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ok posted by the t dude at 7 21 am no comments thursday september 18 2014 update air force reverses course it would seem that the air force has seen the light and pulled an immelman turn on forcing enlistees to say so help me god as part of their oath as i reported before an atheist airman who wanted to reenlist was being denied the opportunity to do so because he refused to use that phase in his oath from the air force statement on the change washington afns the air force has instructed force support offices across the service to allow both enlisted members and officers to omit the words so help me god from enlistment and officer appointment oaths if an airman chooses in response to concerns raised by airmen the department of the air force requested an opinion from the department of defense general counsel addressing the legal parameters of the oath the resulting opinion concluded that an individual may strike or omit the words so help me god from an enlistment or appointment oath if preferred we take any instance in which airmen report concerns regarding religious freedom seriously said secretary of the air force deborah lee james we are making the appropriate adjustments to ensure our airmen s rights are protected since i called out the air force for denying airman the religious freedoms that they were swearing to protect it is only right that i congratulate them on making this injustice right click here to read the entire air force statement here is my original post quick hits now with military grade irony posted by the t dude at 7 25 am no comments thursday september 11 2014 quick hits now with military grade irony you have got to be kidding me an airman in the u s air force wants to re enlist but the air force won t let him it isn t because he isn t a good soldier he didn t commit a crime he hasn t done anything wrong he just refuses to sign or say an oath containing the phrase so help me god you see he is an atheist and up until october 30th of last year that was fine you could omit that phrase but since that date a change to air force instruction 36 2606 demands that all enlistees swear the complete oath including the phrase so help me god that same enlistee s oath also requires them to support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic and makes them promise to bear true faith and allegiance to the same allow me to quote from that same constitution the enlistees are swearing to protect article xi to be exact the senators and representatives before mentioned and the members of the several state legislatures and all executive and judicial officers both of the united states and of the several states shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this constitution but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the united states emphasis added now if an atheist refusing to sign an oath including the phrase so help me god isn t bearing true faith and allegiance to the constitution then i don t know what is and what religious zealot made the change in the first place they do know that this is america and that freedom of religion includes freedom from religion right i guess not only in the military posted by the t dude at 10 41 am no comments labels constitution irony military friday august 01 2014 do unto others it is no secret that big business doesn t like unions in fact they have spent billions of dollars supporting the campaigns of candidates who are anti union but what business doesn t seem to understand is that if they treated their employees well if they recognized the importance of a vibrant viable middle class then unions wouldn t be necessary case in point let s look at the very real difference between grocery store chain market basket and the mcdonald s corporation both are suffering from employee dissatisfaction both have been the targets of work stoppages but for very different reasons mcdonald s workers have been staging strikes to protest wages and the employment practices at the restaurant chain in response to these strikes some of the employees have allegedly been retaliated against by their employer many of those employees have filed complaints and as a result mcd s finds itself on the wrong end of an important rulingthat could help bolster the case for unionization of its employees in 43 complaints filed with the national labor relations board the nlrb found that mcdonalds not just its franchise owners are responsible for how workers are treated that means that they are partially liable for any awarded damages in the allegations of wage fraud retaliatory firings etc if mcdonald s paid a living wage if they provided benefits and generally treated their employees better do you think they would be suffering strikes and labor complaints i don t think so and to illustrate my point let s look at the troubles at market basket they too are suffering from work stoppages and protests shelves are empty and the company is losing millions of dollars here s the twist all this is happening not because they treat their employees poorly but because they have historically been treated well thanks to the recently ousted ceo arthur t demoulas they are protesting because the board of directors of the family owned grocery chain fired arthur t for being too good to the employees they are protesting because they want him back why because starting employees make more than minimum wage long time managers can make six figure salaries there were regular bonuses and the company matched 15 percent of the employee s salary for their retirement fund at market basket an experienced cashier could make as much as 40k a year on top of that arthur t was visible he actually went to the stores knew the employees and often their relatives by name in other words he treated the people who had made him and his family members multimillionaires with respect what has helped endear arthur t to workers proved to be a sticking point for shareholders as he apparently hasn t been running the company at the expected level of ruthless corporate efficiency as the globe s adrian walker wrote the generosity of market basket s profit sharing progr am particularly irked some board members in one instance back in 2008 arthur t made sure the company made up for a loss of 46 million that the profit sharing fund suffered during the economic crisis it s no wonder that employees such as tom trainor a district manager of 37 stores who was fired on sunday have taken to thinking of arthur t as a storybook character he s george bailey trainor told the washington post invoking the hero of it s a wonderful life he cares more about people than he does about money slate com let s be clear before these protests the company wasn t in any trouble it was doing well everyone was making money but the board wants to make more money and they want to do it by talking the cash out of the pockets of its workers and they are and have been willing to fight tooth and nail to get as big a slice of the profit pie as possible considering the board s decision last year led by arthur s arthur t s cousin a rival heir to the company who now controls the company s board to funnel an extra 250 million of market basket takings to its nine family shareholders it s easy to see why workers are concerned that they may get short shrift in the shakeup the we are market basket website and facebook page has been compiling a steady list of evidence to that effect this isn t the first time arthur s has tried wresting control of market basket from his same named cousin an ugly legal battle raged last year in which arthur s s side of the family who control 50 5 percent of the company tried to grab some 1 5 billion in payouts on top of the 500 million they d made in the past decade according to globe columnist adrian walker these intra family fights go back decades back in 2000 massachusetts lawyers weekly described the demoulas vs demoulas saga as follows one family ten years 800 million more than a dozen lawyers one witness on the stand for 17 days one case that wouldn t end it was a monster a modern day hydra every time one evil head would be severed two more would sprout in its place slate com why do we need unions because greed has become more than commonplace in the boardrooms of corporate america it has become the prevailing creed under which these companies operate rich isn t rich enough the only good money is more money and the workers who make that wealth possible are no more important than the share croppers of old they are expendable their poverty is their problem and the food stamps and welfare they need to survive is paid for by you and me the taxpayer when the tax rates for the very rich were between 70 and 90 percent it made sense for those people to invest their money in their workers and their companies but with the loop holes and historically low tax rates they now enjoy it makes it easy to keep that money for themselves that is why we need unions because even the good executives can t stop the culture of greed that now dominates big business and if they can t survive if responsible ceo s like arthur t can t keep their jobs then who besides a union is left to protect workers and their livelihoods posted by the t dude at 3 21 pm no comments labels living wage market basket mcdonalds middle class protests unions thursday july 17 2014 just say no to koch in school let s just say for arguments sake that you are a dyed in the wool republican i m not talking an old school eisenhower republican i m talking a true right wing libertarian fox news watching glenn beck loving free market trickle down economics republican and then for the fun of it i told you that the teamsters and the service employees union had gotten together and are sponsoring a business class for high school students taught by your local high school teacher in your local high school and what if that class focused on the importance of unionization to the economic future of america and for the icing on the cake at the end of the class the students got paid with scholarships etc would you be comfortable with that if you are such a republican i suspect you just popped a nitro tablet to fight off the angina well my hardcore republican friends don t worry it is actually just the opposite of what i described it is instead the very right wing charles g koch foundation and they are buying their way into schools to teach the anti regulation free market dogma that mirrors the tea party libertarian view of the world that s right folks the hardcore right wingers at the koch foundation don t like the fact that kids go to college and start thinking so they are trying to indoctrinate them before they get there through a subsidiary organization called youth entrepreneurs lesson plans and class materials obtained by the huffington post make the course s message clear the minimum wage hurts workers and slows economic growth low taxes and less regulation allow people to prosper public assistance harms the poor government in short is the enemy of liberty and this it isn t just the interpretation of the huffington post emails obtained from the program s open google group thanks guys make the true intent of the program is clear the current structure of the program began to take shape in november 2009 documents show when a team of associates at the charles g koch foundation launched an important project with charles koch s blessing they would design and test what they called a high school free market and liberty based course with support from members of the koch family s vast nonprofit and political network a pilot version of the class would be offered the following spring to students at the wichita collegiate school an elite private prep school in kansas where koch was a top donor first the koch team chose its mascot a golden eagle holding a knife in its beak they also assigned each other nicknames ol mucky terrahawk mighty killer big gay mule midnight bandit and the erratic assassin the group dubbed itself the wu teach clan over the next six months members of the wu teach clan exchanged hundreds of emails with one another and with koch lieutenants they hashed out a strategy to infiltrate public schools after surveys showed that the wealthy prep school students largely failed to absorb their libertarian message the emails show that charles koch had a hands on role in the design of the high school curriculum directly reviewing the work of those responsible for setting up the course the goal the group said flatly was to turn young people into liberty advancing agents before they went to college where they might learn harmful liberal ideas huffpost here are just a few of the falsehoods that the ye group wanted to dispel with students rich get richer at the expense of the poor fdr new deal brought us out of the depression government wealth transfer programs help the poor private industry incapable of doing functions that public sector has always done unions protect the employees people with the same job title should be paid the same amount minimum wage living wage laws are good for people society capitalist societies provide an environment for greed and materialism to flourish hey this is a long article and i m not going to run through the entire thing the bottom line is this the koch foundation is targeting woefully underfunded school districts that are desperate for any infusion of cash or free curricula with right wing propaganda designed to shape the student s ideology so that it more closely reflects their own they aren t teaching kids to think they are attempting to indoctrinate them into the extreme political right wing and it doesn t have to stop after high school a student can take the ye course in high school participate in the ye academy to earn scholarship money and then use that money to pay for a degree from a koch funded university so it isn t just a relatively small but growing high school program offered in kansas and missouri it s part of a larger mission huffpost ye isn t about the students its mission is creating a political future that serves to protect the wealth of the elite to the detriment of the rest of us it is about securing the future of those with money and power it is simply put class warfare designed to ensure that the robber barons of today continue to pillage the economy of tomorrow full article http www huffingtonpost com 2014 07 16 koch brothers education_n_5587577 html posted by the t dude at 1 19 pm 2 comments labels high school koch brothers propaganda tea party older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me the t dude you expect sanity i just feel lucky to still be sucking air view my complete profile blog archive 2017 1 january 1 measuring trump stolen from eric zorn chicago t 2015 1 june 1 2014 18 september 3 august 1 july 3 june 1 may 1 april 2 march 2 february 4 january 1 2013 6 april 3 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