Can you type? Or if you can’t type, can you tell like an intern or somebody that you need something typed? Because if you do, you might have a shot at becoming a political producer for CNN, given that these skills are a prerequisite for the job, which seems mainly to consist of typing things that other people said, and then connecting them until they look kind of like an article.
When I went to high school, many girls took typing. I did too. This was when typing was strictly a secretarial skill. I don't remember why I took that class -- let's say it was to meet girls. But I learned to type pretty fast.
Years passed and technology started moving computers and keyboards to more desktops. My male colleagues struggled with hunt and peck. But was able to work quickly and (perhaps) with fewer mistakes. It was definitely a career advantage.
Mine did --- because there were girls who they assumed might be future secretaries, at least until they got married and put their "home economics" training to good use.
Unfortunately, typing skills were badly undervalued -- so much so that they discounted whatever grade you got in the class. (The &quot;A&quot; I got in typing, which counted as 3.5 points, <i>lowered</i> my GPA.) They did this with HomeEc as well (while giving the guys in Mech Drawing a 4.0 for learning which end of a pencil was which.) Amazingly, nobody ever questioned the higher GPAs of the male students.
If Mitt was in high school today, he would have to have his desk in the school sherrif&#039;s office for protection from all the other kids. Who would hate him. And try to punch him.
It&#039;s easy to get depressed when you see that the assholes keep winning. The key to not getting depressed is being satisfied, within yourself, with the knowledge that even when they win, they&#039;re still assholes.
When you realize that they don&#039;t even <i>know</i> that they&#039;re assholes (lookin&#039; at you, Mitt), you get depressed again. I have yet to figure out how to deal with this ... it mostly involves trying to prove to them that they&#039;re assholes, but they mostly never see it, because they&#039;re such assholes.
Sounds like someone needs a <a href="http:\/\/images.cheezburger.com\/completestore\/2009\/12\/14\/129052539921336522.jpg" target="_blank">hug</a>
In Mitt&#039;s world, you just borrow $200,000 from your parents to pay your Ivy League tuition. If everybody else just followed that common-sense approach, we&#039;d all be better off.
Aww, that&rsquo;s so cute. They still pretend that wingnut facts come from a place other than the speaker&#039;s ass. I bet they also believe in Santa Claus and Market Forces.
If that glass door story is true, Mitt is unqualified to be POTUS. The blind person would just as readily walked into a wooden or metal door. The glass door angle was pointless. He&#039;s an idjit ... or as they say in Massachusetts, &quot;our one-term former governor&quot;.
It&#039;s the Bain Capital approach: you wreck it, and loot it, while making it look prettier so some sucker will come along and buy it off of you. It&#039;s like stripping the good parts out of a used car, then giving it a paint job and a good waxing.
Somebody should point out to Mitt that there ain&#039;t nobody coming along to buy the school systems after he wrecks them.
Is that like a hategasm?
No problem, just read the whole thing and you&#039;ll immediately spot any differences from what you wrote many moons ago.
And make it &quot;read only&quot; when you save it.
When I went to high school, many girls took typing. I did too. This was when typing was strictly a secretarial skill. I don&#039;t remember why I took that class -- let&#039;s say it was to meet girls. But I learned to type pretty fast.
Years passed and technology started moving computers and keyboards to more desktops. My male colleagues struggled with hunt and peck. But was able to work quickly and (perhaps) with fewer mistakes. It was definitely a career advantage.
Mine did --- because there were girls who they assumed might be future secretaries, at least until they got married and put their &quot;home economics&quot; training to good use.
Unfortunately, typing skills were badly undervalued -- so much so that they discounted whatever grade you got in the class. (The &quot;A&quot; I got in typing, which counted as 3.5 points, <i>lowered</i> my GPA.) They did this with HomeEc as well (while giving the guys in Mech Drawing a 4.0 for learning which end of a pencil was which.) Amazingly, nobody ever questioned the higher GPAs of the male students.
If Mitt was in high school today, he would have to have his desk in the school sherrif&#039;s office for protection from all the other kids. Who would hate him. And try to punch him.
It&#039;s easy to get depressed when you see that the assholes keep winning. The key to not getting depressed is being satisfied, within yourself, with the knowledge that even when they win, they&#039;re still assholes.
When you realize that they don&#039;t even <i>know</i> that they&#039;re assholes (lookin&#039; at you, Mitt), you get depressed again. I have yet to figure out how to deal with this ... it mostly involves trying to prove to them that they&#039;re assholes, but they mostly never see it, because they&#039;re such assholes.
Sounds like someone needs a <a href="http:\/\/images.cheezburger.com\/completestore\/2009\/12\/14\/129052539921336522.jpg" target="_blank">hug</a>
Yeah, fuckin Obama bringing that No Child Left Behind Act into the picture.
In Mitt&#039;s world, you just borrow $200,000 from your parents to pay your Ivy League tuition. If everybody else just followed that common-sense approach, we&#039;d all be better off.
Aww, that&rsquo;s so cute. They still pretend that wingnut facts come from a place other than the speaker&#039;s ass. I bet they also believe in Santa Claus and Market Forces.
If that glass door story is true, Mitt is unqualified to be POTUS. The blind person would just as readily walked into a wooden or metal door. The glass door angle was pointless. He&#039;s an idjit ... or as they say in Massachusetts, &quot;our one-term former governor&quot;.
It&#039;s the Bain Capital approach: you wreck it, and loot it, while making it look prettier so some sucker will come along and buy it off of you. It&#039;s like stripping the good parts out of a used car, then giving it a paint job and a good waxing.
Somebody should point out to Mitt that there ain&#039;t nobody coming along to buy the school systems after he wrecks them.
<i>&quot;The president can&rsquo;t have it both ways...&quot;</i>
Neither can candidate Romney. It was RomneyCare before it was ObamaCare. (Man up Mitt! It&#039;s your biggest achievement in governing.)
His goal at Bain was not to create jobs, it was to maximize ROI for investors.
The dog was on top of the car because Mitt wanted him there, not because it was first class canine seating.