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Theories abound on the possible scam. Maybe min should install it at her place of work. Link: A school memo, obtained by MixedandHappy and The Smoking Gun, was passed out to every 6th, 7th, and 8th grader to inform them of the breakdown. The upcoming elections are divided between offices delineated for black and white students. Of the 12 offices for which students can compete, "eight are earmarked for white students, while four are termed 'black seats." The presidency is reserved for white students across each grade, but a black student is permitted to be the 8th grade vice-president or reporter, the 7th grade treasurer, or the 6th grade reporter. So, along with a "B" average and "a good disciplinary status and moral character," a child hoping to represent his or her class must be the right race... How Would They Even Hold the Clubs? Dinosaurs wouldn't play golf even if you gave them a day to get used to each other. What's in the Box? Now, back when i posted the pic of our Mountain Dew Throwback supply, you may recall that Mr. adam offered to get me some Dr. Pepper Throwback. I figured mebbe he'd bring me a can or two when he came to visit. Well, when i saw Wanyas' post from 2 wks ago, I started to suspect that adam was offering something else entirely. Yesterday, we too received a mysterious package.  Though not nearly as heavy or as costly as Wanyas' box,  it was from  I think you can see where this is going...  You're a pepper! He's a pepper! I'm a pepper, too! Tengu!!!! Forget Peak Oil, we've got Peak Helium Link: Scientists have warned that the world's most commonly used inert gas is being depleted at an astonishing rate because of a law passed in the United States in 1996 which has effectively made helium too cheap to recycle. Cordoba House This issue of the "Ground Zero Mosque" (entirely in quotes for several reasons) is driving me nutty. I don't want to read about it any more! And i'm really disappointed in the scores of Democrats who can't seem to stick up for a basic Constitutional right without going into contortions. And of course, Barack Obama. Make it stop! Recap #34 Wrong conspiracy Time: The debate over what caused the sinking of the South Korean ship is difficult for the general public to follow, with all its discussion of acoustic signatures and electron-dispersive spectroscopy. And it certainly has echoes of conspiracy theories like those surrounding the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. By choosing the JFK assassination, Time magazine implies that only cranks and conspiracy theories would doubt the official story on the sinking ship. A better example would have been the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, where a made-up attack on a US battleship escalated the Vietnam War. Seems odd to me that Time would skip over an actual conspiracy that very closely parallels this incident in favor of the JFK assassination theories. The race to the bottom
"We need to be very aware [of what's available] as people [in the US] are open to working at home and working at lower salaries than they were used to," said Mr Bhasin. "We can hire some seasoned executives with experience in the US for less money." The old biddy party The Democrats' strategy for campaigning against Linda McMahon is bewildering: Democrats see McMahon's tenure as WWE CEO as a potent general election attack. They have already attacked her over the content of WWE programming as well as the company's record on policing steroid and other drug use. Who are they appealing to with that rhetoric? They sound like the Moral Majority from the 80s. Do they really think it's going to get social conservatives to vote for a Democrat? All they're doing is alienating fans of professional wrestling. Reminds me of how Tipper Gore's PMRC convinced me i was a conservative when i was in middle school. What happened to "Let them eat cake?" via TPM: Jeb Bush on GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed entitlement-slashing, deficit-exploding budget "plan":He's not saying the world's going to be full of butterscotch sundaes. He's saying: "Eat your broccoli. And then maybe you don't get to eat at all for a few days. You don't get steak -- ever." I'm right behind him Via Balloon Juice: On Monday, on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport, a JetBlue attendant named Steven Slater decided he had had enough, the authorities said. We don't have any beverages in our kitchen worth grabbing. Maybe i'll take some post-its. Update: Everybody's quittin'! (Although this one's a hoax). Sometimes Reading the Guardian Makes My Brain Melt A former dictator and convicted drug trafficker who has been elected president of Suriname has promised not to interfere in his trial for allegedly murdering opponents during his military rule. Which is not so different than how things are run here ("We investigated ourselves and determined there was no evidence of wrong doing."), except on the scale. We're ok with killing people off slowly with pollutants and financial ruin, but we're still a bit squeamish about open execution of opponents. We do have standards, after all. I Think This Should Tide Us Over For the Next Year or So Wanyas told me Shoprite was selling Mt. Dew Throwback again, so i went and got us a few cases. 
Picked up some Pepsi Throwback while i was at it. Marvel Sales June. Jobs Detecting a trend: A core issue is that the employer-employee relationship has broken down. Quaint as it may sound, there once was a tacit commitment: a worker who competent and dedicated could expect to spend a considerable amount of his career at with one firm (in the 1980s, job tenures of less than five years needed to be justified). But as cost cutting and short term earnings fixation became more pervasive, average time of employment shortened greatly. And with that came a major shift in behavior: it made less and less sense for employers to hire talented people with good general competence and character and train them. They'd be unlikely to recoup the cost of the investment. Instead, companies started more and more to seek staff, in that horrid corporate cliche, who could hit the ground running. For instance, headhunters would increasingly be tasked to find someone who was doing exactly the same job at a competitor firm. This tendency goes all the way down the food chain; for instance, I'm told it's impossible to become a bartender in NYC unless you have at least two years of bartending experience. The Japanese term ''freeter'' is a hybrid word that originated in the late 1980s, just as Japan's property and stock market bubbles reached their zenith. It combines the English ''free'' and the German ''arbeiter,'' or worker, and describes a lifestyle that's radically different from the buttoned-down rigidity of the permanent-employment economy: freedom to move between jobs. This absence of loyalty to a company is totally alien to previous generations of driven Japanese "salarymen'' who were expected to uncomplainingly turn in 70-hour work weeks at the same company for decades, all in exchange for lifetime employment. Much more at both links, including a debunking of the idea that unemployed workers are too fussy at the former and a book title called "The Herbivorous Ladylike Men Who Are Changing Japan" at the latter. I should really read reviews before i buy games But i mean, it was a 2D Castlevania game! What i've been clamoring for for over a decade! Yeah... Both pretty accurate. Oh well. Who Says No to a Part in The Expendables? Van Damme clearly makes bad choices. It seems that Jean-Claude Van Damme had the chance to sign up to Sylvester Stallone's film The Expendables and even had Stallone on the phone to him personally offering him the role. Super big DER. I mean, Van Damme's rejection led to Dolph Lundgren being asked (wtf, Stallone? Lundgren totally should have been part of the lineup with or without Van Damme), so yay, but why the hell wouldn't he want to be a part of what is clearly a totally awesome idea? 50+ yr old action hero has beens all in the same movie together shooting things and blowing other things up? That's pure movie genius. According to wikipedia, this is what Van Damme will be spending his time prepping for instead of being part of Hollywood magic: Van Damme will make a return to fighting and is scheduled to fight former boxing Olympic gold-medalist Somluck Kamsing in October 2010, in Las Vegas or Macau.[16] The winner of that match will face current world champion Jeffrey "The Squasher" Sun.[17] At the prospect of being the first man over the age of 50 to fight professionally in Macau, Jean-Claude Van Damme stated that "it's kind of dangerous, but life is short." Oy. Whoodwin?
Vader on the Tom Tom H/t to wnkr1971 for this.
"What do you mean 'quieter'? This is how I breathe." lol
Jane Austen's Fight Club When do we get a game show called "Kick Ben Stein in the balls"? 2. The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities. I say "generally" because there are exceptions. But in general, as I survey the ranks of those who are unemployed, I see people who have overbearing and unpleasant personalities and/or who do not know how to do a day's work. They are people who create either little utility or negative utility on the job. Again, there are powerful exceptions and I know some, but when employers are looking to lay off, they lay off the least productive or the most negative. To assure that a worker is not one of them, he should learn how to work and how to get along--not always easy. Superman vs. Thor; heart surgery edition First, the background. Superman apparently not exactly going all out to help a man with a heart problem. From an actual comic, Super-Man #701. Next, the parody. Thor in the same situation. Finally, and not at all related, the costumes for the new Thor movie. They look kind of... renfaire or fan cosplay to me, but promo pics never look great, so we'll see. (All this and more via Mike Sterling) Idiot Impressive, maybe. But still an idiot. Marvel Sales May. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too Linking to Sarah Palin stuff feels out of date at this point, but i couldn't help myself with this one. Refudiate me if you disagree. Vermont pics 10 pictures, no long winded descriptions, not too many trees and rocks, no waiting.  Obama administration failing on science, too. In Florida, water-quality experts reported government interference with efforts to assess damage to the Everglades stemming from development projects. This is purely an executive branch thing. No 60 votes requirements to overcome. There's no excuse for this. Clearly indicates we need to lower taxes on the rich NYT: The housing bust that began among the working class in remote subdivisions and quickly progressed to the suburban middle class is striking the upper class in privileged enclaves like this one in Silicon Valley. Wonder Woman's costume discussion Chris Sims & co.'s roundtable group. (Why don't we have a roundtable group that talks about comics? Oh, because min is 3 months behind.) It doesn't even matter what the topic is Ezra Klein, not exactly a raging liberal: I'd say the key comment is Kerry's admission that "we believe we have compromised significantly, and we're prepared to compromise further." They should engrave that on the dome of the United States Capitol. Farce Can we just drop the Supreme Court nominee hearings? SPECTER: I will put into the record what the justices have had to say. I've questioned almost everybody about this subject, and I've had the opportunity to question all of the people on the court now. Hopefully gets him away from writing comics, anyway TV and comics veteran Jeph Loeb has been named to a new position within Marvel, according to a press release, below. As Executive Vice President, Head of Television, Loeb will work on bringing Marvel's characters to television and oversee both development and distribution of their series efforts, both animated and live-action. Recap #33 An Undead Army - Imagine the Stench Tell that to the magic-users and monks who use them for hit dice From the May 8th issue of the Economist:  I just think it's funny that they used a picture of some D&D dice without any explanation as to what they are. Because everyone recognizes a d4, right? I always liked this ad  Don't really have anything to say about it. I just think it's cool. Marvel Sales Good name for a tongue-in-cheek retro-60s style band The Chortles Drunk Flies Through Toll This video has made the rounds by now, but fnord12 hasn't seen it yet, so here you go. Yasmine Villasana, 22, failed to brake at the gate and sent her Chevrolet Impala flying into the sky. No need to stop here. There's plenty more SuperMegaMonkey where that came from.
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