USAction campaign to fight unemployment discrimination, asks sites to reject discriminatory ads

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Tuesday August 09, 2011 · 5:30 AM PDT

2011/08/09 · 05:30

USAction today launched an online petition campaign aimed at companies that refuse to consider hiring unemployed workers, a perverse form of discrimination in today's economy.

The campaign comes after the National Employment Law Project released a report showing that employers of all sizes, staffing agencies and online job posting firms are using recruitment and hiring policies that expressly deny employment to the unemployed – simply because they are not working.

"Just as a company would not dare say 'African Americans need not apply' or 'Jews need not apply,' it is outrageous that any company in this day and age would explicitly ban unemployed workers from employment," said Alan Charney, USAction director of strategy and policy. "This policy discriminates against people who have lost jobs through no fault of their own, excludes many jobless workers who are highly qualified and motivated and, paradoxically and unacceptably, lengthens unemployment status."

The NELP study reviewed job postings that appeared on four of the nation's most prominent online job listing websites: CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com, Indeed.com and Craigslist. It identified more than 150 ads that openly discriminated based on employment status. The overwhelming majority of the discriminatory ads required that applicants "must be currently employed."

http://www.prnewswire.com/...

And a link to the petition itself is here. There is a lot of work to do to get this the signatures it needs, let's move, people.

http://act.truemajorityaction.org/...

SPLC in the sights of the Religious Right

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Thursday April 22, 2010 · 4:32 PM PDT

2010/04/22 · 16:32

It is no secret that Religious Right groups do not particularly like the Southern Poverty Law Center, especially ever since it started keeping a list of "Active Anti-Gay Groups" that includes groups like the Family Research Institute, Watchmen on the Walls, and Traditional Values Coalition.

MassResistance is also featured on the list, and is now fighting back, claiming that the SPLC secretly wrote the Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism that was released last year.

MassResistance links to an article by Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, who asserts that this is the case.

DeWeese provides no evidence or documentation for the allegation that the SPLC drafted the DHS report ... but that doesn't matter, as the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission is already accepting it as truth and is therefore demanding that Congress must "defund the Southern Poverty Law Center".

Where the CADC got the idea that the Federal Government subsidizes the SPLC is anybody's guess, since they cite absolutely nothing to support the claim.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

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Friday March 26, 2010 · 11:34 AM PDT

2010/03/26 · 11:34

From Alan Colmes:

"Smash Windows!": Tea Party Leader Is On Government Disability

Here comes the hypocrisy card again: Michael Vanderboegh, the Tea Party leader and former militiaman who is calling for an armed march on Washington for April 19, and who urged people to break Democrat party office windows, is on government disability!

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TSA Employee Plants a Bag of White Powder on Traveler...As a 'Joke'

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Friday January 22, 2010 · 8:12 AM PST

2010/01/22 · 08:12

In the tense new world of air travel, we're stripped of shoes, told not to take too much shampoo on board, frowned on if we crack a smile.

The last thing we expect is a joke from a Transportation Security Administration screener - particularly one this stupid.

Rebecca Solomon is 22 and a student at the University of Michigan, and on Jan. 5 she was flying back to school after holiday break. She made sure she arrived at Philadelphia International Airport 90 minutes before takeoff, given the new regulations.

She would be flying into Detroit on Northwest Airlines, the same city and carrier involved in the attempted bombing on Christmas, just 10 days before. She was tense.

What happened to her lasted only 20 seconds, but she says they were the longest 20 seconds of her life.

After pulling her laptop out of her carry-on bag, sliding the items through the scanning machines, and walking through a detector, she went to collect her things.

A TSA worker was staring at her. He motioned her toward him.

Then he pulled a small, clear plastic bag from her carry-on - the sort of baggie that a pair of earrings might come in. Inside the bag was fine, white powder.

She remembers his words: "Where did you get it?"

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 8:43 PM PST

2010/01/21 · 20:43

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives filed a complaint against an ex-Marine after a grenade launcher was discovered at his residence in Marlow.

ATF Agent Brett Williams wrote in an affidavit that deputies found a Colt M-203, 40-millimeter grenade launcher Tuesday while they were arresting Charles Dyer on child rape and forcible sodomy charges.

The affidavit says authorities determined the item was one of three grenade launchers that were stolen from Fort Irwin, Calif., in 2006 as they were being shipped to Iraq.

Williams says Dyer told an FBI agent a friend gave him the device while Dyer was stationed in California with the Marine Corps.

A Stephens County jailer says Dyer was transferred to federal custody on Friday, and it wasn't known if he had an attorney.

http://www.mercurynews.com/...

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Tuesday January 05, 2010 · 4:52 AM PST

2010/01/05 · 04:52

Recently, Andrew Breitbart Twittered a $1,000 bet challenging Media Matters and senior fellow Eric Boehlert for proof that Bertha E. Lewis -- whose name recently appeared on a White House guest list -- was not ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis. Breitbart's challenge followed his begrudging semi-correction acknowledging that a White House official reportedly told Politico's Ben Smith that it was, in fact, a different Bertha Lewis.

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Sunday September 13, 2009 · 3:55 AM PDT

2009/09/13 · 03:55

McCarthyism was supported by a variety of groups, including the American Legion and various other anti-communist organizations. One core element of support was a variety of militantly anti-communist women's groups such as the American Public Relations Forum and the Minute Women of the U.S.A.. These organized tens of thousands of housewives into study groups, letter-writing networks, and patriotic clubs that coordinated efforts to identify and eradicate subversion.

Although far-right radicals were the bedrock of support for McCarthyism, they were not alone. A broad "coalition of the aggrieved" found McCarthyism attractive, or at least politically useful. Common themes uniting the coalition were opposition to internationalism, particularly the United Nations; opposition to social welfare provisions, particularly the various programs established by the New Deal; and opposition to efforts to reduce inequalities in the social structure of the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/...

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Report debunks right wing propaganda that high health costs are being caused by malpractice suits

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Thursday July 23, 2009 · 2:09 PM PDT

2009/07/23 · 14:09

Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR), a special project of the Center for Justice & Democracy (CJ&D), released a major new study today that (among other things) debunks the myth that insurance premium increases for doctors are somehow driven by whether or not a state limits patients’ rights, or that limiting injured patients’ access to the courthouse would have any real effect on overall health costs.

AIR’s report, True Risk: Medical Liability, Malpractice Insurance and Health Care, was written by CJ&D’s Gillian Cassell-Stiga and Joanne Doroshow, and actuary J. Robert Hunter, who is Director of Insurance of the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), former Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Texas, and former Federal Insurance Administrator under Presidents Carter and Ford.

According to Hunter, "If Congress completely eliminated every single medical malpractice lawsuit...overall health care costs would hardly change, but the costs of medical error and hospital induced injury would remain and someone else would have to pay."

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If you want the government to say how much can be gained from malpractice suits, then why not also have the government say what the maximum price for prescription drugs and gasoline can be?

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If you want the government to say how much can be gained from malpractice suits, then why not also have the government say what the maximum price for prescription drugs and gasoline can be?

Price controls for medicine and gasoline, not a bad idea

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Because the government should be allowed to intrude onto everyone's business except for the business of the drug and oil companies, duh

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Opposed to both price controls and tort reform

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Michael Steele calls preventive care a "health police" conspiracy

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Friday June 19, 2009 · 8:07 AM PDT

2009/06/19 · 08:07

In response to a doctor asking how health care reform will "mandate" health care...

STEELE: Well you’ll get issued, Doc, you’re gonna issue, to your patients, a health care card that’s gonna be part of a national ID system that, you know, every time I charge something or use that card, it’s going to show up on a grid what I’ve done and what I have failed to do, according to the government plan. So the government will know whether or not I’ve had my physical at the appropriate time and then probably some health police will come knocking on my door telling me I’m now costing the system money because I haven’t, you know, gone and done my preventive care.

http://thinkprogress.org/...

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If you want to get married, then you hate America

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Saturday May 16, 2009 · 4:00 PM PDT

2009/05/16 · 16:00

Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.

Steele said that was just an example of how the party can retool its message to appeal to young voters and minorities without sacrificing core conservative principles. Steele said he used the argument weeks ago while chatting on a flight with a college student who described herself as fiscally conservative but socially liberal on issues like gay marriage.

"Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for," Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. "So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money."

http://www.kxmc.com/...

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Thursday February 12, 2009 · 5:45 AM PST

2009/02/12 · 05:45

From the Washington Post:

"Hours after pleading guilty in Washington to federal charges that he lied to congressional investigators in 2005 about his knowledge of performance-enhancing drug use in baseball, former Baltimore Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada made a tearful apology in Houston -- without saying what he was apologizing for.

Tejada, 34, pleaded guilty to making a false representation, a charge that carries a sentence of up to year in prison. However, federal sentence guidelines call for probation to six months. U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay released Tejada on his personal recognizance and set a March 26 sentencing hearing.

During a 45-minute hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, Tejada, the 2002 American League most valuable player, admitted that he lied to congressional staffers during a 2005 interview in a Baltimore hotel room that focused on the prevalence of steroids in the game, as part of a House committee's investigation into former Orioles teammate Rafael Palmeiro."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

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Miguel Tejada charged with lying to Congress

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Wednesday February 11, 2009 · 4:32 AM PST

2009/02/11 · 04:32

"All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada has been charged with lying to Congress about steroids. Tejada is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday where he is expected to plead guilty.

The charges against Tejada, who currently plays for the Houston Astros, were outlined in documents filed in Washington federal court on Tuesday.

The documents indicate that a plea agreement has been reached with Tejada.

Messages left for his attorney, Mark Tuohey, were not immediately returned."

http://news.yahoo.com/...

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Like Tejada, should the oil executives be charged with lying to Congress?

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USAction campaign to fight unemployment discrimination, asks sites to reject discriminatory ads

SPLC in the sights of the Religious Right

"It's not socialism when I'M getting government assistance!"

TSA Employee Plants a Bag of White Powder on Traveler...As a 'Joke'

"Uh... I'm holding this grenade launcher for a friend."

Andrew Breitbart gets humiliated by the White House

It's not neo-conservatism anymore, but neo-McCarthyism

Report debunks right wing propaganda that high health costs are being caused by malpractice suits

Michael Steele calls preventive care a "health police" conspiracy

If you want to get married, then you hate America

Isn't it GREAT that while we have to follow laws, the oil executives are immune from the same laws?

Miguel Tejada charged with lying to Congress