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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
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On 2010-07-17 23:11, kasper wrote: No. Is anything in the news about it?
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
I was curious as to when he or Newsweek became experts on anything.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
Most of you probably realise I was using "experts" in a tongue in cheek manner.
Still, if you read my original post, I never called the Newsweek article writer an expert. I said you can read what the experts say on unemployment, and I directed you to a Newsweek article in which experts (e.g., hiring managers, and Deborah Rhode (chair of the American Bar Association’s commission on working women)) were quoted. The article writer quoted experts on hiring, but never claimed to be one herself. I'm starting to think that none of you read the article. As for Ben Stein, well, just a couple of years ago approximately half of America declared him to be a genius for his work on the movie Expelled. If he was recognized as an expert on as difficult a set of subjects as creation and evolution, I think we must give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he knows what he is talking about when it comes to such minor topics as unemployment and hiring.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2010-07-24 18:33, landmark wrote: Yeah, but apparently he must clean up nice for job interviews.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
What percentage of America never heard of the movie Expelled? I'd be in that group. Just a side note, some unemployed people may not appreciate generalized insults because not working is stressful enough.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2010-07-24 19:50, MagicSanta wrote: Expelled was a major topic here in this forum a couple of years ago, though most of those threads have long since been deleted. It seems to me, at least in recent years, that Ben Stein is never afraid to speak his mind. But I don't know for the life of me why people listen to him, now or when he was pimping Expelled. Or even way back when he was speech writing for Nixon, for that matter.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I like Stein, he is very funny, but I don't turn to him for guidance on any subject.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2010-07-24 19:57, MagicSanta wrote: Does he still do "funny"? I only ever see him playing the role of a serious pundit these days.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
To be honest I've not seen him in a long while other than commercials.
Well, good to know the real reason I'm unemployed is that I'm obnoxious and unattractive. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
So basically people are getting more obnoxious and unnattractive then....interesting.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On 2010-07-24 20:21, MagicSanta wrote: I know I am.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
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On 2010-07-24 19:03, balducci wrote: I certainly suspected you were joking about the "experts" part. As for his work on Expelled, I prefered Win Ben Stein's Money to that. Isn't he an economist by trade? I am not really sure.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
He majored in Economics at Columbia University's Columbia College and his father was a "noted" economist, but he went on to study at Yale Law School and he then worked as a lawyer and then political speech writer and professor. And somehow along the way he got into acting and entertainment and punditry, as we all know.
I also enjoyed his game show, the few times I caught it on tv.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
Yea I do sort of enjoy that deadpan dealio he has going as well. Worked on the show pretty well.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
We should outlaw jobs altogether so everyone would be self employed thus solving unemployment.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
"When we returned from the war--and it lasted 100 years, mind you--we went to the nobles, asking for honest work, and were whipped for our trouble.
"They did not say, 'Work or starve,' they said, 'Starve, for you shall not work.' "That's when I started the thieves and beggars guild." - The King of Thieves and Beggars; "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (RKO, 1939)
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
Thatt'l learn em.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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