http://www.wsj.com/articles/miscues-doomed-brazilian-soccer-teams-final-flight-1480726672
Killed by arrogance and stupidity!
Miscues Doomed Team’s Final Flight
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The Perils of Empathy
Saturday, December 3, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-perils-of-empathy-1480689513
So I want less empathy and more compassion.
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MEDIA BIAS: Need to Cater to Male ‘Star Wars’ Fans
Saturday, December 3, 2016Lucasfilm President Says She Doesn’t Need to Cater to Male ‘Star Wars’ Fans
By Kyle Foley | 2:51 pm, December 1, 2016
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Ever wonder why Star Wars decided to make Mary Sue character Rey their main focus for The Force Awakens? Well, according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy it’s because male Star Wars fans don’t need to be catered to anymore.
Kennedy was chosen to replace George Lucas, the creator of Lucasfilm and Star Wars, when Disney bought the studio in 2012. Since then she has done a fantastic job running the studio, to the tune of $2 billion in revenue from The Force Awakens and over $3 million in merchandise.
In an interview with the New York Times, Kennedy addressed her decision to cast a female lead in her second movie in charge, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. “I have a responsibility to the company that I work with. I don’t feel that I have a responsibility to cater in some way [to those particular fans],” she said. “I would never just seize on saying, ‘Well, this is a franchise that’s appealed primarily to men for many, many years, and therefore I owe men something.’”
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So much for building a rapport with your Customers. I’d never be so rude to the folks who give you their “certificated of appreciation”.
So, for a similar reason that I don’t watch Jane Fonda movies, I won’t be seeing this one.
Hope she feels the loss of “Male” dollars at the box office.
Open mouth, insert foot.
I’m offended.
I don’t get mad; I get even. I forgive, but I never forget.
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Obama’s Giant Student-Loan Con
Friday, December 2, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-giant-student-loan-con-1480640259
Everyone knew it was a scam by the D’s to buy votes at taxpayer expense.
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FINANCIAL: The federal government’s student-loan debt-relief programs?
Friday, December 2, 2016I fundamentally oppose any “debt relief” program on the grounds of “moral hazard”. In the future, loans will be taken out with the expectation of forgiveness.
As a little L libertarian, the Gooferment does not have any funds that weren’t forceable taken from Taxpayers. Hence there should NOT be any FEDERAL loan program in the first place.
Further, you can correlate the rising tuition and rising student debt with the increasing Federal student loan involvement.
Argh!
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READER RESPONSE
Responding to yesterday’s question on the federal government’s student-loan debt-relief programs, Bernard Levine of Oregon wrote: “Solve this whole costly mess with one simple reform. Require colleges to co-sign every loan to their own students. Then if a student defaults, the college is on the hook to pay. Which is only fair, since it was the college, not the student, that received the proceeds of the loan. And it was the college that promised, implicitly or explicitly, to make its students employable and prosperous.” Cole Aston of Missouri said: “Forgiving student debt is merely a short-term fix to a long-term problem. Tuition is sky-high because of federal-government backed student loans. Until we get rid of these government loan programs, universities will continue to inflate their tuition cost. We can’t be half-free market and half-socialist; we need to pick one or the other and stick to it.” And Slade Howell of North Carolina commented: “The federal government forgiving student debt is a wonderful idea. It is exciting to think that tax-paying, working Americans can have the opportunity to fund a social interlude for our youth… This may well go down in history as the most ingenious welfare system ever devised to procure votes.”
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A Gingrich Commission on Government
Thursday, December 1, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gingrich-commission-on-government-1480551613
A great idea for a good thinker.
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Reinke Faces Life 