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Posted on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:19:39 PM EST
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    CO (D) Goes after Stimulus (none / 0) (#1)
    by Slado on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:22:10 PM EST
    Really?

    Who does this guy think he is?

    Sounds like he wants to be (none / 0) (#2)
    by Anne on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:26:36 PM EST
    President of the Chicken Little Club...

    "the sky is falling, the sky is falling!"

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    BTD often comments rightly (none / 0) (#3)
    by Slado on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:28:28 PM EST
    that pols are pols but this one takes the cake.


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    off the charts (none / 0) (#5)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:37:56 PM EST
    and stupid.

    Basically he is saying everything he has done as Senator is wrong. So why in hell vote for him? He just wrote a commercial against himself.

    I wrote a post on it just now. Thanks for the tip.

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    No problem (none / 0) (#19)
    by Slado on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:49:43 PM EST
    I think he's right (as you think he's wrong) but we can both agree this sort of epic flip flop takes being a pol to a completely different level.

    Move over Senator Kerry, there is a new flip flopper in town.

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    The sky actually is kinda falling. This (none / 0) (#4)
    by tigercourse on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:34:58 PM EST
    country is somewhat screwed. But it's certainly not the fault of the stimulus. And things would be worse without it.

    He isn't going to win in November no matter what he says.

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    He wasn't completely dead (none / 0) (#6)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:38:26 PM EST
    But he is now.

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    globalization (none / 0) (#7)
    by CST on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:41:38 PM EST
    immigration, etc...

    A few weeks ago, sarcastic unnamed one asked me how my life might be worse if the U.S. were flooded with civil engineering competition from India.

    Yesterday, someone mentioned a road in China that it is taking days to get down.  Today I read this.

    Guess I don't have to worry too much.  Lookout software engineers though... sounds like they have plenty of those.  Although I still say Indians, like everyone else, are human.  And if they came here to work, they would want to be paid like it to.  I don't see them settling for less.  This article supports that notion.

    I was just reading (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:54:38 PM EST
    that call centers are now moving from India to the US because it is becoming less expensive to operate them HERE

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    Tempory situation at best (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by MO Blue on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:22:27 PM EST
    The U.S. is spending money to train and place workers in other countries that will work cheaper than Indian workers.

    Despite President Obama's pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $36 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.

    UPDATE: InformationWeek has learned that USAID just launched a similar campaign in Armenia.

    Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent's low labor costs.

    Under director Rajiv Shah, the United States Agency for International Development will partner with private outsourcers in Sri Lanka to teach workers there advanced IT skills like Enterprise Java (Java EE) programming, as well as skills in business process outsourcing and call center support. USAID will also help the trainees brush up on their English language proficiency. link



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    but who needs a minimum wage? (none / 0) (#10)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:55:21 PM EST
    when you can compete with people who live in mud huts.


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    Iowa is receiving a large benefit from its (none / 0) (#12)
    by BTAL on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:19:32 PM EST
    Outsource to Iowa program.  

    Kudos to Iowa.

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    In my industry... (none / 0) (#14)
    by kdog on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:28:32 PM EST
    we call them "stall centers" around the water cooler, India only stalls the caller and gets 'em all pissed off before they get transfered back to the USA:)

    One manufacturer we rep even had to shut down their India call center they got so many complaints, musta lost a bundle on that failed adventure in outsourcing...a customer pays a guy in the USA and when a problem arises the customer gets pawned off on India?  They rerally hate that, go figure:)

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    The other day I called a co and ended up (none / 0) (#17)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:12:49 PM EST
    in an Indian call center talking to a pretty heavily-accented guy who said "My name is Kevin, how may I give you excellent service today?"

    You name is Kevin? Really? That made me chuckle a little...

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    "How may I give you excellent service?" (none / 0) (#25)
    by kdog on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:25:56 PM EST
    is pretty funny too...who writes these scripts, and does anybody actually appreciate such canned faux enthusiasm?  I can't say I do...

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    ATT kept thanking me each time I (none / 0) (#35)
    by oculus on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 07:02:03 PM EST
    called to try and get rid of European maps on my GPS while I was trying to drive to my niece's home in St. Louis MO.  I finally yelled, stop saying that!

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    How Unkind (none / 0) (#36)
    by squeaky on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 07:04:19 PM EST
    I finally yelled, stop saying that!

    Sounds like you need to outsource an Indian spokesperson for these types of conversations...lol


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    Kinder than what I was thinking (none / 0) (#38)
    by nycstray on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 07:53:35 PM EST
    when I was b*tching at Comcast and they kept thanking me :)

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    Yup (none / 0) (#39)
    by squeaky on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 07:59:17 PM EST
    I need one of them to work for me when I call Verizon, etc., because my bill is wrong.  

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    Ha! I'm sure you'll do just fine. (none / 0) (#8)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 02:51:29 PM EST
    As soon as you figure out what day it is.:)

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    One of the selling points (none / 0) (#11)
    by CST on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:09:03 PM EST
    at my school for the civil engineering department over other types of engineering was job security.

    Turned out to be rather prescient.

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    Looks like it. Which school? (none / 0) (#18)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:13:45 PM EST


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    Carnegie Mellon (none / 0) (#23)
    by CST on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:14:23 PM EST


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    You are not a run of the mill C.E. (none / 0) (#34)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 06:21:39 PM EST


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    interesting (none / 0) (#15)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:43:24 PM EST
    Will Murkowski run as an independent?

    also interesting (none / 0) (#16)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:45:35 PM EST
    Ken Mehlman is coming out
    If I had to say what one thing really moved me to create this site it would be the 2004 reelection campaign of George W. Bush, the most homophobic national campaign in history. That campaign was run by one of the nation's worst closeted individuals, Ken Mehlman.

    If I first started writing about Mehlman in 2004, why is Ken getting his Roy Cohn Award now? Because I am able to report - here for the first time -- that Ken Mehlman, the former Chairman of the Republican National Committee is set to come out of the closet in a column by Atlantic writer Marc Ambinder Friday morning or early next week. This will be on the heels of him being included in fundraising letter supporting marriage equality.
    we. are. so. screwed. (none / 0) (#20)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:52:31 PM EST
    meet your candidate:

    Some of you will think this is a prank, but if it is, it's been going on an awfully long time. Exit quotation: "You say Satan a lot, don't you? You like that term, don't you?"
    Must say . . . (5.00 / 1) (#33)
    by nycstray on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 06:04:13 PM EST
    she stayed pretty darn composed, lol!~

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    You dont think FOS (none / 0) (#21)
    by jondee on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:00:10 PM EST
    looked for the goofiest, flakiest Demo they could find, to represent "the face of the party"?

    Next week they'll probably have on some paroled serial murderer running for something in South Dakota..

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    well sure they did (none / 0) (#22)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:10:09 PM EST
    but talk about low hanging fruit.

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    In a perverse way (none / 0) (#24)
    by jondee on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:23:58 PM EST
    it's going to be interesting to see what new depths of nasty sludge they're willing to dredge in the next few months..

    I see the social liberal has a new post at his site about Obama not liking to make public appearances  with any American flags in the background..

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    Yes, I Heard That Too (none / 0) (#26)
    by squeaky on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:34:48 PM EST
    It is against Islam to show a flag, and given the current state of things, a US flag is really blasphemous.

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    funny headline (none / 0) (#27)
    by CST on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:42:33 PM EST
    the other day (paraphrasing here since I don't have the link)

    Obama shown eating pork, and drinking booze.  So not only is he a secret Muslim, he's a non-practicing, sacreligious, secret Muslim.

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    Hilarious (none / 0) (#29)
    by squeaky on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:47:22 PM EST


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    a terror-enabler (none / 0) (#30)
    by jondee on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:48:29 PM EST
    AND a hypocrite..

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    Well (none / 0) (#31)
    by squeaky on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:49:58 PM EST
    Maybe, eating pork and drinking wine was a super secret code to wake up the sleeper cells..  

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    Well that is the best kind... (none / 0) (#32)
    by kdog on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:57:18 PM EST
    so the crazies got that goin' for 'em at least.

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    What's amazing is how (none / 0) (#28)
    by jondee on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:47:11 PM EST
    shamelessly blatant Mullah Barak is about things like that. I guess you can develop a fall sense of confidence once the New Black Panthers have strong-armed that many voters into tipping a presidential election in your favor..

     

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    Not too bright (none / 0) (#37)
    by Yman on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 07:53:05 PM EST
    His post shows a single picture of Reagan, Clinton and GW Bush in front of a flag(s), and a single picture of Obama sans flag, asking the innocent question:

    Now. Tell me what is missing from the picture of Obama.

    Stumped?

    Look again and repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.

    Of course, if you keep scrolling down, the very next post shows a picture of Obama standing in front of two flags.

    Oops.

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    Favorite opponent's response (none / 0) (#40)
    by MO Blue on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 08:03:25 PM EST
    Well, it is a little early to declare," explained Rupright to Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday. "Usually most wait until the year the seat is up. But since I am nearly old enough to be Levi's grandfather I think it would be wise for him to get a high school diploma and keep his clothes on. The voters like that!" link


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