Going into 2020, the U.S. economy generally seems strong — especially for women, who hold the majority of jobs for the first time in almost a decade. Women held 50.04% of American jobs as of December, excluding farm workers and the self-employed,accordingto the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Women living with children continue to be absent from the job market, according to Moody’s Analytics. A report in October found moms were more than twice as likely as dads to have cut back their working hours. A working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in February was more pointed. “If mothers had experienced a recovery similar to that of non-parent women,” it estimated about 700,000 more working aged women would have been part of the workforce at the end of last year.
As employers complain about not finding enough available workers, previously working mothers remain at home.
Expanding vaccinations and the careful reopening of schools will help.
last night stephen talks & celebrates about going back to his workplace.
be sure to check his discussion at 3:24 minutes in about how his new in person audience though will be without rant (unvaccinated) paul .
That $600/week in federal unemployment money gave folks the chance to feel what it’s like to get $15/ hour.
If you don’t want to pay your workers a living wage, shame on you.
If you can’t pay your workers a living wage, your business model is a failure.
If raising the minimum wage raises the cost of things, that money will not all go to the workers. Nope. The owners will make a fuss, do the bare minimum for employees and pocket the rest.
It actually might be good for the environment if folks can afford fewer, but nicer (well-made) things. Maybe this will get us over the everything (and everyone) is disposable attitude.
* My fever from vax #2 on Saturday is finally gone. I hope the booster, should we need one, is kinder.
speaking of senator rant, according to wapo this morning:
On Monday, a package arrived at Paul’s house illustrated with an image of the senator in a neck brace and with a cast on his arm, Fox News reported, above text reading, “I’ll finish what your neighbor started.”
BiD, i don’t think it’s so much the minimum wage problem keeping some of the women from going back to the workplace as it is the availability and cost of childcare, inconsistent school schedules and most of all fear of their unvaccinated unmasked fellow workers exposing their children & vulnerable loved ones to covid varients.
“…an estimated 200 to 400 Spanish companies will voluntarily take part in the project by reducing their employees’ working week to 32 hours while keeping their salaries the same. The government will compensate participating businesses for any higher costs incurred by the changes, such as the need to hire additional staff or to reorganize scheduling and shift patterns.“
Looking forward to a long weekend/short workweek. Life would be easier if every week was designed that way. Ah, but the “good book” says there is only one day to rest and we already get two. So greedy, wanting to live our lives.
As more jobs are automated and there are excess workers, maybe we go to a shorter workweek/job sharing/basic income model. Everyone needs to do something with their time, but if the robots could do everything would we just have folks laying on couches and streaming old TV shows? I don’t think so.
If, from childhood, everyone could pursue their interests, we might have a lot of ballerinas and musicians (and art is a necessity), but we would also have folks who are naturally drawn to the sciences, etc.
The gqp has pretty much won the headlines with the lie that people are not going to work because of the unemployment. The media is a big cheerleader. It is all focused on the wait staff laying around their homes eating high on the hog and laughing at the world. There is almost no dive below the surface. Most places were closed, so no hiring took place for a year. Twelve or fifteen months is a long time in the employment world. People retire. People retrain themselves. People find ways to survive without a low paying job. People move to places to get a job.
Thinking back to when the regan admin worked hard to ensure people stayed poor by taxing Social Security and making tips the wage for restaurant employees still makes me feel bad. Make everyone minimum wage, no exceptions. Stop taxing Social Security. If there are to be tips, make those optional.
I am enjoying seeing all the “Hiring” signs and announcements. A lot of teens never got a summer job, at super cheap labor prices, last year and this year. A lot of adults found a way to live without making peanut shells each day.
A Reuters/IPSOS poll finds that 61% of Republicans think the election was stolen from Dumbass and 53% of Republicans believe Dumbass is the “true president”. It should be hard to believe that people can be that stupid in spite of all evidence to the contrary. Unfortunately, it’s not.
There’s a restaurant in NYC that is now paying front and back of house $27/hr plus healthcare. The chef/owner has changed the menu to one, set, five-course dinner (to reduce food waste from diners having so many options), and she has set the price at $85. For NYC, with so many high-salaried folks, that doesn’t seem unreasonable. I think she will make it work.
Welfare Cadillacs……..oldie but goodie.
Back to a previous subject with a question that caused a lot of shrugging:
ari hosts a trial teaser – 3 who know a lot about the former guy, who have cooperated with prosecutors and whom you may be seeing on the stand in a near future trial of said guy
In an exclusive interview with MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber, Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, Melania Trump’s former advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, and the daughter-in-law of the Trump Organization’s CFO Jennifer Weisselberg provide an inside look into the ongoing criminal probe into the Trump Organization and the inner-workings of the company. This video is a segment from a longer, wide-ranging interview. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. http://www.thebeatwithari.com).
We’re back in DC and all is done. One thing I learned down there DeSantis is more of a menace than I thought. Everyday we were there he did something mean or stupid. Can’t imagine he could be a presidential contender but why not.
welcome home, fearless leader!
Poobah, good question. Dumbass set a new standard for mean and stupid, and what he set would be a high bar to top.
Look at the line of succession: Reagan, Bush 1, Bush 2, Trump. Low as he may be DeSantis just isn’t low enough to make the cut. He’s peaked.
And the only way we got Clinton was the freak out by Ross Perot, and we only got Obama and Biden because the former guys were just so abjectly horrible people who caused mucho damage-o.
Fun Muppet song, Pat.
BlueBronc… you said it…. people retire. I don’t hear anyone in the media talking about how the baby boomers are still the biggest bulge in the population… and how many of us in retirement took part time jobs cuz we still liked working. I know the Wal-marts, Targets, and any other big box store had many older women working the cash registers around here. When this pandemic hit… I’m sure they didn’t feel the few extra bucks was worth the risk of staying on the job. It’s going to take a while for all of this to shake out.
Craig… welcome home to you and David!
Hope you managed to get a little bit of rest while you were in Florida…
RR – This is a new side of the next phase of a pandemic. One big issue that has been fermenting for years is the lack of teen jobs. Part-time jobs, usually summer and holiday but some year around, slowly disappeared. The next wave of low wage job seekers does not exist. Also, this is something I experienced, is the job re1quiring extraordinary education, work and skills for minimum wage or worse. These employers are not going to hire a teen, or anyone who will stick around very long. That they could hire before does not mean they can now. Add in that schools and colleges are reopening to in house attendance, even those teens who could put in day time hours no longer will be available.
A good reason for some of us Baby Boomers to hold and and keep building retirement accounts.
There are people who have careers and then there are people who have a job. If you lay off career people odds are they or someone like them will come back. But for job seekers, a job is a job it doesn’t matter. security matters, so I’m not coming back if I have a secure job especially if it pays benefits. So for you who casually laid me off get used to the fact that you are going to have to go through a lot of drunks, druggies and generally crazy people to get some one to replace me. That is going to be true no matter what you offer as pay.
Jack
I suspect that a job is many boomers only social life, The pandemic changed that for many and they have discovered new ways.
I know for me money isn’t a problem but finding a life is.
Jack
Here’s an interesting tweet a FB friend poster a couple days ago… it goes nicely with Jack’s above WaPo article….
With majority of restaurants if open still being at limited capacity, someone making less than $3.00 and tip dependent doesn’t even begin to cover the costs of going to work.
Liberals love to whine about servers’ wages🙄
Pretty sure Wrong DeSantis is your 2024 GQP nominee
(i win the misnomer game today!)
Sturg, and anyone else who’s ever spent time in Alabama, you’re gonna love this one. Alabama has legalized yoga but has outlawed namaste. AL.com
Excerpts:
By Frances Coleman
I love my adopted state, where I have lived for more than 40 years. For all of its warts and problems, there’s something about Alabama that gets inside your mind, your heart and your soul, and stays there.
For starters, it’s a beautiful place, with the Gulf of Mexico on the south end and the foothills of the Appalachians in the north and east. Its people are friendly and their voices are mellow; and if some Alabamians are suspicious of outsiders — i.e., folks from other geographical regions, especially the North — they generally will welcome transplants from other Southern states.
If you marry an Alabamian, as I did shortly after relocating from Louisiana, your welcome is even warmer, and before you know it, four decades will have passed and you’ll barely remember the times when you lived elsewhere.
Except when your politicians — and after 40 years, they are yours — do dumb stuff and you know that in a day or two, you’ll be reading about the dumb stuff in the New York Times and other national publications. Most recently, Alabama’s dumb-stuff-story du jour came courtesy of the state Legislature.
“Alabama Lifts Its Ban on Yoga in Schools,” the New York Times reported the other day, explaining that nearly 30 years ago, in 1993, the state school board had forbidden schools to teach yoga. Why?
It’s complicated, but I’ll try to simplify: Yoga’s roots are in India, you see, and yoga emphasizes exercises and mental reflection, and there are a lot of Hindus and Buddhists in India, and Hindus and Buddhists aren’t Christians, and if our public schools teach yoga, then before you know it, all of our kids will have converted to Hinduism or Buddhism.
Or something like that.
But wait, you say. In its 2021 session that just wrapped up, didn’t the Legislature reverse that ban and say that school districts can offer yoga as an elective? And didn’t the governor sign the bill? What’s dumb about that?
Again, it’s complicated. Certainly, the Legislature did the right thing in overturning the ban, and Gov. Kay Ivey did the right thing when she signed the bill. And certainly, the dumbness originated with Alabama’s elected state school board back in 1993.
But this year’s Legislature couldn’t just say to its public schools, “It’s OK if y’all want to offer yoga classes.” No, lawmakers had to make double-double sure that their constituents wouldn’t think they were condoning Hinduism/Buddhism/whatever-ism, so they spelled it out: “All poses shall be limited exclusively to sitting, standing, reclining, twisting, and balancing. All poses, exercises, and stretching techniques shall have exclusively English descriptive names. Chanting, mantras, mudras, use of mandalas, induction of hypnotic states, guided imagery, and namaste greetings shall be expressly prohibited.”
***
The stupidity continues….
pogo, guess ‘bama will also be saying goodbye to shalom, aloha, and as-salamu alaykum greetings due to the same kind of problem that the legislature thinks namaste has.
was this the evil heresy that those ‘bama folk thought too dangerous for the chillun down there?
This video shows the children singing the Namasté Song by Kira Willay (Dance For The Sun). We sing this at the end of our yoga session. Namasté Yay!
Nothing brings one quite as close to enlightenment as a polypropylene mat that will never biodegrade.
I believe that’s in the Atharva Veda, Bink.
There’s a lot of talk about people not making enough money, but you see what happens when they make too much- they do stuff like send toddlers to yoga class
Gardening has taught me a lot about the inherent exploitative nature of capitalism: basically, in a capitalist system, the better-off you are, the worse-off some poor farming or sweatshop schmuck is doing in a less-developed nation. One human consumes SO MUCH food
patd, I heard (idiot) Kay Ivey talking about how you can’t separate the religion from the exercises in yoga. Of course it ain’t Christian religion, which led to the ban. Some dumbass state legislator was saying the same thing, only he also said he saw video of some guy doing yoga who obviously became intoxicated from it – but that may have been from years back when they passed the bill barring yoga and other similar relaxation and exercise regimens from public schools, although since that was 28 years ago I suspect he was talking about something recent – and he did oppose dropping the ban, so you can do the math. I tell you the stupidity in Montgomery as as prevalent as mosquitoes in the towns around Mobile Bay in June.
Bink – or waitstaff in the good ol’ US of A if you are a shitty tipper.
“…a few of the narrowly targeted pieces with police union support were expected to be signed into law. But most of the measures in Texas’ George Floyd Act had failed to progress in the legislative session that ends Monday.“
“The Texas Legislature is saying Black lives don’t matter…”
Craig & David – Welcome home.
Sturg – I started googling yoga/Christian/sin…man there is some crazy and hateful stuff out there. It has “demonic” origins. Just MGT-level looney toons stuff.
*As the heat of peppers is rated on a Scovill scale, where is MGT on the crazy scale? Do we call it the q scale or the GQP scale?
Hmmm, I wonder if little kids who grow up with a “namaste” mindset might have a better connection with their schoolmates and not end up bullying them or taking a gun to school someday???
“Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick named the bill one of his legislative priorities after Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, stopped playing the anthem before home games.“
“…the so-called “Star Spangled Banner Protection Act,” a conservative-backed bill that would require any professional sports teams with contracts with the Texas state government to play the national anthem before the start of a game.“
If it’s not specified they do so within a contract to operate in the state, how can the state retroactively force them to do so? Anyone smell a lawsuit???
Would Mark Cuban move the team or do something else to make sure the assholery of the TX Legislature doesn’t go unpunished?
PROSECUTOR IN TRUMP CRIMINAL PROBE CONVENES GRAND JURY TO HEAR EVIDENCE, WEIGH POTENTIAL CHARGES
NEW YORK — Manhattan’s district attorney has convened the grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict former president Donald Trump, other executives at his company or the business itself should prosecutors present the panel with criminal charges, according to two people familiar with the development.
The panel was convened recently and will sit three days a week for six months. It is likely to hear several matters — not just the Trump case — during the duration of its term, which is longer than a traditional New York state grand-jury assignment, these people said. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. Generally, special grand juries such as this one are convened to participate in long-term matters rather than to hear evidence of crimes charged routinely.
The move indicates that District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s investigation of the former president and his business has reached an advanced stage after more than two years. It suggests, too, that Vance believes he has found evidence of a crime — if not by Trump then by someone potentially close to him or by his company.
Vance’s investigation is expansive, according to people familiar the probe and public disclosures made during related litigation. His investigators are scrutinizing Trump’s business practices before he was president, including whether the value of specific properties in the Trump Organization’s real estate portfolio were manipulated in a way that defrauded banks and insurance companies, and if any tax benefits were obtained illegally through unscrupulous asset valuation.
The district attorney also is examining the compensation provided to top Trump Organization executives, people familiar with the matter have said.
A spokesman for Trump and an attorney for the Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment. The former president has adamantly and repeatedly denied wrongdoing, deriding the investigation as politically motivated.
(Continues Bwahahahahahahah)
Since when do Dumbass’ spokesliars fail to comment?
Craig & David
Welcome home. You have been missed while attending to the necessary.
“Since when do Dumbass’ spokesliars fail to comment?”
pogo, wouldn’t anything said now just get him & spawn in trouble and be more fodder to be presented to grand jury?
my question is what happens to the accountant after decades of loyalty. since he’s the prime witness for proving intent and in his 70s, wouldn’t be surprised at how this negatively affects his health – including by natural or unnatural cause. if he hasn’t already fully cooperated and it’s on tape and in his own hand writing and he’s under extreme protection by officials, a suicide with the help of friends is likely.
remember what happened to epstein.
God Bless PBS –
“Living Longer” showcased DATA tonight .
This is the most important and timely thing they have ever done.
There is an app in development for an Apple watch that spots the day a virus is seen by your body.
Your resting heart rate picks-up 5 or 6 beats a min.
This is your immune system demanding energy to fight the virus.
Around 9 days later you show symptoms
The guy working on this is wear six devices 24/7 . .
So –
I went to super market at 6 PM , not 6AM.
A rule I have lived by longer than this current pox .
There is a huge load of free floating stupid, and crazy floating around , and masks don’t work for this pox.
Since when does it matter that Orange Adolf’s spokesliar stays mum. Do you think he’ll keep his gob shut for long? He’ll get worked up and say something that will get recorded and further incriminate him/his mob. Will anyone on the panel be coerced or targeted?
OM – That was a great show. I think there’s at least one, more episode.
Like the song says, “the freaks come out at night.” Aside from a few folks who’ve obviously been up all night and need snacks, the early bird shoppers are pretty tame.
So –
Allen the CFO has also been running the kids money as well .
Not to the two other king pins Melania and Jared. The New York DA’s are about to crack that nut as well .
I can watch “Law an Order” on some days from 4 AM to 12 PM.
Good Bless Steven Hill , and Mr. Wolf.
Trust me, all those people working in lower Manhattan grew up with Steven Hill.
They are going to put him into an XXL Orange Jump Suit.
His Scottish golf clubs are under questions They don’t make money.
HE PAID CASH FOR THEM .
He never did this before he paid borrowed money.
The folks in Scotland thinks he was washing money.
LBJ =
“I’m hitch hiking in a hail storm , I can’t run, I can’t hide .”
” I just have to take it.”
“weathering” applied to people, like rocks .
PBS tonight .
I never heard this term used with people. Fear attacks your cells they wear out faster. Like wind rain on rocks .
I believe this .
Propose a lottery –
The day a judge tells Trump to shut up.
Craig –
Give us break , tell us how you guys are doing.
Silence breeds worry , do us all a favor , we loved your dad too ,
One Hit Wonders –
Let’s strat with this ………
No one ever had their beer ad be their one
I found a cleaner clip of “The Tornados” .
Roll with the punches kids ,
And never wear panty hose or high heels on airplanes.
In a Jet-A fire wearing cotton will keep you out of the burn ward.
Every thing that flies fast burns Jet-A.
I am so sorry to inform you all .
It gets really hard from here.
Hell is still coming to breakfast.
They may turn off the turbines at Lake Meade , The basin is dry.
Watch for this , it is coming no matter what we want.
There is no back-up. If they turn off the dam.
Roll that marble around your head.
The American southwest is a fickle place .
South of Mesa Verde are the same people .
They are on the Ute Mountain Res.
They take you there on horse back. There are corn cobs that are 900 years old , pottery , fire pits.
They all got up and left. The drought lasted nearly 30 years.
Check the snow pack , and get back to me.
Vegas stuck their straw to the very bottom of the lake.
The fly in that honey , the city will be in the dark. And it has no back-up.
Watch for this , this is coming at us like a Chinese booster,
or to be more accurate, shouldn’t that read “sans the Rat-ettes”?
In January last year according to Time:
However, things have changed. For example:
COVID Forced Women And Mothers From The Workforce And Some Can’t Go Back | Colorado Public Radio (cpr.org)
The COVID-19 ‘she-cession,’ imposter syndrome, and rebuilding the US economy (msn.com)
and this
The Week Ahead: Watching for when more women return to the workforce – The Columbian
last night stephen talks & celebrates about going back to his workplace.
be sure to check his discussion at 3:24 minutes in about how his new in person audience though will be without rant (unvaccinated) paul .
That $600/week in federal unemployment money gave folks the chance to feel what it’s like to get $15/ hour.
If you don’t want to pay your workers a living wage, shame on you.
If you can’t pay your workers a living wage, your business model is a failure.
If raising the minimum wage raises the cost of things, that money will not all go to the workers. Nope. The owners will make a fuss, do the bare minimum for employees and pocket the rest.
It actually might be good for the environment if folks can afford fewer, but nicer (well-made) things. Maybe this will get us over the everything (and everyone) is disposable attitude.
* My fever from vax #2 on Saturday is finally gone. I hope the booster, should we need one, is kinder.
speaking of senator rant, according to wapo this morning:
BiD, i don’t think it’s so much the minimum wage problem keeping some of the women from going back to the workplace as it is the availability and cost of childcare, inconsistent school schedules and most of all fear of their unvaccinated unmasked fellow workers exposing their children & vulnerable loved ones to covid varients.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/spain-four-day-work-week-national-government/
“…an estimated 200 to 400 Spanish companies will voluntarily take part in the project by reducing their employees’ working week to 32 hours while keeping their salaries the same. The government will compensate participating businesses for any higher costs incurred by the changes, such as the need to hire additional staff or to reorganize scheduling and shift patterns.“
Looking forward to a long weekend/short workweek. Life would be easier if every week was designed that way. Ah, but the “good book” says there is only one day to rest and we already get two. So greedy, wanting to live our lives.
As more jobs are automated and there are excess workers, maybe we go to a shorter workweek/job sharing/basic income model. Everyone needs to do something with their time, but if the robots could do everything would we just have folks laying on couches and streaming old TV shows? I don’t think so.
If, from childhood, everyone could pursue their interests, we might have a lot of ballerinas and musicians (and art is a necessity), but we would also have folks who are naturally drawn to the sciences, etc.
The gqp has pretty much won the headlines with the lie that people are not going to work because of the unemployment. The media is a big cheerleader. It is all focused on the wait staff laying around their homes eating high on the hog and laughing at the world. There is almost no dive below the surface. Most places were closed, so no hiring took place for a year. Twelve or fifteen months is a long time in the employment world. People retire. People retrain themselves. People find ways to survive without a low paying job. People move to places to get a job.
Thinking back to when the regan admin worked hard to ensure people stayed poor by taxing Social Security and making tips the wage for restaurant employees still makes me feel bad. Make everyone minimum wage, no exceptions. Stop taxing Social Security. If there are to be tips, make those optional.
I am enjoying seeing all the “Hiring” signs and announcements. A lot of teens never got a summer job, at super cheap labor prices, last year and this year. A lot of adults found a way to live without making peanut shells each day.
A Reuters/IPSOS poll finds that 61% of Republicans think the election was stolen from Dumbass and 53% of Republicans believe Dumbass is the “true president”. It should be hard to believe that people can be that stupid in spite of all evidence to the contrary. Unfortunately, it’s not.
There’s a restaurant in NYC that is now paying front and back of house $27/hr plus healthcare. The chef/owner has changed the menu to one, set, five-course dinner (to reduce food waste from diners having so many options), and she has set the price at $85. For NYC, with so many high-salaried folks, that doesn’t seem unreasonable. I think she will make it work.
Welfare Cadillacs……..oldie but goodie.
Back to a previous subject with a question that caused a lot of shrugging:
Facebook
On the subject of infrastructure, Disneyland’s Matterhorn is being repaired due to age. Scariest part is that I first rode it in 1959 when it opened.
ari hosts a trial teaser – 3 who know a lot about the former guy, who have cooperated with prosecutors and whom you may be seeing on the stand in a near future trial of said guy
In an exclusive interview with MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber, Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, Melania Trump’s former advisor Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, and the daughter-in-law of the Trump Organization’s CFO Jennifer Weisselberg provide an inside look into the ongoing criminal probe into the Trump Organization and the inner-workings of the company. This video is a segment from a longer, wide-ranging interview. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. http://www.thebeatwithari.com).
WashPo has an article about the low wage worker shortage. It pretty much is what I wrote earlier.
We’re back in DC and all is done. One thing I learned down there DeSantis is more of a menace than I thought. Everyday we were there he did something mean or stupid. Can’t imagine he could be a presidential contender but why not.
welcome home, fearless leader!
Poobah, good question. Dumbass set a new standard for mean and stupid, and what he set would be a high bar to top.
Look at the line of succession: Reagan, Bush 1, Bush 2, Trump. Low as he may be DeSantis just isn’t low enough to make the cut. He’s peaked.
And the only way we got Clinton was the freak out by Ross Perot, and we only got Obama and Biden because the former guys were just so abjectly horrible people who caused mucho damage-o.
Fun Muppet song, Pat.
BlueBronc… you said it…. people retire. I don’t hear anyone in the media talking about how the baby boomers are still the biggest bulge in the population… and how many of us in retirement took part time jobs cuz we still liked working. I know the Wal-marts, Targets, and any other big box store had many older women working the cash registers around here. When this pandemic hit… I’m sure they didn’t feel the few extra bucks was worth the risk of staying on the job. It’s going to take a while for all of this to shake out.
Craig… welcome home to you and David!
Hope you managed to get a little bit of rest while you were in Florida…
RR – This is a new side of the next phase of a pandemic. One big issue that has been fermenting for years is the lack of teen jobs. Part-time jobs, usually summer and holiday but some year around, slowly disappeared. The next wave of low wage job seekers does not exist. Also, this is something I experienced, is the job re1quiring extraordinary education, work and skills for minimum wage or worse. These employers are not going to hire a teen, or anyone who will stick around very long. That they could hire before does not mean they can now. Add in that schools and colleges are reopening to in house attendance, even those teens who could put in day time hours no longer will be available.
A good reason for some of us Baby Boomers to hold and and keep building retirement accounts.
There are people who have careers and then there are people who have a job. If you lay off career people odds are they or someone like them will come back. But for job seekers, a job is a job it doesn’t matter. security matters, so I’m not coming back if I have a secure job especially if it pays benefits. So for you who casually laid me off get used to the fact that you are going to have to go through a lot of drunks, druggies and generally crazy people to get some one to replace me. That is going to be true no matter what you offer as pay.
Jack
I suspect that a job is many boomers only social life, The pandemic changed that for many and they have discovered new ways.
I know for me money isn’t a problem but finding a life is.
Jack
Here is a WaPO article that examines today topic
Here’s an interesting tweet a FB friend poster a couple days ago… it goes nicely with Jack’s above WaPo article….
With majority of restaurants if open still being at limited capacity, someone making less than $3.00 and tip dependent doesn’t even begin to cover the costs of going to work.
Liberals love to whine about servers’ wages🙄
Pretty sure Wrong DeSantis is your 2024 GQP nominee
(i win the misnomer game today!)
Sturg, and anyone else who’s ever spent time in Alabama, you’re gonna love this one. Alabama has legalized yoga but has outlawed namaste. AL.com
Excerpts:
The stupidity continues….
pogo, guess ‘bama will also be saying goodbye to shalom, aloha, and as-salamu alaykum greetings due to the same kind of problem that the legislature thinks namaste has.
was this the evil heresy that those ‘bama folk thought too dangerous for the chillun down there?
This video shows the children singing the Namasté Song by Kira Willay (Dance For The Sun). We sing this at the end of our yoga session. Namasté Yay!
Nothing brings one quite as close to enlightenment as a polypropylene mat that will never biodegrade.
I believe that’s in the Atharva Veda, Bink.
There’s a lot of talk about people not making enough money, but you see what happens when they make too much- they do stuff like send toddlers to yoga class
Gardening has taught me a lot about the inherent exploitative nature of capitalism: basically, in a capitalist system, the better-off you are, the worse-off some poor farming or sweatshop schmuck is doing in a less-developed nation. One human consumes SO MUCH food
patd, I heard (idiot) Kay Ivey talking about how you can’t separate the religion from the exercises in yoga. Of course it ain’t Christian religion, which led to the ban. Some dumbass state legislator was saying the same thing, only he also said he saw video of some guy doing yoga who obviously became intoxicated from it – but that may have been from years back when they passed the bill barring yoga and other similar relaxation and exercise regimens from public schools, although since that was 28 years ago I suspect he was talking about something recent – and he did oppose dropping the ban, so you can do the math. I tell you the stupidity in Montgomery as as prevalent as mosquitoes in the towns around Mobile Bay in June.
Bink – or waitstaff in the good ol’ US of A if you are a shitty tipper.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/25/texas-george-floyd-police-reform-legislation/
“…a few of the narrowly targeted pieces with police union support were expected to be signed into law. But most of the measures in Texas’ George Floyd Act had failed to progress in the legislative session that ends Monday.“
“The Texas Legislature is saying Black lives don’t matter…”
Craig & David – Welcome home.
Sturg – I started googling yoga/Christian/sin…man there is some crazy and hateful stuff out there. It has “demonic” origins. Just MGT-level looney toons stuff.
*As the heat of peppers is rated on a Scovill scale, where is MGT on the crazy scale? Do we call it the q scale or the GQP scale?
Hmmm, I wonder if little kids who grow up with a “namaste” mindset might have a better connection with their schoolmates and not end up bullying them or taking a gun to school someday???
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/24/texas-house-national-anthem/
Lt. Turd, Dan Patrick, is just that.
“Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick named the bill one of his legislative priorities after Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, stopped playing the anthem before home games.“
“…the so-called “Star Spangled Banner Protection Act,” a conservative-backed bill that would require any professional sports teams with contracts with the Texas state government to play the national anthem before the start of a game.“
If it’s not specified they do so within a contract to operate in the state, how can the state retroactively force them to do so? Anyone smell a lawsuit???
Would Mark Cuban move the team or do something else to make sure the assholery of the TX Legislature doesn’t go unpunished?
The vultures are beginning to circle.
Since when do Dumbass’ spokesliars fail to comment?
Craig & David
Welcome home. You have been missed while attending to the necessary.
“Since when do Dumbass’ spokesliars fail to comment?”
pogo, wouldn’t anything said now just get him & spawn in trouble and be more fodder to be presented to grand jury?
my question is what happens to the accountant after decades of loyalty. since he’s the prime witness for proving intent and in his 70s, wouldn’t be surprised at how this negatively affects his health – including by natural or unnatural cause. if he hasn’t already fully cooperated and it’s on tape and in his own hand writing and he’s under extreme protection by officials, a suicide with the help of friends is likely.
remember what happened to epstein.
God Bless PBS –
“Living Longer” showcased DATA tonight .
This is the most important and timely thing they have ever done.
There is an app in development for an Apple watch that spots the day a virus is seen by your body.
Your resting heart rate picks-up 5 or 6 beats a min.
This is your immune system demanding energy to fight the virus.
Around 9 days later you show symptoms
The guy working on this is wear six devices 24/7 . .
So –
I went to super market at 6 PM , not 6AM.
A rule I have lived by longer than this current pox .
There is a huge load of free floating stupid, and crazy floating around , and masks don’t work for this pox.
Since when does it matter that Orange Adolf’s spokesliar stays mum. Do you think he’ll keep his gob shut for long? He’ll get worked up and say something that will get recorded and further incriminate him/his mob. Will anyone on the panel be coerced or targeted?
OM – That was a great show. I think there’s at least one, more episode.
Like the song says, “the freaks come out at night.” Aside from a few folks who’ve obviously been up all night and need snacks, the early bird shoppers are pretty tame.
So –
Allen the CFO has also been running the kids money as well .
Not to the two other king pins Melania and Jared. The New York DA’s are about to crack that nut as well .
I can watch “Law an Order” on some days from 4 AM to 12 PM.
Good Bless Steven Hill , and Mr. Wolf.
Trust me, all those people working in lower Manhattan grew up with Steven Hill.
They are going to put him into an XXL Orange Jump Suit.
His Scottish golf clubs are under questions They don’t make money.
HE PAID CASH FOR THEM .
He never did this before he paid borrowed money.
The folks in Scotland thinks he was washing money.
LBJ =
“I’m hitch hiking in a hail storm , I can’t run, I can’t hide .”
” I just have to take it.”
“weathering” applied to people, like rocks .
PBS tonight .
I never heard this term used with people. Fear attacks your cells they wear out faster. Like wind rain on rocks .
I believe this .
Propose a lottery –
The day a judge tells Trump to shut up.
Craig –
Give us break , tell us how you guys are doing.
Silence breeds worry , do us all a favor , we loved your dad too ,
One Hit Wonders –
Let’s strat with this ………
No one ever had their beer ad be their one
I found a cleaner clip of “The Tornados” .
Roll with the punches kids ,
And never wear panty hose or high heels on airplanes.
In a Jet-A fire wearing cotton will keep you out of the burn ward.
Every thing that flies fast burns Jet-A.
I am so sorry to inform you all .
It gets really hard from here.
Hell is still coming to breakfast.
They may turn off the turbines at Lake Meade , The basin is dry.
Watch for this , it is coming no matter what we want.
There is no back-up. If they turn off the dam.
Roll that marble around your head.
The American southwest is a fickle place .
South of Mesa Verde are the same people .
They are on the Ute Mountain Res.
They take you there on horse back. There are corn cobs that are 900 years old , pottery , fire pits.
They all got up and left. The drought lasted nearly 30 years.
Check the snow pack , and get back to me.
Vegas stuck their straw to the very bottom of the lake.
The fly in that honey , the city will be in the dark. And it has no back-up.
Watch for this , this is coming at us like a Chinese booster,
Rush is dead as a boot –
I want this back –
NEW THREAD
Garbage had two hits