From The People We Look To For Business Advice

The NY Times blurbs their latest attempt to resuscitate the Obama agenda:

Business and the Minimum Wage

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Paying workers more can help companies lower turnover and improve productivity.

We hope the Times publishers take this advice to heart as we contemplate these headlines at the Huffington Post:

NYT Editor Speaks Out About 'Painful' Layoffs

NYT Lays Off 'Far Fewer People' Than It Expected

Top New York Times Editor Stepping Down

Layoffs Approaching At NY Times

Major NYT Layoffs

New York Times Layoffs Begin

New York Times Panic: Staffers Told To Rein In Spending While They Await The Bloodbath

Clearly the Times could improve morale and workplace stability by giving their employees a 40% raise. Or does the advice they are so happy to dole out to others only work for real businesses?

Comments

[Ignatz]

--Actually the Russian military is not very large at this point--

They've got enough to scrum 150,000 of them near the Ukraine border. I too doubt a full scale invasion as the Ukrainians have a great many scores to settle and no small amount of leverage from, not coincidentally, Russia's dependance on the Ukraine for getting gas to the EU, but a partitioned Ukraine is certainly possible.

But even a Putin has to recognize the odds of ending up looking like the guy who forgot the count on the hand grenade he was about to throw are not small if he overreaches.

[Barack O'Bama]

I've nicknamed him Delicious. He'll go great with a dash of paprika.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Who - besides a few voices in the wilderness, is talking about this? What % of the electorate (especially the LIVs) even KNOW that he's got a half-brother in the first place?

This is the problem. A lot of my frustration comes because I assume others know what I know...& they do not.

That is a perfect hypocrisy that LIVs would GET too.
IMO Republicans underestimate how powerful amplifying the hypocrisies of the left would be. People "get it" when things are unfair.
Greenies in their big houses & cars & everyone's high gas/energy prices would be a great one too.

[Jim Eagle]

Star Wide-Receiver at Boston College gives Up Chance at NFL Career to Become Navy SEAL.

Smart kid.

[Threadkiller]

Danube, Matt, Frau, others...

Get ready.

http://www.southerncaliforniaweatherauthority.com/2014/02/27/scwxa-tornado-forecast-model-officially-detects-tornado-dynamics-on-friday-in-metro-southern-california/

[Danube on iPad]

We're lying here listening to the rain. No other sound. It's lovely.

[Captain Hate]

This should mark the death of parody:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2569996/Serviette-smile-McDonalds-sued-1-5-million-employee-called-Angel-gives-one-NAPKIN.html

[clarice]

Telegraph reports Ukrainians have re-taken the airport.

[MarkO]

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain.

Your climate is changing.

[Threadkiller]

I have long thought that "LIV" is not very accurate. The "47%" should be considered DIVs. Different Information Voters.

These people survive very well on what they know. After the looting of Wal-Mart when they had the EBT card "accidental" removal of spending limits (kinda like our Federal Govt right now), I was amazed at the speed of the dissemination of the looting strategy.

They are very high information for the world they live and vote in. Deep down I think my frustration comes from knowing that Boehner and his cronies are not trying to educate the freeloaders from low info to high info in my world, but rather they are trying to rule two distinct worlds of High Info Voters at the same time.

The Dems stick to their world and win, we don't and we lose.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Youth Sports- I started soccer refereeing 15 years ago when my son started to become a serious player, I figured I should understand the game if he was going to play it. When I started the referee stuff, I got to see what parents look like looking out from the playing field. It can get ugly. The kids who play treat officials OK (maybe it's the harsh talking to I give the rude ones), the paid pro coaches are good now, the parents are the only ones who routinely ruin the game atmosphere. And the lower quality of the league, the worse it can be. Shame.

BTW- teenage girls ACL tears? If the girl plays soccer, LAX, field Hockey, Basketball-- it's gonna happen. I see a few every season with HS aged girls.

[Jim Eagle]

rse,

Common Core could impact Florida special election

Bill Young's old district where Alex Sink made her "maids and landscapers" gaffe.

[Ignatz]

Very perceptive and I suspect correct, TK.

[Captain Hate]

So Tommy Boy is stating that the way to resolve Venezuela's problems is to start Carnival early and hit the beach? Well all righty then...

[Captain Hate]

Bang spot on, TK.

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

Congrats to h&r Jr!

Congrats to the bballer!

Girls from the white? In Georgia the boys play white, the girls the senior tees. And yes we pickup at double par - except in tournaments then they play it out. Matches against other schools is DP pick up otherwise they'd get three holes in and the backup on the course would be unbearable.

Playing and practicing every day you will see dramatic improvement in his scores.

DP pickup is similar to the max strokes allowable on the handicap system where a 20-29 handicap golfer's max recordable score is 7 on any hole.

When watching him play, always stay half a hole ahead and be a helpful parent by being a spotter for wayward balls - it helps them stay on time and not get warnings for slow play and is perfectly legal. The pressure is less if you are not walking with them, too

Just an ex-high school golf parents 2¢.

[Ranger]

So I figure the Crimean protesters, are likely former?? Spetznaz.

No former about it. From my past experience, I'm pretty sure quite a few active duty in civies are involved.

[Jane]

Kerry Kennedy acquitted. But of course,

[Ignatz]

--Star Wide-Receiver at Boston College gives Up Chance at NFL Career to Become Navy SEAL.--

Covered, of course, by the (UK) Daily Mail.

Now if it was,

"Star Wide Receiver really is Wide Receiver Cause He's Like All Gay and Stuff"

then he'd be on Today getting a tongue bath from Lauer (try and get that image out of your head) or making Robin Roberts feel all hetero again at GMA.

[Old Lurker]

Damn. Wish I had known this:

"DP pickup is similar to the max strokes allowable on the handicap system where a 20-29 handicap golfer's max recordable score is 7 on any hole."

Applying that rule alone will improve my scores next summer.

[Captain Hate]

Kerry Kennedy acquitted. But of course,

Did the court apologize for making her have to explain her conduct to a bunch of commoners?

[Ignatz]

Don't read Fareed Zakaria's
"America plays its role in a changing world right."

I didn't and I'm certain I'm smarter and more well informed for the [non]effort.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

It is a disgrace that she was acquitted.
Was she driving under the influence of pills? - YES. That is all.
I don't care about any excuses.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

How bout...I mistakenly drank Vodka when I thought it was water? Will that work for any of us?

[Jane]

Bomb threat at the local HS. All have been evacuated.

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

OL. Yep tis true. Check the handicap chart posted at your club for the details. Btw that is a 7 on any hole even a par 3.

Not surprised you didn't know this as slot of golfers don't, but our club pro stresses this in our ladies clinics to both keep the ladies from holding up the men (and avoiding the grumbling that results as we have no ladies play time restrictions) and to keep the ladies from getting frustrated on a bad hole.

Glad I could help!

[Jim Eagle]

Stephanie,

Under ESC, the max per hole for a 20-29 handicap player is 8 not 7.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Janet..."I mistakenly drank Vodka when I thought it was water? Will that work for any of us?"

You're gonna have to knock over another 7-11 to find out.

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

Is it 8? I thought 8 was the 30s handicaps max. Maybe so, it's been awhile since I played and I have fluctuated between a 19 HC and a now ugh yucky 27.

Anyways there is a max stroke per hole depending on your handicap so use it to your advantage and check the HC chart at your club.

I must be getting old timers disease. Yeeesh.

[Ranger]

Second try at this post:

Every single program they propose is a way to get money to their pals using fake compassion to cover their tracks.

It's called the Chicago Way. They have simply used the Affordable Housing Scam as a template for every aspect of policy at this point.

Funny how my post about the Ukraine when through fine, but when I say something about the Chicago Way, I get disappeared.

[jimmyk]

This should mark the death of parody

Can I sue Typepad because a brilliant post of mine at 10:20 disappeared? I'm not sure $1.5M will quite cover the damage to my psyche, not to mention the loss to other JOMers of the benefit of my wisdom.

As an aside, I noticed that CH got two quick posts in at 10:20. I wonder if posts get dropped when too many people hit 'post' at nearly the same time.

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

I have struggled between a low handicap of 17 (one summer I played daily) and 29.

Btw, hit, as he's learning have him judge his scores not by par but by double bogeys then as he improves move his "par" to bogeys then to pars.

That is how Tiger's dad had him do it and it works wonders psychologically.

[Threadkiller]

For the record, my birther posts never get dropped.

:-)

[Captain Hate]

As an aside, I noticed that CH got two quick posts in at 10:20. I wonder if posts get dropped when too many people hit 'post' at nearly the same time.

Although I still lose some comments every now and then, I seem to be victimized less than average. I attribute that to insulting this trash software every chance I get. I think it keeps it in line.

[Threadkiller]

For example:

Report: Who Is British Intel Advisor Michael Shrimpton; Obama Born In Kenya?

http://www.birtherreport.com/2014/02/report-who-is-british-intel-advisor.html

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

http://weaselzippers.us/177303-obama-invites-trayvon-martins-parents-to-his-my-brothers-keeper-event/

Trayvon was staying with his father's girlfriend!

[Jim Eagle]

BTW, Equitable Stroke Control is only for "posting" your score. If you are playing in accordance with the rules of golf (USGA) in a stroke play tournament, there is no pickup after you achieve the ESC max stroke. You keep playing and take the score you achieved whether it is a 13 or 19. You can adjust that score based on ESC when you post it.

The tournament committee can effect a local rule but I have never seen one in stroke play tournament since it would not protect the field. If you pick up your ball instead of holing out regardless of the score you are disqualified.

I believe in high school golf down here where I live they do not pickup at double par or max stroke since the publish scoreds indicate they played until the ball is holed (which is the rule).

[Old Lurker]

Is there a similar rule limiting how many balls I can lose per hole?

:-)

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

Also, hit, if you play with him, you might have him hit his ball and then pick it up and move it to your spot and the have him hit from there til he gets his distance game dialed in. Kinda like him playing a best ball tournament by himself. Helps with the frustration factor for beginning golfers - at least it did for me. And it helps avoid 6 hour rounds and having to let the field continually play through.

His distance game will come fast if he has his dad's ex baseball skillz :)

[jimmyk]

And George Zimmerman was the one who was actually looking out for his neighbors (being his "brothers' keeper"). Too bad he's a "white Hispanic" and ineligible.

[Captain Hate]

Jason Collins was supposed to meet with Saint Matty's parents last night in Denver. Maybe it was during the game so they wouldn't have to send his fat ass out to clog up the stat sheet with fouls.

[Account Deleted]

"I have long thought that "LIV" is not very accurate."

TK,

It's certainly not accurate when applied to 47%, nor would DIV be accurate if applied to the same percentage. DIV, as you apply it, would seem to apply to the 16-20% of the total population (not voting population) who live as near complete parasites. The majority of that subset have intellectual limitations which preclude employment in other than very closely supervised situations. They simply lack the capacity to make informed decisions.

The aggressive parasites, 8-10% of the population, definitely meet your DIV definition. The LIVs constitute the remainder and are very susceptible to emotional manipulation. They wouldn't recognize an intellectual foundation (right or left) if they tripped over it, nor would they recognize a principle, even if clubbed by one.

Boehner et al., are not going to waste time attempting to educate the ineducable, nor should they. Reality is raising knots on the LIVs and the GOP is going to focus on offering an escape route to avoid more of them.

[Jim Eagle]

Buddhist Hell, Sri Lanka - Gruesome Photos Banned by Facebook Revealed

Not to be read and seen while eating or drinking.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

RickB@11:07-- that's a fair summary of the way I see the election world. The LIVs and persuadables now know that ObummerCare is poison for them -- THANKS BARRY! Now conservatives have to give concrete examples of how things will continue to get worse with the Progressive Fascists, and offer, as you say, an escape route.

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

Correct, Jack. They don't use ESC or double par pickups here in tournaments only in the mid week matches against other schools and at practice.

HS golfers play really slow and there are golfer's on the course behind them during the week and it helps keep pace.

For some reason, most boys think they need to emulate the pros on the green; therefore, they play really slowly. Girls tend to take a quick look and fire away.

[Beester]

College athletic scholarships--I don't want to discourage parents from pursuing athletic scholarships. I was thinking of revenue sports (football and basketball, sometimes hockey) at Division I Schools. Many schools at different NCAA levels offer scholarships for Olympic sports (non-revenue)for solid student-athletes.

JimmyK--a few topics ago, were you the one asking about positions in northern Virginia? If so and you are willing to work in the belly of the beast, consider fundraising positions at colleges and universities. With the OPM famine, Higher Ed is desperately looking for new revenue. Private donors are the targets and development staffs are expanding accordingly. Of course, tailor resumes to each area mentioned--annual fund, telemarking, major gifts, etc. FWIW

[boost]

"The majority of that subset have intellectual limitations ..."

What an epic asshole.

[Threadkiller]

Jindal wants the 100%, Rick. That doesn't exclude too many people.

You make the point of there being a left and a right intellectual foundation. What you can't do is use the right's foundation to erect the left's structure upon and vice versa.

In my intellectual world I am pissed about paying Universal Lifeline on my phone bill. In their world they are pleased that they receive discounted phone service.

How does Boehner appeal to both of us at the same time?

John Edwards was correct about there being two Americas.

He just didn't tell the truth about the distinction.

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

Btw, if they do pick up at ESC or double par, whichever the coach is using, have him circle his pickups so the coach can see which are true scores and not pickups. He'll also see the circled scores start to disappear which is huge psychologically as well and a goal to work toward.

[Jim Eagle]

Hit,

Don't know how much golf Hit, Jr. has played or if he is just starting but I started Frederick out when he was 2 by putting from 3 feet on the practice green and gradually moving him back further. Nothing but putting.

Then we moved on to chipping from 6 feet off the green. Putting and chipping then on to pitching. He never hit a driver or iron from any distance until he had a reasonable short game. Then I handed him over to the pros at our club for full swing instruction.

He plays all par 4's from the 150, par 5's from the 200 and par 3's from the most forward tees. Of course, he's only 10 not a teen but its a good way to build up confidence. He is playing in his first tournament March 8th - a scramble for the school. He is part of our foursome and is really excited.

[narciso]

Well if the fact that the earth revolves around the sun, is new to them, then they're are not the sharpest knife in the drawer, Veterans Today, seriously the outfit of moonbats, facepalm,

[Bori]

CH,

JC's line last night:

8 mins, 4 PF, and he actually scored 3 pts on 1 FG and 1 out of 2 FS.

[Old Lurker]

Steph, are you saying I play like a HS girl?

[Old Lurker]

Beester, I think that was James, not Jimmyk.

[Threadkiller]

Reality is raising knots on the LIVs and the GOP is going to focus on offering an escape route to avoid more of them.

What is the description of the LIV that can be persuaded to make a right turn? Give me an example of the demographics we are talking about.

Also, I would be interested in a top ten list of what conservatives would offer that demographic to convince them.

A party that is supposed to be based on morals shouldn't have to negotiate for a membership drive. People who share those morals will come willingly.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

TK-- for the forseeable future there is an opportunity for ruling majority in Congress and probably 35-38 state houses based on a conservatish --ISH-- worldview-- personal responsibility, market economy, smallest government and lowest taxes possible etc. Only a small minority of that ruling block are ideological purists, but a working coalition is forming. Remember, no single member of the block gets their way entirely... hint, hint. The wild card is the OPM famine cliff. What happens when that hits hard and fast and we all go over? I would hope it cements the persuadables into believing that Progressive fascism is poison to them, but that's unknowable until it happens.

[narciso]

So 'Moms are confused about grocery shopping'
it must be the food deserts.

[narciso]

So Krugman is retiring from Princeton, unfortunately he will befoul another institution,

[Threadkiller]

NK, I would enjoy seeing you answers to my questions at 11:27.

I really don't understand what the right offers that the left doesn't do one better in the mind of someone who can't make up their mind.

[Jim Eagle]

Since we are on a golf buzz, let me share some interesting fun facts about this year's US Open:

There are 111 local qualifying sites in 42 states - 16 sites are here in Florida - the most of any state.

The top 500 players in the World Golf Rankings are exempt from local qualifying.

You must possess a handicap index of 1.3 or less in order to apply for local qualifying. [Ed. note - You won't believe the number of high handicap golfers that cheat on their application and then get into local qualifying only to piss off the guys they are playing with by shooting in the 100's)

Only 2 golfers have ever won the US Open via local and sectional qualifying - Ken Venturi in 1964 and Orville Moddy in 1969.

They are expecting over 14,000 golfers to try and qualify this year.

This year's tournament is at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina.

Hit, you need to take young Master Hit down to watch it. He'll love it.

[Account Deleted]

"Also, I would be interested in a top ten list of what conservatives would offer that demographic to convince them."

No problem.

1. Avoiding the pain of progressive fascism.
2. Avoiding the pain of progressive fascism.
3. Avoiding the pain of progressive fascism.
4. Avoiding the pain of progressive fascism.
5. Avoiding the pain of progressive fascism.
6. Avoiding the pain of progressive fascism.
7. Avoiding the pain of progressive fascism.
8. Avoiding the pain of progressive fascism.
9. Avoiding the pain of progressive fascism.
10. Avoiding the pain of progressive fascism.

There is no need to offer LIVs anything other than an analgesic at this time. They've never been an honest group to begin with - they never stay bought cuz they never even knew they were bought in the first place.

Bless their hearts.

[Beester]

OL--Thanks for the correction.

[Threadkiller]

That is a nice list, Rick.

:-)

But I am still interested in a detailed description of the person looking for that list in a political party.

Demographics please?

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Beester, I think that was James, not Jimmyk.

I passed the post on to James.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

TK-- my 11:27 gave 4 issue examples of what a broad conservative party can use to win a working national majority, I would add, the obvious ObummerCare repeal, strong national defense, religious liberty, restrained judges. That's about 8 off of the top of my head. As to the demographics, millenials, married/single moms, latino and asian professionals and business owners. They all want to avoid national bankruptcy and socialism which will destroy opportunity for themselves and their kids. Plus, the 47% is majority white retirees, who worked all of their lives and are americans. They want their SS and Medicare protected, but are otherwise persuadable, bankruptcy and default is poison to them, look at the dems running away from the ObummerCare Medicare cuts to pay for Medicaid expansion for the parasites. very few of these demographics will turn 90 degrees to starboard to your way of thinking. But enough will turn rightward enough to vote conservativish- ISH. Look at the Gallup ObummerCare/generic Congress polls and watch Colo Wisc, Mich, and Va and NH voting this November.

[Bori]

Have you guys seen this.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/02/28/new-unilateral-obamacare-change-gives-tax-credits-to-private-enrollments-after-state-exchange-debacle/

It seems that the State's Exchanges are not longer needed. Cute.

[jimmyk]

Correct, OL.

So Krugman is retiring from Princeton

And his colleagues at Princeton erupt with high fives all around.

His nuttiness won't even be noticed in Manhattan. Just another bearded, bug-eyed man wandering the streets muttering about the 1 percent.

[jimmyk]

Saw that, Bori, seems they are doubling down on the unauthorized subsidies, daring the SC to overrule them.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

The other thing in that Kennedy story that gets me is - "A human-rights advocate, Kennedy is a scion of one political dynasty..."

Does it matter who OUR parents are if we commit a crime? My Dad was a wildlife biologist....does that count for anything?

and what exactly is a "human-rights advocate" & why does her occupation matter?
I have a mentally retarded friend that I help take care of...does that count as being a "human-rights advocate"?
What if someone is a cashier? or plumber?...are they allowed special consideration if they break the law?
Is a "human-rights advocate" better than a plumber? Do juries have to treat them better?

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Oops..here's the link - http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/defense-shares-article-back-kennedy-testimony-22700750

[Jim Eagle]

I have this happy feeling we can start to put a fork in Maduro.

Look at this photo and comments (Solamente, si usted habla español).

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

I think SCOTUS will slam the door on these ObummerCare tyrannies. How can a tax law be so arbitrarily applied contrary to the Congressional statute? This is one of those rare winnable agency rule repeal cases IMO.

PS: yes TK I know you disagree :)

[Captain Hate]

It seems that the State's Exchanges are not longer needed. Cute.

So all that money spent on them all of a sudden goes **POOF** and it doesn't matter whether they worked or not? Outstanding use of taxpayer funds imo.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

JimyK-- it's worse than that. Warren Wilhelm will hire him as his redistribution Tsar.

[Old Lurker]

As the guy (Turley?) said, "Congress is not just being passive (about executive encroachment), but they are being inert."

Bad as it is when Obama unilaterally changes the ACA as he goes, it seems that when his changes greatly alter the projected cost of the program he really really crosses the line by unilaterally changing the Congressionally approved budgets involved. How does he get away with that?

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

CaptH-- the Cronies got paid over a BILLION. MelR warned us that the ChiTown way is that Progs and their cronies GET PAID.... always.

[Old Lurker]

Cap'n most money sent to government or borrowed by it has gone "poof". Why pick on this one example...

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

OL. Possibly:)

The HS girls on our varsity team have handicaps that most guys would give their left nut for.

When K played the number one girl had a 7, K had an 11, number three had a 17 and number four a 19.

Currently there is a girl on the team that has a HC of 3 and is ranked in the top 100 nationally.

You should be happy to play like a girl!

[Threadkiller]

As to the demographics, millenials, married/single moms, latino and asian professionals and business owners.

Ok, thanks. I will take Asian professionals for $100.

Tell me more about this group.

If changing their vote to the right is the goal, they must have been voting to the left previously.

Why?

[Captain Hate]

Yes, NK, the cronies always get paid; that's been a constant with this scummy bunch.

[boost]

Yeah. Follow the traditional venue of the media. It's funny how you only listen to mainstreamers when it fits your personal agenda.

You might want to actually read some sources who are on the ground in venezuela, if it's not too inconvenient.

Diddling in Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela is Afternoon delight for master chess players.

[James D.]

Beester, it was me, and thanks for the advice - that IS one of the places I'm looking. any port in a storm, and all that...

On another note, Ig had sage advice at 10:30:

Don't read Fareed Zakaria

I'd second that, and apply it to everything he writes, not just whatever mishmash of lies, utopian garbage and outright stupidity he's thrown against the wall today.

[Captain Hate]

Welp you've got me there, OL. I just think somebody should keep a running tally on what 404Care has cost given the grandiose promises on how full of wonderful awesomeness it would be. And how the Searchlight Pederast has called anybody doubting that liars.

[Jim Eagle]

What your name says about your politics

I used my given name, John, and was very pleased with the results.

[James D.]

How bout...I mistakenly drank Vodka when I thought it was water? Will that work for any of us?

I was at a Star Trek convention several years ago (don't judge!), and Mark Alaimo (the actor who played Gul Dukat on Deep Space 9) was speaking. He told the story of working on a play with Robert DeNiro, and, as a practical joke, he switched the water in the glass DeNiro's character was drinking from, with vodka.

The way he told the story, DeNiro drank it down in one gulp, and kept right on playing the scene without any reaction at all.

[matt]

It is raining like it does in the tropics right now, and because I am indoors I am loving it.We're not getting that black sky, but it is walls of rain.

That Buddhist hell looked like Bosch with crayons, JiB.

I pray the mountains get dumped on with snow. We need it badly. On the plain it simply runs off into the ocean for the most part. The water has to sink into the aquifer to replenish it.

Apparently the Rooskies have de-badged themselves. I still don't like those bastards after almost 40 years.Putin is $10/bbl away from disaster, so it will be interesting to watch it play out. Wars are expensive.

[rse]

JIB-thanks for that Florida link. CC is definitely a subterfuge no one was supposed to get to the bottom of in time. Too bad. Those concerned about data mining really should read today's post as I get to the bottom of what I was referencing yesterday. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/science-fiction-made-real-were-we-ever-to-know-in-time/

Anyone involved with ICT will also want to look at. I am quite sure this is what is being tried now and that it cannot work.

[Jim Eagle]

JamesD,

Mark Alaimo was assuming it was water in DeNiro's glass. Could have been a faulty assumption:)

[rse]

Jane-we had a bomb threat at the Diva's high school this week too. Apparently there is a new cell phone app YipYap that makes it easy to do anonymously. The Diva told me yesterday school wants to sue. I explained they wanted to know who posted.

Let us know if there are similar conversations up your way on this new way to create bomb threats and disorder the school day.

[Thomas Collins]

NK, I think if Treasury's and the IRS's administration of the tax provisions of 404Care ever reaches SCOTUS, SCOTUS will uphold such administration. The administration of the federal taxing power is given great discretion by the federal courts.

On the other hand, I think the IRS's discriminatory administration of Section 501(c)(4) exempt status applications is subject to Equal Protection/First Amendment attack. See Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 US 356 (1886) (striking down discriminatory administration of a facially neutral municipal statute; although Yick Wo involved municipal law and administration, discriminatory administration of a facially neutral federal statute is also subject to attack).

TK, you may be interested to know that in another part of the Yick Wo opinion, the rights of US noncitizen residents are discussed.

http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/118/356/case.html

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

I bet Orangejello and Lemonjello wouldn't score the same way, JiB. Two names actually enrolled at one time in our local school system.

Pronounced o raaang ello and le mon jello.

[Old Lurker]

TC, so the next Republican president can declare that Capital Gains taxes are counterproductive and therefore will no longer be collected?

[Jeff Dobbs]

CH:
So all that money spent on them all of a sudden goes **POOF** and it doesn't matter whether they worked or not? Outstanding use of taxpayer funds imo.

Money laundered through D.C. and state governments has a 30.643478x multiplier for the economy. Or so I've been told.

I rounded that number by the way. The White House economists take the number out another 16 digits because they're really, really good at calculating this stuff.

[jimmyk]

Good point, JiB @12:09!

I don't know anything about DeNiro as a person, and don't really want to, as I've always enjoyed him on screen. Unlike, say, Nicholson, he's morphed from playing nasty tough guys to regular good-natured middle-aged men and hasn't skipped a beat.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

TK-- the Dems suck up poor new immigrant votes before they even get a Green Card... been that way since the 1850s. The problem for 25 years is that successful immigrants haven't moved to voting their economic interests. That's what has to be changed. BTW-- it took Northeast urban white 'ethnics' over 80 years to do that... we can't wait that long.

[Thomas Collins]

SCOTUS would distinguish your case from the 404Care taxes, OL. SCOTUS would hold the 404Care tax regs. as an appropriate use of the Treasury Dept.'s rulemaking authority to facilitate transition to a new statutory regime.

[Captain Hate]

I rounded that number by the way. The White House economists take the number out another 16 digits because they're really, really good at calculating this stuff.

I know; that's why all those bothersome actual figures are so "unexpected". Because when somebody who smells like Paul Krugman is shown to be wrong, there is a disturbance in the universe.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

TC-- this is more of the arbirary and contrary to law agency law making cases, and for that reason qualitively different than the IRS collecting for the public fisc cases. obummer has recently lost a few contrary to law cases in the DC Circuit (Clarice could remind us of those. I would fancy my chances winning the ObummerCare rule cases in both the DC Circuit and SCOTUS.

[pagar plus]

"Money laundered through D.C. and state governments has a 30.643478x multiplier for the economy."

Say what?

[Stephanie VIP shhhhh its fight club]

I've never understood voting for somebody else's best interests to feel good about yourself. Vote in your own self interest and don't presume to vote for someone who might surprise you with their thoughts on your presumption and gall. Some people taking assistance are conservatives temporarily hanging with the riffraff.