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Occasional Reader
12/2/2021 6:08:03 AM
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Gosh, it sure would have been nice if the corporate media hadn’t embargoed the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election, no?
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vxbush
12/2/2021 6:09:15 AM
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Did you call the Monty Python "Abuse" Line by mistake?
If not... who was it?
We have some equipment that is old technology (first developed in the 60's) but is still serviceable and provides us with something we still need from time to time. We have a maintenance contract with a company that makes the equipment (still). It was starting to fail in a way I've seen numerous times, so I called the support line, explained the situation, and the guy on the other end was surprised that I knew what was going on. That was Tuesday. Yesterday, I was trying to connect the new device and was running into a problem. I called back in and got the same guy. This time, he was rude, obnoxious, and after we fixed the one problem, we ran into another one. Rather than say that he would need to have someone with experience in that issue to call me back, or transfer me to the receptionist so she could connect me, he just said bluntly, "you need to hang up and call the main number again" in the most obnoxious voice I've heard in a tech support person in ages. He made no attempt to be polite or explain that someone else would need to help me--which I would have understood if he had taken the time to explain this--but he clearly just wanted to get rid of me as quickly as possible and in as rude a way as possible. I just hung up on him rather than let loose with the string of obscenities I wanted to throw at him. When I got through to the group of people supporting the software, the person who took my call freely admitted this wasn't his area of expertise but said he would route my issue to the best person to deal with it. The contrast between the two was night and day; he was respectful, recognized his limitations, but said it in such a way that he realized he needed to bridge the gap between me and the person who could help me. I've done technical support and managed a support center. I would have fired the first guy and worked on training the second guy. It is almost impossible to train people to get the customer service mindset as well as the second guy understood it.
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lucius septimius
12/2/2021 6:21:37 AM
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In #4 Occasional Reader said: Yeah, right. In liberal world, everything happens in passive voice.
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Occasional Reader
12/2/2021 6:22:12 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 2:
Fruits of the induced labor shortage, perhaps. You know who seems to do customer service training exceptionally well, at least in my area? Citibank. Their tellers and bank officers around here are superb.
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vxbush
12/2/2021 6:23:48 AM
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In #4 Occasional Reader said: Meanwhile, Alec Baldwin is apparently claiming “I didn’t pull the trigger” [link is to a Spanish newspaper but the embedded ABC News teaser is en inglés): I saw the link to that also at Conservative Treehouse, and it was just stunning to think that Alec Baldwin's handlers thought this was a good thing.
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vxbush
12/2/2021 6:26:00 AM
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In #3 Occasional Reader said: The Democrats: Dizzy With Success. Note this paragraph: The police union and associated groups have blamed the growing lack of respect and funding of law enforcement for the spike in attacks. You could just as easily just say "Democrats did this", but the FOP don't want to put the blame on the party. It's another case of passive voice with no agency.
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vxbush
12/2/2021 6:28:33 AM
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In #6 Occasional Reader said: Fruits of the induced labor shortage, perhaps.
You know who seems to do customer service training exceptionally well, at least in my area? Citibank. Their tellers and bank officers around here are superb.
Then Citibank understands the value of customer service. The companyI'm dealing with is hurting, but they are still trying to drum up service for 1960's tech, and even we will stop using this at some point in the next ten years. They need to pivot to another product and they don't really have one.
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JCM
12/2/2021 7:32:12 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 4: His finger did. He didn't. There is a difference!
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vxbush
12/2/2021 7:37:59 AM
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In #10 JCM said: His finger did.
He didn't.
There is a difference! His finger is a free agent, eh? Sounds like a plausible defense for a whole bunch of folks. /////
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Occasional Reader
12/2/2021 7:45:06 AM
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Reply to JCM in 10: Little finger! He was a villain in “Game of Thrones“, so it’s not surprising he would do something like this, too.
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JCM
12/2/2021 8:28:26 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 11: I was listening CNN, it was a SUV responsible in Waukesha! Nobody was driving apparently.
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vxbush
12/2/2021 8:29:17 AM
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In #13 JCM said: I was listening CNN, it was a SUV responsible in Waukesha!
Nobody was driving apparently. Have you noticed how no one has considered the possibility that it was remotely controlled? We know that's possible because of James Bond.
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doppelganglander
12/2/2021 8:31:48 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 7:
The best thing he could have done was shut his pie hole and stay out of sight. Instead he and that yoga wife of his were dragging the kids out for photo ops every day. If I were his attorney, I'd drop him.
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JCM
12/2/2021 8:40:08 AM
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WSU amplifies claim that farmer’s markets, food charity are ‘white supremacy’ in action Washington State University is amplifying claims that farmer’s markets and food charities are examples of “white supremacy” and “white dominant culture.” It has nothing to do with helping farmers thrive. This is about creating left-wing social justice activists. The Agriculture Program Coordinator for WSU’s San Juan County Extension Ag Program promoted a webinar event titled, “Examining Whiteness in Food Systems.” During the hour-long presentation, attendees learned that “white supremacy culture” creates food insecurity by “center[ing] whiteness across the food system.”
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buzzsawmonkey
12/2/2021 8:45:01 AM
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New York's local version of Morning Sedition had some people going on about the lead-paint situation in New York public housing. Apparently, they've known about there being major issues with lead contamination in public housing for some time (going back pre-deBlasio) in something well over 100,000 apartments. Well, apparently they've claimed to be addressing this---largely by spelunking to one or another selected apartment, gussying it up and pronouncing it "clean"---but they haven't. There's been God knows how much money squandered on this non-cleanup for God knows how many years, and there are still well over 100.000 public-housing apartments unaddressed. The NYCHA is drooling over the projected multiple millions, if not billions, they expect to get from the Bilk Boobs Better bill. Again: the people who cannot competently manage/maintain/repair recently-built, closed, man-made systems are the same ones who are demanding that we give them unlimited hog wallow through the Treasury on an open-ended basis to "control the climate" of the planet.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/2/2021 8:45:46 AM
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In #13 JCM said: I was listening CNN, it was a SUV responsible in Waukesha!
Nobody was driving apparently.
When push comes to SUV...
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Kosh's Shadow
12/2/2021 8:49:55 AM
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In #16 JCM said: The Agriculture Program Coordinator for WSU’s San Juan County Extension Ag Program promoted a webinar event titled, “Examining Whiteness in Food Systems.” During the hour-long presentation, attendees learned that “white supremacy culture” creates food insecurity by “center[ing] whiteness across the food system.” So they'll take away the farms from white farmers and give them to Blacks who don't know how to farm. Worked so well in Zimbabwe.
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vxbush
12/2/2021 8:54:33 AM
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In #19 Kosh's Shadow said: So they'll take away the farms from white farmers and give them to Blacks who don't know how to farm. Worked so well in Zimbabwe. Exactly what I was thinking. You notice how they don't have to actually prove that anyone is centering whiteness across the food spectrum or even what that means; everyone attending just accepts it.
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JCM
12/2/2021 9:02:32 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 19: The LAND is racist! Whites farm and stuff grows. Blacks farm and stuff won't grow!
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Occasional Reader
12/2/2021 10:57:15 AM
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Reply to JCM in 21:
If solar eclipses can be racist (remember that one?), why not land?
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Kosh's Shadow
12/2/2021 11:06:18 AM
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In #22 Occasional Reader said: If solar eclipses can be racist (remember that one?), why not land? And don't forget all those racist roads and bridges.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/2/2021 11:11:45 AM
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In #23 Kosh's Shadow said: And don't forget all those racist roads and bridges.
Wasn't Pete Buttigieg a Roads Scholar?
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buzzsawmonkey
12/2/2021 11:53:58 AM
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Oh, by the way...NPR was covering the Terrible Humanitarian Border Crisis on the Belarus/Polish border today. One of the "migrants" they interviewed was from...Cuba. Clearly someone who'd done a terrible overland trek to get to Eastern Europe. One of the things the "newscasters" covered---without the slightest consciousness of the ironies---was how "cell phones, smartphones, apps" were "a real game-changer" in the story of these itinerant "migrants." Cell phones are expensive. Where do these allegedly-impoverished "migrants" get them? How do they keep them charged while living in hardship in the forest? How do they get service? From whom? And in what languages? Why would their phone from Asswipistan be compatible with the service in the Belarussian forest? Seems...a little strange to me.
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JCM
12/2/2021 12:06:04 PM
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In #26 buzzsawmonkey said: Racist questions all!
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buzzsawmonkey
12/2/2021 12:30:35 PM
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In #27 JCM said: Racist questions all!
I live to serve.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/2/2021 12:32:02 PM
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The one part of roads that is racist, they pretend is anti-racist. That is, intersections.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/2/2021 12:37:01 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 29: What about intersectionality?
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Kosh's Shadow
12/2/2021 12:45:35 PM
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In #30 buzzsawmonkey said: What about intersectionality? That was my point. You know racetracks don't have intersections.
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JCM
12/2/2021 1:04:26 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 31: So figure 8 racing is Okay? Or is that body shaming?
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Kosh's Shadow
12/2/2021 1:51:33 PM
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In #32 JCM said: So figure 8 racing is Okay?
Or is that body shaming? Oval tracks are worse
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vxbush
12/2/2021 2:16:17 PM
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In #35 Kosh's Shadow said: They do that every year. This year, more countries abstained than usual (instead of voting for it). That they did not vote against it shows they aren't that concerned about Jew-hatred. (The US voted against it; most of the EU abstained) Wow. More people who think that if I believe something, it is true, regardless of history, yes? Very sad.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/2/2021 2:17:48 PM
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Reply to JCM in 34: The Mosque Upon the Mount Mohammed rode the night horse, or so the Muslims say
Mohammed rode the night horse to a mosque so far away
And his followers the Muslims, coming after his death, claim
That the mosque upon the Mountain is the mosque the Koran names. Never mind the mosque upon the Mount was never even there
At the time Mohammed---so they claim---took his ride in the air.
Never mind the mosque upon the Mount was built in later days---
Mere factual reality did ne'er a Muslim faze. Broadcast on Al-jazeera, in the seething Arab street,
Are echoed calls to Muslims that they must not retreat
That they must not cede unto the Jews they hold of no account
Possession of the Mountain and the mosque upon the Mount. The Muslims lost the mosque and lost the Mount on which it stands
A foolish choice was made then that it stay within their hands
And feverishly ever they work so as to erase
The record of the Temple there---which must take pride of place. The world stands by complacent at the Mount destruction news---
When cared the nations for the holy places of the Jews?
But bad though the nations' silence be, the silence that is worse
Is that of Jews who stand by as the destruction occurs. Why should a people conquered justly through the force of arms
Be permitted to retain a symbol that does lasting harm?
Why should the conquered be allowed to rule the Temple Mount
And by this hold their conquerors to be of no account? The mosque upon the Mount is beautiful, or so they say
But like the earlier Temple, it also may pass away---
The mosque was built to show who'd conquered many years ago;
The reason it was raised is also why it now must go. O Jews, who claim Jerusalem is still your capital
How can you claim this when the Mountain still remains in thrall?
It is in thrall by your consent. Jerusalem will be
Your capital united when the Mount has been set free.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/2/2021 2:18:19 PM
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Reply to JCM in 34: I note that of the EU, only Hungary and the Czech Republic voted against the resolution. Several others abstained. The Czechs are quite pro-Israel, as they see that the world is treating Israel like they were treated at the Munich conference. The US voted against it.
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JCM
12/2/2021 2:20:31 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 38: Not even Biden's puppeteers want to die on that hill. yet
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