Saturday, October 14, 2017

Boyle...

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An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been released after years held captive by a network with ties to the Taliban. 
Caitlan Coleman, and her husband, Canadian Joshua Boyle, were abducted five years ago while traveling in Afghanistan. Coleman was pregnant when she was captured and the couple had three children while in captivity.
The U.S. sent a C-130 transport plane to Pakistan to get the family out of the country, but Boyle declined to board, a White House official tells CBS News. Boyle's family called him and tried to persuade him to board the plane but were unsuccessful.
The couple set off in the summer 2012 for a journey that took them to Russia, the central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and then to Afghanistan.  
Boyle had a self-described intrigue over terrorism. “  He also developed an interest in Omar Khadr, a Canadian captured in Afghanistan who was held at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to 2012. He married Khadr's sister in 2009. Strange story...

Friday, October 13, 2017

Stiff...

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Common thing people do is they take a job that doesn't fit with their personality and don't try to adapt. It's up to you to adapt and mold yourself into your company's culture.  Behavior that goes against the grain is generally an easy tell that something's not quite right. 
Stiff person who tries to keep things all business in an office environment where everyone treats each other like family.
Sharing stories about your weekends when everyone tries to be a bit more professional in the office may not help.
Not ready to be helpful to others in their needs while everyone helped you to become a member of the office would turn coworkers against you and shorten your survivor in that office.
Sometimes, working harder than everyone else will work against you. 
Do your best, but don't go overboard. "Be humble. Tone it down. Let your work speak for itself. That way, you'll avoid any office politics."
 You are the one who perhaps ruining your own chances.

Fast Learner...*

The model and escort sobbed into her hands as she was held on a $1,000,000 bail. After the hearing she was taken to Rikers Island 

The $5,000-a-night Russian who accused Eliot Spitzer of choking her in a hotel room broke down in court as she was charged with trying to extort him for $400,000.
Model and escort Svetlana, 25, covered her face and cried as she was arraigned on charges of grand larceny by extortion in Manhattan Criminal Court. 

Prosecutors said she 'consistently threatened to expose intimate details of prior relationships with [Spitzer's] to the family as well as the media'.

She told detectives that Spitzer, 57, had assaulted her during a heated row in a $1,000 suite at The Plaza Hotel after she revealed plans to return to Moscow.
The escort and model then went back to her native Russia, hindering the police investigation into the alleged attack. 

She also was charged with forgery in an unrelated case.   [dailymail.com].

Premium...

Originally published in November 2016. The cartoonist's

What happened to the politicians elected to represent the people of this country. Paralysis around Obama Care, and the cost of healthcare. Everyone is looking for another issue to divert the attention to. Let us do something for the little man. Don't supplement the premium, reduce it. Just a thought.

Difficult...

Originally published in 2009. The cartoonist's homepage

Is it really hard to create a healthcare system that fits the needs of the US citizens?

It is easy to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world with military might but then can't do something to help the people within. Talk it to death and no action. What's up with that?

Aisle...

The cartoonist's homepage, pnj.com/opinion
All are successful, powerful, and rich men. Do successful, powerful, and rich women behave the same? If not, then what is their MO?

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Tilted...

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Since November 2015, Sinclair has ordered its stations to run a daily segment from a “Terrorism Alert Desk” with updates on terrorism-related news around the world. During the election campaign last year, it sent out a package that suggested in part that voters should not support Hillary Clinton. More recently, Sinclair asked stations to run a short segment in which Scott Livingston, the company’s vice president for news, accused the national news media of publishing “fake news stories.”

Advocacy groups have shown concern about the size and reach as Sinclair's proposed acquisition of Tribune Media.  Critics of the deal also cite Sinclair’s willingness to use its stations to advance a mostly right-leaning agenda.  
Eight current and former KOMO employees described a newsroom where some have chafed at Sinclair’s programming directives, especially the must-runs, which they view as too politically tilted and occasionally of poor quality.  Just a thought.  

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The cartoonist's homepage, indystar.com/opinion/varvel