The royal He?

We don't want no stinkin' king. Grand High Poohbah of the nether reaches can go spit

I do my best to keep my employees well gruntled.

We were locked down for an active shooter yesterday. 1 dead 3 wounded at a software company nearby. Knocked out of the news cycle in less than a day

I do find it telling that you think the only way for Trump to redeem himself is by bribing folks.

#10 | POSTED BY TFDNIHILIST AT 2018-09-20 10:15 AM

It is a conservative thing. They can overlook rank cruelty and criminality if they get a few extra bucks in their pocket.

There is nothing that can't be sacrificed for a buck

There is no miracle drug that works for every kind of pain. Cannabis works for some things but not for others. opioids work for some pain but not for others. NSAIDS work for some pain but not for others. My wife spent 6 years in excruciating pain trying every method we could find to treat her pain. The cocktail she is on is the ONLY thing that works. Cannabis does not work for her pain. We lived in Kremmling Colorado where the air has more THC than the weed they sell in other states. elavated THC levels made her tired and hungry AND STILL IN PAIN. It is not the answer for her.

The economy doesn't know or care about wealth. The economy runs on spending. People have to have money to spend. money runs in a circle. The producers pay the workers. The workers buy stuff at the marketplace and the marketplace restocks from the producers. The money goes around and around and everybody wins. Then supply siders came into power and the flow to the workers dried up. The economy would have crashed but something insidious delayed that. That something was personal debt. For the last 40 years our economy has been running on debt instead of wages. We are nearing a crisis point. Consumer debt levels cannot keep rising forever. The real debt crisis is not government debt. It is consumer debt.

Conservatives are quitters. If something doesn't work perfectly the first try they abandon it.

Cannabis is a different issue. Cannabis only works in some situations. There are many situations where opioids are legitimately the best and only option. My wife tried every option even some that seemed crazy. The point was she would try ANYTHING if there was a chance it would end the pain. cannabis had some beneficial effects but it did not touch the nerve pain.

When deciding to hire a lawyer, are you going to ask them about their high school activities?

#25 | POSTED BY PIRATE AT 2018-09-18 11:27 AM

No but I would ask them if they have any felonious behavior in their past that we don't already know about.

That would include raping someone in high school

Others are trying to learn new skills and accepting the change being implemented.

Most people have to pay the rent this month and learning new skills is not a paying job. Once upon a time when jobs changed companies trained their own. Now they expect the worker to get the training on their own and walk into the interview fully trained. none of this changes the fact that 40 million jobs pay less than $10/hr and those workers have to pay the rent too. So either we shut up and pay the food stamps and welfare for them without being judgemental -------- or we raise wages to where they don't need it. There is no 3rd path

Wait, what happened to the screams of outrage from the DR Left that documents in the Kavanaugh hearing were kept classified, that transparency was paramount and that only documents that truly contained national security information should remain confidential?

#11 | POSTED BY RIGHTOCENTER AT 2018-09-18 10:54 AM | REPLY

The documents kept secret about Kavanaugh prevented people WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY WAS TO VET him from doing their job.

These documents are being released purely to attempt to sway public opinion. If ANY are released then ALL of them should be released with the national security exception.

Spoon feeding pieces of information while withholding others to build a false narrative is unethical at best.

Where are the get tough on crime we must follow the law people who were so vocal on the immigration discussions?

Oh yeah laws only apply to OTHER people.

Also average is not starting.

The small boats didn't increase productivity, they just worked more productively. They see a big diffetence between those things. One is something the worker did. The other is something the owners did by upgrading equipment, unrelated to the workers. So the workers deserve none of the gains.

#34 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2018-09-17 05:01 PM | REPLY

The equipment is not just the same kind it is the same equipment. NO upgrade in 25 years. No changes. Just repairs. The last upgrade was in 1992 when they installed Dos3.1. The PC brain can't be upgraded past that. Still making the same parts the same way. The Die cast machine is nicknamed Barney. It was purchased in 1982. It is made out of structural steel so it is purplish. Hence the nickname Barney the big purple dinosaur.

The workers are responsible for ALL of the gains.

So you think we used to pay people too much and now we have "fixed" that "problem"?

That is what you get from this?

The foundry had record profits last year and a nice fat tax cut this year and froze pay again.

2. Assuming those numbers are correct, they could be interpreted to mean that a hell of a lot of people are getting paid to do unproductive jobs, not getting paid less to do more.

#28 | POSTED BY MUSTANG AT 2018-09-17 03:26 PM | REPLY

No it means exactly what it says. When the worker meets the quota of X widgets an hour the response of management is to raise the quota to X+ and keep the pay the same or lower it. A perfect example is the local foundry. When I got out of high school I worked there. I was a cell tech. I was in charge of a machine cell consisting of a die cast machine, a trim press, a quench tank, a simple robot, and 2 CNC machines. We made crankcases for lawn mowers. I had 4 workers under me and we had a quota of 22 parts per hour. It was hot, hard work. Starting pay was $18/hr. Fast forward 30 years to the present. The same machine cell is still in use. parts have been replaced on the machines and dies have been updated and replaced but the machines are still the very same machines I used to run. Still making lawnmower crankcases. Push mower engines haven't changed much. Now they run the cell with a 3 man crew and they have a 40 pph quota. Making almost twice as many parts per hour with 40% less labor should mean higher pay, right? Nope. Starting pay is now $11.50/hr and the cell tech makes $14.50. But hey if they work 48 hours a week they can still make $34 more than I got for a 40 hour week in 1988 so they are better off than I was, right Sniper?

That is where right wing policies have taken us

Are you for reals going to say Democrats are less corporatist than republicans?? I mean really?? WOW.

#19 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR AT 2018-09-17 11:19 AM | REPLY

No I am saying the Dems are corporatists who have some redeeming programs that help the victims while the republicans celebrate the destruction wrought by corporatism and pile on the victims, even blame the victims.

The two parties are NOT the same.

You've been duped, Danni, and the media is complicit. The problem lies squarely with your inability to admit you've been hoodwinked.

#16 | POSTED BY SHEEPLESCHISM AT 2018-09-17 10:54 AM | REPLY

Nobody is denying that the Democratic leadership are corporatists. You are the one who is trying to pretend that the republicans are a better option.

The Democratic leadership are LESSER corporate sellouts than Republicans

there is no viable 3rd party. until and unless there is Democrats are the better choice.

Don't bother telling us how bad the Democratic Leadership is unless you can provide a better alternative.

Your argument is that since the Democrats only give some help to the poor we should vote for people who give NO help to the poor.

Some is better than none.

A job that doesn't have enough value to support the person working it is a waste of time for that worker. The time is better spent at the library acquiring knowledge that can help you get a better job. There are places in downtown Madison that can't find workers because they only pay $8/hr and it leaves the employee with the choice of either paying $15/day for a parking space or adding hours of travel time to take the bus that turn an 8 hour shift into 10 or 11 hours of unuseable time and $65/month for a bus pass and if they don't live on a bus route or have to transfer to multiple busses it can be even more time lost. Apartments downtown start at $1100/month so living downtown isn't an option for someone making $8/hr

It may be the best mexican CHAIN but El Rancho in Brownsville, Tx and Laredo's in Madison, Wi put taco bell to shame. The seasoning El Ranco uses in their Bistec is fantastic.

Under other preliminary approvals, the social studies curriculum would no also longer require students to learn about 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater and Hellen Keller, a disability rights advocate who became the first deaf and blind person to graduate from college.

#30 | POSTED BY SNIPER AT 2018-09-16 03:30 PM |

Goldwater got stomped. The GOP doesn't want anyone to know that their ideas can lose big to libruls. And his running mate was Stephanie Miller's dad too.

The big-name schools pay their patsies for the privilege, giving the smaller prorgrams a much-needed stream of revenue.

Schools split the revenue from each game. This is actually a good thing since if they didn't the small schools would not be able to get the tv time or the increased revenue. Without these games small schools have even less opportunity to grow a program that can generate the revenue on their own.

Working more for less.

Winning?

Helen was accepted to Radcliff College in 1900 and graduated in 1904. This made her the first Deaf and blind person to graduate from college. After college she became more and more famous based on her work as an author and as an advocate for people with disabilities. She was a strong supporter of the suffrage movement, advocated for birth control and was a pacifist. At the end of her life in 1968 when she was 87 she had completed twelve books (Biography of Helen Keller, 2007, paragraph 3 & 4).

She also invented American Sign Language but that doesn't make up for being a librul

So, I take it science that includes our star, sol, is just not to be discussed on this format? Well, it fits.

#26 | POSTED BY 9MMHEATER AT 2018-09-15 10:52 PM | REPLY

The solar observatory shutdown discussion was not about science it devolved quickly to conspiracy fan fiction