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October 3, 2013 at 6:13 PM in reply to: What do all candidates to be the next chairman of the Fed have in common? #766158October 3, 2013 at 5:33 PM in reply to: What do all candidates to be the next chairman of the Fed have in common? #766155
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Participanttake even the inital post; i guess you coul;d assume that it was the commencement of an “obvious” rant about how jews control everything and have all the power and the money and even own the Fed…
or maybe it was an opportunity to discuss Jews success in America.
Seeing evil intent everywhere doesn’t necessarily help further the discussion.
yeah sure, in your examples, where it’s already way past discussion, nothing would help further discussion.
but what keeps discussions open?
openness…
are Jews more successful than average?
hell yes.
jews are twice as likely to have a college degree as other groups.
statistics are hazy but they may be as much as ten times more likely to be a lawyer.
doctors…well..they’re prevalent, let’s say.
even jackie mason said every jewish mother wants her so to be a doctor, but if he’s retarded, she’d settle for lawyer.
and they are probably mroe than statistically liekly to be in highr anking govt positions.
but why?
i think i know the answer…
October 3, 2013 at 5:29 PM in reply to: What do all candidates to be the next chairman of the Fed have in common? #766154Participanthere was an article in the aba journal i found interesting. a young asian american attorney perceives racism at her firm; the way I read the article, it seems she’s being way hypersensitive to what may not be racism at all…
Is the ‘art of passing’ necessary for a Chinese American to survive in corporate law?
Posted Sep 17, 2013 7:55 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens WeissChinese-American lawyer Helen Wan says she learned early on that “it was incredibly important to perfect the art of passing” while practicing corporate law.
Passing, Wan explains in the Daily Beast, means downplaying or ridding oneself of “minority group” traits to fit in with mainstream corporate culture.
Wan says a law school incident provided a preview of how others may view her. At a law school orientation, she told another student that she had been born in California and raised in Virginia. The student asked Wan if she planned to practice law in her “home country” after graduation. “Yes,” Wan replied. “I plan to practice in New York.”Wan tells of other incidents. There was the time at a recruiting lunch when a summer associate, a minority woman, asked for a bottle of A.1. steak sauce rather than the restaurant’s famous béarnaise sauce. “I observed the quick but meaningful glance exchanged between two hiring partners,” Wan says.
Another time, Wan was taking the subway to an event with colleagues. At one stop, a middle-aged Chinese woman pushed her way onto the train and sat next to a lawyer from Wan’s Manhattan law firm. The woman was carrying a bag from Chinatown and it had an unusual odor. “I noticed the lawyer from my firm scoot a few inches away from this woman,” Chan recalls, “and briefly smirk at two of our colleagues, who smiled back. My stomach tensed.”
When the woman asked Wan for directions in Chinese, Wan replied that she didn’t speak the language. It wasn’t true. “At the time, I was a very young attorney,” Wan writes. “I didn’t yet feel that my position at the firm was so secure that I could afford to be associated with this woman any more than I already was. I was passing, and she was not.“Which makes me wonder whether, in order to advance my career, my 25-year-old self might have made the same decision that a young Julie Chen did,” Wan writes. Chen is the CBS anchor who recently revealed that she got plastic surgery to look less “Asian.”
Wan is currently associate general counsel at Time Inc. and author of a novel called The Partner Track, set for release on Tuesday.
“I do not mean to say that life as a young woman of color at a large corporate law firm felt like just one Big Marathon of Blatant Racist and Sexist Slights,” Wan says. “The experience is, of course, far more nuanced and subtle than that, and often more insidious and harder to battle, for its very sublety.” She also tells of changes since she began law practice.
“Now,” Wan says, “whenever HR directors and Chief Diversity Officers are lucky enough to find an attractive, articulate minority woman in their midst, who’s neither too strident nor too soft-spoken, who speaks English without accent or attitude, who makes friends easily and photographs well—they actually want to flag this, instead of hide it. … Being singled out for looking different is bad enough, but now there’s the added burden of unsolicited responsibility, of having constituents when you haven’t run for office.”
October 3, 2013 at 4:54 PM in reply to: What do all candidates to be the next chairman of the Fed have in common? #766150ParticipantIf the deck was really stacked against the Jews, we wouldn’t be so damn successful here.
And people wouldn’t go on about our bless JUDEO-Christian values.
See…even there hews get top billing…
It’s not Christian-JUDEO values…
October 3, 2013 at 4:50 PM in reply to: What do all candidates to be the next chairman of the Fed have in common? #766149ParticipantFrom mainstream sources or extreme sources…?
October 3, 2013 at 2:46 PM in reply to: What do all candidates to be the next chairman of the Fed have in common? #766142ParticipantI do see lots of racism against African Americans though. Same as it ever was.
October 3, 2013 at 2:45 PM in reply to: What do all candidates to be the next chairman of the Fed have in common? #766141ParticipantAnti semitism in the USA? I don’t see it. I remember more animosity toward Jews when I was young …seems like evangelicals in my area love Israel and all things Jewish more than I dO.
Back in Brooklyn in the 70s I recall actual tension between Catholics and Jews in my neighborhood.
Participanta rolex is always going to be resellable to someone though, quick, with the right paperwork.
i guess it ‘s not the worst way to keep value.
just, well, slightly cliched, overbought and when i see one on somebody i kind of assume it’s a fake.
fake ones, really really good fake ones that actually work well because they ahve good swiss movements, but not rolex movements, are available for 1,000 or so.
cheesy!!!!
better to be real…
the display back on the nomos is nice, youc an take off your watch and show your engraved movement…something to talk about.
the most expensive watches use more generic movements, slgihtly engraved, but real watchmakes selling superexpensive watches custom make the parts of the movement.
really neat!
totally
useless…but really cool…
best shot at appreciation in my mind is something unique, custom, lots of handmade work, historically cool in some way, simple but very very very fine.
in other words, collectible.
a new rolex is not collectible in that sense. it’s just a commodity.
but hell, they might be underpriced, what do i know…
Participanthere’s a used nomos that doesnt specify it’s been recently cleaned (100 to 200$) currently at $831 that is 1500 new from watchbuys.
i can’t recall how much these went for a few years ago but they were definitely cheaper. i think 1200. if it goes for 1,000, then that’s about what the guy paid for it, if you count in a cleaning (the insides of the mechanical watch have to be “cleaed” and lubricated by a jeweler every 35 years.
cleaning a rolex for some reason is way more expensive. maybe 500?
i like that nomos!
Participanti woudl also be extremely cautious buying a used rolex. the level of counterfeiting is through the roof sophisticated. even jewelers familiar with the innards can be tricked unless they are rolex experts, when they take apart watches and try to see if the movement matches rolex specs.
maybe a watch witha s erial no. and good looking matching paperwork from a shop that can confirm the sale. maybe.
even then id hesitate…
i do not trust used rolexes….
Participantsome cheaper watches are actually pretty nice.
also, consider spending a lot of money just on th eband!
several hundred dollars for a fine shell cordovan watchband makes a difference.
Participantno.
ParticipantIt is ver pleasing to wear a good watch
ParticipantThere are many interesting watch forums.
Rolex is not a good investment at this time IMO. Just too much money for what it is.
Just too high.
But many watches might be.
Collectors are a weird group. Very expensive watches are often expensive for interesting movements which aren’t generally visible
Dornblueth and sohn is what I’d buy if I had lot of money around 4-5k.
I think it’ll be worth more in 10 yrs.
Or maybe a 2,000 Nomos from that website. I might actually buy one.
I love watches. http://Www.gnomonwatches.com has nice midrange watches
I wear an archimede from Germany simple pilot. It’s about doubled in price since I bought it 6 years ago. But it’s not expensive. I like it though. Its about 600 now I think.
Wornandwound.com .comis a nice website in cheaper watches.
ParticipantI would’ve used the nucular option.
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