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Mexico sucks. End of story.
Harvard men should ask for a discount proportionate to the amount of time they aren't allowed into the gym. If the gym dues are 24 dollars a month, and they aren't allowed into the gym for 3 hours a day, they should get a $3 a month discount.
Then they should sue ;-)
Then they should sue ;-)
I prefer that the local authorities not have access to my sensitive emails. I may use a local computer firm here in town, but I prefer a deadly stealth hacker from elsewhere.
I've been away a while with a HUGE work project, and been out of town and so forth, and upon returning found out that I've got a security leak at my company. Somehow people are getting my emails (which have UBER-password protection) and they're altering them, adding and subtracting shit, and forwarding them to other people.
Anyway, I got a printout of one and ALL I HAVE is the "from" email address from which the email was forwarded.
I'm willing to pay LARGE CASH to find out who, what, when, where, and how someone got into my email or at the very least who that person really is and from whence they sent these emails. I've pulled the usual "show headers" and "whois lookup" and shit like that but I clearly need someone who can hack their way into that email address and find out who they are and how they got my stuff.
I'm going to be out of town starting this afternoon on business, and will be gone a few days seeing clients, but if there is a super hacker here who's willing to take on the job I will pay well.
Email me at wheeler at [spam sucks so i included this] completecareonline . com and let me know if you can do it and what you'd charge. I might not get back with you for a few days but I will get with you.
Thanks!
Anyway, I got a printout of one and ALL I HAVE is the "from" email address from which the email was forwarded.
I'm willing to pay LARGE CASH to find out who, what, when, where, and how someone got into my email or at the very least who that person really is and from whence they sent these emails. I've pulled the usual "show headers" and "whois lookup" and shit like that but I clearly need someone who can hack their way into that email address and find out who they are and how they got my stuff.
I'm going to be out of town starting this afternoon on business, and will be gone a few days seeing clients, but if there is a super hacker here who's willing to take on the job I will pay well.
Email me at wheeler at [spam sucks so i included this] completecareonline . com and let me know if you can do it and what you'd charge. I might not get back with you for a few days but I will get with you.
Thanks!
That guy just reminded me that I despise the whole of Islam and wish it would go away.
When are you people going to come around to my side of this thing? How much more evidence do you need? I've said from the word go, "kill every single one of them and destroy any evidence the religion existed."
Though not possible it would be my preferred option. Destroy every mosque, eliminate every Muslim, erase all electronic and written copies of the Koran, and be done with it. Wipe them out.
It's going to have to be done sooner or later to us or to them. The stated goal of their "bible" is to kill all Christians and Jews. Why give them the chance to get it done? If my neighbor went to a church every day and said "I must kill Bob Wheeler" you can bet your ass I'd take him out before he got to me.
Too bad it's so logistically impossible.
Though not possible it would be my preferred option. Destroy every mosque, eliminate every Muslim, erase all electronic and written copies of the Koran, and be done with it. Wipe them out.
It's going to have to be done sooner or later to us or to them. The stated goal of their "bible" is to kill all Christians and Jews. Why give them the chance to get it done? If my neighbor went to a church every day and said "I must kill Bob Wheeler" you can bet your ass I'd take him out before he got to me.
Too bad it's so logistically impossible.
Very simple solution to this deal. Stick a bunch of well-armed Marines in the joint and welcome the rioters back at their convenience...
I'm not sure that pot is all that bad for you, though I have to say I don't do it, but there is exactly zero chance I'd ever put any weight behind a bullshit pseudo-scientific presentation like that.
Not entirely correct. Instead of buying a group policy, we buy everyone an individual policy. We pay $X per month for each employee's health insurance and if their pre-existing condition bumps their rate over that amount they are responsible for the rest.Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:
I would dare say that most people have their insurance through their employer. As such the insurance company doesn't get to evaluate your medical condition(s) prior to coverage.
Were that girl a relative of mine you wouldn't have to worry about how the justice system handled things.
I am. IBM shouldn't get any more breaks than I do...Turquoise wrote:
Actually, this demonstrates an excellent point. As a small business owner, you don't get anywhere near the tax cuts that corporations do.Dersmikner wrote:
3. Recipient of socialist benefits as a small business owner? Are you shitting me? What alleged tax breaks are we talking about here?
If anything, the American tax system subsidizes big business more than anyone else. So if you don't like handouts, then you should be outraged at corporate pork and corporate tax deductions far more than any welfare programs.
I'm FINE with public school systems. I view schools the same way I view roads and missiles. You really can't effectively go buy your own. I'm happier with a voucher system that would force the public schools to compete, but I can live with it as it is, though I'm not a firm believer that those without children should pay school taxes. Children are a choice. I shouldn't pay to support your personal preferences.
As to small business tax breaks, I looked at your list, and I didn't see any, other than that manufacturing break, which were specific to small business, and even then you're not talking about some kind of handout, it's simply a reprieve from theft. And no, I don't get or use (and never have) any special breaks for small businesses.
As to small business tax breaks, I looked at your list, and I didn't see any, other than that manufacturing break, which were specific to small business, and even then you're not talking about some kind of handout, it's simply a reprieve from theft. And no, I don't get or use (and never have) any special breaks for small businesses.
I know where my tax money is spent. I'm intimately familiar with the way money is spent here in America.Liberal-Sl@yer wrote:
Dersminker do you like driving on roads? Do you like cheap water? How about libraries or street lights or traffic signals or lots of other shit you use everyday? If yes, then shut the fuck up you really don't have any idea where your taxes exactly go do you?
I'm ALL FOR roads, clean water, the military, police, firefighters, etc. These are goods and services which can not be provided by the individual for himself.
I'm 100% AGAINST government cheese, food stamps, subsidized housing, free lunch and breakfast programs, socialized or subsidized healthcare, etc., etc., etc. These are all goods and services which individuals can and should fund themselves.
I guess I'm just about personal responsibility. Sorry. I was brought up when we did for ourselves instead of asking the great anonymous all-powerful "government" to do everything for us.
This country has gone to shit in just 50 years. I am embarrassed by the majority of the youth of America and how far they've fallen from what Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton envisioned when they founded this nearly formerly great nation, and I shudder to think of what the future will hold when the youth of today is in charge.
Eradication. Simple as that.
His usefulness to the Republican Party as a vote stealer is diminishing with each attempt, but I am happy to see it nonetheless. Give em hell Ralph. Every vote for you is one we weren't getting anyway.
I'm voting and praying for rain. Usually people who have to take mass transit to the polls turn out in lower numbers when it rains. They're typically brokedick democrats.
Come on rain...
Come on rain...
1. Dad went to Baylor medical school and it was private scholarship money, given to the person with the best college grades, irrespective of income.
2. Have I ever written anything off my taxes? That statement is so full of shit it offends me. You're probably taxed at about 10% of your actual income, if you're taxed at all. If I write off everything I can find, and some things I make up, I'm STILL taxed at about 25%. Sure they call my bracket more, and they call your bracket more, but I'm talking about "effective" rates. You're telling me that if the government takes 10% of your money, and they were going to take 35% of mine, but I find a loophole that cuts my rate down to 25%, that the 10% I found I could save, which means I'm still paying more than you, is welfare? Dude, you need to move to a commune in the Far East and leave the land of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson to the people who understand why they built this nation.
3. Recipient of socialist benefits as a small business owner? Are you shitting me? What alleged tax breaks are we talking about here?
Here's a partial list of my taxes, and you let me know where the breaks are:
Income tax
Self-employment tax
Social security tax
Matching social security tax for my employees (that's right, they pay $x a check, I have to pay the same on their behalf)
Matching my employees retirement contributions at the same rate my company matches my own
Franchise tax (not sure why they call it that)
The new Texas professional services tax of about 1% of gross income
Texas Workforce Commission tax
I have to collect and remit sales tax (doesn't cost me anything but labor, time, and accounting fees)
Inventory tax
Personal property tax on all our desks, computers, etc, EVERY year on the same shit, over and over and over again for the state, city, county, and the school district
I could go on and on. What fucking tax beak are you talking about? You're spouting shit out your ass. You find me one real live example of a small business tax break and let me know what it is. Otherwise you're talking rhetoric.
2. Have I ever written anything off my taxes? That statement is so full of shit it offends me. You're probably taxed at about 10% of your actual income, if you're taxed at all. If I write off everything I can find, and some things I make up, I'm STILL taxed at about 25%. Sure they call my bracket more, and they call your bracket more, but I'm talking about "effective" rates. You're telling me that if the government takes 10% of your money, and they were going to take 35% of mine, but I find a loophole that cuts my rate down to 25%, that the 10% I found I could save, which means I'm still paying more than you, is welfare? Dude, you need to move to a commune in the Far East and leave the land of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson to the people who understand why they built this nation.
3. Recipient of socialist benefits as a small business owner? Are you shitting me? What alleged tax breaks are we talking about here?
Here's a partial list of my taxes, and you let me know where the breaks are:
Income tax
Self-employment tax
Social security tax
Matching social security tax for my employees (that's right, they pay $x a check, I have to pay the same on their behalf)
Matching my employees retirement contributions at the same rate my company matches my own
Franchise tax (not sure why they call it that)
The new Texas professional services tax of about 1% of gross income
Texas Workforce Commission tax
I have to collect and remit sales tax (doesn't cost me anything but labor, time, and accounting fees)
Inventory tax
Personal property tax on all our desks, computers, etc, EVERY year on the same shit, over and over and over again for the state, city, county, and the school district
I could go on and on. What fucking tax beak are you talking about? You're spouting shit out your ass. You find me one real live example of a small business tax break and let me know what it is. Otherwise you're talking rhetoric.
So nobody has anything to say when it's stuck in their faces that it isn't some catastrophic medical bill that ruined these people, OR the fact that they couldn't earn a living for six months, it's that THEY DIDN'T BOTHER to live a little less large and save for potential pitfalls.
Typical.
Typical.
By the way, I won't be here to respond for a while. I'm going to work to get ready for the 7:30 a.m. meeting tomorrow, so I can run a successful business... FOR MYSELF. My only regret is that socialist fucks will, in the form of taxes, steal about 40 minutes worth of the 2 hours I'll work while they're all playing computer games and talking philosophy.
Bullshit. My Dad worked during the day reading meters for the power company and at night as assistant manager of a 7-11. My Mom worked at a day care. They saved money for 4 years and my Dad then went to college during the day and worked at night. We qualified for government housing and food stamps, and he took neither. He made a 4.0 and got a merit based scholarship to med school, and took out loans for the rest. Your titty-baby, "save the poor", "nobody is responsible for their own success" system didn't do shit for us. We didn't need it. People who don't succeed fail on their own merits, not because they didn't get the appropriate boost from others who did.
Oh yeah, I just saw something that tweaked my opinion. They can secede, but I don't want any of them coming here. F that. Stay somewhere on the West Coast. We don't want a bunch of damned granola hippies voting socialist here. I'll only be for them seceding if we can do it at the same time and close our border to immigration. - Texas... sweet...
Fifty bucks says every one of those assholes who "didn't have any money and got sick" had cable TV and a cellular phone for the 5 years before their illness. Why not live a little bit frugally and SAVE MONEY for a rainy day? Fuck no they all want 2 cars in the garage, probably both of which have electric locks and windows which are completely unnecessary, they all have cell phones and they probably have HBO and if not that then for sure cable TV.Turquoise wrote:
Well, more directly, the issue is one of unemployment benefits then. In other words, our social programs must not be comprehensive enough.FEOS wrote:
The wrinkle in that statistic is that many of those people claim bankruptcy because of bills (not necessarily medical) that pile up when they are unable to work due to illness. It's not necessarily due to medical expenses, but rather an inability to earn an income while they are sick. Completely different issue than what you are implying. And since the people who put those statistics together are more interested in painting a bleak (as opposed to realistic, which may or may not be bleak) picture, they frame the statistics in a manner that meets their objective.PureFodder wrote:
Half of US bankrupcy cases cite medical expenses as the reason for bankrupcy, of them 75% actually had medical insurance.
""Among those whose illnesses led to bankruptcy, out-of-pocket costs averaged $11,854 since the start of illness; 75.7 percent had insurance at the onset of illness."
The average bankrupt person surveyed had spent $13,460 on co-payments, deductibles and uncovered services if they had private insurance. People with no insurance spent an average of $10,893 for such out-of-pocket expenses.
"Even middle-class insured families often fall prey to financial catastrophe when sick," the researchers wrote. "
"Our study is frightening. Unless you're Bill Gates you're just one serious illness away from bankruptcy,"
I'm sure if you found a statistical report on people who filed bankruptcy strictly because of medical bills (ie, they were still able to earn sufficient income to pay their normal bills), the number would be quite a bit smaller.
9 out of 10 assholes in your scenario, who were sick and couldn't work and need "social programs like unemployment insurance" spent the last five years of their lives with this:
Cellular phone(s) - $50
Addition to car payment (or purchase price if cash paid) for electric door locks and electric windows - $50
Cable television - $30
So that's $130 a month. Assuming you sink that $130 into a mutual fund earning 9% and pay taxes on it, in JUST FIVE YEARS you'll have $9,320 in a kitty for rainy days. That's enough money to survive on for a while. You can go frugal and last a good long time on that, unless of course you spent a shitload of money you don't have buying luxuries on your credit card, or you're living in a house that's too big for your income.
Why the fuck don't you people have any sense of personal responsibility? Who's fault is it that someone can't pay their bills when they're sick? Their fault. Period. They didn't save, they didn't plan for a problem, they didn't do shit. I have 6 months worth of income stashed in the event of a catastrophe. I could have spent all that money on nice shit or cool trips, but I didn't, because I know there's an outside chance I'll get in a bind and lose my company or who knows what, and I prefer not to live on the street or off the system.
Everyone here who has a computer could have taken that money (or could sell it now), get rid of internet access, and stick the resulting savings and cash in a savings account and have a cushion when shit goes wrong in ten years. Imagine that. If you just got a lousy $250 for your whiz bang computer and saved the $20 a month on internet access (walk to the library and read a book if you need entertainment) and deposited all that into an interest bearing account that earned 5%, and paid taxes on the interest, in 10 years you'd have about $3,400 in a little rainy day stash. That would pay your bills for three months if you lived frugally and you wouldn't have to be crying about the horrible system that didn't take care of you when you needed it.
Your fault. Not the system's fault. YOU decided that having shit was more important to you than putting away an "oh shit" fund.
When will people on this planet, or at least on this site, start accepting some personal responsibility for THEIR lives?
I think it's none of my business how Germany handles its internal governing. As long as they are free to vote, and come to some kind of collective decision, I don't care if they all work 4 hour days and sing Kumbayah the rest of the day. Actually, as long as they don't fuck with me or kill people I don't even care if they let the Nazi party come back. So long as they don't get violent I guess they ought to have the right to speak their minds.
By the way, cool fact of the day: There's an ad at the bottom of my page for a book by Barton Biggs called "Wealth, War, and Wisdom". I once had a breakfast meeting scheduled with him in New York at the Morgan Stanley headquarters (across the street from my hotel), and stood him up because I stayed out partying the night before til 6 a.m. and slept through the alarm, hung over.
By the way, cool fact of the day: There's an ad at the bottom of my page for a book by Barton Biggs called "Wealth, War, and Wisdom". I once had a breakfast meeting scheduled with him in New York at the Morgan Stanley headquarters (across the street from my hotel), and stood him up because I stayed out partying the night before til 6 a.m. and slept through the alarm, hung over.
I'm 40 and I don't consider the weak, the poor, the sick or the elderly. Fuck them. They all grew up in the same America that I did, where anyone can succeed. If they didn't it's not my responsibility.IRONCHEF wrote:
Well, the thing is, most people want to take care of our elderly, sick, and poor. It's one of those crazy old "modern civilization" cultural thingies that most people throughout history dream of. Youngsters don't understand it because they're outlook is focused on themselves, and nobody else. But as you age, you start considering humanity, the people around you, etc.ReDevilJR wrote:
Health care should be like car insurance, you pay based on your history/needs. Why should I pay for someone else who doesn't give a shit about them self?
"Modern civilization" my ass. Just call it what it is, Socialism.
You are MORE THAN WELCOMED to live in a 1 bedroom, one bath apartment and give all your money to the sick, elderly, and poor. You are not welcomed to force me to do the same.
Here are some honest thoughts:
1. My family used to be poor, poor, poor. Matter of fact my Dad used to say "we're just 'po', there's no 'or' to it." Dad and Mom worked their asses off, Dad kicked ass in college, got a scholarship to medical school, and those days are long past. I have no sympathy for the poor. If you WANT to get out of it, you can. Does it take time and hard work? Absolutely, but in America EVERYONE can rise above poverty. There are two kinds of people in the world: The kind who get things done, and the kind who make excuses why they don't get things done. I call bullshit on anyone who is poor.
2. I am in favor of some form of limits to voting. I believe that if you don't pay taxes (and I'm not talking about filing a return, I'm talking about making a net contribution in the form of a check to the government), own property, or serve in the military you have no right to vote. Sorry. If you don't contribute to the community coffers or serve to defend them why should you have the right to determine how other people's money is spent? No asshole off the street can walk into my home and tell me how to spend the household money because he hasn't contributed to the household bank account. Same principle. If you don't add to the stash, you don't get to determine how the stash is spent. I'd even be for graduated voting. You can pick the level of taxes you want to pay, and your vote counts along those lines. The more you want to contribute the more say you get in how the money is spent. If you don't want to pay any tax at all, you get no vote. Of course, that might cost you in the long run when legislation goes against you, but that's the way it would work. You could cap it somehow so Bill Gates couldn't simply buy the entire government, but I think that someone who pays $100,000+ in taxes should have more say than someone who makes $20,000 a year and gets an "earned income tax credit" which is basically just a handout. Why should that person have as much say when they've not nearly made the contribution the other guy has?
3. Let's just get to the crux of it: You "socialists" either don't have any money or you have some yourself but you want to tell me how I have to spend mine. Personal property rights are something that simply escapes you. If I wake up in the morning and I go to work and I create something through my own labor and someone is willing to pay me for that, who the fuck are you to tell me that I have to take that money and support my fellow man? Who are you to tell me I have to pay more for better schools for someone else's kids, or for a breakfast program for the poor, or for dental care for the needy or healthcare for the sick and elderly? If YOU want to donate to that shit, feel free, but what makes you think you can watch me go to work, watch me earn money, then waltz into my bank account and decide to take some of what I'VE EARNED and use it for what you think is a noble cause? Go live in a tent and give away ALL YOUR MONEY, but don't try to legislate theft and call it right. It's still theft. This country was founded on the idea that we are free people, with the right to earn without undue taxation, and that the government should only be here to meet the bare essentials of rule and order. Anyone remember the Boston Tea Party? Anyone know the phrase "taxation without representation"? You're going down the very road that this country was founded to avoid. Stay the fuck out of my wallet. Give me a military to keep us from getting invaded, pave roads because individuals can't, provide police and firefighters, and stay the hell out of everything else. The market works pretty damned well when it's not interfered with.
Or we can go with your theory. I went to work about 50 hours this week, then I went in for 5 hours yesterday, and I'll make a little 2 hour jaunt up there today, so I CAN HAVE MORE SHIT, not so you can earn more tax dollars to spend as you see fit. If you're a "socialist" to any degree, you're nothing more than a common fucking lazy thief who doesn't have the balls to break and enter. You're trying to legalize your theft and that makes you not just a thief, but a hypocritical pussy. The worst kind of shitbag.
1. My family used to be poor, poor, poor. Matter of fact my Dad used to say "we're just 'po', there's no 'or' to it." Dad and Mom worked their asses off, Dad kicked ass in college, got a scholarship to medical school, and those days are long past. I have no sympathy for the poor. If you WANT to get out of it, you can. Does it take time and hard work? Absolutely, but in America EVERYONE can rise above poverty. There are two kinds of people in the world: The kind who get things done, and the kind who make excuses why they don't get things done. I call bullshit on anyone who is poor.
2. I am in favor of some form of limits to voting. I believe that if you don't pay taxes (and I'm not talking about filing a return, I'm talking about making a net contribution in the form of a check to the government), own property, or serve in the military you have no right to vote. Sorry. If you don't contribute to the community coffers or serve to defend them why should you have the right to determine how other people's money is spent? No asshole off the street can walk into my home and tell me how to spend the household money because he hasn't contributed to the household bank account. Same principle. If you don't add to the stash, you don't get to determine how the stash is spent. I'd even be for graduated voting. You can pick the level of taxes you want to pay, and your vote counts along those lines. The more you want to contribute the more say you get in how the money is spent. If you don't want to pay any tax at all, you get no vote. Of course, that might cost you in the long run when legislation goes against you, but that's the way it would work. You could cap it somehow so Bill Gates couldn't simply buy the entire government, but I think that someone who pays $100,000+ in taxes should have more say than someone who makes $20,000 a year and gets an "earned income tax credit" which is basically just a handout. Why should that person have as much say when they've not nearly made the contribution the other guy has?
3. Let's just get to the crux of it: You "socialists" either don't have any money or you have some yourself but you want to tell me how I have to spend mine. Personal property rights are something that simply escapes you. If I wake up in the morning and I go to work and I create something through my own labor and someone is willing to pay me for that, who the fuck are you to tell me that I have to take that money and support my fellow man? Who are you to tell me I have to pay more for better schools for someone else's kids, or for a breakfast program for the poor, or for dental care for the needy or healthcare for the sick and elderly? If YOU want to donate to that shit, feel free, but what makes you think you can watch me go to work, watch me earn money, then waltz into my bank account and decide to take some of what I'VE EARNED and use it for what you think is a noble cause? Go live in a tent and give away ALL YOUR MONEY, but don't try to legislate theft and call it right. It's still theft. This country was founded on the idea that we are free people, with the right to earn without undue taxation, and that the government should only be here to meet the bare essentials of rule and order. Anyone remember the Boston Tea Party? Anyone know the phrase "taxation without representation"? You're going down the very road that this country was founded to avoid. Stay the fuck out of my wallet. Give me a military to keep us from getting invaded, pave roads because individuals can't, provide police and firefighters, and stay the hell out of everything else. The market works pretty damned well when it's not interfered with.
Or we can go with your theory. I went to work about 50 hours this week, then I went in for 5 hours yesterday, and I'll make a little 2 hour jaunt up there today, so I CAN HAVE MORE SHIT, not so you can earn more tax dollars to spend as you see fit. If you're a "socialist" to any degree, you're nothing more than a common fucking lazy thief who doesn't have the balls to break and enter. You're trying to legalize your theft and that makes you not just a thief, but a hypocritical pussy. The worst kind of shitbag.
Democracy is doomed to failure when the masses realize they can vote themselves largess from the community coffers.
The Electoral College is the only thing keeping us from having a full-on Socialist state.
There is no such thing, and never can be, as a "one man, one vote" democracy. If "one man, one vote" were the way we elected officials we'd be in a big fatass socialist state, with broke motherfuckers voting to steal the fruits of my labor for themselves.
The day we abolish the Electoral College, and start voting through convenience stores or our televisions is the day I stick all my money in a Swiss bank account and become a citizen of the world, with an alleged permanent residence somewhere like Antarctica.
Why the fuck don't more people want to make their own money instead of taxing other people? Fucking wears me out...
The Electoral College is the only thing keeping us from having a full-on Socialist state.
There is no such thing, and never can be, as a "one man, one vote" democracy. If "one man, one vote" were the way we elected officials we'd be in a big fatass socialist state, with broke motherfuckers voting to steal the fruits of my labor for themselves.
The day we abolish the Electoral College, and start voting through convenience stores or our televisions is the day I stick all my money in a Swiss bank account and become a citizen of the world, with an alleged permanent residence somewhere like Antarctica.
Why the fuck don't more people want to make their own money instead of taxing other people? Fucking wears me out...
The Houston Ship Channel is the second largest port in the United States. We can get all the cars we want.IRONCHEF wrote:
California also has more CATTLE than Florida AND Texas combined, and it has more agriculture. SO yes, we'll have food for ourselves. And we'd probably migrate to alternative fuel quite quickly, and we'd be charging you bastards a hefty import tax on Japanese cars that come through our ports. Suck on THAT you 49 states! lolGunSlinger OIF II wrote:
not too familiar with texas congressman are ya?Dersmikner wrote:
Besides, if they let you go, then we can leave and I'm about ready for Texas to be rid of the blood-sucking pork barrel leaches in this country.
BTW, Cali has its own oil and the 6th largest economy in the world.
Good luck with the alternative fuels.
Hey I'm not arguing. I'm just saying that if y'all want to go, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it. I wish we'd secede ourselves.
I'm not a sub-prime borrower or lender, meaning that a collapse in housing prices (and possibly related stocks) can only lead to buying opportunities for me, and when gas prices start hurting me I'll do something about it. As it stands, it's pretty much inconsequential to my day to day affairs. I'm MUCH better off with lower taxes.CameronPoe wrote:
Enjoy your fuel bills and the sub-prime fallout.Dersmikner wrote:
The average human being can't speak their own language, doesn't have the motivation to do anything other than take a paycheck and watch TV, can't name a half dozen countries on other continents, and has no bearing on my life whatsoever as long as she/he makes my burrito properly.
I don't give a good shit what 81% of the population thinks. As a matter of fact, if 81% think he sucks, then I'm probably better off. If 81% of the public liked what he were doing he would probably be raiding my bank account to support the world's brokedicks.
I'll stick with the 19%. When I see those TV specials about how 1% of the world controls 50% of its wealth I don't bitch about the 1%, I want to BE the 1%. The fewer people like the President the better I imagine. It means he's doing what he thinks is right, not what will win him a bunch of polls.
Healthcare statistics are bullshit. I know because it's my job to manipulate them EVERY day.
Here's a good one that's well publicized: Deliveries performed by Obstetricians are more than twice as likely to be complicated and/or end in fetal mortality as deliveries performed by midwives. Wow. The midwives pimp that stat like it's crazy.
Why is that?
Well, because at the first sign of a complication (any kind of preeclampsia, etc) the midwife calls in an Obstetrician. Midwives don't deal with ANY complicated deliveries. Therefore almost ALL the tricky deliveries are done by OBs. The real truth is that midwives are WAY worse than doctors and it should be about 10 times but the midwives have an uncanny knack of fucking up even the routine deliveries. Some are okay, but that's a good example of how healthcare stats are manipulated by those who have an agenda.
Why does the U.S. have the highest infant mortality rate? Because MANY MANY MANY more pregnancies are carried to term, or nearer term, than in the rest of the world. I can GUARANTEE you that a woman with gestational diabetes in India loses that baby at 5 months. A woman with gestational diabetes (like a woman who works at one of my client's office) might deliver that baby only to lose it. She had hers a month early and it passed away at a week old.
The infant mortality stat is a bullshit stat that is bent like a pretzel by those who are for universal healthcare. Look at the ENTIRE process, from impregnation to weening and you'll see that our medical system is far superior to the rest of the world.
In which industry do you work?
Here's a good one that's well publicized: Deliveries performed by Obstetricians are more than twice as likely to be complicated and/or end in fetal mortality as deliveries performed by midwives. Wow. The midwives pimp that stat like it's crazy.
Why is that?
Well, because at the first sign of a complication (any kind of preeclampsia, etc) the midwife calls in an Obstetrician. Midwives don't deal with ANY complicated deliveries. Therefore almost ALL the tricky deliveries are done by OBs. The real truth is that midwives are WAY worse than doctors and it should be about 10 times but the midwives have an uncanny knack of fucking up even the routine deliveries. Some are okay, but that's a good example of how healthcare stats are manipulated by those who have an agenda.
Why does the U.S. have the highest infant mortality rate? Because MANY MANY MANY more pregnancies are carried to term, or nearer term, than in the rest of the world. I can GUARANTEE you that a woman with gestational diabetes in India loses that baby at 5 months. A woman with gestational diabetes (like a woman who works at one of my client's office) might deliver that baby only to lose it. She had hers a month early and it passed away at a week old.
The infant mortality stat is a bullshit stat that is bent like a pretzel by those who are for universal healthcare. Look at the ENTIRE process, from impregnation to weening and you'll see that our medical system is far superior to the rest of the world.
In which industry do you work?
I'm fine with a government funded healthcare. Make it a separate system, with doctors who go to public medical schools and practice at government hospitals. Cap their income at 100 grand a year. See who you get signing up for that program and then we'll see how you like the quality of the healthcare. You can't get the uber-qualified superstars to work for 100 grand a year. You'll end up with shithead doctors. The brightest among us will go into business or law or something else and you'll end up with middle-of-the-roaders who aren't that great.
No sir. I want a STAR working on my spine when it's time, and I'll pay for the privilege.
No sir. I want a STAR working on my spine when it's time, and I'll pay for the privilege.
I will be a better person for having heard it, assuming I act on what I've learned.
The average human being can't speak their own language, doesn't have the motivation to do anything other than take a paycheck and watch TV, can't name a half dozen countries on other continents, and has no bearing on my life whatsoever as long as she/he makes my burrito properly.
I don't give a good shit what 81% of the population thinks. As a matter of fact, if 81% think he sucks, then I'm probably better off. If 81% of the public liked what he were doing he would probably be raiding my bank account to support the world's brokedicks.
I'll stick with the 19%. When I see those TV specials about how 1% of the world controls 50% of its wealth I don't bitch about the 1%, I want to BE the 1%. The fewer people like the President the better I imagine. It means he's doing what he thinks is right, not what will win him a bunch of polls.
I don't give a good shit what 81% of the population thinks. As a matter of fact, if 81% think he sucks, then I'm probably better off. If 81% of the public liked what he were doing he would probably be raiding my bank account to support the world's brokedicks.
I'll stick with the 19%. When I see those TV specials about how 1% of the world controls 50% of its wealth I don't bitch about the 1%, I want to BE the 1%. The fewer people like the President the better I imagine. It means he's doing what he thinks is right, not what will win him a bunch of polls.
You are of course technically correct. I worked in a bank for 4 years and was a stockbroker for 8 after that, and technically it was theft. That said, were I on a jury there's no way I convict him. Fuck em. Cost of doing business. Hire better employees. Don't allow the guy to take the money if you don't want him to have it.
I call bullshit. If he said "this isn't mine" and they said "yes it is" then he had every right to take it.
I actually had a few million mistakenly deposited into my savings account when I was 22 or so. It was the result of a number switch. Anyway, after three days they figured it out and removed the deposit, but about $650 worth of interest had accumulated and they never took that back out of my account.
I actually had a few million mistakenly deposited into my savings account when I was 22 or so. It was the result of a number switch. Anyway, after three days they figured it out and removed the deposit, but about $650 worth of interest had accumulated and they never took that back out of my account.
I have given this some thought, and I have decided that your wife doesn't care because she has a PhD in the fuzzy sciences of "linguistics" and "phonetics", and by fuzzy I mean that it's an interpretive deal, not a hard science like math or physics. If she had a PhD in literature or English composition she'd clearly have a problem with it. She wants people to "communicate ideas" and the form isn't important to her field of study.
Asking her about proper grammar or form is like asking an artist about the proper way to make an architectural drawing. Have her ask someone with a PhD in English Lit about the way things are done here and web-wide, and she'll get an hour lecture on the deterioration of the English language.
Asking her about proper grammar or form is like asking an artist about the proper way to make an architectural drawing. Have her ask someone with a PhD in English Lit about the way things are done here and web-wide, and she'll get an hour lecture on the deterioration of the English language.
My deal is that we're talking about real live people here. Didn't it depress any of you that there were actual miscarriages in there? Somebody LOST a child prior to its birth, and these people decided to drop it in formaldehyde and let us look at its little corpse.
The adults I could live with, but the fetuses just killed me.
The adults I could live with, but the fetuses just killed me.
Any of you who haven't read the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand should go to the book store, buy it, REALLY soak it in, and come back and tell the old men with jobs what you think.
Better yet, here's socialism for you: If you REALLY want to read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, a classic 1,000+ page book about capitalism, socialism, and the ill effects of cry-baby do-gooders, and you seriously can't afford it, email me at bobwheeler @ [spamstop] mail.com with your mailing address, and I'll send the first ten of you a copy free. I'll actually go to the bookstore, buy a copy, and mail it to you.
If it doesn't make you want to get up in the morning and be the best you can be, you're a lost cause and there's nothing I can do for you.
Better yet, here's socialism for you: If you REALLY want to read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, a classic 1,000+ page book about capitalism, socialism, and the ill effects of cry-baby do-gooders, and you seriously can't afford it, email me at bobwheeler @ [spamstop] mail.com with your mailing address, and I'll send the first ten of you a copy free. I'll actually go to the bookstore, buy a copy, and mail it to you.
If it doesn't make you want to get up in the morning and be the best you can be, you're a lost cause and there's nothing I can do for you.
And for the 38th time I'll go back to my standard position:
Kill every last one of them and remove any mention of the religion from the history books. It's going to be us or them, and I'd just as soon get it out of the way right now and start eradicating them.
Kill every last one of them and remove any mention of the religion from the history books. It's going to be us or them, and I'd just as soon get it out of the way right now and start eradicating them.
Abso-fucking-lutely.
Then we'll charge you whatever the hell we want for OUR oil, we'll let you keep all your bullshit solar panels and over-priced produce, we'll buy our vegetables from South Texas and I'll NEVER EVER have to read a product label again that says "known to the state of California to ______".
I don't GIVE A SHIT about the state of California. The only reason I go is to enjoy the fruits of the labor of Napa's finest, and truth be told I can give up Cab for Bordeaux in a heartbeat.
Besides, if they let you go, then we can leave and I'm about ready for Texas to be rid of the blood-sucking pork barrel leaches in this country.
Then we'll charge you whatever the hell we want for OUR oil, we'll let you keep all your bullshit solar panels and over-priced produce, we'll buy our vegetables from South Texas and I'll NEVER EVER have to read a product label again that says "known to the state of California to ______".
I don't GIVE A SHIT about the state of California. The only reason I go is to enjoy the fruits of the labor of Napa's finest, and truth be told I can give up Cab for Bordeaux in a heartbeat.
Besides, if they let you go, then we can leave and I'm about ready for Texas to be rid of the blood-sucking pork barrel leaches in this country.
Angry white man pays the bills in this country. All the money everybody is fighting over, all the social project funding that everyone cries about, all the "appropriations" for everyone's little "let's feed the hungry, clothe the poor and make everyone a happy camper" projects are earned by the angry white man, then stolen by the government for the support of the less able.
AWMFTW.
AWMFTW.
Just got back from a bender in Vegas. Don't waste your time or money on this "Bodies" thing.
I go to drink, gamble, and get funky. I certainly don't go to "see shit". I let my buddy's wife walk me into it.
Well, some of the shit was okay, like the veins and crap, but I got to thinking, these are real bodies of real dead people. Very depressing. I mean they actually took a bunch of corpses and cut their fucking skin off and preserved them in some sort of elastic coating and stuck them out there for everyone to ogle. Dicks and all, flapping in the wind. Poor bastards. You know they didn't see that coming when they donated their bodies to science. If I had a dick that looked like most of those guys' dicks, I'd have demanded to be clothed from the waist to the knees.
Worst part? Maybe that all the athletic poses were of dead Oriental guys. Yeah. An Oriental guy with an NBA basketball. One with an NFL football. I called bullshit on that... ;-)
Actually the worst part was the baby room. They had a room full of "real live" dead fetuses and dead babies and toddlers. That's where I decided the whole thing was jacked. I didn't wander through that part. Dude. What in the hell is interesting about seeing someone's miscarriage?
Anyway, word to the wise, take your $37.50 and put it on your favorite number on the roulette wheel and for the 30 seconds it's spinning, before it lands on something else, you'll have twice the excitement that you'd have in the entire hour of the sick shit at the Bodies exhibit.
I go to drink, gamble, and get funky. I certainly don't go to "see shit". I let my buddy's wife walk me into it.
Well, some of the shit was okay, like the veins and crap, but I got to thinking, these are real bodies of real dead people. Very depressing. I mean they actually took a bunch of corpses and cut their fucking skin off and preserved them in some sort of elastic coating and stuck them out there for everyone to ogle. Dicks and all, flapping in the wind. Poor bastards. You know they didn't see that coming when they donated their bodies to science. If I had a dick that looked like most of those guys' dicks, I'd have demanded to be clothed from the waist to the knees.
Worst part? Maybe that all the athletic poses were of dead Oriental guys. Yeah. An Oriental guy with an NBA basketball. One with an NFL football. I called bullshit on that... ;-)
Actually the worst part was the baby room. They had a room full of "real live" dead fetuses and dead babies and toddlers. That's where I decided the whole thing was jacked. I didn't wander through that part. Dude. What in the hell is interesting about seeing someone's miscarriage?
Anyway, word to the wise, take your $37.50 and put it on your favorite number on the roulette wheel and for the 30 seconds it's spinning, before it lands on something else, you'll have twice the excitement that you'd have in the entire hour of the sick shit at the Bodies exhibit.
This is GREAT. You can't make this shit up... I just trolled that website looking at their "religious advice".
Here are some winners (and by the way, the poor grammar and spelling are original... English is clearly their second - or 5th - language):
Q: I have a question that as far as hairs on your body goes, does men needs to cut hairs from their anus or just from the front. I am not clear on that. Could you please clarify it for me? [United States]
A: You have to shave your hair from both the parts.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) Knows Best
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I had NO FUCKING IDEA that God wants me to shave my ass. Well fuckin ay, there's what I can do after dinner.
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Here's another classic:
Q: Dear Mufti Sahib, I'm a small self employed entrepreneur. I wanted to know if we are allowed to appoint lady employees within our company. If yes, what all conditions do I have to adhere to? Kindly advise and May Allah reward you and your team for all your efforts. Ameen! [United Arab Emirates ]
Q: It would be better and more preferable to appoint male employees. But, if for some reason, you cannot do without appointing female employees, then you can do so, provided that strict “purdah” is observed and she does not need to intermingle with men.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) Knows Best
Translation: Don't hire bitches! Bros before Hos.
Out-fucking-standing. I couldn't have made this shit up if I tried.
CameronPoe, though it's rare, I must say that in this instance you fail. The more I read the more I think that whole fucking religion is a tinker-toy joke. Don't hire women, and don't work in banks, and don't get health insurance. My God, what will my friend Lacy say when the bank for which she works asks her to renew her health insurance? "fuck you, you shouldn't have hired me, I shouldn't have taken the job, and health insurance is a sin."
Here are some winners (and by the way, the poor grammar and spelling are original... English is clearly their second - or 5th - language):
Q: I have a question that as far as hairs on your body goes, does men needs to cut hairs from their anus or just from the front. I am not clear on that. Could you please clarify it for me? [United States]
A: You have to shave your hair from both the parts.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) Knows Best
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I had NO FUCKING IDEA that God wants me to shave my ass. Well fuckin ay, there's what I can do after dinner.
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Here's another classic:
Q: Dear Mufti Sahib, I'm a small self employed entrepreneur. I wanted to know if we are allowed to appoint lady employees within our company. If yes, what all conditions do I have to adhere to? Kindly advise and May Allah reward you and your team for all your efforts. Ameen! [United Arab Emirates ]
Q: It would be better and more preferable to appoint male employees. But, if for some reason, you cannot do without appointing female employees, then you can do so, provided that strict “purdah” is observed and she does not need to intermingle with men.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) Knows Best
Translation: Don't hire bitches! Bros before Hos.
Out-fucking-standing. I couldn't have made this shit up if I tried.
CameronPoe, though it's rare, I must say that in this instance you fail. The more I read the more I think that whole fucking religion is a tinker-toy joke. Don't hire women, and don't work in banks, and don't get health insurance. My God, what will my friend Lacy say when the bank for which she works asks her to renew her health insurance? "fuck you, you shouldn't have hired me, I shouldn't have taken the job, and health insurance is a sin."
Holy shit. What a JOKE.
Read some of that shit. It's a sin to have health insurance or to work for a credit card company.
Fucking retards.
Here's one of my personal favorites from the Big Muslim himself:
Q: I just want to know if muslim girls are allowed to play with non muslim girls. [United Kingdom]
A: Being cautious and careful is an essential characteristic in Islam. That is why a Muslim should exercise caution when interacting with non-Muslims, mingling with them or even participating in games and sports, because the ill-effects of their company get reflected in your own attitude and behavior and you get influenced by each other. But if there is a possibility that you can educate them about Islam, then it could be permitted. If this is not possible, then our safety lies in staying within our own circle and continues with our work.
Yeah.. get the fuck out of my country douchebags. Thanks for "enlightening" us Cam.
Read some of that shit. It's a sin to have health insurance or to work for a credit card company.
Fucking retards.
Here's one of my personal favorites from the Big Muslim himself:
Q: I just want to know if muslim girls are allowed to play with non muslim girls. [United Kingdom]
A: Being cautious and careful is an essential characteristic in Islam. That is why a Muslim should exercise caution when interacting with non-Muslims, mingling with them or even participating in games and sports, because the ill-effects of their company get reflected in your own attitude and behavior and you get influenced by each other. But if there is a possibility that you can educate them about Islam, then it could be permitted. If this is not possible, then our safety lies in staying within our own circle and continues with our work.
Yeah.. get the fuck out of my country douchebags. Thanks for "enlightening" us Cam.
If I'm correct, and I have reason to believe I am, tomorrow is the day before the day after tomorrow.
If your wife has a PhD from Cambridge and doesn't mind someone typing "are education system is great," then they need to close up shop at Cambridge, and you can tell her I said so.
tough call...
Not really because, unfortunately, Christmas has become such a secular holiday in many respects. I do find that sad and depressing by the way. I am much more pissed off that we don't have Christmas celebrations in our schools any more, we have "Winter Festivals" and shit like that. i think it's ridiculous.SenorToenails wrote:
I don't see the problem. Do you care when people say "Merry Christmas" as opposed to "Happy Holidays"?
That being said, I just don't think a sandwich shop is the place for someone to proselytize.
I'd give my left testicle for the ACLU to be banned.