Word for the Day, Tuesday April 12, 2016

[xsmommy]

was in Rome today I think?

[tioga]

It’s an unusual election yea. Usually, both parties are done by now.

[xsmommy]

NY and PA are very unaccustomed to being relevant!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

That is cute!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I can’t imagine DT picking Rubio after the things he said about him, but if he did pick a GOPe candidate, the trumpies would just explain it away like they do everything else he does. He is so brilliant, in their eyes, that he would be able to transform a formerly hated GOPe person into a beloved trumpish icon.

[SoothingDave]

I have never voted in a presidential primary in my life. Never been any reason to.

[xsmommy]

oh I would give anything for it to happen just to see how they’d explain it away/forgive it/or have their heads explode. Because they have exalted the GOPe to this enormous bogeyman, such that it has no practical meaning. To have their messiah name one of those hated GOPe-ers will give them a stroke.

[xsmommy]

you voting this year?

[SoothingDave]

Yeah. But I have to do some homework first to see which delegates to choose.

But i won’t whine if I don’t do my homework.

[xsmommy]

you’ve got time. but I imagine the low info PA voters who want to pull a lever for Trump are going to be a bit discombobulated....

[xsmommy]

he LOVES the poorly educated though!

[SoothingDave]

They will have a Trump lever to pull. But they won’t know what to do with the other section for selecting delegates from your district.

[mikrofon]

awww the ignorance, it Berns

Speaking of which, last night at the local University of Buffalo, the Socialist Democrat was speaking in front of a throng of "skulls full of mush" quickly becoming ossified by the indoctrination of academe…

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I was told an interesting thing recently. Someone I know works at a bank in a management position. She was told that the new policy of the bank is "equal pay for equal work" - sounds reasonable but the reality is that at that bank your years of service no longer matter. She had to immediately give raises to the newly hired so they made the same amount as those who had been there for many years. Since they were all considered to be doing the same work, even if they were unable to do the work on their own without those more experienced people in the department helping them or even training them, they were all considered to be doing the same work.

How would you like that?

[Texan5]

It suddenly started getting overcast, and storms are predicted beginning later this afternoon-

Bernie thinks he can make
A socialist paradise state
Just like the Soviet Union-
For him that would be great

That belief began to ossify
On his honeymoon over there
The USSR is done 20+ years
But he seems totally unaware

It might be because the elite
Like Bernie would never see
Any lack of freedom or food-
Only people like you and me...

[Texan5]

That is insane and impractical-I don’t know one independent contractor-myself included-who pays a new, inexperienced helper the same as someone who has been working with/for us on jobs for awhile-not even if that newbie is someone’s kid, nephew or other kin. There is no way you will not lose money-inexperience means mistakes without close supervision-both cost time, and time is money...

[SoothingDave]

If that was my position, I would adopt the minimum level of productivity or competence needed to be hired.

[SoothingDave]

That guy out in Seattle who decreed “everyone who works for me will make at least $70k” had his more experienced people flee. Same idea.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Exactly, and this is not a liberal company- which makes me wonder if this isnt the future of our country. And yes, the more experienced employees were very unhappy.

[SoothingDave]

Our future Soviet life: We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.