Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
Florida
has a real chance to turn the governorship and some legislative seats
blue this year. Because Florida is one of the worst states for employees
in the nation, a change in leadership means an opportunity to change
some of the worst anti-employee laws. And in my opinion the worst of the
anti-employee Florida laws is our noncompete law. Massachusetts, after
years of wrangling, finally passed a
I
see scenarios where employees leave work early for entirely sane
reasons. For instance: They are threatened by a coworker or customer and
feel unsafe They are so upset by a confrontation with management or a
coworker that they are crying They are sexually harassed They are called
racial, ethnic, or other discriminatory names Yet in each of these
circumstances, I also see employers claim the empl
After
a storm, I usually get lots of calls and emails about employers making
employees work in conditions they deem unsafe. In general, you don't
have to work in unsafe conditions, so I'm re-posting this for those
affected by Florence. Here's what OSHA says about workplace safety: You
have the right to a safe workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970 (OSH Act) was passed to prevent
It's
time, unfortunately, to re-run this popular and necessary column. I
hope you make out okay in Hurricane Florence and suffer no damage.
However, you may be wondering if you're getting paid. Whether you’re
entitled to be paid when the office is closed depends on whether you are
“exempt” salaried or not. Just being salaried doesn’t necessarily mean
you aren’t entitled to overtime. It’s possible
Syria Comment
David Lesch The Game Above the Game by David W. Lesch For Syria Comment
– Sept 21, 2018 The various combatants in and around Idlib seem to have
hit the pause button for the time being. What just a short time ago
appeared to be an imminent onslaught by Russian and Iranian supported
Syrian government forces to take back one of the last areas outside of
the control of Damascus, accompanied by widesp
The Duck of Minerva
The school year is off to a great start, and we wanted to thank our
previous slate of guest Ducks and welcome some new guests. Thanks to all
of our guests from last year. Lisa Gaufman and Dillon Tatum are staying
on as guests, and we are delighted that our partnership with Bridging
the Gap will continue with the BtG channel. We also have a fantastic
slate of new guests Ducks including Jill Hazelt
Vice President Pence recently pressured the US agency for international
development (USAID) to appoint a special liaison to Iraqi Christians.
This may not capture the same headlines as the Kavanaugh Supreme Court
nomination fight or the new NAFTA, but it could have significant—and
unexpected—implications for Middle East stability. Pence’s move was part
of a year-long fight over US aid policy towa
Great opportunity to donate in memory of a beloved scholar of African
politics. The Lee Ann Fujii Minority Fellows Program Travel Grants will
help up to 15 scholars from underrepresented backgrounds get to APSA
each year, 2019-2023. Details: #APSA2018 pic.twitter.com/0eUgcg3vsQ —
Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) August 31, 2018 This is a guest post by
Lahoma Thomas, a doctoral candidate in the Departm
I woke up to find a piece that castigates the academic world for being
ignorant about the armed forces . My reaction was: I love how broad this
brush is. “I talked to some folks who are profs and they say some dumb
stuff, so let’s suggest that this is a broader thing” Confirmation bias
much? https://t.co/jWhcaniD2B — Steve Saideman (@smsaideman) September
20, 2018 Tom Ricks, who posted this quest
This post comes from Dr. Fabiana Sofia Perera , Assistant Research
Fellow at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
and a 2016 alumna of Bridging the Gap’s New Era Workshop . Defense
Secretaries from the countries of the western hemisphere will convene in
Cancun, Mexico next month to talk about the most pressing issues facing
defense and security institutions in the Americas.
There is a spat of ecumenical proportions brewing in the Eastern
hemisphere: Patriarch Krill of Russia stopped praying for the Patriarch
Bartholomew of Constantinople. The reason for that is simple: the
patriarch of Constantinople is rumored to consider granting the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church an autocephalous status that would potentially
carve out a third of Russian Orthodox Church curacies sever
The High-fat Hep C Diet
An RCT paper claiming to show harmful effects of a low-carb diet passed
briefly over the internet on the weekend before being shot down in
flames. The title is: Long‐term health effects of the three major diets
under self‐management with advice, yields high adherence and equal
weight loss, but very different long‐term cardiovascular health effects
as measured by myocardial perfusion imaging and s
One of the great mysteries of nutrition is the behaviour of
polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). They often look good in the kind of
sloppy epidemiology used to drive or latterly protect dietary
guidelines*, are more ambiguous in RCTs, and can easily be shown to have
deleterious effects in a number of specific medical and experimental
conditions that might be expected to have a "canary in the coa
The Straight Goods
Written by Grant G Time for a Straight Goods look at the LNG Canada
deal.... Justin Trudeau and the stranger known as John Horgan were quick
to plant their faces in as many smiling photo-ops possible...all taking
credit for "Canada's largest ever private sector investment" .. Funny
stuff indeed....The project itself got federal approval many years ago
under Stephen Harper, the project received ta
Written by Grant I and many others had high hopes for Rachel Notley
when she got elected and became Alberta's premier....not quite four
years ago, though it seems like ages ago to me.. We here at The Straight
Goods wrote flattering things about NDP Rachel Notley when she was
vying to be premier...I was impressed with her platform, her stated
goals, in fact before even being elected she stated tha
JUSTIN TRUDEAU KNOWS THERE IS A GOD… AND HE KNOWS THAT GOD IS A LIBERAL
Written by Robin Mathews Sweating a little before the cameras, Justin
Trudeau saw that Andrew Scheer was becoming ‘reasonable’. BUT HE IS NOT
the much more strange creature thrown up (“thrown up”?) by the
Conservative Hordes … Stephen Harper … who wrested all power from
‘Progressive Conservatives’, then pulled Rightest admire
The View from Taiwan
" ...But we have crossed millions of miles of nothingness. We have
visited another world. And our Locar had said `Why bother? What is the
worth of it? It is all vanity, anyhow.' And the secret is," I lowered my
voice, as at a poetry reading, "he was right! It is vanity, it is
pride!" "You will say to them in Warwickshire: Eh, he wor a wonderly
fine candle?" I should have been a pair of ragged cla
thwap's schoolyard
This is a good essay from commondreams.org: "No, Capitalism Will Not
Save the Climate" by Karin Nansen . We are facing deep-rooted climate,
social, and environmental crises. The current dominant economic system
cannot provide solutions. It is time for system change. For Friends of
the Earth International this means creating societies based on peoples’
sovereignty and environmental, social, econom
What Is Sustainable
[Note: I’m going to be posting a series of rough draft sections from
the book I’m working on. The plan is two per month. My blog is also home
to reviews of 196 books, and more than a dozen of my rants. Feel free
to wander.] Introduction I’ve been waking up with the ravens lately,
around 5:30. They celebrate each new day with enthusiasm, jabbering
joyfully in the treetops. Then they take wing and
Note: I need to devote more time to my upcoming book, now known as Wild
Free & Happy . The following is Jim Minter’s review of James Howard
Kunstler’s book, Home from Nowhere . It was posted over 20 years ago (5
December 1996) on the e-design website. This was back when the Peak Oil
movement still lived in caves. Oddly, most of the essay could have been
written in 2018. America’s fanatical addict
It is the Year of the Mookie. 108 wins. Eight games up. 11 wins to go. That is all.
Yesterday
was Orange Shirt Day . October 1 through 7 is First Nations Public
Library Week in Canada. I'll write more about this soon. For now, a book
review from a few years back: what i'm reading: indian horse by richard
wagamese, a must-read, especially for canadians .
Our
Ontario trip was a mixed bag of ups and downs, but mostly ups.
Everything is pretty good with some not-so-good mixed in. Traveling with
Diego. We loved it! It was so much fun having us with him all the time,
and seeing him so happy and content. Downside: Traveling with a dog can
be a bit limiting. We had planned to leave him alone while we explored
Sudbury and Thunder Bay, but when we were act
We're
going glamping! Allan, Diego, and I are hitting the road -- in this:
Going here: Killarney Provincial Park Lake Superior Provincial Park
Sleeping Giant Provincial Park Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park Pancake
Bay Provincial Park Grundy Lake Provincial Park Plus quick visits to
Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, and Thunder Bay. Hike, grill, explore. Watch
dogs play on beaches. Read. Keep an eye on the
In July, I wrote that we planned to get rid of our LP collection. Well,
the deed is done. We turned this into this First Round then this What's
left: classical, soundtracks, CD box sets, and albums Allan didn't want
to part with (front). and finally, this. We got much more money than we
expected, thanks to the honesty and integrity of Lincoln Stewart. * * *
* For the most part, the business of bu
5 October 2018, Rosa Khutor, Russian Federation: The 70 th meeting of
the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) concluded today. The
global spotlight now turns to the 18 th meeting of the Conference of
Parties in Colombo, Sri Lanka in May 2019, where the bulk of the
decisions and outcomes of this meeting will be confirmed
02 October 2018, Rosa Khutor, Russian Federation : Parties to the
Standing Committee to the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES), have clearly and
firmly stated that Japan is in violation of the convention. Japan has
been catching sei whales, allegedly for purposes of scientific research,
and selling the meat and blubber in domestic retail market
Today's decision allowing countries complicit in the illegal ivory
trade to withdraw from the National Ivory Action Plans (NIAPs) process
deals a severe blow to international elephant conservation efforts 01
October 2018, Rosa Khutor, Russian Federation : The 70th meeting of the
Standing Committee to the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) got o
Governments, International Organisations and Civil Society meet in
Russia to make key decisions on wildlife trade 01 October 2018, Rosa
Khutor, Russian Federation : The Standing Committee of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora
(CITES) today opened for the 70th time in Rosa Khutor in the Russian
Federation. The five-day meeting of the delegated gover
Three newly released reports paint a complex picture of China's ivory
market post ban; with sales 'on the street' slowing, the same cannot be
said for overseas travellers and auction houses. 1. China's Ivory Market
after the Ivory Trade Ban in 2018. 2. Demand under the Ban - China
Ivory Consumption Research Post-Ban 2018. 3. China's Ivory Auction
Market: A comprehensive analysis of legislation, h
Tokyo, Japan, 13th September 2018 - Yahoo Japan is the single biggest
online platform for elephant ivory sales in Japan, according to a new
TRAFFIC investigation, which recorded a staggering 4,414 ivory items
plus 35 whole tusks for sale over a four-week period in June and July
2018. The latest findings were revealed today in System Error, Reboot
Required: Review of online ivory trade in Japan ,
A Different Perspective
Just a couple of things to clear up after the season finale of Treasure
Quest . Just a couple of questions that I have about the show, or a
couple of comments about what we saw. First, if I understood it right,
one of them mentioned they had spent two months in the wrong place. They
had talked to the last man living who had actually looked for the
treasure and he told them that he thought it was
Late last night (October 2) I received a comment to my last post about
Treasure Quest (which now has Snake Island appended to it again). Todo
Segalla suggested he had seen the October 5 episode and that, according
to him, they had found the treasure. He wrote, “Kevin They found the
treasure. I saw the episode that airs Oct. 5, they found the cave… using
the drone they located another hill with a
As you all know, I have been looking at the Socorro UFO landing case
and in the last couple of weeks published an article about it. In that
article, I mentioned that a fellow, Kevin Ashley, had heard a solution
for the case from an engineer who had attended school at the New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology in 1964. His story, though a bit hard
to believe was that he and a pal had been r
A couple of weeks ago we were all told, alerted to the fact really,
that the Del Rio UFO crash of the mid-1950s had been validated. New
information had been mentioned to George Knapp during his hosting duties
on Coast-to-Coast . Dr. Eric Davis had made the comment. But what did
he actually say? Knapp, during their discussion, said, “That makes it
sound like there is something to analyze or revers
I now know more about the barrel launching Bruno R (name left out of
the original post that Dave Thomas put on his website at:
http://www.nmsr.org/socorro.htm ). Tony Bragalia, working with a little
information that I supplied and searching through other sources, was
able to speak with Bruno in an attempt to corroborate Kevin Ashley’s
story at Thomas’s site. Bruno said that he did not remember re
Well folks, last night (September 28) was maybe the worst of the
episodes but only for what it revealed about the great treasure hunt.
They penetrated another tunnel, or in this case a cave, filled with
toxic chemicals thanks to the vampire bats, and found nothing . They
reached the dead end, avoiding the bats by shining their lights down so
as not to disturb them. Oh, and they created a huge air
A Very Public Sociologist
In his fun safari of the exotic and befuddled fauna at Conservative
Party conference, Owen Jones argued this was a gathering devoid of ideas
and lacking all purpose. Yet among the despondency, he warned against
Labour complacency. As the most successful liberal democratic party in
the Western world, it would be high folly to simply write them off. And
he's right. But also, a proven track record o
While the divided Tories meet in Birmingham to argue over who's going
to take over from Theresa May and the Brexit morass of their own making,
it's worth spending a little time considering some of the divisions
that surfaced during Labour conference inside the Corbyn project. In
particular, I'm talking about the tension between Corbynism and the
trade unions - a relationship that has hitherto bee
Death is in the air argues Richard Seymour in his write up of Tory
party conference. Even before Theresa May takes to the podium for what
could be the last time, malaise hangs heavy and cluelessness, if not
defeat, is the tone. For the hard Brexiteers, who've hardly
distinguished themselves these last few days with energetic
interventions from the fringes, despair arrests them as it increasingly
Funky philosophers of social complexity, Gilles Deleuze and Felix
Guattari wrote a great deal on the schizoid character of
contemporary(ish) capitalism. By this they meant the brazen and stark
manifestation of jarring juxtapositions. Consider the declining salience
of sexism and racism developing alongside the recrudescence of toxic
masculinities and the growing number of hate incidents, for exam
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. It’s also a sure fire way of
making money, especially if you’re in the business of video games.
Watching how Nintendo were basically able to print money with the
releases of their NES and SNES classic consoles, for Sony to not follow
suit an original PlayStation plug-in would be an opportunity missed.
After all, their console sold much better than either
30 days. 22 posts. Which proved to be the most popular among the
internet-travelling public who alighted upon this place? 1. Can Blairism
Win Back the Labour Party? 2. The Lady With the Red Hair 3. Smearing
Michael Foot 4. Our Decadent Tory Elite 5. No Second Referendum
Blairism. Our scurrilous media. Secret service shenanigans. Imploding
Tories. Remainiac fantasies. Yup, another very political m
Adrienne's Corner
until I read the Epistle for today. It is my habit on Sunday to study
the readings for today's Mass before attending. We have all experienced a
most horrific week in the history of our great country. We are
understandably angry and at the same time sad. To witness grown men and
women act in such a despicable manner was shocking to many of us.
Forcing a man of integrity to discuss his virginity an
thank you Kurt Schlichter. Amazon: Donald Trump is only the beginning
of a mighty disruption in American politics and culture, thanks to the
rise of the militant Normals in America. They built this country, they
make it run, and when called on, they fight for it. They are the heart
and soul of the United States of America, They are the Normals, the
regular Americans of all races, creeds, preferen
is puzzling. Didn't all these feminist women back in the 60's who
spawned the current crop of feminists want to "have it all." I seem to
recall that birth control was going to make having sex, often with a rat
pack of different partners, all nice and safe. And then they got the
right to abort their unwanted "product of conception." Woohoo! Life just
kept getting better for them. Now suddenly they
with a couple of, like, really, you know, like annoying like
commie/marxist/libtard millennials, with like, annoying and ignorant
sounding vocal fry , and like, a healthy dose of up-speak . Listening to
these uneducated, arrogant, and misguided children committing acts of
sedition is something that makes my rage-o-meter spike into the stroke
zone - and their doing it while we, the taxpayers, pay
we are surprised, why? (Washington DC) Today, Project Veritas released
the first installment in an undercover video investigation series
unmasking the deep state. This video features a State Department
employee, Stuart Karaffa, engaged in radical socialist political
activity on the taxpayer’s dime, while advocating for resistance to
official government policies. In addition to being a State Depar
ArmsControlWonk
Quote
of the week: “Deterrence now means something as a strategic policy only
when we are fairly confident that the retaliatory instrument upon which
it relies will not be called upon to function at all… In short, we
expect the system to be always ready to spring while going permanently
unused. Surely there is something …
US
Ambassador to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, made some news. And not in a
good way. She was trying to say that the US would develop
countervailing capabilities — something that started under the Obama
Administration and that almost no one disagrees with. But she mangled
the quote and, in doing so, reinforced Russian paranoia …
Andrea
is joined again by John Hemmings, Director of Asia Studies at the Henry
Jackson Society, to talk about the major developments in North Korea
relations during September. They consider Pyongyang’s tamer military
parade, examine the optics and outcomes of Moon Jae-in’s trip to North
Korea, and look at the way those outcomes are being …
At
CNS we are fortunate to have a stellar group of young researchers, who
in the course of their research come up with some really interesting
insights into the issues we work on. The post below is courtesy of
Olivia Vassalotti, one of our DC-based specialists working on North
Korea. It’s weird, wonderful and well …
Thailand
has ratified the CTBT, while Tuvalu has signed it. It’s hardly front
page news, but Jenny Nielsen, a VCDNP alum and now an information
officer at the CTBTO, makes the case what we should care. This won’t
make headlines—but it should. Thailand ratifies and Tuvalu signs the
CTBT! Jenny Nielsen As an Information Officer for …
My
colleague Olivia Vassalotti is back with another guest post, this time
with an update on the recent activities of Glocom, a North Korean
intelligence-linked company selling military communications technology
overseas. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in North Korea’s
contemporary efforts to access the global defence market, or for those
curious about the limits …
CENSORED NEWS
Greetings
from the Havasupai InterTribal Gathering. Photo courtesy Ofelia Rivas,
O'odham (on right.) Supai Youth Guardian. Photo by Ofelia Rivas. The
Havasupai Nation welcomes all to join Supai to oppose uranium mining in
their homeland, the Grand Canyon, and celebrate the US Supreme Court
decision upholding the 20-year ban on new uranium mining. The gathering
at Red Butte, on the south
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Water
Protectors Lock Down At Wells Fargo Prior to $1.48 Billion Loan to
Enbridge October 4, 2018Contact: Ginew@protonmail.com MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.
-- On Thursday Morning, October 4, water protectors erected a tripod
and tipi in front of the Wells Fargo building in protest of an upcoming
$1.48 billion
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