The Col: I hope it's old style shambling zombies.. But the questions leads to where... China, who is screwing up their eco system. Or India, where kids recycle e waste in conditions that the word toxic is an understatement.

If an American was told to work in the same way.. they'd be able to retire from the proceeds of the court case.

6 tips on how to handle office politics

Consider this: Almost two-thirds of workers interviewed by Robert Half International said involvement in office politics is at least somewhat necessary to get ahead today. The key is to remain attuned to workplace dynamics without getting drawn into power struggles or playing petty games.

Here's a rundown of some of the most prevalent political players in the office, along with tips for working with them:

The Gossip Hound. This person loves spreading rumors and can often be found hovering around the water cooler, speculating about sensitive issues. Keep your distance from the Gossip Hound and don't say anything you wouldn't say to someone directly. Although this person may provide accurate or relevant information on occasion, that's not reason enough to allow yourself to be pulled into corrosive conversations.

The Credit Thief. This individual loves the spotlight and relishes taking credit for other people's work. When something goes wrong, the Credit Thief is nowhere to be seen.

When collaborating with this person, document your contributions and provide regular updates to your supervisor so he is aware of your work. Don't hesitate to correct misperceptions about who did what.

The Sycophant. "Shameless" is this person's middle name. She will offer excessive flattery to anyone who is in a position of power, ignoring anyone below the highest levels.

Although it may be hard to watch, don't sweat the Sycophant's tactics. Most managers can see through this type of person. Also be sure to give kudos to deserving individuals, regardless of their position.

If the Sycophant displays a sudden shift in attitude toward you, be wary. She could be buttering you up for a favor.

The Saboteur. Watch your back when working with this person, who loves to play the blame game and make others look bad. Limit your interaction with this master manipulator, and don't back down if the Saboteur's tactics become apparent. Often, he will retreat when confronted.

The Lobbyist. The Lobbyist is passionate about her projects and ways of doing things. This individual advocates strongly for support but is often unreceptive to outside points of view.

When collaborating with the Lobbyist on projects, be aware of the agenda she is pushing, and be willing to stand up for your ideas.

The Adviser. The office's most influential people aren't always the most high-ranking or high-profile employees. For example, this professional is often closely aligned with an executive and serves as his eyes and ears. Develop a good rapport with the Adviser because he could have a direct line to the top.

How you handle sensitive workplace dynamics can make or break your professional prospects. But navigating office politics doesn't have to be complex. More than anything, it simply involves common sense, courtesy and compromise. Showcase your savvy by carefully observing your office environment -- and the players who make up the scene -- without getting mired in political pitfalls.

For more advice on keeping a positive political tone at work, download this free career guide: "How to Navigate Office Politics: Your Guide to Getting Ahead" at www.roberthalf.com/bloopers.

Vikings: It's fearful... how? Reality check fearful.. or just because it's uncomfortable to hear??

this is how a liberal thinks

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/pro-obama-ad-has-children-singing-about-an-america-where-sick-people-just-die-oil-fills-the-sea/


And they have the nerve to call conservatives "fear mongers"

Uh ohhhh! Don't look now, but I do believe someone wishes to have a word with you...

Artful Dodger: Don't bother me, I'm very sleepy and have immersed meself in a study of network analysis pertaining to historical relevance of past events (((((i.e. the 60's))))) as may potentially relate to today's presently warming political climate change and hope this won't take too long because it's all I can do right now to keep my eye lids up and peepers in focus.

Obama is a zero,
He is no wartime hero;
And as Allah is his witness
He is working to deplete us

Nero was a zero,
he was no big shot hero;
he thought he was a winner,
but I say he's a wiener.

Artful Dodger: Dan.. If you believe that... you've forgotten how the Bible states "even the righteous sin".

Shall I find for you all the death threats Kevin Smith had over making the film "Dogma" by Christians, thinking they are being righteous in the Lord's name.

Artful Dodger: Like the BNP leader leaking an address of two gay guys, so a 'demonstration can be held by white Christians (I use that word only as the label they use) outside.

.. How Christians "think" they can convert gay people as gay people are not gay, just .. not listening to God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sW5yq9mzSs

Dr Bachmann considers gay people barbarians!!

How do you feel about straightening?

Silvery Moon: Well he likes to wake up in the morning to a post or two of mine that he can debunk.

Artful Dodger: Did you ever think V might have better things to do than talk to YOu?? Like Sleep for instance he's from the Uk so I would expect he's sleeping LoL

Iamon lyme: lol it's only an irrelevant distraction because he can't find examples where those on the Right behave in the same hateful, violent, bigoted ways as those on the Left!

Artful Dodger: [ show me where there is such wide spread abuses from the Right. ]

Maybe later. He's studying past history at the moment and can't be bothered by irrelevant distractions. There is a time for discussion, and a time for study...


Uh oh ... Sensing fits of laughter surfacing within meself, so I shall be excusing meself as well.

(V): Well what I am doing is pointing out the VERY BAD behavior of the Left that is being IGNORED by the MSM because they are in the Left's pockets. AND since there is no one pointing out any CURRENT happenings by the Right that parallel the vile acts of the Left, I guess we're ONLY talking about the Left. If you want to drag the Right into this, let's see some hard CURRENT evidence.

I'll be waiting.

Iamon lyme: True.. I wouldn't if could be bothered to google them. TYT usually has plenty of such cases. But hey... I don't need to, for only a complete lunatic would actually argue that there are those on the right who don't do the same thing..

... when everyone who seriously looks at politics knows it does.

I'm more interested in looking at some older history at the moment. How the French helping the American revolution bankrupted the French and led to the French revolution...

40,000 died by the guillotine, one lot of revolutionaries denouncing the last lot and so on...eventually leading to the military taking over via Napoleon.

.. how the man who invented the small pox vaccine has saved more lives than any other person in history.

(V): If it's not "less bad", then you should have no trouble finding examples to match what AD has shown.

By the way, I saw a newscast about how yard signs supporting Obama were being defaced in a nearby city, and also a report about someone seeing a man urinating on an Obama sign in the same neighborhood. What the news station did NOT report later in the week is that some of those men were caught doing this, and they all lived in the same neighborhood where this was happening.

But here's the kicker... those men were registered Democrats, and one of them was seen in his own front yard defacing his own sign.

Artful Dodger: Nope.

But it does seem you are using bad behaviour by the left, to make out the bad behaviour by the right is less bad.

It's all bs. They should be sent back to school!!

(V): No but it does seem like you are making excuses for the bad behavior of those on the Left.

Artful Dodger: I didn't say it was wide spread. N' I not going around showing you what you already know exists in some shape or form.

(V): show me where there is such wide spread abuses from the Right.

Artful Dodger: In ANY ideology there is gonna be a fraud, or someone who will drop supposed PC behaviour in an moment. It doesn't really matter who champions what!

Your side does it, the other side in America does it, and other get caught in between.

.... On the brighter side... (sarcastic brighter side) the Jimmy Saville (paedophile) business is about to bust wide open. Garry Glitter has been arrested and many more are to come. A dozen plus big name stars are said to be on the verge of being arrested for abusing kids over many years before children got a voice.

The BBC, police, MP's, Prime ministers (Maggie Thatcher) and many other figures and organisations are being looked into over who covered up it all. Many rumours were abound, but Jimmy had friends in high places.

300 plus kids.....

But, it looks like some people who should be jailed never will be.. Time has been bought by those who can assert pressure on the police to delay investigations that date back 4 or 5 years.

<span>Topic started on 25-10-2012 @ 07:35 PM by <span>LadyGreenEyes






This is a collection of several stories that I have read recently,
showing just how desperate the Left is over the election, and to what
lows some
people will stoop to win. It's a historical fact that no incumbent with
poll numbers as low as Obama's has ever won, and even a computer with a
perfect track record predicts a Romney win:



Computer predicts Romney win



So, from all indications, looks like the rules are out the window.



First we have unknown persons from Seattle sending bogus letters to
Florida voters, in what looks like an attempt to smear the GOP down
there:



FBI joins
investigation...



Then there is the polling place in North Carolina that was logging
Romney votes for Obama (and I was under the impression they calibrtated
these
before voting started...):



Machine gave Romney votes to
Obama



Next, we have the son of a Wisconsin state senator beaten by thugs who were trying to steal his Romney/Ryan sign:



Violence
from the left



Moving on, there is the son of a Democratic congressman in Virginia, being investigated for voter fraud:



a family
affair?



There was the case of the DNC delegate stating she wanted to kill Romney, prompting a Secret Service investigation:



....and she's a
delegate...



We also have some New York residents, with Florida addresses, that
attempted to vote twice. Considering the political makeup of most of
those people,
it's a pretty safe bet they were Democrats:



NY snowbirds breaking the rules



There were, of course, the two media instances of Democratic stations
calling the election for Obama, "accidentally", that have already been
discussed here:



Arizona
station


Ohio station



(Kinda hard to miss that one of these is is a seriously important swing state...)



...and there was the Arkansas Democrat that wanted to buy votes:



Votes for vodka



Of course, there are always the ineligible people the Dems like to register:



non-citizens voting in Colorado



...and yes, it's happened
before...



Finally, there is the very biased film being released on NatGeo right
before the election, that even the national Geographic people refused to
accept
certain editing for:



using
SEALS for political gain



I guess when you have done all you can to destroy the economy, tossed
our diplomats to the wolves, and can't debate on anything more important
than
Big Bird, binders, and bayonets (and someone please inform the clown
that the Marines have those as standard issue...), you have to cheat.

(V): But the Left pretends to champion gay causes but in reality there is a catch.

Artful Dodger: So do many a conservative "people of the book". Stating that being Gay is against God.

Whoopee ... people like to find words that hurt when angry.. you ain't discovered anything new. .... Such politics that you have no in America that such is bound to happen in a country made into an "us and them" nation.

pretending to be the victim. It's a standard tactic of some on the Left. Bottom feeders.

CNN’s Don Lemon Questions Erick Erickson About ‘Swatting’ Attacks On Conservative Bloggers
Video
by Alex Alvarez | 4:28 pm, June 8th, 2012
» 189 comments

On Friday, CNN’s Don Lemon spoke with conservative blogger Erick Erickson about “swatting,” or making it appear as if another, targeted person is making fraudulent 911 calls. And, as Lemon warned viewers, the results could be fatal.

.....

Erickson told Lemon he is targeted all the time, but this marks the first time his wife and child are included in someone’s attack. “It’s surreal to hear someone calmly pretend to be me saying they’ve shot my wife and they’re going to shoot someone else,” he shared. Lemon agreed, adding that the call upset him, too.

As it turns out, Erickson continued, one of the officers who arrived at the scene that night recognized him from CNN, and inquired about an “accidental shooting.” Another officer kept his distance, holding his hand over his gun while Erickson’s three-year-old stood nearby. Other officers had the house surrounded.

Swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 9-1-1 dispatcher) into dispatching an emergency response team. The name is derived from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), one type of such team. Such actions are criminal actions.

The Left LOVES to use intimidation tactics to silence those on the Right.

rod03801: http://www.godlessprolifers.org/home.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/11/28/no-god-and-no-abortions.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-life-atheists-invade-the-american-atheist-convention

Just posting to support my contention that the moral argument against abortion is not a religious one.

Vandals Key "Obama" Into Cars

From CBS Los Angeles:

Someone keyed the word “Obama” into two cars and slashed seats in another outside a residence that had Mitt Romney campaign signs.

CBS2 and KCAL9 reporter Rob Schmitt spoke to Ken Slown, owner of one of the keyed vehicles.

Before you feel too outraged by this immature, stupid political hate crime, it gets better:

Slown actually supports President Obama!

He explained to Schmitt that he and his wife — both currently unemployed — are staying with her parents and it’s her parents who support Romney.

Lol! Now, I'm not suggesting the Slowns, both Obama supporters, deserve to have their vehicle vandalized. They don't. But as one who enjoys ironic humor, it is priceless that pro-Obama vandals would damage two vehicles in an anti-Romney attack and both happen to belong to Obama supporters!

Another delicious irony - the only two Obama supporters at the residence happen to be unemployed and living with their mother. So, I guess that "Hope & Change" isn't working out so well for them. One has to wonder why they would continue to support Obama, given their circumstances.

Video report here: http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/214021.php

Look out. For the left has ZERO tolerance for blacks who side with conservative causes. A visit to a black conservative's twitter feed is so very revealing.

These examples of intolerance aren't isolated examples but the Left provides plenty of examples of their bigotry and hate.

All the while blaming others for their own faults.

You know, just like their Messiah, Obama.

And Dan Savage, you know, the darling of the Left who is on an anti-bullying campaign, can't resist calling gays names IF they side with conservative causes.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/212756.php

IF you're a gay conservative, be prepared for some serious gay bashing from your friends on the LEFT. Liberals only like gays who conform.

Where's The Outrage?

From The Daily Caller via Breitbart:

“I was getting ready for work and there was a knock at the door,” Wood emailed The Daily Caller late Wednesday. “I opened it, and a guy wrapped a ligature around my neck, slammed my head into the doorway, and smashed my face into a mirror, telling me ‘You should have kept your [f*******] mouth shut.’”

“He then kidney-punched me, while at the same time saying I was ‘warned,’ and continued to beat me,” he added.

Wood told The Daily Caller that vandalism preceding the assault, along with his attacker’s statements during the incident, suggested his sexual orientation and his politics each played a role.

Wood said his attacker’s reference to a warning likely pointed to graffiti he found painted on his car last week. The vandalism included the phrases “house trained republican faggot,” “traitor,” and “ur like a jew 4 hitler.”

It seems a hate crime is only a hate crime if perpetrated by a conservative against a liberal. The hypocrisy of the left is astounding.

Will the MSM focus on this? No. They are too busy looking for ghosts.

Via Mount Pleasant Patch:

The Tea Party faithful gathered Saturday for a loud and enthusiastic rally aimed at to getting out the vote on Nov. 6 and putting Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in the White House.

A crowd of around 1,000 grew to about 2,500 at the rally, which took place inside the old Sam's Club on Regency West Drive[...]

Before the event could get under way, though, organizers say a truck affixed with "Obama" stickers drove through the parking lot and dumped quantities of nails.

"We went outside and picked up what we could," said Lou D'Abbraccio, holding a cup filled with nails. "But this was just wrong."

Lora Halberstadt, a Tea party member, said the group did call the Racine Police Department to file a report.

rod03801: the guy is a minister so it didn't surprise me the he included the sinner part. But maybe he did that after getting a sense of her receptiveness. But I actually agree with you. I have argued with other Christians and told them moral arguments can stand on their own without mention of God. Proof of this is the site atheists for life.

Artful Dodger: I did take the time to watch that whole thing. Very moving. And I think it cleared up my ambiguity towards abortion. (Never something I supported, but at the same time I thought there might be times when it is ok for certain people. Never a choice I would make, but didn't feel I could make the moral decision for someone else) I would say that I would absolutely support getting rid of roe v wade.

However, I would NOT have watched the whole thing if about 7 minutes of the last 10 minutes had been at the beginning. (The whole heaven/hell bible "stuff" that I find abhorrent, personally) Glad it was at the end, because I would turned it off right away because that stuff annoys me.

Just me, and don't bother trying to say I'm wrong in my non bible stance, because it won't matter. LOL.

But thank you for posting that. Most of it was very thought provoking.

Way to go Democratic party. You're so relevant.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/214017.php

(V): LoL

I will continue to read and post messages, but I leave the soap opera part for others to enjoy.

Iamon lyme: No.

"Pulling fake arguments out of the air and telling people what they think (instead of listening) is what it is."

You do that alot.

(V): Are you saying (or implying) you beat the "real devil"? I don't know if that is what you mean because you are still talking about an imaginary devil... and are blaming your fake devil on people you think are trying to scare others.

I see you have much to say about what you say I and some others say, but don't have much to say about anything actually said. If that's your game then sure, I can bs along with you and make stuff up if it amuses you. I can play along for as long as it amuses me... but truth be told, it doesn't. Pulling fake arguments out of the air and telling people what they think (instead of listening) is what it is.