Boulder is a Stoopid Place

Shocked face – Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives – Washington Times

This ranks right up there with – Disney boss says George Stephanopoulos isn’t biased. Bob Iger, let me make one thing perfectly clear, if you believe your own bullshit, then you’re stoopid and I’m not.

The garbage that comes out of the mouths of the so called elites is why people are voting for non-establishment candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. So called business geniuses  Bob Iger and Mark Zuckerberg are both too stoopid to figure that out.

Just catching up with reality over at the Fiscal Times – It’s Time to Blame Obamacare for Losing So Many Full-Time Jobs | The Fiscal Times

One data point in particular might give at least some indication why. The number of part-time workers in jobs for economic reasons shot up by 468,000, apart from the 458,000 that left the workforce altogether.  Slack work or business conditions accounted for 181,000 of these jobs, while another 77,000 could only find part-time work.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs have noticed this trend for some time, and put the blame on Obamacare.

“The evidence suggests that the [Affordable Care Act] has at least modestly elevated involuntary part-time employment,” Goldman Sachs economist Alec Philips wrote in a research note published on Wednesday. Obamacare had the greatest impact on industries that traditionally do not offer strong health insurance coverage, such as retail stores and the hospitality industry. Phillips noted that these have the highest levels of involuntary part-time workers, and believes that the ACA has forced “a few hundred thousand” to take cuts in hours or accept part-time work as a result.

It’s great that the geniuses over at Goldman Sachs had done the homework, but all it takes is commons sense to see this one coming. Otherwise, I’m an effing genius and should be working at Goldman Sachs.

News you should be aware of – It Begins: One European Bank Fails, Another One Needs An Urgent Cash Injection! | Zero Hedge

The situation is so bad the regulator has already immediately tasked the special fund organizing the Deposit Guarantee Scheme to start paying out the clients of the bank, even though Optima Bank hasn’t filed a bankruptcy procedure just yet. The urgency of the need to pay the clients does indicate the situation is extremely bad and even though it’s a very small one (it had closed the savings accounts division last year), there are two more important things you need to keep in mind.

Nothing to see here, move along like a mind numbed robot.

Obama: ‘We’ are to blame, not Islamic terrorism, for massacre | New York Post

So determined is the president to avoid the subject of Islamist, ISIS-inspired or ISIS-directed terrorism that he concluded his remarks with an astonishing insistence that “we need the strength and courage to change” our attitudes toward the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

That’s just disgusting. There’s no other word for it.
America’s national attitude toward LGBT people didn’t shoot up the Pulse nightclub. This country’s national attitude has undergone a sea-change in the past 20 years, by the way, in case the president hasn’t noticed.

An Islamist terrorist waging war against the United States killed and injured 103 people on our soil. We Americans do not bear collective responsibility for this attack. Quite the opposite.

The attack on the Pulse nightclub was an attack on us all, no less than the World Trade Center attack.

To suggest we must look inward to explain this is not only unseemly but practically an act of conscious misdirection on the president’ s part to direct out attention away from Omar Mateen’s phone call.

I want nothing to do with Obama’s version of reality. Of course, if you live within the People’s Republic, your mileage may vary.

From the trial and tribulation of moving, to family dynamics to capitalism, no one can tie it together like writer Sara Hoyt.  In Between | According To Hoyt

The office is almost done. The bedroom is half unpacked. We have a fridge, but I need to go and remove all the protective plastic from everywhere. Village Inn will be disappointed.

To…

We still don’t know where younger son is going to live.  He doesn’t like the longer drive.  I don’t like (or think we can afford) his living alone.  We’re… negotiating.  Given that this is the kid who takes after me from the top of his little horns to the bottoms of his little woofkins that he don’t got, our negotiations are somewhat like the old talks between the US and the USSR when tensions were running high and both sides playing hardball.

and finally…

I find capitalism, in dignity, very compatible with equality.  Take the men who delivered our fridge this morning.  I didn’t consider them — nor would it occur to me to consider them — my inferiors.  Surely, I wouldn’t ask one of them to help me with the novel, but truth be told, I’d die if I were asked to carry a refrigerator.  And society would come to a half without people like them faster than without people like me.  OTOH without people like me, a society of people like them might (note I said MIGHT) well stagnate and never be capable of adapting.  Without people like my husband and sons, more than likely, it would come to a grinding halt and technology would deteriorate and back slide.

I big h/t to Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit for bringing Sarah to my attention. I don’t always have the time to read her longer posts, she IS a writer after all, but when I click on to the next page, it’s with a sense that I’m leaving an insightful nugget behind.