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The Red Hen thing is going to stick for a while, I think. It came out today that not only did the Red Hen owner get Sanders and her party up from a table and walk them out AFTER they had ordered meals, but the owner proceeded to follow the rest of Sanders’s party to another restaurant and call people to organize a protest at the other restaurant.
Despicable if you ask me. The Democrats are going to get somebody killed.
And, to think, Sarah Palin was lambasted for having little crosshairs on voting districts…it was considered inflammatory.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Indeed. It was closer than I figured it would be, since the President has broad powers under the constitution to set policy at and beyond the border (of course, we forget that when a Republican is in the WH).
The thing that really bothers me with respect to this case, however, is that the travel ban was put in place with an explicit window of reviewing and correcting vetting procedures. That window has LONG since passed, and so you have to wonder how sincere the “temporary” nature of the ban really was since we are still discussing.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That’s cold.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)One of the rare good things about FB.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I finished the book, too. Before I read it, I thought this was going to a bit more Enron-ish where highly technical details were used to create the fraud. But, no…
This was just pure amateur hour with very straightforward deceptions carried to the Nth degree. It was a junior high fraud that carried on so long because of the myth around EH, and the unwillingness of anyone to continue questioning the golden goose. The fact that Walgreens went live after investing $100 plus million without so much as a comparison test says all you need.
I came away from this thinking that a lot of older people were duped badly but it comes down to what the author says: fear of missing out.
What I can’t understand is how “enchanting” Holmes is described as. She is freaky strange, and many people knew she had no command of the technical details, which you can see just by listening to her interviews. She was a myth enabled by marketers and lawyers. Oh, and she is evil to boot. Many destroyed lives and damaged careers reside in her wake.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Hah. And of course Trump capitulates, only to be faced with the fact that the executive order runs afoul of…the law.
You can’tmake this up.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It plays for headlines, but can someone here give me the alternative that does not include letting families pass into the country without detention?
I assume it means preparing family holding cells? I’m not against that, but it still belies the realities that the children are often with caretakers. What then?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)My take is he wants a political career, and the other than honorable discharge won’t hurt him on his way to that.
To each his own. He probably would have been fragged vs. an OTH discharge in a different time, so he’s likely safer where he is going.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)What’s the answer to the driving distance thing? Do you take some juice out of the ball or regulate drivers? Always been a surprise to me how much technology has changed in golf without much corresponding change in the game (other than moving tee boxes back).
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Thanks. I never thought about the greens varying so much during the day (other than with rain).
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Obama is far more responsible for Hillary skating as Trump is for any Russian conspiracy.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I knew far too many people who were “out there” in my years at Stanford.
I bet, like with Tiger, Stanford’s marketers were thrilled that EH spent a year at Stanford, until they weren’t.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Prosecutors probably have “something” called DNA.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Another article. This is a good read on the background of exposing Theranos.
I am fascinated by this case, because it shows how “sophisticated” and “wise” investors and celebrity board members are just as gullible to the charms of a fully enabled sociopath as any joe or jane on the street.
This quote is in the article. It comes from James Mattis (the mad dog), and was never published previously. It’s his assessment of Elizabeth Holmes:
“She has probably one of the most mature and well-honed sense of ethics — personal ethics, managerial ethics, business ethics, medical ethics that I’ve ever heard articulated.”
That’s just unbelievably awful and imperceptive coming from a guy who no doubt has had to deal with his share of careerist frauds. It doesn’t make him any more stupid than the next guy, but then again, I would have expected more.
How do we get taken in by people like Holmes? She creeped me out from the start, and perhaps that’s part of the allure and charm. Of course, I have seen the results of a corporate sociopath before. They can’t be successful on their own, but give them a few apathetic or sycophantic enablers (and Holmes had a LOT), and they can destroy everyone around them to their own benefit.
The amazing part is how some commentary on Holmes that I’m seeing still explains that she was a nice person who was probably misguided in pursuing a dream. No, no, no. That’s the problem with the psychopath: They are great at looking really nice and normal for 98 percent of their time, and really sticking the knife in HARD for the other 2 percent. It’s the 2 percent that makes them the deviant and that invalidates the 98 percent. It’s always shocking to me that people don’t realize this and remain “fooled” even after the psycho is revealed.
It’s also one of the reasons that victims of a corporate psycho are usually very lonely. Everyone around them sees the 98 percent, and they know the 2 percent.
Then again, I suspect you have to have been there to really appreciate what I’m saying.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Well put, GR. I do think that a portion of the opposition to Obama was of the racist sort, but far less than those who just didn’t like his politics or that he was easy to belittle as a made for TV POTUS.
The more we learn about the Obama admin, the more normal it looks, and that isn’t a compliment.
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