OK all you hiring managers out there (read: Voters)

OK, all you hiring managers out there who would you hire to be the management team for a large diversified corporation with business interests around the world?

Your choice of applicants are two teams and your only means of making a choice is based upon the educational backgrounds of the teams.

Educational Backgrounds

Team A Lead Manager:

Columbia University - B.A. Political Science; specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Team A Assistant Manager:

University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

Team B Lead Manager:

United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Team B Assistant Manager:

Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

I have been a hiring manager and team A would be hired and team B would be asked to leave the premises.

For those who haven't a clue ... Team A is Obama/Biden - Team B is McPain/Pale-lyn.

Bush Bubbas, let's get it right this time!

In the local paper today in the 'Letters the the Editor' section:

Bush Bubbas, let's get it right this time!

I'm a 55-year-old white Southern male christian who enjoys a high standard of living.

I voted George W. Bush both times. (I will carry the shame to my grave.)

I study politics more carefully now.

Barack Obama has my vote even if I have crawl the polls.

~ Bill Carpenter - Wesley Chapel, NC

Zero out of four

Team McCain/Pale-lyn lost the last debate.

Gramps just looked like what he is an angry old man.

Guess who has been better for your pocketbook?

Since 1929, Republicans and Democrats have each controlled the presidency for nearly 40 years. So which party has been better for American pocketbooks and capitalism as a whole?

This diagram will give you a clue.

Read the accompanying article here.

Will the bailout work?

Back in 1990, the feds seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it.

They failed and it closed.

Now we are trusting the economy of our country to a pack of nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling booze?

Palin without makeup

Palin without makeup!

Damn!

She really is a Barracuda!

Dozens get gas in Wisconsin for 35 cents

Sure, gas prices have come down lately. But to 34.9 cents a gallon? That's what Kelly Joosten and dozens of other motorists paid at a Citgo station Monday. The sign advertised $3.43 for a gallon of premium fuel, but the pump cost read $0.349 a gallon.

"That was amazing," said Joosten, who normally spends about $100 to fill up her 1998 Ford Expedition.

Joosten proudly showed off her receipt for 25.36 gallons at $8.85. She said she saw other motorists filling gas cans, too, at the discounted price.

Station owner JP Raval says the attendant on duty couldn't figure out why the station was suddenly so busy.

Raval estimated 30 to 40 customers fueled up at the incorrect price - between 200 and 300 gallons worth - for about 90 minutes.

"People kept coming, so fast," Raval said. "Everything was crowded; it was like a fairground."

Two more warm days and the fall chill follows

Around these here parts leastways ...

Summer fans ... you've got two days left to enjoy the heat.

Autumn fans ... get the sweaters ready. Your turn is coming soon.

Carolinas weather will switch gears rather abruptly Friday, moving from summer-like heat to an autumn chilldown for the weekend. The changeover day will come Friday, accompanied by a chance of showers.

Today and Thursday will be warm enough to challenge record high temperatures for the dates. Forecasters are predicting highs today and Thursday near 86 degrees, and that's within striking distance of the records -- 88 degrees today (set in 1985) and 87 Thursday (set in 1925).

Tuesday's high at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was 82 degrees, and it dropped to an unofficial low of 49 this morning. But the warmup today will be quick.

A cold front is expected to cross the area Friday, bringing clouds and a 50 percent chance of showers. No thunderstorms are expected, and highs will only reach the lower 70s.

By Saturday, we're expected to get a full taste of autumn. Forecasters expect the cold front's clouds to move east of the area in the morning. Under partly sunny skies Saturday, we'll have highs only in the lower to middle 60s. Temperatures on Sunday morning might fall to near 40 degrees, with highs around 70.

Female burglary ring broken up

Police in Guilford County say they have broken up a rather unusual burglary ring.

Eight of its nine members were women, say police.

The ring has been linked to at least 60 break-ins in Greensboro, High Point and Thomasville. Police say the group brought in other friends when they were short-handed, and that they often targeted people they knew.

“I think the chief said he couldn't remember a female we'd arrested for burglary,” said Lt. Jeff Blank of the Greensboro police department's property crime division. “This time it's eight of them and one man.”

Women sometimes act as lookouts or drivers in burglaries, Blank said, but aren't often involved in the actual break-ins.

“We're not sure why it happened that way this time,” Blank said. “From the interviews it looks like they got together a group and when one person wasn't available they'd just bring in another one of their friends.”

Blank said that many burglars don't target people they know, but many of this ring's victims were friends and acquaintances.

They operated for about a year and a half, stealing large flat-screen televisions, DVD players, other high-end electronics and cash, police said.

Police began investigating in August and, after the first few suspects were arrested, the group was linked to dozens of burglaries in the Triad.

Charges ranged from breaking and entering to larceny and intimidation of a state witness. Those charged are:

Barbara Williams Ahmad, 44, and Margie Annette Arroyo, 29, both of 305 Sunset Drive, High Point; Crystal Dominguez Artega, 35, of 208 Ashwood Circle, Asheboro; Victoria Gail Driggers, 16, of 107 Doak St., Thomasville; Lori Ann Johnson, 25, and Javier Estrada Soto, 24, both of 503 N. Centennial St., High Point; Billie Sue Mejia, 34, of 622 South Road, High Point; Brittina Vanmetre-Valdez, 20, of 619 Granby Ave., High Point; and Elizabeth LaDawn Williams, 25, of 110 Hodgin St., High Point.

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Dumb Crook News: the Soap Opera Division ... this one is funny crooks targeting their friends - some friends they are!

As of this moment ...

4183 Brave men and women will not be returning from Iraq - Alive!

Chatter

Been a while since I posted about the chatter on the forums - there has been no need - the chatter is all about the election.

But I was actually looking at TV yesterday and within two minutes an ad for McPain aired ... the same add.
What made this one stand out was the only thing in it that was the truth was the tagline 'Change is coming', the rest was complete falsehoods.
In fact they were exactly opposite from reality - saying Liberal congressmen pushed FOR deregulation and still push for more deregulation, raised taxes, gave tax breaks to corporations and saying Obama led the pack as it were on these things.

What a crock!

Used to be outright lies and even implied untruths were punished and it looks like they will be again ... NC is 54% for Obama now to 39% for McPain. We don't tolerate liars well in North Carolina!

But back to the Chatter:

The howling from the wing-nuts now is that Liberals are not being 'civil' when they call attention to the hate being spewed by the wing-nuts which is at the point of violence with cries of 'Kill him' whenever the wing-nuts mention Obama at their Klan meetings (excuse me, rallies) and to actual physical violence wherein a wing-nut in Tennessee killed people, in a church no less, because their church was a liberal church ...

And not one word of repudiation or rebuke from those 'running' the wing-nut campaign on any of it, thereby tacitly (tacitly nothing - outright) approving and encouraging such hate, fear and violence.

The American I grew up in was a helluva better place than this and with this election we will get it back and begin to rebuild what was once the greatest nation on the planet!

So the ad was right about one thing CHANGE IS COMING. It is just not the 'change' the wing-nuts are hoping for.

Daily Funny

Two Irish men walked passed a bar ...

Odds and Sods

I was having dinner with Garry Kasporov (the world chess champion) and there was a checkered tablecloth.
It took him two hours to pass me the salt.

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A priest, a rabbi and a pastor walk into a bar.
The barman says, "Is this some kind of joke?"

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A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories.
After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse.
"But why?" they asked, as they moved off.
"Because," he said "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."

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I said to the Gym instructor "Can you teach me to do the splits?".
She said "How flexible are you?".
I said "I can't make Tuesdays".

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A sheriff's deputy responded to reports of someone stopping at all the mailboxes in town.
It was the mailman.

TSA didn't keep track of ex-employees' badges and uniforms

Yet, further proof the TSA are really the Keystone Kops ...

A Homeland Security Committee investigation has found that the TSA was negligent in keeping track of former officers' uniforms and badges, so that an unknown number are now floating around, ready to be worn by anyone who wants to impersonate a TSA officer in order to bring a 3.1 ounce tube of toothpaste into a major US airport, thus causing every plane in the sky to crash simultaneously.

Investigators found numerous cases in which former employees retained their passes long after they had left the agency.

The investigation also found that TSA uniforms were frequently not collected when employees left or were transferred.

People using improper badges, IDs or uniforms — particularly in combination — "could significantly increase an airport's vulnerability to unauthorized access and, potentially, a wide variety of terrorist and criminal acts," the report said.

Report slams TSA failure to track security passes

Friends don't let friends vote repugican!

This might be the best one ever:

Oh, their names ...

Buckley is voting for Obama so is Eisenhower and Nixon .

Looks like all the conservative icons are for Obama.
Poetic justice ...

Buckley says, "Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance. Or would they? But let’s get that part out of the way. The only reason my vote would be of any interest to anyone is that my last name happens to be Buckley—a name I inherited. So in the event anyone notices or cares, the headline will be: “William F. Buckley’s Son Says He Is Pro-Obama.” I know, I know: It lacks the throw-weight of “Ron Reagan Jr. to Address Democratic Convention,” but it’ll have to do."

Daily Horoscope

My horoscope for the day says:

"You've had more groundless promises than you need."

Ain't that the truth,brother!
But then again, hasn't everybody?

As of today ...

If the election was held today it would be a Landslide of historic proportions.

With 53% of registered voters voting for Obama and only 41% saying they will vote for the others running (more than McPain and Pale-lyn are running you know) it looks to be the largest margin of victory in history, both in the 'popular' vote and the electoral vote which stands today at 357 for Obama and 181 for McPain ... 0nly 270 is needed.

It is worth note that the margin is increasing in favor of Obama hourly.

Two for the books

From the "idiots and food" Department:

A McDonald's cashier called 911 after a Vero Beach drive-thru customer allegedly offered to pay for his meal with marijuana. The Indian River County Sheriff's Office said the cashier called Monday with a description of the vehicle the suspect had been riding in.

A deputy spotted the vehicle, found marijuana in the car and arrested its occupant, 27-year-old Shawn Alexander Pannullo.

Pannullo was charged with possession of cannabis and posted $500 bail.

A Sheriff's report did not say what the suspect ordered at McDonald's or if he ultimately purchased the meal using something other than marijuana.

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A Brooklyn butcher shop worker called his specialty "hot kielbasa" - for snorting, not eating. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the kielbasa was really cocaine - not the Polish sausage sold in a popular meat market.

According to a criminal complaint, the "hot kielbasa" was kept in the basement.

Twenty-six suspects are under arrest, including the butcher, after an FBI informant visited the shop in response to the message: "Come to the store, I have hot kielbasa for you."

Though prices tumble, we still pay 10 percent more than the national average

Not the distinction we want ...

Despite tumbling in the past week, average gas prices in the Charlotte region remain higher than in most of the country, and the per-gallon average for North Carolina is the highest in the continental U.S.

In the Charlotte area, the average price of regular was about $3.54 a gallon Monday, down 36 cents from about $3.90 last Tuesday and 64 cents from an all-time high of about $4.18 on Sept. 15, according to the American Automobile Association.

Yet, area motorists are still paying 10 percent more than the national average, which was less than $3.21 a gallon Monday. Compare that to a year ago, when regular was virtually the same in the Charlotte area as the U.S. as a whole, about $2.76 a gallon.

While the region usually has less expensive gas than the nation, supply remains limited by Hurricane Ike, said Tom Crosby of AAA Carolinas. The September storm significantly disrupted production on the Gulf of Mexico – the starting point for pipelines that provide gas for much of the Carolinas.

While part of the flow has been restored, Crosby said, some oil wells and a big refinery remain offline, and Charlotte-area stations still aren't at 100 percent of normal supply.

“We're still trying to build inventory on the ground,” he said. “It's getting better week by week, and prices are dropping three or four cents a day.”

As for when or if Charlotte-area prices will again drop below the U.S. average, Crosby said that depends in part on the weather. Colder temperatures could lead some oil companies to shift production to more lucrative heating oil, he said, which could curb the area's gas supply.

“We're still in kind of an iffy area,” he said.