We now learn from Randi
Rhodes that Wall Mart uses women prisoner workers. But it’s kind of one of those jobs people
would be clamoring to get even just getting paid two dollars an hour. Because the alternative is being woken up at
three AM and fed breakfast and taken out for an hour ride to the work fields
where you work all day long in the hot sun without sun screen or medical
supervision, and that includes people with bee allergies. And no many how many chest pains you have on
the job people think you’re faking the heart attack, and even with a doctor’s
explicit directives not to let this person work for three or four days, that
directive is violated. But then you know
what Judy thinks of labor unions. Not to
quote Stu or anybody from the Other Side, but the one bit of feedback I got
about last Saturday was that “I allowed them to lie to me about labor unions
and the state of reality with Hostess and Wall Mart, and that I really whoosed
out about not standing up for progressive labor causes.” I plead guilty as charged. I just rolled over like a dog on that
one. These ECO’s get four thousand (?)
times the pay of the lowest paid worker.
It’s gross mis management in Hostess we have already chronicled. And of course when I raised the issue about
getting paid overtime for night shift after hours Judy just said indignently “These
people are lucky to have a job.” And
also, “Labor unions have driven too many businesses into the ground because for
them it’s just more demands and take, take, take, until the business has
nothing left”. If you believe that there
is some industrial purity grade sand I’d like to sell you from Hurricane Sandy. Like I
said these TV stations behave the way they talk as though Mitt Romney had won
the election and that it’s president Obama who has to cave on all of the
disputed issues. People even have the
gall to say “Lincoln was a successful President because he was willing to work
with people and compromise when necessary”.
Those people are reading about a different President Lincoln from the
one in my history books. These past
seven days have run a jinx tally easily between a negative ten and fifteen, for
sure. I say this because it all hasn't been sweetness and light for me since Obama was reelected three weeks ago. Wall Mart claims they don’t use
any prison help where the workers don’t get paid minimum wage. Of course- - they won’t even give you decent
breaks and if you take an unauthorized break (because you’re having a heart
attack or something) then they just add that to your prison sentence. And of course they use the old chestnut about
“Come on, you’re costing the corporation hundreds of dollars for each
unauthorized minute you’re not working”.
Randi Rhodes says that she can foresee the days when people in third
world nations will have more worker’s rights than they do in the United
States. By way of contrast Cosco treats
their employees really well. Don’t tell
Judy that. She shops there and if she
learns they treat their employees decently she may decide to take her business
elsewhere. In the old days they used to
worry about roudy Union employees disturbing the tranquility of the store
customers. But today it’s like a third
world nation inside these stores on Black Fridays with the customers behaving
like animals climbing over and clawing each other. Meanwhile the employees who protest are doing
so in a most quiet, orderly fashion. Of
course nobody cares how we get our merchandise- - and often we don’t care how
we got our produce. I think it times a
lot of us would like to pretend that “The Jungle” is just a work of fiction and
not applicapable for our times. Even
Judy has complained in the past that when it comes to customer service, “We are
becoming a third world nation” but of course she blames the Obama
Administration for everything that has happened bad in the past four
years. Beliefs can be stubborn things.
It's a fact of life that the Strong people in the world Make the rules and the weak, compliant people of the world Follow them. Take that however you want. No evil act in the history of the world ever occurred before God's ontologically getting the Idea of it first. When it comes to any act of evil, be it genocide in Africa or your teenage daughter getting an abortion without your permission- - no act of evil has EVER occurred without not only God signing off on it first, but God THINKING of it first. There is a passage in the Old Testament that could be easily extrapelated to read "Before an Evil Idea ever entered your head- - it entered Mine first". (selah) You
know it’s funny how this dominant personality stuff works. For instance there is some celebrity who has
money and power in her own right, but has chosen to go back to an abusive
husband who beats her, and unfortunately Johnny Wendell didn’t supply any
names. People do stupid things. Sometimes people will risk their own lives to save a dog, when the dog proved he could have survived without their help. Most people with "power trips" can only exercise them in what I call a "power field". In other words, in a different environment these people would not do what they do, like bullying around women in abortion clinics who are having grave second thoughts. In another environment they wouldn't last five seconds. But you have the case of
Jim. Our first encounter got off to a rather strange start two months ago, and sometimes "first impressions" stay with you - - on both sides. The day I met him I made a decision
this was one person it was not wise to tread very close to. He’s a friend of [name withheld], who did time in
prison for a murder, and I don’t care if he’s a Christian now. At any rate at lunch I went to look at the
menu and came in the west door, which I usually don’t do, even though I go out
that way. The door was already open and
everybody else just about was already seated.
I’m sitting in my seat maybe thirty seconds and Jim comes over rather
angry, seemingly saying “That’s the third time you cut me off like that. Don’t do it again”. I agreed I wouldn’t. But it would really help if I had the vaguest
idea of what he’s talking about. John
Powel thought me was referring to the med line.
That isn’t it. But I’m smart
enough to know that in the “Dad tradition” it’s best to admit whatever it is
they are accusing you of because if you don’t remember or deny it or try in any
way to defend yourself, it only makes them madder. It’s kind of like these cops that administer
these arm twisting pain holds and if you twitch in pain or try to move to
another position to ease the pain- it’s called “resistance” and the cop only
applies more pain. That’s because these
cops are natural born bullies and sadists.
We had a warm chicken salad sandwich on partially toasted wheat bread
with beets. I had seconds on the rice
soup. We had mixed melon and grapes for
desert.
Here we go with one of
those “what do you think?” stories. On
the soap opera Gabriel got her abortion today.
But clearly she was conflicted and kept asking to speak to someone while
she was in bed. Will is in the waiting
room and wants to tell her that he now believes it was a mistake. He was told Gabriel was in communacado. Then they finally meet and speak and then she
goes back into the opporating room. Raphael, her brother, calls up the clinic and
is both lied to and equivocated with and stalled wasting valuable time. He comes down there and tries to push his way
in only to find that the door is locked.
Even when Raphael informs her that he is a cop, and a high ranking - -
Chicano Catholic cop at that, she still will not let him in. Finally after she has had “the procedure” she
comes out tearful. You know if this were
the old south like Alabama or some place you could count on that place being
fire bombed out of existence within 48 hours and no one in law enforcement
would touch the ones that did it. Keep
in mind there was no three day waiting period or anything. She had the abortion so far as I can tell
within 24 hours of when she was pregnant, and I’m not aware of her getting any
pre abortion counseling of any sort.
Where is Eric around when someone needs him? You know the authorities are going to close
that place down for good. Salem isn’t
that big of a town and people talk. Odds
are the nurses who worked there will find it difficult to get any other
employment. And if you're wondering how I personally feel about this issue of black listing former employees in these small abortion clinics - - I think this is here one case where "we should let the free market decide".
The United States is concerned about Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi taking on broader powers, saying it does not want to see too much authority resting in too few hands. The president's decree has sparked protests by opposition activists, who continued to camp out in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a fourth day Monday to demand that Morsi reverse his decision. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton telephoned Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr Monday to discuss President Morsi's assumption of broader powers. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says Secretary Clinton underscored the importance Washington places on settling these disputes democratically. "We want to see the constitutional process move forward in a way that does not overly concentrate power in one set of hands, that ensures that rule of law, checks and balances, protections of the rights of all groups in Egypt are upheld," she said. Egyptian judges hope to persuade the president to limit the sweeping powers he granted himself last week. Morsi says placing his decisions above judicial review is temporary. He met Monday with Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council to explain the move. Nuland says that is encouraging. "The fact that the right people are talking to each other is a good step, but obviously we want to see this issue resolved in a way that meets the standards and principles that we have been supporting all the way through since the Egyptian revolution began," she said. Rallies against the president's greater powers have reinvigorated a fractured opposition in Cairo, with some of his opponents accusing the new president of attempting to become "a new pharaoh." Without a functioning legislature, Nuland says Egypt's post-revolutionary democracy is operating in a "very unclear political environment." "It is a very murky, uncertain period in terms of the legal and constitutional underpinnings, which makes it all the more important that the process proceed on the basis of democratic dialogue and consultation," she said. The State Department spokeswoman would not say whether President Morsi's decision might affect U.S. backing for International Monetary Fund assistance to Egypt's new government. During her conversation with Foreign Minister Amr, Secretary Clinton also discussed the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas authorities in Gaza.
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