Tuesday Open Thread
Welcome to your Tuesday open thread. It looks like our summer weather is back today, right for the start of official summer. One thing I love about summer around here is improved traffic.
I’m sure you’re extremely shocked to learn that the Supreme Court sided with corporations over people once again. SCOTUS de-certified a class action lawsuit of female employees against Wal-Mart.
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out an enormous employment discrimination class-action suit against Wal-Mart that had sought billions of dollars on behalf of as many as 1.5 million female workers.
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The court divided 5 to 4 along ideological lines on the basic question in the case — whether the suit satisfied a requirement of the class-action rules that “there are questions of law or fact common to the class” of female employees. The court’s five more conservative justices said no, shutting down the suit and limiting the ability of other plaintiffs to band together in large class actions.
The women can sue Wal-Mart separately, but it will be the little gal vs the big corporation and Wal-Mart will probably be able to drag out the case longer than most of the plaintiffs will be able to afford.
You have probably read by now that CNN’s Ed Henry is leaving to go to Fox News. Atrios has his usual pithy remark about that:
So in recent years “journalists” John Roberts, Bill Hemmer, and now Ed Henry have jumped ship from CNN to Fox (could be more that I’m forgetting), and then continue to do the job they did before. It’s amazing.
The title of his post is “Amazingly They Fit Right In.” Again I ask – what liberal media? The only thing the current media lives in fear of is being called “liberal” – not wrong, not misleading, not conservative.
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There’s alot that is really wrong with the Walmart decision, not the least of which is a clear indication that your civil rights don’t mean anything in the Corporate world. The fact that Walmart has an EEO policy does not mean that discrimination doesn’t happen and doesn’t happen with intent.
I’d be surprised if Walmart’s sales weren’t driven by women. Time for women to stop shopping there.
Gingrich’s second major staff defection this month. This time it is the fundrasing team.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/report-gingrichs-campaign-finance-team-quits.php?ref=fpa
Bumpersticker of the Week:
“Caution! Unsocialized Home Schoolers On Board!”
UI posted about the corruption of Clarence Thomas in yesterday’s Open Thread. Gotta admit that I’m pretty well stunned that the Pure Politicians Caucus isn’t here beating the drums for *him* to leave — especially since Thomas’ corruption issues are substantial and genuinely involve his job.
In any event, Think Progress has a petition that they are asking folks to sign to advocate for Thomas to resign. Apparently 100K folks signed yesterday, so help them get some more momentum here.
Things that make ya go hmmmm (and probably Explains It All):
Homophobic Men Most Aroused by Gay Male Porn
“Heterosexual men with the most anti-gay attitudes, when asked, reported not being sexually aroused by gay male sex videos. But, their penises reported otherwise.”
This is no surprise as the list of prominent homophobic men who are secretly gay is quite amazing.
BTW, got home safely last night after having a beer at a local watering hole. Current score — Me: 1, Ryan Dunn: 0
You people are nasty. And I don’t know , nemski. It might be 1 – 1 between you and Ryan Dunn. Didn’t he stuff a small model car up his ass in one of his escapades according to the News Journal?
BTW, got home safely last night after having a beer at a local watering hole. Current score — Me: 1, Ryan Dunn: 0
Hanging out at Chucky Cheese again huh…
When I tried to watch Keith last night at 8, Verizon told me [for the first time] that Current would be a premium subscription.
I havw to comment on this: a local De Blog writer has this to say about Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul and the T-Party
“She has been at the center of the Tea Party movement. Ron Paul may be its father, but Michele Bachmann is its mother.”
well that must mean the T-Party is an ugly, stupid baby
I could not resist
I get CURRENT on a basic package. maybe it’s a tease.
I watched Countdown via a live stream here.
There is an annoying social media box to the side that you can close. I have NO IDEA how this works so no idea how long this will even work.
Over at dKos there is a petition to ask the cable companies to make Current more available.