The Goat Pen

Nice. I was wondering what happened to gas prices. Not in the news anymore.

Because the media is helping Joe and the Dems

Gas has been down lately, but still higher than previous highs.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafH ... us_dpg&f=m

Higher than previous highs?? What does that even mean? Gas was over $4 a few months ago, now it approaching $3...

Here's some facts:

The US Energy Information Administration official All Grades, All Formulations Retail Gasoline Price for August 2022 was $4.09/gallon. The all-time high is $5.03/gallon in June 2022. It has been over $4 since March 2022, and the only time it had ever been over $4 previously was for two months in June and July of 2008.

Source: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafH ... us_dpg&f=m

I don't think my new paralegal is going to last much longer...

In a meeting with the paralegal and our office manager yesterday, I learned that:

1) The words “crap” and “effing” are offensive profanity;
2) The use of an exclamation point to denote urgency on a sticky note with instructions about what to do with a document is considered highly aggressive behavior and is very offensive;
3) It is aggressive to sigh and look down to compose one’s self before speaking after noticing a mistake of the same or similar nature for the 323rd time despite giving explicit directions;
4) Attaching handwritten notes on sticky notes asking that something be done today or asking why something was out of order are aggressive, and that all of this aggressiveness is very upsetting;
5) Having a confused look on one's face is insulting, aggressive and offensive when you do not understand what someone is telling you;
6) Saying "Christ help us all" in response to someone acting crazy was profane and offensive; and
7) That she deserves to be treated as my equal within the office and that telling her what I need done is aggressive and offensive, and instead, I should put everything in the form of a question.

I don't know who was more shocked, the office manager or me.

Yeah....to be a German from southern Brazil who's grandfather arrived shortly after the war, she sure is a pansy ass.

And some non-fact analysis:

Gasoline prices will likely continue to stagnate despite inflation as demand for fuel decreases due to a contraction in economic activity as we continue into a multi year depression.

Tree wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 12:47 pm

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 11:29 am I don't think my new paralegal is going to last much longer...

In a meeting with the paralegal and our office manager yesterday, I learned that:

1) The words “crap” and “effing” are offensive profanity;
2) The use of an exclamation point to denote urgency on a sticky note with instructions about what to do with a document is considered highly aggressive behavior and is very offensive;
3) It is aggressive to sigh and look down to compose one’s self before speaking after noticing a mistake of the same or similar nature for the 323rd time despite giving explicit directions;
4) Attaching handwritten notes on sticky notes asking that something be done today or asking why something was out of order are aggressive, and that all of this aggressiveness is very upsetting;
5) Having a confused look on one's face is insulting, aggressive and offensive when you do not understand what someone is telling you;
6) Saying "Christ help us all" in response to someone acting crazy was profane and offensive; and
7) That she deserves to be treated as my equal within the office and that telling her what I need done is aggressive and offensive, and instead, I should put everything in the form of a question.

I don't know who was more shocked, the office manager or me.

Yeah....to be a German from southern Brazil who's grandfather arrived shortly after the war, she sure is a pansy ass.

not in the same lane but
I had a new hire show to work wearing furry house slippers last week, another rented an AirBnB in Japan and worked "remote" while attending a pokemon tournament without telling me

Tree wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 12:49 pm

So you're off today?

Tree wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 12:20 am What has Biden or Obama or any Democrat in the last 50 years done for the working class?

Rat wants this debate with you to fill up his day.
If you are satisfied with a twitter feed as a response, then go for it.

eCat wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 12:55 pm

Tree wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 12:20 am What has Biden or Obama or any Democrat in the last 50 years done for the working class?

Rat wants this debate with you to fill up his day.
If you are satisfied with a twitter feed as a response, then go for it.

Unlike the GOP they've done a few things. I was just wondering if Rat actually knew any.

Yesterday, September 1, 2022, The New York Times had a front page story entitled: “The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading.”


The first paragraph states that “National test results released on Thursday showed in stark terms the pandemic’s devastating effects on American schoolchildren, with the performance of 9-year-olds in math and reading dropping to the levels from two decades ago.”

Further down, the article says: “Then came the pandemic, which shuttered schools across the country almost overnight” and “experts say it will take more than the typical school day to make up gaps created by the pandemic.”

The definition of a pandemic, according to the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (ref: Last JM, editor. A dictionary of epidemiology, 4th edition. New York: Oxford University Press; 2001) is “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people.”

According to the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, “an epidemic occurs when an infectious disease spreads rapidly to many people.”

Thus, a pandemic is a disease that spreads rapidly to many people all over the world.

Based on this pretty much universally accepted definition, a pandemic can do exactly one thing: it can spread disease to many people around the world.

What can a pandemic NOT do?

A pandemic cannot impose mandates or lockdowns.

A pandemic cannot block borders or force people to stop traveling.

A pandemic cannot shutter schools – overnight or otherwise.

A pandemic cannot impact math and reading.

A pandemic cannot cause learning gaps.

What can our response to a pandemic do?

If we decide to shut down schools for months and years on end in response to a pandemic, then it is our response that has caused whatever educational deficits and devastation to children ensue. It is not the pandemic.

In case there’s any doubt that the effects of a pandemic are separate and distinct from society’s response to the pandemic, we can take a look at Sweden, where schools were never shut down, and where there was no learning loss (ref) and much less devastation to schoolchildren than in countries that closed schools (ref) during the Covid pandemic.

Blaming the pandemic for anything other than disease and/or death is misinformation.

The New York Times headline and article contain clear and uncontestable instances of misinformation.

Empty Top Secret Folders. Time to dig up the ex.

eCat wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 12:55 pm

Tree wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 12:20 am What has Biden or Obama or any Democrat in the last 50 years done for the working class?

Rat wants this debate with you to fill up his day.
If you are satisfied with a twitter feed as a response, then go for it.

Evidently you're satisfied with your head up your ass. The Blue Wave is coming eCat. Grab your guns!

I'm terrified that the US is now going to fall behind Sweden in every measurable data point. Seriously, though, how many adults can do anything more than the most basic math? Not many, I'd say. And plenty can't even do that. I'm not really worried that school kids aren't scoring as well in a subject that they're going to forget 90% of as soon as they graduate...

The pandemic killed this place...