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Listen up you medieval screwheads, This is my Walton-stick!
The Wall Street Journal reported today that Walmart, in an attempt to boost flagging sales, has decided to expand it's sale of longarms and ammunition to nearly half of its 3,600 stores in the U.S.. The retail giant is listed as being the largest single vendor of firearms and ammunition in the country. Walmart has stated that most of the stores ( Read more... ) -
Can Walmart afford to pay it's people a living wage?
Conventional wisdom states that any substantive increase in employee wages will have a substantive negative effect on the competitiveness of a company, even if the increase is enforced across the board (i.e. minimum wage increase). In a recent study, the Center for Labor Research and Education, questioned this assumption. They asked what would be ( Read more... ) -
Thinkin....
I have been listening at some length to those in private sector who argue over and over that government is a problem, big government a big problem and that the private sector is better equipped to address the needs of the 'customers ( Read more... ) -
Vengence is mine, sayeth the cold
Been fighing a nasty cold for most of the week. Home for the third day out of four. Sara makes for a good tissue, but Chloe has decided that she does not want any part of this (though it's funny to see a snotty dog ( Read more... ) -
And now, a word from our colleague, the senior senator from Homophobia
Sen. McCain has said that the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy
"Unambiguously maintains that open homosexuality within the military services presents an intolerable risk to morale, cohesion and discipline." (SLDN, 2007)
but said
"The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, 'Senator, we ought to change the policy,' then I think ( Read more... ) -
priorities?
A few items in the news ( Read more... ) -
Operation Payback
It appears that some people have yet to learn that you just don't f*ck with Anonymous.
In response to the latest assault by the MPAA and RIAA against the file-sharing site, Pirate Bay, the assembled horde at 4chan (AKA Anonymous) decided to stage a little protest and brought down the websites of both industries for several hours.
Then an individual ( Read more... ) -
For those to whom this applies....
שנה טובה ומבורכת
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