Thankful Thanksgiving

James.k.Polk wrote:

Patch wrote:While my rant was based on political BS, I've noticed it's everywhere. The local news, morning national shows, they all slant to suit their needs. A cop shoot someone? Don't wait for the details, just run the story and blame the police. Some kid takes a suspicious looking clock to school. Let's make him a celebrity out of him. Had that clock blown up, the same media would have blamed the school for not being more diligent.
Honestly watching the news now days is no different than trying to learn the truth by reading Facebook posts.  It's all BS trying to create hype from nothing, to get more likes, or in this case ratings.

My wife turns on the news every morning. That's my cue to get out of bed and go make coffee.

That story infuriated me.  A white kid takes apart an alarm clock and mounts it in that kind of pencil case,  he’s looking at Federal charges regardless of his "intentions".

Thus kid did what he did looking to get on the news to play the part of the persecuted minority.

Now that the story has turned on him,  he and his family fucked off to Qatar.

James.k.Polk wrote:

rkwsuperstar wrote:We are on day 3 of New Hire working on his training.  Most people are done the first day, even with having to wait for their employee ID.  He has 3 1/2 trainings left (he's finishing one he started yesterday).  Yesterday, he completed 4 and the beginning of a 5th.  He is going to be in here all day.

I have one kid I have to tell him to keep his phone in his pocket or his trainings take all day.  Maybe look in on him and make sure he isn't screwing around.

rkwsuperstar wrote:We are on day 3 of New Hire working on his training.  Most people are done the first day, even with having to wait for their employee ID.  He has 3 1/2 trainings left (he's finishing one he started yesterday).  Yesterday, he completed 4 and the beginning of a 5th.  He is going to be in here all day.

Patch wrote:While my rant was based on political BS, I've noticed it's everywhere. The local news, morning national shows, they all slant to suit their needs. A cop shoot someone? Don't wait for the details, just run the story and blame the police. Some kid takes a suspicious looking clock to school. Let's make him a celebrity out of him. Had that clock blown up, the same media would have blamed the school for not being more diligent.
Honestly watching the news now days is no different than trying to learn the truth by reading Facebook posts.  It's all BS trying to create hype from nothing, to get more likes, or in this case ratings.

My wife turns on the news every morning. That's my cue to get out of bed and go make coffee.

NebulaJack wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:

Patch wrote:I don't normally get political because I'm a firm believer in you can't change anyone's mind after the age of 18.

I do think the media should be held to a higher standard. All of them, crossed the line so long ago it's hardly recognized as a news anymore, but I saw one of the recent attacks on Carson, by CNN and it nuts, the lengths they will go to, to prop up Hillary.

I don't care that they came after him, that's all politics are anymore. But they started the interview with " Dr Carson's polls higher than anyone including Hillary in favorability" Then they throw up the numbers on the screen, but they only show the Republicans he is topping, Hillary and Bernie are left off the chart. I can only assume it's because she came in behind more than just Carson, but it just showed me the lengths they will go to. We will say it, if we have to, but we won't show it in case someone had the volume down on their TV.

End rant.

Yeah,

Fox news is the biased one, amIright?

I notice the same things.  If you are conservative you are automatically *at least* a buffoon and possibly a racist, warmonger, and probable child molester as well.  Meanwhile a liberal candidate can say something just as stupid as the "pyramids were grain silos" thing, and it never gets a mention.

The two things that piss me off most often in politics are A) The way that people attempt to paint their opponents with broad strokes as the worst kind of enemy and B) The bullshit manner in which news organizations (including the Daily Show) try to pretend they're above and apart from things, even going so far as to use the term "The Media" as though it doesn't apply to the well dressed man sitting at a desk in front of a camera being broadcast to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who brought up the subject.

A good example is Trevor Noah addressing the online anger over the disparity in coverage of Hillary and Bernie. He acknowledges that Bernie is polling higher and getting more buzz online, makes a joke about how it doesn't count online ("which is why you're cousin is still a virgin") and then points out that rather than accept the 'fact' that their opinions don't count because they were delivered via the internet, Sanders supporters have lobbed accusations of conflict of interest by pointing out that CNN, the network which hosted the Democrat debate and declared Hillary the winner (despite their own polls online showing otherwise), are a subsidiary of Time Warner, which is one of her biggest campaign contributors. He then highlights and anonymous tweet accusing him of being a Time Warner puppet since Comedy Central is one of their companies. Noah points out that, no it's not. Comedy Central is owned by Viacom. he makes a few more jokes, and then moves on.

It's a genius move, because in one deft stroke of verbal judo, Trevor Noah sides steps the very relevant question of whether or not Time Warner and CNN have a conflict of interest, while at the same time emphatically implying that any potential conflict can't be applied to him because his show isn't owned by a different Media Corporation than the one being accused. He decides to omit the fact that Viacom is also a big contributor to Hillary's campaign, presumably because he doesn't find that relevant to the story.

I've never really bought into the Daily Shows pretense of objectivity. I put up with it when Stewart was hosting, because I've liked the guy since his MTV days. Now that he's gone, I'm far less enthused with the show.

NebulaJack wrote:

kegs wrote:

rkwsuperstar wrote:Let's give Thanksgiving it's own thread, shall we?

If we must.  As a Canadian, I find this whole Thanksgiving thread so passé, as we celebrated it on the 12th of October.  Thanksgiving, not the thread.  Canada does not see a reason to celebrate any of our threads.  And even if we did, we would not be celebrating this thread on the 12th of October.  We didn't have time travel technology at that time.  

So does Thanksgiving get overlooked as people get psyched up for Halloween in Canada? Do you guys even celebrate it like we do? I met a guy from the UK once who was surprised at how big a deal Halloween is over here. It seems back home in England it wasn't a big thing at all, and he'd thought the bits in US shows about it were exaggerations until he came here.

James.k.Polk wrote:

Patch wrote:I don't normally get political because I'm a firm believer in you can't change anyone's mind after the age of 18.

I do think the media should be held to a higher standard. All of them, crossed the line so long ago it's hardly recognized as a news anymore, but I saw one of the recent attacks on Carson, by CNN and it nuts, the lengths they will go to, to prop up Hillary.

I don't care that they came after him, that's all politics are anymore. But they started the interview with " Dr Carson's polls higher than anyone including Hillary in favorability" Then they throw up the numbers on the screen, but they only show the Republicans he is topping, Hillary and Bernie are left off the chart. I can only assume it's because she came in behind more than just Carson, but it just showed me the lengths they will go to. We will say it, if we have to, but we won't show it in case someone had the volume down on their TV.

End rant.

Yeah,

Fox news is the biased one, amIright?

I notice the same things.  If you are conservative you are automatically *at least* a buffoon and possibly a racist, warmonger, and probable child molester as well.  Meanwhile a liberal candidate can say something just as stupid as the "pyramids were grain silos" thing, and it never gets a mention.

kegs wrote:

rkwsuperstar wrote:Let's give Thanksgiving it's own thread, shall we?

If we must.  As a Canadian, I find this whole Thanksgiving thread so passé, as we celebrated it on the 12th of October.  Thanksgiving, not the thread.  Canada does not see a reason to celebrate any of our threads.  And even if we did, we would not be celebrating this thread on the 12th of October.  We didn't have time travel technology at that time.  

James.k.Polk wrote:

Patch wrote:I don't normally get political because I'm a firm believer in you can't change anyone's mind after the age of 18.

I do think the media should be held to a higher standard. All of them, crossed the line so long ago it's hardly recognized as a news anymore, but I saw one of the recent attacks on Carson, by CNN and it nuts, the lengths they will go to, to prop up Hillary.

I don't care that they came after him, that's all politics are anymore. But they started the interview with " Dr Carson's polls higher than anyone including Hillary in favorability" Then they throw up the numbers on the screen, but they only show the Republicans he is topping, Hillary and Bernie are left off the chart. I can only assume it's because she came in behind more than just Carson, but it just showed me the lengths they will go to. We will say it, if we have to, but we won't show it in case someone had the volume down on their TV.

End rant.

Yeah,

Fox news is the biased one, amIright?

I notice the same things.  If you are conservative you are automatically *at least* a buffoon and possibly a racist, warmonger, and probable child molester as well.  Meanwhile a liberal candidate can say something just as stupid as the "pyramids were grain silos" thing, and it never gets a mention.

Patch wrote:I don't normally get political because I'm a firm believer in you can't change anyone's mind after the age of 18.

I do think the media should be held to a higher standard. All of them, crossed the line so long ago it's hardly recognized as a news anymore, but I saw one of the recent attacks on Carson, by CNN and it nuts, the lengths they will go to, to prop up Hillary.

I don't care that they came after him, that's all politics are anymore. But they started the interview with " Dr Carson's polls higher than anyone including Hillary in favorability" Then they throw up the numbers on the screen, but they only show the Republicans he is topping, Hillary and Bernie are left off the chart. I can only assume it's because she came in behind more than just Carson, but it just showed me the lengths they will go to. We will say it, if we have to, but we won't show it in case someone had the volume down on their TV.

End rant.

James.k.Polk wrote:I am, indeed Vegas bound today.

rkwsuperstar wrote: I might care less if I had a drink, though.

kegs wrote:

rkwsuperstar wrote:New hire is back today.  Hopefully we can finish his training today.  He keeps telling me "oh, I'm done now!" and we look at his transcript and he's only taken one more training.  I know it can take a while, but he has a paper with every required training on it.  If you've only completed 4 of the 10 listed, quit telling me you're done.

You must really miss the days when a boss could hit their workers.

rkwsuperstar wrote:New hire is back today.  Hopefully we can finish his training today.  He keeps telling me "oh, I'm done now!" and we look at his transcript and he's only taken one more training.  I know it can take a while, but he has a paper with every required training on it.  If you've only completed 4 of the 10 listed, quit telling me you're done.

rkwsuperstar wrote: I don't know what the Canadian TG is celebrating-is it also the stealing of land and spread of disease?

kegs wrote:

rkwsuperstar wrote:Let's give Thanksgiving it's own thread, shall we?

If we must.  As a Canadian, I find this whole Thanksgiving thread so passé, as we celebrated it on the 12th of October.  Thanksgiving, not the thread.  Canada does not see a reason to celebrate any of our threads.  And even if we did, we would not be celebrating this thread on the 12th of October.  We didn't have time travel technology at that time.  

rkwsuperstar wrote:Let's give Thanksgiving it's own thread, shall we?

Patch wrote:Morning all. Is Polk Vegas bound today?

This morning I'm taking the kids to school and I get stuck at a light. one of the kids make a remark about the traffic should turn right and I say they would hit that white car, then I notice there is a black truck behind that car and then a white one, then another black one. This goes on for about a dozen cars, white, black, white, black. Then our light changes and every car that turns is white, black, white, black. I know it's the most popular colors but still kind of cool that close to 20 vehicles were all in sync.