Like the aliens in CE3K sent coordinates that were “near Devil’s Tower”, if 300 miles away can be “near”.
Well, when you deal in light years…
They’re gonna have a fucking field day with this one.
I’m curious how long it’ll be before someone (cough Tucker cough) asks “If Joe Biden can take off his shirt in public, shouldn’t Jill Biden be allowed to also, why is her top still on?”. If only because I won’t be surprised when whoever says it has been against relaxing female specific topless laws when the subject comes up every few years.
I thought we understood that Americans in general have less geographical comprehension than a potato bug, and that is from a survey before GPS became widespread.
I always told people that I was from Los Angeles, and while I live there now, I grew up in a town of about 30K … that was completely surrounded by Los Angeles.
Hey, don’t worry! Tuberville’s block of military promotions isn’t aimed at everyone! Just 300 of them! Hardly a drop in the bucket!
Why don’t they just call this the Oliver Twist Act?
In the small town of Freedom, Wisconsin, Buzz’s Pub and Grill – a local sports bar whose logo features frothing beer mugs in the colors of the American flag – has been short-staffed since the pandemic. Jeff Baker, the owner, says he “could use one more bartender, and probably two more cooks”. He hasn’t found takers in over a year of running “help wanted” ads, so he’s made do by working extra shifts in the kitchen and paring back the menu.
Baker could soon get more job applicants thanks to a new proposal that would lower Wisconsin’s minimum age for alcohol service to just 14 years old. It would “absolutely” be a welcome change if children applied, he says. “Not as many kids work as much as they used to. Back in our day, more kids were needed, and more parents made their kids work.”
So, yeah; Republicans don’t really seem to give a fig about children.
From the same article:
Clancy, the Milwaukee state representative, sees the bills as a “weird game of one-upmanship in terms of how horrific the state Republicans can be”. But they also represent missed opportunities to do the things that could actually fix the labor shortage’s root causes.
“We could talk daycare; we could talk paid parental leave; we could talk about encouraging employers in a myriad of ways to hire folks that were recently incarcerated; we could stop incarcerating so many people,” he says. “Yet in 2023, they’re bringing back child labor. It is just maddening.”
Yep.
And we could admit into the country immigrants who have historically been willing to take difficult and low-paying jobs when they first get here that no one else wants to do. (And I do mean “historically” – not just in recent times.)
HA, HA, HA, HA. Don’t you see, you’re not hurting the right people. Those proposals would cost money [short term]. It takes too long to implement [past the next election]. It makes the other political party look sane.
“We [republicants] just need talking points and blurbs until the next election, next election, next elections. Besides, child labor is just a short term solution, in our autocracy, we’re bringing back, not the 1950s, the 1850s!”
I wonder what he is offering in the way of wages and benefits. A few years ago, a company was complaining that they can’t find workers who can pass drug tests. People pointed out that they were offering crap wages and nobody with another option would apply there.
A library board in Wyoming fired the library director because she refused to verify that each and every book met the new policy. She dared to suggest that citizens challenge a book they find objectionable, but they must have read the book.
The board took the position that it was the library’s duty to police itself. It did not officially name a single book, but tasked Lesley with ensuring all of them conform.
The crowd at the meeting, tipped off that the director was going to be canned, showed its displeasure.
“I can’t remember the last time I was flipped off by a bunch of little gray-haired old ladies,” Butler later told The Daily Beast, adding that he could not discuss Lesley’s dismissal because personnel matters are handled in executive session.
Baker, the Buzz’s Pub and Grill owner, says “it’s up to me as a business owner to make sure I’m enforcing the rules,” and believes the bill wouldn’t expose kids to any situations they wouldn’t otherwise be in. “I’m a firm believer that if kids want to drink alcohol, they’re going to get a hold of it,” he says.
Well, this guy sounds like exactly the kind of responsible pub owner we’d want supervising children.
ETA: and of course, in a story about how he “can’t find anyone to work”, there’s no mention of how much he’s been offering to pay those people. Par for the course.
Exactly. I pissed off a restaurant owner the other day who was bitching about how “nobody wants to work anymore.” I told him “No, it’s just that nobody wants to work for YOU.”
Paying low wages, and more importantly, jerking people around about the timing of their shifts, or treating them like shit. The last two are even more likely to lead people to quit than the low wages.
My bold.
“I don’t have to read woke bullshit to know that it’s woke bullshit!” 
Or else
“But if I read them it might turn me gay! It’s simply not worth the risk!” 
“If thy eye becomes woke, pluck it out.”
A tale as old as the PMRC.
Gore: Then what choice does a parent have? To sit down and listen to every song on the album?
Snider: Well, if they are really concerned about it I think that they have to.
Gore: It is totally unreasonable in my view to expect parents to sit down and listen to every single song in the albums that their children buy in order to fulfill their responsibilities as parents.
For anyone that’s never watched that video, here it is, cued up to that section.
In other words, I’m not interested in deciding what media is and isn’t appropriate for my child, so I want the government to do it for me (and force those ideals on everyone else too).
Can’t argue with how well it backfired though.
And a law allowing 14-year-olds to work in bars wouldn’t make a difference, anyway, because 14-year-olds are already allowed to work in many other minimum-wage jobs. Any 14-year-old who wants a job already has one. Now, maybe with this change, some teenagers would change jobs from McDonald’s to a bar, but then you’ve got an understaffed McDonald’s instead. Or the McDonald’s hires someone who was previously working at a bar.
She should have called their bluff and removed every single book from the library shelves. “OK, we’re in compliance now!”