Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Dr. Strangelove]

Trump paid a crew of 200 illegal Polish immigrants $4 an hour to demolish the Bonwit Teller building to make way for Trump Tower. This resulted in a lawsuit that lasted from the early 80's till 1998. The settlement terms and details of the lawsuit, which were under seal until just last week, have finally been released.

Grifters gonna grift

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/nyregion/trump-tower-illegal-immigrant-workers-union-settlement.html

[AlabamAlum]

I really wonder if pretending to be native American to advance ones career is worse. And her justification was her family had a recipe called pow wow chow, & her high cheek bones.

Yeah, sure, excoriate Warren for what she did however many years back. Just not at the Code Talkers recognition.

[Kapture1]

Yeah, sure, excoriate Warren for what she did however many years back. Just not at the Code Talkers recognition.

I hear you, Trump will be Trump. Which is most times frustrating because most of his issues are self inflicted.

[Kapture1]

Trump paid a crew of 200 illegal Polish immigrants $4 an hour to demolish the Bonwit Teller building to make way for Trump Tower. This resulted in a lawsuit that lasted from the early 80's till 1998. The settlement terms and details of the lawsuit, which were under seal until just last week, have finally been released.

Grifters gonna grift

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/n...ettlement.html

that's nearly 13 dollars an hour in today's money.

[Kapture1]

and at 16 hour work days, assuming 5 days a week that is 4160 per month while paying no taxes (in today's money)

[entropy]

How to create middle class jobs...

http://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2017/article/how-create-middle-class-jobs

16 different views on what the should be done.

Certainly, there are some views that align to our own beliefs and some that do not, but it's worth the read. At least this is a nice dialogue about it..

[Dr. Strangelove]

Forget the Flynn connection for the moment...this is a big deal for US-Turkey relations. Zarrab has potential dirt on Erdogan and other powerful people in Turkey that were running a gold-for-gas scheme with Iran. Rudy Giuliani was one of this guy's defense lawyers. And now he's pled guilty and has agreed to talk.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/turkish-businessman-reza-zarrab-pleads-guilty-with-possible-implications-for-michael-flynn

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/reza-zarrab-turkish-gold-trader-tied-erdogan-avoids-trial-n824256

[crashcourse]

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/attachment.php?attachmentid=115467&d=1510807971

for you GOT fans spoiler alert if you haven't watched season 7

[Jeff Buchanan]

How to create middle class jobs...

http://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2017/article/how-create-middle-class-jobs

16 different views on what the should be done.

Certainly, there are some views that align to our own beliefs and some that do not, but it's worth the read. At least this is a nice dialogue about it..

Good read .....a lot of pie in the sky ideas though due to dysfunctional government at almost all levels.

I thought the licensing thing that restricts entry into both low and high skill jobs was interesting. It's now, according to these labor economists, risen to a level that is causing loss of middle class employment. Never thought of it that way.

Tax code. Yes. Not going to happen.

I thought the various ideas to increase all kinds of training and education quality and availability are things we shouldn't even be just thinking about but having addressed this 20y ago. Sad.

[hack]

Forget the Flynn connection for the moment...this is a big deal for US-Turkey relations. Zarrab has potential dirt on Erdogan and other powerful people in Turkey that were running a gold-for-gas scheme with Iran. Rudy Giuliani was one of this guy's defense lawyers. And now he's pled guilty and has agreed to talk.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/turkish-businessman-reza-zarrab-pleads-guilty-with-possible-implications-for-michael-flynn

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-trial-n824256

!!!!!:-D;-):smile::D

And a few more for good measure. Erdogan is a grotesque human being and a massive challenge to Western democracy.

[Kapture1]

[ame]https://twitter.com/JoshuaGreen/status/935531614712496129[/ame]

[THE_WIZARD_]

I guess Disney was racist for releasing the Pocahontas movie too...

[Kapture1]

I guess Disney was racist for releasing the Pocahontas movie too...

so is Bill Mahar who also called Warren Pocahontas.



But definitely NOT Warren, who cited an aunts high cheek bones and a family cookbook as proof of her Native American heritage.

[hack]

You know who else is getting a complete free pass here? Pocahontas' parents. They gave her that offensive name in the first place.

[Kapture1]

Elizabeth Warren's Pow Wow Chow 'Cherokee' recipes were word for word COPIES of famous FRENCH chef's techniques

Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is yet again in hot water after new allegations have surfaced that she plagiarized her 'Cherokee' recipes in the book Pow Wow Chow from the New York Times and other publications.

Radio talk show host Howie Carr released damning evidence that appears to confirm that Mrs Warren's weren't handed down from generation to generation, they were picked up in the newspaper.

Mrs Warren has been under scrutiny since she first claimed Native American heritage, arguing that because her great-great-great-grandmother was Cherokee, she is a member of the community.

The 1984 cookbook Pow Wow Chow was edited by Mrs Warren's cousin Candy Rowsey and is billed as a collection of recipes from the Five Civilized Tribes.

Mrs Warren's recipes are featured alongside her mother's directions for sugar cake and her two children's recipe for peach cobbler.

Mrs Warren's recipes include herbed tomatoes and a crab with tomato mayonnaise dressing, among other dishes.

But it appears that at least three of the five recipes featured in the book were fakes, according to an investigation by Mr Carr.

The two recipes for Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing and Cold Omelets with Crab Meat appear to be word for word copies of a French chef's design.

'When I was chef at Le Pavilion it enjoyed a considerable esteem in America, and the owner, Henri Soule, had one particular specialty that he would ask to have prepared for his pet customers. The dish was a great favorite of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Cole Porter,' wrote chef Pierre Franey in an article syndicated by the New York Times News Service on August 22, 1979.

Mrs Warren lists 10 ingredients for the cold omelet, while Mr Franey lists only four, but the preparation of the omelet is nearly identical, with both detailing the use of a 'seven-inch Teflon pan.'

'Heat about one-half teaspoon butter in the pan. Add about one-third cup of the egg mixture. Let cook until firm and lightly brown on the bottom, stirring quickly with a fork until the omelet starts to set. When set slip a large pancake turner under the omelet starts to set. When set, slip a large pancake turner under the omelet and turn it quickly to the other side. Let cook about five seconds. Remember, you want to produce a flat omelet, not a typical folded omelet. Turn the omelets out flat onto a sheet of was paper. Continue making omelets until all the egg mixture is used,' Mrs Warren wrote.

The only difference in the recipes is that Mr Franey said the egg mixture should be 'lightly browned.'

A third recipe for Herbed Tomatoes appears to be lifted directly from a recipe in a 1959 Better Homes and Gardens magazine, down to Mrs Warren's instructions for how to enjoy the dish.
'Great accompaniment to plain meat and potatoes meal!' both Mrs Warren and the Better Homes author say.
Since entering the race for the senate, numerous investigations have centered around her heritage.
In the 1990s, when Harvard Law came under fire for having a poor diversity-hiring record and a faculty dominated by white male professors, the school widely publicized Mrs Warren's alleged Native American roots.


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