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  1. :nono:

    You're not gonna bite? You can't just shake your head at it without addressing it.

    It's obviously NOT OK or 'laughable' that the North Koreans believe this (or maybe just their news agency), but it's OK for other folks in the world to believe other things based on a similar stack of 'evidence'.

    ... and it's not like I trolled you on Facebook.

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  2. I would've punched the mirror off his daily driver. Eye for an eye, blood for blood, mirror for mirror. It's in the old testament. It's what God would've wanted.

    Then you would know EXACTLY what to get your dad for Christmas!

  3. Unfortunately we have been asked not to return to Buddy's which has been our spot for the last few years. I was not given any specific reason as to why they dont want us there I was just told the owner decided we were no longer welcome.

    Wow. Now I really want to know... was last year's debauchery >> than years past?

    I know I behaved.

  4. That's hardly a golden parachute though... you're still a worker bee, no? Unless you consider yourself an exec... You didn't make key strategic decisions to run the company into the ground in the first place did you? And then expect to be compensated on top of it?

  5. Golden parachutes are heavy and expensive, so it's only fair they hand out less than 20 of them... not to the 18,000 employees that made them.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/business/hostess-liquidation-draws-more-100-bidders-1C7325957

    Hostess Brands also is asking for a judge's approval to give its top executives bonuses totaling up to $1.8 million as part of its wind-down plans.

    The company says the incentive pay is needed to retain the 19 corporate officers and "high-level managers" during the liquidation process, which could take about a year. Two of those executives would be eligible for additional rewards depending on how efficiently they carry out the liquidation. The bonuses would be in addition to their regular pay.

    The bonuses do not include pay for CEO Gregory Rayburn, who was brought on as a restructuring expert earlier this year. Rayburn is being paid $125,000 a month.

    ...

    Hostess noted that the company is no longer able to pay retiree benefits, which come to about $1.1 million a month. Hostess stopped contributing to its union pension plans more than a year ago.

    I throw that to the pro-business pro-corporate hounds on here and see how you justify that one. Executives don't honor contractual obligations to their own employees, and then request over $1M in bonus to kill the company.

    Unions fault, obviously.

  6. $900 is $30/day for all of you to eat... you think you could 1/2 that by buying "normal" people food? Save $450/mo... or a lease on a Mercedes-worth of money.

    How much perspective do you want? I mean, the best way for you is probably to try 3 months worth of buying "cheap junk" food and see what those costs are, and then figure out if the additional spending on the local organic stuff is worth the moral highroad and how your body actually feels compared to eating the slop the rest of us eat. If you could actually tie the additional spending on 'good' food to reduced spending on other health areas (healthier checkups, reduced risk of diabetes, etc), then you'll see hard numbers. The problem there is no one ever accounts for what diabetes costs because they never plan on getting it... so, cost avoidance isn't counted as a 'savings' because people doesn't usually view it from that perspective. And then after buying all this 'good' food, you still get diabetes or some other disease (like cancer) from the pesticides and things used on organic food, then it's a REAL kick in the organic nuts from a cost perspective.

    So, is organic food a good value? For some people it is, for others' it's not. But, you're looking at short term costs against long term savings.

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