Uh, Steph, have you looked at the Google logo today?
That's EXCELLENT!
I wish I could see it larger.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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Steph L. - Jul 23, 2009 8:21:21 am PDT #17549 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
omnis_audis - Jul 23, 2009 8:31:07 am PDT #17550 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Uh, Steph, have you looked at the Google logo today?Not Steph, but my work laptop now has Green Lantern Google for it's home page.
t Geek
Volans - Jul 23, 2009 8:35:01 am PDT #17551 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Am on stage at Google AIFG?
Vortex - Jul 23, 2009 8:40:17 am PDT #17552 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
um? was there supposed to be a link in there?
nope, was talking about google.
P.M. Marc - Jul 23, 2009 8:40:21 am PDT #17553 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
She is 2-3 years OLDER than me, pushing 40. She was telling the story with bravado. a "Ha, look what I did". She also told a story when she did financial audits for the mega apartment complex I live in. Apparently they had the affluent neighboring communities borders extended to enclose the new development, so that the "median income level" of the area was high, and when a new resident met some federal guideline for housing assistance, would do the needed paperwork to collect that money from the gov't, but not lower the rent any because the tenant didn't know they qualified. She says it's perfectly legal. nothing on the books says it's wrong. I said, ya, but it's immoral, and someone should let that be known, so that loop hole can be closed. She said, why? Only folks who know about it are the company and their auditors. If it's legal, so be it. She also is opposed to a lot of the social stuff the gov't pays for, so, HELLO, blow the whistle and you can save the gov't some money!!
That's a major ethical red flag to me.
Sure, she may be a human calculator, but it sounds like her actual thinking is shallow, and she's barely made of human parts. Hell, I wouldn't even game with her, for fear of wanting to PUNCH HER IN THE FACE REAL HARD.
Ginger - Jul 23, 2009 8:46:45 am PDT #17554 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I countered, yes, but you are also adding folks who are in good health, and she pashawed it.
You're right, actually. A significant portion of the currently uninsured are young, healthy people who don't think they need health insurance.
Ya, all our volunteers. Um. How to say. Cougar material.
It used to be that volunteers were maybe 70 percent retirees and the rest younger people who thought of it as free plays and a reason to get out of the house. I'll admit that at the Alliance Theater in the last few years I've felt I should be helping some of the ushers down the aisle. Your new mission: Suggest a young professionals' theater group.
Jessica - Jul 23, 2009 8:58:22 am PDT #17555 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
As long as we're on the subject, I have to recommend an ASTONISHINGLY good podcast called My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, which offers refreshingly apolitical historical analysis of current issues. (The most recent one being healthcare, which is what reminded me of it.) Highly recommend to anyone interested in that sort of thing.
omnis_audis - Jul 23, 2009 9:05:34 am PDT #17556 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
You're right, actually.Just cuz, I like to hear it. What???
Scrappy - Jul 23, 2009 9:09:47 am PDT #17557 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Aiee, I am having some trouble with our present houseguest. Not with him personally--he's a nice guy who has been a friend of DH for 20 years and is an artist who is smart and kind. He is in town for a mutual friend's 50th birthday party. The hard part is that he's an alcoholic. Not only did he stop to buy two large bottles of Cuervo on the way home from the airport, he must have drunk six or seven three-finger glasses of it, as well as 4 or 5 beers, all in a space of four hours. My whole family is in recovery and this is a HUGE hot button for me. He has that sour alcohol smell to his skin that makes me recoil so it's hard to be close to him. Makes me so sad and it makes my husband sad, too. But he's a grown man and our guest and I know there have been intervention-type things before, so I don't want this weekend to turn into a lecture. He knows his problem and right now is not doing anything about it.
It's just so sad and a terrible waste and it freaks me out and brings up all those old feelings. I just have to make it to Sunday.
billytea - Jul 23, 2009 9:10:04 am PDT #17558 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
You're right, actually. A significant portion of the currently uninsured are young, healthy people who don't think they need health insurance.
Yes, exactly. It's a big reason why US health care is in such a parlous state. (Economically, this particular variety of market failure is called adverse selection.)