Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • FOR NOTHING : LAZY GOVERNMENT WORKERS If we are to have any bank labor, and fede

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/18/for-federal-employees-office-often-closed-25-of-fi/#.UwTeBTn0uUY.facebookMONEY FOR NOTHING : LAZY GOVERNMENT WORKERS

    If we are to have any bank labor, and federal workers at all, they must remain open for business as any other service provider: From 8:00 AM to 10PM. How about that for a constitutional amendment?

    I’d also like to get an amendment that prohibits collective bargaining (unions) for government workers, as well as fixed benefit programs.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-19 11:40:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-19 09:38:00 UTC

  • THE POOR QUALITY OF POLITICIANS One thing that I hear pretty consistently, is th

    THE POOR QUALITY OF POLITICIANS

    One thing that I hear pretty consistently, is that the people in charge of the different political factions, and in fact, everyone in politics here, “Isn’t very good” or “isn’t very smart”. And you really do get that impression.

    I don’t know where the smart people are, or if they left, but you know, I always have this impression that the IQ distribution here is narrower (not sure where to get the data to prove that). I know that IQ is a bit lower (around 96) but again, I’ll bet that if I got my hands on the data, it’s a distribution issue. IQ rapidly degenerates south and east of Ukraine. Anything that the Turks touched was seriously impacted.

    But all that nonsense aside, you don’t seem to find smart people in government. And it’s not an anti-intellectual culture. Just the opposite. But the politicians really just remind you of gangsters and thugs.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 14:56:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE UPDATE: POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS “NO AMNESTY” (lots of booming and banging

    UKRAINE UPDATE: POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS “NO AMNESTY”

    (lots of booming and banging going on)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 14:49:00 UTC

  • (UKRAINE UPDATE: I can’t understand what they’re saying on the video streams ver

    (UKRAINE UPDATE: I can’t understand what they’re saying on the video streams very well but I can tell you that it’s getting worse here rather than better. And the people I’m with who speak Russian and Ukrainian don’t sound or look very happy.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 14:27:00 UTC

  • Um… Might be time to get outta’ Dodge. Not sure I care much for this particula

    Um… Might be time to get outta’ Dodge. Not sure I care much for this particular posse.

    I mean,snipers shooting people indiscriminately in the crowd is pretty …. well, medieval.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 10:34:00 UTC

  • UKRAINE UPDATE : 4 DEAD, 100 INJURED They have shut down the subways now

    UKRAINE UPDATE : 4 DEAD, 100 INJURED

    They have shut down the subways now.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 09:29:00 UTC

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PAIN TOLERANCE This winter has reminded me once again that

    ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PAIN TOLERANCE

    This winter has reminded me once again that entrepreneurship is determined in no small part by your willingness to work hard while enduring a great deal of emotional and psychological pain at high risk.

    I just think that there are too few of us willing to work under those conditions.

    For me, I get one thing out of it: the sense of heroic achievement with ‘my guys’.

    Entrepreneurship is the closest thing we can do today to conducting warfare.

    You can get your high’s from sports, from the military, from entrepreneurship, and from intellectual achievement. I don’t have the physical ability to win at team sports (asthma), although I was better than fair at wrestling other sweaty men, and I will catch a football that comes close to me even if it kills me. And I think I’m probably going to make my dent in intellectual history.

    But there is no feeling in this world than leading a group of other men on the hunt to conquer some bit of territory – be it war, sport, business, or intellectual.

    Nothing like it at all.

    We still seek to be kings. And entrepreneurship is one of the paths available to us.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 07:52:00 UTC

  • UPDATE: VIOLENCE RENEWS The guys just are spreading the news that the protesters

    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/renewed-violence-breaks-out-today-near-ukraines-parliament-at-least-one-injured-336993.htmlUKRAINE UPDATE: VIOLENCE RENEWS

    The guys just are spreading the news that the protesters are trying to take over one of the government buildings. This comes after they surrendered city hall yesterday in exchange for release of political prisoners and ‘amnesty’.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 07:40:00 UTC

  • “I AM CONDUCTING A WAR FOR MILLISECONDS!” (nerd humor) (in russian accent) Kiril

    “I AM CONDUCTING A WAR FOR MILLISECONDS!”

    (nerd humor) (in russian accent)

    Kirill is trying to shave off .3 – .4 seconds from Oversing’s initial page load. So he’s cutting milliseconds here and there.

    Nerd soldiers go to war!!!

    lol

    I love this industry.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-02-18 06:50:00 UTC