{"id":18068,"date":"2021-04-22T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18068"},"modified":"2021-04-22T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:11:11","slug":"overnight-news-idiot-race-pirate-destroys-coca-cola-gets-12-million-firing-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18068\/overnight-news-idiot-race-pirate-destroys-coca-cola-gets-12-million-firing-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Idiot race pirate destroys Coca-Cola, gets $12 million firing\u00a0bonus."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cTrue fact: Bloodhounds stink. It’s a wonder I can smell anything but\u00a0myself!\u201d<\/p><\/div>At last<\/em> someone in corporate America is being fired for being a race-pandering, business-killing idiot.<\/a> Said idiot is getting paid $12 million to go away, but that is nothing compared to the shareholder value he has already destroyed, so paying a high ransom to get rid of him is surely worth the price.<\/p>\n

Who’s next?<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Housing Wire:<\/strong> Mortgage rates drop below 3% for the first time in months.<\/a><\/p>\n

CNBC:<\/strong> Yelp data shows more than half million new businesses opened in the past year.<\/a><\/p>\n

KTLA-TV:<\/strong> L.A. ordered by judge to provide shelter for entire homeless population on Skid Row by fall.<\/a><\/p>\n

Real Clear Policy:<\/strong> Illinois’ Pension Bomb Has a Short Fuse.<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Post:<\/strong> Manhattan DA\u2019s Office will no longer prosecute prostitution cases.<\/a><\/p>\n

John Nolte:<\/strong> Blue Cities Will Continue to Burn Until Media, Democrats Condemn Riots.<\/a><\/p>\n

Jonathan Tobin:<\/strong> The American Left Now Knows That Threatening To Riot Works Perfectly.<\/a><\/p>\n

Heather Mac Donald:<\/strong> A Troubled Rule of Law: The pervasive sense that cities would burn if Derek Chauvin were not convicted raises questions about whether the jury\u2019s verdict was reached dispassionately.<\/a><\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/strong> Profits, Not Causes: The enduring wisdom of shareholder primacy.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Free Beacon:<\/strong> A New Systemic Racism? Hiring at some of the country’s elite institutions paints a troubling picture.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTrue fact: Bloodhounds stink. It’s a wonder I can smell anything but\u00a0myself!\u201dAt last someone in corporate America is being fired for being a race-pandering, business-killing idiot. Said idiot is getting paid $12 million to go away, but that is nothing compared to the shareholder value he has already destroyed, so paying a high ransom to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3181,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3181\/nardoj-settlement-a-tale-told-by-an-idiot-full-of-sound-and-fury-signifying-nothing\/","url_meta":{"origin":18068,"position":0},"title":"NAR\/DOJ settlement: “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing…”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"After years of song and dance, the DOJ reached a settlement with the NAR that seems to have achieved absolutely nothing -- except the waste of a bunch of tax and dues money. 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Long before the computing capacity of a plug-in computer overtakes the supposed computing capacity of a human\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1913,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1913\/are-people-who-dont-understand-the-dip-complete-morons\/","url_meta":{"origin":18068,"position":3},"title":"Are People Who Don’t Understand “The Dip” Complete Morons?","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"September 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Matt Kinsey and Ken Wheaton are educated idiots. Here are the book reviews they wrote for \"The Dip\" by Seth Godin. I sent that link with those reviews to Greg Swann just as the book was being released. I suppose you could say I was trying to help him not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"idiot test","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/idiot%20test.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18119,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18119\/overnight-news-if-zillow-can-lose-30000-per-investment-in-the-hottest-sellers-market-ever-how-much-can-it-squander-once-the-market-turns\/","url_meta":{"origin":18068,"position":4},"title":"Overnight News: If Zillow can lose $30,000 per \u201cinvestment\u201d in the hottest seller\u2019s market ever, how much can it squander once the market\u00a0turns?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Zillow's first-quarter results are out, and the message is plainly obvious: Milk the idiots, but don't be the idiot. 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