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Friday, November 6. 2009

Friday morning links


Photo from yesterday's protest in DC


Office gossip. NYT


AVI: The liberals I am most familiar with


Is abortion pro-family?


WSJ: The Madness of Queen Nancy


Guy reinvents the Constitution


Eurocourt Bans Crucifixes in Italy


Related: Europe - a leviathan is born


Are mammograms worthwhile? NYT


Get a clue, O: Iran doesn't like you. But they enjoy toying with you.


Gitmo prisoners don't like the alternative


VDH on the plutocratic Left


Voegli on California vs. Texas


We'll miss Jungle Trader


Census blocked from asking citizenship questions


Stossel:



Reporters who think coercive government control is generally good
and I, who thinks voluntary market forces are generally better, both have a point of view.


So why am I the one called biased?


Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 05:36 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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testing... testing... (moderator please delete) I seem to be caught in the anti-spam filter from h3ll...
#1 JoeC on 2009-11-06 09:41 (Reply)
Well, I do not read the NYT, being from Texas and such. But there was one really interesting article about my biggest pet peeves with waiters.

I saved a copy of this for future reference. We eat out, my wife and I, a lot. (less than we used to, still more than we should) And even when I have the wait staff from h3ll, I blame poor management. I have had more than one awkward discourse with a floor manager over poor service and now I have something I can give them and say "READ".

My friends and family have urged me for years to open a restaurant and utilize my cooking hobby, I considered it, and ultimately decided not to do so (for purely selfish reasons: I really do not want to work that hard. A restaurant is the owners LIFE!). But in one of my musing moments (after another one of those "HI! I'm Tiffany! I will be your server this evening!" and the ubiquitous "No problem" answer to requests or even simple thank yous. Purely a midwestern pet peeve) I thought about wait staff training. The URLs are links to an individual who put to the blog a list of 100 things a waiter should not do.

part one:
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/one-hundred-things-restaurant-staffers-should-never-do-part-one/?em

part two:
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/one-hundred-things-restaurant-staffers-should-never-do-part-2/
#1.1 JoeC on 2009-11-06 09:43 (Reply)
Ok, I have it figured out. If I use the URL tags it calls it spam. If I take the tags off, it allows the post. So, y'all have to copy/paste the links above. Sorry.
#2 JoeC on 2009-11-06 09:46 (Reply)
Darnit, I didn't make a photocopy, but we got and returned the census form already and I could have sworn it asked if we were citizens because that was one of the issues I was up in arms about and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was asked. I think.

I did not answer the question about race/ethnicity, so they called me. I refused to answer the caller, telling her that we are all post-racial now, aren't we? and she did not press me on it.
#3 class factotum (Link) on 2009-11-06 09:59 (Reply)
class factotum ,,, according to our Constitution, that much battered and frequently ignored basic document, when the census takers come around, all you are required to do is tell them how many people live in your house. That's it. No SS numbers, no charge account numbers, no income tax data, you don't have to tell them how many bathrooms your house has, how many relatives you have, how big your TV set is, or even how old you are. Somehow, in the ensuing years since the first census was taken, the government decided it had the right to ask impertinent questions about you, your life, your family. "To fill out their records," or some such tawdry excuse. That's rubbish.

Let me assure you, you do not want to give strangers access to your private information. Heaven knows what they'll do with it. The mind boggles, but it's all bad. I don't even plan to let them in the house. Our covered front porch is good enough.

These days, strangers, however well-spoken, have to be presumed to be hostile.

Marianne, who's a little cranky, and grieved about our Ft. Hood soldiers....
#4 Marianne Matthews on 2009-11-06 13:42 (Reply)
OK now I'm mad. I looked up utility bills and all kinds of crap because a very threatening letter accompanied the survey. I cannot believe I fell for it.
#4.1 class factotum (Link) on 2009-11-06 14:13 (Reply)

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