caroljane

Tony dear, as a mutual friend could you inform William that I am not speaking to him until he removes that menacing face and restores the Happy Baby, which I know you agree with me about? Thanks, Carol

Yes, but that should not prevent you from taking on as many jobs as possible to maximize your productive capacity.

It looked like a few hundred at least at the protest. \\\it appears now there was only one shooter officer. The most poignant thing I saw at the memorial site was one message, "you mattered". Sammy came here five years ago from Syria, Talk about appointments in Samarra.

I don't know, it's magic - Shakespeare in Love

And I will ,never fear. I will read it as soon as I finish my urgent projects, such as opening the bottle of South African white which was miraculously on sale today, they never have sales, but I guess they felt guilty about the three hottest days of the century last week when they were Cash Only due to a tree falling on a hydro pole in the storm behind the store. I do not know about you but here they do not have service charges on cashback so the liquor store is basically the first stop bank for many. You should have seen the value trades going on between the plastic-poor and the cash credible. What some people are willing to do for a dozen cold ones is a real eye opener. Btw I chuckled at your little joke about socialists being mentally ill. I never make jokes myself of course, and have always stoutly refuted the canard that Objectivists are more prone to Narcissistic Personality Disorder than anybody else.

Unfortunately, fewer and fewer organizations appreciate the self-educated candidate when making hiring and promoting decisions. I've had a few discussions with Serapis Bey on this subject. I'm not convinced that employers' preference for formal degrees has much to do with education at all. I think they rationally use it as a proxy determination of the financial and social status of applicants, which roughly translates into dependability on the job, and further serves as a screening process for rebel-types likely to cause organizational problems. If you finished a four-year degree program, that in itself might not say much about your intellect or knowledge, but it does tell us certain things about you (on average). It mean you are more likely to come from a stable home life, you're more likely not suffering from any severe financial hardship, you recognize at least some societal expectations and meet them, and you're capable of finishing at least one long-term commitment. These are the factors for which most employers are looking, even above relevant skills and training. It's not a great proxy determination - and I think most employers realize they're just playing an odds game - but with so little information to be gained from a formal interview process, they are happy to make use of what little verifiable information about an applicant they have. The number one problem employers list for employees is absenteeism - college-educated applicants are much less likely to have the financial or familial problems (breaking down car, sick baby sister, etc.) that would lead them to miss work. On what do you base these conclusions? One guess on this comes to me right off the bat. The shrinking number of decent paying jobs and the excess of applicants forces hirers to raise the credential bar, albeit on the arbitrary basis of formal education. Don't know if RB will agree though.I will guess one right off the bat.

This is a very illuminating discussion and I now realize how relatively cheaply I got my education. A friend's son lives in San Diego and has two daughters in college. He and his wife are pretty much impoverishing themselves to support them there. The kicker is, the girls don't work part-time to share the burden. I admire the scruples of the OP.

This is a ridiculous strawman and you know it. There is nothing wrong with voluntary unions, indeed IMO they are good things. But state-privileged unions, and particularly public sector unions, are a Public Choice time bomb. Please, actually look at some Public Choice Theory literature. You've been on these forums long enough to know that the critique being advanced against public unions is a far more sophisticated and nuanced one than your misrepresentation of it. I was indeed only thinking of voluntary unions, and will look more into the differences. Also the differences in the laws and structures of unions between here and the US. I will also say I look with no kindly eye on the Toronto Police union, whether it is voluntary or not. I will put my straw man back in his corner and play with him later.

Unless it turns out the guy with a knife really had a gun, it looks like manslaughter on the face of it. Either it was one cop's gun or two. The evenly spaced shots tend to rule out any more than that. The military trained me to kill, not take prisoners. I was always sensitive to the difference from then--mid-sixties--to now of the essential difference between the mind set and competence of the military vs the police and admired the police for their supposed extra layer of competence. That's been continually evaporated as the police have become more and more militarized. I'm not really gloating, Carol, but I didn't expect such a news story from Canada. While Canada is economically mostly a string of cities bordering the United States it has its own distinct cultural and political identity. I do not like this kind of meld. The U.S. can be a very tough place depending on who you are and where you are in it. I drove an 18-wheeler into Canada two or three times over a decade ago and I always found Canadians, including the French Canadians, interesting, kind and helpful. --Brant then, again, I didn't meet you lol. But you did meet me in a way. If you had driven right across the country I think you would have found the same attitudes and types of people everywhere. Despite regional differences there is a cultural unity among Canadians that maybe is not so pervasive in the US. Much less Heat in our Night.

What is your opinion of the elimination of John Dillinger? Or Adolph Hitler or Benito Mussolini? Societal self-defence as they had proven themselves dangerous to society. To have tried them for past crimes, should have resulted in maximum penalty, thousand year sentences.

Incidentally, I have not read Hunter but speaking of intertwined stories, some of the reviews I saw said it was like a co-written book, with the romance and action elements seeming out of synch. You said it was next on your list so I will be interested in your reactions.

Brant, I don't blame you for gloating. I think I will go to the protest tomorrow. I will just refer to my previous post about peaceful disarmament, which does happen here quite often, and of course reiterate that I think even cops should only have batons and tasers and teargas or whatever.

Carol, Labor unions didn't "achieve" a certain wage, they unethically used force to coerce employers to provide it. "Living wage" is not a valid concept. Almost any wage is sufficient to support life in a free economy and people have certainly survived in the past on much lower wages. It's not about what a person "deserves," it is about what he has earned. Free markets tend to push up wages over time. Even a person who doesn't contribute anything in terms of knowledge or understanding benefits from the efforts of those that do. Darrell One man's unethical coercion is another man's successful contract negotiation. Living wage is indeed not a valid concept. But it works so darned well in practice. Most workers do not have enough time to wait for the free markets to push up their wages before the rent is due.

. Darrell, thanks for the lol and a good post. The knife reportedly was 3 inches (I don't know if that was the whole knife or just the blade) obviously well able for a teen who may have been trained in MMA to simultaneously attack and murder all four of our defenceless, brave, ethical Servers and Protectors. As he stood alone the police were yelling at him,,"Don't move!" but it appears he actually did move. So got, apparently, what he deserved.

That's interesting, he must be improving then. Apostle also had two intertwined stories but one of them (a Chappaquidick type blackmail on the president) was one of the lame elements I mentioned before. Very badly done, actually boring.

Yeah, two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world into two types of people (take a bow, Ayn Rand!) and those who don't.

Of course not. I do not believe that justice is achieved by death.

Likewise after some pretty extensive searching. Ellen I am still waiting for reports of the riots. We have not had any news about them up here. Probably the liberal Canadian MSM is suppressing it.

Brant, the guys and gals who were witnesses (the passengers) have confirmed that the knife holder made no move to attack the police. Duff Campbell, who was within inches of the brandished knife, told the Toronto Star, ". thought he was crying out for help" and "I don't think he wanted to hurt anybody. He could have hurt people, and he didn't". Instead he ordered them out of the car. Sammy Yatim, dead at 18, was described by a neighbour as "a sweet, friendly kid who was close to his family and on the right path." He had graduated from a Catholic high school and was studying business.

When the consequence is death, that occurs due to the actions of others, "our" killers, and "we" do not get to ponder the "profound meaning."

they should lose their liberty. But the very most they are likely to lose is a few days' pay, if even that.

Of course, that's it! How dumb of me not to see the obvious. A night job and a day job - never to bed and early to rise - we will soon all be wealthy and wise!

Not here, there weren't.

Nothing good could ever, ever have come from a killing so bad, so meaningless. But a least the riots predicted, have not erupted, to tear apart anyone's theories.

Dear Diary, It is all resolved and we are closer than ever!It was a very silly thing, it was that word `fat`which set her off, we had talked about it with the midwife and many people before. `Baby weight is normal and natural and K had always said she knew nobody could resume the pre-baby body within a few weeks like those Playboy bunnies and that terrifying Spelling woman. But it turns out, she really did not believe that but thought that her shape should simply resume immediately because she is a celebrity,and she had something of an identity crisis, and I am so glad I was able to comfort her without consulting anybody. Losing baby weight is fine for regular celebrities, we have agreed. It is gaining baby weight that is the duty of a Duchess. Ich dien, W.