Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
We've
reached a tipping point where a majority of states now have laws that
protect employees of smaller employers. Most federal discrimination laws
protect employees only if their employers have 15 employees or more (20
for age discrimination, all employers for Equal Pay Act, 4 - 14 for
national origin/citizenship under the The Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1986). But a majority of states
So
I received this email: Ms. Ballman; I happened to come across your
article from 2011 regarding 10 Workplace Rights You Think you Have – But
Don’t. As both an attorney and a HR/Payroll consultant, your article is
either outdated, specific to Florida, or just completely inaccurate. I
would urge you to do your research and correct the artcle. If you would
be open to discuss the areas of your artic
With
Republicans threatening to cut Social Security benefits, retirement
savings has become a national issue. Some states (not anti-employee
Florida, of course) have tackled this issue by implementing retirement
plans for private-sector employees. The latest state to implement a
private-sector retirement plan is Connecticut . They join California,
Illinois, Maryland and Oregon in implementing auto
Syria Comment
The plight of the Druze hostages: Why Washington should change its
approach in Syria By Talal el-Atrache – @ TalalElAtrache For Syria
Comment – 8 Nov 2018 Throughout the Syrian war, the Southern Province of
Sweida, in coordination with the Syrian army, had succeeded in
protecting itself against the jihadist attacks on the province’s Western
border with Deraa, and on the Eastern flank, adjacent to
Saudi Arabia, Shi’ism and the Illusion of Reform by Robert G. Rabil – @
robertgrabil October 30, 2019 The emergence of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia is inextricably associated with the Wahhabi school of Islam. The
Saudi-Wahhabi pact goes back to the eighteenth century when Sheikh
Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792), the founder of the
Wahhabi-Salafi school of Islam traveled to Diriya, the stron
By Michael Gerini Residing in the north of Lebanon, Mouin Merhebi is a
member of Saad Hariri’s Future Movement. A staunch opponent of Hezbollah
and the Assad government, he currently serves as Minister of Refugee
Affairs (officially “Minister of State for Displaced Affairs”) in the
Hariri government, a position he has held since December of 2016. Though
coming into the position with little experi
The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage
I have posted the following comment to an American Thinker article on
"Being Human and the Abuse of Science", which sets belief in God above
science: The problem is, all of our religions grew out of previous
history, which personalized God, and thus put God in a too-small box of
man's own making. The most obvious problem with this, of course, is the
proliferation of man-made "Gods", which led to
I have submitted the following comment to the fabius maximus site, in
response to an article on alienation: Large-scale, or mass, alienation
is due to a general incompetence on the part of the "experts",
particularly in science and religion. Or to make a long story short, too
long nurturing of false dogmas in the underlying assumptions of a
civilization or society. The primary false dogma of mode
The Straight Goods
Donald J Trump......Coward in Chief Written by grant G It's gone almost
as predicted in a post I wrote November 8th, 2016..the night the US
elected Donald J Trump president election here's the last few paragraphs
in a post titled.... Donald Trump, King Lizard ______ I feel very sad
for the 50% of Americans who voted for Hillary, I feel just as bad for
the 50% that voted for Trump because they bel
The Emma Jackson Story Written by Grant G Something going on around
here...... Emma Jackson , who is she, I don't know but boy oh boy is she
needed, especially the message she voices.. Ten Years .....according to
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) that's how much
time citizens of planet earth have to stop using the worst of the worst
fossils fuels, that includes fracking and tars
thwap's schoolyard
So, plodding dullard, pants-pissing coward, anti-democratic doofus,
brazen hypocrite, overall incompetent, stephen harper has (in a
desperate attempt to appear relevant) farted out a book of sorts. It's
called I'm Really Stupid Now (or something). In it, he apparently says
that something he calls the global free-market economy has produced
winners and losers and that these fucking losers are turn
I once watched a documentary about Berlin in the interwar period. "City
of Sex" was the title I believe. I was interested because Weimar Berlin
was also a hot-spot of artistic creativity: Dada (brought in by the
German ex-pats who created it in Zurich during WWI, Expressionism,
Bauhaus, Brecht, Gross, the cabarets, etc., etc .,). Also, I was
interested in just how those stodgy old-folks from the
Vagabond Scholar
(Click
on the comic strip for a larger view.) In 1959, Pogo creator Walt Kelly
wrote: The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me
to be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went
on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart.
Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first
war rather seriously, but I still
Today,
11/11/18, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, the
Great War, the supposed War to End All Wars that unfortunately didn't.
I've always been struck by how eager nations were to go to war at the
start and how horrific the reality often was. By the end, by most
estimates, about 8.5 million soldiers were dead and the total casualty
count was about 37.5 million. Add in a
Get
out and vote on Tuesday, if you haven't already! This post will collate
some California and Los Angeles County resources. California voters
should already have received the official voter information guide in the
mail, but it's also online and available in multiple languages.
Unfortunately, some candidates don't include statements, but the guide
is particularly useful for seeing who's
What Is Sustainable
The Rise of Homo Sapiens , by Frederick Coolidge (psychologist) and
Thomas Wynn (anthropologist), is a book about the evolution of human
cognition. It describes the seven million year voyage that resulted in
the magnificent mind that’s throbbing between your ears right now. This
voyage began with the first hominins — bipedal (two legged) apes who
were either our direct ancestors, or our long lost
I was intrigued when our book group selected Dancing in the Streets by
Barbara Ehrenreich. It’s a history of collective joy and ecstatic ritual
— stuff that’s pretty rare in the land of the glowing screen people.
Studying humankind’s long transition from wild and free to
robo-consumers, it’s easy to perceive gradually advancing emotional
decay. Cultures slid further away from intimate connections
A Very Public Sociologist
One should avoid making time for the Johnson family wherever possible.
But due to their prominence, sometimes it's unavoidable. On this
occasion at least it isn't the usual Johnson making the running. The
resignation of Jo Johnson from the government was a shocker for two
reasons. One, he has spent his parliamentary career thus far
(relatively) quietly beavering away in the shadows and cutting an
The joint Hope Not Hate/British Future report, The National
Conversation on Immigration and its focus on "left behind" communities
is to be welcomed, not least because it isn't the usual regurgitation of
Blue Labour dogma . It acknowledges some of the problems Labour has
with its former 'traditional' base, and suggests things the party needs
to do to avoid more significant difficulties down the r
One hundred years since the guns fell silent on the Western front. The
horrors and death that were visited upon the trenches were, at that
point, unprecedented in human history. "Never again!" the establishment
said, while Britain backed the whites in the vicious Russian civil war
and bloodily repressed revolt in its misbegotten colonies. And just a
couple of decades later the Great War was surpa
Vampires are a smug bunch, aren't they? Alone among the undead they're
feted and admired. They make death sexy, and thanks to reams of not
unsympathetic cultural product they get a much better press than your
brain munching zombies, ghosties, and assorted others from beyond the
grave. Thankfully, Super Castlevania IV , one of the canonical titles of
the 16-bit era, dispenses with such nonsense. Y
Can anything more be said about the so-called People's Vote march in
London that hasn't already been noted elsewhere? According to the
organisers, there was anywhere between half a million and 750,000 on the
streets. Not content with nicking A to B marches off the left, they've
half-inched the revolutionary inflation as well. And what's more, some
of Britain's wealthiest reached into their pocket
Jeremy Corbyn saved the Labour Party. This feat was accomplished by
winning the leadership election in 2015, recruiting hundreds of
thousands of new members, registered and affiliated supporters, and
building a new coalition of voters uniting the comparatively better off
with those at the sharp end . In so doing, Labour in England and Wales
avoided the fates of the Socialists in France, Labour in
Adrienne's Corner
let the arguments commence. Obviously, women being allowed to vote is
not going away. The question is - was it a good idea? Several days ago
Steve Marks had an article at American Thinker titled Why Suburban Women
Cost the Republicans the House. What followed was 949 comments, many
agreeing with him and many thinking he was a sexist POS. Mr. Marks does
start his article with a disclaimer: (emphas
and the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost. Veterans Day It's not
about the sales... Gospel for Today: Extraordinary Form of the Mass
Matthew 13:24-30 He put before them another parable: 'The kingdom of
heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but
while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the
wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up a
inquiring minds want to know. Not a bomb Meantime, the "bombs" are
providing a deflection from the fat and sassy "refugees" trooping across
Mexico. It appears a bunch of them have decided to go back home. Little
Bobby de Niro haz a sad 'cause he wanted to be in the newz too, so they
arranged for him to get a fake bomb too. How thoughtful of the perps.
Amazon Deals in bomb making stuff Electronics
oh, yeah, sorry - "Native American." And why do they keep calling
non-functioning pieces of PVC pipes with fake timers "bombs?" Let me
make sure I understand this: This wack job lived and drove around in a
van with custom made signage (those are not "stickers" ) obscuring his
windows and not one police officer cited him for this? And not one
equally deranged Florida peep keyed, kicked, or otherwi
and it only cost us $1500.00 Arrrrrrrrgh! My doggie, Frankie, erupted
in screams of pain yesterday about 5pm. He'd been acting off for a few
days, and I had been watching him closely. He was rushed to the vet,
x-rayed, and it was determined that somehow he swallowed a rock. Frankie
is a 12 lb dog and after emergency surgery, the vets office was
surprised he could have even swallowed such a large
a battle between good and evil. I know that many of you have already
voted. On November 6th I will head to our local polling place and cast
my ballot for the Republican party. Hanging with my red state peeps,
marking my ballot (paper), sliding it into a locked box, and having the
elderly poll worker call out, "Adrienne Streeter has voted", is very
important to me. Never mind this crap about votin
ArmsControlWonk
India
has some nuclear naval news, with its defense minister claiming a
successful “first deterrent patrol.” What does this mean for Pakistan
and nuclear dynamics in the Indian Ocean? Aaron sits down with friends
of the pod Ankit Panda and Vipin Narang to talk about the India-Pakistan
relationship, India’s ballistic missile subs, and Pakistan’s …
Last
year, cameras in Japan noticed an object streaking the night sky —
possibly the reentry vehicle from one of North Korea’s July 28 missile
test. Did it burn up? Survive? If if it did, or did not, what does that
mean for North Korea’s ability to deliver a nuclear weapon to targets
throughout the …
With
the US on the precipice of withdrawing from the INF, all eyes have
turned to China and its large number of INF range missiles. The think
tank community has followed and a bevy of think pieces on basing modes
in Asia have been published. On this week’s episode, Jeffrey and Aaron
talk about the …
Dave
Schmerler, Michael Duitsman, and I were gathered around my computer,
admiring satellite images we found of an Indian missile on a launch pad
from May 2017. I pointed to some cloudy streaks on the screen and joked,
“That’s probably smoke from a failed test.” We zoomed out to see more
of the image. “Holy …
Quotes
of the week: “You use a small one, then you go to a bigger one. I think
nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons and we need to draw the line
there.” — George Shultz “I don’t think there’s any such thing as a
tactical nuclear weapon. Any nuclear weapon used at any time is a
strategic …
Quote
of the week: “Wake the damn Bambino. I’ll drill him in the ass.” —
Attributed to Pedro Martinez, 2004, the year when the Red Sox broke the
curse of not winning a World Series after trading Babe Ruth to the New
York Yankees 86 years earlier. Donald Trump announced at a campaign
rally on …
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COLONIALISTS
WIN REFERENDUM IN KANAKY ("NOUVELLE CALEDONIE") REPRESENTATIVE OF YOUNG
KANAKS IN FRANCE SPOKE AT CSIA DAY OF SOLIDARITY By Christine Prat
November 4th, 2018 Christine's blog in French:
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=4752&fbclid=IwAR1FACO_tQS-Dv1PR2sownqAPdZEIszW8AjEFJw8IjLZDveUCJ01OQIPYF4
Censored News Today, November 4th 2018, the colonialists won
Centauri Dreams
Extended operations at multiple targets, as Dawn showed us, are
possible with ion propulsion. But we still learn much from flybys,
something New Horizons reminded us with its spectacular success at
Pluto/Charon, and again reminds us as it closes on MU69. Likewise, a
mission called Lucy will visit multiple objects, using traditional
chemical propulsion with gravity assist to achieve flybys of seve
If you’ve given some thought to the Fermi question lately — and reading
Milan Ćirković’s The Great Silence , I’ve been thinking about it quite a
bit — then today’s story about an ancient star is of particular note.
Fermi, you’ll recall, famously wanted to know why we didn’t see other
civilizations, given the apparent potential for our galaxy to produce
life elsewhere. Now a paper in The Astrophys
We’ve long been interested in how the Earth got its oceans, with
possible purveyors being comets and asteroids. The idea trades on the
numerous impacts that occurred particularly during the Late Heavy
Bombardment some 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago. Tuning up our
understanding of water delivery is important not only for our view of
our planet’s development but for its implications in exoplanet syst
Over the sound system in the grocery store yesterday, a local radio
station was recapping events of the day as I shopped. The newsreader
came to an item about the Parker Solar Probe, then misread the text and
came out with “The probe skimmed just 15 miles from the Sun’s surface.”
Yipes! I was in the vegetable section but you could hear him all over
the store, so I glanced around to see how people
The interstellar object called ‘Oumuamua continues to inspire analysis
and speculation. And no wonder. We had limited time to observe it and
were unable to obtain a resolved image to find out exactly what it looks
like. This morning I want to go through a new paper from Shmuel Bialy
and Abraham Loeb (Harvard University) considering the role radiation
pressure from the Sun could play on this deep
To say that the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest
Research Institute has been busy of late is quite an understatement.
Alan Stern, principal investigator for New Horizons, has been leading an
SwRI study examining just how we might operate an orbiter at
Pluto/Charon, with results that are surprising and encouraging for the
future of such a project. Working with spaceflight engine
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
Well a certain kind of stuff has certainly hit the fan since it was
reported here and elsewhere that John Carpay, the well-known social
conservative warrior, had dipped his toe into Alberta’s always-dangerous
Lake of Fire. Since the story broke over the long weekend, Mr. Carpay
and his old comrade in social conservatism Jason Kenney have been
subjected to a ferocious barrage of criticism, and not
Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian aphorist and theoretician of war,
famously observed that “war is the continuation of politics by other
means.” Something like the opposite – that politics is the prosecution
of war by other means, or darn close anyway – is likely true as well. I
hope I offend no gentle readers by describing politics in warlike terms.
I do so because the metaphor helps explain the
While Albertans have been in flap over the state of the province’s
oilsands industry, the Big Five Oilsands extraction corporations have
been raking in billions. “Despite the 2014 oil price crash and the
ongoing hand-wringing over pipelines and the price differential, the
reality is the Big Five oilsands producers have remained incredibly
profitable corporations,” says one of the authors of a new
American Republicans mostly hitched their wagons to Donald Trump’s dark
star in this year’s U.S. mid-term elections, and notwithstanding
passage of control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats it
has worked remarkably well for them. If you imagine this lesson is lost
on Canadian movement conservatives, think again. The politics of
Trumpism were already here in Canada, of course. Fear,
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in
Edmonton for the week ended Nov. 4, 2018. The lists are compiled by
Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of
Alberta. EDMONTON FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. Translating Air – Kath MacLean *
2. A Season Among Psychics – Elizabeth Greene 3. The Flame – Leonard
Cohen 4. Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver 5. Watch
Many Albertans were shocked to learn last week that Opposition Leader
Jason Kenney had promised an auto dealers association pouring money into
a political action committee supporting his United Conservative Party
that if elected he would hand enforcement of vehicle sale consumer
protection back to the dealers. Twenty-six Alberta car and truck
dealerships are reported to have donated at least $175
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Scientists Develop Liquid Fuel to Store Sun's Energy
Up to 18 Years Former JP Morgan trader pleads guilty to manipulating US
metals markets for years Underperforming Chinese workers made to drink
urine, eat bugs Machine Glitches Delay Start of Ballot Recount in
Broward County Former Florida Congressman: My Vote Was Rejected Over
Signature Mismatch 43-Year Old Running for Presiden
From Jenna Orkin Most Destructive Fire in History Woolsey Fire Went
Through Site of Nuclear Meltdown First Officials Open Beach Near Malibu
to Animals Fox News went silent on Twitter — and it could be because of
protesters who showed up at Tucker Carlson's house Chinese Company Pays
Bondholders In Ham Instead Of Cash As Domestic Defaults Soar The US and
Japan finished their 'largest and most comp
From Jenna Orkin Federal Judge Orders Georgia to Reveal Tally of
Provisional Ballots Acting AG: Judges Should Be Christian Bye-bye, RBG,
Elena Kagan... Iceland Christmas Ad Banned for Being Too Political GMO
Potato Creator Now Fears Its Effects on Human Health This 13-year-old
scientist invented a safer way to treat pancreatic cancer, and he hasn't
even started high school yet $500 Milllion Norwe
From Jenna Orkin Three Florida Races Could Result in Recount, Including
Senate Netherlands Microgrids Undercover with Border Militia
Switzerland Wrapping Glaciers in Blankets White House appears to share
Jim Acosta mic-grab video doctored by far-right Infowars Venezuela's
inflation rate just hit 830,000% — and it's going to keep rising China
is recruiting its brightest high schoolers to build AI
From Jenna Orkin How Gutting of Voting Rights Act Led to hundreds of
Closed Polls An Exploration of Suicide and Grief: Sigrid Nunez "The
Friend" My review of superb book shortlisted for National Book Award;
winner to be announced November 14. At least 13 dead, including gunman,
at college bar mass shooting in LA suburb of Thousand Oaks New York City
reportedly won over Amazon in its HQ2 quest by
From Jenna Orkin Post-Election Prediction: When the country goes down
the tubes, the Trumpettes will blame the newly elected women and Native
Americans. Saudi Arabia Stealing Yemen's Oil in Collaboration with Total
Georgia Election Server Wiped After Suit Filed “ The CIA’s
Communications Suffered a Catastrophic Compromise. It Started in Iran. ”
New York City is reportedly nearing a deal to host A
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