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@APStylebook’s new terminology. This isn’t a joke:“Don’t use the term ‘mistress’ for a woman who is in a long-term sexual relationship with, and is financially supported by, a man who is married to someone else. Instead, use an alternative like companion, friend or lover on first reference and provide additional details later.”
I’m guessing that this is because Kamala Harris was a 29 year old mistress to the married Willie Brown — who gave her a BMW and her first two political appointments. It was so out in the open, Herb Caen used to write about it in the Chronicle.I don’t understand why the #metoo supporters don’t savage this kind of behavior. Sends a great message. Apparently, it’s horrifying and jail-worthy for a powerful man to demand sexual favors in exchange for favorable treatment (obviously it is), but it’s perfectly acceptable for a woman to offer sexual favors in exchange for favorable treatment.[/quote]
I think this kind of gets to the heart of the behavioral side you refer to. I’ve pointed out the mental health issues in play in places like Portland and Seattle. It’s in the US Congress too.
When I was at Ft Lewis in the winter of 1969 we would get a Saturday night off once in a while and go over to Olympia for some Rainier which I thought was pretty good. They had 11 Oz “stubbies”. I also remember a beer called “Dotties” Seattle Lager/
12? You could find twice that many in the Whole Foods checkout line.
Don’t think that women don’t carry now too. Gun manufacturers are “listening” to women to satisfy their wants and needs. Dozens of options for the best possible fit. Next time Karen snarks at you better think twice.
Gravity applies in reverse too. I give you the Big Dig in Boston which was started around 1990 and was scheduled for completion in 1998 at an estimated cost of $2.8 billion.
The project was completed in 2008 for an estimated $8.08 billion. The project will actually cost $22 billion when it’s paid off in 2038. $22 billion. The traffic problems were epic for almost 20 years. Multiply that by 400.
The government can work well as we saw with Operation Warp Speed which had vaccines ready in less than a year. But that was mostly private enterprise doing what they do best. Stellar without precedent. Far smaller scale. They moved like greased lightening with the total backing of the President.
The problem with this kind of legislation is the magnitude and the number of politicians touching it. The corruption should be breath taking and the pace sub snail. Good time to be a union heavy equipment operator though. And the lawyers of course.
[quote quote=4551]Risk management is a lost art for individuals but a must have for companies of any size. Freight carriers usually are on the frontlines of risk management, and I suspect that the freight carriers won’t get pinned down by this one. Where supply chain shocks like this hurt is when companies and governments choose to run supply chains “lean” because they can. Too lean equals too risky…….
Got me thinking about energy risk management by governments. We achieved energy independence during the Trump administration. It was an easy formula. Fracking. Nat gas. Drill more. Keystone on deck. It was within reach all along.
Now the Biden central planners have unwound the independence and increased the risk. They must know but apparently don’t care. We had low cost abundant energy and pissed it all away.
Managing risk is a fascinating area. As you say it was not an unknown risk yet it happened. It is possible to profit from consequential rare events. (Corona virus, volcanos, flash wars). One look at that map which you could say is a technological advantage against such occurrences, yet it didn’t prevent the obvious. Why? We’ll go back to pseudo order soon but the risks will increase.
Maybe top down structured systems make these kinds of events more likely. I’m surprised we went this long.
I lived at Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal for a couple of years. They had a tug on each side guide each ship through the locks which had as little as a foot or two clearance each side. My understanding was that the ships were boarded long before the reached the lock by a Panama Canal pilot. I suspect they stayed on all the way to Colon on the Atlantic side and visa versa to Balboa. It was amazing to watch. I’d imagine the Suez is no different. The stakes are so high on those canals that I find it hard to imagine how the Ever Given screwed it up.
True, Legend. It was a show trial of a press conference. But is was a joy to see professionally done show trial press manipulation.
Joe’s aversion of border policy was the best. He can fix the whole thing in a couple of days. Otherwise he is just negotiating with his own party.
Joe and the MSM are just “rollin coal”. ( A diesel pickup truck that is blowing a lot of black smoke”).
Was visiting with two highly educated people yesterday and very liberal as are their circle of their friends in liberal friendly Mass. My wife and I have had our vaccines. The topic of vaccines came up and they went into great detail and to why they don’t plan to get the vaccine for the time being as well as many of their friends.
My understanding of science is that it is through skepticism that you get to the truth. The burden of truth is on those asserting a positive claim. The author of the LA Times hit piece, Doyle McManus, seems not to understand one iota of the classic liberal view that embracing opposing ideas is the way to understanding. In the case of getting vaxed for anything there is no warranty on what Dr Fauci or Bill Gates says is the truth. For the time being you get to make your own call.
Burry said he was paid a visit by the SEC regulators in the original news feed. Looks like it was edited out. He’s quoted in Market Insider and Zero Hedge.
“tweeting and getting in the news lately apparently has caused the SEC to pay us a visit. Lovely”
He has left twitter and had 400,000 followers.
What’s missing in the story is the name of the idiots at North Face that authorized the rejection of the order for 400 jackets. That’s the key. It’s owned by an apparel company called VFC corporation headed up by Steven Rendle in Denver.
When you start picking and choosing your sales targets based on your philosophy or how you want your world to be, your investors and customers better have a heads up.
[quote quote=4408]It’s hard to take this board seriously. Two Trump appointees are criticized for not simply being loyal subjects when their job is to rule on matters of law. And this is somehow evidence that our country is too woke and descending into liberal madness. or something like that. It’s hard to follow the logic here, so forgive me if I’m mischaracterizing.
You are having a hard time following the logic?
Read Justice Thomas’s dissent. He is being attacked for simply stating that it is in everyone’s interest that the SC rules on what happened in the election so people have confidence going forward. “One wonders what the court waits for” said Thomas. I do too. I thought the court vote would have been unanimous. You may think they simply ruled on the law. But they punted again and made the situation infinitely worse.
By the way, “Red Alert: Democrats take first steps to censor conservative TV channels Fox, OANN, Newsmax.” Now that’s what I call liberal madness.
So who do I call?
Can you dig up the number of the outfit that runs the 1st Amendment shop? The complaint department? It used to be the ACLU but they went into liberal madness too.
