believe in.”

Watch the shaky-cam video below for more of his thoughts on the matter.

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Next time you hear an economist or denizen of Wall Street talk about how the "American economy" is doing these days, watch your wallet.

There are two American economies. One is on the mend. The other is still coming apart.

The one that's mending is America's Big Money economy. It's comprised of Wall Street traders, big investors, and top professionals and corporate executives.

The Big Money economy is doing well these days. That's partly thanks to Ben Bernanke, whose Fed is keeping interest rates near zero by printing money as fast as it dare. It's essentially free money to America's Big Money economy.

Free money can almost always be put to uses that create more of it. Big corporations are buying back their shares of stock, thereby boosting corporate earnings. They're merging and acquiring other companies.

And they're going abroad in search of customers.

Thanks to fast-growing China, India, and Brazil, giant American corporations are racking up sales. They're selling Asian and Latin American consumers everything from cars and cell phones to fancy Internet software and iPads. Forty percent of the S&P 500 biggest corporations are now doing more than 60 percent of their business abroad. And America's biggest investors are also going abroad to get a nice return on their money.



So don't worry about America's Big Money economy. According to a Wall Street Journal survey released Thursday, overall compensation in financial services will rise 5 percent this year, and employees in some businesses like asset management will get increases of 15 percent.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is back to where it was before the Lehman bankruptcy filing triggered the financial collapse. And profits at America's largest corporations are heading upward.

But there's another American economy, and it's not on the mend. Call it the Average Worker economy.

Last Friday's jobs report showed 159,000 new private-sector jobs in October. That's better than previous months. But 125,000 net new jobs are needed just to keep up with the growth of the American labor force. So another way of expressing what happened to jobs in October is to say 24,000 were added over what we need just to stay even.

Yet the American economy has lost 15 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession. And if you add in the growth of the labor force -- including everyone too discouraged to look for a job -- we're down about 22 million.

Or to put it another way, we're still getting nowhere on jobs.

One out of eight breadwinners is still out of work. Most families in the Average Worker economy rely on two breadwinners. So if one out of eight isn't working, chances are high that family incomes are down compared to what they were three years ago.

And that means the bills aren't getting paid.

According to a recent Washington Post poll, more than half of all Americans -- 53 percent -- are worried about making their mortgage payments. This is many more than were worried two years ago, when the Great Recession hit bottom. Then, 37 percent expressed worry.

Delinquency rates on home loans are rising. Distressed sales are up as a percent of total sales.

Most people in the Average Worker economy own few shares of stock, if any. Their equity is in their homes. But with all the delinquencies and distressed sales, the housing market has a glut of homes for sale. As a result, home prices are still dropping. So the net worth of most Americans is still dropping.

And even though interest rates are falling, most people in the Average Worker economy can't refinance their homes. They can't get home equity loans. Banks don't want to lend to the Average Worker economy because people in it are considered bad credit risks. They still owe lots of money, their family incomes are down, and their net worth has fallen.

And according to the Reuters/University of Michigan survey of American consumers, expectations about personal finances are at an all time low.

Inhabitants of the Big Money economy are celebrating Republican wins last week. They figure financial regulations will be rolled back, environmental regulations will be canned, the Bush tax cut will be extended to the top 1 percent, and it will be harder for workers to form unions.

Inhabitants of the Average Worker economy aren't so sure. The economy has been so bad they're angry at politicians. They showed their anger at the ballot box. They took it out on incumbents.

But if nothing changes in the Average Worker economy, there will be hell to pay.

Robert Reich is the author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, now in bookstores. This post originally appeared at RobertReich.org.

TV is coming to the Web and there is nothing that can stop it. Just ask Avner Ronen, the CEO of Web TV startup Boxee. Later tonight, he will announce the general availability of his Boxee Box, a small device you hook up to your TV and the Internet so you can watch video from the Web on your TV. The videos come not only from YouTube, but also from ABC.com, NBC.com, CBS.com, Comedy Central, and many other video sites on the Web. I visited Ronen today at his New York City offices where he gave me a demo of the Boxee Box (more on that in a later post), but we also got into a very interesting discussion about how the major TV networks and media companies are reacting to seeing their Web videos increasingly turning up on large-screen TVs.

As he describes in the video below, Ronen argues that the media companies should be more consistent: either charge for videos on the Web or make it free, or go for the freemium model and offer premium video watching experiences on devices like Boxee and the iPad or an additional fee. He reveals that Boxee is working on a payments platform to support such subscription business models on the Boxee service. Furthermore, Hulu Plus will become available on Boxee as a paid option. Yup, the same Hulu that previously blocked Boxee

It is not a foregone conclusion that the media companies who control the most popular TV shows and movies will play along. Just last month, when Google launched its competing Google TV, it was almost immediately blocked by the major TV networks even though it was simply grabbing video freely available on the Web. Hulu also blocked Google TV. Effectively, the media industry is now discriminating based on device and what kind of browser you are using.

Why wouldn’t they do exactly the same thing to the Boxee Box? “I think that is a reasonable assumption to make,” admits Ronen. But he believes that eventually they will come around. “Our view is that ultimately it does not make sense for content owners to discriminate based on browsers and screen size. It is an endless battle. ”

I pointed out that what seems to be happening instead is that the TV networks and movie studios are trying to replicate the business model of cable TV on the Web, by granting access only to services which pay them hefty fees like Netflix does (to the tune of an estimated $2 billion next year).

Ronen is actually fine with making people pay for content, and in fact says that he will make one-click payments part of the Boxee service itself. Next year,” he reveals, “we will launch a payments platform on Boxee. With one click you will be able to subscribe. We think that will be part of the solution.” You can watch videos behind Web paywalls today on Boxee, but you have to enter a different username and password for each site. Boxee’s payment service would be single sign-on and manage all the subscriptions in one place.

What he suggests is a classic freemium model. If you want new shows and videos as soon as they come out in HD, you pay a few bucks a month to NBC or HBO and you can watch those shows on Boxee, your iPad, your computer or anywhere you want. Then a week or so later, it comes out free on the Web in standard definition with ads. The we-support-subscriptions argument is also one the Google TV folks are making.

The media companies are fine with Netflix streaming their movies and shows because Netflix pays them a bunch of money. But where their model breaks down is that often they offer the same TV shows on their own Websites for free. “While they are comfortable with the Netflix model, they are not comfortable with their own services online. I think it is better if they have an online business model that they believe in.”

Watch the shaky-cam video below for more of his thoughts on the matter.

eric seiger

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Next time you hear an economist or denizen of Wall Street talk about how the "American economy" is doing these days, watch your wallet.

There are two American economies. One is on the mend. The other is still coming apart.

The one that's mending is America's Big Money economy. It's comprised of Wall Street traders, big investors, and top professionals and corporate executives.

The Big Money economy is doing well these days. That's partly thanks to Ben Bernanke, whose Fed is keeping interest rates near zero by printing money as fast as it dare. It's essentially free money to America's Big Money economy.

Free money can almost always be put to uses that create more of it. Big corporations are buying back their shares of stock, thereby boosting corporate earnings. They're merging and acquiring other companies.

And they're going abroad in search of customers.

Thanks to fast-growing China, India, and Brazil, giant American corporations are racking up sales. They're selling Asian and Latin American consumers everything from cars and cell phones to fancy Internet software and iPads. Forty percent of the S&P 500 biggest corporations are now doing more than 60 percent of their business abroad. And America's biggest investors are also going abroad to get a nice return on their money.



So don't worry about America's Big Money economy. According to a Wall Street Journal survey released Thursday, overall compensation in financial services will rise 5 percent this year, and employees in some businesses like asset management will get increases of 15 percent.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is back to where it was before the Lehman bankruptcy filing triggered the financial collapse. And profits at America's largest corporations are heading upward.

But there's another American economy, and it's not on the mend. Call it the Average Worker economy.

Last Friday's jobs report showed 159,000 new private-sector jobs in October. That's better than previous months. But 125,000 net new jobs are needed just to keep up with the growth of the American labor force. So another way of expressing what happened to jobs in October is to say 24,000 were added over what we need just to stay even.

Yet the American economy has lost 15 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession. And if you add in the growth of the labor force -- including everyone too discouraged to look for a job -- we're down about 22 million.

Or to put it another way, we're still getting nowhere on jobs.

One out of eight breadwinners is still out of work. Most families in the Average Worker economy rely on two breadwinners. So if one out of eight isn't working, chances are high that family incomes are down compared to what they were three years ago.

And that means the bills aren't getting paid.

According to a recent Washington Post poll, more than half of all Americans -- 53 percent -- are worried about making their mortgage payments. This is many more than were worried two years ago, when the Great Recession hit bottom. Then, 37 percent expressed worry.

Delinquency rates on home loans are rising. Distressed sales are up as a percent of total sales.

Most people in the Average Worker economy own few shares of stock, if any. Their equity is in their homes. But with all the delinquencies and distressed sales, the housing market has a glut of homes for sale. As a result, home prices are still dropping. So the net worth of most Americans is still dropping.

And even though interest rates are falling, most people in the Average Worker economy can't refinance their homes. They can't get home equity loans. Banks don't want to lend to the Average Worker economy because people in it are considered bad credit risks. They still owe lots of money, their family incomes are down, and their net worth has fallen.

And according to the Reuters/University of Michigan survey of American consumers, expectations about personal finances are at an all time low.

Inhabitants of the Big Money economy are celebrating Republican wins last week. They figure financial regulations will be rolled back, environmental regulations will be canned, the Bush tax cut will be extended to the top 1 percent, and it will be harder for workers to form unions.

Inhabitants of the Average Worker economy aren't so sure. The economy has been so bad they're angry at politicians. They showed their anger at the ballot box. They took it out on incumbents.

But if nothing changes in the Average Worker economy, there will be hell to pay.

Robert Reich is the author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, now in bookstores. This post originally appeared at RobertReich.org.

TV is coming to the Web and there is nothing that can stop it. Just ask Avner Ronen, the CEO of Web TV startup Boxee. Later tonight, he will announce the general availability of his Boxee Box, a small device you hook up to your TV and the Internet so you can watch video from the Web on your TV. The videos come not only from YouTube, but also from ABC.com, NBC.com, CBS.com, Comedy Central, and many other video sites on the Web. I visited Ronen today at his New York City offices where he gave me a demo of the Boxee Box (more on that in a later post), but we also got into a very interesting discussion about how the major TV networks and media companies are reacting to seeing their Web videos increasingly turning up on large-screen TVs.

As he describes in the video below, Ronen argues that the media companies should be more consistent: either charge for videos on the Web or make it free, or go for the freemium model and offer premium video watching experiences on devices like Boxee and the iPad or an additional fee. He reveals that Boxee is working on a payments platform to support such subscription business models on the Boxee service. Furthermore, Hulu Plus will become available on Boxee as a paid option. Yup, the same Hulu that previously blocked Boxee

It is not a foregone conclusion that the media companies who control the most popular TV shows and movies will play along. Just last month, when Google launched its competing Google TV, it was almost immediately blocked by the major TV networks even though it was simply grabbing video freely available on the Web. Hulu also blocked Google TV. Effectively, the media industry is now discriminating based on device and what kind of browser you are using.

Why wouldn’t they do exactly the same thing to the Boxee Box? “I think that is a reasonable assumption to make,” admits Ronen. But he believes that eventually they will come around. “Our view is that ultimately it does not make sense for content owners to discriminate based on browsers and screen size. It is an endless battle. ”

I pointed out that what seems to be happening instead is that the TV networks and movie studios are trying to replicate the business model of cable TV on the Web, by granting access only to services which pay them hefty fees like Netflix does (to the tune of an estimated $2 billion next year).

Ronen is actually fine with making people pay for content, and in fact says that he will make one-click payments part of the Boxee service itself. Next year,” he reveals, “we will launch a payments platform on Boxee. With one click you will be able to subscribe. We think that will be part of the solution.” You can watch videos behind Web paywalls today on Boxee, but you have to enter a different username and password for each site. Boxee’s payment service would be single sign-on and manage all the subscriptions in one place.

What he suggests is a classic freemium model. If you want new shows and videos as soon as they come out in HD, you pay a few bucks a month to NBC or HBO and you can watch those shows on Boxee, your iPad, your computer or anywhere you want. Then a week or so later, it comes out free on the Web in standard definition with ads. The we-support-subscriptions argument is also one the Google TV folks are making.

The media companies are fine with Netflix streaming their movies and shows because Netflix pays them a bunch of money. But where their model breaks down is that often they offer the same TV shows on their own Websites for free. “While they are comfortable with the Netflix model, they are not comfortable with their own services online. I think it is better if they have an online business model that they believe in.”

Watch the shaky-cam video below for more of his thoughts on the matter.

eric seiger

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The video games industry has grown into billions of dollars a year. Game console and software creators like Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony create games and consoles for the average person like you and me hoping they will generate a revenue. These companies attempt to make sure that every game they release has the greatest profit margin possible. As such, before any piece of software gets released to the public they must first be tested and debugged. This is where you come in and make money by play testing games. Making money by playing games can be one of the best jobs imaginable. If you love to play video games, why not get paid doing so? It's akin to being a professional athlete, except you don't have to be physically fit and can work in the comfort of any office chair or couch!

Software companies need folks to test their games extensively before they are able to ship and release them. They are willing and able to compensate you for your time and effort so why not let them. Basically what you will be doing is playing the game and relaying how you feel about it to the designers. They're looking for feedback like, "the difficulty is too extreme, why did that character just say that? or bugs that may and quite often will happen". The main responsibility as a game tester is to test the game and document any bugs that may occur as you play.

Should a game be released without this kind of play testing, the software company could lose thousands of dollars from poor reviews of the game. As well, bugs and glitches can very seriously hinder the chances a game has of achieving success. This all sounds fantastic, but how does one get into the business of play testing games?

Before you can attain a job as a game tester, there are some basic requirements you should be aware of.

Usually almost anyone can get paid to play games, but there are a few basics that must be met. For example, most software companies will not hire play testers younger than 18 years old. If you are younger, then perhaps you should shelve this aspiration for the time being. Other than meeting the age requirement and having a professional demeanor and an eagerness for the gaming industry, there aren't many more requirements that must be met.

Earning a living as a play tester does have some obvious advantages compared to any other job. The most obvious of which is that you get to play games before anyone else! As well, oftentimes you will be allowed to keep the games you play test, for free! Play testing is also a great way to break into the software development industry, provides excellent material for your resume, and is simply one of the most entertaining ways to make a living available.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, and who wouldn't, I encourage you to follow your dreams and get into the game testing field. I think you'll find it immensely rewarding.


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Many homeowners are not quite clear on how the foreclosure process works in their state, especially due to differences between judicial and nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings. State law and federal lending law may also affect how the process moves forward, as HUD-guaranteed loans or those insured by the FHA can complicate the matter even further.

For mortgages owned by HUD (not just insured or guaranteed by the agency), a type of nonjudicial foreclosure may be pursued even if the state in which the property is located requires judicial foreclosure procedures to be used. The statute is called "Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure" and it replaces applicable state law. Even if no power of sale clause is included in the mortgage contract, HUD may use the nonjudicial foreclosure process.

This clause clearly seems to go against the right to contract, as it negates certain aspects of mortgage contracts used by borrowers and lenders. There may also be unlawful taking issues when the federal government affects foreclosure laws and redemption rights. In addition, there is no required pre-foreclosure meeting or hearing for the borrowers.

In order to sue homeowners for foreclosure and obtain a judgment against them, the lender must prove three aspects of its case:

1. There is a valid mortgage between the lender and borrowers
2. The homeowners are in default of the mortgage contract
3. Foreclosure procedures have been followed according to the law

If the bank does not follow the foreclosure procedures for notice or court requirements, even a sheriff sale may later be voided.

One positive aspect of the judicial foreclosure process is that homeowners can raise claims against the lender that would otherwise have been barred by statute of limitations regulations. For instance, even if the statute of limitations for Truth in Lending Act violations has passed, borrowers may still raise these issues in a defense of a foreclosure case. But if the foreclosure is through nonjudicial procedures, these claims may not be allowed by the court.

All states allow homeowners the right to redeem their property by paying off the loan in full (plus interest, costs, and other applicable fees) prior to the sale of the house. Nineteen states give borrowers the right to reinstate their mortgage by curing the default and paying the amount past due plus applicable costs and fees. This must be done before the sheriff sale of the property in order to be accepted by the lender.

When homeowners file bankruptcy to stop foreclosure or delay a sale, they do not give up substantive or procedural defenses to the bank's attempts to take their home.

In many cases, the mortgage company does not strictly follow the pre-foreclosure procedures dictated by state and local laws. In these cases, courts have found that strict compliance is necessary for a foreclosure to go forward. Foreclosure is such a harsh remedy to the problem that these strict requirements are necessary for lenders to follow.

If a lender accepts late payments from a homeowner, it may be waiving its right to accelerate the mortgage later on in the case of default. Courts have found that allow late payments and not insisting on future on-time payments may be a waiver of the right to accelerate. The state of Maine goes even further than this and states that accepting a payment after foreclosure procedures have been started but before the right of redemption ends is considered a waiver of the right to foreclose on the home at all.


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End ED — From the Left!

Posted by Neal McCluskey

It’s no secret that expelling the U.S. Department of Education is something that a lot of libertarians, and conservatives who haven’t lost their way, would love to do. What’s not nearly so well known is that there are also people on the left who dislike ED. Now, they don’t dislike it because it and the programs it administers clearly exist in contravention of the Constitution, or because its massive dollar-redistribution programs have done no discernable good. They dislike it because, especially since the advent of No Child Left Behind, it strong-arms schools into doing things left-wing educators often disagree with or resent, like pushing phonics over whole language, or imposing standardized testing. Many also truly believe in local control of schools, though often with power consolidated in the hands of teachers.

Case in point is a guest blog post over at the webpage of the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. The entry is by George Wood, principal of Federal Hocking High School in Ohio and executive director of the Forum for Education and Democracy. He writes:

Everybody dislikes bureaucracies, but for different reasons. The “right” complains they are unresponsive, full of “feather-bedders,” and a waste of taxpayer money. The “left” complains they are unresponsive, full of people who are too busy pushing paper to see the real work, and too intrusive into local, democratic decision-making. Maybe we should unite all this new energy for making government more responsive and efficient around the idea of eliminating a bureaucracy that was probably a bad idea in the first place.

Remember that the Department of Education was a payoff by President Jimmy Carter to teacher unions for their support. Before that, education was part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

That’s where I propose returning it. Here are several reasons why:

First, the current structure of the national Department of Education gives it inordinate control over local schools. The federal government provides only about 8% of education funding. But through through NCLB, Race to the Top, and innovation grants, they are driving about 100% of the agenda. Clearly this is a case of a tail wagging a very big dog.

Second, by separating education from health and welfare, we have separated departments that should be working very closely together. We all know, even if some folks are loath to admit it, that in order for a child to take full advantage of educational opportunities he or she needs to come to school healthy, with a full stomach, and from a safe place to live.

But the federal initiatives around education seldom take such a holistic approach; instead, competing departments engage in bureaucratic turf wars that, while fun within the Beltway, are tragic for children in our neighborhoods.

Third, whenever you create a large bureaucracy, it will find something to do, even if that something is less than helpful. After years of an “activist” DOE, we do not see student achievement improving or school innovation taking hold widely. We have lived through Reading First, What Works, and an alphabet soup of changing programs with little to show for it.

In fact, DOE has often been one of the more ideological departments, engaging in the battles such as phonics vs. whole language. Who needs it?

Who needs it, indeed!

As I have touched upon repeatedly since last week’s election, now is the time to launch a serious offensive against the U.S. Department of Education. I have largely concluded that because of the wave of generally conservative and libertarian legislators heading toward Washington, as well as the powerful tea-party spirit powering the tide. But this is a battle I have always thought could be fought with a temporary alliance of the libertarian right and educators of the progressive left who truly despise top-down, one-size-fits-all, dictates from Washington. There are big sticking points, of course — for instance, many progressives love federal money “for the poor” — but this morning, I have a little greater hope that an alliance can be forged.

The other weekend in San Antonio over 600 people gathered for the 50th anniversary re-premiere and celebration of one of the great American-themed epics of the early 1960s, John Wayne’s The Alamo. People came from far and wide to watch a director’s cut of the film on the River Center Imax screen and attend a dinner, concert and museum exhibit at the real Alamo featuring costumes, props and art work from this 1960 classic.

Seeing The Alamo on a big screen where it was meant to be experienced really emphasizes the powerful imagery that has helped this film endure for fifty years. Wayne’s Alamo defenders are as one biographer described, “…an undisciplined group of rugged individualist from Tennessee and Texas who love freedom and resent authority.” Sounds like a bunch of lovable Tea Party members to me. That innately American sense of unbridled freedom celebrated in The Alamo is one of the reasons the film still resonates so well with so many people here and even abroad.

Made during the heyday of widescreen roadshow epics like El Cid and Lawrence of Arabia, Wayne’s film has always been a highly popular DVD title for the financially ailing MGM/UA. The biggest movie star ever, Wayne directed, produced and starred in this uniquely American story.  Nominated for seven Academy Awards, contrary to unsubstantiated claims of box-office failure the film was actually one of the top ten domestic grosser of 1960-61, but The Alamo’s then huge $12,000,000 budget initially cut into its profit margin and could have bankrupted Wayne. The film set box-office records in London, Paris, Rome and Japan eventually earning a then $28,000,000 world-wide during its initial 1960-61 release.

Unfortunately Wayne sold United Artists his participation in the future profits of the film.  He so believed in the power of the Alamo story that he had mortgaged his own home, other real estate and even his family cars and reluctantly agreed to star in the epic in order to bring it to the screen his way. At the time Wayne told the press, “I’ve gambled everything I own in this picture – all my money… and my soul.”

His daughter Aissa has reflected, “I think making The Alamo was my father’s own form of combat. More then an obsession, it was the most intensely personal film of his career.” The Alamo’s beautiful female lead, Argentinean actress Linda Cristal once said, “John Wayne loved the Alamo like a man loves a woman once in a lifetime—passionately.”

Forty-something Christophe Lambert, who wasn’t yet born when The Alamo first hit movie screens, came all the way from France for the film’s new premiere and celebration. Former sergeant major of Britain’s famed 24th Regiment of Foot, Maurice Jones traveled from far off Wales where he runs The Alamo Film Forum, and there were a number of other British attendees. The Alamo is still very popular in Great Britain were it often plays at various retrospective film festivals. People also came from Germany, New Jersey, New York and not a few from California including Joe Musso, a highly respected storyboard and studio artist who has worked for everyone from Clint Eastwood to Alfred Hitchcock.

Other dedicated fans of this film cover a wide range of backgrounds from successful New Jersey radiologist Murray Weissmann, retired New York City Fire Captain and author Bill Groneman, professional musician Tony Pasqua, JPL technical writer Jerry Laing, history teacher Larry Grimsley and more then a few Texans of all stripes and persuasions. Youngest Wayne daughter Marisa and Duke’s granddaughter Anita LaCava Swift represented the family at the San Antonio event genuinely impressed by the incredible enthusiasm of the crowd.  Like Wayne himself Marisa and Anita were always warm and receptive to The Alamo’s numerous fans.

Unlike the 2004 failed politically correct film version of the battle where 189 American, Texan, European and Tejano (Texas Mexican) patriots sacrificed their lives fighting against brutal Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s thousands, Wayne’s version celebrates the bravery and dignity of the common frontier people who settled this country.  Wayne’s The Alamo has endured with viewers because it speaks so well to the value of our own treasured legends that have a strong basis in reality. He evoked the spirit of the battle of the Alamo, not the often now disputed “facts” as “interpreted” by modern revisionist historians with a definite far-left bias who keep poisoning the minds of the impressionable and uninformed.

The Alamo really captured that essence of America’s frontier peoples and even celebrated the dignity of the opposing Mexican army. Wayne shot one wonderfully realized scene that takes place right after the first failed attack against the old mission where Mexican Army camp followers look amongst the dead for their husbands and loved ones. One of Davy Crockett’s Tennesseans comments quietly, “Speaks well that so many are willing to die fighting for what they believe is right.” As a high school student I once watched a reissue of the film amongst a primarily Hispanic audience in San Jose, California. You could have heard a pin drop in the theater when during the same scene a wonderfully wrinkled, elderly female extra knelt over a fallen Mexican infantryman and made the sign of the cross. 

The Alamo includes a large number of these kinds of magnificent scenes, and still some of finest battle footage ever put on film by director of photography William Clothier, John Wayne as Davy Crockett, a stellar performance by Lawrence Harvey as the Alamo’s stiff necked but brave commander William Barrett Travis and a knockout score by Dimitri Tiomkin. The beautifully realized Alamo set was as much a star of the film as any of the actors and Wayne wisely filmed it as such. Unlike most war films today where bloody gore splatters the screen, Wayne’s The Alamo, while graphic for its’ time never uses the violence of combat for shock and exploitive effect.

Over my mantle hangs a framed letter John Wayne personally wrote to me about The Alamo two years before his death in 1979. As a college student and huge fan of the film, tired of seeing it butchered on television screens I had naively written to him care of his company offices inquiring if we would ever again get to see the film as he intended it to be seen. Part of Wayne’s answer still resonates today:

“Our damned liberal friends are screaming about violence to take our minds off of the pornographic bad taste that is being made in the motion picture business by their confreres.”

Several weekends ago in San Antonio John Wayne’s spirit must have been looking down from afar and grinning ear to ear as the audience laughed in all of the right spots, paused in awe at the magnificent visuals and tapped their toes to the wonderful musical score. Remember the real Alamo and remember John Wayne’s The Alamo, because both still live on.

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End ED — From the Left!

Posted by Neal McCluskey

It’s no secret that expelling the U.S. Department of Education is something that a lot of libertarians, and conservatives who haven’t lost their way, would love to do. What’s not nearly so well known is that there are also people on the left who dislike ED. Now, they don’t dislike it because it and the programs it administers clearly exist in contravention of the Constitution, or because its massive dollar-redistribution programs have done no discernable good. They dislike it because, especially since the advent of No Child Left Behind, it strong-arms schools into doing things left-wing educators often disagree with or resent, like pushing phonics over whole language, or imposing standardized testing. Many also truly believe in local control of schools, though often with power consolidated in the hands of teachers.

Case in point is a guest blog post over at the webpage of the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. The entry is by George Wood, principal of Federal Hocking High School in Ohio and executive director of the Forum for Education and Democracy. He writes:

Everybody dislikes bureaucracies, but for different reasons. The “right” complains they are unresponsive, full of “feather-bedders,” and a waste of taxpayer money. The “left” complains they are unresponsive, full of people who are too busy pushing paper to see the real work, and too intrusive into local, democratic decision-making. Maybe we should unite all this new energy for making government more responsive and efficient around the idea of eliminating a bureaucracy that was probably a bad idea in the first place.

Remember that the Department of Education was a payoff by President Jimmy Carter to teacher unions for their support. Before that, education was part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

That’s where I propose returning it. Here are several reasons why:

First, the current structure of the national Department of Education gives it inordinate control over local schools. The federal government provides only about 8% of education funding. But through through NCLB, Race to the Top, and innovation grants, they are driving about 100% of the agenda. Clearly this is a case of a tail wagging a very big dog.

Second, by separating education from health and welfare, we have separated departments that should be working very closely together. We all know, even if some folks are loath to admit it, that in order for a child to take full advantage of educational opportunities he or she needs to come to school healthy, with a full stomach, and from a safe place to live.

But the federal initiatives around education seldom take such a holistic approach; instead, competing departments engage in bureaucratic turf wars that, while fun within the Beltway, are tragic for children in our neighborhoods.

Third, whenever you create a large bureaucracy, it will find something to do, even if that something is less than helpful. After years of an “activist” DOE, we do not see student achievement improving or school innovation taking hold widely. We have lived through Reading First, What Works, and an alphabet soup of changing programs with little to show for it.

In fact, DOE has often been one of the more ideological departments, engaging in the battles such as phonics vs. whole language. Who needs it?

Who needs it, indeed!

As I have touched upon repeatedly since last week’s election, now is the time to launch a serious offensive against the U.S. Department of Education. I have largely concluded that because of the wave of generally conservative and libertarian legislators heading toward Washington, as well as the powerful tea-party spirit powering the tide. But this is a battle I have always thought could be fought with a temporary alliance of the libertarian right and educators of the progressive left who truly despise top-down, one-size-fits-all, dictates from Washington. There are big sticking points, of course — for instance, many progressives love federal money “for the poor” — but this morning, I have a little greater hope that an alliance can be forged.

The other weekend in San Antonio over 600 people gathered for the 50th anniversary re-premiere and celebration of one of the great American-themed epics of the early 1960s, John Wayne’s The Alamo. People came from far and wide to watch a director’s cut of the film on the River Center Imax screen and attend a dinner, concert and museum exhibit at the real Alamo featuring costumes, props and art work from this 1960 classic.

Seeing The Alamo on a big screen where it was meant to be experienced really emphasizes the powerful imagery that has helped this film endure for fifty years. Wayne’s Alamo defenders are as one biographer described, “…an undisciplined group of rugged individualist from Tennessee and Texas who love freedom and resent authority.” Sounds like a bunch of lovable Tea Party members to me. That innately American sense of unbridled freedom celebrated in The Alamo is one of the reasons the film still resonates so well with so many people here and even abroad.

Made during the heyday of widescreen roadshow epics like El Cid and Lawrence of Arabia, Wayne’s film has always been a highly popular DVD title for the financially ailing MGM/UA. The biggest movie star ever, Wayne directed, produced and starred in this uniquely American story.  Nominated for seven Academy Awards, contrary to unsubstantiated claims of box-office failure the film was actually one of the top ten domestic grosser of 1960-61, but The Alamo’s then huge $12,000,000 budget initially cut into its profit margin and could have bankrupted Wayne. The film set box-office records in London, Paris, Rome and Japan eventually earning a then $28,000,000 world-wide during its initial 1960-61 release.

Unfortunately Wayne sold United Artists his participation in the future profits of the film.  He so believed in the power of the Alamo story that he had mortgaged his own home, other real estate and even his family cars and reluctantly agreed to star in the epic in order to bring it to the screen his way. At the time Wayne told the press, “I’ve gambled everything I own in this picture – all my money… and my soul.”

His daughter Aissa has reflected, “I think making The Alamo was my father’s own form of combat. More then an obsession, it was the most intensely personal film of his career.” The Alamo’s beautiful female lead, Argentinean actress Linda Cristal once said, “John Wayne loved the Alamo like a man loves a woman once in a lifetime—passionately.”

Forty-something Christophe Lambert, who wasn’t yet born when The Alamo first hit movie screens, came all the way from France for the film’s new premiere and celebration. Former sergeant major of Britain’s famed 24th Regiment of Foot, Maurice Jones traveled from far off Wales where he runs The Alamo Film Forum, and there were a number of other British attendees. The Alamo is still very popular in Great Britain were it often plays at various retrospective film festivals. People also came from Germany, New Jersey, New York and not a few from California including Joe Musso, a highly respected storyboard and studio artist who has worked for everyone from Clint Eastwood to Alfred Hitchcock.

Other dedicated fans of this film cover a wide range of backgrounds from successful New Jersey radiologist Murray Weissmann, retired New York City Fire Captain and author Bill Groneman, professional musician Tony Pasqua, JPL technical writer Jerry Laing, history teacher Larry Grimsley and more then a few Texans of all stripes and persuasions. Youngest Wayne daughter Marisa and Duke’s granddaughter Anita LaCava Swift represented the family at the San Antonio event genuinely impressed by the incredible enthusiasm of the crowd.  Like Wayne himself Marisa and Anita were always warm and receptive to The Alamo’s numerous fans.

Unlike the 2004 failed politically correct film version of the battle where 189 American, Texan, European and Tejano (Texas Mexican) patriots sacrificed their lives fighting against brutal Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s thousands, Wayne’s version celebrates the bravery and dignity of the common frontier people who settled this country.  Wayne’s The Alamo has endured with viewers because it speaks so well to the value of our own treasured legends that have a strong basis in reality. He evoked the spirit of the battle of the Alamo, not the often now disputed “facts” as “interpreted” by modern revisionist historians with a definite far-left bias who keep poisoning the minds of the impressionable and uninformed.

The Alamo really captured that essence of America’s frontier peoples and even celebrated the dignity of the opposing Mexican army. Wayne shot one wonderfully realized scene that takes place right after the first failed attack against the old mission where Mexican Army camp followers look amongst the dead for their husbands and loved ones. One of Davy Crockett’s Tennesseans comments quietly, “Speaks well that so many are willing to die fighting for what they believe is right.” As a high school student I once watched a reissue of the film amongst a primarily Hispanic audience in San Jose, California. You could have heard a pin drop in the theater when during the same scene a wonderfully wrinkled, elderly female extra knelt over a fallen Mexican infantryman and made the sign of the cross. 

The Alamo includes a large number of these kinds of magnificent scenes, and still some of finest battle footage ever put on film by director of photography William Clothier, John Wayne as Davy Crockett, a stellar performance by Lawrence Harvey as the Alamo’s stiff necked but brave commander William Barrett Travis and a knockout score by Dimitri Tiomkin. The beautifully realized Alamo set was as much a star of the film as any of the actors and Wayne wisely filmed it as such. Unlike most war films today where bloody gore splatters the screen, Wayne’s The Alamo, while graphic for its’ time never uses the violence of combat for shock and exploitive effect.

Over my mantle hangs a framed letter John Wayne personally wrote to me about The Alamo two years before his death in 1979. As a college student and huge fan of the film, tired of seeing it butchered on television screens I had naively written to him care of his company offices inquiring if we would ever again get to see the film as he intended it to be seen. Part of Wayne’s answer still resonates today:

“Our damned liberal friends are screaming about violence to take our minds off of the pornographic bad taste that is being made in the motion picture business by their confreres.”

Several weekends ago in San Antonio John Wayne’s spirit must have been looking down from afar and grinning ear to ear as the audience laughed in all of the right spots, paused in awe at the magnificent visuals and tapped their toes to the wonderful musical score. Remember the real Alamo and remember John Wayne’s The Alamo, because both still live on.

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End ED — From the Left!

Posted by Neal McCluskey

It’s no secret that expelling the U.S. Department of Education is something that a lot of libertarians, and conservatives who haven’t lost their way, would love to do. What’s not nearly so well known is that there are also people on the left who dislike ED. Now, they don’t dislike it because it and the programs it administers clearly exist in contravention of the Constitution, or because its massive dollar-redistribution programs have done no discernable good. They dislike it because, especially since the advent of No Child Left Behind, it strong-arms schools into doing things left-wing educators often disagree with or resent, like pushing phonics over whole language, or imposing standardized testing. Many also truly believe in local control of schools, though often with power consolidated in the hands of teachers.

Case in point is a guest blog post over at the webpage of the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. The entry is by George Wood, principal of Federal Hocking High School in Ohio and executive director of the Forum for Education and Democracy. He writes:

Everybody dislikes bureaucracies, but for different reasons. The “right” complains they are unresponsive, full of “feather-bedders,” and a waste of taxpayer money. The “left” complains they are unresponsive, full of people who are too busy pushing paper to see the real work, and too intrusive into local, democratic decision-making. Maybe we should unite all this new energy for making government more responsive and efficient around the idea of eliminating a bureaucracy that was probably a bad idea in the first place.

Remember that the Department of Education was a payoff by President Jimmy Carter to teacher unions for their support. Before that, education was part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

That’s where I propose returning it. Here are several reasons why:

First, the current structure of the national Department of Education gives it inordinate control over local schools. The federal government provides only about 8% of education funding. But through through NCLB, Race to the Top, and innovation grants, they are driving about 100% of the agenda. Clearly this is a case of a tail wagging a very big dog.

Second, by separating education from health and welfare, we have separated departments that should be working very closely together. We all know, even if some folks are loath to admit it, that in order for a child to take full advantage of educational opportunities he or she needs to come to school healthy, with a full stomach, and from a safe place to live.

But the federal initiatives around education seldom take such a holistic approach; instead, competing departments engage in bureaucratic turf wars that, while fun within the Beltway, are tragic for children in our neighborhoods.

Third, whenever you create a large bureaucracy, it will find something to do, even if that something is less than helpful. After years of an “activist” DOE, we do not see student achievement improving or school innovation taking hold widely. We have lived through Reading First, What Works, and an alphabet soup of changing programs with little to show for it.

In fact, DOE has often been one of the more ideological departments, engaging in the battles such as phonics vs. whole language. Who needs it?

Who needs it, indeed!

As I have touched upon repeatedly since last week’s election, now is the time to launch a serious offensive against the U.S. Department of Education. I have largely concluded that because of the wave of generally conservative and libertarian legislators heading toward Washington, as well as the powerful tea-party spirit powering the tide. But this is a battle I have always thought could be fought with a temporary alliance of the libertarian right and educators of the progressive left who truly despise top-down, one-size-fits-all, dictates from Washington. There are big sticking points, of course — for instance, many progressives love federal money “for the poor” — but this morning, I have a little greater hope that an alliance can be forged.

The other weekend in San Antonio over 600 people gathered for the 50th anniversary re-premiere and celebration of one of the great American-themed epics of the early 1960s, John Wayne’s The Alamo. People came from far and wide to watch a director’s cut of the film on the River Center Imax screen and attend a dinner, concert and museum exhibit at the real Alamo featuring costumes, props and art work from this 1960 classic.

Seeing The Alamo on a big screen where it was meant to be experienced really emphasizes the powerful imagery that has helped this film endure for fifty years. Wayne’s Alamo defenders are as one biographer described, “…an undisciplined group of rugged individualist from Tennessee and Texas who love freedom and resent authority.” Sounds like a bunch of lovable Tea Party members to me. That innately American sense of unbridled freedom celebrated in The Alamo is one of the reasons the film still resonates so well with so many people here and even abroad.

Made during the heyday of widescreen roadshow epics like El Cid and Lawrence of Arabia, Wayne’s film has always been a highly popular DVD title for the financially ailing MGM/UA. The biggest movie star ever, Wayne directed, produced and starred in this uniquely American story.  Nominated for seven Academy Awards, contrary to unsubstantiated claims of box-office failure the film was actually one of the top ten domestic grosser of 1960-61, but The Alamo’s then huge $12,000,000 budget initially cut into its profit margin and could have bankrupted Wayne. The film set box-office records in London, Paris, Rome and Japan eventually earning a then $28,000,000 world-wide during its initial 1960-61 release.

Unfortunately Wayne sold United Artists his participation in the future profits of the film.  He so believed in the power of the Alamo story that he had mortgaged his own home, other real estate and even his family cars and reluctantly agreed to star in the epic in order to bring it to the screen his way. At the time Wayne told the press, “I’ve gambled everything I own in this picture – all my money… and my soul.”

His daughter Aissa has reflected, “I think making The Alamo was my father’s own form of combat. More then an obsession, it was the most intensely personal film of his career.” The Alamo’s beautiful female lead, Argentinean actress Linda Cristal once said, “John Wayne loved the Alamo like a man loves a woman once in a lifetime—passionately.”

Forty-something Christophe Lambert, who wasn’t yet born when The Alamo first hit movie screens, came all the way from France for the film’s new premiere and celebration. Former sergeant major of Britain’s famed 24th Regiment of Foot, Maurice Jones traveled from far off Wales where he runs The Alamo Film Forum, and there were a number of other British attendees. The Alamo is still very popular in Great Britain were it often plays at various retrospective film festivals. People also came from Germany, New Jersey, New York and not a few from California including Joe Musso, a highly respected storyboard and studio artist who has worked for everyone from Clint Eastwood to Alfred Hitchcock.

Other dedicated fans of this film cover a wide range of backgrounds from successful New Jersey radiologist Murray Weissmann, retired New York City Fire Captain and author Bill Groneman, professional musician Tony Pasqua, JPL technical writer Jerry Laing, history teacher Larry Grimsley and more then a few Texans of all stripes and persuasions. Youngest Wayne daughter Marisa and Duke’s granddaughter Anita LaCava Swift represented the family at the San Antonio event genuinely impressed by the incredible enthusiasm of the crowd.  Like Wayne himself Marisa and Anita were always warm and receptive to The Alamo’s numerous fans.

Unlike the 2004 failed politically correct film version of the battle where 189 American, Texan, European and Tejano (Texas Mexican) patriots sacrificed their lives fighting against brutal Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s thousands, Wayne’s version celebrates the bravery and dignity of the common frontier people who settled this country.  Wayne’s The Alamo has endured with viewers because it speaks so well to the value of our own treasured legends that have a strong basis in reality. He evoked the spirit of the battle of the Alamo, not the often now disputed “facts” as “interpreted” by modern revisionist historians with a definite far-left bias who keep poisoning the minds of the impressionable and uninformed.

The Alamo really captured that essence of America’s frontier peoples and even celebrated the dignity of the opposing Mexican army. Wayne shot one wonderfully realized scene that takes place right after the first failed attack against the old mission where Mexican Army camp followers look amongst the dead for their husbands and loved ones. One of Davy Crockett’s Tennesseans comments quietly, “Speaks well that so many are willing to die fighting for what they believe is right.” As a high school student I once watched a reissue of the film amongst a primarily Hispanic audience in San Jose, California. You could have heard a pin drop in the theater when during the same scene a wonderfully wrinkled, elderly female extra knelt over a fallen Mexican infantryman and made the sign of the cross. 

The Alamo includes a large number of these kinds of magnificent scenes, and still some of finest battle footage ever put on film by director of photography William Clothier, John Wayne as Davy Crockett, a stellar performance by Lawrence Harvey as the Alamo’s stiff necked but brave commander William Barrett Travis and a knockout score by Dimitri Tiomkin. The beautifully realized Alamo set was as much a star of the film as any of the actors and Wayne wisely filmed it as such. Unlike most war films today where bloody gore splatters the screen, Wayne’s The Alamo, while graphic for its’ time never uses the violence of combat for shock and exploitive effect.

Over my mantle hangs a framed letter John Wayne personally wrote to me about The Alamo two years before his death in 1979. As a college student and huge fan of the film, tired of seeing it butchered on television screens I had naively written to him care of his company offices inquiring if we would ever again get to see the film as he intended it to be seen. Part of Wayne’s answer still resonates today:

“Our damned liberal friends are screaming about violence to take our minds off of the pornographic bad taste that is being made in the motion picture business by their confreres.”

Several weekends ago in San Antonio John Wayne’s spirit must have been looking down from afar and grinning ear to ear as the audience laughed in all of the right spots, paused in awe at the magnificent visuals and tapped their toes to the wonderful musical score. Remember the real Alamo and remember John Wayne’s The Alamo, because both still live on.

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It has always been my advocacy to help other people about relationships and how to deal with it. While doing some research I passed by this forum/discussion with topics about relationships and decided to register so I can make suggestions and hoped to help people there.

As I register, I was so amazed to find out that this site pays you for doing some discussions. The site is called MyLot. It is basically similar to other networking sites. You can add friends, send messages, make some comments etc. You can make discussions of your own and make responses on other people's discussion. The only difference is by making discussions, making responses and using the site as often as you can, you earn money. Yes, the site pays you for doing that.

It got me thinking for a while. Is this the evolution of forums and social networking website? If it is, that would be great. People will not only enjoy discussions and making friends online but also make money out of it.

The website "MyLot dot com" works like this. After you successfully register, you can now earn money in four ways.

The first one is through discussions; you make a discussion and you response to other discussions. The site will pay you just by doing that. This is very simple especially when you enjoy doing it.

Second, you can earn more through referrals. You will be given a link after you join MyLot which you can use to invite friends, relatives or people you don't know simply by clicking on that link to sign up on MyLot. You will get a bonus of 25% of that mylot user's earnings.

Third, you can also earn from doing some tasks. This is the unique part in MyLot. It has a Task Dashboard where in you can view available task created by MyLot and other partners which you can accept and do. It can be any task. You can choose the easiest or the complicated ones. After completion of the task, if approved, you will get compensated.

Last but not the least; you earn money through rewards given by MyLot. A box will appear on your screen congratulating you and stating your Reward amount. This reward is given from time to time for simply using MyLot naturally and by using the MyLot Search in the same manner you use Google or Yahoo. Just a reminder: MyLot can detect abuses in using the MyLot Search. If detected, your account will be terminated without notice and therefore forfeits your earnings. So be careful with this one.

All of these making money online opportunities in a single site make it fantastic! You do what you enjoy most while being compensated. That's the beauty of MyLot. Join now and be a part of this great opportunity.


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