drsmooth wrote:

pacino wrote:Maybe I'm misreading but she was blamed for HP suffering after the Compaq merger but was then replaced by Tom Perkins (recently outed as a crazy guy who thinks we have parallels with Nazi Germany) who also supported the merger? There appeared to be a lot more wrong with HP than just Fiorina, too.

She also appears to have an LLC that does nothing as well as a ficticious foundation. Not sure what that's about.

She'll get 1%.

Perkins is of Kleiner Perkins - an investor, kind of a nut, but not ever an HP executive. Fiorina was actually replaced by a very capable executive, Mark Hurd*, who had begun cleaning up her titanic mess, but who had a wandering dick problem.

Fiorina has been a horrible executive, and is a horrible person. Mitt is a candidate for sainthood by comparison. She's in this for herself and herself only, as she always has been about everything.

*HP's CFO ran the place 4 6 weeks before Hurd was brought in

drsmooth wrote:Holy. freaking. fuck. Greg Abbott, you have GOT to be kidding me.

Y'know, from the right angle, Abbott resembles Bob Odenkirk.

Gimpy wrote:Sanders already has over 175,000 registered volunteers.

The trigger for the rage now spilling onto Israel’s streets came just over a week ago, when a police officer was caught on a security camera beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier in uniform in the city of Holon, in the Tel Aviv suburbs, for no apparent reason.

In an effort to curb the unrest, Mr. Netanyahu said he would meet on Monday with representatives of the Ethiopian group, including the soldier who was beaten, Damas Pakado. Mr. Netanyahu said the meeting would also be attended by the nation’s police chief and representatives of several ministries, including Immigrant Absorption.
The police chief, Yohanan Danino, has already announced that the officer filmed beating Mr. Pakado had been fired. He also established a team of police representatives and Ethiopian community leaders that will try to improve relations.

In Israel’s fractious parliamentary system, politicians cobble together governing coalitions through weeks of back-room deal-making. Mr. Netanyahu, whose Likud Party won 30 of Parliament’s 120 seats, was expected to form a 67-member coalition made up of six right-leaning and religious parties; without Mr. Lieberman, that ideologically coherent group would have 61.

SK790 wrote:

Gimpy wrote:Sanders already has over 175,000 registered volunteers.

He raised 1.5 million the first day. Nothing to the Clintons and the Walkers of the world, but nothing to scoff at.

Go Bernie!

drsmooth wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:The thing about people who are smart is they think their experience and training and success in one area means that they can successfully transfer that ability to an entirely unrelated area. And there's at least one thing successful politicians and surgeons have in common--an overwhelming confidence, even arrogance.

Understood - but wouldn't at least one friend pull him aside & say something like "Ben, love your selfless devotion to country & all but you're going to make an ass of yourself at length, over months, for no good reason"?

SK790 wrote:Agreed, as much as I love the Bernie pipe dream, it's not gonna happen. I don't think I can bring myself to vote for Hillary, tho.

Going viral certainly has its upsides.

Jacob and Anthony’s modern day prom bromance had the internet feeling all the feels. Which meant Ellen wasn’t far behind with an oversized check (two, actually).

And with cash in hand, Janthony was ready to have the best prom ever, and Teen Vogue made sure it’d be one to really remember.



They picked out some sharp attire.
Took lots of photos, of course.
Instagramed some food porn.
And shared a bromantic dance. Watch those hands.

The only hiccup came in the form of (what else?) a minor cake controversy.

Anthony’s Aunt went to the Las Vegas Walmart to get a cake to surprise the boys. She wanted it to say “You’re gay, he’s straight, you’re going to prom, you couldn’t have had a better date,” but the store refused to write the word gay in icing.

She finally settled on “You matter, prom kings,” which is much less fun than the original.



A local news station reached out to Walmart to find out what happened. Fox5Vegas reports:

“…a spokesperson said that after investigating the incident, it was discovered that proper management wasn’t contacted. They said nowhere in their store’s policy does it say the word ‘gay’ can’t be written on a cake.”

SK790 wrote:Agreed, as much as I love the Bernie pipe dream, it's not gonna happen. I don't think I can bring myself to vote for Hillary, tho.

pacino wrote:So the military is doing some exercises in Texas so Abbott deployed the national guard to 'monitor' them. Uhm, you're part of the United States. The military is allowed to be in your state, idiot.