[Aberlour10]

 ggwhiz, on 2013-November-14, 18:07, said:

Letterman's top 10 from last night. They all have the same (sane?) answer.

10.Gosh you look great. What's your secret?
9. Why not become a vegetarian?
8. Did you smell anything right before the stroke?
7. Kevin who?
6. What was the top selling pork product in 1962?
5. Is there anything Democrats and Republicans can agree on?
4. What should I bait the trap with?
3. Cause of death?
2. Why hasn't Chris Christies lap band surgery worked?
1. Would you like anything with your bacon?

There are more existential questions....like this for ex>>>

11. Why does this artwork has been sold for $ 142 000 000 last week?

[y66]

It's pretty amusing when you can read a story about a record art sale in the paper and just know that somewhere in this beautiful, cold, dark world, someone else is having the same weird thought that you are.

[y66]

From Ayn Rand-loving CEO destroys his empire

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Eddie Lampert is now known as one of the worst CEOs in America — the man who flushed Sears down the toilet with his demented management style and harebrained approach to retail. Sears stock is tanking. His hedge fun is down 40 percent, and the business press has turned from praising Lampert’s genius towatching gleefully as his ship sinks. Investors are running from “Crazy Eddie” like the plague.

That’s what happens when Ayn Rand is the basis for your business plan.

Crazy Eddie has been one of America’s most vocal advocates of discredited free-market economics, so obsessed with Ayn Rand he could rattle off memorized passages of her novels. As Mina Kimes explained in a fascinating profile in Bloomberg Businessweek, Lampert took the myth that humans perform best when acting selfishly as gospel, pitting Sears company managers against each other in a kind of Lord of the Flies death match. This, he believed, would cause them to act rationally and boost performance.

If you think that sounds batshit crazy, congratulations. You understand more than most of America’s business school graduates.

[Winstonm]

Way to go, Ayn.

[mike777]

 y66, on 2013-December-10, 22:29, said:

From Ayn Rand-loving CEO destroys his empire

as usual these writers don't know what the hell they are writing about.

For the record Sears starting going downhill into the toilet the day they started building Sears Tower(1971 or so, finished around 1973). long before lampert, many years before.

If the agenda was simply to bash Ayn Rand ok.

People forget that entrepreneurs/risk takers frequently try out "batshit crazy" ideas and they fail often and that is ok. The fact that they try I hope one day will be praised and that their failure is not shameful.

[kenberg]

We must ask for the timeline. Perhaps he read Horatio Alger growing up, applied the principles he learned there to become the richest man in Connecticut, then read Ayn Rand, went crazy, and lost it all?

Reading is very dangerous. Stick with the funnies.

[PassedOut]

 mike777, on 2013-December-13, 10:16, said:

as usual these writers don't know what the hell they are writing about.

I concede that this is an observation that you are uniquely qualified to make.

 mike777, on 2013-December-13, 10:16, said:

People forget that entrepreneurs/risk takers frequently try out "batshit crazy" ideas and they fail often and that is ok. The fact that they try I hope one day will be praised and that their failure is not shameful.

I've advised my sons to avoid getting into a situation where they felt that they needed a particular job. When in the corporate world, I saw lots of folks who had let themselves get trapped like that, not feeling secure enough to challenge "batshit crazy" ideas for fear of losing their jobs. That's my personal concept of hell.

[y66]

Is salo the new bacon?

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KIEV, Ukraine — As much as by outrage, the pro-European uprising here is being fueled by heaping bowls of buckwheat and pork fat, steaming helpings of borscht and other meaty and fatty fare.

Since the demonstrations began more than three weeks ago, with a spontaneous outpouring of public anger over President Viktor F. Yanukovich’s refusal to sign political and trade accords with Europe, leaders have worried about how to consistently maintain the large crowds in Independence Square. Recognizing the axiom that an army marches on its stomach, organizers have taken great pains to keep the crowds well fed.

The protesters can choose from a rotating menu of a half-dozen Ukrainian folk recipes, intended to provide fortification for people spending hours on the streets in the icy Ukrainian winter, not to speak of girding for an occasional clash with the police.

“People are very grateful for anything warm,” said Anastasia Slobodyanyuk, a 15-year-old volunteer who carries platters of tea through the crowd in the evenings after school, a heart in the yellow and blue colors of the Ukrainian flag painted on her cheek.

In the protesters’ arsenal are trays with slices of buttered bread and the central ingredient of the classic Ukrainian sandwich: smoked and salted pork fat, or salo.

More than a few Ukrainians swear that salo makes them strong and beautiful, and some insist that it can treat liver problems. There were many takers for the salo sandwiches making the rounds on the revolutionary square, especially for the “troshechki” variety, with a generous coating of pepper on bits of salted pork fat.

While there are restaurants open nearby, not everybody can afford them. And the goal, of course, is to keep a sea of demonstrators visible at all times to the television cameras that are broadcasting the protest events live virtually around the clock. Outdoor canteens where protesters can line up for bowls of soup and cups of tea, and volunteers who circle through the crowd like waiters and waitresses at some huge, outdoor cocktail party, serve the goals of the protest movement far more than people sneaking off to McDonald’s.

Wherever the eye falls on Independence Square, cooks busy themselves about huge kettles over bonfires in an all but medieval tableau of an army at camp, but for the blinking neon advertisements all about.

One cook, Yuri Dorozhivsky, shared this recipe for buckwheat with salo (feeds thousands):

1) Heat a 50-gallon kettle over an open fire.

2) Brown 20 pounds of salo and 10 pounds of onions.

3) Fill with water and bring to a gentle boil, stir in 60 pounds of buckwheat kernels.

4) Simmer for an hour, then remove from direct heat, salt to taste.

[kenberg]

We are having a party to celebrate my 75th birthday. I'll suggest the above recipe to my wife. It will make me strong and beautiful? Better late than never.

[y66]

Happy birthday comrade!

[Aberlour10]

 kenberg, on 2013-December-13, 21:49, said:

We are having a party to celebrate my 75th birthday. I'll suggest the above recipe to my wife. It will make me strong and beautiful? Better late than never.

This not, but it can make you famous

What to do?

Invite the entire village population

Start to cook FREEDOM SALO on big fire in the garden

Choose together motto for demonstrating like>>> We against BEER TAX, or ACBL restrictions or something different.

Build tent camp in the gardens and snow barricades at the street.

Dont stop mix the SALO

Wait for the CNN

so far the first instructions...

I will take a look on the Breaking News later, maybe the live reports about Ken's uprising are already on.

.....

So far, Happy Birthday dude!!!

[Winstonm]

 kenberg, on 2013-December-13, 21:49, said:

We are having a party to celebrate my 75th birthday. I'll suggest the above recipe to my wife. It will make me strong and beautiful? Better late than never.

Happy birthday, Ken.

[kenberg]

Thank you all. I hadn't meant to hijack the hijack thread for gathering birthday greetings but I accept them. The following came to mind. At my first wedding, back when our President's first name was Dwight, one newly acquired relative would beat his fists on his chest and shout "I got eighty years". This accomplishment means more to me now than it did at the time.

[Winstonm]

OK. That's enough of that. Let's get back off topic.

[Aberlour10]

OK, a simple trivia question>>>>

Where is this venue and what will take place in there ?

[kenberg]

Looks Russian? Beats me, I have no idea.

[jjbrr]

Spoiler

curling in sochi

[y66]

What will take place in there? Chess on ice.

[PassedOut]

Looks a lot nicer than our local curling rinks.

[Aberlour10]

Nice, nicer, nicest. I already know for which team in the Ice Cube I will cross my fingers.

Lyudmila Privivkova — International Master of Sports in Curling, member of Russia's National Curling Team, European Champion in 2006, the world's youngest skip, and Sochi 2014 Ambassador