Comments by Bobby Tony | Eastern NC Now

Your wish is granted, grasshopper.

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Commented: Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 @ 3:57 pm By: Bobby Tony

I do not think the horse is dead yet, so here is another VENN chart to beat on the carcass. This one is based on the political spectrum. This election has become more confusing as it progresses for me. It points up how out of touch I apparently am with the rest of the populace. It reminds me of basic training cadence count.

Here we go again
Same old stuff again
Marching down the avenue
Few more days and we'll be though
I won't have to look at you
So, I'll be glad and so will you

GET IN STEP BOBBY TONY OR YOU WILL BE RUNNING ALL DAY

Commented: Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 @ 7:23 am By: Bobby Tony

I use a personal VENN diagram to plot the candidates' views within my hot buttons. I still have software that I used during my working career. This is not that chart I use but it offers some view of the positions of each candidate. Generally, the VENN chart is useful for finding the overlap where candidate qualifications and policies more closely match your own. Alex J. Ortolano has an excellent blog on over analyzing the political process. As usual, the whole thing is subjective and really is a gut check for over analyzed opinions.



fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/donald-trump-is-the-nickelback-of-gop-candidates/

Commented: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016 @ 7:17 pm By: Bobby Tony

I was just being a bit facetious with the dart comment based on a YouTube video I saw recently in my automation searches. Since I was operating on IPhone mobile, I did not take time to look up the original source video. It is a takeoff on the old James Bond Goldfinger, which as I remember correctly would allow James to stop for a quick one while tracking. Sorry, I did not men to step on your comment: Here is the video link:

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Commented: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016 @ 12:46 pm By: Bobby Tony

Every person is issued a small dart gun with GPS monitor and RFI. If they see an idiot in a car making serious traffic violations, They shoot the dart into the trunk.
The Hov-Hot lanes are reprogrammed to accept the signal and alert the gestapo ugh , I mean police.
The cops track and pull over anyone with three darts and make a polo-citizen arrest. I may qualify for the SWMIIT or YMIIT club?

Commented: Monday, February 22nd, 2016 @ 3:47 pm By: Bobby Tony

Update on Atlanta traffic. Inquiring minds want to know.
Which Peachtree did I say? That doesn't make any difference they all eventually end up crossing each other. If you see the Big Chicken, you have gone too far North. Keep an eye out for Yankees and make a U-turn heading south. If you see the Varsity sign, you are almost there.

Commented: Saturday, February 20th, 2016 @ 2:04 pm By: Bobby Tony

I was not precise in my comment. The "your" was referring to TMAC's choice. Tonight and tomorrow will be interesting as the rumors are now spreading about Jeb's campaign. This reminds me of grammar school talk about those kids not chosen on the first round of picks for playground games.

Commented: Saturday, February 20th, 2016 @ 1:47 pm By: Bobby Tony

I am refraining from commenting on your choice because there may be a few people from Chicago driving through North Carolina on the way to vote in South Carolina and I don't want to influence their vote in this crucial primary.

I also am waiting to declare my vote on March 1, in Georgia in case the field narrows down by then. That is all I have to say about that.

Commented: Saturday, February 20th, 2016 @ 12:40 pm By: Bobby Tony

The media is playing it up for ratings as usual, I read the transcript and saw a full clip it and he left himself some wiggle room unlike the Donald.

Tomorrow night will be interesting and I guess NC will be in turmoil pending the court decisions.

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Commented: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 3:08 pm By: Bobby Tony

I apologize, I can't give The Donald a 1/8 pass for his comments on the Pope. For those who are getting their info in clips, do some research on exactly what the Pope said and the premise of the question asked.

However, I do think the Pope should stick to his calling and stay away from secular pronouncements.

Commented: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 1:40 pm By: Bobby Tony

As in Nuance = distinction. The style of each is my indicator: Ted is "geared" for a fight, Marco seems to prefer a "calmer approach", and Ben is like the adult just asking us to take a step back and see what we have allowed to be created. To each his own.

Commented: Wednesday, February 17th, 2016 @ 4:26 pm By: Bobby Tony

Do not misinterpret my lack of donation to Ted Cruz as a negative. I am just waiting to see how the tree shakes out. The site below shows the amount donated to each campaign and if you click on a given name, it will show the areas with the highest donations. North East, Florida, Texas and California are the biggest sources of Money it appears.

Cruz and Carson are about even according to this. Feel free to use this post to make comments regarding any or all candidates or issues.

www.fec.gov

Commented: Tuesday, February 16th, 2016 @ 12:47 pm By: Bobby Tony

I remember it well and used to eat there often. One location was on Piedmont and Lindbergh and the dinner place just before going to the Great Southeast Music Hall in Broadview Plaza (Now Lindbergh Plaza). Prime Rib was the mainstay.

Commented: Sunday, February 14th, 2016 @ 5:44 pm By: Bobby Tony

Is this the same guy that invented those plastic orange cones? I'll bet that most of his mail was postmarked somewhere in Atlanta. They could save a lot of money if they would just make them out of concrete and paint them orange since we never seem to finish the road work in this city.

Commented: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 @ 6:07 pm By: Bobby Tony

"The tombstone is Levi S Carnine, a figure of local Civil War significance in his own right and a representative of the more than 90,000 African-Americans who were part of the Confederate war machine".

www.countygenweb.com

Commented: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 @ 5:31 pm By: Bobby Tony

People don't believe me when I say that my High School Geometry class had a granite fireplace. My teacher Wilfred Boykin never let us light a fire in the fireplace, but he did send me to the hall many times to inspect for cracks in the granite. I never found any cracks but that was long ago and far away. The building has been replaced with the new building that is the Clarkston Library but I bet it is full of crack.

I wish I had paid more attention in that old rock building and I never took the time to apologize to Mr. Boykin for my teenage pranks. He was a dedicated teacher and could have taught in a tent.

Commented: Monday, February 8th, 2016 @ 6:16 am By: Bobby Tony

The CBS news report echo's my experience. When I retired in 2004 and for many years before that, the basic requirement for hiring any customer service job or clerical position was a college degree. While it was not implicitly stated as such, the reason was twofold. A college degree indicated that the applicant had some ambition to advance and secondly, four years of college meant four years away from juvenile attitudes. The interview process was brutal as well with multiple interviews by different management disciplines within the company. While our product was an engineered product, the company felt that the basic engineering concepts could be taught and we had in place a internal technical training course to bring customer service people up to speed.

Applicants for field sales went through a one-year Captains program before ever being assigned a field sales position. The program covered technical training as well as presentation skills, problem solving and industry specific training.
I often thought that the reason they could have such a rigorous entry criteria was because there was a vast audience of college educated applicants to chose from. It was also to protect the investment in new hires. The company estimated that it spent $50K per new hire in training and orientation and it was an ongoing process of education in new products and processes.

Over 80% of the manufacturing plant hires were college or two year technical school graduates since almost all of our production machinery was state of the art CNC or other automated equipment.

I can only guess as to the non-technical and non-manufacturing sector requirements for employment. Greenville, S.C. had plenty of applicants to chose from as well.

Commented: Sunday, February 7th, 2016 @ 7:06 pm By: Bobby Tony