Some of that email links to information I find interesting or amusing.
Occasionally a tv faux pas gets my attention.
IN SOLIDLY DEMOCRATIC CHICAGO IL,1 McDonald's workers sue fast food chain claiming they face 'daily risk of violence at work'2
Are all McDonald’s employees Democrats and all attackers Republicans? Not likely. So much for leftists’ civility.
According to the USA TODAY article,
- 17 Chicago-area workers are suing the fast-food giant over what they call a "citywide and nationwide pattern” of violence.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in Illinois state court claims corporate officials have chosen profit over workers' safety, alleging that employees “face a daily risk of violence while at work” and McDonald’s has been “negligent in failing to protect workers from this risk.”
The suit points to high rates of 911 calls from Chicago McDonald’s restaurants with more than 20 calls a day.
It seems that little has changed since Eliot Ness roamed the streets.
The USA TODAY article did not break down the backgrounds of the attackers
Danny Rosenthal, the lead attorney in the lawsuit, blames the employees’ endangerment not on the criminals but claims
- “The plaintiffs' experiences of violence can be traced back to decisions made at the highest levels of the corporation,'' he said, noting a split counter format dubbed “Experience of the Future” that allows customers to easily access the kitchen and work area at many locations.
Rosenthal may be correct in that (at least) some of the risks lie at the feet of McDonald’s executive management. But that still does not reduce either employee concerns or the crimes committed against the stores and employees; that’s a Chicago police and court problem.
Proving Chicago is not the only place making news, the East Bay Times3 headlines Chipotle settles lawsuit alleging young male San Jose manager subjected to lurid sexual harassment, violence.
According to the Vox web site4, Democratic leaders claim that they have turned Silicon Valley into ground zero of the #Resistance, with a San Francisco base that is energized by the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The East Bay Times article notes that
- A young male manager at a Chipotle restaurant in San Jose suffered sexual harassment from a female supervisor who groped him, propositioned him, simulated sex acts using vegetables and hit him on the head with a pan, a just-settled lawsuit filed by the federal government alleged.
According to the suit, “The general manager slapped, groped, and grabbed Mr. Melton’s buttocks and groin area numerous times.” The supervisor allegedly also told Melton, who was 22 at the time, “I’ll pay for sex,’ and, “‘I want to watch you have sex with your girlfriend,” the suit claimed.
The Fresh News Now website5 reported that Chipotle did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement, but agreed to pay Melton $95,000 and impose a sweeping array of changes to policies, procedures and training to prevent sexual harassment in its workplaces, according to the settlement order approved Monday in San Jose U.S. District Court. .
The Washington Post6 reports that
- The Twitter account of Danielle Stella, a Republican candidate seeking to upset Rep. Ilhan Omar’s seat in Congress, was permanently suspended after she published a post suggesting the congresswoman be hanged for allegedly conspiring with Iran, reports the Washington Post.
“If it is proven @IlhanMN passed sensitive info to Iran, she should be tried for #treason and hanged,” the tweet said.
Operative words: If it is proven.
I would agree with the ban had the poster omitted “If it is proven,” but she did not.
Unfortunately, when the story hit a pro-Israel web site,7 the radicals came out of the woodwork, some demanding that she should be hanged. In some states, the penalty, for treason, is death” believing that Omar’s alleged treason was working with Qatar as reported by the web site:
- Omar is reportedly denying that she “passed sensitive information that was relayed to Iran, and received funding by a foreign government,” as reported by Al Arabiya English, a Gulf-based news outlet, based on a sworn deposition by a Canadian businessman in a Florida court.
The commenters proved their ignorance: only the Federal government, not a state, can accuse, try, convict, and execute for the Constitutional crime of “treason.”
- Article III of the Constitution identifies the third branch of our separated government, empowering the courts to decide cases and limiting them to the exercise of a certain kind of authority. It establishes the Supreme Court of the United States, and defines the crime of treason, the only crime listed in the Constitution.8
While Omar may — probably did — have forbidden dealings with a foreign government (Qatar), and while those dealings may be found treasonous, is getting money from a foreign government sufficiently egregious to warrant execution? Impeachment, perhaps; execution? Hardly.
What does the WashPost reporter mean when he or she writes "candidate seeking to upset Rep. Ilhan Omar’s seat in Congress"? Is the candidate planning to tip over Omar's chair? Or perhaps the writer intended to write "unseat" Omar; to replace her in the House? Either way, the writer needs a good editor (obviously lacking at the WashPost.)
“The first flying car” was puffed on several network tv channels, confirming what I already knew: tv talking heads and their writers are either stupid, lazy, of both.
A cursory check of the internet would have shown these faux professionals, these ersatz journalists that “flying cars” have been around since 1917 — correct: one nine one seven.9
It's a knock against the current crop of people who pretend to be reporters; they never have seen a flying car prior to the PR blurb from a newcomer to the arena. As a young Civil Air Patrol (CAP Composite Squadron 2 in Miami FL) I actually saw a flying car at the shuttered-since-the-1960s Tamiami Field (off US 41/Tamiami Trail). FYI, “Tamiami” is the Tampa-Miami road, a/k/a U.S. 41.
It was driven to the field, the wings and tail assembled, and the car flew away. The vehicle was about the size of a Crosley.10 Solomon was correct.
Thinking of reporters and editors who do not deserve the title and of Omar and treason. Since the negatives “no” and “not” often are dropped from copy or overlooked by readers, reporters and editors in my day wrote “innocent” rather than “not guilty.” We also knew what was “hung” and what was “hanged.” Bob Dylan also was correct.
Sources
1. Democrat’s Chicago: https://tinyurl.com/sx45egj
2. Chicago McDonalds: https://tinyurl.com/urr956e
3: Chipotle: https://tinyurl.com/yx8dn36x
4. Vox: https://tinyurl.com/ufxavn9
5. Fresh News Now: https://tinyurl.com/s3omynh
6. WashPost: https://tinyurl.com/wvmecsb
7. Treason comments: https://tinyurl.com/rkxxap4
8. Treason in Constitution: https://tinyurl.com/saa8b3g
9. Flying cars: https://tinyurl.com/vjk56en
10. Crosley: https://tinyurl.com/6vcbjzl
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