20 Responses to “When Dennis Prager Says…”

1. bosshoss429 Says:
   March 2nd, 2015 at 6:07 am

   If I don’t want to stand in line at Chipotle, I go to either Zantigo or Panchero’s. IMO, their burritos are much better and less expensive.

2. swiftee Says:
   March 2nd, 2015 at 6:44 am

   That is stupid, but for world class stupid, you needn’t go any farther than your own troll, DG.

   Did you know she’s a celebrity? Got the Minnesota legislative delegation on speed dial?

   Behold the mental decay that follows liberalism:

   http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2015/02/bill_cooper_tcf_bank_ceo_and_mns_poster_boy_for_income_inequality.php?hubRefSrc=email#lf_comment=277072404

3. kel Says:
   March 2nd, 2015 at 7:36 am

   Swiftee,

   Bet you can’t get DG to own this guy;

   “He also served on nonprofit boards of directors for the Guthrie Theatre Foundation, the Mayo Foundation, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Diogenes Institute of Higher Learning, the Prince Hall Masonic Temple, the RAND Corporation, and the University of Minnesota Foundation. His corporate board memberships included BlackRock Advantage Term Trust and other BlackRock Mutual Funds, Cargill Incorporated, CNA Financial Corporation, the Encyclopædia Britannica, First Financial Fund, and other Prudential Mutual Funds, Northwest Airlines, and United HealthCare Corporation.”

   when he was on the UHG board (Mcguire years) he was getting approx $900k a year in exchange for attending maybe a dozen meetings.
   She’s the fact checker, should be able to name the evil Republican bastard off the top of her head.

4. swiftee Says:
   March 2nd, 2015 at 7:46 am

   I’m sure she’s got his private line, Kel. GOP or Dem, they all wait on her call.

   She’s the Brian Williams of the Sorosphere, the Forrest Gump of the fever swamp, the “Managing Editor of Penigma” lol!

5. Joe Doakes Says:
   March 2nd, 2015 at 7:50 am

   My second-year poli sci prof was the Secretary of the Minnesota Socialist Workers Party. He’d have loved this kid. Me – I didn’t do so well with the “regurgitate for an A” method.

6. swiftee Says:
   March 2nd, 2015 at 9:32 am

   Is there a ray of hope in that most of the feedback consisted of guffaws?

7. Seflores Says:
   March 2nd, 2015 at 10:07 am

   To the credit of the Lantern comment section, most of the comments I scanned were not complimentary to the writer.
   Don’t know how the writer feels about Venezuela’s (Official) Economic Policy, but I would imagine based on the column that he largely agrees with it and President Maduro. Funny thing, just like at Chipolte, Venezuela also has lines. They are lining up for things like – cooking oil and toilet paper. What is it about Leftism that toilet paper is always in shortage?
   http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/02/25/venezuela_is_running_out_of_toilet_paper.html
   PS: Swifty – To the UFC’s credit… they called the Ronda Rousey fight 15 seconds in. Your ‘battle’ with DG was over before it began. Poor DG doesn’t know she needs to tap out.

8. Seflores Says:
   March 2nd, 2015 at 10:13 am

   Also – didn’t DG’s ‘mentor’ – the dreadful Penigma – also claim to be speaking on behalf of a neighbor or colleague who happened to be on the Fed Reserve Board or President of the ABA or the number 2 guy at the Mayo in some of more his ridiculous appeals to authority here at SITD?

9. swiftee Says:
   March 2nd, 2015 at 12:02 pm

   Hehe…she’s learned at the masters feet Sef….

   Can you imagine a discussion between the two of them?

   “I remember once, when my neighbor, Stephen Hawking came over to run a little theory by me…”

   “Yes, I remember that day. I had a meeting with Hillary, so I told him to stop by and see you when he called me…”

10. swiftee Says:
    March 2nd, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    “What is it about Leftism that toilet paper is always in shortage?”

    Takes a lot of dead trees when you’re wiping both ends…

11. Chuck Says:
    March 2nd, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    “Second-year in political science”

    With all due respect to those out there who had these majors and are normal (probably some SITD readers are)……in undergrad….if I met someone who said they were either a Political Science major, or were in pre-law…..I assumed they were either a d-bag and/or an idiot. About 90% of the time that held true.

    People who create value go into the hard sciences, business, and even education or nursing (even if those people tend to be more liberal). Those that are arrogant dicks and want to control people, go into majors like Political Science or law. Again, I know this is over generalizing, but just saying what I experienced.

12. Chuck Says:
    March 2nd, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    Remember….Chipotle boycotts the Boy Scouts. Liberals should love them for that.

13. Powhatan Mingo Says:
    March 2nd, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    I took undergrad poli-sci from a Democrat one-time state legislator who identified with the Greens. I made no secret of my conservative leanings, and he didn’t seem to care. He gave ma an ‘A’.
    It might have been different if I was a grad student. In undergrad poli-sci he taught a canned curriculum that was mostly US and Hawaii political history. Ditto the undergrad economics courses I took. It was almost all algebra, “what happens to the curve if you change the value of Y” stuff.

14. Prince of Darkness_666 Says:
    March 3rd, 2015 at 12:01 am

    As a person who failed.out of CLA I can safely say this represents 97% of all poly Sci majors. Being a conservative at the U of M is like being a Jew attending a CA OR meeting. You just don’t belong ther6

15. Seflores Says:
    March 3rd, 2015 at 7:18 am

    POD – You may want to lay off on the Fireball prior to commenting. It appears to effect your keyboarding and/or editing skillz. In fact based on this,
    http://factually.gizmodo.com/fireball-whiskey-contains-an-antifreeze-ingredient-1652379798,
    you may want to get everyone down there to layoff on the Fireball. Unless that’s part of the plan?

16. kel Says:
    March 3rd, 2015 at 8:45 am

    Swiftee,
    this is why DG writes as poorly as she does (its a feminist thing)
    http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/05/grammar-snobbery/

17. justplainangry Says:
    March 3rd, 2015 at 11:02 am

    As for actual lineups at Chipotle, they are caused by piss-poor organization and management. They have people standing around at their stations doing nothing while other stations are overwhelmed. As someone who has been through Lean and Six Sigma training, it drives me absolutely nuts! Do not owners realize that they are losing revenue? That it can be corrected by a very simple fix? Now, that is a perfect metaphor for inefficency of a goobernment run enterprise.

18. Bill C Says:
    March 3rd, 2015 at 2:05 pm

    JPA, As someone who works for a company (UHG) that is big into Lean and Six Sigma, your comment resonates with me. I haven’t been trained in either, but I know it’s more and more integrated into how we design our processes.

    Also, as someone who frequents fast food restaurant drive-thrus, with a less than 50% success rate of not getting my order messed up (I have long since learned to double check the bag/s before I drive off the lot), I ease my frustration by reviewing the situation and evaluating whether their failure was due to lack of management quality or due to employee stupidity. My running tally of those two is about 1/2 and 1/2.

    And they want $15/hr for the privilege of screwing up my order? They can go straight to hell.

19. gl whisler Says:
    March 3rd, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    Clayton Sharb could benefit from one of Larry Niven’s Rules.

    “Never be embarrassed by something you have written. Think about this before you hit post.”

20. bikebubba Says:
    March 3rd, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    Bill, actually the usual stat cited by quality engineers is that it’s about 85% management. When W.E. Deming came back from Japan to consult with Ford, he is said to have “broken the ice” in a meeting of executives by telling them that 85% of their quality problems were in attendance. As a rule, when an employee makes a bonehead move, the reasons are:

    1. Management provides incentives (bad wages, treatment) to hire boneheads.
    2. Management inculcates boneheadedness through how they run the business.

    As a rule, you ask a lot of questions before blaming employees on a corrective action form because of this principle. And as JPA notes, the biggest step towards quality improvement is for management to watch the process and figure out how it ought to work, and make modifications for the reality that intrudes.

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