Some local news that is amusing, "Norfolk Community Services Board executive director Maureen Womack is resigning from her position for a job in Kansas.
Womack discovered the phantom employee, Jill McGlone, who was paid for 12 years without showing up to work."
12 years without showing up to work? What a champ! I looked this up and I guess it’s not uncommon that once a phantom employee is set up it can go unnoticed for a long time.
Reminds me of the guy who taught high school for 17 years without even being able to read.
Oh, man, should I blame the government schools for this tragedy or comedy?
Well, did you read the article? He was “educated” in them and subsequently allowed to teach in them (which would kind of make sense if you think about it)…so I’m not sure who else is more to blame.
Yeah, I guess that’s the irony of it all. You’d think they’d pick up on it or at least have the thought pass one of the teacher assistants mind’s for a second.
Not sure what any of that has to do with all the nonsense Molyneux spent an entire 35 minutes droning on about…nor the case I presented about him being a narcissistic annoyance with Ron Paul envy.
I feel like a few of his answers were weak (I only watched the shortened version, here is the full one):
Colbert gets it right:
http://gawker.com/5853399/stephen-colbert-parodies-herman-cains-bizarre-campaign-ad
Dangit, being from Bulgaria this brought me to tears, knowing that such people actually do exist, and I can imagine the author’s experiece as my own, because I’ve seen these old ladies selling flowers:
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/when-safety-nets-fail/
It is exactly the same in Poland.
The only real problems I saw was when he was trying to talk about financial controls and constraints on expatriation and simply didn’t know enough specifics, and that smug asshole to his left kept pretending as if Paul was saying a physical wall would stop money from crossing the border. I think it worked out fine when Paul finally broke down and just said “yeah and a wall never stopped illegal immigrants either.”
I love the way it didn’t take long for the aging Dracula face to start looking like he needed his nap. By the second half of the show he looked like had already spent 3 hours in church and still had 2 more to go.
Overall I think Paul did quite well with some of the crap that was thrown in there…like “what area of foreign policy are you weakest in?” I’m not sure anyone could have come up with a better answer on the spot like that.
And I really love the way Paul came back with a specific name when that amateur on the far left thought he had him on a good one by asking who his Fed chairman would be. Moron was “oh here’s a guy who wants to get rid of the Fed, I’ll totally trap him with this cuz no matter what it would be like he’s endorsing it and he’ll have to dance around and try to avoid answering. It’ll be awesome. I’m such a good journalist.” And Paul takes a second, thinks, and without missing a beat “mmm. Jim Grant, probably.” And there’s about a 2 second pause where that guy has no clue how to repond. I love it when idiotic plans like that don’t work out. I would pay money to see the footage of his reaction. And as the icing on the cake Paul goes on to describe competing currencies and mention how it was Hayek’s position and that loser automatically starts nodding his head as if he has the first clue of what Paul’s talking about.
Done.
Watch this at your own risk.
This guy needs to be debated by someone from the Austrian school. Robert Murphy or?
NBC has made his character a heel… but it’s still funny as hell:
good to see Jan interviewing again. It’s pretty tough to promote yourself using footage from 20 years ago. He should have moved on from the spending increase vs. share of gdp thing. That was a really lame way to get him to walk out.
I do love the guy’s line though:
“Your logic is interesting…it’s kind of the logic of uh…pre-Keynesian economics.”
Tom Woods via LRC Blog:
OK, you probably don’t think you’re all that interested in Herman Cain’s views on abortion. But watch this one-minute video anyway. This is like a Saturday Night Live parody. I’ve heard of politicians trying to take both sides of an issue, but not in the same minute on the same show in front of the same audience.
Peter Schiff on Michael Moore’s version of “capitalism”
