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Pierre Jourde A lire et a faire lire!

Pierre Jourde est romancier ("Paradis noir" sortira chez Gallimard en février), essayiste ("Littérature monstre" vient de paraître) critique littéraire ("La littérature sans estomac") et professeur à l'université de Grenoble III, du moins tant que quelque chose comme l'université existe encore, ça ne devrait pas durer.

Les Palestiniens sont victimes d'une injustice inacceptable. Soit. Depuis soixante ans, sans relâche, les médias du monde entier se focalisent sur ce conflit. On se dit tout de même que la rentabilité injustice/information est très faible, si l'on ne considère que le rapport entre le nombre de morts et la quantité de papiers et d'images déversés sur le monde en général, et les masses arabes en particulier. Même rentabilité faible si l'on prend en compte la quantité de personnes concernées, importante certes, mais moins qu'en d'autres lieux de la planète. Quant aux atrocités commises, n'en parlons pas, une plaisanterie.

Au nombre de morts, de réfugiés, d'horreurs, il y a beaucoup mieux, un peu partout. Remarquons, à titre d'apéritif, qu'avec la meilleure volonté du monde, Tsahal aura du mal à exterminer autant de Palestiniens que l'ont fait, sans états d'âmes, les régimes arabes de la région, notamment la Syrie, le Liban et la Jordanie, qui n'en veulent pas, eux non plus, des Palestiniens, et qui ont peu de scrupules humanitaires lorsqu'il s'agit de s'en débarrasser. Mais Israël est un coupable idéal, non seulement dans nos banlieues, mais en Europe en général. Nous le chargeons de toute notre mauvaise conscience d'anciens colonisateurs. Une poignée de Juifs qui transforme un désert en pays prospère et démocratique, au milieu d'un océan de dictatures arabes sanglantes, de misère, d'islamisme et de corruption, voilà un scandale. Il faut donc bien que cela soit intrinsèquement coupable, sinon où serait la justice ? L'injustice est avant tout israélienne. Ce n'est même pas...

LinkedIn: Spamming in disguise?

I'm member of linkedIn for quite awhile now. Here's a situation that just happened to me and it shows one of the perverse aspect of linkedIn and how it is used to simply spam people and disguise this as building networking.

Few days ago I got an email from one of my first line members on linkedIn. His name is Octavio Pitaluga and his profile present him as "king of the world" with mastery in about everything. So this chap spams me for his new business and that I should go visit his website and arrange a demo session and bla.bla.bla.

I send a response asking to stop receiving this kind of spam and here's the rude answer I got from him:

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....pls break the connection with me on LinkedIN and any other online social network
If we can not communicate, there is no reason to keep any connection at all.
Kindly avoid replying to this msg. Just do what I am asking for right away.
File closed.

Octavio Pitaluga

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So you see, on one hand I am interested to network with people and get to know other interesting people but I certainly don't consider that this give permission to all my contact to start spamming and start sending me emails about their latest product or promotion. Isn't that perverting the idea of networking? Isn't that simply a way not to abide to permission marketing? and finally shouldn't these "super promoter" be banned?

So what's your opinion about this?

Q.  What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?  
A.  It is money that the federal government will send to  taxpayers.
   
Q.  Where will the government get this money?
A.   From taxpayers.
   
Q.  So the government is giving me back my own money?
A.  Only a smidgen.
   
Q.  What is the purpose of this payment?
A.  The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.
   
Q.  But isn't that stimulating the economy of China?
A.  Shut up.   

In all my years of studying douchebaggery, never have i encountered anything like this. It’s such pure and unadulterated douche that I wish I could bottle it and use just a drop of it at a time.

The back story on this is that a girl named Olga was out with her friends in the Marina district of San Francisco (known for being a popular hang out for douches), and she talked to this guy named Dmitri for all of two minutes. Then she gave him her card and said “give me a call.” The above is the messages he left. Listen to the whole thing, it just keeps getting better and better. I won’t even tell you my favorite parts because i don’t want to ruin anything. Just listen.

FIVE MINUTE MANAGEMENT COURSE


Lesson 1:

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings.

The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs.

When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor.

Before she says a word, Bob says, 'I'll give you $800 to drop that towel.'


After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob, after a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.


The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.

When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, 'Who was that?'

'It was Bob the next door neighbor,' she replies.

'Great,' the husband says, 'did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?'
 


Moral of the story:

If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

 
Lesson 2:


A priest offered a Nun a lift.
 
She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg.

The priest nearly had an accident.

After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg..

The nun said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?'

The priest removed his hand But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again.
The nun once again said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?'

The priest apologized 'Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.'

Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, 'Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.'

Moral of the story:
If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.
 


Lesson 3:

A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp.

They rub it and a Genie comes out.
The Genie says, 'I'll give each of you just one wish.'
'Me first! Me first!' says the admin clerk. 'I want to be in the Bahamas , driving a speedboat, without a care in ...