We take a loss on every deal…

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Scott

…but we make it up in volume.

I thought that we were just mortgaging our future so that we could continue buying their crap. I never considered that we were just giving it back to them.

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Best interest of the children?

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Scott

http://www.king5.com/home/Report-shows-former-schools-superintendent-pushed-sale-of-district-property-for-cheap-132485223.html

I think not. Yet Seattle Schools has a huge budget deficit and is always threatening teacher layoffs and school closures.

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…by the coward Robert Ford.

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Alaska

Sorry, that’s a cheap shot. Would have been nice though if he was fleeing the country because of the assassination of Bashar al-Assad. Just sayin.’

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A sad statement regarding police officers

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Oscar Gordon

This is a blood-pressure-spiking story about a cop in Chicago who killed a man who was laying prone on the ground.  The cop is under investigation by the FBI, so that’s good(ish).

The sad bit is this:

Sierra fired 16 shots at Farmer, hitting him seven times, autopsy reports show. A Cook County deputy medical examiner, after performing an autopsy and later reviewing the video, said the three shots in the back were the fatal wounds.

16 shots, at point-blank range, and he hit his man-sized, non-moving target with less than 50% of the shots!

And only cops have the training, and can be trusted to carry firearms.

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The goal of the solar PV industry

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Oscar Gordon

Solar cells so cheap they are the plastic silverware of energy production.

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Change

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Alaska

I LOL’d.

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A for Anonymous

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Phil Kadath

Found this amongst the chan-fodder

Don’t think the anons don’t know what’s going on.

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Where England Used to Be

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Alaska

First they outlawed firearms. Next they came for the sex toys.

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Messing with perception?

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Phil Kadath

I was looking up a photo for something or other last night and I was at the Bing Image Search page. In the fifth photo on the top row was a link to pics of the Flea Party Occupiers under the search term “Occupy Wall Street”. I clicked the link and found more than a few pics that weren’t exactly flattering. Signs from Socialist/Communist orgs, lots of anti-war signage and anti-capitalist slogans, lots of skanky looking folks demanding free shit or that people of a certain income level be eaten, bad costumes, etc..

I moved onto search for the pic I was looking for, and then on a whim I wandered over to Google to look at the pics that came up under a search for “Occupy Wall Street”. I was genuinely surprised to see that there were absolutely no unflattering pics in the first few pages of results.

I am not knowledgeable about the parameters Bing uses to come up with photos in a search, but I would imagine that it has something to do with putting the most popular pics near the top. Whereas Google makes it widely known that the most popular pic gets top billing and then down the line it goes.

So now I have to wonder if Google has changed their parameters or do they actively have someone sending certain pics down the line so that they don’t come up in the first few pages?

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What the Left Wants

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Phil Kadath

Opening line to the celebrtatory Khadaffy post @ the DKos

“This is Awesome”

This is what they’re celebrating. It’s not the picture Kos is using, but this is what they’re celebrating.

Executions without trials. Also known as “Social Justice”.

Does anyone doubt that the “Occupiers” would like this to be their preferred solution to “The Rich”?

Pic via CBSNews

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