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turbinetree's JournalA Pizza Hut told Irma-fleeing employees they could be punished for skipping shifts
Source: Washington Post
A manager of one Pizza Hut in the path of Hurricane Irma threatened to discipline workers who evacuated for the storm outside of a designated time frame and the brand has come under fire on social media for the shameful policy.
A photo began circulating on Twitter of a memo posted for employees in one Jacksonville Pizza Hut location, with an explicit list of instructions for employees.
To all Team members, the memo begins, before laying out a policy that dictates that employees cannot evacuate more than 24 hours before the storm and must return within 72 hours. Failure to show for these shifts, regardless of reason, will be considered a no call/no show and documentation will be issued, it reads. After the storm, we need all TMs available to get the store up and running and serve our communities as needed.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/09/11/a-pizza-hut-told-irma-fleeing-employees-they-could-be-punished-for-skipping-shifts/?utm_term=.876fa8e53c64
So Pizza Hut, do you f*cking think that an entire state was hit with a hurricane that was over 400 miles across and had a eye that was over 100 miles big, and that just maybe some of your employees will be out of gas , water, and food, or have family members that are sick, but your owner of this pizza hut thinks that profit is ore important, ................this is why I do not go into Pizza Hut.
So Pizza Hut said that it was not and is not a policy..................then why did this happen................in the first place
When you have a "UNION" contract it says in the language and scope of the contract that if there is an act of "God" your protected from being fired
Minn. regulators recommend against $6.5B pipeline project
Source: The Hill
Officials in Minnesota will recommend the state utilities commission reject a permit for an $6.5 billion pipeline project due to cross the state.
The state’s Department of Commerce said Monday that Enbridge’s proposal to replace its Line 3 pipeline would not benefit the state and instead pose environmental risks. It will ask the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to deny a permit for the project, a decision due next year.
“In light of the serious risks and effects on the natural and socio-economic environments of the existing Line 3 and the limited benefit that the existing Line 3 provides to Minnesota refineries, it is reasonable to conclude that Minnesota would be better off if Enbridge proposed to cease operations of the existing Line 3, without any new pipeline being built,” the Department of Commerce said.
Enbridge is looking to replace its 1960s-era Line 3 pipeline, which transports oil from Alberta to terminals in Minnesota and Wisconsin. It secured Canadian approval for the 1,031-mile, 760,000-barrel-per-day project in November, and construction is underway on a small portion of the pipeline in Wisconsin.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/350135-minn-regulators-recommend-against-65b-pipeline-project
Then the CEO of this company said this: “The way we look at it is that if you oppose this project, you are opposing the enhancement of critical, safety-related infrastructure,” Enbridge CEO Al Monaco told the Minneapolis Star Tribune this weekend.
No ass**** you a destructive force, you are not safety-related, you are a polluter
I guess the Enbridge CEO missed the event in Florida, Mexico, and Leeward Islands, Barbuda, Cuba the last week ....................
His company should be forced to pay for damages, along with other multi-fossil fuel corporations
MSNBCs Kerry Sanders Helps Rescue Dolphin in Florida
Company Town: 'quiet tragedy' of an Arkansas community vs the Kochs
The documentary Company Town opened in New York City on Friday night, for a short run at Cinema Village on East 12th Street. Introducing a sold-out screening, New York state attorney general Eric Schneiderman said co-directors Natalie Kottke-Masocco and Erica Sardarian had captured one of the “quiet tragedies that are taking place all across America all the time”.
The film tells the story of Crossett, Arkansas, a small town dominated by a huge Georgia-Pacific paper mill owned by the Koch brothers, Charles and David, hugely influential Republican donors with a deeply contentious – activists would say appalling – record on the environment. People who live in Crossett blame the mill for the heedless dumping of cancer-causing chemicals they say pollutes drinking water and shortens already straitened lives.
“This is a story that never gets told,” Schneiderman said, “and it takes tremendous commitment to get to the quiet tragedies that are taking place all across America all the time.
“The environmental movement really has not done as good a job perhaps as we should have done carrying the essential message that people who are poor and without power are always on the front lines of pollution and environmental justice.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/10/company-town-film-arkansas-koch-brothers
Then there are towns in wisCONsin and Kansas, owned by these ass****
A top Republican challenged a professor on the border debate. It did not go well.
During an interview with The Ralph Bailey Show on Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy attempted to explain the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program scale-back, immigration, and the debate over the southern border to a political science professor from California State University, Bakersfield. The professor just didn’t understand the issues with immigration, how border patrol operates, or why Mexico was so dangerous, McCarthy claimed. “Have you ever been to the border?” he asked.
There was just one problem: the professor to whom McCarthy was speaking— Mark Martinez—had indeed been to the border. In fact, Martinez had previously taught graduate studies in Mexico at the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, hundreds of miles south of the border and has a wide breadth of knowledge in political development, international relations, and American foreign policy.
“Mark, have you spent any time with the border agents, down along the border?” McCarthy asked, in response to accusations that he and many Republicans were feeding the racist components of President Trump’s base by pushing the idea of a wall and deporting DACA recipients. “Have you asked what’s coming across? Have you watched the amount of drugs, have you [seen] the tunnels from [Mexico]?”
“Absolutely,” Martinez replied. “Kevin, I’ve lived in Mexico. Have you ever lived in Mexico, Kevin?”
https://thinkprogress.org/republican-leader-tells-professor-who-taught-in-mexico-that-he-doesnt-understand-the-border-debate-a8c52f36b67c/
A $225,000 a year ass***** and represents the 23rd district, and had a deli at one time, looks like he got mayonnaise on his face-------------again
In Eight Days the space craft Cassini-Huygens: Exploring Saturn's System will
be sent into planet
https://www.space.com/38010-cassini-spacecraft-saturn-grand-finale.html
https://www.space.com/17754-cassini-huygens.html
Paul Ryan says he doesnt know if the Trump Organization is an LLC
If you can stand this hypocrite.....................it was hard
Fuck him and the right wing horse he rides in on..............
Paul Ryan says he doesnt know if the Trump Organization is an LLC
Source: Think Progress
During a Q&A session hosted by New York Times Deputy Washington Editor Jonathan Weisman on Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan appeared to be caught off guard when asked about the conflict of interest between the Trump Organization and Republicans’ goal to lower the corporate tax rate.
“There’s a saying: ‘Not a cent for the 1 percent,'” Weisman said. “We do know that the affluent have done pretty well over the last 20 years as the middle class has struggled. So can you write a simplified tax code and keep it progressive?”
After detailing his thoughts on the need to lower rates to help “middle-income taxpayers” and smaller businesses, Ryan responded.
“The issue that I think gets confused in this whole ‘1 percent’ conversation is, 80 percent of all of our businesses in America pay their taxes as individual people,” he said. “We call them pass-throughs, LLCs, sole-proprietors, subchapter S corporations—”
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/paul-ryan-trump-org-llc-7dffc2eb8c77/
When you get to the video------------------
It's not progressive asshole.......................FUCK YOU it's regressive to the middle class...........again FUCK YOU
Big Oil must pay for climate change. Now we can calculate how much
As communities in coastal Texas and Louisiana confront the damage wrought by Hurricane Harvey, another hurricane, Irma, fueled by abnormally warm waters, is barreling into the Caribbean and threatening Puerto Rico and Florida.
We know that the costs of both hurricanes will be enormous and that climate change will have made them far larger than they would have been otherwise. How much larger? Careful studies will take time but the evidence that climate change is warming ocean waters, increasing both sea level and the risk of extreme precipitation in these regions is well established.
On 29 October 2012, when Hurricane Sandy slammed into America’s east coast, a storm surge of more than nine feet caused extensive flooding damage throughout the affected region. Researchers have since determined that the damage from that storm surge was greatly worsened by climate change.
Sea level along the East Coast has risen by about eight inches since 1900, as oceans have warmed and expanded in response to rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, with subsiding land adding insult to injury. According to one study, sea level rise increased Sandy’s flood damages to property in New York City alone by $2bn – more than $230 per New Yorker.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/07/big-oil-must-pay-for-climate-change-here-is-how-to-calculate-how-much
Tori Amos: 'Menopause is the hardest teacher I've met. Harder than fame'
A gargantuan truck fills the driveway of Tori Amos’s Cornwall home. The surrounding countryside is tranquil – verdant hills, stone farm buildings, golden crops swaying in the late August sun – but a throng of activity greets us at the home/recording studio Amos shares with her producer husband, Mark Hawley. The van and attending crew, she says, curled up on the sofa in her library, are here to collect one of her beloved Bösendorfer pianos for an impending European tour. “She’s being put in her case,” explains Amos. “Hopefully with a nice blanket.”
Amos was raised in Maryland, a Led Zeppelin-loving daughter of a minister, and self-taught pianist who would jilt both church and conservatoire to forge her own sound in the 90s: wildly original, taboo-busting piano pop. She cut through grunge’s squall, playing two, sometimes three, piano keyboards simultaneously, while wearing 7in stilettos. Her music is celebrated enough to warrant the occasional benevolent ribbing – the animated series Bob’s Burgers recently had an Amos-esque woman using lyrics about an oil spill as a metaphor for her vagina – and has been an indelible influence on today’s musicians, acknowledged by Taylor Swift, Perfume Genius and Annie “St Vincent” Clark.
Native Invader, released this week, is Amos’s 15th studio album, some 25 years on from her solo debut Little Earthquakes. She is feeling “fortunate, blessed” about this benchmark. “But writing is still nerve-racking, mostly because I’m waiting for the muses to turn up.” She has jump-started the process in previous years; a penchant for hallucinogens, for example, is well documented. “Oh, I haven’t done those in a while,” says the 54-year-old. “I’m leaving that to the youth now.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/07/tori-amos-menopause-is-the-hardest-teacher-ive-met-harder-than-fame
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