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@larryB- I am not the censor either, but I can guess that the unequivocally negative and partisan thread title was, by itself, enough to cause management to take a dim view of the whole thing.
My personal feelings are pretty much in alignment with…
@jlev- OK, you sent me chasing to Wickipedia with that one. Great, I love it! And the capper is that he eventually "became chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and then, president of the International Organization for Standar…
@Ted and @LewisBraham: Thanks. My position exactly. There are plenty of reasons why decent people own guns, for hunting, sporting, marksmanship competition, and even for personal safety. Automatic and semi-automatic assault weapons have absolutely n…
"The notion that Warren is suggesting divestment with her letter is false."
@LewisBraham: Exactly. A fact that seems to elude our friend Maurice, who first introduced her letter. You'd think that he might have read his own "evidence" a little more …
There's an article in today's WSJ about such guessing games. They claim that "40% chance" is the hands-down favorite number for most of the "professional" financial community.
It's a great number because if it doesn't happen, nobody can claim that …
Elizabeth Warren Wants To Be Your New Mutual Fund Manager
We've lost sight of the original misdirection and sleight-of-hand that @Maurice employed in his original post. From his link, here's the appalling suggestion from Elizabeth Warren:
"By leve…
Is it "appropriate" for a US Senator to accept bribes from, and do the bidden dirty work for, an organization that believes that ordinary citizens should be subjected to injury or death at the hands of some gun nut with an automatic rapid-fire weapo…
Of course YOU don't have an agenda and YOU never lie about anything. God been talking to you again, or just Rush? Probably one and the same in a mind like yours.
Hank said-
"NPR, WP, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg, PBS, BBC & CSM
All competent. Yet, you might come away with completely different takes on the same news story as reported by each. I don’t see blatant bias in any of these. But I recognize that differ…
"The blessing and the curse of the internet is that you can find the truth about anything you ask . . . yet, if you ask for a lie, it will provide one."
@rono- Well put, and absolutely true.
"I don't have dishes or cable"
@Mark, @Hank: same here…
Curiosity does also lead to a less tranquil and more nerve-wracking life as one discards the "comforts" of a religious school education/belief system, and realizes that no one has a lock on "truth" or "God's revealed word", and that your "God" may b…
"Name me any other job where one’s performance doesn’t improve with on the job experience? Not where I worked and I’ll bet not where you worked either!"
@hank: 10-4 on that!
"Hopefully you survive the lies and deceit."
@Maurice: I'm getting a bit tired of hearing nothing but an endless litany of unsupportable invective and garbage from you. If you have some actual facts, citations, or examples, lets see them. Your beli…
@LewisBraham- Sounds good to me. Either party will try to shade the rules, but the Republicans have taken gerrymandering well past any logical or ethical limit. Anyone who doesn't see that the Republicans spend major efforts trying to suppress voter…
Well, that's a bit more than I wanted to know about Ted, I'm afraid. Not really a surprise though. And these people are "leading" our country. Straight to hell.
"Although, unpleasant pay day loans have been around long before the Tuump administration arrived. Where were you then Old_Joe ?"
@Ted: "Then": I was there when the prior administration did it's best to at least put a few restrictions on how badly …
@Ted-
What on earth does a "liberal" or "conservative" label have to do with it?
Do you really believe that payday lenders don't have a long track record of screwing over the unwary and the uneducated?
Do you really believe that this is perfectly…
Yes, Duterte and Trump are certainly two of a kind. The only thing that separates them is that we still have a thin veneer of legal protection that so far has prevented Trump from doing the things that he would really like to do, if only he were all…
The (rather loose) ground rules with respect to posting links asks the poster to include a short comment describing the nature of the link material. Ted cheats on this, and simply uses an excerpt from the link itself. This can be confusing, because …
