What a load of crap. And where is Mr. Integrity heading? To start his own firm, perhaps? Or simply retire on what the firm paid him over these few short years? You can't tell me the firm changed that much in just the past couple of years...it is too old, and too big, to dance like that.
Oh, come on...surely there is a someone who will give us a tasty complaint on this post. I expected quite the rampage from some vegans, or PeTA. Nothing?
This is foolishness. Yes, save the dog, go to jail for criminal damage to property. The acts shown would be a felony in Illinois, and don't waste your breath with the imaginary defenses to the criminal charge. Then let's look at what happens when you now have a dog you know nothing about laying on 100 degree asphalt. The dog runs away. It bites you or someone else. Either way, it now faces a much more certain death than if you had done what you should have done...call the police on your cell phone (don't tell me there is a teenager/young adulut in the country without a cell phone) and wait for the cops to arrive. And that does not even include the owner of the car coming around and kicking your butt or pepper spray/taser you until the cops come to arrest you.
The point is, you can make these situations look so romanticized and heroic until you actually give some thought to what is happening. Reality bites.
Okay, so here it is, the Real Problem with affirmative action, race based or otherwise. It simply diminishes the accomplishments of everyone of the "benefited class" regardless of their true merit. Go ahead and disagree, but when a Supreme Court justice proclaims herself to ba an "affirmative action baby" and credits her success squarely on that basis, it dilutes the perception of her abilities. When you look at a doctor who is an affirmative action beneficiaiary, who wouldn't prefer to have the one who got there on merit instead of skin color, gender, whatever. Call it what you want, but given the choice between the one who earned it through hard work and ability the one who "earned" it simply through being a minority I want the better of the two. And that perception is the real problem with affirmative action.
Bourdain? Probably one of the last guys I'd ask. The trucker idea works, as does asking a police officer (or the guys at the firehouse). Guys who eat lunch out every day tend to know where you can eat decent food for cheap.
And once again, PeTA gets a ton of free publicity for their cause. The people who have said "a dog is a chicken is a boy" can now add "is a whale." And to the list of those protected under the Constitution. I think whales should be included, and given the right to vote (but I would not give them the right to keep and bear arms, reserving that for humans and our most trusted allies, the dogs).
Get over it. Jeez, people, discrimination is everywhere, except that nobody discrimiates against people who really are good at what they do. It is easy to say you did not get a promotion because of discrimination, and that makes you feel better about being a loser, but if you really were as good as you think you are (false self esteem levels are so cliche these days) then you would have gotten the job, promotion, etc. Few, if any, successful businesses got that way through excluding huge sections of the workforce. Why limit your applicant pool to only 50% or even less solely due to things that do not affect job perfomrnance? And if the compnay you are working for does prctice that sort of discrimination, they will not, over the long haul, be successful. Find some where else to work, a place that will be successful, and go kick the heck out of the company that discrminates. This is not rocket science. Want to get married? Great. You don't want to get married? So what? Do your work and shut up about it.
The body language is classic. The only thing missing is one of them exiting the car while holding their back or neck and crying in pain. The thing for our driver to do now is call the police, so maybe these people can be prevented from doing this to someone who does not have a dash camera.
Thanks for the post. All we ever hear anymore is about the vacuous, selfish ways of the current crop of "celebrities;" it is good to hear something good about a guy who made all of us laugh.
The current trend seems to be to make every wedding "open mike night" for anyone who wants to make a speech. A simple toast is what is needed, not the life story of the speaker. Just try to wrestle the mike out of the hands of the sorority sister/frat brother who has about three shots and a beer in her/him.
Yes, I'll do a better job, and just as I get promoted I'll take off about five years for my family, then come back and work part time, but for full benefits, and get 87% of his salary even though he worked all the way through...but I won't travel, or stay late or any of that stuff...yeah, that's the stuff....
The point is, you can make these situations look so romanticized and heroic until you actually give some thought to what is happening. Reality bites.