Posting Towards Gomorrah

[Spanky]

:mcqueen:

Number One Idiot of 2006

I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away. Here's your sign, lady. Wear it with pride.


Number Two Idiot of 2006

Early this year, some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home. Shortly after they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards them. It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator beacon that activated when the raft was inflated. They are no longer employed at Boeing. Here's your sign, guys. Don't get it wet; the paint might run.



Number Three Idiot of 2006

A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of Montreal, walked into the branch and wrote "this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller's window. So he left the Bank of Montreal and crossed the street to the CIBC. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn't the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of Montreal deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a CIBC deposit slip or go back to Bank of Montreal Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, "OK" and left. He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of Montreal. Don't bother with this guy's sign. He probably couldn't read it anyway.



Number Four Idiot of 2006

A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that measured his speed using radar and photographed his car. He later received in the mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car. Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40. Several days later, he received a letter from the police that contained another picture, this time of handcuffs. He immediately mailed in his $40. Another sign (though this guy might be onto something worth thinking about)!



Number Five Idiot of 2006

A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all of the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier refused and said, "Because I don't believe you are over 21." The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him because he didn't believe him. At this point, the robber took his driver's license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later. This guy definitely needs a sign.



Idiot Number Six of 2006

A pair of Manitoba robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him. This guy doesn't need a sign; he probably figured it out himself.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Spanky
Idiots of 2006

#4 is funny, but the guy is not an idiot a la the others.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Spanky
:box:

After reading the following article, it occured to me that one area where one can see the basic philosophical difference between Republicans and Democrats is with Walmart. Republicans see Walmart as an American success story that brings thousands of Jobs to people, lowers prices improving the standard of living in this country and that it has an overall positive influence.

Democrats see wall Mart as a company that kills small businesses, pushes out high paying jobs and replaces them with low paying jobs, exploits its workers by giving them cheap wages and no health insurance, and is evil because it won't tolerate Unions.

Democrats don't want Walmart to come to their town, and if it does want to limit its size, Republicans welcome Walmart to their town and will put no restrictions on Walmart.

And Ty please note I was disappointed in George Will for using a dubious "Median" stat. I bet you the "average" household income for Walmart employee is below $35,000 and that is why he used the Median stat.


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I note that George focussed on the consumer side of the equation in supporting Wal-Mart. It's instructive that he didn't address the liberals' problems with Wal-Mart head-on.

Over half of Wal-Mart's workforce is part-time. Supervisors who make the unpardonable mistake of allowing any employee to get over 35 hours a week are fired. Wal-Mart introduced their fisdt universal employee health plan last year. Yes, last year. The premium for coverage that matches a typical health program exceeds the average semi-monthly gross earnings of most Wal-Mart employees.

Wal-Mart's buyers frequently force their vendors to source from a single overseas supplier, generally in China. Their only option is to lose the Wal-Mart contract and go out of business.

I'm not denying that Wal-Mart has done wonders for some communities and for some peoples' lives. They have brought products and jobs to rural areas where there was no employment before, and there is a certain virtue in putting food on the tables of people who had gone hungry before.

But before you go lionizing Wal-Mart's achievements and size, consider that the price of that success has been paid mostly by the same people that Will claims Wal-Mart is doing so much good for. And consider that the corners Wal-Mart cuts are imposing greater public costs than its supporters tend to count into the Wal-Mart equation.

Like evryting else, Spanky, there are two sides to this story and neither of them are completely right or completely wrong.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I love you like the retarded brother I never had, but are still drunk from the Cal win?

I'm not a big fan of many of the Catholic church's stances on personal issues (i.e., I'm on a Highway to Hell), but when Father Tom from my old church starts advocating the stoning of rape victim, maybe I'll agree with you.

We are not that many years removed from Father Tom endorsing the drawing and quartering of heretics, but, putting that aside, the Catholic Church is responsible for just as much grief every day as any imam. If you want to count - I suspect there are a indistinguishly simililar amount of unwanted babies, preventable AIDS cases, paedophilic victims, and people suffering from curable diseases than victims of Islamic jihad or ritual female circumciscion. And that is only the current incarnation of the abomination that has been Catholicism for 2000 years. Standing for the Catholic Church is not an enviable defensive position - if I had to guess, it has killed more people in the name of "God" than Islam ever has.

[They shot a 70-year old nun in the back.

"One of the most common forms of medieval inquisition torture was known as strappado. The hands were bound behind the back with a rope, and the accused was suspended this way, dislocating the joints painfully in both arms. Weights could be added to the legs dislocating those joints as well. Other torture methods could include the rack (stretching the victim’s joints to breaking point), the thumbscrew, the boot (some versions of which crushed the calf, ankle, and heel between vertically positioned boards, while others tortured the instep and toes between horizontally oriented plates), water (massive quantities of water forcibly ingested–or even mixed with urine, pepper, diarrhea, etc., for additional persuasiveness), and red-hot pincers (typically applied to fingers, toes, ears, noses and nipples, although one tubular version [the "crocodile shears"] was specially devised for application to the penis in cases of regicide), although it was technically against church policy to mutilate a person's body. If stronger methods were needed, or death, the person was handed over to the secular authorities who were not bound by any restrictions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture

And, not to forget, the Catholic Church's' open support of Nazi Germany, and its role in helping prominent Nazis to escape Germany at the end of WWII. There may be no bloodier hands in the world than the "Christian" "religion of peace" known by the name of "Catholicism."

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Spanky
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And Ty please note I was disappointed in George Will for using a dubious "Median" stat. I bet you the "average" household income for Walmart employee is below $35,000 and that is why he used the Median stat.

Wal Mart store managers make big coin. Bigger than u or I. Well, bigger than u. Even bigger if u are a dude, less if u r a chick.

Average (for chicks) is 89k.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Wal Mart managers make big coin. Biogger than u or I

They can afford to pay managers big coin because they pay the hired help scraps.

Of course that didn't stop me from applying for a position as an AGC-Tax.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by taxwonk
They can afford to pay managers big coin because they pay the hired help scraps.

Of course that didn't stop me from applying for a position as an AGC-Tax.

In Arkansas? Can't see you hunting squirrels.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Spanky
:box:

After reading the following article, it occured to me that one area where one can see the basic philosophical difference between Republicans and Democrats is with Walmart. Republicans see Walmart as an American success story that brings thousands of Jobs to people, lowers prices improving the standard of living in this country and that it has an overall positive influence.

Democrats see wall Mart as a company that kills small businesses, pushes out high paying jobs and replaces them with low paying jobs, exploits its workers by giving them cheap wages and no health insurance, and is evil because it won't tolerate Unions.

And, of course, the real truth is that both sides are right to a large extent.

S_A_M

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
In Arkansas? Can't see you hunting squirrels.

Rats. At the dump. With Larry. And Darryl. And his other brother Darryl.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Rats. At the dump. With Larry. And Darryl. And his other brother Darryl.

That was Vermont or New Hampshire or something.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
That was Vermont or New Hampshire or something.

Trust me. Bentonville has its very own Larry, Darryl, and Darryl.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

• You know those ads produced by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and urging kids not to use marijuana? The feds have spent well over one billion dollars on the ads since 1998. Yet, as Slate reports, a government-funded study found that the ads actually increase the likelihood that teenagers will use marijuana. Worse, the ONDCP initially sat on the study for over a year, while continuing to fund the ads, and now claims the results are dated.

Volokh conspirator Jonathan Adler

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop

• You know those ads produced by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and urging kids not to use marijuana? The feds have spent well over one billion dollars on the ads since 1998. Yet, as Slate reports, a government-funded study found that the ads actually increase the likelihood that teenagers will use marijuana. Worse, the ONDCP initially sat on the study for over a year, while continuing to fund the ads, and now claims the results are dated.

Volokh conspirator Jonathan Adler

I suspect clinton set back their efforts by several years.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Trust me. Bentonville has its very own Larry, Darryl, and Darryl.

They also have better stuff to hunt than rats and squirrels.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
They also have better stuff to hunt than rats and squirrels.

They have Moose and Squirrel?