A manager's guide to employee selection

A manager's guide to employee selection Whether board members of a large corporation are charged with selecting a new fortune 500 CEO or the manager of a small restaurant is in the process of hiring a new busboy the challenges involved in the selection process are similar, if not identical. Yes, from a financial standpoint, there is much more at stake when the board member's select a new corporate leader whose decisions can make or break the company. But a poor decision by the owner of the small restaurant in hiring a busboy can also wreak havoc with his operation and possibly put him out of business. In either case, regardless of the situation, good managers have the same goal- to hire the best person possible for the position they are attempting to fill. Some of the superficial qualities of a prospective hire will be obvious. A door man should be friendly, polite and not have bad-breath but how does one chose, as is most often the case, between two candidates who seem to be friendly, polite and both seemingly brush their teeth. Similarly, most candidates for the position of executive secretary will be comely, well dressed middle aged people with years of secretarial experience. How exactly do you choose the best candidate? In the selection of an executive secretary, and to a lesser extent the busboy, references, first impressions and projected compatibility with the boss undoubtedly will play a factor in the decision to hire or to reject the candidate. It is my contention that, by far and away, the most important qualification a prospective employee can bring to the table is intelligence or, if you will, IQ. All prospective CEOs vary in IQ and the board's job is to chose the smartest candidate from the list of applicants. Similarly, the IQ's of busboys vary greatly and, all other things being relatively equal, it behooves the restaurant manager to pick the smartest one available to work in his establishment. Why, because a smart busboy will outperform a less intelligent one every minute of the hour; every hour of the day; and every day of the week. It’s really as simple as that!

Why Clinton lost the election

Hillary Clinton did not lose the election because she was a congenital liar and "crookeder" than a dog's hind leg. No, this scum bag lost the election because she was a member of the Obama administration, it's as simple as that! Most people living in flyover country detest Obama and almost everything he stands for. They concluded that eight years of his liberal incompetence was enough and took it out on Clinton at the poles. This thrashing was unforeseen by almost all of us, but not surprising considering the Obama's record of executive failures. This also, by the way, is the end of the "pay for play" Clinton foundation. Here are a few of administrative blunders that resulted in Clinton going down in flames. Leading the list of fiascoes, of course, was Obama's infamous "affordable care act" which did not provide affordable care to anyone who worked for a living. The average guy on the street has not forgotten Obama's claim that his health care plan would allow us to keep our present insurance plan and keep our doctor is we chose to do so. The average Joe also has not forgotten that this disastrous health care initiative was passed without a single republican vote in the senate, not a single one! Clinton paid a high price for supporting this ruinous piece of legislation. Close behind his deplorable "affordable care act" was Obama's endless list of executive orders, none of which had the support of a majority in congress or the average guy on the street. Basically Obama became our first imperial president and acted as if he was a dictator in some third world country like Cuba or Venezuela. The result was an economy that hasn't grown more than one or two percent a year for the past eight years. The numb sculls in the white house incessantly rave about the low unemployment rate. The average guy on the street, who voted for Trump, knows that this is a fictitiously low number which ignores the 93,000,000 people who have given up looking for work and includes those who are working part time but would rather have full time employment. In truth, for most of the working class, the economy is a disaster which has provided stagnant wages, fewer job opportunities and little hope for improvement in the future. Most people also resent greatly what has happened to America on the world stage. They begrudge Obama's tendency to bow to the kings of third world dictatorships and the fact that most of the world's leaders now have little or no respect for America or its bumbling president. In truth, Obama is a laughing stock on the world stage and everyone knows it. Do you really think Putin gives a damn what Obama thinks? More importantly, Putin knows what he will do, which is nothing! The average guy on the street knows that Obama's foreign policies have been an abject failure and, if it were not for the fact that he is a black man, he would have been tarred and feathered and rode out of town on a rail long ago. Most of us know that we must have a strong military for us, and the rest of the free world, to survive in today's world. Obama doesn't! Our military is now is worse shape than it has been since the start of the second world war. Because of our military weakness and the general impression that our feckless president does not have the balls to use military force of any kind we now pay multi-million dollar bribes to countries like Iran to free innocent civilians who they have taken hostage. A fearless leader Obama is not, a coward he is and everyone knows it, including, most importantly, our enemies in the Islamic world. Finally, most people cringe at the fact Obama throws a baseball like a girl and spends more time on the golf course than he does in the oval office. You will note that he never is filmed swinging a golf club, that must be quite a sight, don't you think? So, crooked Hillary did not lose the election. No, the liberal idiots in the demoratic party, lead by the most incompetent president in American history, are primarily responsible for her defeat and nothing could have saved her from the drubbing she received in the 2016 presidential election.

I never thought I would live to see this day, never!

When I went to bed last night I thought all was lost. I could not contemplate waking up this morning to find that, not only did conservatives and anti-Clinton democrats win the presidency, but also both houses of congress. Unbelievable! More importantly, this also means that at least one constitutionalist will be appointed to the supreme court, with any luck, two or three. This will change the way the court rules, and the country is governed, for three or four generation! How did this happen? It's really quite simple. The blacks did not suddenly wake up to the fact that they were they have been getting screwed by the demorats for the past 150 years. No, the vast majority of blacks voted, as they always do, for the lying crooked Hillary Clinton and the rest on the liberal self serving simpletons running for public office. Similarly, Americans and illegal's of Mexicans heritage did not suddenly wake up to the fact that they were getting the shaft by the constant flow of South American illegal's who cross the borders by the thousands each and every day to take their jobs and lower their standard of living. No, the Mexican population continued to vote for the demorats as they always do. What happened was more basic and deep rooted. The average American, especially those living in flyover country, was sick and tired of way things worked in Washington. They were fed up with the corruption of the politicos on both sides of the isle and they decided to elect a president with no political ties to either political party, in the hopes that he might actually build the damned wall, strengthen our military and, most importantly, bring jobs back to America and put our citizens back to work. It's just as simple as that. Whether Trump will fulfill these promises remains to be seen, but he has the opportunity to do so and, by so doing, become the most significant president in the past 150 years, maybe the most significant political leader since George Washington.

The upcoming presidential election. This decision is not as difficult as it may seem at first glance.

Yes. on the surface it may appear to be the decision from hell, a choice between two of the most despicable individuals ever to walk the face of the earth. On the one hand we have the congenital liar Hillary Clinton who is as crooked as a dog's hind leg and one of the most corrupt individuals ever to seek public office. On the other, we have the crud, boorish, ego-maniac Donald Trump. In a world that was not upside down, this clown could not be elected dog catcher. But, I would argue. we do live in an upside down world, and I believe we must look beyond the distasteful characters running for president and consider what will happen if one of them is actually elected president. Here, the options are clear, straight forward and indisputable. With Clinton, we will get at least four more years of the same feckless leadership of the Obama administration including a further weakening of our already porous borders; a continuation of our flagging economy; and further down-sizing of our military. There is a chance, although slim, that our country could whether this part of the impending storm. Unfortunately, these considerations will be small potatoes if crooked Hillary is elected president. The upcoming appointments to the Supreme Court are of far greater significance and, by far and away, the most important reason a liberal demorat like Hillary Clinton should not be elected president at this particular time in American history. As we all know, the present court is now divided four to four along liberal and conservative (constitutional) lines. The first priority of the next president will be to nominate a replacement for the recently deceased conservative jurist Anthony Scalia. This will be the most important appointment to the Supreme Court in the past 100 years, maybe ever! But it gets worse after that, a lot worse! The average age of the members now sitting on the court is now 140 years (only a slight exaggeration). Thus, over the next four years, it is likely that two or three additional members of the court will succumb to old age or totter off to retirement. Thus, a liberal president will have the opportunity to stack the court with like minded ant-constitutional, anti-gun, anti-military socialists that will bastardize the highest court in the land for at least the next 30 to 40 years. But this is just the beginning of the horrendous possibilities of a liberal presidency at this crucial point of time in American history. The next president will be in a position to nominate, and have confirmed, hundreds of federal court judges who will bring their liberal philosophy into every nook and cranny of American life. These liberal weasels will undermine and destroy every vestige of American life as we and our forefathers knew it. At a minimum, this would mean sticker gun laws, and possibly the confiscation of all privately owned firearms; the complete elimination of our borders; and a floundering socialist state unrecognizable by those of us who were born in the first half of the last century. Yes, the stacking of the Supreme Court and the federal courts with liberal minded jurists who believe the constitution is antiquated and no longer meaningful will be the end of the United States of America. Period! And, when all is said and done, that is why we should do everything possible to make sure Donald Trump is our next president, nothing else is of the slightest importance, especially since the alternative is crooked Hillary Clinton. One last thought on this critically important issue. If Trump becomes president Mike Pence will be our vice president. Now, God forbid, if something should happen to Trump, Mike Pence will be our president. That, should bring a smile to your face! Stranger things have happened.

What the California 2016 Assessment of Student Performance and Progress Shows.

Academics are crowing about the small gains that have been made, overall, in the most recent tests of proficiency in English and Math in California high school students. However, they bemoan the fact that only 49 percent of California students are proficient in English and only 37 percent are proficient in math. More troubling to them are the marked racial differences in the test scores. The wide gap in performance between the Asian and white students on one hand and black and Latino students on the other, despite years of focused efforts and the infusion enormous amounts of state and federal funds to close this gap, is particularly perplexing to our educational leaders. State Superintendent of Education Tom Torlakson called the racial differences :"pernicious and persistent." It is not clear if Superintendent Torlakson understands the reason for the marked racial disparity we are seeing on our California schools, most likely he does not. "We'd like to see more of a state of urgency and more progress for English language learners and low income and African-American students in particular," said Carrie Hahnel of the Oakland advocacy Educational Trust-West. As I've said many times, they people do not have the slightest clue as to why racial differences in educational achievement persist despite over 50 years of effort and billions of dollars of funding to close the racial educational gap for the blacks and Latinos in our country. The statistics provided by Noguchi and Tsai in the August 25th edition of the East Bay Times provides the answer. Despite differences in the economic background of the students tested, the statistics never changed. In this respect, Asian students on average always outperformed all other racial groups, irrespective of their environmental background, and whites were only a few points behind them. On the other hand, blacks, irrespective of the economic circumstances of their parents and the environmental status of their childhood, always placed dead last in the English and math proficiency tests. Latinos, with one exception in Santa Clara County, always, marginally, outperformed blacks. Filipinos, the only other race included in the statistics, had mean scores that were only slightly lower than the whites tested. Anyone who has read Herrnstein and Murray's Bell Curve knows exactly what this latest group of educational statistics tell us. Asians, on average, do better in school, not because their superior study habits, but because their mean IQs are 3 to 9 points higher than that of the white population. Blacks and Latinos will always fair less well, on average, than their white and Asian counterparts in their educational endeavors because their mean IQs are 15 and 13 points, respectively, lower than that of the white population. Nothing the politicians can do will change the basic fact that there are marked disparities in inherited racial IQ. We should be spending more time and money dealing with the consequences of these differences and less of our limited resources trying to change the unchangeable (more jobs for the uneducated, reducing the birth rates of low-IQ single mothers, reestablishing the black family and reducing the numbers of low IQ Mexicans who are crossing our boarders illegally by hundreds with each passing day. In summary, the latest educational statistics for California High School students are, for the most part, simply a reflection of the racial disparity in the IQs of the students tested. Until we understand this fact, nothing will change and we will continue to waste monies, that we do not have and must borrow, on misguided social programs like school busing and head-Start. Finally, we should stop blaming the teachers for their inability to educate the uneducable in classrooms teeming with rowdy misfits who should be in reform schools, not the class room.

Yes, black lives matter, but not in way most people think.

Blacks make up less than 15 percent of the population. Yet 150 years after their emaciation, and after numerous attempts to make them normal functioning members of society, as a group, they remain one of societies biggest problems. All of our attempts to right the supposed wrongs of the past, including school bussing, numerous affirmative action and head start programs have failed to make the slightest difference in the lives of the average Black American. In fact, you can make the case that blacks who are not born with exceptional athletic ability are worse off now than they were in the days before Lyndon Johnson set in motion the federal welfare policies that broke up the black family. With 72 percent of young black males either in prison or on parole and over 70 percent of black babies being born to single mothers, one wonders how things could get much worse for blacks or the society in which they live. But, if things stay the same, it will. You can bet your last dollar on that! One thing we have learned from our futile attempts to stamp out all vestiges of racism and to make things better for the black community is this. With rare exception, black single mothers, aided by their mothers and grandmothers are incapable of raising black children so that they will become functioning members of society. This is especially true for black boys who, if they are fortunate enough not to have been gunned down by members of their own race, most often end up in prison. Of course, there are exceptions to this sad state of affairs. A few blacks, those with exceptionally high IQs, do become educated and make something of their lives. Invariably, these black men and women move out of the black communities in which they were born and settle in white suburbs where, for all practical purposes, they become white. These exceptional individuals flee the black ghettoes where they were born, leaving them unchanged in the slightest. In this respect, the slums of Oakland, Detroit, Chicago and Flint Michigan are, by any standard, in worse condition now than they were 50 years ago. When all is said and done, America is paying a heavy price for Blacks who, for whatever reason, have not been able to assimilate into the American way of life. Undoubtedly, the destructive social policies of Johnson's great society, and the many liberal boondoggles that followed have played a role in the Blacks failure to integrate into American culture. However, programs like Head Start do not fail because of lack of effort or lack of recourses. No, these programs fail, in large part, because the mean IQ of the average Black is 15 IQ points lower than that of the average white and there is little or nothing that can be done to change this disturbing fact after a child is born. Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray pointed out the problems facing those who are born with below average IQs, both black and white, in their masterpiece The Bell Curve. The data presented in this 871 page tour de force is a must read for anyone interested in tackling the social problems we face in twenty-first century America. The refusal of liberal politicians and educators to recognize the basic differences in inherited intellect between the races is largely responsible for the inner city decay we are experiencing in most of our large cities today. But you may be asking, how would recognition of the fact that there are racial differences in inherited intellect change anything for the better? There are several ways this might happen. First, we should stop paying low IQ women, both black and white, to have children. In fact we should be paying them not to have children. This can be accomplished by a state or federal program that would pay inner city single women a stipend, $5000 seems about right, to have a Norplant injection that would prevent them becoming pregnant for five years. The monies saved by not having to pay for prisons that would house the males that they otherwise give birth to during the five year period of volunteered sterility would, in the long run, more than pay for such a program. More significantly, over a period of 10 to 15 years it would greatly decrease the crime rate. Along these same lines, there should be financial, and other incentives, that would encourage educated females, again both black and white, to have larger numbers of children. In short, we must encourage smart women of all races to have more children, otherwise in a few generations we will become a land of dullards. At present the medical profession and the Silicone Valley are becoming more dependent with each passing day on foreigners who were trained in India, China and elsewhere to fill the jobs available because there are not enough educated Americans to meet the need. This problem would be alleviated, at least in part, if professional, well educated intelligent women of all races were having more babies. We should be doing more to make this happen! Finally, we should begin making things again in America so that there will be well paying jobs for those who want to work, but do not have the mental capacity to become educated. In this respect, there is no reason that tennis shoes that sell for over $150 cannot be made in America by American workers rather than by someone living in a third world nation where humans work for a few dollars a day and live in abject poverty. This will require stiffer tariffs on imports and tax incentives for manufactures who are willing to make the products they sell in the good old USA. Along these same lines, once the jobs are available, people who now depend on welfare should be forced to take them, or be directed to the nearest soup kitchen. This would go a long way towards decreasing America's staggering rate of obesity. So yes, black lives do matter but in a very negative way. Our inner city ghettos are teaming with blacks who can neither read or write and have no chance of making anything of themselves in today's high-tech world. Our political leaders should recognize the intellectual limitations of those living in black America and do whatever is necessary to rectify the problem. More government freebies, single mother families and earlier and earlier head-start programs are not the answer!

Two very bad choices, what to do?

Faced with the Clinton-Trump debacle, what is a conservative voter to do? On the one hand you have a congenital lying demorat who has spent most of her adult life feeding at the public trough and made hundreds of millions while doing so. This women is crookeder than a dogs hind leg and belongs in prison, not in the White House. There also is a real question of whether or not this women is healthy enough to serve. On the other hand you have the Donald, a egomaniac loose cannon who will say and do anything at the drop of a hat, irrespective of the consequences. If we have learned anything about this buffoon in the past year or so, it is that he is incapable of learning from his past mistakes and verbal blunders, continuing to step into it with both feet at every opportunity. If this guy has an IQ over 100 I would be greatly surprised. By the way, the reason Trump refuses to reveal his tax returns results from the fact that he is nowhere near as wealthy as he would have us believe. So what are we to do? The answer is not as complex as you might think. The key to the upcoming election is the status of the Supreme Court and the other federal benches in the decades to come. At least three, and possibly four, of the liberals on the present Supreme Court will either die or retire during the next president's term. If Hillary is elected they will be replaced with similar herd of liberal activists, of that you can be sure. In that case, our country, now teetering on financial and societal ruin, will go under, of that I have no question whatsoever. If Trump somehow prevails in the upcoming election it will be a crap shoot because no one, probably not even Trump, has the slightest idea what he will do when faced with proposing nominees for the federal courts. Some believe, as I do, that this guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing who will appoint a series of liberal jurists to the various federal courts. If this is the case, it makes no difference if the congenital liar or the buffoon is elected, we are doomed either way. But if Trump prevails, there is at least a chance that doomsayers like me are wrong and that Trump will actually build the damned wall, cut bureaucratic red tape and appoint conservatives to the federal courts. Thus, when all is said and done, we are left with no choice, holding my nose and crossing my fingers, legs and toes, I will begrudgingly vote for Trump and hope for the best. I suggest that you do the same.