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"Tried cocaine"=habitual drug user?

Wow! Breitbart is dead but his quality "journalism" still lives on! Investigative journalism is when you read the guy's fucking book?

Obama wrote about it. The problem is the pot he smoked. Obama used "blow when I could get it".
Pot rots your higher brain functions and turns you into:
1. a man with tits, or "norts"
2. a couch potato
3. a dimwit.
Al Gore was a famous pothead/hash achiever. This may explain his flunking out of both grad programs he tried at Vanderbilt.

Who cares. Obama hasn't yet started an unwinnable war so he's already better than our previous president.

clambo says

2. a couch potato

Video games do that too. And so did TV, back when there were shows actually worth watching.

CL says

"Tried cocaine"=habitual drug user?

Unfortunately that is often the case.

I tried Spokane once. Rather unremarkable.

A little off topic, but good

http://imgur.com/RMhXu

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51433

...................fyi............................................................

Right, everyone YOU disagree with is a compulsive liar.

http://www.akdart.com/obama142.html

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp

I'm not suprised you believe the messiah. Thats probably because you support warfare and welfare too.

Honest Abe says

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp

I'd bet anything Abe didn'tread the analysis, but only the emotion packed and biassed quotes that are mostly debunked by the very link he is sharing. Proof again of Abe's illiteracy.

Sherlock Homes had a snuff habit...what's your point?

The election nears. Time for both candidates to start pandering to their respective bases.

wthrfrk80 says

The election nears. Time for both candidates to start pandering to their respective bases.

Liberals will have environmentalists, working people, gay people, women and minorities.

Conservatives will have the remnants of the KKK, troglodytes, science haters, gold standard crackpots, and the .01%.

Let the games begin!

zzyzzx says

CL says

"Tried cocaine"=habitual drug user?

Unfortunately that is often the case.

Only it's not here, so the journalism is horrid.

CL says

Liberals will have environmentalists, working people, gay people, women and minorities.

And don't forget the New Age nutjobs, Church of Oprah members, and plenty of folks that aren't even U.S. citizens. And dead people.

CL says

Conservatives will have the remnants of the KKK, troglodytes, science haters, gold standard crackpots, and the .01%.

And don't forget the pentecostal wackos, theocrats, "Left Behind" rapture-ready kooks, and Young Earth Creationists.

wthrfrk80 says

And don't forget the New Age nutjobs, Church of Oprah members, and plenty of folks that aren't even U.S. citizens. And dead people.

Piffle. You know that each of these amounts to less than members of the Michigan Militia.

In fact, I challenge you to find any accounting of more than 10 total of voter fraud among undocumented workers or dead people.

Who cares?

If this is a significant issue about Obama, we may be sure he will win in November.

Cloud says

No, the Republicans will have the small business owners who write the paychecks for most Americans.

Yes, and that ratio is about 100 to 1 (owner vs worker). You like those odds? BTW, a "small business" is classified as less than 500 employees

Good for him. There's a time and place for everything, and he did it when it made sense, stopped when it no longer made sense.

Cloud says

Are you denying a major majority of those who run small business, who hire people, who create wealth vote Republican?

I'll go further, a majority of the people who defend this country and our freedoms are also conservatives.

Liberals are talkers. Professors. Government workers. School teachers with summers off. Reporters who live in their parents basements until they are 40.

You know it.

Not all Republicans are racists, but if you're racist your most likely a Republican.

Not all Republicans are God-fearing, bible thumping nimwits who crave telling me how to live my life but if you're a God-fearing, bible thumping nimwits who craves telling me how to live my life you're probably a Republican.

Not all Republicans are war mongers who have no problem wasting trillions of dollars on pointless wars that do nothing to make us safer but if your a war monger who has no problem wasting trillions of dollars on pointless wars that do nothing to make us safer your probably a Republican.

Got about 10 more of these. Democrats can be douches too, but Republicans take the cake.

You know it.

Cloud says

80 percent of the small business owners who pay for this country are Republicans. Folks who have to actually live in reality.

U R probably right. And when these moms and pops will get crushed by a walmart incarnate, it will be truly poetic justice!

wthrfrk80 says

True to a point. From a "first law of thermodynamics" perspective, the workers are doing all the work. But all of that work must be organized to be useful. That's the "second law" of thermodynamics. The business owners and managers are responsible for converting "heat" into "useful work."

Yes, but they are still not doing much.

It is quite easy for a few people to work together without the aid of full-time management.

Depending on the type of work a full-time manager cannot actually directly manage that many people, perhaps 5-20. After that you start needing foremen, assistant managers, etc.

A CEO of a 70,000 person company is still only converting the "heat" of 5-10 people into "useful work". A huge amount of work is getting done "underneath" them, and would still get done if the CEO were to go away.

I'm not sure I'd want to invest in a company with no hierarchy whatsoever. But yes, some companies have excessive management (like in the movie Office Space).

leoj707 says

wthrfrk80 says

True to a point. From a "first law of thermodynamics" perspective, the workers are doing all the work. But all of that work must be organized to be useful. That's the "second law" of thermodynamics. The business owners and managers are responsible for converting "heat" into "useful work."

Yes, but they are still not doing much.

It is quite easy for a few people to work together without the aid of full-time management.

Depends on the business. Having run a small business (commercial general contracting) with an average of about 10 employees. There is no way in hell that my employees that did the field work could deal with the business aspects of the contracting business or organize and even do the field work without supervision. These were excellent trades people but not everyone is capable of organizational skills. Regarding management not working as hard as the workers, again it depends. In my business yes the workers worked physically harder but I put in many more hours and endured far more stress than they did.

leoj707 says

Yes, but they are still not doing much.

Spoken like someone who's never made it past factory floor level. Everyone else' job is always easy, especially if they make more money than you, right?

If you've spent time as both the front end producer, as well as the manager, you quickly see that most front line people are commodities. It's the management that makes or breaks a business.

Entry level employees are particularly unproductive. We expect a programmer will be a net cost to us for the first 18 to 24 months. A senior level guy is worth 25 entry level employees. Even after they are trained, a senior employee that can manage is worth twice his non-management twin with the same technical skills.

Management is incredibly difficult, stressful, and absolutely VITAL to success. Only natural that most aren't that great at it.

Besides, aren't most managers the best producers? Or at least they used to be, and now teach/lead/coach their team into profits?

leoj707 says

A huge amount of work is getting done "underneath" them, and would still get done if the CEO were to go away.

You are listening to too many Democrat lies. This opinion drastically contrasts everything I've seen in the business world.