No, I'm not. Public funds for public schools shouldn't be diverted to private entities, be they corporations or church-based school. It has yet to achieve its stated goals in any place its been implemented.
in a world where shareholder value via profit margins must be preserved at all costs, cramming down labor is about all a corporation, or its franchisee's can do when other costs rise.
The restaurant on south Iowa Street was closed for large parts of Tuesday because of high gasoline prices, but perhaps not for the reasons you would think. Multiple employees of the chain quit after seeing an email from a regional manager urging the restaurant to begin hiring employees at lower wages, under the theory that people are becoming more desperate to take a job as fuel prices increase.
He's making a ton of assumptions, like he can't pass cost increases to customers via menu price increases; he can't generate more business by paying people more; he can't adjust profit margins to reflect current realities. His only recourse is artificially depressing wages.
Its that kind of thinking that now has Applebee's and other in a wage induced labor shortage. Its that kind of thinking that is driving Starbucks stores to unionize, Amazon fulfillment centers to continue holding union elections. And it's that kind of thinking that a lot of labor fled in the great resignation.
But at least its out in the open now. Yay for that I guess.
As long as Texans, Oklahomans and Missourians can bounty hunt people aiding abortion, and in Missouri's case potentially across state lines, state level solutions to a foundational national rights problem are unworkable. I mean even Texas republican voters want abortion to remain legal and their own politicians are ignoring them.
so children of gay and lesbian couple should hide their family relationships and their pride in their own parents? That's creepy? Encouraging children to be accepting and supportive of a variety of family structures and people as they grow up is creepy?
Our side does plenty of things wrong. Most of my posts on my other blog during the Obama era were about how wrong it was and what needed to be done about it. What we do that Republicans don't is police our own.
We got what he was willing to support in the Infrastructure bill. There little left in BBB that would be substantive that he'll get behind.
Frankly given his "defeat" on voting rights - where the Republicans he allegedly negotiated with then refused to back the bill he claimed they helped him write - you'd think he'd pivot a bit more.
Manchin is a centerist neoliberal democrat in a red state. He wants to retain his perceived power as a US Senator, as he's trying to be Robert Byrd 2.0 in a state that wouldn't elect Byrd today. Like Mitch McConnell he cares about keeping job first, making republican voters in West Virginia happy second (so he can keep his job), and making the national Democratic Party happy . . . about 56th. He knows that he has Schumer over multiple barrels due tot he slim/non existent majority in the Senate.
Even the worst ideas are protected by freedom of speech. The government cannot punish someone for having them.
And yet government entities - all be they local - are in fact seeking to remove ideas from school curricula under the guise of increasing parental choice and control.
No, but there are elections somewhere at some level every year. And these days - as we are seeing play out in real time - sate level elections are critical to keeping democracy alive. Many of those are intentionally in non-federal election years.
That was just a far more current example then the Civil War. Many of those participating in the capitol insurrection last year in support of his Coup were or are military members. Many of the members of the organizations most likely to start shooting were or are. But at the time the existing command structure made quite clear they were not in league with him and would not support using force to prevent the legal and peaceful transfer of power. Had it come down to it, any active duty member supporting him would most likely be arrested by their own.
It is a miscalculation to believe the majority (or even a plurality) of the professional military and police would support the conservative side in a shooting war domestically.
Writing for the court, Justice Neil Gorsuch said: "A reprimand, no matter how strongly worded, does not materially impair freedom of speech," especially when "the censure at issue before us was a form of speech" by the other elected representatives on the board.
Gorsuch noted that elected bodies in the U.S. have long exercised the power to censure their members. Members of Congress have long been censured by their fellow members for matters ranging from unethical conduct to "insulting...the Speaker."
In modern times, the Supreme Court has ruled that Congress, as well as state legislatures, may not refuse to seat a duly elected representative, but as the court noted on Thursday, "the power to exclude and the power to issue other, lesser forms of discipline are not fungible under our constitution."
Instead, as the court put it, "argument and counterargument, not litigation, are the weapons available for resolving this dispute."
The madness lies in criminalizing individual medical choice by women, and then whining when called out for it. The madness lies in telling doctors to report parents as child abusers who are trying to follow the latest medical and psychological guidance to support their children. The madness lies in continuing to threaten democracy because you don't like loosing. The madness lies in restricting who can vote when to keep from loosing more elections. One side of the politicla aisle is doing those things regularly, routinely and openly, because they have abandoned the pretext of agreeing to a shared realty. Much of it is - at least under the rules I grew up by - beyond the pale.
NeoNazzzzeeee Skinheads are rarely persuaded to cast off their views by being allowed to espouse them and then questioning them.
I accounted for him in my comments. The KKK members I grew up around were both open and irredeemable about it. They would no doubt have labeled him derisively as a cuck for "caving" to the other side. They did not see anything wrong with their world views - if anything we were the ones who they viewed as irredeemable. They had no interest in questioning or changing.
I think any arbitration has to be grounded in some basic principles about reality. Everyone doesn’t have to agree with them, but everyone has to agree to act within them.
This is a very profound indictment of modern America as a nation. A sizable chunk of our fellow citizens seem to have decided not only to abandon prior agreements on what those reality principles are, they also seem to have abandoned any pretext of acting with in them. We still do here at OT (mostly) but IRL its becoming increasingly hard to avoid this divorce.
so you'd be ok with a person who belongs to a white nationalist organization, which openly espouses and pursues policies designed to actively oppress non-white citizens, remaining employed if he or she openly advocated that position while at work? You see no societal detriment to that person having both a platform and employment to support them?
So you think all the Capitol insurrectionists from last year don't deserve to be fired, much less prosecuted, since according to the GOP they were engaged in - checks notes - patriotic political discourse?
SO you are ok with the highly restrictive abortion laws being enacted in those states? Which not only restrict women's rights significantly but empower ordinary citizens to bounty hunt as a method of enforcement?
On “Discretion Has No Substitute: Lessons In Moving The Overton Window”
That was a rhetorical question right?
No, I'm not. Public funds for public schools shouldn't be diverted to private entities, be they corporations or church-based school. It has yet to achieve its stated goals in any place its been implemented.
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Yes I do.
On “Applebee’s Internal Memo Leaked”
in a world where shareholder value via profit margins must be preserved at all costs, cramming down labor is about all a corporation, or its franchisee's can do when other costs rise.
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Seems to be legit:
https://www2.ljworld.com/news/general-news/2022/mar/23/an-email-urging-lower-wages-for-new-employees-due-to-higher-gas-prices-sparks-walkout-at-lawrence-applebees/
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maintaining market wages at or above current levels would be a great way to be sensitive to workers needs.
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He's making a ton of assumptions, like he can't pass cost increases to customers via menu price increases; he can't generate more business by paying people more; he can't adjust profit margins to reflect current realities. His only recourse is artificially depressing wages.
Its that kind of thinking that now has Applebee's and other in a wage induced labor shortage. Its that kind of thinking that is driving Starbucks stores to unionize, Amazon fulfillment centers to continue holding union elections. And it's that kind of thinking that a lot of labor fled in the great resignation.
But at least its out in the open now. Yay for that I guess.
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Such as?
On “Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation Hearings: Live Stream and Discussion”
As long as Texans, Oklahomans and Missourians can bounty hunt people aiding abortion, and in Missouri's case potentially across state lines, state level solutions to a foundational national rights problem are unworkable. I mean even Texas republican voters want abortion to remain legal and their own politicians are ignoring them.
https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/overview-abortion-attitudes-texas-four-things-know
I have a whole post in review about this.
On “Discretion Has No Substitute: Lessons In Moving The Overton Window”
Thats' easy:
https://www.austinisd.org/respectforall/pride
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so children of gay and lesbian couple should hide their family relationships and their pride in their own parents? That's creepy? Encouraging children to be accepting and supportive of a variety of family structures and people as they grow up is creepy?
Wow dude. Just Wow.
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Our side does plenty of things wrong. Most of my posts on my other blog during the Obama era were about how wrong it was and what needed to be done about it. What we do that Republicans don't is police our own.
On “BBB Needs A Deadline”
We got what he was willing to support in the Infrastructure bill. There little left in BBB that would be substantive that he'll get behind.
Frankly given his "defeat" on voting rights - where the Republicans he allegedly negotiated with then refused to back the bill he claimed they helped him write - you'd think he'd pivot a bit more.
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Manchin is a centerist neoliberal democrat in a red state. He wants to retain his perceived power as a US Senator, as he's trying to be Robert Byrd 2.0 in a state that wouldn't elect Byrd today. Like Mitch McConnell he cares about keeping job first, making republican voters in West Virginia happy second (so he can keep his job), and making the national Democratic Party happy . . . about 56th. He knows that he has Schumer over multiple barrels due tot he slim/non existent majority in the Senate.
Its not actually that hard.
On “Discretion Has No Substitute: Lessons In Moving The Overton Window”
And yet government entities - all be they local - are in fact seeking to remove ideas from school curricula under the guise of increasing parental choice and control.
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No, but there are elections somewhere at some level every year. And these days - as we are seeing play out in real time - sate level elections are critical to keeping democracy alive. Many of those are intentionally in non-federal election years.
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That was just a far more current example then the Civil War. Many of those participating in the capitol insurrection last year in support of his Coup were or are military members. Many of the members of the organizations most likely to start shooting were or are. But at the time the existing command structure made quite clear they were not in league with him and would not support using force to prevent the legal and peaceful transfer of power. Had it come down to it, any active duty member supporting him would most likely be arrested by their own.
It is a miscalculation to believe the majority (or even a plurality) of the professional military and police would support the conservative side in a shooting war domestically.
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Apropos of nothing, I'm Sure:
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088670531/supreme-court-upholds-right-to-censure-in-case-of-obstreperous-school-board-memb
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The madness lies in criminalizing individual medical choice by women, and then whining when called out for it. The madness lies in telling doctors to report parents as child abusers who are trying to follow the latest medical and psychological guidance to support their children. The madness lies in continuing to threaten democracy because you don't like loosing. The madness lies in restricting who can vote when to keep from loosing more elections. One side of the politicla aisle is doing those things regularly, routinely and openly, because they have abandoned the pretext of agreeing to a shared realty. Much of it is - at least under the rules I grew up by - beyond the pale.
"
I accounted for him in my comments. The KKK members I grew up around were both open and irredeemable about it. They would no doubt have labeled him derisively as a cuck for "caving" to the other side. They did not see anything wrong with their world views - if anything we were the ones who they viewed as irredeemable. They had no interest in questioning or changing.
"
This is a very profound indictment of modern America as a nation. A sizable chunk of our fellow citizens seem to have decided not only to abandon prior agreements on what those reality principles are, they also seem to have abandoned any pretext of acting with in them. We still do here at OT (mostly) but IRL its becoming increasingly hard to avoid this divorce.
"
so you'd be ok with a person who belongs to a white nationalist organization, which openly espouses and pursues policies designed to actively oppress non-white citizens, remaining employed if he or she openly advocated that position while at work? You see no societal detriment to that person having both a platform and employment to support them?
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Would you fire a KKK employee?
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So you think all the Capitol insurrectionists from last year don't deserve to be fired, much less prosecuted, since according to the GOP they were engaged in - checks notes - patriotic political discourse?
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I saw this yesterday. Made my blood boil.
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SO you are ok with the highly restrictive abortion laws being enacted in those states? Which not only restrict women's rights significantly but empower ordinary citizens to bounty hunt as a method of enforcement?