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Missouri Senator Wants to Eliminate Child Labor Laws, Really
By Jake McIntyre for Daily Kos
As detailed in teacherken’s recommended diary yesterday, Missouri state Senator Jane Cunningham has introduced a bill to eliminate child labor laws. In the state of Missouri. In the United States of America. In 2011. TheAFL-CIO blog elaborates:
[L]et’s just use the official summary of the bill from the Missouri state Senate website and if you don’t believe me, click here and read it yourself.
- This act modifies the child labor laws.
- It eliminates the prohibition on employment of children under age fourteen.
- Restrictions on the number of hours and restrictions on when a child may work during the day are also removed.
- It also repeals the requirement that a child ages fourteen or fifteen obtain a work certificate or work permit in order to be employed.
- Children under sixteen will also be allowed to work in any capacity in a motel, resort or hotel where sleeping accommodations are furnished.
- It also removes the authority of the director of the Division of Labor Standards to inspect employers who employ children and to require them to keep certain records for children they employ.
- It also repeals the presumption that the presence of a child in a workplace is evidence of employment.
This is absolutely insane.Is it really that insane, though? I mean, this is just the natural evolution of a political philosophy which believes that rich people should be able to pay their employees nothing and treat them like beasts of burden. And in Missouri — a state where, as Laura Clawson detailed earlier this week, a “right to work” (or, more accurately, “free-rider”) bill prohibiting employers from entering into union security agreements with labor unions has a reasonable chance of passing — it should hardly be surprising that Republicans are seeking to give children the “right” to work 40 hour weeks during the school year.
See, this is what the “right to work” is really about. It’s got nothing to do with bettering the lives of workers on the job — if Republicans wanted to do that, they’d be the strongest advocates or trade unionism this side of Mother Jones and Walter Reuther. After all, workers who have formed labor unions have safer workplaces, earn more money, and enjoy real retirement security. No, the “right to work” comes from pretty much the same place as the “right to work in a sweatshop upon attaining puberty.” It’s about one thing: making people work harder for less money, while minimizing any liability for the elites who rig the system, hoard the wealth, and wring the life out of the masses who toil for them. Once you start passing free rider laws, once you enshrine union-busting as a “right,” it won’t be long till you liberate America’s kids from the shackles of schools and the oppressive, smothering nanny state, and put them to work in the mines.
So I’m not surprised by Senator Cunningham’s bill to eliminate child labor laws. Hell, if you go to her official site, the first “news item” at the top of the page is a paean to the proposed free rider law. It’s simply not that far of a leap from killing off labor unions to facilitating child labor. And if you don’t see that now, just wait till the good Senator and her friends give you the “right to work.”
“Today we conquer the unions - tomorrow the kids!”
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WHAT THE **** MISSOURI?!?
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By the way, I’m totally a murderer
from Skepchick
In May of 2009, I announced that I was pregnant. I announced it here at Skepchick. I announced it on Twitter. I announced it on Facebook. I announced it everywhere. I was pregnant.
Three weeks later, I was no longer pregnant.
It was heartbreaking. It was soul crushing. It was painful, physically. But it wasn’t out of the ordinary. In fact it’s incredibly ordinary. I’ve seen estimates as high as 50-60% of fertilized eggs never make it to the delivery room, not counting induced abortions. Is that number high? I don’t know. Maybe. But for today’s discussion, it’s not really that important. What’s important is that women are having miscarriages all around you. Right now. Everywhere. And, in most of those cases, no one knows why.
And right now, in GA, State Rep Bobby Franklin is trying to make those women into felons. Felons facing the death penalty. For murdering their fetuses.
Well, not all of them. Just the ones who can prove that “there is no human involvement whatsoever in the causation of such event.”
To ensure that no cold-blooded fetus murders (also known amongst the hyper-politically correct as “women who are grieving the unexpected loss of their children” or “heartbroken hopeful mothers”) slip through the cracks, any time a woman has a miscarriage, a murder investigation is to be opened to determine whether there was “no human involvement whatsoever.” Which, is pretty much unknowable but is usually assumed.
I’ve experienced two miscarriages, that I know of, in my life. Both of those times, every medical
professional I dealt with, every piece of literature I read, everyone I talked to reiterated the same thing: it was not my fault. In 2009, I had a D&C and we sent the embryo to a pathologist.
The results? Nothing.
Nothing.
We could not know what caused the miscarriage.
But I did have coffee while I was pregnant. And I did take nausea meds. And I did drink alcohol a few nights before the test came up positive. And I didn’t get enough sleep. And I didn’t eat 3 balanced meals a day. And I didn’t avoid heavy lifting. And I skipped my prenatal vitamins. I had a list in my head of every single thing I could have possibly done wrong, recalling every single step I took during that pregnancy.
And all those things are things a million other women do every day while having perfectly normal pregnancies. But no matter, that paragraph above could be enough of an admission to convict me of murder under this law.
Fortunately, I live in Illinois… and even in GA, until the law passes, it’s still legal for a pregnant woman to walk past a smoker on the sidewalk without having to worry about getting the death penalty. (Grandfathered in, SUCKAAAAZZZ!)
I don’t get it. I can’t imagine that this bill could pass; I am positive it won’t (you can’t put women to death for not being able to prove they’re not murderers), but how does a person even write this? I immediately assumed it was a Poe… and then I read the bill… and it doesn’t seem like satire. There’s no wink. There’s no little gem in there to tell me that what I’m reading is meant to be a shot at the prolife movement. It’s just the same old “women are inherently murderers who hate babies and should be put to death because they get pregnant” story we’re used to… or something.
How can you hate women so much and, at the same time, demand that they make even more women, and threaten them with death if they do not?
I have no snark. Only disbelief and a loss of faith in humanity. I can’t even rant. I want to, but what can I say besides:
What?!
The?!
Fuck?!
Soooo…. I’ll leave you with a little something to cheer you up after the jump… and I promise, it almost balances the universe
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The Top 15 Batshittiest Things Mr. Kuhner says in: "Obama’s homosexual America!"
The Top 15 Batshittiest Things Mr. Kuhner says in: “Obama’s homosexual America!”
The homosexual rights movement is on the verge of destroying marriage. If successful, it will permanently alter society.
Damn it, how did they know we’re trying to destroy marriage with expanding marriage rights to protect more families? And here I thought our secret plot was secret!
A blatant surrender to the homosexual lobby
Which isn’t even fair, because homosexuals so far outnumber uberconservatives that they’d never be able to out-fund us.
the president is a radical social liberal.
If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t be black anymore. Duh.
[Obama] has nothing but kind things to say about euthanasia.
In short, he champions the culture of death.How else do we create more homos except by weeding out the heteros?
He is trying to make homosexuality a permanent, legitimate feature of American life.
And then after that? …We demand to be treated like HUMANS. Gasp!
Mr. Obama is paving the way for the [the gay’s] final assault on the last bastion of conservatism - the family.
See above about expanding protections… it’s how we assault families. We protect more families by keeping more couples together with more rights to take care of their children, and then when they’re living happy lives going to the school play with their son or soccer practice with their daughter, they’ll look so normal that nobody will see it coming when they all turn out to be ninja assassins who destroy us all!
the homosexual constituency, which has become a powerful force within the Democratic Party.
Know how we got to be so powerful? Hazing. You can’t join the Dems unless you perform same-sex acts before 5 witnesses in a public restroom.
From its inception, the modern left has sought to destroy the traditional family.
The Homosassin Ninjaqueer Clan has been training for centuries. Millennia, even!
One of the first things the Bolsheviks did upon seizing power in Russia was to promote free love, abortion and open marriage.
They also promoted chocolate, which is why we must all abandon the Commie Brown Bar immediately.
personal liberation, hedonism and moral relativism dissolve the very pillars of Middle America: self-control, personal responsibility, patriotism and God.
Cool, but we don’t live in Middle America, we live in North America. Hmm… maybe we should be sending the ninjas after Guatemala instead?
A homosexual society is a childless one - doomed to extinction.
All those artificial inseminations? That was really an elaborate pantomime involving various-sized belly pillows and faked ultrasounds. Everyone knows we steal babies out of hospital nurseries and stork nests.
Thomas Jefferson, for example, said homosexuality should be treated with the same severity as rape.
…with a smile, as he raised his scissors to the New Testament and cut out the parts he found irrelevant, a practice which Christians continue till this very day.
The homosexual rights lobby is trying to mainstream perversion and vice.
If only we could be as pure and chaste as Republican leadership, who have never been caught in a sex scandal, ever.
Polygamy, “transgender” unions, bestiality, pedophilia - all forms of deviant sexual behavior could claim discrimination.
Yup. And once we’re through with that, we’ll even push for people to be able to marry someone of a different level of education, nationality, disability, or even ethnicity! The horrors.
They are slowly reverting to a failed, pagan past. Theirs is not a brave new world; it is a corrupt old one.
Sorry! We tried to recruit the Scientologists, but they refused. Paganism is the best we got for now.
Wow, looks like we homoqueers really need to step up our game. Any ideas for where we could go from here?
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Greatest church mural ever?!?
Oh my Flying Spaghetti Monster this is for real!
Years ago I wrote a post in which I bemoaned the fact that no church would paint a mural of the scene in the Bible where Elisha orders bears to kill a bunch of teenagers. Well, a really talented comic book artist named Wes Molebash illustrated it based on my description. Here is what I wrote:
“That story is insane and here’s how I envision the mural. Elisha is standing in the middle of all these angry, bald hating teenagers. He looks really enraged and the caption out of his mouth says, “Do you know where you are? You’re in the jungle baby! You’re gonna die!” And then in the corner of the mural are two huge bears with hockey sticks. I’m not sure why they have hockey sticks but it seems a little tougher to me.”
Well, I found out last week, a church actually painted it full size! A guy named Scott Welsh sent me this photo, which is awesome:
I can’t even…
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Why do you commit so much time and effort attacking belief in God when you cannot defend Atheism - and all the evidence is on the side of Theism?
I really want to know what happened to you? What’s motivating this?
Obviously it isn’t an intellectual problem. You lose every talking point you attempt to peddle - not because you’re stupid, but because Atheism is indefensible.
So what gives? Are you homosexual?
You-Tube user 4TruthMatters(Source: youtube.com)
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Gross
People… when I pick up the phone, I do not enjoy being greeted by the sound of someone chewing crunchy food. You have no excuse: it’s not like the phone call surprised you!
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Hey, if the owner can fix my transmission, why would I care what gender they are?
Ben sez: “Fail… or win?” I can’t decide!
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Pink is not a colour preference, pink is a patriarchal commercial statement about femininity. The patriarchal imposition of pink could be the root cause of FtM trans!
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See the Troll Dolls’ Sexy, Horrible New Makeover
Trolls do not need to be sexy, they’re TROLLS!
Happy Trolls vs. Creepy Trolls:
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How sick do I make this person? Let us count the ways!
Lazy Christians
Phew, safe here - not a christian.
Sex-Drugs-Rock Music
I’ve haven’t yet heard of the musical genre that is sex-drugs-rock, but I imagine it will be all over the Grammys in a couple years.
Baby Killers
This is a tough one… many times what seems like a regular period is actually a very early miscarriage, so I’ll put this one down as a “maybe”.
Party Animals
I haven’t played a good game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey for many years, and it’s been a while since my last pinata.
Sport’s Nuts
I prefer generic mixed nuts as opposed to the licensed kind, as they cost much less.
Roman Catholics
At first I wondered why this wasn’t included under the “lazy Christian” category, and then I remembered that Catholics actually have to work for their salvation.
Computer Freaks
Alas, I am still not a cybog.
People that watch TV more than study the Bible.
This… actually doesn’t apply to me. Wow.
People that talk to pets more than God
I don’t think anyone could possibly talk to pets more than God does, but I have neither pets nor god.
Fox Hole Religion
Yeah, I agree: on the battle field is a horrible place to try to distract soldiers from their duties with nonsense.
The Jews that are from the Synagogue of Satan
There is no Synagogue of Satan, but just in case anyone was thinking of starting one, don’t - you might make someone sick, and then they’ll put you on a list.
False Religions
Those bother me too. Hmm… maybe I should be the one holding this sign?
Racists
I feel you there, bro.
Lying Pentaco$stal$
This must be the 1st Church of Ke$ha.
Effeminate Culture
There goes half the nation, including anyone who’s ever watch the Oprah show and liked it.
Ankle Biters
Oh yeah, like mosquitoes! I hate mosquitoes!
Dykes on Bikes
Come on, they’re just trying to do their part to reduce CO2 emissions.
Money Lovers
I’m probably not capitalist enough for this.
Child Molesting Homosexuals
This definitely is a redundant listing, as priests would fall under the umbrella of Roman Catholics above.
Sex Perverts
This one might actually apply to me. After all, I like to do it with the lights on and the sheets off.
Rebellious
Um…
Women
I’m trying to reform, I swear!
And Mormons
Envious that they get their own planet? Admit it.
Well, that’s it. Adding up the tally, I score like 1.5 on the How Sick I Make This Person scale. I’m kind of disappointed, actually. I had no idea I’m so straight-edge! How about you?
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Huckabee: Americans Should Be Forced, At Gunpoint, To Learn From David Barton
Imagine if Obama said something like this!
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When you read it…
First I see this on my way home from work, then I get a summons for jury duty -_-
BTW, this billboard is above a liquor store, and a parking lot where people sell barbecued raccoons.
“This billboard is above a liquor store, and a parking lot where people sell barbecued raccoons.”
“and a parking lot where people sell barbecued raccoons”
“people sell barbecued raccoons”
“barbecued raccoons”
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The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a women tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.
Scott Adams, Dilbert creator and apparent men’s rights activist, in a (now deleted) blog post.
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This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.
Click the link if you think you can stand a heaping helping of anti-fat hate from the same state which brought you the We Hate Brown People law.
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The Republican solution to the deficit: build a giant robot to beat old people and poor people to death with Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead.
Genderqueer with a touch of happy humanism.
