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Friday, February 25, 2011
Belated Congratulations To Rahm Emmanuel
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Dumb Warning Labels
Labels: Curiosities
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
A Proposal For Rounding Up The Runaway Wisconsin Legislators
I love it that the "fleebaggers" have to collect their checks in person.
Labels: Politics
The Enemy Of Our Enemy Is Not Always Our Friend
Labels: Middle East
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Got A Question
Labels: History, Middle East
Another Fatwa
Labels: Politics
Pass The Popcorn
Labels: Middle East
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Parasites
Source material is here - click the year 2010 under the heading "Administrative Salary Reports, 1998 - 2010." The doc is an Excel worksheet.
I did some more checking. There are 4327 administrators listed. Here's a salary breakdown
860 (19.9%) earn six figures.
805 (18.6%) earn 90K-99K
855 (19.8%) earn 80K-89K.
936 (21.6%) earn 50-79K.
871 (20.1%) earn under 50K.
Total salaries = $336,887,337.61
Total benefits = $128,487,676.77
Total compensation = $465,375,014.38
On average, benefits = 38% of salary.
Median salary = $83,969
Median benefits = $33,194.00
Update: Hyperlink referenced in second paragraph left out of original post - that's been fixed.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
The Danger Of Witch Hunts
Labels: Politics
Dallas County Commissionier Plays Race Card From His Sleeve
During the meeting, Dallas Attorney Jeffery Scott Turner repeatedly referred to County Commissioner John Wiley Price as "Chief Mullah" - pronouncing the word as "moolah." Price thought the remarks were racist:
Price, the only African American on the commissioner’s court, said he was offended because the term “mullah” is close to “moolah” or “moolie” -- a slur that has its roots in a slang that was used against Italian immigrants and was later used by the same to defame or discredit African Americans.
I first caught this story on the Mark Davis Show on radio station WBAP. Davis pointed out that "moolie" is a slang term that scarcely anybody outside of the Bronx has ever heard. The Urban Dictionary verifies that moolie is Italian immigrant derogatory slang for blacks.
How in the heck does a Southerner like Price know about a Yankee Italian immigrant slang term? Does he have a doctorate in racial epithets or something?
But Turner's pronunciation of the word is clearly "moolah" and not "moolie." The Urban Dictionary documents no racial connotation for the word moolah.
Let's see Price spin a racial epithet out of "Wileytollah."
Turner wasn't the only object of Price's indignation (link via the Spat):
Six citizens addressed the court. All of them talked about the recent controversial departure of county Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet. Sherbet, who was the Elections Administrator for 24 years, said he felt Price and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins forced him out.
After the meeting was adjourned, Price lashed out at all six:
As Price stood to leave, he looked at Turner and the five other citizens who addressed the court. Price said to them, “All of you are white. Go to hell!”
Price repeated “go to hell” three more times. An unknown member of the audience said, “You should be ashamed!”
“I’m not ashamed!” Price answered. “I’m not ashamed! Go to hell!”
Labels: Politics
Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day!
Posted by Alan at 9:00 AM |
Saturday, February 12, 2011
He's Tanned, He's Ready
Labels: Politics
Friday, February 11, 2011
Egypt Watch
Labels: Middle East
Thursday, February 10, 2011
AOL Acquisition Of Huffington Post
Labels: Media
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Heh
Still waiting on Verizon to port over my old email settings - which is why none of my hosted images are showing up on the blog. I really need to get around to subscribing to a free image hosting service separate from Verizon - especially as my online image collection approaches the 10MB disk space Verizon allocates.
Labels: Sports
Almost Back In Action
Labels: Blog
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