While I have zero explicit, authentic memories of eating a cinnamon raisin bagel with lox & cream cheese, it feels exactly like the kind of error I've made at some point.

'Cause, after all, aren't C/R bagels themselves a doughy, chewy category error? Y'know, exactly what sort of taste treat are we working toward, here, anyway?

Would you WANT more protein on such a thing, even at the cost of oily, briny, gamey flavor? Cinnamon never carried the show, solo, since it was discovered on the edge of that Takla Makan desert in the 3rd century.

(Wiki says India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, but that's just false consciousness, which is merely Fake News buttressed with undergrad enthusiasm. Trust me. When I put things on the internet.)

Not a fan of cinnamon raisin bagels.

But come on, let your employee have some ham!

The purge continues...

“Bloodmoney,” Color of Change’s smear campaign, seeks to shut down the fundraising abilities of conservative organizations by pressuring credit card companies & payment processors to deny access to conservative groups blacklisted by the SPLC.

https://amgreatness.com/2018/09/09/a-new-color-of-censorship-from-the-splc/

Too much white... Racist

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmzHusNX0AAPGls.jpg

Discovery of dog saves Oregon man from sex-crime conviction

https://www.kron4.com/news/national/discovery-of-dog-saves-oregon-man-from-sex-crime-conviction/1432872474

Social media giants ban people.
"At least it's not the government."

App stores ban apps.
"At least it's not the government."

Amazon bans books.
"At least it's not the government."

Credit card companies ban customers.
"At least it's not the government."

ISPs ban websites.
"At least it's not the government."

Universities ban speakers.
"At least it's not the government."

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1039479054636920832

The Department of Education stated that schools in the U.S. reported an alarming 235 shootings in one year. So NPR launched an investigation & contacted all the schools included in DOE's data... and more than two-thirds of the gun incidents never happened.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/08/govt-funded-news-outlet-finds-most-school-shootings-in-fed-report-didnt-occur/

A Serena WIlliams twofer. First, tennis umps may boycott her:

Times of London

Umpires are considering refusing to officiate matches involving Serena Williams, such is the level of discontent over the treatment of Carlos Ramos during and after the US Open final.

https://blogstupidgirl.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/why-is-it-supposed-to-be-sexist-and-racist-that-20-year-old-half-haitian-naomi-osaka-wiped-the-floor-with-37-year-old-serena-williams/

Second, Osaka would have won anyway. I can’t help it that Williams went through a difficult childbirth. Yes, she was brave, and it was brave of her to play her way to a comeback despite lingering physical problems, but she lost–fair and square and to a younger, better player. I can’t help it that Serena Williams is simply aging out, as all athletes must do.

Regarding the ham stealing woman, its an interesting legal question

8 years @ 50 work weeks @ 5 days a week = 2000 work days

$9200 / 2000 = $4.60 a day

Can one combine 2000 small individual thefts over the course of years into one single charge?

And even if they have evidence of her stealing a few times, how can they prove each and every theft on each and every day going back all eight years?

Supposing the total value fo what she stole was in truth only 8K, is that enough to find her not guilty of pilfering 9.2K

Discovery of dog saves Oregon man from sex-crime conviction

They wont name the lying minor even though she isnt a victim, and they wont name the ex girlfriend who gave away the dog, or explain how the ex girlfriend had custody of the dog to give it away

So odds are the minor was his ex girlfriends daughter, why hasnt the new DA indicted the lying minor for perjury and the lying ex girlfriend for tampering with evidence and perverting the course of justice?

They wont name the lying minor even though she isnt a victim, and they wont name the ex girlfriend who gave away the dog, or explain how the ex girlfriend had custody of the dog to give it away

Maybe it's because they're both pretty.

I'm all for revealing the identities of this trash, but it is likely it will not happen through official channels.

A former female staff member of a prestigious school has walked from court after being handed an “extraordinarily lenient” suspended jail sentence for having sex with five male students in her care.

NSW District Court acting judge Christopher Armitage said a “toxic culture” had developed in The Armidale School boarding house in which the 25-year-old woman slept with students aged between 15 and 17 after inviting them into her room in late 2014 and 2015.

Judge Armitage said it was “difficult to see” how an immature young woman of her age and experience was chosen to sleep overnight in a boarding house with young teenage males.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/woman-25-given-suspended-sentence-for-sexual-abuse-of-armidale-school-students-20180910-p502vf.html

Turns out the dog dude is married, and the ex girlfriend might in fact be an ex wife

Its looking like the ex wife and according to tweets by the Oregon Innocence Project the complainant is the guys daughter, probably ex daughter at this point

Its looking like the ex wife and daughter conspired to punish him for getting a new wife

https://twitter.com/PrometheusAM/status/1039369177843228672

Some crazy bitch thinks babysitting and working with molten metal are basically the same thing

$9200 / 2000 = $4.60 a day ~ lujlp at September 11, 2018 9:07 AM

Those are interesting legal questions. I'm betting the store (or chain) is pushing for the prosecution as a warning to other employees.

Shrink (inventory shrinkage) is a major concern for grocery. The shrink rate for grocery (2.5%) is double the national average for all other types of retail combined (1.1%). For grocery, this includes spoilage, theft, customers "grazing" while shopping, accidents, and carelessness (e.g., slicing the ham too thick or making too much potato salad).

Let's do the math. We'll take a growing regional grocer as our template. The chain has 175,000 employees in 1,100 stores. Imagine if 10,000 employees company-wide (5.7%) stole only $4.60 per day (slices of ham, cookies, grapes, etc.). That would cost the chain $46,000 per day or $322,000 per week, which compounds to almost $17 million per year.

With an industry-wide profit margin of around 1%, even minor pilferage has a real impact on the bottom line.

Conan, I remember Anthony Bourdain writing about that in "Kitchen Confidential" and how he stopped the thief.

Conan, I remember Anthony Bourdain writing about that in "Kitchen Confidential" and how he stopped the thief. ~ lenona at September 11, 2018 11:08 AM

Restaurants average about a 3% profit margin.

So, anything that increases costs has a significant impact.

> how he stopped the thief.

How?

Regarding the ham, I pay $5.96 a pound for ham from the deli counter. So, if she was eating $4.60 worth of it a day, she was eating about 3/4 of a pound of ham a day! My family of three makes just over a pound last a week. She must have been taking some home too, or she is as big as a house.

Sheep Mom: That's what I've been thinking. $4.60 worth of ham should make lunch sandwiches for at least four days. I _could_ pig out and eat it all at once, without the bread, but if I did that every day, I might have trouble fitting through doors - and the article claimed it was only a few slices a day.

It makes me wonder if the value placed on the ham is honest. Or perhaps this was a very special "organic" ham?