A Call to Mayor Giuliani, New York's Great Mayor

I have sent the following e-mail to Mayor Giuliani. Please consider joining me.

>Dear Mayor Giuliani:

I urge you to consider running for Mayor of New York City or, alternatively Governor of New York State. In 2001 you obeyed the law and stepped down despite the impressive service you had just performed at a time of crisis. The current New York City Mayor, a turncoat Republican with a poor to mediocre record, has taken it upon himself to change the law to suit his inexplicable whim to serve for a third term. You had the good ethics to step down. Despite a record much inferior to yours, Mayor Bloomberg does not.

I urge you to run as a Republican. I know that the New York City mayoralty is not a job that someone who has served eight years should be asked to serve again. But the state and the city need your vision.

Sincerely,

Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.

Conservative Chloe and the Endtimes

Conservative Chloe writes a blog the beginning of the end:

"If you were a lawyer and had to gather evidence to support your case that these are the end times I would say that all the facts converge on this point in time. We don’t know the precise moment, the day or the hour but if you were standing on a ledge between heaven and hell knowing the floor would drop any minute and had to make a choice of which way to jump or default to hell, I think that choice would be pretty clear. Have you made that choice or will you let the floor drop from underneath you?"

Read the whole thing here.

CAIR Day In Tampa

I just received the following message from Phil Orenstein:

Dear Friends,

It is unbeleivable that an American Mayor would sign a proclamation to make Nov. 15th "CAIR Day" (Council on American-Islamic Relations). CAIR is a radical Islamist org and should be condemned and confronted instead of honored. Please sign the petition for Tampa Mayor Iorio to rescind the proclamation for CAIR Day that he signed, and please do all you can to spread the word. Many thanks.
http://www.petitiononline.com:80/CAIRday/petition.html

Riyaz Comments on GM and Delorean

See http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2008/11/rick-waggoners-tin-cup.html

Prof. Langbert,

I was a student from your MBA class in Spring 08 at Stern.

You had referred to a book - "On A Clear Day You Can See General Motors" by John DeLorean. I had read the book and looking at the current auto industry crisis I couldnt help but wonder how terrible the management at GM has been for such a long time. Here's a quote from the book -

"our inability to compete with the foreign manufacturers is more due to management failure than anything else... past managements spent our lush advantage extravagantly...the system and management are stifling initiative...leadership and innovation are impossible... not only are these people of no help, most of what they do is wrong... after a short time, the isolated executives would find their markets taken away by competitors who were attuned to the wants and needs of the public and who were exercising their franchises to operate responsibly..."

I'd like to hear your views on the topic and if you will publish them on your blog.

Thanks,
Riyaz