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Nice job, MoveOn.
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NYT Krugman Exposes Republican Corruption… Except It Is Democrats Involved *sigh* Ok, I just realized I goofed something Is This a Joke?
Ever have one of those tests…
Where you look at a question you know the answer to but still draw a complete blank?
Yeah, that was my final just now in one of my theology courses…
Job Opportunity - Should I apply?
Just saw this… maybe I should apply 
(Inside joke… I sued University parking in federal court a few years ago).
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Associate Director of Parking
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) seeks an experienced professional for the position of Associate Director of Parking. As the flagship public institution in the State of Illinois, the University serves over 35,000 students, and offers degrees in a wide variety of fields. The Facilities & Services Parking Department is committed to customer service and excellence in meeting the parking needs of the faculty, staff, students, and visitors of the UIUC campus. With a total daily campus population of nearly 50,000, efficient parking and mass transit services are crucial elements in sustaining campus growth and meeting the goals of the University. In order to manage the needs of various user groups, the department maintains approximately 15,000 parking spaces in five parking structures and 123 surface parking lots, and works closely with the cities of Champaign and Urbana to meet University District parking needs.
The Position
The Associate Director holds the senior parking position at UIUC. The Parking Department provides a well-planned and orderly system of parking that is fair, convenient, and cost effective to all utilizing it. The department maintains safe, well-designed facilities and oversees land acquisition pursuant to long-term parking strategies. The Associate Director coordinates efforts to identify, design, and construct new facilities, including the long-range financial planning for parking structures. Through technology and education, Parking Services employs business and communication systems to address and improve customer service. The position oversees 30 civil service employees and manages a $10M budget. The Associate Director manages three primary operational programs: Enforcement: oversight of parking rules and regulations, motorist assistance, and coordination of conference and special event parking; Construction and Maintenance: monitor construction and repair of parking str!
uctures, install and maintain parking meters and signage, collect meter revenue and fine box citations, audit meters, and install/remove special bagged meters; Customer Service: sell and monitor department permits and products, answer inquiries from customers, monitor T2 parking database, collect citation payments, maintain waitlist spaces, hear citation appeals, and monitor payroll deduction program.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will have a bachelor’s degree with progressively responsible experience, including supervision, in parking and/or transportation services (preference given to candidates having a professional degree/certification in planning, engineering or facilities management); excellent oral/written communication and presentation skills; strong experience in customer service with a broad array of constituents; experience in program assessment and strategic planning; ability to manage change while working in a collaborative environment; expertise in conflict management and negotiation skills; demonstrated ability to manage and supervise multiple projects concurrently; an understanding of the parking industry, including current trends; proven ability to work with civil service and union employees; demonstrated effectiveness managing an auxiliary enterprise; experience developing and managing budgets; strong technology skills; adaptability and flexibility; and the a!
bility to lead, motivate, and supervise staff.
Application and Nomination
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by December 16, 2005. A resume with accompanying cover letter, or a nomination of an individual for this position, may be submitted by e-mail attachment to apply@spelmanandjohnson.com. If you are unable to submit materials electronically, please call Peter Rosenberg at 413-529-2895. This is a full-time, academic professional appointment with a proposed starting date of February 16, 2006 or negotiable. Salary is competitive and includes a comprehensive benefit package.
The Spelman & Johnson Group
UIUC - Associate Director of Parking (C) Peter W. Rosenberg, Search Associate
Visit the UIUC Parking Services website at www.parking.uiuc.edu The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Why Does the ACLU Hate the Troops?
Many have heard the ongoing debate on military recruiters in schools and the counter-recruitment efforts of the Left. Some schools are going so far as to sue the federal government on the grounds that their free speech is adversely affected by being compelled to allow military recruiters on campus in exchange for federal money. Get that? Schools (government actors) say their free speech is prevented because of conditions in accepting federal money don’t allow them to deny free speech to military recruiters (government actors). War is peace and all that. You know the drill.
Enter the ACLU. An organization that is solely devoted to the protection of the bill of rights is in the role of advocating the removal of military recruiters from schools and campuses. Much like their war on abstinence education, this isn’t an issue having to do with rights. You are free to listen to a recruiter, to ignore a recruiter, and to have protests about recruiters in schools. But the presence of a recruiter in no way, shape, or form impedes anyone’s rights.
The ACLU and others are not fighting military recruiting because it is a Bill of Rights issue. Nothing in the Bill of Rights implies that one has an absolute right to never be presented with ideas you disagree with, or, in this case, someone else being presented ideas you disagree with. They are fighting military recruiters because they insist only THEIR policies and ideas be presented. They fight Christmas because Christianity is unacceptable in the public sphere. They fight abstinence education because that ideas is unacceptable. Likewise they fight military recruiters because people signing up to serve is unacceptable. This is not the advocacy and welcoming of free speech, this is the enforcement through judicial fiat of social conformity.
You can’t be all you can be if you’re dead, reads one sign. This is the side that the ACLU is on, the side that is against the troops. The side that says America is not worth dying for. The side that says people are stupid to serve. The side that says an 18 year old is too young and ignorant to join the military but a 14 year old is old enough to make intelligent choices about getting an abortion. The side that is trying to disarm us in the hopes that our weakness there is strength. The side that insists on due process rights for unlawful combatants not entitled to them by law, but routinely undermines due process rights of soldiers awaiting trial for their abuse of prisoners.
Our pre-9/11 response was weakness. Did that help? Osama was quite clear and is quite clear; he thinks he can win because we are weak. Our Asia allies worry that we can’t win a war against China. The ACLU is on the fronts making sure we can’t.
The Problem with Republicans…
… is Republicans.
Liberals and liberalism won’t work… but all too often Republicans are willing to play the stooge for big government, and occasionally get rich on it.
At least he saved an expensive trial by pleading guilty.
Tagged
So, I got tagged…
I confess I enjoy the misery of 2005 Cubs fans…
I confess that I see nothing wrong with drinking alone while studying theology…
I confess to wasting too much time either blogging or playing games… or both at the same time…
I confess to spending too much time reading on politics even though it makes you dumb…
I confess that that I’m too lazy to tag anyone else with this…
The Economy - By the Numbers
Holiday Sales up 22% From Last Year
Which is it? Both can’t be true at the same time. Either sales are up or sales are down. Looking at the articles and all the associated articles, it appears that sales are up (20+%) across the entire market. The negative numbers are specific sectors or sub-sections (enclosed malls). It appears that the negative articles are written such as to indicate that the market and economy are doing much worse than they really are. This isn’t the first time.
There is a significant amount of “talking down” of the economy. You can see this in the housing bubble theories, companies not doing enough, and the dire predictions of a weak holiday season (since proven untrue).
Unemployment is at 5.0%, despite two hurricanes. This is roughly half the rate of unemployment throughout most of Europe. Current income is up, GDP is growing (3.8%), and the stock market is up. Despite this, pundits insist that doom and gloom is coming even though economic indicators will continue to show increases.
Let’s be honest a moment, it isn’t the Republicans campaigning on a bad economy, it’s the Democrats. It’s in their campaigns that the economy is in the tank and everyone is suffering despite the complete lack of any evidence to support it. Income is up. Home ownership is up. Unemployment is down. Home values are up. Almost every traditional indicator shows that the economy is growing, yet the perception is fostered that we are heading towards the Great Depression.
This trend in reporting shows two things. Democrats are beyond using facts to scaremonger voters about the economy. Instead of coming up with a platform to better America, they spend their time telling America how bad things are. Facts be damned. Second, it shows that the press, once again, is in the tank with the Democrats agenda and is carrying the water for them. The story is a roaring economy, but they search and scour for some shred of evidence to talk it down. Objective reporting or campaigning? I think the answer is clear.
