Let’s see how this new weekly format/idea works. Lemme know if you want to see this on a weekly (Saturday) basis.
When a northern Indian state announced a few hundred job openings for low-level office workers who run errands and make tea, the response was staggering. About 2.3 million people applied for the 368 jobs with the government of Uttar Pradesh. Hundreds of candidates with doctorates and other advanced degrees applied for the jobs that pay about 16,000 rupees ($240) a month and require a fifth-grade education. At least 255 applicants had earned a doctorate and over 200,000 had graduate degrees. At least 30 trained computer engineers were also in the fray. Job creation is an urgent requirement in this nation of 1.2 billion where 13 million young people enter the job market each year.
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Goodbye, shitty processed salt! After more than 85 years, Morton Salt will cease its production and warehouse operations at a facility on Chicago’s near north side next month. Morton last year signed a 16-year lease agreement to relocate its headquarters across the Chicago River.
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Gen. Lloyd Austin, who leads the U.S. military’s Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday there are only four or five Syrian fighters left out of 54 who were trained as part of a U.S. program. Cost of this program? FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS!! And you thought hammers were expensive??!
Welcome to the USA!USA!USA! … slip-sliding away to 3rd world status. The U.S. Census reported Wednesday that 46.7 MILLION Americans live in poverty — defined as a family with two adults and two children with an income less than $24,008. Median income dropped to $53,700.
Above: actual and typical Hewlett Packard worker. On Tuesday HP announced it will cut 30,000 jobs. That’s in addition to the 54,000 job layoffs already taken by HP and are expected to mostly hit workers in North America. But, they will be hiring thousands of H1-B dotheads. HP now ranks in the Top 30 among all visa sponsors.
The dick-sucker above said if people don’t like same-sex marriage they should buy their coffee elsewhere. Starbucks deeply embraces diversity …. except for employees who still support the traditional definition of marriage. They are openly mocked, ridiculed and labeled as “bigots” and “homophobes” …. before getting fired. There is only one reason I included this story; to encourage you to NEVER patronize a Starbucks again.
This past week, the WWF and the Zoological Society of London released a report stating that the tuna and mackerel population has fallen a whopping 74% since 1970. Certain species, such as the bluefish tuna, are on the edge of extinction. I haven’t had tuna in probably two years because I don’t know how close they swim to irradiated Japan, plus mercury issues. But, if you like tuna, enjoy it NOW, because at current levels of fishing the yellowtail and albacore will be gone in the next decade.
Case in point …. a week ago 82 large bags filled with radioactive waste from decontamination efforts were washed away when a river overflowed in the Fukushima prefectural village of Iitate. Fuckyoushama continues to be the world’s greatest environmental clusterfuk that hardly anyone gives a shit about.
This one will be devastating to my psyche as I LOVE that store! When, not if, will Barnes & Noble kick the bucket? Investors are dumping shares of Barnes & Noble Wednesday after the bookseller said its fiscal first quarter loss widened to $34.9 million amid slumping sales of books and digital content. The New York-based retailer said its loss per share totaled 68 cents, falling short of 12 cents per-share profit estimated by analysts. Quarterly sales dipped 1.5% to $1.22 billion. In the year-ago period, Barnes & Noble reported $28.4 million of loss. Shares fell 28% to end the day at $11.80.
In the Holy-Shit-What-The-Fuck news category …. tweeting may soon be a capital offense. Currently, the U.S. Administration is discussing whether to accelerate its use of drones against those who tweet the wrong things. Above, Ron Paul discusses this heinous idea.
Stucky,
Good stuff!!!
Stucky,
Great stuff. This would be a good weekly article that I would read. I still find the need to read the walmart people thing every week so… I would would rate this article up with Sunday Funnies and Friday Fail.
Joe
I think you have a winner of a idea here Stucky. Look forward to more, thanks.
Scenarios for the next day of the snap elections in Greece
http://bit.ly/1LAwMwp
I don’t go to Starfucks – will try not to for the rest of my life.
Blue Fin Tuna – they breed in only two places (don’t remember the names, but they are something like coves). The Japs wait until they finish breeding and then they capture all of the adults swimming back out to sea. Maroons are causing the extinction.
Japs will eat anything.
I like it.
Good idea Stucky!
Love the concept. And love the way you use the format to jab some of the scum among us. Thumbs way up.
Ha Ha, that HP tech support has a security badge but why if there is no building? This is a bs pic but as far as companies hiring foreign slaves, there are billions more where those came from.
It’s a good thing for our country that real education has declined and students have had their expectations lowered.
One pic you never see on POW is the never-fail white couple begging at the corner. Sometimes they have a kid, sometimes it is just mom and a kid. I gave a couple of bucks to a middle age white woman begging at the marina in Ventura Harbor.
Like the idea.
Never liked Starbucks or Barnes and Noble no matter their opinions on anyfuknthang.
As for India…try birth control.
I was looking for a place to drop a link…maybe we can haz link drop posteses?
Like this one…
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/21/why-the-long-face
It’s a keeper stucky.
My kind of news, nice concept. This will add a lot of interest to the site like the question of the day.
Just a note about salt, the ever so white Morton’s salt has been bleached which I find unacceptable. I have only used fine ground Himalayan pink salt for years which is the purest salt on planet Earf. It is not iodized so you would have to allow for that.
Thanks Stucky!
Thumbs up!
EL Coyote says: Ha Ha, that HP tech support has a security badge but why if there is no building?
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Get with the technology, Coyote. My ID badge/building security card also serves as my access to the secure network I log into remotely to get to the systems I support–it’s a device that plugs into a USB port on my laptop that reads the chip on the ID badge.
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Riser, I have been schooled.
Thank You.
About 2.3 million people applied for the 368 jobs with the government of Uttar Pradesh. Hundreds of candidates with doctorates and other advanced degrees applied for the jobs that pay about 16,000 rupees ($240) a month and require a fifth-grade education….
Well, based on my limited experience with Indian PhDs, they are probably not actually overqualified for these jobs. Where they will probably run into trouble is with the probable lack of other people for them to cheat off of, while trying to get the job done.
http://www.thenational.ae/world/south-asia/how-exam-cheating-in-india-is-symptomatic-of-a-much-bigger-problem
I like it.Maybe more pretty girls would help.
How does a REAL SHIT-HOLE country like India produce 13 million new jobs per year? They don’t. Pakistan is just as shitty. Both have nukes, right? I don’t think this is gonna end well.
By ‘girls’ you mean ‘cats’, right beebs?
Kill Bill above dropped a link. Very funny! Here it is.
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Last week, Mrs. Clinton’s strategists acknowledged missteps . . . and promised that this fall the public would see the sides of Mrs. Clinton that are often obscured by the noise and distractions of modern campaigning. They want to show her humor. —The Times.
Clinton campaign H.Q., Brooklyn.
Hillary Clinton sits with several staffers.
STAFFER 1: Here’s something. Lots of jokes start with the line “A guy walks into a barn.”
CLINTON: I like that. That’s funny.
STAFFER 2: Bar. I think it’s “A guy walks into a bar.”
CLINTON: Bar? Why is that funny? Are bars funny?
STAFFER 3: I thought it was barn, too.
STAFFER 4: What if a guy walks into a barn and sees a bar?
CLINTON: That makes no sense.
STAFFER 2: Is that funny, though? Walking into a barn?
CLINTON: Barns are hilarious. It depends on the barn, of course, as well as the time of year. Barns can also be sad. I’ve walked into barns in the heartland of this great country, where jobs have vanished and the American dream is dead.
(Long silence.)
STAFFER 1 (Googling): It’s “bar.” Oops.
CLINTON: Let’s go with “bar.”
STAFFER 3: Doesn’t something usually come after that first line, though? Like, the . . . what’s it called . . . the punch?
STAFFER 1 (Googling): Punch line.
CLINTON: O.K. Well, let’s go with “A guy walks into a bar. Punch line.” That’s funny.
STAFFER 3: No, no. I think we need a punch line. We don’t say “punch line.”
CLINTON: I’m lost.
STAFFER 1: Same here.
CLINTON: A man is walking down the street and bumps into a bar . . . a metal bar . . . hits his head . . . he’s O.K. And I’ll tell you why he’s O.K. He’s O.K. because we passed the most significant health-care reform in our nation’s history. Should it have been single-payer? I think so. But thirty million Americans who never before had health insurance now have coverage for issues like a head contusion from walking into a bar.
(Long silence.)
STAFFER 3: I don’t think it’s a guy walking into a metal bar.
CLINTON: What?
STAFFER 3: I think it’s a man walking into a bar that serves alcohol.
CLINTON: I don’t get it.
STAFFER 2: Is there a metal bar in this alcohol bar?
STAFFER 3: I don’t think there’s a metal bar anywhere in the story. It’s just a bar.
CLINTON: So I just say, “A man walks into an alcohol-serving bar”?
STAFFER 1: I worry that it’s going to seem like she’s urging people to drink.
STAFFER 2: Agreed. I think we had something really strong with the barn.
STAFFER 3: Maybe add a punch line?
CLINTON: Right. Let’s circle back to that. What is it, exactly?
STAFFER 3: I think it could be any number of things. Like wordplay.
STAFFER 1: I know: “A guy walks into an alcohol bar and has a club soda.”
CLINTON: Interesting.
STAFFER 3: I think it’s more, like, “A horse walks into a bar, and the bartender says, ‘Why the long face?’ ”
STAFFER 1: Sorry, I’m really confused.
STAFFER 2: Why is the bartender speaking to the horse?
CLINTON: People. There are 9.2 million horses in America, according to the Horse Council’s latest study on the U.S. horse industry. More than seventy per cent of horse owners live in communities of fewer than fifty thousand people. Let’s help horse owners protect what may be the quintessential American animal. And let’s not let bartenders—or anyone—demean the shape of their faces.
(Silence.)
CLINTON: So far, we have a guy walking into a bar. It’s funny. But it could be funnier. C’mon, guys. Be funny.
STAFFER 1: Does it have to be a guy walking into a bar? Could it be a woman?
STAFFER 2: A transgender woman?
STAFFER 1: We need to speak to that demographic.
STAFFER 3: Maybe it’s a woman. She sees her friends, and they say, “Hey, Steve!” And she says, “It’s Stephanie now.”
STAFFER 1: That’s beautiful.
STAFFER 4: But, is it funny?
CLINTON: There’s nothing funny about discrimination. I will fight for the rights of L.G.B.T.Q. people everywhere.
(Silence.)
STAFFER 1: What if the guy—
STAFFER 2: I’m sorry, but I really think we should be careful with pronouns.
STAFFER 1: My bad. What if the individual walking into the bar—and this gets back to the idea of a punch line which we spoke about earlier—what if the individual sees Roseanne Barr?
STAFFER 2: Funny. Because of the bar thing. It’s almost a homonym, I think.
STAFFER 1: What if he or she sees Barbara Bush, whom people call Bar?
CLINTON: Why is Barbara Bush sitting alone in an alcohol bar?
STAFFER 2: Are we sending the wrong signal about a revered former First Lady?
STAFFER 1: What if she’s sitting with Roseanne, and they’re drinking coffee?
STAFFER 2: And praying.
STAFFER 3: Is praying funny, though?
STAFFER 2: There was that funny Jim Carrey movie “Bruce Almighty.”
CLINTON: I like it. Get Jim Carrey.
STAFFER 1: Maybe it’s an A.A. meeting, and Roseanne fell off the wagon. Maybe Barbara Bush is leading a prayer.
CLINTON: With Jim Carrey.
STAFFER 1: Yes. And maybe the bar is filled with recovering alcoholics. Immigrants. Mexicans. Everyone is Mexican, except Barbara Bush and Roseanne Barr and Jim Carrey.
CLINTON: And I walk in and pour them coffee and say, “Let’s stop building walls. Let’s start building compassion.”
STAFFER 3: Funny stuff.
Stucky says, “How does a REAL SHIT-HOLE country like India produce 13 million new jobs per year?”
Umm, they don’t…..those jobs used to be here….that is why 92 million Merikans are not working. That is why Merika has been put on life support Stuck. Do you think China and India had to have the jobs to stave off massive loss of population?
Bea – that is stoopid. The US at most has exported a few million jobs. But 13 million and year? And then there is Korea, Thailand, China, etc.
But it makes for a good sound bite. But it is bullshit.
Merika has that many not working because of all the free shit, and because many of those 92 million are too stupid to pick a booger much less hold a job.
Wouldn’t an audit of that 500 million dollars spent in syria be nice? We could have used that money, to spruce up the obananacare website. HP, hmmmmm, what do we want to know about HP. the names carly fiorina and meg whitman come to mind. What do they have in common? Failed repug candidates for senate and governor in california, and led the job destruction machine called hewlett packard
Llpoh, who gives a rats ass about india’s problems? Not me. Make america great again. how? Tariffs, that’s how. Been telling you for a long time. And the tariff candidate is going to win by a landslide.
thanks stucky, the reality is chilling, spells some very very tough times on the come, i see no exit , yet there is always hillary to save some unhappy group. no shortage of victims worldwide
Star – yes, you been telling me. But it is still bullshit. The US is a massive exporter. You will kill high end jobs, in order to bring back low skill jobs. Smart thinking. Plus, so far there have been few jobs actually lost. What has happened is that folks have bought cheap foreign shit on credit. It has been an addition to US production, not a decrease in US production.
The US percentage of GDP in manufacturing remains unchanged. How is that possible if jobs have been lost overseas? It is not possible is the answer. Jobs have been lost by increased efficiency, not because of transfers. But that is coming.
Tariffs will reduce efficiencies, degrade quality, and make the US increasingly non- competitive.
It is stupid. What say the US actually compete rather than cry it is too hard and go hide behind the apron strings of tariffs?
The US is screwed because of being stupid and lazy, not because of China, India, and others.
Plus, 5% of the population cannot continue to consume 25% of the world’s resources. That is not sustainable, tariffs or not.
Keep blaming China and India. Yep, that will fix the debt, the education system, the political system, the banksters, et al.
stucky, the real world is a bitch slap. i tried to avoid it for one day, my son had a good ole fashion horseshoe tournament and BBQ, great young guys. fun fellowship and serious competition, yet me and a union bricklayer were remembering when, we had it made 40 years ago. we both had ample chances to be wealthy, yet no regrets on that score. opportunities were there, in today’s modern world can the solo guy bust thru the regulations? i was oppressed by uncle sam to the point i told him to stuff it, 45 years of forced contributions meant i quit. l loved my work, not the bullshit, just was not worth it. the time will come when more think as i did, not a good thing. i was lucky, work meant reward, soon work just means a meal.
Llpoh, I disagree. We have a huge trade deficit. Like running a business that loses money. If exports were our ticket, we would have a trade surplus. Fill the tank, or drain the tank. Hmmm. Good news is, my side is about to win, so we’re going to find out. do you think don trump is financially illiterate?
Stuck, I now have to admit you are not only smart, funny, ribald, outrageous, irreverent, risque’ and for the benefit of us guys; lewd, crude, and socially unacceptable but I have to add to that list: the most interesting man in the world.
I don’t care what BW says about you, you’ve earned the title fair and square. I intend to send Admin the funds to buy you a beer (they’re still $2.50, no?). I won’t able to go, I don’t think I can take my Taser on the plane.
Admin- Get the charts ready to roll, Loopey thinks America still has the same manufacturing base and nothing has changed………..and he called me stoopid.
EL Coyote
You’re too kind, my friend.
Check back in the morning. I just submitted a post “Stucky Sunday Sermon: Alleluia. Ode To Joy”. I think you will like it.
Good night.
Reporting in from Door County, Wisconsin.
Dumb idea, Stucky. I like Morton salt. Get off my lawn!!!!
Heh.
SSS- Isn’t that a big cheese producing area in that part of the state?
Bea – I have forgotten more about manufacturing than you will ever know.
I repeat – manufacturing as a percentage of GDP remains unchanged. How is that possible given your claims? Please, enquiring minds want to know.
Hint – it is not possible.
What has happened is via debt the US sheeple are now consuming more shit. That shit is foreign and cheap.
LLPOH, I guess inquiring minds don’t want to know. The MSM has convinced them that all of America’s problems will go away as soon as
1. Trump is crowned Emperor of the USA
2. Trump deports all brown-skinned people
RiseUp,
I can’t let it go, the card the dude has does not have a visible chip on it, the chain doesn’t go to any generator, the antenna doesn’t look like it could work without a power supply – wouldn’t he have some sort of phone uplink and not a simple antenna?
The dude has headphones but no mic, and don’t tell me the headphones are the mic, they don’t look that sophisticated. When I call for tech support, there are many voices; I never hear bleating sheep in the background.
I like it! And I can honestly say that I’ve never had Starbucks Coffee in my life and never plan to.
I love it that so many morons do not understand that hidng behind tariffs because the US has become a natin of lazy morons will not work. That defines burying your head in the sand. By the time the US comes up for air it would be too ate.
Compete or die.
But that is too fucking hard. Better to bury your head.
@El Coyote
Ventura harbor?? That is my stomping grounds. Are you local to this area?
Oh, it’s gonna work. Just like it always did, until 1993. Watch. And it’s gonna be even funnier when the commie chinese nationalize all the american traitors holdings. Just deserts, you know. Not being white, you don’t have the love for western civilization I do. We’ll do just fine without asian slave labor.
Great idea. How about the same idea using graphs?
Fuckin’-a, muthafucker! Great shit, fuckin’ goo picks! See what you can do when you’re not being fuckin’ vulgar! I will now resume my ordinary style and express appreciation for this new feature, definitely a keeper.
“See what you can do when you’re not being fuckin’ vulgar!” ——- Montefrío
Fuck yeah! lol
Looky here …. you’re just gonna have to accept Herr Stuchenmeister for what he is, vulgar warts and all. But, not always. It’s part of the package deal.
I tried to change once, back when a was a born-again holy roller. Instead of saying “Jesus!!”, I’d say “Jimminy Christmas!”. Same thing, really. Instead of “fuck!”, I’d say “fudge!” Same thing, really. Instead of “dammit!”, I’d say “darn!”. Same thing, really. And so on, and so on.
After seeing the light, I am now back to my old fuckin ways. And, I like it. I’m too old to change now. So, my dear Montefrio, TRY to go with the fuckin’ flow! OK?
“SSS- Isn’t that a big cheese producing area in that part of the state?”
—-Bea Lever
Yes. My wife and I tried (local Wisconsin) cheese curds. Eeeewww!!!! I’d rather eat pencil erasers. Great bacon though.
1. Twitter is now a capital offense is scary.
2. I don’t really care what some schmuck from SBUX says or thinks.
3. What were the other things? Oh yeah, our jobs are going overseas.
Tariffs are a fine idea, at least worth a try. Most do not know the U.S. government was originally funded by tariffs, along with a smattering of little projects like selling postage stamps and commemorative coins. What quaint ideas.
Free trade is a crock. Much like the idea of utopian libertarianism, it essentially equates to, “I’ll be just and fair, and continue asking you to be as well even while you’re continuously ramming me from behind.” Free trade would work if everyone participated as such. But that will never happen. Some governments will always take advantage of the dupes who actually abide by the rules, just as some people will always find their way into your house if you leave the door perpetually unlocked. And that is where tariffs come in. Sticks must accompany carrots.
Most think China simply wins out due to its inherent comparative advantage. But is slave labour comparative advantage? Complete destruction of the environment? Hacking, spying, market rigging, and currency tampering? Nope. Time to lock the proverbial door. Sure there will be an adjustment period, but it will be well worth it. Of course the imposition of tariffs, the repeal of NAFTA etc. would have to be accompanied by the reduction of regulatory barriers to entry that prevent anyone from opening so much as a hot dog stand without winning the lottery first. I honestly don’t think any of this will happen until a 1929 style collapse occurs and necessity renders all previous agreements de facto null and void overnight.
Post debate #2 … as of today
Trump dropped 8 percentage points to 24% …. still good for 1st place
Fiorina rose from 3% to 15% ……… now in 2nd place.
God help us. Fiorina is a warmongering cunt. She rising faster than an Obama hardon for Reggie. Honestly, of all the candidates, I think she has the best chance to start WWIII …. unless her mouth is permanently locked on Netanyajoo’s cock, and she can’t talk, for 4 years.
starfcker says: (@ LLPOH) Not being white, you don’t have the love for western civilization I do.
That is one fucked up misunderstatement there, Starfish. Why not explain to him why he should love Andrew Jackson?
NickelthroweR,
We’re in the desert in Palmdale. The church lady is from the coastal land of El Salvador. I refuse to take her to San Pedro and because of the traffic, it’s a pain to go to the beaches in Orange (they are lovely). Santa Monica will do in a pinch and Ventura is a compromise instead of Santa Barbara.
Ventura is a best kept secret, it’s no Butterfly Beach but it is very accessible and uncrowded.