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We do a pretty good job here weeding out the bad ones. Eventually they make themselves known and we push them out the door and say see ya!

That seems to usually be the case with smaller police departments. It's much easier to keep track of who is doing (or not doing) what they are supposed to be doing.

You must live in a shell, there are thousands upon thousands of people that hate the police, want us dead now because they think we are "racist pigs that are only here to violate rights"

Those people are morons. AND those people are a small minority of the population.

 

I have a right to an opinion on the matter as well.

No one is saying that you don't have a right to have an opinion.

 

My profession is being attacked unfairly and you think I'm just going to stand by and not speak up about that?

Why do you feel like your profession is being attacked? Also, it's certainly not you vs. the rest of the board or "police" vs. "everyone else."

 

In fact, I think that sort of thinking is pretty dangerous and leads to the sort of circling of the wagons that I alluded to earlier. You can believe that people don't understand what your job entails but if that is the case you'd probably be better off explaining it to them than telling them that they couldn't understand.

 

Ultimately, a large majority of the population has a very high amount of confidence and trust in the police. If you feel like your profession is under some sort of siege you're mistaken.

You seem incapable of separating yourself and not being defensive about this.

There is a real issue of circling the wagons when incidents arise. It's far too easy (and common!) for these things to devolve into "us vs. them" situations.

So PETA and the other animal activist are contributing to global warming? cool...another reason to mock them.

If we can all acknowledge that climate change is an important issue and we can simultaneously mock PETA I'm all for it.

 

If you're skipping past the former to get to the latter you're doing it wrong.

 

 

If your white your automatically deemed racist these days.

Wow. Really?

 

A little bit of a reach there, but it seems like there is an adverse amount of reverse racism these days. I just get tired of hearing about all the African Americans still being repressed. There s just as much opportunity for blacks as there is for any other.

 

It just gets old after awhile having to pay for the sins of our forefathers that occurred hundreds of years ago.

 

Maybe you should explain it to them. Can't imagine why you might hear accusations of racism these days.

If your white your automatically deemed racist these days.

Wow. Really?

It's great whin the bozos self-identify themselves.

Well that's some low hanging fruit.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/20/monsters-people-take-to-twitter-to-celebrate-nypd-murders/

 

 

This just in, some people suck. What's your point, people did the same for Michael Brown.

 

Yeah . . . not sure that the Daily Caller's list of tweets from people who may or may not exist is quite the same as significant portions of the public, media, and police forces denying that the killing of unarmed citizens is problematic.

Whatever you say dramacarl, I'm sorry for asking you to think. Over a year has passed, but your brain is still frozen.

 

Look at past crises with North korea, they corresponded with reactionarry changes in Japan and the US that increase our war spending.

 

 

We need North Korea to be a threat again, so magically it is.

Why do we need them to be a threat again?

 

I will answer that question, but I would like to ask you to think about it for a while.

 

I don't want to start another Korean war in this forum.

 

Cut the drama. Answer it if you want to do so or just move on.

We need North Korea to be a threat again, so magically it is.

Why do we need them to be a threat again?

Do people really think that these are comparable? Also, is there a significant portion of the population strenuously defending the cop killer?

 

This is all very strange to me.

What ever happened to the first amendment?!

I think that it's because they are held to different standards and also because I have little doubt that if Mr. Brinsley hadn't done us the favor of offing himself that he would have been indicted for murder.

Regardless, I still feel as though the ignorance to credentialed blue-collared jobs in favor of the college trap is still the main concern here.

I agree that this is an issue . . . but I know of many employers in the area that are requiring 4 year degrees for positions that simply do not require it. I'm talking about the equivalent of fork lift driver positions.

 

I've tried thinking of why they would list that as a requirement besides the fact that they can and the only thing that I can come up with is that the potential employee might be more likely to be tied to his/her job because of his/her debt load.

Labor productivity is the ratio of the output of goods and services to the labor hours devoted to the production of that output.

http://www.bls.gov/lpc/faqs.htm

I don't know. I work in healthcare admin. and half the people I work with didn't know it existed, or at least didn't know the extent of influence it has/the complete lack of rationality there is in its pricing. I think it gets swept under the rug because many executives and legal representatives see the prices displayed as flexible, but the flexibility is only available when a long list of complicated criteria is met. It's tough to navigate for the average citizen. Most of the ones I have seen haven't been updated for years, sometimes decades, with the only adjustments to pricing being inflation raises; medical technology advancements be damned. Complicated procedures from 10 years ago that would take 4-5 physician hours to complete are now being completed in an hour or less with tech available today. Unfortunately, the charge master price in many cases reflect the old procedures. People regard neglected charge masters more as a ghost story than an actual thing, but they are certainly there and are certainly not particularly helpful in this whole struggle.

 

Well that's scary. My connection to the field isn't on the administrative side but the people that I know are quite familiar with charge masters. Huh.

 

Maybe I just have an unusual fascination with health care policy. Haha.

 

Stone Enjoy By IPA. Delicious. It's even available on tap at a few places.

That. Stuff. Is. Awesome.

 

Probably the best IPA I've had the pleasure of trying . . . but I haven't gotten my hands on the Plinys or Heady Topper yet.

Understand healthcare economics, CAREFULLY, and get back to me. If hospitals were more transparent (Insurance's fault) than there would be true competition in the market (Insurance's fault) and hospitals wouldn't have to go through such ridiculous measures (Insurance's fault) to ensure their equally ridiculous prices are upheld for all. The insurance company negotiates a rate of 10,000 for an appendectomy procedure. Super. Hypothetically the hospital puts their non-insured price of such a procedure at 8,000. What benefit is there to getting insurance? A whole lot of none. Insurance companies contract with hospitals, pay the big bucks to dictate the pricing they will pay hospitals for procedures, hospitals ensure their nice big book of procedure prices stay well above insurance rates, and here. we. go! Little bit of a vicious cycle huh? Did you even know such a big book of procedure prices exist? Probably not. Most don't. All hospitals have one. Such issues, in nonprofit hospitals, always go back to the insurances involved. The nonprofits can't help but make profit through the insurance payment rates. As for the 9% interest thing, some lawyers are just dicks. Big shocker there, huh?

Do you think that the ACA is an improvement over the status quo? I'm not asking if you think it is better than single payer (I think that even most people who support the ACA think that single payer would have been a better option if it were politically possible). Is it better than the status quo? If not, why not?

 

And doesn't almost everyone who actually reads about/works with this stuff know about charge masters?

 

 

 

jon bruning telling another state that federal law is supreme. that's rich.

His conservative principles are . . . malleable.

 

He's just being a combination of his usual media whore persona, and the spokesman for western Nebraska county sheriffs of feel some compulsive need to pull over every car coming out of Colorado and bust people for possession.

 

Bruning's only real commitment is to his own personal wealth, which has grown quite large for a man who supposedly only has a state salary....and a bunch of shady investments from industries his office has influence over...... principles...funny.

 

All true. Unfortunately, he will probably be our governor someday.

jon bruning telling another state that federal law is supreme. that's rich.

His conservative principles are . . . malleable.

I am quite confident that Bo could have easily gotten a coordinator position at a prominent school if he had chosen that.

Maybe. Why not a HC job at a prominent school, eh?

 

I also believe he could have gotten a head coach position at a less prominent D1 school as well.

Probably. He may well be good enough for a school like Kansas.

 

I remember when people on this board would get quite concerned that another program would steal him away (Ohio state, miami, etc.).

Yes, and that was years ago when it still looked like we were close to getting over the hump. Time had a way of dispelling that notion . . . and dispensing any other potential suitors.

Jackasses like Brunning need to shut up and get out of the way.

Jon "I've used it but it's dangerous!" Bruning?

Samuel McKewon ‏@swmckewonOWH 3m3 minutes ago

Nebraska AG Jon Bruning is suing Colorado for its marijuana law. http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/bruning-files-lawsuit-over-colorado-s-legalization-of-marijuana/article_89801fb6-86ef-11e4-b2e8-9bf0786ca418.html …

Oh, good. Jon found another camera to thrust his face in front of.

It's gonna be a s***show if Cruz wins the GOP nod. The media will have a field day with that guy. He's a moron.

He isn't dumb . . . he is a demagogue.

 

He's actually quite intelligent. The problem is that he is pretty convinced that his supporters are morons.