Don't you actually have to accomplish worthwhile something prior to winning an award? He can't even negotiate a health care plan when he and his party control the Presidency and both houses of Congress.

The award has lost all meaning. I remember when Mother Teresa won and even when Gorbachev won, now it is just another award, kind of like when celebrities pay to have their hame on the sidewalk.

Too funny! I'd <3 to hear that play called.

NATO is EU light (almost the same membership), but with the US paying all the bills. Back in the 80's NATO meant something, now it's mainly a bunch of whiners who think that butterflies will keep the Iranian, Pakistani and Indian nukes from flying.

Really... Read this
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pub...

It's very enlightening after the happenings in Afghanistan over the last weeks.

Any 'atta boy' by NATO should be seen by Americans as a heads up that we just screwed ourselves.

You know, the Post Office gets a bad rap, but when you think about it, I can send a letter from Florida to San Francisco for 44¢ in about four days. That's not such a bad deal. UPS can do the same thing overnight for about $30, but if I don't need it there by 10:30 the next day, the post office will get it there reliably, in one piece, but for about 1.5% of what UPS does it for.

I used to work for UPS (about 15 years ago) and was incredulous with the amount of packages we would handle in a night (~200K) passing through the Orlando hub, particularly during the holidays. But the post office handles about 562M pieces of mail a ~day~. I can send my Netflix DVD back and get a new one in two days; one day each way. The clerks at the counters aren't always the friendliest, but my carrier is a sweetheart.

Perhaps stopping the Saturday deliveries, closing all those tiny branches and stop the outrageous retirement benefit wagon train would allow the post office to return to profitability, and I'm all for privatizing the USPS, but until congress approves these changes and many more, the post office is hamstrung.

You better tell your candidate that the interview will be at least two hours BEFORE the inteview. I am looking for a position now, but I am employed. I take personal/vacation time to go to interviews. If you don't tell me up front the interview is going to take at least two hours, then I am going to decline the extra work exercise you describe in your interview process. If has nothing to do with how flexible I am, but common courtesy. I've made arrangements to be out of work for a set amount of time, but now you want me change that on a dime? No. When you are my employer, then you get to do that, but not when you're just testing me.

That seems rather condescending on your part as well, like your time is somehow more valuable than mine?