Overtime over?
130,000 chefs...30,000 pre-kindergarten and nursery school teachers...160,000 mortgage loan officers...90,000 computer workers...More than a million middle managers...At least 900,000 non-degreed professional employees... 2,000 funeral directors and licensed embalmers...
...Those are just some of the more than six million workers who will lose the right to overtime pay as of August 23, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute: Longer Hours, Less Pay.
The working men and women of the AFL-CIO have made it easy for you to tell the Bush administration and your two U.S. senators how you feel about those changes. If you agree with the message they've conveniently provided, then you can sign onto it -- or you can revise or replace it with your own words.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @8:26 PM
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Memos
In the journalism trade, memos are used as punishment: if you spell somebody's name wrong, you have to write a memo explaining how it happened and outlining the steps you're planning to take to ensure it never happens again. But these memos weren't written as punishment. So will more memos have to be written as punishment for them?
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @11:26 PM
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16.7.04 |
Outfoxed
If you watch Fox News, or know someone who does, you need to see this trailer for Robert Greenwald's new movie: OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, possibly coming soon to a theater near you, or available on DVD for $9.95 here.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:31 PM
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15.7.04 |
Politics of hate fails; Constitution remains intact
A big thank you to both of New Jersey's Senators, Frank Lautenberg and Jon Corzine, for voting against the attempt by Republican extremists to write discrimination into the U.S. Constitution.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:58 PM
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14.7.04 |
It's a slam dunk!
Our household's tribute to former CIA Director George Tenet is a slam dunk.
As it turns out, the evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was more of an airball.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @4:54 PM
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13.7.04 |
More photos from the Hamilton-Burr duel
Kudos to everybody involved in yesterday's re-enactment of the historic duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, especially the two men who portrayed their founding forbears.
Douglas Hamilton of Columbus, Ohio, played his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, while Antonio Burr, a descendent of Aaron Burr's first cousin, portrayed the then-Vice President of the United States. New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey and Rep. Bob Menendez were among the contemporary politicians in attendance. Didn't manage to get a photo of Menendez.
Here's Hamilton:
and Burr:
Gov. McGreevey greets Hamilton supporters:
A couple of amateurs try their own re-enactment:
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @6:36 PM
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12.7.04 |
Faux news
Representatives of the news media and law enforcement welcome the Hamilton-Burr duel re-enacters to New Jersey:
Douglas Hamilton, portraying his ancestor Alexander Hamilton, is led away after the mock-duel.
Real live politicians were also on the scene to remind us that it's best to settle our political differences at the ballot box, not with bullets.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @12:41 PM
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11.7.04 |
An American political tradition, continued
Hot-tempered vice presidents are nothing new, as illustrated by today's re-enactment of the famed duel 200 years ago today between then-Vice President Aaron Burr and then-Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton on the banks of the Hudson in Weehawken, New Jersey. The re-enactment, to be performed by descendants of Burr and Hamilton, will be complete with period costumes and a rowboat to haul the mock-injured Hamilton descendant across the river to New York, where he will continue the re-enactment by mock-dying. We're going to attempt to watch it live and in person, but if you're not as close, you can catch the mock action on CSPAN at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @8:13 AM
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