The Sleepwalkers’ enemies’ dispersed cells of suicidal agents continued to thrive within our cities, protected and sheltered by their relatives and fellow travelers that the Sleepwalkers had graciously assumed to be “moderate,” even loyal. They moved among us, clad in their false histories, secure in the knowledge that our own institutionalized rules of decency decreed that having the appearance of a suspect group was the surest protection against being investigated as an enemy.
About 190 workers, most of them immigrants from Somalia, have been fired from a meat packing and distribution plant on Colorado’s Eastern Plains for walking off the job to protest a workplace prayer dispute. Ten days ago more than 200 workers walked off their jobs at Cargill Meat Solutions in Fort Morgan.
Some workers later returned, but the majority stayed away as representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) negotiated on their behalf. On Tuesday Cargill, through its attorneys, fired the workers who were holding out, said Jaylani Hussein, a spokesman and executive director of CAIR.
“The workers were told: ‘If you want to pray, go home,’ ” Hussein said.
In the 30+ years I have been in the work force, not once….never…..ever…..did anyone ask for or expect preferential treatment because of their religious beliefs. They call it work for a reason.
You are in America now, assimilate or get the fuck out. You deserve no special treatment, you’re lucky to be here.
Cargill has a policy stating that any workers who are terminated can not reapply for a position for 6 months. CAIR continues to talk with Cargill, a teleconference is scheduled next week, and Hussein hopes that the 6-month freeze is waved and that the workers will be allowed back.
The workers continue to express their desire to be allowed a prayer break, Hussein said. “They feel missing their prayer is worse than losing their job,” Hussein said. “It’s like losing a blessing from God.”
Cargill could not be reached for comment Wednesday night. Last week, Mike Martin, director of communications for Cargill, told the Greeley Tribune that employees of all faiths are allowed to use a reflection area, but that because employees work on an assembly line only one or two at a time can use the area, to avoid slowing production.
He told the Tribune company policies had not changed.
The workers earn $14-per-hour and up, and are represented by a union, Teamsters Local 445. About 2,000 people are employed at the plant.
“These are people who want to work,” Wicks said. “If they’re allowed to return to work, we will continue to negotiate.” Keep Reading…..
I hope the company holds it’s ground, fill the positions with Americans who would be thankful just to have a job.
My grand kids will look into a bag of animal crackers and pick out their favorite shape or color, even though they all taste the same. Republicans and Democrats want us to choose our favorite political animal cracker, they come in different shapes and colors, but in the end, they are all the same.
The Left and by extension the Democrats, now embrace the same economics as the so-called Right. Both sides lust after riches in the financial markets. Both sides embrace global corporatism. The Left champions the liquidation of labor rights through advocacy of open borders. Think about that. There’s a reason it is hard to see the difference between the parties. There isn’t one.
The Left collapsed as an intellectual movement when the Cold War ended, but the Right collapsed as a pragmatic alternative. You can’t have one without the other. In a single generation, the Left has adopted the economics of the Right and the Right has adopted the politics of the Left. Neither side has a reason to exist outside of naked greed. Keep Reading….
Even when you dress them up and toss some sprinkles on them.
…seems about right.
Just want to give a shout out to NJ for raising the minimum wage. Now the place I worked last summer can’t bring me back in the winter because they have to account for increased labor costs.
I post about the minimum wage all the time and tell people that it’s detrimental, well now I’ve got a credit card to pay off and needed to work this winter but can’t.
Thanks a lot you economically illiterate fucks.
If I have this right:
We needed to quadruple the number of H2B visas because we needed far more nonagricultural, low-skill, low-wage workers coming into the country. H2B visas are granted for jobs like “amusement park worker.”
We’ll make our poor people poorer, and our Middle Class poorer, all to give Disney a 25 cent boost on the stock market, and import more non-Americans to replace American workers. (And eventually, when those non-Americans get comfortable and begin demanding American-style wages – we’ll have to import fresh non-Americans to replace them.)
This is the Republican Way of Doing Business, and if you have a problem with any of this, you’re a goddamned extremist and racist who should be shat upon.
And somehow, somehow, after fucking over every working class and Middle Class voter in America, the GOP predicts… it will somehow pick up a Senate seat here or there, and then we’ll get Supreme Court justices.
So drink up! This is the Golden Age of Republican Incompetency and Corruption.
There have been previous high points of Republican incompetency and corruption — but this age is truly one of miracles and wonders.
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It’s stunning to think that we need to elect a conservative Republican President to stop….Republicans. We didn’t give the House and Senate to these people only to give Democrats everything they want, they were elected to stop liberal Democratic agendas in their tracks. Ryan’s omnibus spending bill does nothing to stop them, quite the contrary, it pays for them.
At this point and time there are no distinguishable differences between Establishment Republicans and Democrats.
Paul Ryan’s first deal is just like John Boehner’s old ones.
The agreement Ryan reached with fellow congressional negotiators also looks much like one Boehner would have reached: Each side scores some points, but Republican congressional majorities again will fail to deliver a high-profile, base-pumping, ideological victory over some nefarious aspect of the “Obama agenda” on which conservatives had drawn a red line. Will this land Ryan in the same hot water that eventually cooked Boehner? He’ll get a pass, for now.
Language restricting Syrian and Iraqi refugee resettlement, defunding Planned Parenthood, or blocking President Obama’s executive actions on immigration will not be included.
I was going through a few of my daily reads when I noticed this story from Boston. It wasn’t the fact that a woman shoved another woman down a flight of stairs, it was the fact that one was a Nigerian, the other a Muslim, and the punishment handed down was by a moonbat judge of Asian decent.
After a landlord was convicted of pushing her Muslim tenant down a flight of stairs, a judge ordered her to respect the rights of all Muslims and to take an introductory course on Islam. …
The case centers on Daisy Obi, a 73-year-old ordained minister from Nigeria who is the pastor of the Adonai Bible Center in Somerville, just north of Boston. In April 2012, Obi rented an apartment in her multi-family home to Gihan Suliman, her husband and five young children.
Turns out that was a big mistake.
Suliman complained about the heat and electricity not always working, while Obi complained Suliman appeared to have 12 to 15 people living in the apartment at one point.
Suliman says Obi made Islamophobic remarks.
Then, about a month later, Suliman said Obi accused her of ringing her doorbell, shouted at her and pushed her. Suliman said she fell backward down 15 to 20 stairs, hitting her face on the banister, cutting her lip and tearing a ligament in her shoulder.
Obi denies everything, both the forbidden remarks and the pushing. However,
Judge Paul Yee Jr. called Obi “the landlord from hell”, “I want you to learn about the Muslim faith,” he said. “I want you to enroll and attend an introductory course on Islam.” Keep reading…..
Now I’m sure any day of the week you can find a white on white trash or black on black story like this, I just found the three names to be ironic. Nothing to see here, enjoy your diversity America.
An email….from Germany….shuts down all Los Angeles schools.
Considering events in Paris and San Bernadino and the various other bomb threats around the country, one would think it prudent to shut down all the LA schools. I would agree. What we shouldn’t agree too and should demand from our elected officials is this won’t tolerated as the new normal. Americans can’t live in fear everyday that somewhere in the United States some crazy rag head is calling in a threat or is actually going to kill someone.
So how do you stop it? I guess it would begin with profiling Muslims, all of them. These acts aren’t being perpetrated by Branch Davidians or the Amish, this is being done by one specific group of people, Muslims. There may be good ones and there seems to be a shitload of bad ones, but trying to figure out who is who is the proverbial needle in the haystack. So lets shred the hay and eliminate the needle.
If we are truly at war with Islamic extremist then all the rules of war should be used to win. Germans and Japanese were placed in internment camps during World War II, which was harsh, but America did what it needed to do to ensure it’s safety. I think America has evolved enough that camps would not be necessary, but removing threats from our homeland should not be off the table. Which means every Muslim that is not an American citizen should be sent back to their home countries until such time as the United States sees fit to allow the programs to continue.
Refugees, students, doctors, professors, scientists, and tech workers would be sent back from whence they came, all visas hereby terminated no more available. It may seem rude but it would eliminate the threat from that block of people. This is no time to fuck around here, daily threats or actual terrorism cannot be held as normal in this country, and until someone is willing to be tough on terrorism then it will continue and we will hear daily reports of bombs or killings. That’s not the America I grew up in and it’s damn sure not the one I want my grandkids living in.
The American Muslim population would then be scrutinized. Mosques and social media would analyzed, finances reported, mandatory allegiance to the United States forms signed, and other breaches of privacy. The programs would have a sunset date on them so any President can discontinue them when the threat has been extinguished. This might just get the “moderate” Muslims alerting authorities to potential threats in their ranks. Yep, it’s unconstitutional, but so is taking another persons life because they don’t believe as your people do.
If this does not stop the terror, start building new camps. If we can’t trust them, we would have to contain them. But at least Americans could feel relatively safe in the knowledge that we did not accept terror as the new normal in this country.
And if you think this is hate speech, you’re a part of the problem.