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July 10, 2013 Hour 2
TYT website poll on cops shooting Rosby’s dog – the audience is with Cenk and thinks it was ok. NYC woman turns 100 and gets local news interview. Woman skinny dips in man’s pool, while he watches and her boyfriend robs his house. Telecom companies are making money charging the government for wiretaps. Study comparing what rappers make compared to what they claim to make. George Zimmerman trial. There is evidence that Trayvon Martin was very close or on top of Zimmerman when Zimmerman shot him. On his Facebook page Zimmerman wrote disparaging comments about Mexicans. List of bullets points to warehouse managers about how to handle Mexican workers. New UN study says the US is not the most obese country anymore. Texas about to pass severe abortion restrictions. A Texas woman speaking in the legislature speaks out against them, on video, then the law enforcement officials take her out.
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How come that’s not on the list? O_o
Cenk thinks there are lots of Pacific Islanders in Australia, jeez….how are Americans so ignorant about everything outside of America…it’s really sad.
I am not defending the rest of the list but my experience in Florida is that some Hispanics (don’t knoewif they were Mexicans) tend to say yes, even if they have no clue what you are talking about. For example, when I returned my rental on holiday in Florida, I said “I’m returning the car”. Answer: No habla inglese, luckily my bit of italian saved me with my reply”retorno i machina. Once I stayed at the Hilton in Miami and I wanted extra towels. I asked the roommaid,”can I get a few more towels”? Yes. Nothing. I pointed at her cart and she finally understood. In Florida they have tolbooths on the highway. I asked at the booth if this is the way to Orlando. Yes was the answer. Turns out it was not and I had to pay twice for nothing. I guess this is anekdotal but it is what is is….
Not well educated, I don’t know, but certainly not well educated in English.
Sorry guys, but listening to Anna discuss diet is as painful as listening to Cenk discuss biology.
As a reformed fatty, I can testify that the diet matters much more than the exercise. When I would try to just exercise more (at one point I was running >15 miles a day) without fixing my diet, I would lose a portion of the weight and then plateau at a fairly high weight (~270 pounds). When I earnestly tried to fix my diet, I lost 130 pounds in less than a year, with a much less intense cardio regimen. The thing that’s driving obesity in these countries is the proliferation of low-fiber, processed foods with added sugar, the same thing that drives obesity here. Liquid sugar, as discussed, is a huge contributor as well. Most of the food for sale, even at grocery stores, is borderline poison. Factory farmed meat is disastrous in many different, individually horrible ways, and many things that advertise themselves as healthy (yogurt, for instance) contain massive amounts of added sugar, which further compounds insulin resistance and makes obesity worse. That said, exercise is essential for peak health, and it is still helpful in weight loss, it is just not the primary determinative factor.
I meant >15 miles a week.
On the Target warehouse story: points 1 to 5 are ridiculous. The whole list is ridiculous actually. However, point 6 actually points to some truth. Based on research in cultural economics, Mexico has a much more collectivist culture, which means that Mexicans are more likely to pretend to understand something and not admit that they didn’t hear or get it, because it is important to preserve a professional exterior. If you look at Hofstede’s Dimensions you can see the difference between Mexico and the U.S. in that regard. So… if you are an organization, there is some value in pointing this out to your managers because it changes the way you ask certain questions. For example, you wouldn’t ask “can you do this?” but you would ask the less confrontational “what do you think you need to do this?”
However, again, the list as a whole is embarrassingly. Just thought I would make that point.
The story about the wiretaps is a bit of a red herring. What the government spends on those phone companies is probably a drop in the bucket compared with the money spent on the NSA employees, the technology, IT vendors and the whole infrastructure to support it. There is a lot of tax money spent on this and it’s outrageous, but the money paid to Verizon is the least of it.
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