I saw this article a couple of days ago, and I kept forgetting to share it here. And it would have been more relevant if I had remembered to share it when I first found the article.

A professor at the University of Rochester is accused of sexual misconduct. Three separate investigations clear him. Nonetheless, the University President faces sharp criticism for not firing the professor and resigns under the pressure.

Let's all go to schooooooooolll!

(Via Chas Murray)

Rough times in the Pacific: Now Japan, too.

Rough times in the Pacific: Now Japan, too. ~ Crid at January 16, 2018 4:56 AM

The most amazing thing about the Hawai'i alert fiasco was that a government employee who screwed up was disciplined for it.

Well, reassigned, but we're still waiting for word that the EPA employee who polluted an entire tribe's water supply was even spoken to sternly. Or that the election commission employee who left those Al Franken ballots in his trunk through three recounts was at least given the stink-eye by his manager.

So, it's something.

We might never have envied these two any more than in this moment.

Wait...

...Lemme think about it.

Affirmed. ☑

Say what you want about Twitter, but people you don't like will fuck with you on there... What's not to like?

Hawaii can learn from Japan. From El Cridmo's linkie:

The mistake was corrected within minutes.

In the screen cap, it looks to be about 5 minutes. Hawaii issued a correction to twitter about 12 minutes after, but not an official retraction for about 35 (38?) minutes.

As far as Facebook goes, I never joined. I just didn't like their ever changing privacy policies.

So, it's something.

Don't be so sure. The bureaucratic state protects its own.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/david-shulkin-i-would-have-fought-move-to-rehire-corrupt-va-employee/article/2624561

Via CC

The Hawai'i thing was described as a case of someone "pushing the wrong button." Okay, where is this button and why was it so close to the presumably harmless button that was the original target to be pushed.

Why do you put the "Incoming Missile Alert" button next to the "Mostly Harmless" button?

Okay, Crid's link answers that question.

The Seattle sugar tax came up in this article, and it struck me: they're going to lose tax revenue. If people are going to drive outside of Seattle to purchase their sugary drinks, then it makes sense to purchase the rest of their goods outside of Seattle.

Unintended consequences, how do they work? also a regressive tax to be shouldered by the poor who can't afford to travel quite that far.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/soda-tax-sticker-shock-grips-seattle/

Will the Seattle PD arrest people selling "loosies"? Psst! Buddy! Wanna buy some Coke?

Question asked.

What is it with teenage males and traffic cones?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/curbside-gyms-new-zealand-kea-parrots-trouble-traffic-cones

If people are going to drive outside of Seattle to purchase their sugary drinks, then it makes sense to purchase the rest of their goods outside of Seattle. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at January 16, 2018 7:23 AM

This.

I used to work for a large grocery chain back when Costco and Walmart were trying to capture weekly grocery shoppers. People who went to one of those retailers for grocery staples ended up buying other grocery products there. I calculated the loss in sales across all division and it was substantial.

A box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese was not better because it came from a grocery store. People shop by price. Once people were in a Walmart or a Costco, they were a captive audience. We were witnessing a paradigm shift in weekly grocery buying that left the major grocery chains reeling. Look at how many are now merging or disappearing.

Walmart turned the monthly discount store trip into a weekly one. The weekly grocery trip became a fill-in trip, as people began using their local grocery store to back fill the pantry with items not available at the discount store or the warehouse store.

Ironically, the disruptors back then are now being disrupted by Amazon.

Another explanation of the pay gap.

http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/01/men-are-expendable.html

More shitholery.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/08/tech-company-founder-middle-america-is-a-shthole-filled-with-stupid-people/

Who owns this shithole? you, fat man, speak up.

"Why do you put the "Incoming Missile Alert" button next to the "Mostly Harmless" button?"

Hey, it has a "Please Do Not Push This Button Again" light. That's what they were checking.

Missile launch has an app now.

So, now....

The MBA claims that “we,” the educated people, like herself, “would like to live a more rural lifestyle,” but they “won’t sacrifice tolerance or diversity to do so.” Especially, these folks do not want to live in “states where the majority of residents are voting for things against their own interests,” solely, because these voters “don’t want brown people to thrive.”

So Myerly is claming that "brown people" cannot thrive unless we vote for socialist candidates? Is that what she's saying?

Here's a theory I read somewhere overnight, but can't find again:

That playful new Google app that finds your (pretentious) doppelganger in some elegant work of art is actually a tool to flesh out their user databases, particularly for the appearance data of college-educateds in middle age who'd have been reticent to share that information by other contexts.

...And it's brilliant. I was thaaaaaat close.

(I'd be a Kouros, certainly… Not the Getty kind, but for rills.)

I love cats even more

https://twitter.com/Raiderzilla/status/949669821972541441

A penis, seen through the lens of intersectional feminsm:

https://twitter.com/NatureisScary/status/950926935307284480

"I love cats even more"

Damn, Nature, you scary!

Does this make San Fran a shithole??

http://mochimachine.org/wasteland/

Would you believe there is an online map to track human feces on the city’s streets? There is.

According to Fox News, one area of the city reported a 140% rise in feces. As Jay Caruso of RedState noted, “Public urination is so widespread it has damaged subway elevators and escalators, building walls and power poles.”

"Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed Tuesday that her department has asked federal prosecutors to see if they can lodge criminal charges against sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/16/dhs-asks-prosecutors-charge-sanctuary-city-leaders/

So Myerly is claming that "brown people" cannot thrive unless we vote for socialist candidates? Is that what she's saying? ~ mpetrie98 at January 16, 2018 9:32 AM

No, she's saying she is okay with her company never selling any products to any company in Middle America. Last time I checked, St. Louis, Memphis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, and Kansas City were all in "the middle."

For the uninitiated, that means she's written off potential business from Anheuser-Busch, Federal Express, Hoosier Tires, Harley Davidson, 3M, Key Bank, Proctor and Gamble, US Steel, Boeing, Southwest Airlines, Coor's Beer, and Merck among others.

Also, I wish Daily Caller would not describe her as "The MBA." Some of us with an MBA are not complete assholes.

BTW, anyone who names themselves on social media with an honorific, is automatically an asshole. So nice of "Melinda Byerley, MBA," to let us know that up front. Cornell MBA, just in case you needed to know.

If that's not enough for you, she "can pick up the phone and talk to insiders at every major social media and marketing platform to get instant advice for your business."

Also, speaking of being racist, Melinda only hires native English speakers located in the US, in clear violation of federal employment law.

The sentence about native speaker located in the US has since been changed on the company Web site and her Twitter account has been locked behind a wall.

So, the queen of social media marketing who can pick up the phone and call an insider at every major social media platform won't let you see her social media. 'cause you want social media marketing advice from someone stupid enough to insult half the country on social media.

White House doctor: Trump scored 30 out of 30 on a cognitive exam he requested:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-doctor-trump-scored-30-out-of-30-on-a-cognitive-exam-he-requested/article/2646095

A secession of a secession.. Insecession?

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/953341088302903296

> White House doctor: Trump scored
> 30 out of 30 on a cognitive exam

So he's intelligent?

So he's intelligent? ~ Crid at January 16, 2018 4:37 PM

The cognitive exam (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) was a test to measure cognitive functioning. It is used to test for Alzheimer's and/or Parkinson's. The result means that Trump does not show any signs of Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. It does not measure intelligence or sanity.

However, the 25th Amendment is mostly off the table now. Hard to argue a president is unfit when his cognitive function test says he's fit. Insanity can still be argued, but that would require a real doctor to sit down with him and diagnose him, no distance diagnoses from people who've never met him. Unless you're willing to stage a blatant coup d'etat.

The test was timed nicely for Trump. The 30/30 results came just as the 2018 election run is starting to gear up. The "he's losing it" motive for people to vote Democrat was just crushed. Now, the Democrats will have to rely on a "he's insane" argument, which is, even at this point, purely speculative.

A password for the Hawaii emergency agency was hiding in a public photo, written on a Post-it note

http://www.businessinsider.com/hawaii-emergency-agency-password-discovered-in-photo-sparks-security-criticism-2018-1

The Devil Went Down To Dumbass

Had a hankerin' for that $1 Taco Bell menu, apparently.

> However, the 25th Amendment
> is mostly off the table now.

I like that you were concerned; I like that you said "mostly."

I like that you were concerned..." ~ Crid at January 17, 2018 7:33 AM

I'm more concerned that if we throw even a bad president out of office simply because one party does not like him, we've started down a road from which there is no coming back; that the use of legitimate safeguards to conduct a political coup will leave the rule of law in tatters.

That we may be witnessing the death throes of what Hamilton called a "grand experiment," what Lincoln called the "last, best hope of of earth," and what Reagan called, the last stand of freedom on earth.

> simply because one party
> does not like him

Dafuq?

> simply

?

> does not like him

?

Kinda wondering how far you want to go like that.

Kinda wondering how far you want to go like that. ~ Crid at January 17, 2018 5:20 PM

When impeachment is a fore-ordained conclusion (see Waters, Maxine et al), the rule of law is endangered.

Lately, there have been too many calling for the impeachment of a president of the other party whom they do not like. At least 35 bills were introduced to impeach George W. Bush. There was considerable talk of impeaching Barack Obama. And now, the talk is about impeaching Donald Trump. Not for real crimes or misdemeanors, but because of policies one party opposes, however legitimately.

A legitimate Constitutional safeguard is in danger of being trivialized into a political tool - and the nation made into a banana republic because of that.