Senator Max Baucus [D-MT] has introduced a bill, S1631, which among other things would ban the import of goods produced by child labor, convict labor, or slave labor.
The bill is co-sponsored by Senator Charles Grassley [R-IA] the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.
Business groups and the Heritage Foundation are working to relax this ban. [...]
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Baucus Ruins Christmas Shopping
November 11th, 2009 · No Comments · US Senate, corporations, politics, rachel maddow show
Does Yahoo! Hate Lesbians?
April 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, corporations
OK, I admit it. My so-called guy friends give me tons of grief when I tell them that I like the Sacramento Monarchs and watch their games.
“You actually watch that?”, one friend asked.
“What’s wrong with the Monarchs?”
“Well, they are a bunch of lesbians”, was the best he could come up with.
My Yahoo! home page lets [...]
Anti-Christ Revealed
February 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized, corporations, rachel maddow show
Tim LaHaye, co-author of the popular Left Behind series of novels appeared on Friday, Febuary 27, 2009 on the Rachel Maddow Show. Tim and Rachel discussed our new president Barack Obama and the assertion that he is moving the U. S. toward socialism. Mr. LaHaye said the Obama is definitely not the Anti-Christ because he [...]
McDonalds Flunks Spoof Test
February 14th, 2009 · No Comments · corporations
There is an Internet spoof going on. Do not fall for it. You get an email promising to add $200 to your account for filling out an eight question survey. As with email like this I turned on full message headers and forwarded it to spoof@mcdonalds.com. Two days later I got an unknown user message [...]
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