Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Best Rock Bands

1
54,978 34,855
The Beatles is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Abbey Road, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2
57,154 29,940
Led Zeppelin is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin II
3
36,159 27,857
The Rolling Stones is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St., Sticky Fingers
4
59,805 19,799
Queen is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
A Night at the Opera, Queen, Innuendo
5
44,829 25,572
Pink Floyd is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The Wall, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
6
26,080 21,677
The Who is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Who's Next, Tommy, Quadrophenia
7
34,204 21,434
AC/DC is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Back in Black, Highway to Hell, Let There Be Rock
8
23,159 20,406
The Doors is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The Doors, L.A. Woman, Strange Days
9
28,360 16,768
Jimi Hendrix is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
First Rays of the New Rising Sun, Band of Gypsys, Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection
10
29,217 25,663
Nirvana is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Nevermind, In Utero, MTV Unplugged in New York
11
23,771 19,050
Eagles is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Hotel California, Eagles Greatest Hits, Volume 2
12
25,069 21,655
Metallica is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning, Metallica
13
17,786 22,460
U2 is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The Joshua Tree, War, Achtung Baby
14
26,345 18,412
Guns N' Roses is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Appetite for Destruction, G N' R Lies, Use Your Illusion I
15
21,695 18,488
Aerosmith is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Toys in the Attic, Pump, Permanent Vacation
16
20,612 14,328
Creedence Clearwater Revival is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Green River, Cosmo's Factory, Willy and the Poor Boys
17
21,849 15,415
Black Sabbath is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Paranoid, Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell
18
19,299 13,832
David Bowie is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Hunky Dory, Diamond Dogs
19
14,529 15,738
The Beach Boys is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Pet Sounds, Surfin' USA, Ultimate Christmas
20
17,171 14,161
Van Halen is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Van Halen, 1984, Diver Down
21
15,131 10,386
Fleetwood Mac is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Rumours, Fleetwood Mac, Tango in the Night
22
13,392 12,142
Bob Dylan is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
prostoemail97 added Highway 61 Revisited, Blood on the Tracks, Blonde on Blonde
23
12,734 11,239
The Police is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Synchronicity, Ghost in the Machine, Zenyattà Mondatta
24
15,913 10,779
Eric Clapton is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
461 Ocean Boulevard, Crossroads, Pilgrim
25
15,722 10,796
Lynyrd Skynyrd is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
(pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd), Second Helping, Gold
26
11,2599,951
Cream is listed (or ranked) 26 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
CreamDisraeli Gears, The Very Best of Cream, Fresh Cream
27
17,80811,360
Elvis Presley is listed (or ranked) 27 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Elvis PresleyJailhouse Rock, The Sun Sessions, From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential '60s Masters
28
12,78610,130
Deep Purple is listed (or ranked) 28 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Deep PurpleMachine Head, Live in Japan, Deep Purple in Rock
29
15,62713,165
Rush is listed (or ranked) 29 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
RushMoving Pictures, 2112, Hemispheres
30
12,0548,693
Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker is listed (or ranked) 30 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersThe Last DJ, Damn the Torpedoes, Into the Great Wide Open
31
18,47614,713
Red Hot Chili Peppers is listed (or ranked) 31 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Red Hot Chili PeppersCalifornication, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Stadium Arcadium
32
13,01510,511
Pearl Jam is listed (or ranked) 32 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Pearl JamTen, Vs., Vitalogy
33
9,89410,864
Bruce Springsteen is listed (or ranked) 33 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Bruce SpringsteenBorn to Run, Born in the U.S.A., The Rising

34
10,5719,522
Journey is listed (or ranked) 34 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
JourneyEscape, Frontiers, Evolution
35
9,9347,693
Dire Straits is listed (or ranked) 35 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Dire StraitsBrothers in Arms, Dire Straits, Making Movies
36
10,04810,894
The Clash is listed (or ranked) 36 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The ClashLondon Calling, The Clash, Black Market Clash
37
9,6878,091
The Kinks is listed (or ranked) 37 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The KinksThe Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur (or The Decline and Fall of the British Empire), The Kink Kronikles
38
11,66312,562
Radiohead is listed (or ranked) 38 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
RadioheadKid A, OK Computer, The Bends
39
10,1459,504
ZZ Top is listed (or ranked) 39 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
ZZ TopTres Hombres, Eliminator, Rio Grande Mud
40
12,27212,058
Green Day is listed (or ranked) 40 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Green DayAmerican Idiot, Dookie, 21st Century Breakdown
41
12,0759,838
Foo Fighters is listed (or ranked) 41 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Foo FightersWasting Light, The Colour and the Shape, Foo Fighters
42
9,9668,241
Iron Maiden is listed (or ranked) 42 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
BaruchLalaev added
Iron MaidenThe Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden, Powerslave
43
8,9359,740
Ramones is listed (or ranked) 43 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
RamonesRamones, Rocket to Russia, End of the Century


44
9,5047,377
Simon and Garfunkel is listed (or ranked) 44 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Simon and GarfunkelBridge Over Troubled Water, Sounds of Silence, Bookends
45
7,3727,297
Genesis is listed (or ranked) 45 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
GenesisThe Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Genesis, Foxtrot
46
8,5778,337
R.E.M. is listed (or ranked) 46 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
R.E.M.Murmur, Green, Automatic for the People
47
11,4748,505
John Lennon is listed (or ranked) 47 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
John LennonImagine, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Double Fantasy
48
9,4577,511
Chuck Berry is listed (or ranked) 48 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Chuck BerryThe Great Twenty-Eight, Maybellene, Two Great Guitars
49
9,1448,038
Bon Jovi is listed (or ranked) 49 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Bon JoviSlippery When Wet, New Jersey, Cross Road
50
7,1927,391
The Allman Brothers Band is listed (or ranked) 50 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The Allman Brothers BandAt Fillmore East, Beginnings, Eat a Peach
51
7,4826,720
Boston is listed (or ranked) 51 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
BostonBoston, Greatest Hits, Third Stage
52
8,2457,459
Def Leppard is listed (or ranked) 52 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Def LeppardHysteria, Pyromania, On Through the Night
53
8,6067,440
Neil Young is listed (or ranked) 53 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Neil YoungHarvest, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush

54
6,9126,868
Scorpions is listed (or ranked) 54 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
ScorpionsBlackout, Love at First Sting, Animal Magnetism
55
7,3307,487
Billy Joel is listed (or ranked) 55 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Billy JoelThe Stranger, Piano Man, 52nd Street
56
8,4789,588
Kiss is listed (or ranked) 56 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
KissDestroyer, Icon, Revenge
57
6,0075,746
Heart is listed (or ranked) 57 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
HeartDreamboat Annie, Little Queen, Heart
58
7,1639,035
Michael Jackson is listed (or ranked) 58 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Michael JacksonThriller, Bad, Off the Wall
59
7,6205,876
Santana is listed (or ranked) 59 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
SantanaAbraxas, Supernatural, Legacy Edition
60
5,9536,679
Jethro Tull is listed (or ranked) 60 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Jethro TullAqualung, The Jethro Tull Christmas Album, Thick as a Brick
61
8,6947,392
Ozzy Osbourne is listed (or ranked) 61 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Ozzy OsbourneBlizzard of Ozz, Diary of a Madman, The Ultimate Sin
62
5,7185,817
Janis Joplin is listed (or ranked) 62 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Janis JoplinPearl, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Greatest Hits
63
5,4495,626
Steve Miller Band is listed (or ranked) 63 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Steve Miller BandFly Like an Eagle, Book of Dreams, Young Hearts

4,9815,721
Talking Heads is listed (or ranked) 64 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Talking HeadsStop Making Sense, Remain in Light, Fear of Music
65
6,1755,319
Stevie Ray Vaughan is listed (or ranked) 65 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Stevie Ray VaughanCouldn't Stand the Weather, In Step, Texas Flood
66
5,9466,295
Yes is listed (or ranked) 66 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
YesFragile, Close to the Edge, 90125
67
5,7075,565
Foreigner is listed (or ranked) 67 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Foreigner4, Complete Greatest Hits, Agent Provocateur
68
5,7214,850
Buddy Holly is listed (or ranked) 68 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Buddy HollyBuddy, 20 Golden Greats, What You Been A-Missin': What You've Been A-Missin'
69
5,0815,595
Chicago is listed (or ranked) 69 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
ChicagoChicago Transit Authority, Chicago II, Chicago Christmas: What's It Gonna Be
70
4,3746,703
The Velvet Underground is listed (or ranked) 70 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The Velvet UndergroundThe Velvet Underground & Nico, Loaded, The Velvet Underground
71
6,1975,154
Electric Light Orchestra is listed (or ranked) 71 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Electric Light OrchestraOut of the Blue, Time, A New World Record
72
5,4775,030
Soundgarden is listed (or ranked) 72 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
SoundgardenSuperunknown, Badmotorfinger, Down on the Upside
73
7,4994,581
Paul McCartney is listed (or ranked) 73 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Paul McCartneyFlaming Pie, Ram, McCartney

74
5,0946,162
Grateful Dead is listed (or ranked) 74 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Grateful DeadAmerican Beauty, Europe '72 (disc 1), Aoxomoxoa
75
5,8805,740
Alice Cooper is listed (or ranked) 75 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Alice CooperWelcome to My Nightmare, Hey Stoopid, Brutal Planet
76
4,5565,198
Steely Dan is listed (or ranked) 76 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Steely DanPretzel Logic, Aja, Countdown to Ecstasy
77
5,0786,253
The Smashing Pumpkins is listed (or ranked) 77 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The Smashing PumpkinsSiamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Oceania
78
4,7495,444
The Cure is listed (or ranked) 78 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The CureDisintegration, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Boys Don’t Cry
79
4,6135,492
Styx is listed (or ranked) 79 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
StyxThe Grand Illusion, Paradise Theatre, Pieces of Eight
80
3,7312,996
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is listed (or ranked) 80 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
AntónioDias added
Crosby, Stills, NashDéjà vu, 4 Way Street, Crosby
81
5,8656,847
Oasis is listed (or ranked) 81 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Oasis(What's the Story) Morning Glory?, Definitely Maybe, Don’t Believe the Truth
82
4,6287,490
Coldplay is listed (or ranked) 82 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
ColdplayA Rush of Blood to the Head, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, Parachutes
83
4,2024,232
Blondie is listed (or ranked) 83 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
BlondieParallel Lines, Heart of Glass, Blondie

84
5,9385,910
Alice in Chains is listed (or ranked) 84 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Alice in ChainsDirt, Alice in Chains, Facelift
85
4,6444,376
The Cars is listed (or ranked) 85 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The CarsCandy-O, The Cars, Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology
86
4,0964,444
The Yardbirds is listed (or ranked) 86 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The YardbirdsOver Under Sideways Down, Gold, The Very Best Of
87
3,9425,298
The Band is listed (or ranked) 87 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The BandThe Band, Music From Big Pink, The Last Waltz
88
4,4124,819
Bad Company is listed (or ranked) 88 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Bad CompanyBad Company, What You Hear Is What You Get: The Best of Bad Company, Burnin' Sky
89
4,3384,346
Jefferson Airplane is listed (or ranked) 89 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Jefferson AirplaneSurrealistic Pillow, Volunteers, Bark
90
5,5193,972
George Harrison is listed (or ranked) 90 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
George HarrisonAll Things Must Pass, Cloud Nine, Living in the Material World
91
4,3426,374
Sex Pistols is listed (or ranked) 91 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Sex PistolsNever Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle
92
3,7424,114
Supertramp is listed (or ranked) 92 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
SupertrampBreakfast in America, Crime of the Century, Even in the Quietest Moments…
93
7,2147,214
Linkin Park is listed (or ranked) 93 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
asti_budiastuti added
Linkin ParkHybrid Theory, Living Things, Meteora

94
3,9914,339
The Moody Blues is listed (or ranked) 94 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The Moody BluesDays of Future Passed, Long Distance Voyager, In Search of the Lost Chord
95
4,4545,280
Kansas is listed (or ranked) 95 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
KansasPoint of Know Return, Leftoverture, Kansas
96
4,2331,485
The Jimi Hendrix Experience is listed (or ranked) 96 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
The Jimi Hendrix ExperienceElectric Ladyland, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love
97
5,1676,128
Rage Against the Machine is listed (or ranked) 97 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Rage Against the MachineRage Against the Machine, Evil Empire, The Battle of Los Angeles
98
3,5814,550
Cheap Trick is listed (or ranked) 98 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Cheap TrickCheap Trick at Budokan, In Color, Dream Police
99
4,5654,660
Blue Öyster Cult is listed (or ranked) 99 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time
Blue Öyster CultAgents of Fortune, Tyranny and Mutation, Fire of Unknown Origin
100
3,8703,886
Wings is listed (or ranked) 100 on the list The Best Rock Bands of All Time

Will the Economy in 2020 Roar or Whimper?

Let's face it: 2019 is going to be a hard year to beat -- stocks and 401(k) plans up more than 25% on average, wage gains of 3% to 5%, 7 million surplus jobs and the lowest unemployment and inflation rates in nearly 50 years. That's a lot to celebrate. Booms like this don't happen by accident. The imperative is for Republicans to connect the dots between this banner year for the middle class and tax cuts, deregulation policies and pro-America energy production initiatives. So, will 2020 continue the winning streak? The only thing that we know for sure is that economists don't know for sure. I'll include myself in that category. The best I can do is provide reasons for optimism and reasons for pessimism. The case for optimism: No. 1: America has scored two big wins on the trade front. The biggest risk since President Donald Trump entered office was a freeze-up of the global trading system because of Trump tariffs. Now, with the concluding of the trade deal with Canada and Mexico and a very positive outlook for a trade win in the tariff wars against China, investors are bullish. The China deal takes an escalation of tariffs off the table for 2020. No. 2: The Federal Reserve is finally getting it right. A year ago, the Fed torpedoed the economy and the stock market fell by 2,500 points while GDP growth and investment stalled out. Now rates are lower, there is more dollar liquidity, and we have price stability with very little risk of inflation. CARTOONS | AF Branco View Cartoon No. 3: Trump tax cuts are working. The tax cuts have been a spectacular success in terms of job creation, wage hikes, profits and GDP growth. The chance of those tax cuts going away in 2020 is close to zero. If anything, we might see another small tax cut. In sum, the policy goals are turned toward growth. No. 4: Washington will be paralyzed with partisan gridlock in 2020. Good. When things are going well, less is more. So, what could go wrong? Here are four things to worry about: No. 1: The China trade deal could blow up. Beijing could back out (they've done it before), or they could start cheating. If either happens, Trump hammers them with more tariffs and we are back in a trade war. No. 2: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, oh my! If markets start anticipating that any of these anti-growth candidates will win, stocks will tumble. If Trump loses, then we are talking Green New Deal, "Medicare for All," capital gains taxes, wealth taxes and the end of the Trump tax cuts. To say this would be harmful to growth and stocks is a vast understatement. And if Trump loses to one of these candidates, the market could collapse. No. 3: The global economy could stay flat. It's been stalled out for the last year or two, and if growth doesn't boost in Europe and elsewhere, it's going to negatively impact U.S. growth. We can't keep carrying the world economy on our shoulders. No. 4: The housing bubble could burst again. Don't look now, but Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are up to their old tricks, providing near-100% loan guarantees on 2-3% down payment loans. If housing values fall, defaults will soar, as they did in 2008 and 2009. Amazingly, the government has learned none of the lessons from the last housing meltdown. On balance, I'm with the bulls for 2020. Just don't expect 25% gains again this year.

The bottom line is that the new racism, born in academia, is just as ugly as the old racism.

A voter may dislike a black, homosexual or female candidate, but it’s not likely that he would openly admit it. However, diversity-crazed leftist/progressive Democrats have openly condemned the physical characteristics of some of their 2020 presidential candidates. Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are be leading the polls despite the fact that they have been condemned as old white men. While Pete Buttigieg is homosexual, something that pleases diversity crazies, he is also a white man, young and religious. With Kamala Harris’ departure from the race, the Democratic field has lost one of its persons of color. Another, Senator Cory Booker, stands at 2% in the polls; his days are numbered. That means the only Democratic candidates polling high are those condemned as old white people — two men and one woman, Elizabeth Warren. LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter, said she was initially eager for Joe Biden to enter the race but now has second thoughts. Brown said: “I’m over white men running the country. I don’t know if him (sic) getting in changes the field. He has name recognition, but his strength is also his weakness.” Former presidential candidate Howard Dean lamented, “If we have two old white guys at the top of this ticket, we will lose.” The newest entry into the presidential sweepstakes, Michael Bloomberg, had to apologize for what some see as his diversity insensitiveness namely that of calling fellow presidential candidate Cory Booker “well-spoken” in a TV interview. The New Jersey senator said he was “taken aback” by what he saw as Bloomberg’s racist “trope.” Michael Moore gave us his racist warning: “Two-thirds of all white guys voted for Trump. That means anytime you see three white guys walking at you, down the street toward you, two of them voted for Trump. You need to move over to the other sidewalk because these are not good people that are walking toward you. You should be afraid of them.” This is the new racism, much of it learned and taught at our nation’s colleges. George Orwell said, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” The stupid ideas about inclusion and diversity originate with academics on college campuses. If their ideas didn’t infect the rest of society, they might be a source of entertainment. But these cancerous ideas have infected society. Statements such as “I’m over white men running the country,” or “If we have two old white guys at the top of this ticket, we will lose” are examples of that cancer. Last year, Philip Carl Salzman wrote “The War Against White People” in Minding the Campus. He declared: “Anti-white hate is now mainstream American culture. Not just by racial extremists such as Black Lives Matter, for whom statements such as “all lives matter” or “blue lives matter” are racist. Our highest leaders sing the same song.” When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2008, he said of working-class white voters, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Hillary Clinton claimed that half of Donald Trump’s supporters were “a basket of deplorables” who were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.” Do you think Clinton was talking about Trump’s black, Asian and Hispanic supporters? No, she was talking about millions of Trump’s white supporters. Then there’s Sarah Jeong, a member of The New York Times editorial board and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Law School. She expressed publicly many anti-white opinions. Among them are: “The world could get by just fine with zero white people.” “Dumbass f—ing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.” It’s “kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.” I guarantee you that The New York Times would have fired any employee making similar statements about black, Hispanic or homosexual people.

Saturday, January 04, 2020

McConnell Gives an Update: Does Pelosi Have the Courage to Hand Over Articles of Impeachment For a Trial?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is back in Washington D.C. today and gave an update from the floor on impeachment. "The Senate will soon have to address some of the deepest institutional questions contemplated by our Constitution. We’ll have to decide whether we are going to safeguard core governing traditions or let short-term partisan rage overcome them," McConnell said. Before members of Congress went home for the Christmas and New Year recess, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would not be sending the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate until she believed McConnell would conduct a "fair trial." During his remarks, McConnell stressed the Senate cannot move forward without the articles. "Ultimately House Democrats cared more about attacking President Trump than keeping their promises. So they rushed through a slapdash investigation. They decided not to bother with the standard legal processes for pursuing witnesses and evidence," he said. "Democrats have let 'Trump derangement syndrome' develop into the kind of dangerous partisan fever that our founding fathers were afraid of." He also pointed out they did a sloppy job and want a do-over in the Senate, which isn't happening. "We’ve heard it claimed that the same House Democrats who botched their own process should get to reach into the Senate and dictate our process. We’ve heard claims that it’s a problem that I have discussed trial mechanics with the White House, even as my counterpart the Democratic Leader is openly coordinating political strategy with Speaker Pelosi, who some might call the 'prosecution.' And we’ve heard claims that any senators who have formed opinions about House Democrats’ irresponsible and unprecedented actions as they played out in view of the entire nation should be disqualified from the next phase. Obviously this is all nonsense," he continued, calling Pelosi's demands to mold the Senate trial a non-starter. "Their turn is over. They have done enough damage. It’s the Senate’s turn now -- to render sober judgment as the framers envisioned. But we can’t hold a trial without the articles. The Senate’s own rules don’t provide for that. So, for now, we are content to continue the ordinary business of the Senate while House Democrats continue to flounder. For now." "But if they ever muster the courage to stand behind their slapdash work product and transmit their articles to the Senate, it will be time for the United States Senate to fulfill our founding purpose," he concluded. As for a timeline, the House won't continue with any voting until Tuesday, January 7. Pelosi's office has given no indication about when or if she will be transmitting the articles of impeachment to Senate

Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Ageism Still a ‘Major’ Problem in Tech

It’s just flat out money. A position I applied for asked for a “3-5 year experienced systems programmer” on a particular platform, I called and told them I had over 20 years experience on it. The person I spoke to LITERALLY SAID, “We can only afford a 3 year experience guy”. I told them I could easily make up the different just in system and performance improvements that I would know more about than a 3 year guy. I am afraid that this is far more than just a money issue. Even if more experienced workers agree to take the same rate as a jr. worker, they are still turned down or overlooked. The question is why? I find it truly ironic that companies will happily hire three H1 workers who together can sometimes do the work of one seasoned worker. I have literally gone into companies and successfully done the work of 3-4 people previously assigned the same tasks and goals – and I was coasting. Ultimately, it costs the company in productivity, far more than wages, when hiring less experienced workers. But somehow, companies still buy into the notion that cheap rates equal greater profits. I think one issue is we are still stigmatized with the idea that only “young people” get tech. This is nonsense, but the image prevails. Millennials in tech are getting the lion’s share of promotions, scooping up 70% of them, according to new data from software company Visier. Based on an aggregated database analysis of 300,000 employees from 43 companies (a subset of their customers), newly identified data shows that not only are technology companies hiring Millennials at a faster rate (they account for more than 43% of all jobs in tech), but those same Millennials are also receiving the lion’s share of promotional opportunities. As for the rest of the promotions, 25% went to Gen X workers, and 4.3% to Baby Boomers. Also, it was found that the frequency of promotions for tech workers rapidly decline after age 36. Follow Ladders on Flipboard! Follow Ladders’ magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and more! When asked if the numbers Visier uncovered looked unusual, Dave Weisbeck, chief strategy officer, said they did. “What the data does show is that there is a very huge disproportion of young hires [in tech], by comparison to all other industries,” he said. While it was difficult to make accusations of ageism through data alone, Weisbeck said, “Bias is bias. So if you have bias, you should look to get rid of it.” What he was more concerned about was the situation of older workers in tech – an industry where 40 is considered an “older worker.” “I do worry about the bias against older workers, who are now in the twilight of their careers, and find themselves suddenly unemployable,” he said. Ageism is an integral problem in the industry. In 2007, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said about his hiring practices, “Young people are just smarter.” A recent survey showed that age discrimination for tech founders starts at age 36. Between 2