If I was into being spanked, I'd want her to do it.
But I'm not, so I'm just terrified and disgusted.
Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
- Thread starter GasBandit
- Start date
But I'm not, so I'm just terrified and disgusted.
This video does not do the organization any favors.
I mean, Charlton Heston himself starred in movies about how you should rise up against misinformation and flawed leaders, fer cryin' out loud. I feel like someone could cut together a very effective rebuttal from Heston clips.
--Patrick
@Denbrought he made a video talking up Homeland Security & claiming that the US military should be "invincible". Problem being he filmed it at Auschwitz - part of the video was filmed *inside* one of the gas chambers. The officials their apparently didn't know he was doing this, and put out some tweets letting it be known that they do *not* approve.
What I don't get is how it's supposed to work in context. Admittedly, I haven't seen the video, but "this place is what happens when a Strong Leader insists on military power and pushes patriotism and cheap victimization of a minority. I want to do just that!" Just doesn't seem a great message.
Do you know Cooter?
GasBandit
Staff member
Which one?
Pssst! Now we have the reset code for half of the banks that Gas is part of!
Seriously, it's ridiculous that this is the "usual" code for that type of thing.
GasBandit
Staff member
Pretty much all the financial institutions I deal with have switched to things like "first pet" and "dream car," and ask 3 questions out of a bank of like 5-10. Progress!
It'll ask questions like "what county is *address* associated with?" And more often than not, it turns out to be none of the above.
Kuykendall
GasBandit
Staff member
Ah, no I don't.
So, how bout Hobby Lobby getting caught smuggling thousands of Iraqi artifacts?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/nyregion/hobby-lobby-artifacts-smuggle-iraq.html?smid=fb-share
Paying employee's health insurance because one might get an abortion is immoral, but directly funding ISIS, totally cool.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/nyregion/hobby-lobby-artifacts-smuggle-iraq.html?smid=fb-share
Paying employee's health insurance because one might get an abortion is immoral, but directly funding ISIS, totally cool.
It's smuggling, there's little-to-no question of that, but where in the article are you getting "directly funding ISIS" from this? Hell, ISIS is more likely to blow them up than sell them.
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-is...million-a-year-from-antiquities-russia-2016-4
Huge part of how they fund themselves.
The last article from the first paragraph in your link says they sell small artifacts for profit... which is exactly what happened with Hobby Lobby.
United Airlines caught being asshats again: United gives away seat, forcing mom to hold toddler for entire flight
One-Time Increase in H-2B Nonimmigrant Visas for FY 2017
From the accompanying press release e-mail said:
Yes, to lobby for more lax immigration laws so that willing labor can be imported.
GasBandit
Staff member
Imported, then abused when their "temporary" one-time H-2B visas expire and they get to make the fun choice of having to leave the country or become illegal.
I'm making almost as much on unemployment as I was at the job prior to the one that just ended. The owner and management made no secret that they didn't even want to pay the minimum required by law.
GasBandit
Staff member
And when they have access to an easily exploitable underclass as a labor pool, why would they?
Of course, no business wants to pay workers more than they have to. The idea should be, though, that when workers get scarce/unwilling, competition should force wages higher. But when they can game the system by exploiting a second class citizenry, it doesn't.
There was a brief panic when a bunch of us left all at once, but apparently they find it cheaper to have to train new employees every few months than try to retain the good ones they had.
GasBandit
Staff member
It's no wonder they went under, of course among the other issues you've told us.[DOUBLEPOST=1500332283,1500332246][/DOUBLEPOST]
Lately the gap between "can be" and "are" has been getting pretty wide, though. Right now, they're pretty much just a force for political/money laundering self-perpetuation.
This was the one I left before the one that closed. Just before I quit, the GM told the entire front desk staff that we weren't worth minimum wage. Turnover in the next month or so was heavy.[DOUBLEPOST=1500332641,1500332452][/DOUBLEPOST]
After the Farmington disaster, miners had to defy their own union in order to get them to admit black lung was a problem. It wasn't until after the Jock Yablonski murder that things changed and the union started looking after health and safty issues.
John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer. He is very disappointed with it and wishes it wouldn't kill him, but ultimately he will allow it to do as it pleases.