Is it class warfare or just plain meanness? A banker's $1.33 tip on a bill of $133 has some people crying "Scrooge!" To make matters worse, the self-righteous diner circled the word "tip" on the bill and suggested the server "get a real job."
I've been noticing lately, the comment numbering is off. I had commented on a seed in the #1 thread, and when i checked on it later, scrolled to look for #1.xx and notice I was already in thread #23.
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Rick Perry unleashed a furious response to a White House memo urging the State Department to promote LGBT rights in foreign countries on Tuesday. “This administration’s war on traditional American values must stop,” he said in a statement. The memo in ques …
According to Wikipedia, "[Labor Day] is often regarded as a day of rest and parties." The Department of Labor website states, "Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American wo …
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Once upon a time, labor and those who did the labor were something to be celebrated, not despised, disdained, and reduced to servitude. But that’s where we’ve come to: laborers are disdained, the unions that protect them objectified as the enemy, while the …
Wherever they are, I wonder if Harry S. Dent, Sr.
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The debt ceiling agreement passed by Congress today sets up a 12-person "super committee" with extraordinary powers and the mandate to locate $1.5 trillion in spending cuts and/or increased revenues for expedited vote by December.
The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network In recent years, Ailes has increasingly become a headache for News Corp.
Amateur psychoanalysis ahead. There's been a lot of banning of reregistering banned users - referred to as 'reregs' around these parts - in the last few weeks. Some of the bannings have been followed by wonderment at the fact that people keep reregging.
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Yesterday, Cantor announced a piece of legislation that might as well legalize hobbit marriage and cut the budget for time-traveling DeLoreans. It's just that fantastical.
February 20, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE A 22-year-old northwest suburban man who is a student at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb has been charged in the shooting Friday morning of another student on the school's campus.
On Sept. 12, 2001, there were no commercial flights in the United States. It was uncertain when airlines would be permitted to start flying again—or how many customers would be on them.
For all his eminence—or maybe because of it—the funeral for Irving Kristol this past September was an understated affair.
As the chart below reveals, the main drivers of projected deficits over the next decade are the wars... in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts and the so-called “automatic stabilizers” — unemployment insurance spending, lower tax burdens — built into e …
The owner of Momentum Political Services, Monica Harris, has an extensive criminal history, including a prison sentence for stealing from a family she befriended and buying a van with funds stolen from a youth agency, court records show. Two of her victims called Harr …
Tea Party Patriots could prove to be a formidable force in Wisconsin given the size of its fundraising machine; Martin recently bragged that the group raised $12 million last year. And that could be problematic. As a nonprofit group, TPP is banned from devoting the bulk o …
In recent years, three of the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s four conservatives were charged with ethics violations by the Wisconsin Judicial Commission — Justice Annette Ziegler for presiding over cases involving a bank where her husband was a director, Justice Michael …
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Rich, thanks for FR.
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