Huff Post — Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) is backing changes to the state’s child labor laws. The minimum wage in Maine is $7.50 an hour, and there is no training or subminimum wage for students. The new legislation, would permit for employers to pay anyone under the age of 20 as l[...]
Archive for April, 2011
A Racist Birth Certificate
Damnitall .. It now appears the birthers were wrong . Barack Hussein Obama is a Hawaiian! But .. a new scandal is arising. Note that the certificate identifies Barack senior as racially an “Aftrican.” This makes some sense, at least if we assume the self identified Kenyan came from A[...]
An Ave Pool: How many Senate Republicans Will Vote vs. Ryan’s Plan
This is great and welcome news. It is also very timely. Last night on Sky I heard that the rightist government of England has likely forced that economy into a double dip. I wonder how the following supposedly rational Repubs will vote: Graham, Lugar, Snow, McConnel, Shelby, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio[...]
April 27th, 2011 - 12:16 am § in Schools & Colleges
MLA President’s call to action on federal budget plans
from Found in Translation BlogOf course, the languages here at Udub are threatened. Who needs them? As a scientist, I sure don’t. Anywhere I go my colleagues damn well better speak English and write it well .. or no one will be able to talk with them. Funny to watch .. a Chinese and a [...]
Across the Board Cuts to NIH Grants
From Genomeweb News: Facing a budget cut of nearly one percent for its operations, programs, and research awards over the remainder of the fiscal year, the National Institutes of Health will trim back the size of its grants for all of its institutes and centers (ICs), NIH said Monday. The 2011 budge[...]
April 26th, 2011 - 10:39 am § in America
Palin not running for 2012 presidential polls: Rev Franklin Graham
Ed. This revelation by the Rev. Franklin ibn Billy Graham comes right on the heels of Rev. Franklin’s amazing video revelations on Sunday’s The AVE. Watch him explain WHY Japan was hit by a tsunami! Washington, Apr 25 : Reverend Franklin Graham, the influential and controversial pastor[...]
April 26th, 2011 - 10:15 am § in Uncategorized
26 April 1564
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616)[nb 1] was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”[...]
American Diversity .. Two “Mr.s” Rise to the Top of American Academe.
from the UW’s Young to MIT’s new hire Ed. Yesterday I heard that China should surpass the US as the world’s #1 1 economy by the end of President Obama’s next term. Perhaps, and Mussolini made the trains run on time! What these scenarios miss is the huge strength of Americ[...]
CHINA’s BRAVE NEW WORLD
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese government warned on Tuesday against using human rights disputes as what it called a tool to meddle, ahead of talks with the United States that will focus on complaints about Beijing’s crackdown on dissent. Ed. What has happened to the US Media? The story of r[...]
April 26th, 2011 - 5:47 am § in Misc.
Labor Rights For Adjunct Faculty Trump Religion at Catholic College
by G. Jeffrey MacDonald, USA Today . The National Labor Relations Board also isn’t convinced that, Manhattan College, a Catholic school is actually Catholic. According to Elbert Tellem, the NLRB’s acting regional director, Manhattan College can’t prohibit adjunct faculty from[...]