Swarley Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Someone's posted trumpets twitter.He goes on a rant about Time at the same time every year. This one No doubt fake news and MSM lies 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 I really hope they give it to Kim Jong Un, he'd fucking implode. Influential baddies quite often win. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Give the winner a nuke...Then award it to Kim. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 11 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I really hope they give it to Kim Jong Un, he'd fucking implode. Influential baddies quite often win. Vlad has won Forbes most powerful man for the last 4 years in a row, and you'd think he'd be nailed on for it this year too after his apparent omnipresence in 2017. I wonder if he's on Time's shortlist too. Trump's Twitter will be entertaining whoever wins. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 2 hours ago, Zetterlund said: Looks like he's talked himself out of the award, which he'll be seething about, but he'll say he's not bothered and go on about how Time is failing. etc. And the thing is, the award isn't "The Best Person" of the Year. Hitler has "won" it previously. It's for the person with the biggest influence - positive or negative. Of course, only someone with an ego as gargantuan as Wostit Boy would see it as a slight on him not to be given it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 2 hours ago, Savage Henry said: And the thing is, the award isn't "The Best Person" of the Year. Hitler has "won" it previously. It's for the person with the biggest influence - positive or negative. Of course, only someone with an ego as gargantuan as Wostit Boy would see it as a slight on him not to be given it. Colin Kaepernick's 4th favourite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 2 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Colin Kaepernick's 4th favourite. That'll send our "American" friend into apoplexy. Really hope it's Comey or Mueller though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProgressiveLiberal Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 I won it one year. Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Un were the runners up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Colin Kaepernick's 4th favourite. [emoji4] Ann Budge is 7th 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProgressiveLiberal Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 (edited) I think we've reached peak virtue signaling. Malibu, a city with 21 miles of the best coastline in California and 12,900 people (87% non-Hispanic white, 6.1% Hispanic), declared itself a sanctuary city after Trump's election. The people who live there are very adept at using green and land use laws to stop any development that would allow more people to live in the city, hence why it's almost all very rich white people. Quote Lifelong Malibu resident Mikke Pierson, 57, a supporter of the resolution, said it’s hard to imagine a Malibu without the many immigrants who toil there. That why expressing support for people who are in the country illegally is so important, he said. “Heck … we would be paralyzed and no one’s houses would be cleaned,” the former surf shop owner said. Quote Our city depends on a Hispanic population to support our comfortable lifestyle,” Rosenthal read. “Do we not owe them what comfort and protections that are possible in these challenging times?” Now just a few months later: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-malibu-homeless-soup-kitchen-20171124-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter Quote But Malibu United Methodist Church — facing pressure from the city — in recent weeks took a U-turn, deciding twice-weekly dinners for homeless people would stop after Thanksgiving. The cutoff came after city officials summoned organizers and suggested they were attracting more homeless people and making the problem worse. Quote Meanwhile, Malibu United Methodist Church and Standing on Stone, a Christian group, had been hosting twice-weekly homeless dinners on Wednesdays and Thursdays for three years. The church is in a residential neighborhood, near the high school. After the Metro’s Expo Line opened to Santa Monica last year, neighbors began complaining of mentally ill and rough-looking characters camping at the beach and hanging out near schools. “A homeless person was taking a shower in the girls locker room in middle school — that wasn’t real good,” said Gary Peterson, a retired developer and hotelier who quit the church’s board of trustees over the meal issue. “Providing dinner is a nice thing to do and a good thing, but it’s the location.” Quote During the council meeting, Mayor Pro Tem Rick Mullen suggested volunteers put together box lunches for the social workers to hand out instead of dinners. Quote Liddell pledged to find a new place for the feedings, but that could be tough. Standing on Stone has been forced to move three other times because of complaints, Wylder said. “There’s no place in Malibu to go,” she said. Several homeless people said they sympathized with the city’s dilemma. Back at Margaritaville, Chris Smith said he was recovering from a traumatic eviction and “the meals are definitely helping.” “But the taxpayers don’t want to take a chance on crime, and I kinda agree with them,” he said. Edited November 25, 2017 by TheProgressiveLiberal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 1 hour ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: Ann Budge is 7th Would have won it if the stand had been finished to the timescale imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/immigration-visa-h1b-trump-.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur Interesting column on getting this fella getting denied an H1-B visa after spending the best part of $200,000 getting an MBA from Stanford now that Trump is in power. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSU Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 32 minutes ago, Cerberus said: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/immigration-visa-h1b-trump-.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur Interesting column on getting this fella getting denied an H1-B visa after spending the best part of $200,000 getting an MBA from Stanford now that Trump is in power. I got my L1-B after four months waiting on the expedited program. As it turned out, getting approval for that only gave me permission to apply at the embassy. That was approved fairly quickly but even at that if the guy on the immigration desk at Logan had taken a dislike to me, he still would've had the power to send me back. Anyway, it would be less likely that my initial application would be approved if I were to apply today. I have my Green Card now, though, so Trump can suck it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 I came to the US when Obama was in power. By the sounds of it I doubt I would have got here under Trump or the process would have taken a lot longer. I'm alright Jack so everyone else can suck it- 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProgressiveLiberal Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 How about these rich companies train Americans to do the jobs instead of getting the government to import people who are already trained. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProgressiveLiberal Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 I couldn't read that article because I'm maxed out on NY Times this month, but I'm sure a Stanford degree will go very far in whatever country he's from. He should consider himself lucky the US let him in to earn such a valuable degree. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 22 minutes ago, TheProgressiveLiberal said: How about these rich companies train Americans to do the jobs instead of getting the government to import people who are already trained. Sure. Anyone willing to do a degree and undertake a 10+ year training program in the city with the highest rents in the world can have my job. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProgressiveLiberal Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 2 hours ago, Cerberus said: Sure. Anyone willing to do a degree and undertake a 10+ year training program in the city with the highest rents in the world can have my job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 I couldn't read that article But I definitely know what it was about even though I didn't read it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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