It's nice to stroll down nostalgia lane, but there are too many important things happening in the world today...
I AM GLAD TO SEE THIS:
Russians Turn on One Another Over the War
New York Times: “With President Vladimir Putin’s direct encouragement, Russians who support the war against Ukraine are starting to turn on the enemy within.
“The episodes are not yet a mass phenomenon, but they illustrate the building paranoia and polarization in Russian society. Citizens are denouncing one another in an eerie echo of Stalin’s terror, spurred on by vicious official rhetoric from the state and enabled by far-reaching new laws that criminalize dissent.”
YES, EVEN AMONG RUSSIANS WHO HAVE BEEN ALL TOO WILLING TO LET PUTIN CRIMINALIZE DISSENT AND BURY TRUTH BENEATH STATE IMPOSED CENSORSHIP, YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME, AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME, BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME.
Tv networks have been absolutely giddy over kbj confirm to scotus. I don't recall such glee for other historic minority nominees into high-level posts - Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Miguel Estrada, Colin Powell to name a few.
Somebody got his butt kicked in the next thread down.
As for glee, balls, this was a candidate that many conservatives admitted was imminently qualified and even (some) supported earler, yet voted against her for the Court. Why shouldn't there be glee when such hypocrisy gets defeated?
If the Democrats use this great news in the future?
Blue-Collar Workers Make the Leap to Tech Jobs, No College Degree NecessaryThe pandemic has helped catapult Americans in low-paying roles into more upwardly mobile careers
By
Vanessa Fuhrmans and
Kathryn Dill
April 8, 2022 7:35 am ET
As the labor market reorders, more Americans are making the leap from blue-collar jobs and hourly work to “new collar” roles that often involve tech skills and come with better pay and schedules.
More than a tenth of Americans in low-paying roles in warehouses, manufacturing, hospitality and other hourly positions made such a switch during the past two years, according to new research from Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm that surveyed 80,000 workers world-wide between August 2020 and March 2022. Many of the new jobs are in software and information technology, as well as tech-related roles in logistics, finance and healthcare. New data from the Current Population Survey and LinkedIn also suggest the pandemic has helped catapult more workers into more upwardly mobile careers.
Tech job postings have boomed over the past two years as work, shopping and other aspects of daily life have gone more digital. At the same time, millions of Americans quit their jobs, with some sitting on the sidelines and others finding new ones with higher salaries. Companies have struggled to hire all the talent they need, so many have dropped prequalifications like prior work experience or a four-year college degree.
Those pandemic shifts kicked in as broader macroeconomic forces were already creating new job-market opportunities and pressures. The percentage of retirees in the U.S. population has climbed sharply over the past decade and ticked even higher in the Covid-19 era, with millions of baby boomers leaving the workforce. Declining immigration has added to shortages, particularly in tech, healthcare and other fields that depend heavily on foreign-born employees. Thousands of businesses are in the thick of a digital revolution that is requiring them to fill new roles and adapt existing ones to integrate more data and automation.
Altogether, these forces have led to a giant shock to the workforce. “I don’t think we’ve seen a talent transition of this magnitude, really, since the disruption of World War II,” said Ana Kreacic, chief operating officer of Oliver Wyman Forum, the consulting firm’s think tank, which conducted the research. Back then, the wartime economy created new opportunities, including for women, and the GI Bill funded the higher education of millions of returning soldiers and launched them into the middle class
Blue-Collar Workers Make the Leap to Tech Jobs, No College Degree Necessary https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-jobs-no-college-degree-necessary-11649371535
Considering kbj was on the DC court of appeals for only a year, it's a fact that there were and are many more qualified candidates than her. That is not in dispute. Of the extremely limited candidate pool specified by Biden, she was near the top. What he should have done is pick her without directly saying he would noy consider 98% of judicial candidates.
Forgive me for "changing the subject" but-- Alex Jones accused of hiding assets over Sandy Hook lawsuits Associated Press April 9, 2022, 3:25 AM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Alex Jones is facing a new lawsuit in Texas over accusations that the Infowars host hid millions of dollars in assets after families of Sandy Hook victims began taking him to court.
Relatives of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, massacre have already won defamation lawsuits against Jones after he said the shootings never happened. The new lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday, comes as trials are set for this year over how much he should pay.
“After Alex Jones was sued for claiming the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary was a hoax, the infamous conspiracy theorist conspired to divert his assets to shell companies owned by insiders like his parents, his children, and himself," reads the lawsuit, which was filed in Austin, Texas, by some of the Sandy Hook families.
According to the lawsuit, Jones is accused of drawing about $18 million from his Infowars company over three years, starting in 2018 when the defamation lawsuits were filed. Jones is also accused of claiming a “dubious” $54 million debt around that time to another company, which the lawsuit alleges is indirectly or directly owned by Jones.
Norm Pattis, an attorney for Jones, said there was no effort to hide assets.
“The suggestion is ridiculous. We look forward to litigating these issues," Pattis said in an email Friday.
The lawsuit was first reported by the Austin American-Statesman.
The lawsuit was filed the same day Jones was questioned by lawyers for the Sandy Hook families. A judge had ordered the him to face mounting fines until he appeared for a deposition. ________
The article ends there. It will remain to see how this plays out.
A humanist friend has pointed out to me that people like Jones can out and out lie and know they are out and out lying (saying that all those grieving parents were only paid actors, etc.) and yet benefit tremendously in financial terms from their lies.
Fits Jones to a T.
He should sued and be punished so harshly that others will never again attempt such despicable skuduggery.
IF the fanatics have their way, soon women who use the morning after pill or men who use condoms can be arrested and charged with murder..
If the fanatics have their way it will be legal to abort a child they do not want up to the age of 8 - because before then they are not really alive until they can be groomed on the topic of gay and transgender people.
If any child becomes an inconvenience the fanatics will say my family my decision to abort this 4 year old who spills too much food.
A humanist friend has pointed out to me that people like Jones can out and out lie and know they are out and out lying..... and yet benefit tremendously in financial terms from their lies.
Just like I don't listen to many liberals who have television shows where they spread nothing but lies? Remember when Rachel Maddow mattered? Why? Because she was spreading LIES non-stop about Trump and Russian collusion.
It seems James is the only one here following Jones. I guess whrn you're retired, you do that and work on your lawn. As for me, I'm much too busy to worry about another political voice in the crowd.
Myballs said... I should care about a guy I have never listened to and dont follow? I have better things to do.
Well you nor I are old as shit and decrepit with no life.
Pedo enjoy spamming the rest of the day, I’ve already hit my local weekend farmers market and now I’m off to hike my kids, something I successfully accomplished, unlike you
Oh, I don't listen to Jones, nor do I listen to Maddox.
But I do care when a bully for financial reasons claims that grieving parents are only actors receiving payment to pretend to be grieving parents, and does that as part of a rightwing propaganda apparatus that is as CORRUPT AND CYNICAL as it can get.
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Tough for Ric to sing live anymore......
Live concerts are simply marvelous.
I've been blessed to see a lot of the late 60s and 70s bands.
But most of the time now is the internet connection has changed the world.
Last concert I went to was about 3 years ago, saw Shania Twain, Sprint Center in Kansas City, NO.
I got to meet Charlie Daniels once after a concert. Cool.
It's nice to stroll down nostalgia lane,
but there are too many important things happening in the world today...
I AM GLAD TO SEE THIS:
Russians Turn on One Another Over the War
New York Times:
“With President Vladimir Putin’s direct encouragement, Russians who support the war against Ukraine are starting to turn on the enemy within.
“The episodes are not yet a mass phenomenon, but they illustrate the building paranoia and polarization in Russian society.
Citizens are denouncing one another in an eerie echo of Stalin’s terror, spurred on by vicious official rhetoric from the state and enabled by far-reaching new laws that criminalize dissent.”
YES, EVEN AMONG RUSSIANS WHO HAVE BEEN ALL TOO WILLING TO LET PUTIN CRIMINALIZE DISSENT AND BURY TRUTH BENEATH STATE IMPOSED CENSORSHIP,
YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME,
AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME,
BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME.
SAME GOES FOR AMERICA.
link at politicalwire.com
Texas Woman Arrested for ‘Illegal Abortion’
A 26-year old Texas woman was arrested and charged with murder for having a self-induced “illegal abortion,”
the McAllen Monitor reports.
______
IF the fanatics have their way,
soon women who use the morning after pill or men who use condoms can be arrested and charged with murder.
Tv networks have been absolutely giddy over kbj confirm to scotus. I don't recall such glee for other historic minority nominees into high-level posts - Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Miguel Estrada, Colin Powell to name a few.
I was going to so many concerts precovid.
Of Monster and Men
The Killers
Evanescence
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Finally got out last year and saw Bocephus
Have tickets for Barenaked Ladies, Gin Blossom and Toad later
But I won’t do the big venues any more
I met Gene Simmons of KISS. After a concert in Rapid City in 1974.
Just a normal guy without the make up.
Somebody got his butt kicked in the next thread down.
As for glee, balls, this was a candidate that many conservatives admitted was imminently qualified and even (some) supported earler, yet voted against her for the Court. Why shouldn't there be glee when such hypocrisy gets defeated?
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&ei=UTF-8&p=protsenko+karolina&type=E210US91088G0#id=38&vid=69fd8be249043b07aa204bda49c05427&action=view
Better than the clown. And she was born in Ukraine.
If the Democrats use this great news in the future?
Blue-Collar Workers Make the Leap to Tech Jobs, No College Degree NecessaryThe pandemic has helped catapult Americans in low-paying roles into more upwardly mobile careers
By
Vanessa Fuhrmans and
Kathryn Dill
April 8, 2022 7:35 am ET
As the labor market reorders, more Americans are making the leap from blue-collar jobs and hourly work to “new collar” roles that often involve tech skills and come with better pay and schedules.
More than a tenth of Americans in low-paying roles in warehouses, manufacturing, hospitality and other hourly positions made such a switch during the past two years, according to new research from Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm that surveyed 80,000 workers world-wide between August 2020 and March 2022. Many of the new jobs are in software and information technology, as well as tech-related roles in logistics, finance and healthcare. New data from the Current Population Survey and LinkedIn also suggest the pandemic has helped catapult more workers into more upwardly mobile careers.
Tech job postings have boomed over the past two years as work, shopping and other aspects of daily life have gone more digital. At the same time, millions of Americans quit their jobs, with some sitting on the sidelines and others finding new ones with higher salaries. Companies have struggled to hire all the talent they need, so many have dropped prequalifications like prior work experience or a four-year college degree.
Those pandemic shifts kicked in as broader macroeconomic forces were already creating new job-market opportunities and pressures. The percentage of retirees in the U.S. population has climbed sharply over the past decade and ticked even higher in the Covid-19 era, with millions of baby boomers leaving the workforce. Declining immigration has added to shortages, particularly in tech, healthcare and other fields that depend heavily on foreign-born employees. Thousands of businesses are in the thick of a digital revolution that is requiring them to fill new roles and adapt existing ones to integrate more data and automation.
Altogether, these forces have led to a giant shock to the workforce. “I don’t think we’ve seen a talent transition of this magnitude, really, since the disruption of World War II,” said Ana Kreacic, chief operating officer of Oliver Wyman Forum, the consulting firm’s think tank, which conducted the research. Back then, the wartime economy created new opportunities, including for women, and the GI Bill funded the higher education of millions of returning soldiers and launched them into the middle class
Blue-Collar Workers Make the Leap to Tech Jobs, No College Degree Necessary https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-jobs-no-college-degree-necessary-11649371535
Like...the gene simmons post
Considering kbj was on the DC court of appeals for only a year, it's a fact that there were and are many more qualified candidates than her. That is not in dispute. Of the extremely limited candidate pool specified by Biden, she was near the top. What he should have done is pick her without directly saying he would noy consider 98% of judicial candidates.
court of appeals for only a year,
Of the extremely limited candidate
How many years experience on any court of appeals did Kavanaugh have???? BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
anonymous said...
court of appeals for only a year,
Of the extremely limited candidate
How many years experience on any court of appeals did Kavanaugh have???? BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
12 years VERY lo iq
though I doubt you will remember that
ROFLMFAO !!!
the libs here are dumber than dirt
and keep proving it
Just once I'd like to see a democrat discuss something without changing the subject
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
In office
May 30, 2006 – October 6, 2018
Nominated by George W. Bush
There ya go fatboi
Forgive me for "changing the subject" but--
Alex Jones accused of hiding assets over Sandy Hook lawsuits
Associated Press
April 9, 2022, 3:25 AM
AUSTIN, Texas (AP)
— Alex Jones is facing a new lawsuit in Texas over accusations that the Infowars host hid millions of dollars in assets after families of Sandy Hook victims began taking him to court.
Relatives of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, massacre have already won defamation lawsuits against Jones after he said the shootings never happened. The new lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday, comes as trials are set for this year over how much he should pay.
“After Alex Jones was sued for claiming the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary was a hoax, the infamous conspiracy theorist conspired to divert his assets to shell companies owned by insiders like his parents, his children, and himself," reads the lawsuit, which was filed in Austin, Texas, by some of the Sandy Hook families.
According to the lawsuit, Jones is accused of drawing about $18 million from his Infowars company over three years, starting in 2018 when the defamation lawsuits were filed. Jones is also accused of claiming a “dubious” $54 million debt around that time to another company, which the lawsuit alleges is indirectly or directly owned by Jones.
Norm Pattis, an attorney for Jones, said there was no effort to hide assets.
“The suggestion is ridiculous. We look forward to litigating these issues," Pattis said in an email Friday.
The lawsuit was first reported by the Austin American-Statesman.
The lawsuit was filed the same day Jones was questioned by lawyers for the Sandy Hook families. A judge had ordered the him to face mounting fines until he appeared for a deposition.
________
The article ends there. It will remain to see how this plays out.
Who cares if Alex Jones is sued?
A humanist friend has pointed out to me that people like Jones can out and out lie and know they are out and out lying (saying that all those grieving parents were only paid actors, etc.) and yet benefit tremendously in financial terms from their lies.
Fits Jones to a T.
He should sued and be punished so harshly that others will never again attempt such despicable skuduggery.
I wrote that last before I saw your stupid question.
There's your answer.
should be sued
I guess your question indicates that you don't care at all that families were put through such unnecessary additional suffering by what Jones did.
Myballs said...
Who cares if Alex Jones is sued?
Same number of people I know that listen to him, no one
IF the fanatics have their way,
soon women who use the morning after pill or men who use condoms can be arrested and charged with murder..
If the fanatics have their way it will be legal to abort a child they do not want up to the age of 8 - because before then they are not really alive until they can be groomed on the topic of gay and transgender people.
If any child becomes an inconvenience the fanatics will say my family my decision to abort this 4 year old who spills too much food.
A humanist friend has pointed out to me that people like Jones can out and out lie and know they are out and out lying..... and yet benefit tremendously in financial terms from their lies.
Sounds like Dr Fauci, huh?
I don't give a rip if Alex Jones is sued. My not caring about this has nothing to do with anything else.
F daddy claimed that JFK was "openly supporting Hitler before WW2."
His exact words.
But when I asked him to show us quoted evidence of such "open" (public) support, we got only crickets.
I give a huge rip that he should be sued -- severely for such irresponsible spreading of hurtful lies in support of a rightwing agenda.
You should care too. Interesting that you don't.
The spreading of political lies and misinformation in America is reaching Russian-style heights and depths.
Those of us who value democracy and don't want to see our nation descend into a fascist styled oligarchy ruled by wealthy autocrats care deeply.
I should care about a guy I have never listened to and dont follow? I have better things to do.
Yeah, you certainly should care.
There are few "better things to do" than defend basic values and ideals and truths of American life.
But some of you on the right also defend Tucker Carlson even when he admits that he sometimes lies.
After all, he said, it's only "entertainment."
Hey Reverend...
Here is what you can do...
Not listen to him.
Just like I don't listen to many liberals who have television shows where they spread nothing but lies? Remember when Rachel Maddow mattered? Why? Because she was spreading LIES non-stop about Trump and Russian collusion.
It was a blatant lie...
I don't see you worried about that sort of lie?
It seems James is the only one here following Jones. I guess whrn you're retired, you do that and work on your lawn. As for me, I'm much too busy to worry about another political voice in the crowd.
Dishonest, indecent, untruthful Rev. said...
But when I asked him to show us quoted evidence of such "open" (public) support, we got only crickets.
But when you repeatedly got a documented answer you just couldn't comprehend
This is the third thread you have got your ass kicked on with this
try reading s l o w l y
* I guess vacationing with the third Reich and being fascinated by Hitler is something I would categorize as support.
It certainly wouldn't be considered as opposing
I already told you previously I didn't have 80 year old quotes
except from you
ROFLMFAO !!!
correction for my post at 11:11 am
"exagerration" instead of "entertainment"
F daddy claimed that JFK was "openly supporting Hitler before WW2."
His exact words.
But when I asked him to show us quoted evidence of such "open" (public) support, he couldn't do it.
No wonder he couldn't. After all, if such "open" (public) support for Hitler had EVER been voiced by JFK, we would have heard about it years ago.
"exagerration" - I think he meant the "pastor" being of the ex-generation
well that's no exaggeration
ROFLMFAO !!!
* I guess vacationing with the third Reich and being fascinated by Hitler is something I would categorize as support.
It certainly wouldn't be considered as opposing
Guess reading s l o w l y didn't help the charlatan
Why don't you say what you would characterize that as ?
by the way you never did apologize for your lie about it being a lie that Kennedy had vacationed in Germany before WW2
Of course keeping up with your lies is hard
ROFLMFAO !!!
I guess I'm going to take CHT's advise and apply it to you
Myballs said...
I should care about a guy I have never listened to and dont follow? I have better things to do.
Well you nor I are old as shit and decrepit with no life.
Pedo enjoy spamming the rest of the day, I’ve already hit my local weekend farmers market and now I’m off to hike my kids, something I successfully accomplished, unlike you
Oh, I don't listen to Jones, nor do I listen to Maddox.
But I do care when a bully for financial reasons claims that grieving parents are only actors receiving payment to pretend to be grieving parents, and does that as part of a rightwing propaganda apparatus that is as CORRUPT AND CYNICAL as it can get.
I roundly condemn that.
Every decent American should.
James has nothing better to do. This is why he and Roger are always here spamming every thread. Kinda sad really.
It’s pitiful
Let me point out to you that my last several posts after 10:32 have been my own comments.
That's called discussion, not spamming.
Too bad you are not up to it.
And as usual, your own post got your ass smacked for thinking anyone gives a shit about Alex Jones
And note the Alex Jones crap started because of another STOOOIPID copy/paste
Not up to discussing a guy I don't care about getting sued? Yeah, that's about right. James is only embarrassing himself by keeping this going.
I'm laughing at your embarrassment.
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