Pope Francis Condemns Wage Slavery Minimum wage for tipped workers: $2.13 readmore about how Congress PERMANENTLY fixed minimum wage at $2.13 for food workers.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hypocrisy’
Higher Ed Teaches Orgasm 101 at University of MInnessota
The Female Orgasm: A Program About Sexual Health and Women’s Empowerment Date: 04/10/2013 Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Location: Northstar Ballroom St. Paul Student Center Cost: Free Description: Join us to laugh and learn about the “big O,” the most popular topic sex educators Do[...]
Hypocrisy
Jeb Bush rips Matt Damon for sending his kids to private school Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Wednesday criticized actor Matt Damon, a vocal public-school advocate, for sending his children to private school. Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room/other-news/316005-jeb-bush-rips-matt[...]
October 3rd, 2013 - 8:42 pm § in Hypocrisy
Repost of “When Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Prize”
(As we celebrate the annual approach of ) the fresh Nobel Peace Prize winners, let us remember for a minute about a great loser of the Nobel Peace Prize, too. “You probably know” – said in 1995 Gustav Hendrikssen, emeritus professor of the University of Uppsala – “that immediately after th[...]
September 26th, 2013 - 8:49 am § in Religion
The “Good” Pope shows his muscles
From THE AGE: Church dumps rebel priest Dissident priest Greg Reynolds has been both defrocked and excommunicated over his support for women priests and gays – the first person ever excommunicated in Melbourne, he believes. The order comes direct from the Vatican, not at the request of [...]
September 25th, 2013 - 1:21 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Paying Taxes to Harvard
How Taxpayers Are Helping to Finance Harvard’s Capital Campaign Thanks to its status as a nonprofit organization, the university reaps the benefits of tax deductions for donors, which is a gross misallocation of public resources, writes Kevin Carey. On the local level, at least as I am told, w[...]
President Romney to GOP: Do Not Close The Government
President Romney Warns Against Government Shutdown Threats WOLFEBORO, N.H. –The White House has released a speech the President gave last August Purging his fellow Republicans not to shut down the government over the funding for the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Romney jumped into the debate[...]
September 23rd, 2013 - 11:22 pm § in Hypocrisy
Fake Online Reviewers Snared
NY Attorney General Sting Have you been giving yourself 4 stars? Voz iz Neias reports: “Nineteen companies caught writing fake reviews on websites such as Yelp, Google Local and CitySearch have been snared in a year-long sting operation by the New York Attorney General, and will pay $350,000 i[...]
Why Can’t The President Teach?
Chuck Todd on why the public buys GOP lies about Obamacare: “What I always love is people say, ‘Well, it’s you folks’ fault in the media.’ No! It’s the President of the United States’ fault for not selling it.”[...]
The Tabloid Science Journals Attack Open Acess
Over at Science, John Bohannon writes of an experiment. He submitted a phony paper to a large number of open access journals. “157 of the journals had accepted the paper and 98 …rejected it. Of the remaining 49 journals, 29 seem to be derelict: websites abandoned by their creators[...]