How Stupid Are They?

[robert.]

Several years back. I stopped for some lunch in Georgia.After being seated . My waiter Says " Do you know why Georgia clay is red?" I replied "no" and he hits me with "That's from all the Yankee blood we spilled here" I got up and left.

[HONDO74]

Escaped inmate with skull-face tattoo found in California
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/23/es ... ornia.html

[Tom Dempsey]

Do you suppose he had boobies tattooed on his shoulder blades while he was at it?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Seems a healthy lad. I don't get what he is trying to say about himself with that tattooing? What's the likely message?

Without that unique appearance, he could have perhaps blended in with the surfers, etc. and not been particularly noticed. But with that face, he literally gave himself away - up!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Seems a healthy lad.

maybe on the outside

I don't get what he is trying to say about himself with that tattooing? What's the likely message?

Help me!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

You're an intelligent man, possessed of exceptional insight.

[robert.]

His father was an orthopedic Dr and worked too many hours. All the kid wanted was for his father to spend some time with him. Hence the skeletal tattoo.

[robert.]

extra post.

[webenda]

Thank you Mitch, for starting this stupid thread.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!

Amazon is not the problem... congress and the president are the problems. [opinion]

6:04 AM - Dec 29, 2017

The Postal Service might be able to eke out a profit if it weren't for Congress requiring the agency to pre-fund its retiree health benefits and count them as operating expenses. No other business is burdened with pre-paying retirement for its employees. In fiscal 2016, the Postal Service brought in $69.4 billion in revenue, was liable for $5.8 billion in retiree health benefits and reported a $5.6 billion net loss.

Do the math, President Trump.

Board of Governors

Learn about the nine Governors who are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.=> https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leade ... ernors.htm

The Postal Service is overseen by a board of governors, which has the authority to set policies and rates. The nine governors serve seven-year terms. At the moment, there are nine vacancies, which explains why the board has a bit of a problem assembling a quorum.

Meet the board of governors: => https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leade ... os.htm#p=1

NOTE--The Postmaster General and the Deputy Postmaster General sit on the board of governors but are not members of the board of governors.

As president, Donald Trump has the power (with Senate consent) to appoint members of the Postal Service’s board of governors,

Do your job, President Trump.

[Tom Dempsey]

Do your job, President Trump.

Now dammit Wayne, that might get in the way of his twitter and Fox and Friends viewing time.

[Roy]

Do your job, President Trump.

You've got lots of smarts, but I don't think you understand that rich psychopaths like Trump own the Republican party. You may vote for them, but you have zero input, and zero control, over what the real Republicans want.

So, as for telling Trump what to do, he'll promise you anything, but you'll be lucky to get some table scraps.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The nine governors serve seven-year terms. At the moment, there are nine vacancies, which explains why the board has a bit of a problem assembling a quorum.

Um.......9 members with 9 vacancies...........so no one is in charge at that level,

[up148]

Well, maybe he can use his great negotiating skills to negotiate the USPS into a successful and profitable entity. I truly think the man is totally overwhelmed with the position and I don't think it takes all that much to overwhelm him.

BH

[webenda]

I truly think the man is totally overwhelmed with the position and I don't think it takes all that much to overwhelm him.

BH

No president in recent times has ever tried to do it alone. President Trump has 23 carefully picked advisors in his cabinet, everyone confirmed by the Senate. All he has to do is spend the morning signing (or rejecting) papers presented to him by his cabinet and afternoons tweeting. I am joking to make a point, the President does not do it alone.

I wonder if Cabinet meetings are like "The Apprentice," someone gets fired every time?

I just found in the Congressional Record that the President has nominated 3 people to the USPS board of governors, Calvin R. Tucker, Robert M. Duncan and David Williams.

Found in Congressional Record:

Page D1140
Robert M. Duncan, of Kentucky, to be a Governor of the United States
Postal Service for a term expiring December 8, 2025.
Calvin R. Tucker, of Pennsylvania, to be a Governor of the United
States Postal Service for a term expiring December 8, 2023.
David Williams, of Illinois, to be a Governor of the United States
Postal Service for a term expiring December 8, 2019.
1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.

Page S6866
Adjournment: Senate convened at 3 p.m. and adjourned at 7:39 p.m.,
until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 31, 2017. (For Senate's program, see
the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S6883.)

Reference: https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%2 ... e=expanded

That is a start, now how about 6 more (unless a bill cutting the USPS Board of Governors back to 5 is passed, then 2 more.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

No president in recent times has ever tried to do it alone. President Trump has 23 carefully picked advisors in his cabinet, everyone confirmed by the Senate. All he has to do is spend the morning signing (or rejecting) papers presented to him by his cabinet and afternoons tweeting.

That all presumes them to actually be competent in their positions..... History has shown that to be dubious.

I wonder if Cabinet meetings are like "The Apprentice," someone gets fired every time?

Surely you have not already forgotten Tom Price?

I just found in the Congressional Record that the President has nominated 3 people to the USPS board of governors, Calvin R. Tucker, Robert M. Duncan and David Williams.

Any actually specifically voted on and confirmed?