Is There A Better Way to Explain the B2B Problem?

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Friday February 18, 2011 · 6:44 AM PST

2011/02/18 · 06:44

I watched Jeffrey Leonard on the Colbert Report last night
(http://www.colbertnation.com/...) and read his Washington Monthly feature this morning
(http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/...) which discusses how large coroporations are waiting 2, 3, or 4 months to pay invoices instead of 1 month, and how that affects their small business vendors. I'm very happy to see someone addressing this issue, and agree with Mr. Leonard's arguments. But I don't think he frames the problem in terms that most people can relate.

I am a small business owner. In fact, I am the smallest type of business -- a one person operation, who does freelance website and software programming for design and marketing agencies. 2010 was, by far, my most productive year in terms of billed work. But in 2010 I generated, by far, the least amount of revenue. And while I'm still working/billing at a high level, I'm having trouble paying the bills. None of my clients are large corporations, but the issue Mr. Leonard describes affects me just the same.

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Wednesday May 13, 2009 · 8:00 AM PDT

2009/05/13 · 08:00

Update: I see a lot of angry comments saying that I'm focusing on this when I shouldn't be. I agree that it shouldn't be the issue, and it's a distraction. But my point was that The Daily Show, which is watched by millions and is widely respected among liberals, just legitamized this. And TDS got it wrong. To me, that is an issue.

The whole segment was so odd, that I had assumed there must be something else out there that proved their point. Apparently not.

Last night, when The Daily Show began its segment on Pelosi, I figured "If a Democratic leader is getting hit even on The Daily Show, she must have lied."

But watching the clips they used, I couldn't find the inconsistency. And after watching the full source videos:

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Sunday May 10, 2009 · 6:42 PM PDT

2009/05/10 · 18:42

I apologize if this has been covered in detail at DailyKos before (which it almost certainly has) but I've been looking around and couldn't find much written about it recently, here or elsewhere. And even if it has been covered here recently, I think it's good to be reminded that the reason the Bush Administration approved these interrogation techniques is not because they didn't consider it torture. They approved these techniques because they were less likely to leave physical evidence. That seems to be a huge piece of the story missing in the media.

It's something I've thought obvious for a long time, but in the month since more details about the Bush-approved interrogation techniques emerged, there's been little discussion in the media about why these specific techniques were approved, other than to repeatedly assert that they're somehow more "humane" than other forms of torture. Which they aren't.

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Saturday May 09, 2009 · 7:36 AM PDT

2009/05/09 · 07:36

(Updated the title. After reviewing this, it read like I'm disparaging golf and golfers, in general. I'm not -- I love watching and playing golf!)

It appears a bit of an outrage has started over David Feherty's assassination "joke."

Let me first say, as someone who loves watching golf, that I would not be at all upset if he gets canned over this. He's always trying to make jokes or stir things up, but he comes off as clumsy and weird. For a recent example of how awful he is, watch this awkward exchange between Feherty and Tiger Woods. Out of context, it may seem just stupid and harmless, but believe me -- it was cringe-inducing to watch live, as at the time there was an intense, close match nearing completion, and Woods had just finished a frustrating round.

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Friday April 24, 2009 · 6:33 AM PDT

2009/04/24 · 06:33

I'm sure this diary is repeating what many other diarists have already said. But I don't think it can be said enough. To repeat for the millionth time, and which will hopefully be repeated a million more:

Bush/Cheney ordered the torture of prisoners in an attempt to generate false information, in order to help start a war which killed hundreds of thousands of people.

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Monday April 20, 2009 · 6:47 PM PDT

2009/04/20 · 18:47

In 2004, it set my teeth on edge whenever I heard something along the lines of, "If Bush gets re-elected, I'm moving to Canada!" Because you knew that person was not going anywhere*. It was an empty threat made (mostly) by people who weren't interested enough to get active in politics, but were angry dammit.

That was nothing compared to the non-stop cowardly threats we're getting from Republicans and Libertarian/Republicans.

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Tuesday April 14, 2009 · 8:02 PM PDT

2009/04/14 · 20:02

I don't mean that as "We should be doing something to stop them!" I mean that as an honest yes/no question. Is pointing and laughing all we really need to do at this point?

They've spent the last few decades slicing-and-dicing the electorate, grabbing 50.1% here and 50.1% there, telling true believers what they wanted to hear, etc. And after all that, they exposed themselves to the country as not a party of ideas, but a party of cynical marketing strategies.

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Is There A Better Way to Explain the B2B Problem?

Updated: Pelosi on torture briefings - was she inconsistent?

Just a reminder of why these torture techniques were chosen

Feherty likely heard that from certain PGA golfers, not the military

The worst thing any American President has done, ever.

Sick of these empty threats

Should we just point and laugh?