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(R) V. Archuleta
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
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(D) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
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(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
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January 22, 2011 04:04 PM UTC
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According to Dana Milbank
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
He calls on his colleagues to join him…
We can’t seem to get through a BJ-free day. Any chance we can get through a Palin-free month?
He’s history.
Frankly, one or two comments counts as “free” in my book.
but oh well! Glad you had beej-free days; guess I missed them.
It was your side comment at the end that I replied to.
Of course, the real test for beej-free days will be when he actually makes some posts here – he’s been blessedly absent…
from posts altogether in my HO
I’m not planning on being on here every day, though I’m sure you’ll miss me.
I can’t imagine the media not going bonkers when she announces in the middle of their Palin boycott.
The cats I could do without 🙂
Check out the TurBaconEpic Thanksgiving as well
He might be by later to complain about the salad I will now be serving.
Bacon whiskey? I nearly threw up in my mouth a little.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s brilliant. Gross, but brilliant. 🙂
…makes the best bloody mary’s–or so I’m told.
Mmmmmmmm, bacon.
about this video…but she refused to watch.
that would make me want to eat meat again, it’s bacon. I can’t explain it.
Wonder what that is . . .
Nothing wrong with that (unless you’re the pig).
mean about bacon. I love the stuff.
I have, for a long time, jokingly told my family that the words I want as my epitaph are:
Here lies Duke
He had an inordinate fondness
for porkbellies.
I don’t want to be right.
Basically, it comes down to awarding promotions randomly.
The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (abstract only, subscription required)
Key conclusion:
If nothing else, this is more interesting than the anecdotes that are usually touted around here for how to run a business (or government? or schools?).
and least competent . . . hmmmm????
Sounds like just another lame status-quo apologist trying to prop up our hope for our two-party system.
That the skills required to be good at the entry-level positions are not at all related to the skills required to be good at management.
So if you take the best person out of the entry-level and put her in management, she’s probably not that good at management and now you’ve made both entry-level and management worse by moving her. On the other hand, promoting someone randomly is likely to be a better result.
It only sounds unfair because we pay management so much more. If people got paid according to their responsibility or risk of being fired or number of hours worked, I don’t think the idea would seem so offensive. But of course managers tend to have less responsibility, more job security, higher pay, and fewer hours.
The promote up until someone hits a level they’re not good at. They then move them sideways back to what they were doing. But this requires dual tracks one of which is not management but has the same growth and compensation curve.
This is why you’ll see titles like senior architect (software), senior scientist (engineering), etc. No management but they are the equivalent of a VP.
Regardless of mechanism, the trick is to move someone back down or sideways if they aren’t good at the new job.
🙂
Croc gulps phone, starts ringing
College student files suit for $1.8M saying Las Vegas hooker didn’t spend enough time with him
His parents must be so proud…
$1.8 million to compensate for a manual override seems excessive. If it’s damaging, and this is just a guess, this guy’s so damaged a little more wouldn’t hurt.
It took forever before things started blowing up! 🙂
No way some of those horses didn’t die over that scene.
In this country, regulations requiring films using animals to have Humane Society monitoring to prevent cruelty would prohibit a scene like this. This would thus harm the small businessman producing the film and either force them out of business or force them to take their production budget and film elsewhere. Hopefully, the 112th Congress will help gut these regulations as they work to streamline government in support of small business and get this country working again.
Topless feminist protesters show what they’re made of
The article itself contains the usual half-truths and fabrications one expects from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, including this statement:
But truly, the headline rulz.
http://www.newswithviews.com/C…
I’m trying to remember a movie I saw a long time ago. I thought it was War & Peace but watched ti (the Henry Fonda/Natile Wood version) and that wasn’t it.
I remember at the end that there was a quote, I think from Tolstoy, about how if good men would band together for good as evil men do for evil, good would triumph.
Any ideas???
thanks – dave
The first is Edmund Burke. I don’t think this has ever made it into a movie, but a little poetic justice in you thinking it’s Tolstoy if it’s it.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Or, one of my favorites from The Sirens of Titan:
“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.”
Good even if wrong. Good luck finding your lost words!
story in the Denver Post
What really bothers me about this is I have talked to people at three Colorado software companies who each believe they have a product that could provide the CBMS feature set today. And they can’t even get OIT to take a look at them.
I understand OIT has an iron-clad requirement that software vendors must hire lobbyists and be based out of state. But couldn’t they make an exception for this one case? After all, saving hundreds of millions and getting our most needful help today is worth a lot.
Sometimes it’s impossible not to reference them, but please try not to link to them. We’re all responsible for adhering to Pols’ fairly simple posting policies.
and only quotes are not allowed.
???
it’s just front-paged diaries where links and quotes are frowned upon.
Pols, care to clarify? They’ll probably never see this anyway.
Apologies to Dave is his comment was A-OK.
Anybody care to comment on Ritter’s new job? Looks to me like he was bought off by Pat Stryker in order to let Hickenlooper run, much like the situation where Romanoff was offered a job if he would drop out. Haven’t seen a peep about it over here.
and watch us rip it apart if it’s bullshit.
Just reminding him that no one takes him seriously. That’s all I’ve got to say. (At least til he tries being some kind of hard right moby again.)
then ate a cookie. Highly recommend. Self control! 😀
I wasn’t committing suicide or anything.
this “Palin free” month is going to be hilarious.
I’d say a few people on a blog. A blog that, due to an unfortunate choice of party and ideology, will gradually lose relevance over the coming years.