Round up all the jackalopes so they don’t spill over into the other threads.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.
A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.
I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.
This fight is for everything.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
Glad to see john eastman going through some things.
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.
Cole is on a roll !
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
Tick tock motherfuckers!
“Squeaker” McCarthy
Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.
You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.
I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
We’re not going back!
Krista
That’s not fair, Tim. Jackalopes are meant to run free and wild. Corralling them is just plain cruel.
zzyzx
I posted this in another thread but it’s still cracking me up.
KJL (from National Review Online) on New Orleans
Wait? There’s strip clubs in New Orleans? I’m amazed that people haven’t marched down Bourbon Street with pitchforks and torches demanding its removal. Maybe next week she’ll discover that they sell alcohol in New Orleans too. And no, that’s not satire. Her Monday post linked in that was a request that Senator Vitter (of all people) hire Disney to create billboards to hide the existence of strip clubs in New York because, y’know, some parents would appreciate that.
So New Orleans has a problem. It only has one source of income. National Review’s solution? Destroy that industry!
HunterBlackLuna
zzyzx, I am not proud to say I am absolutely not stunned by that. It’s just become… so… so EXPECTED of these idiots. It’s like proposing such a stupid concept while trying to hide your own side’s hypocracy on the subject, which is far-reaching, is the name of the game for them.
Jake
Fixed.
Paul L.
Run free Duke Lacrosse/New York Times bashing Jackalope.
Changing Standards at the Times
On a related note does anyone not hate Nancy Grace?
Check out this fark thread. Not one defender.
Jack A. Lopez
Round up all the Jack A. Lopezes?
Wait just a damned minute!
taodon
We have a nickname for Nancy Grace:
Bloody Queef.
Krista
That’s gross. (Not that I have any love for Nancy Grace, mind you.)
Bubblegum Tate
I can’t think of a reason not to hate her.
ET
KJL – Strip joints in NOLA ain’t exactly news. I always thought the transvestie strip joint that I had to convince someone to not go in – back in 1988 – was the best. And considering the post-Katrina lack of mental health care (along with the high rate of suicide, increasing alcoholism, and increasing drug use) I think going to strip joints is considered therapy.
And FYI I prefer Basselopes.
Dave
Nancy Grace herself?
taodon: yikes!
DougJ
Round up all the jackalopes so they don’t spill over into the other threads.
This may call for doubling the size of Gitmo.
Zifnab
You know what’s scary about this article. It implies that someone actually had sex with that harpy. Eghewghew! On so many levels.
Andrew
Maybe we can just put them in dog carriers on top of the car.
Dave
Here’s a site oriented question.
Why in the blogroll are right and center grouped together and left all on it’s own? More to the point, when did the right claim the center as it’s own?
Krista
That poor, poor kid. We should start up a fund for his/her therapy bills now.
The Other Steve
Hunter has a good Bill O’Reilly response
John Cole thinks the right is closer to the center than the left. Apparently having 65% of America disapprove of right-leaning government means they’re really centrists and the public is a bunch of moonbats. Or something.
Jack A. Lopez
When they figured out that they could prop up a failed movie actor turned ersatz politician/governor and run him for president. About 28 years ago, actually.
Their whole political model and coalition strategy is aimed at peeling off votes in the middle by demagoguery. Ergo, abortion, law and order, tax and spend, socialized medicine, war on drugs, family values, gay marriage, flag burning, faith based initiatives, war on terra.
Welcome to the America that those marketing slogans have given you.
ThymeZone
Hey, who is that Jackalope guy, stealing my material?
Cassidy
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10085220
Interesting gem of a story. Of course, we must accomodate everyone, instead of expecting a person to find a job more suited to their lifestyle.
Rome Again
Ummm, TZ? I think it’s time for your meds, hon.
Rome Again
Isn’t it interesting that the so-called “Democrat” who believes in this war brought to us by “The Uniter” is trying to divide us along racial and religious lines, just like his favorite president.
No thanks, asshole!
Krista
From what I read in the story, it sounds as though those who were praying were trying to find ways in which to make it as minimal a disruption as possible, but the company was having none of it. I also think it’s safe to assume that if these individuals were working shift work on a production line, any other available jobs for which they’d be qualified would not be dissimilar in nature. You’d have the same problem, just at a different company.
Cassidy
You don’t just get to stop and pray…and hold the whole production line up…when you want to. It’s wrong to demand that a company’s production schedule be held up for domething like this. The union has negotiated break times.
Cassidy
You don’t know a lot about Kennedy do you?
Jake
My guess? These folks love Ms. Grace.
canuckistani
You’d think God could cut them some slack while they were working to feed their families.
Ryan S.
Because some people don’t read their own links.
This is prolly closer to the real reason.
Jake
A private institution can (within the law and reason) place a lot more restrictions on its employees than a public institution.
If the president of my division announces that people who swear will be fired for the first offense … this place would be empty tomorrow, but we wouldn’t have legal recourse under the 1st Am. The employees at the meat packing plant would have to show that people of other religions were allowed to take prayer breaks or something like that. Individuals might have legal complaints for other issues (assault) but the praying alone?
Nuh-uh.
Cassidy
I read the link and I said what I see. My reaction to the story would be the same if it were Wiccans, or Christians, or any religious group. Freedom to practice your religion does not mean freedom to practice it whenever you feel like it and everyone must accomodate you.
Rome…you’re projecting again. Why do you hate muslims?
Rome Again
::acknowledges that she has read Cassidy’s post and isn’t playing::
John S.
Nobody will argue your keen ability to see things that aren’t really there. I for one thing this whole flap is an unltra-liberal conspiracy who are in fact in league with the ultra-conservatives – heck, they are actually the same people (just with different bumper stickers)!
myiq2xu
Any suggestions on how to cook a jackalope? Baked, fried, or grilled? Red or White wine? Domestic or imported beer?
On another note, I hear KFC is bringing back the Hillary Clinton special – 2 small breasts, a pair of flabby thighs, and a couple of left wings.
The Other Steve
Why do you think things close down on sunday?
Rome Again
Certain companies like “Chik-Fil-A” tell you they don’t operate on Sunday, on purpose. I think they mean to pull in the Christian crowd. I’ve never tried their chicken, so I wasn’t missing out when I decided I’d never eat there because of that sentiment.
And if anyone from that company happens reading this blog? The sabbath is supposed to be on Saturday, dumbasses!
myiq2xu
Black Sabbath or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath? How did Ozzy get in here?
Cassidy
Heaven forbid the owners have a set of principles they stick by…
It’s their business. They can close if they want. That’s a completely different subject. If a business choses to run itself based on certain beliefs, they have the right to do so. If they choose not to accommodate certain beliefs, they can choose not to as well.
Makes me wonder if the employees in question were Christian, would you all be so quick to condemn the business.
Krista
You know, Cassidy, I haven’t joined in with those who have berated you, because I wanted to read enough of your comments to give you a fair chance. But I think I’ve read enough to realize that you really are a bit of a dick.
Andrew
Consider yourself lucky. It’s the crappiest chicken in the universe, even without the Jesus sauce.
HyperIon
after several days of reading threads polluted by Cassidy, i think it’s time to dig out the “i like pie” script thingy.
who is the keeper of that sanity-preserving device?
rachel
Swift made a bad decision, IMO. If they’d taken the time to work out an accomodation with the Somalis, they would have gotten the benefit of happier workers–workers who would have been less likely to grumble, malinger, pilfer or quit with 5 minutes warning. “As long as you let me pray — I will always work for you.” Yeah, sure, why not? Now, all the workers Swift have left know for a fact that this company will screw them over in a heartbeat. So why not steal the company toilet paper, or slack on the job or tell company dirt to competitors and/or government inspectors if they can get away with it? Screw them before they screw you is a life philosophy for some.
And lets not even get into how Swift is going to have to pay their lawyers some fairly stiff money to make this silly little lawsuit go away.
Oh, the company could have worked out an agreement between the other workers and the Somalis whereby the Somalis did some nasty job the other guys didn’t want to do in exchange for being allowed to pray when they needed to, or maybe for every Somali working at the factory, a non-Muslim doesn’t have to work the night shift or on Sundays. But, no. Working out win-win deals is too much trouble; it’s much better to get sued.
rachel
What? How? What?
No, really?
He hopes Cheney will run? Why, so do I. :-D
Rome Again
and either way I can choose not not spend my money there too! ;)
Rome Again
and either way I can choose to not spend my money there too!
Can you tell I went out for beers with a co-worker after work? LOL
Rome Again
Yes, Run Cheney, Run!
Cassidy
Absolutely. That’s how the free market works. If you don’t like a company’s policies, take your dollar elsewhere. All I’m saying is don’t begrudge them the right to set their business the way they choose.
Maybe. But, as a private business, they get to choose what to do and what not to do. Secondly, as a business that deals with unions, they’ve already made concessions to their workers, so why should they have to make more, outside of that agreement.
Punchy
Her DSLs?
Punchy
Nancy Grace’s fat ass causes more problems, I see….
rachel
I didn’t say they couldn’t; I just said it was a bad idea. And if the case gets to court, a jury and judge may find in favor of the former employees. In which case that will have been a very bad idea.
Why foster harmony when you can simply compel obedience by your superior position? Because harmony is likely to lead to profits while disharmony will certainly lead to loss. Plus, as I explained earlier, the concessions could have been arranged between groups of laborers rather than between the Muslim laborers and management. There would have been no skin off management’s nose at all in that case.
No, I don’t think I’ll be buying stock in Swift anytime soon. The kind of wooden-headedness they showed with this decision argues poorly for their future prospects.
John S.
Plus, their sasuage tastes like rubber. I’m a Jimmy Dean man, myself.
Cassidy
I seriously doubt that. Being that thye already have a union agreement set up, they have a very good position. The only way they’s lose in court, is if the plaintiffs can prove it’s some sort of EO issue.
Production leads to profits. Stopping production leads to loss.
Maybe, maybe not. The company still reserves the right to say that they can’t do that. That’s the central issue. These employees and the advocate groups that have jumped to their corner are insinuating that rights have been restricted and taken away.
Tim F.
Not always true. When demand is inflexible bottlenecking supply can lead to massive profits. See: energy, petroleum.
John S.
Ah, your profile continues to take shape. Clearly you can only view things as polar. There is no gray, there is no color. Hue and saturation are meaningless. Concepts only exist as black or white. And never mind the fact that your constructs often fall wide of the mark.
That is why you receive so much ridicule around here.
Cassidy
Irony…gotta love it.
Cassidy
Nothing is ever black and white, but creating policy or basing judgements on exceptions is not good public policy or good judgement. See: Wellfare queens
Tim F.
Actually, I would like to. The last I heard Reagan’s Cadillac-driving bugbears were a myth. How many have you seen?
Tim F.
Or maybe you were saying that the “welfare queen” myth drove bad policy. It seems out of character for you to be a fan of welfare, but stranger things have happened.
Cassidy
That’s the point. They’re a myth, or an exception at best. But that didn’t stop the drumbeat for welfare reform in that sector of the population.
Cassidy
I ama fan of welfare as aprt of a social safety net to help those who have a run of misfortune. Life happens and I think any civilized society should be willing to sacrifice for it’s fellow countrymen. But I also think welfare should have an end-state, with a goal of moving the recipient to a self-reliant status. Right now, I believe the system is too open ended, not so much calling for abuse as it is fairly well regulated, but not in pushing our fellow citizens to be pro-active in improving their own lives.
John S.
I don’t think that word means what you think it does.
John S.
I don’t buy it. You clearly indicated on another thread that you subscribe to the FYIGM school of thought. Remember when you mocked Jefferson’s view of using a tiered tax system as a means of redistributing wealth to ‘promote the general welfare’?
John S.
Now that’s real irony.
Making an absolute statement that there are no absolutes? Priceless. (I thought I’d spell it out since we’ve established you don’t understand the concept of irony.)
Cassidy
No, I subscribe to the school of personal responsibility. Some people have misfortune. Other’s make bad decisions. For the latter group, it’s their fault. But by passing the buck to the state or them “ebil, rich people”, they are denied the oppurtunity to learn from those mistakes and not make them again.
I’m sorry, but stealing someone else’s money because they earned more than you is not promoting the general welfare.
John S.
Wow, that’s some first class smugness. No doubt, you think you posess the magic 8-ball that allows you to divine the difference between on person’s misfortune and another’s bad decision.
That’s an interesting theory on taxation. A bit puerile, but interesting nonetheless.
Like I said, you are a dyed in the wool follower of FYIGM – also known these days as ‘libertarian’. Your latest screed only confirms it.