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  1. On 4/24/2018 at 9:33 PM, DCA_HORN said:

    To me the quintessential 60's song has to be in the mid to late 60's, so in my best John Cusack voice:

    Top 5 quintessential 60's songs:

    Buffalo Springfield-For What it's Worth

    CCR-Fortunate Son

    Animals-House of the Rising Son

    Simon & Garfunkel-Mrs. Robinson

    Bob Dylan-Blowing in the Wind

    I agree. Those songs are the ones more incorporated in other media, commercials, television, movies, then any other 5 one could come up with. 

  2. A ton of people can't find work because they can't pass a drug test. This strong economy is having repercussions in how companies will deal with it going going forward and it will also be a factor when or if the Trump Administration gets the feds out of the drug enforcement business. At least relative to Pot that is.

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    TIGHT JOB MARKET HAS SOME FIRMS RETHINKING DRUG TESTING POLICIES, EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS SAYS

     
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    With low unemployment and demand for workers rising, some employers are rethinking their hiring practices, according to a survey by Express Employment Professionals. Some employers are overhauling their drug testing practices based on the belief that overly broad testing eliminates valuable talent from the applicant pool, particularly in states where marijuana use has been legalized in some form, and 65% of businesses reported they lost job applicants because of drug test failures.

    https://www2.staffingindustry.com/site/Editorial/Daily-News/Tight-job-market-has-some-firms-rethinking-drug-testing-policies-Express-Employment-Professionals-says-45549?

  3. Pingpong diplomacy: Koreas join teams at table tennis worlds

     

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    HALMSTAD, Sweden — Pingpong diplomacy is uniting North and South Korea at the table tennis world championships.

    The women’s teams from the two countries, originally competing separately, decided Thursday to combine teams rather than play each other in the quarterfinals.

    “When I informed the board of directors about this development, the unified team received a standing ovation from the delegates who showed their sign of support to this historic move,” ITTF President Thomas Weikert said.

    The move follows recent cross-border diplomacy by state leaders at home. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in promised last week to work toward the “complete denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula.

    The combined Korean team at the table tennis tournament will next play Japan in the semifinals Friday.

    “(It’s) an important statement to promote peace between our countries through table tennis,” the South Korean team said.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/north-and-south-korea-combine-teams-at-table-tennis-worlds/2018/05/03/e1914c34-4eba-11e8-85c1-9326c4511033_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e478c0b08b57

  4. 23 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

    I’ve said that for awhile. Just one idiot’s opinion, of course. 

    His approval rating is also at 42% I believe. Stuff like the WHCD flap just galvanizes his supporters. 

    It's at 51% and the Democratic lead in the midterms is down to the margin of error. All of the hate and fake news and still he is above water. 

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_may04

  5. Citi: U.S. To Become World’s Top Oil Exporter

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    As global oil markets shift their attention from U.S. shale oil production back to a resurgent Saudi Arabia and Russia and geopolitical concerns bearing down on oil prices, Citigroup said last Wednesday that the U.S. is poised to surpass Saudi Arabia next year as the world’s largest exporter of crude and oil products.

    The U.S. exported a record 8.3 million barrels per day (bpd) last week of crude oil and petroleum products, the government also said Wednesday. Top crude oil exporter Saudi Arabia’s, for its part, exported 9.3 million bpd in January, while Russia exported 7.4 million bpd, the bank added.

    However, it should also be noted that the Citi projection is for both crude and finished (refined) petroleum products, not only crude oil. Saudi Arabia remains the world’s largest exporter of crude, though since January amid the OPEC/non-OPEC production cut agreement that figure has fallen. On April 10, the Saudi oil minister said that the kingdom planned to keep its crude oil shipments in May below 7 million bpd for the 12th consecutive month.

    Saudi Arabia has also trimmed its oil production more than 100 percent of the output cuts it agreed to under the January 2017 production deal. In March, Saudi crude production was at 9.91 million bpd, below the deal’s output target of 10.058 million bpd.

    Russia, however, also part of the global oil protection cut agreement, increased its crude oil production by 0.2 percent to 10.97 million bpd in March, compared to the previous month and an 11-month high.

    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Citi-US-To-Become-Worlds-Top-Oil-Exporter.html

  6. Federal judge accuses Mueller's team of 'lying,' trying to target Trump: 'C'mon man!'

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    A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort – suggesting they lied about the scope of the investigation, are seeking “unfettered power” and are more interested in bringing down the president.

    "You don't really care about Mr. Manafort,” U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III told Mueller’s team. “You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever."

    Further, Ellis demanded to see the unredacted “scope memo,” a document outlining the scope of the special counsel’s Russia probe that congressional Republicans have also sought.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/04/federal-judge-accuses-muellers-team-lying-trying-to-target-trump-cmon-man.html

     

    U.S. judge questions special counsel's powers in Manafort case

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    “I don’t see what relationship this indictment has with anything the special counsel is authorized to investigate,” U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in the Eastern District of Virginia said.

    At a tense hearing at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, the judge said Mueller should not have “unfettered power” in his Russia probe and that the charges against Manafort did not arise from the investigation into Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

    “It’s unlikely you’re going to persuade me the special counsel has unfettered power to do whatever he wants,” said Ellis, who was appointed to the bench by Republican President Ronald Reagan.

    Manafort is facing charges in both Virginia and Washington. The Virginia case charges him with offenses including tax and bank fraud.

    The other case in Washington accuses him of conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/u-s-judge-questions-special-counsels-powers-in-manafort-case-idUSKBN1I51WE

  7. Notice how that guy says he is native Korean and has been living in the southern part,  South Korea. They apparently don't see themselves as separate countries. I think that bodes well for the prospects of peace and reunification.

  8. Minor compared to others but, a buddy and I saw The Smashing Pumpkins down at the Fox in 1998 or so.  We are standing in the lobby and a cop was standing about two arm lengths away. He pulls out the joint that we were going smoke (I thought outside). I said Bubba wtf and he shrugs like no worries. 

  9.  

    Trump is misunderstood and you have to make an effort to try to rationalize how he operates and throw away the norms and look at the results. If you don't you are just haters on the sidelines jeering someone trying to make a difference. 

    It has to be understood that Trump feels like only results matter and he will do anything to get something done. No matter how outrageous it may be.  He just has his method and it fucking works. You can hate his guts all you want but if you really want shit happening then who has done a better job at it ever? Reagan is probably the last president to get things done but he did some stupid shit too. The Bushes didn't do shit, Clinton didn't do shit, Obama didn't do shit. This fucker does shit.

    He has made major accomplishments in every area of how our government works. Jobs, foreign policy, fixing structural issues in how the government operates. Got the pipeline pushed through, opened up new areas to drilling, making the country oil independent more or less that is. And he knows that oil won't be used for primary energy generation in 50 years or so but he doesn't give a fuck. He wants jobs out there for people now and getting off oil too fast will fuck a lot of people and who wants that? 

    Korea has been a hot spot for 60 years now it is done. Trump told China how it was going work going forward and they fell in line. We hold all the cards and we are the gorilla on the block and he knows that he is using that to basically tell the rest of the world how it is going to be and they are going for it.

    The Arabs let by the Saudi's are finally going to adopt the "Arab Peace Plan" and Iran will be isolated and eventually, probably sooner than anyone thinks there will be a regime game in Iran and Iran will once again be an ally. Once those guys are out of play Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan will stabilize and Turkey will work things out with the Kurds. 

    People talk about how he turns people over a lot. Hey, that is the way it is in the business world. You either do the job or you're fired, and when people fuck up he gets rid of them. Look at the limited talent pool he has to start with anyway.  There are probably only a dozen people qualified to be sec of defense and not a single one of them has ever had to work for maniac hell-bent on success. And its that way for all the top people he has to have. 

    People criticize him because of the government jobs in the executive branch that he hasn't filled yet and say its an example of what a dumbass he is. Well, fuck those jobs. Apparently, we don't need them filled as they are likely unnecessary. 

    I have even gotten to where I can handle his tweets although they had a high cringe factor for me until just in the last month or so until I finally realized he knows he is acting crazy but this is how he has always operated and it has always worked in the past for him so whatever. I just don't let it bother me. Btw, every president from here on out will tweet their asses off.

    I think he is fucking great. 

    Rant over

     

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  10. On 4/26/2018 at 2:42 PM, Grandioso said:

    The North Korea situation is going about as well as you could hope. I don't think Trump has a ton to do with that, but his whole "madman theory" approach to Kim Jong Un might have influenced him to come to the table. Trump then flatters him and shit when he makes decisions that are favorable to us, which might be working too. 

     

    Of course, it is Trump. Korea has been a problem for 60 years and he shows up and rope a dopes them all. 

    "Peace" in the Middle East is next.

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