[Babylon Bee - Satire, OK?] HT AOSHQ
In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court bench handed down a ruling Thursday approving the death penalty for people who comment on articles without reading them.
In the highly publicized case, State of Texas v. Wilbur, state authorities had found internet user Edward Wilbur guilty of posting a comment on a story linked on his Facebook page, a news story Wilbur "had clearly never read."
While most of those convicted under Texas' recent state law banning commenting on news stories or opinion pieces without reading them get off with a few months of community service or a stiff fine, the "severe stupidity" of Wilbur's comment reportedly landed him a shocking sentence of execution by lethal injection.
"Mr. Wilbur commented on a news story about a minor update to Texas public schools' science curriculum," prosecuting attorney Hank Cassidy told reporters outside the Supreme Court building just after the controversial ruling was announced. "But it was immediately apparent he hadn't even read the article, and barely even glanced at the headline. He left a long, rambling comment attacking Obamacare, liberals, evolution in the school system, and chem trails, among other topics."
According to Cassidy, this led to state officials taking Wilbur in for questioning before booking him on the capital charge of commenting without reading, kicking off a long appeals process, which finally concluded with the Supreme Court's hearing of the case in today's historic decision.
"This will be good for America," the prosecuting attorney said. "Finally, justice has been done."
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Trolls (aka Russian agents provocateurs) and Telemarketers next?
[MarketWatch] First, the good news: You’re closing in on retirement. After decades of long hours and loyal service, you only have another few years until you can kiss your job goodbye.
The bad news is you dread every minute. Even surviving another month will require Herculean effort.
Ideally, you’d quit now. But your financial plan dictates that you keep generating income into the early 2020s so that you can retire with a comfortable nest egg.
Perhaps you’re bored or exhausted in your job. Cynicism and negativity cloud your every thought. To make matters worse, an odious boss tears away at the thinning shreds of sanity you cling to.
So how do you persevere?
In rallying yourself to reach the finish line, you have a choice. You can either gripe at every available opportunity ‐ lamenting your situation, lambasting higher-ups and regretting career moves you made years ago ‐ or find a more productive way to cope.
Let’s focus on the latter.
Start by taking charge of your thoughts. Impose a time limit on how often you will stew in anger or self-pity. Endlessly telling yourself, "I can’t stand it here" or "I’ll never be able to make it through another month here, much less a year or two" won’t help.
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Definitely wasn't Kelly, he whined about how soul killing his job was all the time.
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Work is by definition demeaning. Why the hell did Hemingway - the real one - write about fishing, hunting and watching other people fight wars?
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I gave my kids this advice. When you are young and someone asks you what you want to be you say, "an astronaut" or "a MLB pitcher". Around high school, you find out that you get motion sickness and your fastball is 55 mph.
So ask yourself, "Of all the things that you like to do, what subset of those are you good at?"
Lastly, around the age of 25, you realize that it sucks to be poor. So of all those things that you both like and are good at, which will make you money?
Failure to identify something that you like, are good at, and will make you some money will result in you needing to heed the advice of how to outlast a job that you hate until you can retire.
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Absolute best compliment I ever got: When a new hire asked why don't I ever smile, a co-worker beat me to the answer - "Be careful. When he smiles something bad is about to happen."
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I enjoyed watching my family eat, be properly sheltered and educated, basic hierarchy of needs stuff. No one was going to stand in the way of my making these things happen. That was father and grandfather's mission. It was my mission as well.
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And stuff I occasionally begrudged I see again now clearly is actually one of my jobs.
Thanks, Besoeker. Thank you a lot.
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I give similar advice to younger people: Besides picking a line of work that will generate an income for you, pick something you like doing that is worth doing - and I add this - and which attracts other workers you like working with. The last part sometimes requires you to change jobs within your specialty.
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I'm self-employed because it gives me the ability to pick & choose who I work 'with'. I'm at a point I can do most of this stuff through e-mail and that meeting with every client every year isn't necessary, for either one of us. yes, paying the Federal self-employment tax sucks (CPA's in Mass. aren't allowed to elect S Corp. status with the IRS), but if that's the price I have to pay, so be it.
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Ref #12: I applaud your initiative and obvious wisdom Raj. If we ever lose entrepreneurs like you, we are finished. You are the foundation of MAGA.
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Wisdom gained while attending a 7-YO birthday party 9 Grand-daughter #2): "What would write, if you could, to the person that provided you the nudge to enter whatever line of work that makes you happy? Then write it down."
[MASSLIVE] Two more influenza-associated pediatric deaths have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bringing to 13 the number of such deaths for the current flu season.
New York City and 19 states, including Massachusetts, are experiencing high influenza-like illness activity in terms of visits to outpatient providers for symptoms such as a fever of 100 degrees, cough and sore throat, and the flu is considered widespread geographically in the commonwealth as well as in 23 other states.
Some 3.4 percent of visits to reporting outpatient providers in Massachusetts were for influenza-like illnesses for the week ending Dec. 29, according to the state's most recent flu activity report.
All the state's regions were reporting the proportion of these visits above baseline with the highest rates in the Northeast and Southeast regions at 5.15 and 4.61 percent, respectively, and the lowest in the West at 1.57 percent.
The Northeast also had the highest number of laboratory-confirmed cases for the week at 275 as well as the highest number to date this season at 718.
The number of laboratory-confirmed cases to date in the state is 2,194. Last year at this time, there were 1,298 laboratory-confirmed cases of flu.
Given that (H1N1)pdm09 seems to be the most prevalent, this year's vaccine seems to be a better fit than last year's.
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Oooh, vaccines. Hollyweird screeches in non-scientific protest.
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Given that (H1N1)pdm09 seems to be the most prevalent, this year's vaccine seems to be a better fit than last year's.
Good to know, Crash Dark Lord of the Veal Cutlets1879. Thank you. I finally was healthy enough to get my shot two days ago.
Going back to the article, how many of those nineteen states plus New York City have a higher than average number of anti-vaxxer parents? How many have a higher than average number of illegal immigrants, whose health is already somewhat strained?
[News24 South Africa] Just before Christmas I went to buy a bottle of wine in a store in a town on the Garden Route. There were two cashiers; one was talking to a friend or relative on the phone, the other one was just staring past me. After several minutes, I asked her if I could pay for the wine. Sorry, she said, she was waiting to finish a transaction with another customer, and she pointed to that person.
That customer was having a lively conversation a few metres away with a security guard about the problems of crime in the town. After what must have been a full two more minutes, I approached her and politely asked if she would mind paying for her wine so the casher could serve me ‐ I was parked on a yellow line, I explained.
She was immediately angry. She accused me of being arrogant and, yes, white. I tried to explain that my request was a polite one and that I was parked on a yellow line, but it just made it worse and the whole exchange became a bit of a public scene. When are "you people" going to realise that you're not baas any longer, she asked.
I was deeply embarrassed ‐ I'm normally the guy who would intervene when a white customer is rude to a black employee in a shop. I was also annoyed, because I knew if she were white, I would have been far more direct and assertive in asking her to conclude her sale.
A month or so before this incident I was driving my car out of the forecourt of a Cape Town petrol station into the street when another car trying to get to the pumps nearly ran into me. I was relaxed; I stopped, reversed a little bit and waved my hand to say, please proceed.
The driver jumped out and confronted me aggressively at my car window. What was that hand gesture about, you bloody racist, he asked, and threatened to inflict violence upon me. My explanation that it was a wave to give him right of way was not acceptable.
I was not wrong in one of the two incidents. There was nothing racist about my actions.
But these experiences stayed with me and made me think. Were these two individuals simply angry at life? Were they looking for an argument with a white male? Do I come across as an arrogant, aggressive white man, even when I don't think I am? About the author.
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But these experiences stayed with me and made me think. Were these two individuals simply angry at life? Were they looking for an argument with a white male? Do I come across as an arrogant, aggressive white man, even when I don't think I am?
Angry at life? Come now my friend, we all know you are a wealthy Garden Route landowner, farmer, or hotelier. Tribalist, class warfare has targeted you for special treatment. The lunatics now run the asylum.
Angry at life? No, they're better off now than ever before. They have no idea that you were an "anti-apartheid activist" nor do they care. They're angry at you.
Continue to confront your new masters and you'll likely have a knobkierie shoved up your arse. Die hoenders huis toe om te slaap (the chickens have come home to roost). Enjoy !
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Black Culture is a tribal culture Some tribes are friendlier than others. I have read many accounts of USA born blacks visiting Africa and being received with hostility by the locals, who strongly dislike the apparent rudeness and crudeness exhibited by members of a different tribe from the USA with all that is entailed.
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"Black culture" in America (Chris Rock would use a different un-pc as can be word, instead of black) also has a large element of Entitlement to it.
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My son told me a story. He was starting his first day at a new high school when a black student confronted him and told him that he was a privileged white boy. My son replied, "Didn't I just see you step out of a BMW?". The kid responded, "You got me." Turns out his dad was a medical doctor.
They played football together and became good friends.
Don't be rude but don't get buffaloed either.
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[NYP] The "sonic attacks" that afflicted diplomats at the US embassy in Cuba could have just been the work of crickets, according to a report Sunday.
The embassy in Havana cut its staff in half in 2017 after dozens of people complained of headaches, nausea and other ailments from hearing mysterious, penetrating high-pitched noises ‐ believed to be an acoustic weapon ‐ possibly from the Russians.
But a fresh analysis of an audio recording made by US personnel in Cuba revealed that the source of the piercing din is the song of the Indies short-tailed cricket, known as Anurogryllus celerinictus, a study says.
"The recording is definitively a cricket that belongs to the same group," said Fernando Montealegre-Zapata, a professor of sensory biology at the University of Lincoln who participated in the study, according to The Guardian. "The call of this Caribbean species is about 7 kHz, and is delivered at an unusually high rate, which gives humans the sensation of a continuous sharp trill."
The study, by Montealegre-Zapata and Alexander Stubbs at the University of California, was published Jan. 4 on the website bioRxiv.
[JWR] We're into Day 13 of the partial government shutdown, and there's no end in sight. Common wisdom says the longer this lasts, the worse the politics will get for President Donald Trump. I disagree.
Trump isn't likely to suffer politically because he's not doing anything his supporters find objectionable. A Quinnipiac poll last month found that 43 percent of Americans, including 86 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of independents, support building the wall. Support for the wall is so high among Trump supporters that even Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said this week that he supports it while blasting the president's character in a Washington Post commentary. When your most prominent internal critic supports your position, you know you're dealing from strength.
Now that Democrats run the House, they will increasingly bear some political responsibility for ending the crisis. Americans generally want both sides to cut deals in the national interest, and that's likely to be as true in this case as in others. People didn't want the government to be shut down, but now that it is, they're likely to want a deal to get it back open. That plays into Trump's hands - as long as he demonstrates that he's willing to deal, too.
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Hannity thinks the State is the Union is a long time from now, Dems can hold out to 2020 because Trump took the mantle and proudly owns the shutdown. Let’s see how things are this Friday, my air controller friends without pay aren’t loving him anymore.
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.... my air controller friends without pay aren’t loving him anymore.
These people make an excellent wage and I believe they still have medical coverage. Rule of thumb - have enough socked away to live for at least 12 months without an income.
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...my air controller friends without pay aren’t loving him anymore.
Tough noogies for your ATC friends. There are plenty of military air traffic controllers if it comes to that. And...we can always reduce the number of flights if needed.
What Mr. B said, keep at LEAST 12 months living expenses in reserve. I keep 24 months, it required sacrifice and delayed gratification in numerous areas, but having the cushion is great peace of mind.
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my air controller friends without pay aren’t loving him anymore.
Too bad, so sad. If they can't take the heat, they can get out of the kitchen. Those "friends" are more than welcome to seek employment in the private sector. All the fast food outlets for miles around are begging for help, signs are up everywhere.
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Let's see military retirement checks stop too and see how well you can spin that.
The military and all pensions are part of the 70% of government spending that is approved through the end of the year, dear Flusogum Slemble9878.
Given how often the government has been shut down over passing a president-acceptable budget in the past five years, any federal employee who doesn’t have at least six months of savings readily accessible at year end is just asking for problems. Seriously, my darling father-in-law was a steel worker; he spent the first decade of Mr. Wife’s life as much on strike as he did actually working, and yet they still managed to save up and buy a house plus get a new car every to years. His rule, as he explained to me on my wedding day, was to save the first 25% of each paycheck, then adjust spending to live on the rest. While for those not making union wages that might well be impossible, federal workers are unionized.
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so F all ATC controllers who work without pay is Rantburgs position on things.... as expected, greedy old hypocrites who cry when their turn comes up ... and it will.
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so F all ATC controllers who work without pay is Rantburgs position on things.... as expected, greedy old hypocrites who cry when their turn comes up ... and it will.
Point taken. Perhaps they should simply walk off their jobs.
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You can't blame Trump. A bill has to reach his desk. It is up to the House and Senate to agree first.
Seems to me that the donk's are treating their constituents with their usual disdain.
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Trump's request for prime time for a possible Declaration of National Emergency has the MSM wrapped around a lose-lose axle. Much gnashing of teeth as he again takes his message to the American people or forces the MSM to clearly demonstrate bias. Look for "equal time" and long commentary if they grant his request. Seems to me they all have FCC licenses somewhere in their beginnings? Facts and figures and more popcorn please...
[American Thinker] As a rule, the standard Democrats have set for Republicans is entirely different from the standard they have set for themselves. Democrats were always at the ready to defer to and defend Barack Obama from criticism by dangling the dreaded sword of racism over the head of the former president's critics. In liberal circles, opposition to Barack, in any way, is synonymous with wrapping oneself in a Confederate flag, or, worse yet, donning the garb of the Ku Klux Klan.
In 2009, during a major health care speech to Congress, South Carolina representative and Republican Joe Wilson shouted, "You lie" at President Obama, who, at the time, was dishonest when he vowed that his proposed legislation did not include mandating coverage for illegal aliens.
Following Wilson's outburst, Democrat shill David Shuster of MSNBC rushed to Obama's defense when he remarked that Joe Wilson, being from South Carolina, "strikes a lot of people as awfully close to the idea that maybe there was racist or bigoted element there."
Of late, accusations of racism have become tools with which the left beats the right into guilt-ridden submission. That's why, in an attempt to further impugn Wilson, the commentator even solicited the opinion of race-baiter Jesse Jackson, whoM Shuster asked the following question: "What role, if any, do you believe that bigotry is playing in some of this venom toward President Obama?"
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Fan of a turd is a turd. You'd be surprised how many balloons I've popped by saying "You agree with that? Fucking get away from me."
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I suggest RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel schedule a high level pow wow with Rashida and Cortez and start the meeting by delivering a well placed bitch slap to both of them...
Time this loathsome jerk retired
[The Hill] Fox News host Chris Wallace challenged White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on some of President Trump’s claims about border security.
In an interview with Sanders on Sunday, Wallace took on the claim, made by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, that thousands of "special interest aliens" have been stopped at the border.
"But special interest aliens are just people who have come from countries that have ever produced a terrorist, they’re not terrorists themselves," Wallace said. He also cited a State Department report saying that there has been no "credible evidence" of terrorists crossing the southern border from Mexico.
Sanders stood by the claim, saying that the southern border is the "most vulnerable point of entry."
"We know that, roughly, nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally, and we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is at our southern border," she said, before Wallace cut her off.
"Do you know where those 4,000 people come, where they are captured?" Wallace responded. "Airports ... the state department says there hasn’t been any terrorists found coming across the southern border."
Sanders then suggested that an "influx" of "terrorists" would flow through the border without increased security, such as Trump’s proposed border wall.
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There were classified reports of al Qaeda- and Hezb'allahaffiated cells coming across the border and disappearing into the New Mexico mountains over a decade ago.
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There were classified reports of al Qaeda- and Hezb'allahaffiated cells coming across the border
We had unclassified reports here at Rantburg that discarded Korans and Iranian Revolutionary Guard uniforms were found on the American side of the border, and that Border Patrol agents were picking up startling numbers of Arabic and Farsi speakers pretending to be Mexican.
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TW I remember hearing about the same YEARS ago. From border patrol folks. So good point!@ And Sarah should have brought that up! Chris Wallace is a limo asshat but Sanders should have been more prepared.
By the way when is CNN going to hire Wallace, or is he already on their payroll?
Donald Rumsfeld apparently knew of Rantburg, but then he was in the same business at a different level. ;-) Asking Mrs. Saunders to reconcile claims from two departments isn’t really fair — though how the boffins at State could possibly know is beyond me. Their brief is formal entry using visas and embassies, not informal wandering across unmarked swathes of wilderness.
Sorry, gorb, I read that (and am typing this) standing up cuz if I sit down I'll fall asleep and the food on the stove'll burn. You're on your own. ;-)
[IsraelTimes] You can blame Gabbay, but I think this decline is part of a process that has been occurring across the world, over many years.
The Labor Party looks set to receive fewer seats in the Knesset than at any other time in its history. There is even the possibility, albeit a slim one, that it will disappear entirely by not reaching the 3.25% threshold.
Considering that a generation ago, this was a party which had completely dominated political life in Israel since independence ‐ and before ‐ this is an extraordinary development.
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Well, here in America, Boofay and the C*ck Bros believe "labor" is diseased illiterates who might work once they get here. Dems want hollyweird money and GOPe will take whatever it can get. So who does "the working person" vote for?
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Question MM, who is "the working person"?
I was a nail banger for ~10 years mostly independent. Was I a working person?
Then I changed careers and I did pretty well in the IT sphere for 30+ years by working hard for both large and small companies. Was I a working person? How about the Supervisors/managers for whom I worked, were they working people? How about the stock brokers/analysts who managed my 401K were/are they working people?
The world has changed from the days of Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, et.al. The definition of working people needs to change too.
[Aljazeera] Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Forty years ago on Monday, Vietnamese tanks rolled through Phnom Penh, a city that had been a near ghost town during the genocidal Khmer Rouge, to signal the overthrow of the regime of Pol Pot, the ultra-communists' leader who managed to escape in a jeep at the last minute.
It was the end of three years, eight months and 20 days of terror that had resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians.
Large celebrations will take place at the Cambodian capital's Olympic Stadium on Monday to mark "Victory Over Genocide Day". Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge commander who defected and helped overthrow them, is expected to deliver a speech lauding January 7 as the moment the country was saved from Pol Pot's murderous clutches.
But while on the surface the overthrow of one of the 20th century's most brutal regimes should be a reason to celebrate, Cambodian politics are not as straightforward.
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Around the time that the initial Peace Conference was signed I found amusing one ironic comment that "The members wanted to build a large celebratory bonfire and throw all of the Khmer Rouge delegates on it!" Some acts just can't be forgiven...
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Cambodia is wedged between two dictatorships, one who backed the Khmer Rouge and the other which looked the other way for a couple years before invading and putting a stop to the massacre. Since the second one has withdrawn its forces, they're back in thrall to the first and whoever their running-dogs-of-the-week are, and all they're going to do is get to prosecute the previous set of lackeys and pretend it matters while they're still in thrall to the Emperor (stops to look up current emperor) Pooh-Bear.
[American Thinker] A Senate memo has blasted another law enforcement agency for corrupt behavior: the U.S. Marshals Service.
Here's the Washington Post account:
The departing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday issued a scathing summary of his years investigating the U.S. Marshals Service, saying his committee found "a culture of mismanagement, abuse of authority and lax accountability" at the law enforcement agency.
"Poor leadership and pervasive misconduct cripples morale and corrodes trust of employees tasked with apprehending criminals and keeping communities safe," said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa). "This culture must change."
The memo prepared by Grassley’s staff summarizes the committee’s examination of claims by more than 100 purported whistleblowers who came forward to allege misconduct and mismanagement by senior Marshals Service officials.
The report describes forged signatures for subpoenas, retaliations against whistleblowers, hire-anyone hiring practices and of course, money flung all over the place.
Kind of sounds like Chicago politics. Which made me want to look up who might have appointed the obviously failed leadership of this once-respected law enforcement agency, with this time the woman named being Stacia Hylton: Got it. President Obama.
Another person hired not for her character but for her loyalty to Obama, and likely identity politics attributes.
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One of the bad features of the military always 'rotating' its personnel around the world is that as soon as you learn your job, you have to learn another. One good features of the military always 'rotating' it personnel around the world is that it means years of cover-up and mismanagement come to light as the incoming people aren't going to sign for the corruption.
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Because that's exactly what it is, and it predates Obama considerably.
Yep.
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100 complaints from 100 criminals, what do you expect from the arrested lol
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Obama and ethics? Example of cognitive dissonance? At one time, the Marshal's Service was a decent, professional organization. Seems Obumble tainted, corrupted and weaponized most government agencies. Obumble would have been better-suited for some banana republic except he lacked the cojones and didn't like work. He was a WH potted plant.
[The Hill] House Democrats have a plethora of initiatives in the new Congress. One of the top priorities for the Congressional Black Caucus and incoming Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters is corporate boardroom diversity. Waters proposed creating a House subcommittee on diversity and inclusion that would force companies to quantify their board members by race and gender. By targeting publicly traded companies, this creates a vacuum that would ultimately harm employees of all racial and economic backgrounds, especially the further down the chain you go.
The government should foster diversity through individual success, not through federal coercion. You can hear it in the words of proponents of the newest overreach in Washington. "They have a right to be nervous," said Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri while talking about corporate boards. Many companies on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley understand that the efforts are more a matter of paying tribute to Washington, rather than a substantive effort to increase diversity in the upper echelons of business.
Other proposals from the left carry the same thread as the one recently championed by Waters. Gregory Meeks of New York wants to force all publicly traded companies to disclose the demographic data of boards of directors. Carolyn Maloney of New York wants to grant the Securities and Exchange Commission new regulatory authority over gender diversity.
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Peter Drucker - An organization can have one mission. As soon as it has two it will fail at both.
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Your job application is nearly complete. The following demographic questionnaire is entirely voluntary. Please annotate the ethnic group you most closely identify with:
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Waters proposed creating a House subcommittee on diversity and inclusion that would force companies to quantify their board members by race and gender.
Mussolini smiles...
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If one can identify with non-biological genders what will stop folks from identifying with non-biological ethnic groups? Then it'll make its way to the Supreme Court and we'll end this nonsense (hopefully).
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[MASSLIVE] Two more influenza-associated pediatric deaths have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bringing to 13 the number of such deaths for the current flu season.
[News24 South Africa] Just before Christmas I went to buy a bottle of wine in a store in a town on the Garden Route. There were two cashiers; one was talking to a friend or relative on the phone, the other one was just staring past me. After several minutes, I asked her if I could pay for the wine. Sorry, she said, she was waiting to finish a transaction with another customer, and she pointed to that person.
[Aljazeera] Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Forty years ago on Monday, Vietnamese tanks rolled through Phnom Penh, a city that had been a near ghost town during the genocidal Khmer Rouge, to signal the overthrow of the regime of Pol Pot, the ultra-communists' leader who managed to escape in a jeep at the last minute.
[American Thinker] A Senate memo has blasted another law enforcement agency for corrupt behavior: the U.S. Marshals Service.
