Friday Open Thread [6.29.12]
Happy Friday!
For everyone going to the beach this weekend, ponder this: the East Coast is thought to have the fastest sea level rise in the world. Not good.
I missed this on Wednesday, but apparently the Rmoney camp met with the WaPo editors to get a retraction on the paper’s reporting about Bain Capital. The reporting that told people who Bain was investing in companies that sent jobs overseas. Working the refs in person, it looks like to me. WaPo won’t be retracting, BTW.
The 25 funniest Obamacare Tweets from Buzzfeed.
Finally, the Bacon Friday entry:
What interests you today?
Downstate philistines to Shakespeare: Get off of my lawn
Don’t f**k with A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Maybe the sheriff can do something about these art ruffians.
Anywhere else, this is how a community becomes upscale and increases its property values. There are communities all over America trying to attract just this sort of thing.
Note to Sussex: This is why we think you are rubes.
Ha ha ha, I never thought I’d see NIMBY applied to Shakespeare. You know these are almost certainly the same people who complain that schools don’t teach enough Shakespeare and too much Tennessee Williams.
No, these are probably the people who ban Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams, and complain there isn’t enough Bible in school. And are now complaining that they have to pay school tax when their kids are no longer in school.
Although the organization has been a part of the acres since the 1930s – decades before Henlopen Acres was a town – and was founded by the wife of the original developer
Coulda been Arden South. I guess the missing ingredient was socialism 🙂
This is one of the richest zip codes in the United States. Per Wiki:
“Henlopen Acres and Greenville (where the DuPont estate is located) are the two richest places in Delaware, all but tied for highest personal incomes, averaging over $80,000 per annum.
Only about one-third of the homes in Henlopen Acres are lived in year-round; the rest are vacation homes or rental properties. In 2000, the least expensive home was valued at $325,000 for real estate tax purposes and the value of all the land in Henlopen Acres was estimated at over $100 million.[4]”
Note the words “for real estate tax purposes.”
Having had business dealings with a few residents of HA, I assure you there are no rubes living there. These are the type of people who look down on the residents of North Bethany.
Methinks something is rotten in the state of Delaware! Don’t they know that all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players?
Love Governor O’Malley – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/29/martin-omalley-health-care-mandate_n_1637581.html
DJIA up almost 300 points today. Thank Europe and SCOTUS.
Off topic. Venus travels on business. Usually solo, or with opposite sex colleague. Boss books separate rooms when solo or opposite sex. Now, new colleague is same sex as me and Boss books one room. I don’t mind dorming, but just wondering is this the norm now? economy and stuff.
Could be, Venus. I’ve never had to share a room with co-workers when on travel because we usually stay at different hotels (points and mileage earning).
I travel for business too. Sometimes I see colleagues of mine dorming because they can save per diems. But I don’t see dorming too often.
My government travel is per diem. Private sector travel has been a pre-paid air/lodging deal. Meals have been discretionary out of the expense account allocated for that job. Nothing ever denied, just the sum total can’t exceed the budgeted number. No refunds or carry-over to us for unused portion, just gratitude I guess. Some of my government per diem sucked because missed breakfast can’t go towards bigger dinner.
But you’re right MJ, the points baby is what I want.
Thanks for the feedback. Five trips so far with new colleague/dormmate. So far so good. But just never had the experience of the doubling up. It’s all good. Thanks.
Oh yeh, one more thing. Next trip is St. Louis. Anybody eat at Sweetie Pie’s or The Upper Crust yet? I’m really wanting to check it out, unless you say PASS. Otherwise, I’ll stick with my BarBQ haunts.
“Anywhere else, this is how a community becomes upscale and increases its property values. There are communities all over America trying to attract just this sort of thing.
Note to Sussex: This is why we think you are rubes.”
I admit to taking some small pleasure in knowing that your ignorance must be kicking your ass on a daily basis. Having been raised down here, and having worked in Henlopen Acres in my formative years, I can confidently say that it is home to some of the most elitist corksuckers on the planet… not unlike yourself, except they have money.
Very few HA residents actually live there, and even less are originally from Sussex County. Most live comfortably on the outskirts of crime infested, third world shitholes, like Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and of course, Wilmington.
We’d love a little Shakespeare over here in Coolspring. Until then, it’s the Possum Point Players.
Rubes with money are the worst kind.