Random Politics & Religion #00

Well hate to tell her transition from pastry chef to office worker is an odd choice.

I'd say she look to get on disability until she can find work if her shoulder is that messed up.

There are a lot of entry level positions here in Calgary that require:

University/College degrees,
2 years minimum experience in said position
Reliable transportation, despite absolutely Zero duties requiring transportation beyond travelling to and/or from work,
Among other stupid ***where they pay minimum wage for you to train a fresh off his *** moron who couldn't tell the difference between a spoon, a fork, and a hole in his *** that inevitably gets paid more than you do to train him.

This is why I don't want to be serious all the time. I don't like me when I'm serious.

For a social network a lot of anti social people on it.

German finance ministry rejects Greek proposal as insufficient - Reuters

"The Greek letter is not clear at all, but opens immense room for interpretation. To mention the three most important points: It includes no clear commitment to successfully conclude the current programme and its falls short of a clear freeze of Greek measures. It is totally unclear how the Greek government wants to pay its bills over the coming weeks with the current shortfall in tax receipts.

This is why the letter is not in line with the last Eurogroup position. It rather represents a Trojan horse, intending to get bridge financing and in substance putting an end to the current programme. On this basis it makes no sense to start drafting a Eurogroup statement on Friday. We should aim at three things now:

First, the three institutions should carefully examine the Greek current fiscal position in relation to the letter and give us their advice, as agreed in the last Eurogroup, whether on the basis of the Greek letter a successful conclusion of the current programme would be possible, with a sufficient primary surplus and debt sustainability to be assured.

Second, we need a clear and convincing commitment by Greece, which may just contain three short and well understandable sentences: "We apply for the extension of the current programme, making use of built-in flexibility. We will agree with the institutions any changes in measures from the existing MoU. And we aim at successfully concluding the programme".

Third, Greece has to publicly confirm that it will refrain from unilateral national measures to roll back the current programme. The authorities will, with immediate effect, not take any initiative or implement any measure or policy which is inconsistent with existing commitments under the current programme or aggravate the fiscal situation. This includes refraining from announced labour market and social reforms to be voted in Parliament this week.

The 10.9 billion euros earmarked for banking recapitalisation should not be prolonged since the Greek banks have successfully passed the stress test last year."

When I was job searching some time ago, 75% of ads wanted women only, with picture instead of curriculum and "availability". One guy right out told me I had to have sex with him to get the job(and then keep it). Wasn't even a good job.

We're talking about different things, bud. Campaign tactics like over-exposure and paying armies of PR people to twist anything around is what taints the landscape. Politician shouldn't be a career, but the private funding system rewards the ones that are good at getting rich people to give them funds to run those kinds of campaigns, not the ones who have a goal and a PLAN.


I can't figure out where you're getting this idea. Agencies can request all they want, they are given a budget by Congress and it's spend it or lose it. When the budget isn't sufficient, they can ask for additional money, but it's Congress who either appropriates more or allows them to borrow from the next year's budget. When a kid spends all his lunch money on candy, do you blame the kid or the parent when they ask for more and get it?


Assuming there's a viable 3rd party candidate, you're talking about 3 PSA's per major network in any given time period, that's not any more than they already are required to air. And candidates would obviously be allowed to purchase as much primetime space as the fixed budget allowed. They could do as many interviews and they liked, etc. There's nothing stopping them from spending that budget on whatever they please, they just wouldn't be allowed to spend more or forced to spend it. Having spent less would be a true indicator of a fiscal conservative.


You're purposefully missing the point for whatever reason.

I never said the public would determine anything other than who has earned their vote by demonstrating their ability on a level playing field.

Presidential campaign spending has become absurd. A combined 2 billion dollars in 2012, ~1.4 billion in 2008, ~880 million in 2004, ~530 in 2000. Do you see a trend? It's nearly doubled every cycle since 1980. And, more and more of it is coming from private donors. Almost half of GHWB's campaign receipts were out of public money, neither Obama or Romney took any of the nearly 100M they were each entitled to under current public funding. As it sits, in the last 2 presidential races, over 3.5 billion dollars of private campaign funding was spent on every manner of advertising and administrative luncheon and banquet and we have seen less and less actual vetting of candidates on their skills and experience. Our system is broken, and the public funding system we're supposed to have wasn't.

Beer and and going out to drink more beer is my thing.

Could be the worst day in the world two or three beers later and I'm good to go.

I talk to you guys on here more than my "Faecbook" friends. All they do is post pictures of babies and cats.

For a social network a lot of anti social people on it.

I do have my little pleasures in life.

Russell Stover makes these dark chocolate cover coconut candies.

And I like my vegetable cocktails.

These forums and most of the people on it.

I don't really indulge in the chocolate or candies as much as I used to, maybe 1-2x a month, and they're little 85g bags.

Looking for a picture of Ameena from Star Ocean I just discovered Ameena Pinij and I'm a fan.

I thought the story fell apart at the end, but I never tired of Cliff. I could go on forever!

So where are these jobs that pay more than ***wages, offer a 40-hour week, and don't require a degree or trade school training?

All the jobs you noted require, at bare minimum, trade school. How the *** is someone paying for trade school when they can't keep the heat on?

I quoted the relevant paragraph for a reason. You claim there are jobs better than Wal-Mart and McDonald's that don't even require a high school diploma. I want you to prove that. I have a friend who injured her shoulder and can no longer do the work she's trained to do (pastry chef), so she's trying to find some kind of office-type work but literally no one will let her answer a telephone because she doesn't have a university degree.

But, hey, if you think we need more skilled tradesmen, I won't disagree. Just tell me who is going to pay them while they learn. I know trade unions offer a wage to apprentices, but there's no one giving me money to get a CDL. If there is, do tell me, I know a bunch of people who'd love to do just that.