CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
April 25, 2012 03:30 PM UTC
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Source Rasmussen polls
This motivates you doesn’t it?
Attached is a link, you’ll hate it, but it’s Reagan schooling Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
You know, the one where you asked if I was better off under Obama, and I posted an extended laundry list of things my Prez did for vets (with a link to the facty-things)?
Oh, that’s right…you had to meet up with your new dungeon party on World of Warcraft.
or the U.S. Military, or anything that has to do with paying a price for the freedoms even trolls like him are guaranteed under this Nation’s Constitution.
He’s the perfect example of the mooch that uses the resources, the roads, the system, without ever contributing to it.
But I will say that I figured out what the troll that posts under “libertad” reminds me of.
His racism, arrogance, lack of common sense, his intellectual dishonesty, mean spirited nature and outright ignorance of history are that rare confluence of hubris, incompetence, and total absence of intellectual curiosity.
He is the morphing of Nazi Germany’s Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, race baiter Julius Streicher, and Brick Tamland (Think “I love lamp”).
But it’s so easy and just too tempting with these guys.
Facing 30 years on federal political corruption charges in NC, the $50 million trial lawyer is being exposed as quite the dolt.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/n…
Your former VP candidate is some kinda special guy.
a “revolving” creep. That is…a creep anyway you look at him. It’s too bad because his “two Americas” campaign was right on.
Edwards is definitely a revolting creep.
Challenging The Math of a Work Week
This is one of the fundamental changes our society is going through. And the result is a bigger skew in incomes. When most companies did reasonably well and most people could do a good job at those companies, salaries tended to be the same for a given job across companies & industries.
But we now have tremendously increased profits for the top companies and you only get to the top with the best people out there. And that is damaging to the concept of a large professional middle class.
I can see where organizations with a smallish structure and startup culture would benefit by highly selective recruiting and long productive hours. For the vast majority of organizations, longer hours doesn’t increase productivity. I suspect that is partly due to the disconnect between productivity gains and stagnant wages. In most cases, more hours just means higher wages- directly in hourly positions, accrued through a status bump in salaried jobs. With increasing hours on the job, focus suffers and at some breaking point just about everybody ends up phoning it in.
American work culture seems to put a premium on hours spent working, but there’s a hard upper bound established by biology as well as physics. Companies that are composed of more than a devoted band of rock stars (even then, the Beatles broke up after only 10 years) would do well to rethink their priorities if they want to be sustainable beyond the burnout point.
I like the German results-oriented model that seems to have found a sweet spot between encouraging outliers to shine and letting the hoi polloi keep up without getting sucked dry and discarded.
The author is challenged to come up with any kind of evidence for what he claims, and says “I’ve seen it first hand!”
But I’ll just post this.
Since the standard for evidence in any discussion of business people is just “personal experience,” I’ll say that in my experience executives spend most of their time bullshitting and wasting time and entertaining themselves and calling it “work,” and that’s as true in business school as it is in the rest of their lives.
10 am: golf and a meeting
11 am: working alone on golf
12 pm – 3 pm: lunch at the golf club
3 pm – 4 pm: miscellaneous golf
4 pm – 5 pm: public golf
My comment/link above was speaking to the segment where you do have a substantial number of companies that have extremely smart people working at them. Apple didn’t come back from the dead because the people there were coasting on a 40 hour work week.
Apple employees are lucky to get 60-hour work weeks. And the great thing about working your employees 70 hours a week is that if they one of them burns out in a year, she can go jump off a building and you’ll find another one to replace her.
It’s funny how often business executives will drastically overestimate their own basically sedentary and entertainment-filled work week and use it to justify sweatshop labor from their underlings. Must be fun to be on the top of that relationship.
But don’t let the fact that you know nothing about the software world stop you from commenting.
Apple literally runs sweatshops in China and pays the workers there next to nothing. And its executives are like any other executives: basically lazy and pampered but always always always telling everyone else how hard they work while golfing or eating or blogging.
Feign outrage if you like, but it might be more credible if you actually, you know, reply with something substantial.
the importance of Beer Fridays in these situations. That’s why you clearly know nothing about the corporate world.
Apple does take advantage of cheap labor in PRC. At the same time, those jobs, by PRC standards, are good jobs. But on pushing manufacturing to PRC, yes that is taking advantage of the job market there and exploiting people.
In terms of the development side in the U.S., I’ve worked with senior executives at Microsoft and they tended to work 60 – 70 hours/week. I have friends at Google & Apple who have said the same of those places.
I’ve seen some start-ups where the CEO operates as you stereotype – it does occur. But every one of those failed. At most start-ups the people there, including those at the top, work very very hard.
And while I’m sure some play golf, I’ve never heard a single person discuss golf, say they were leaving to play golf, or talk about it in any way.
It’s stories from my friends!
Senior executives don’t do much of anything, and they count personal activities like commuting and exercise and lunch as work. Check out the graphic and corresponding article from WSJ above.
Directly observed activity is data. Check out what industries the WSJ was tracking.
it’s not data.
They did a study. Maybe you don’t like how they did their study, and you think you can do a better study. So do it. But if in the end you have no numbers, and all you have is a general feeling, then you haven’t done science and you don’t have data.
You have some science background, right? You should know this. You’re happy enough to want to measure everyone else’s performance, but apparently CEOs must be trusted to self-report honestly.
If I have a single data point showing one particle going faster than light – that is sufficient data to disprove the speed of light limit.
On the flip side, if I’m trying to determine how CEOs spend their time, then I do need to get a random sampling across the company types I am measuring (big difference between being CEO of 1 coffee shop and all of Starbucks).
The data I have is not a random sample (nor is the data from this study). But I am not saying my data is more valid. I’m just saying I have a reasonably sized sample set and the behavior I have directly observed contradicts the 35 hours/week listed in the article.
And with that I did not say my data was valid and the study is not. What I did was dive in to find out what type of CEOs were being measured and exactly what that misc. category truly is.
Having contradicting data is the impetus for much scientific research. It’s not what you base your conclusions on, but it is what gets much of it started.
http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-ja…
…let’s let Tom Tomorrow help us get to know them!
http://www.theatlanticcities.c…
Your articulation of how the teabag movement has spawned an antiquated form of conservative legislator was absolutely spot on.
The war on women is nothing if not an extension of the christian conservative right wing lack of values that permeate the landscape.
A very weird and creepy belief system, one that has the male in charge and in a position of making decisions that directly affect women, solely because of an imagined preordained right.
This battle was fought and decided in the 70’s.
Having to go back to it now sets us back as a culture and embarrasses us in front of the rest of the industrialized world.
Great job Nancy, see you Saturday.
given the 2 mins air time I’d a thought her pitch shoulda been really tight and had a call to action. It was a good opportunity in the cork but definitely not a bullseye.
It left me not really knowing what to expect, why I should attend, and how great the threat.
Too much wasted talk on gosh how people are driving from all over & even spending the night and how it’s non-partisan ’cause there’s even a Republican (one?) helping to organize.
Hell she was asked a question and went off for 10 seconds and then had to be reminded about the question — that was bush league.
Beware! Beware!
Being debated on Second Reading in the Senate now (9:55 AM)
Tune in.
Finally! This egotistical asshole costs taxpayers $40,000/day for Secret Service coverage just so he can have an entourage. Knew he’d be out by end of April but what is with the May 1st arbitrary date — that doesn’t make sense.
I do know he’s in DC nearly next week with a paid speaking gig at a DoD conference (not sure WTF he adds) and I was highly suspicious about a campaigning political candidate being paid DoD dollars to speak at a conference. That would seem a bit of an ethical issue if not downright illegal, but it’s Newt and has he ever worried about how his ethics appear?
misinformation.
Sometime around 10 AM Roy Blunt (yes, the author of Blunt Rubio) Told MSNBC the reason for the Stafford loan rate hike in July is that the loan rate must be raised to 6.8% to help pay for the ACA. He literally said if “Obamacare” is killed in SCOTUS, the issue will go away.
It was the first time this nonfactual talking point had been trotted out,and it actually took Andrea Mitchell aback. She asked no questions, just let him skate on it.
Blunt’s retiring, not running again, in Missouri, so he’s a good one to run that lie up the pole.
Like when shooter told John Edwards that the Vice Presidential debate was the first time he’d ever met him. An outrageous lie that is so stunning it causes shock and awe.
Same as the Swift Boat drunks allegations in ’04, taking a poorly run Kerry campaign by surprise.
’12’s different.
Steve Israel, Congressman from the New York 2nd since January 2001, hit back on the Ed Schultz less than 30 minutes later, and lo and behold, another flat out lie by a red party with zero credibility was debunked.
Hats off to OFA, DNC, and everybody that’s so on the ball this time.
We’ll need it, there are 81,000 fewer voter registrations in Florida now than in ’08, nationwide the suppressed numbers are in the millions…….with 6 months to go.
34 states with outright voter suppression drives.
Scary.
for over a year.
With Gingrich, it’s always been about Gingrich’s favorite subject……..Gingrich.
And that, boys and girls, is why God invented them.
And the teleprompter better always work exactly right.
What a tool. Typical Republican.
Taxpayer-funded crisis pregnancy centers are using religion to oppose abortion, and many of them only hire Christians
http://americanindependent.com…
And I find it disgusting.
What’s the remedy?
What actions need to be taken?
Do all you can to defeat Republicans in elections.