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In the news today, the owner/founder of H&H Bagels was arrested on tax charges, and at B&H Photo, a world famous Camera/Video store three female former employees are suing for 7 million dollars for violating the EEOC for refusing to place women on the sales floor, citing “religious” reasons - The owners are Chasidim, and used their cultural belief to deny women the right to earn a higher wage.
From The Village Voice:

B&H Photo Video, the famously well-stocked, reasonably-priced, and knowledgeable-staffed midtown store, employs a large number of orthodox Jews on the floor and in management, but plaintiffs in a lawsuit say they’re not so good about hiring and promoting women. Naskinsha Cushnie and three other female job-seekers claim discrimination. Cushnie says she was told she couldn’t move from cashier to sales clerk because Jewish law forbids it…
The ladies’ lawyer, Richard Ancowitz, cites not only civil but religious law: “I have consulted with leading authorities, and it is quite clear that there are no tenets of Jewish law that require the sales force to be male-only.”
B&H strongly denies the charges (”B&H has a policy of not discriminating against employees and applicants”).

From The New York Post :

…Ancowitz said that under the law, B&H has no First Amendment-religious freedom to discriminate against women. He also said that they also have no right under the Torah to discriminate.
“I have consulted with leading authorities, and it is quite clear that there are no tenets of Jewish law that require the sales force to be male-only,” Ancowitz said. “In fact, the Torah itself teaches, ‘Justice, justice, you shall seek.’ “

on one site, Yeshiva World, all are whinging about the B&H suit, saying they are being persecuted because of their “beliefs”: They claim it violates Orthodox/Chasidic rules of modesty for women to work next to men if not related. . I call bullshit. If my money is good enough for you to take, I should be good enough to work for you on the sales floor. Let me give you a clue by four: B&H is a business that employs non-Jews. Including Muslims. Therein lies my anger.

From the B&H “Professional Careers page”:

Is B&H an equal opportunity employer? 
Yes. B&H is committed to hiring and promoting without regard to religion, race, sex, national origin or ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, and/or any other protected status.

BUT!!!! farther up that same FAQ:

What happens after I submit my application? 
Our staff of recruiters carefully reviews all applications and forwards qualified candidates to the proper hiring manager. 
Note: Due to the high volume of applications only qualified candidates will be contacted.

So, there is the application “out”: WE JUST COULDN’T FIND ANY QUALIFIED WOMEN TO WORK AS SALES REPS.

and, here’s the EEOC’s guidance on sex discrimination:

Home › Guidance: Sex Discrimination

Sex Discrimination
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects individuals against employment discrimination on the basis of sex. Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and to labor organizations, as well as to the federal government.

It is unlawful to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of his/her sex in regard to hiring, termination, promotion, compensation, job training, or any other term, condition, or privilege of employment. Title VII also prohibits employment decisions based on stereotypes and assumptions about abilities, traits, or the performance of individuals on the basis of sex. Title VII prohibits both intentional discrimination and neutral job policies that disproportionately exclude individuals on the basis of sex and that are not job related.

These “Jews”, along with the louts who own the largest Kosher slaughterhouse in the nation - who underpaid their workers, denied them basic benefits and dignity, have quite happily bought into the Christian stereotype of the Jew.

They have placed themselves above Torah & Talmud which requires us to treat all with respect. They are the wicked, not the pious.

I was chronically homeless. No one to blame but myself. My situation was not the result of drug use/abuse or mental illness or the other “approved methods. No. I was chronically homeless due to bad choices (judgement) in the realm of roommates. In California, it was a bit simpler to be working and homeless - I could at least live in my car. Slept in some of the best neighborhoods in Santa Monica.

Then, I moved to New York. Lived at the 92nd Street Y while I attended school, was lured back here to NYC by a friend who said I could live with her in her house. Silly me. She kicked me out just prior to Thanksgiving of that year, knowing I did not have the money to afford a share. This bullshit cycle continued til I found my own place in 1997 way up in New York’s Washington Heights.

In 1998, the day after a neighbor’s kid told me men had been asking about me, my apartment door was kicked in by narcs looking for a nonexistant drug lab. 8 months later, on May 1, 1999, I was the victim of a home invasion which left me friendless and seeing doctors and therapists for a “mild” TBI til 2005. Even with this cursory confessional, I can hear you ask “where were your friends?” HA! What friends? Even my (ex)boyfriend turned his back on me. This man who on April 30th 1999 professed his love for me, decided he really didn’t give a shit on May 4th 1999 when he saw my black eyes and broken nose. I moved to Staten Island after that incident, where I lived until 2002 and I became homeless again.

Even though I really couldn’t, I went back to work.

I had no choice.

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Gov. Arnie is just full of surprises these days:
SFGate: Politics Blog : California’s official Harvey Milk Day “an idea whose time has come”

Harvey Milk Day, a state day to honor the slain San Francisco gay rights advocate, is now official in California thanks to a somewhat unexpected signature Monday from Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has vetoed such legislation in the past.
The bill was one of two key gay rights bills authored by State Senator Mark Leno of San Francisco, who says he’s “pleasantly surprised” that the governor put his pen to both; the other bill makes gay marriages performed in other states legal in California.

and, the haters, true to form:

“Harvey Milk* was a sexual predator of teens, an advocate of polygamous relationships, a public liar, and is in no way a good role model for impressionable schoolchildren,” said Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com. “Sadly, children in public schools will now have even more in-your-face, homosexual-bisexual-transsexual indoctrination. This provides the strongest impetus yet for loving parents to remove their children from anti-family public schools.”

“’Harvey Milk Day’ teaches children as young as five years old to admire the life and values and the notorious homosexual activist Harvey Milk” said Thomasson. “The ‘suitable commemorative exercises’ that are part of ‘Harvey Milk Day’ can easily result in cross-dressing exercises, ‘LGBT pride’ parades and mock gay weddings on school campuses — everything Harvey Milk supported.”

I bet they have lionized and canonized his and Mayor George Moscone’s assassin, Dan “I’m quitting” White, though when a search for “dan white” on the “Save California” website turned up this:

And, now, they conspiracy broadens:

To: Calpernia
DINA ROSENDORFF: And looking at the fake Kenyan birth certificate what do you make of it?
DAVID JEFFREY BOMFORD: It’s definitely a copy of my certificate. It’s so laughable it’s ridiculous.

Methinks Mr. Bomford doth protest too much…and just when was it determined that the Kenyan BC was a “fake”? That’s news to me!

This “interview” could be part of the entire effort to deceive. Mr. Bomford deserves some further looking into.

So, now, the After Tea Birthers believes Australia (or a Citizen thereof) is part of the “Conspiracy” From just ONE FORGED “Kenyan” BC, we now take you to A SECOND Kenyan BC. over at “FREEP” are now claiming there’s a forgery of the forgery - hilarity ensues:

To: STARWISE; rolling_stone; penelopesire; CheneyChick; Fred Nerks; Jim Robinson
Freom Calpernia:

There are now modified photos of the COLB that broke here yesterday. The changes are so slight, that no one is noticing them.

The changes are so subtle, you can barely tell which one you are looking at.

The original one does not say EF Lavender, it says KF Lavender. The original one shows the number is: 47,644.

We will return to our After Tea Birther whackery after this message:

To: Calpernia
I hear that this kind of thing was done on the “Majestic” papers, regarding UFOs and the government’s involvement in it. It was debunked as false, because the government put out forged papers to cover up the *real papers* and then the “UFO group” did the debunking for the U.S. Government, regarding the government’s involvement and cover up of the UFO issue…

So, it apparently has been done before on the UFO issue…

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[And a little disqualifier here (or qualifier, if you will) — that I don’t support the UFO theory or idea, but have been in enough discussions about it and see what was written to know that’s what they “say” about “Majestic” papers and one group fighting against another group, as to whether it’s valid or not… LOL… ]

my favorite:

To: Calpernia
#5733=The number of the Certificate, is code for : “Problem with Windows REGISTRY”, a sly reference to your claim that Obama does not appear on the Hawaii Live Birth Registry.
Idiot.
33 posted on August 3, 2009 5:31:23 PM EDT by cynwoody

o: Jim Robinson
Those KosKiddies are hard at work.

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Saudi family sues genie, alleges harassment - CNN.com

(CNN) — A family in Saudi Arabia has taken a genie to court, alleging theft and harassment, according to local media.

The lawsuit filed in Shariah court accuses the genie of leaving them threatening voicemails, stealing their cell phones and hurling rocks at them when they leave their house at night, said Al-Watan newspaper…

“We have to verify the truthfulness of this case despite the difficulty of doing so,” Sheikh Amr Al Salmi, the head of the court, told Al-Watan. “What makes this case and complaint more interesting is that it wasn’t filed by just one person. Every member of the family is part of this case.”….

“We began hearing strange noises,” the head of the family, who requested anonymity, told Al-Watan. “In the beginning, we didn’t take it seriously, but after that, stranger things started happening and the children got really scared when the genie began throwing stones.”…
In Islamic cultures, a belief in genies, or jinns, is common.

Genies not only appear in pre-Islamic fiction such as “Arabian Nights,” but are also mentioned in the Quran.

Many Saudis believe invisible genies live among them and are capable of demonic possession and revenge.

OK. So, a genie is no different for a Poltergeist… How old are the kids? there was, in 1682, an report of a “stone throwing Devil” or Lithoboliathat tells of a Stone throwing demon. Islam. Christianity So modern, they’re mediaeval.

In my last posting, I described ways of securing your computer. Here, I give you a pressing reason why:

Botnet worm in DOS attacks could wipe data out on infected PCs | Security - CNET News
The denial-of-service attacks against Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea that started last weekend may have stopped for now, but code on the infected bots was set to wipe data on Friday, security experts said.
There were no immediate reports of any of the compromised PCs in the botnet having files deleted, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t happening or won’t in the future, said Gerry Egan, a product manager in Symantec’s Security Technology Response group. (Click here for Larry Magid’s related podcast with Symantec expert.)
There are only about 50,000 infected PCs around the world being used in the attacks, which is relatively small compared to the millions that were infected with Conficker, he said.
The attacks started over the July 4 weekend launching distributed DOS attacks on dozens of government and commercial sites in the U.S. and South Korea. The attacks, which resurged during the week at least twice, affected sites including the White House, the Federal Trade Commission, the Secret Service, and The Washington Post.

July 4, DDoS Analysis (PDF)
Securing your computer is now a matter of Homeland Security, and National Defense.

sometimes, the stupid just really, really burns….

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FBI rules out Taliban claim on New York killings | Top News | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI on Saturday ruled out Pakistani Taliban militant leader Baituallah Mehsud’s claim that he was responsible for an attack on a U.S. immigration assistance center in New York state in which 14 people were killed….Mehsud told Reuters in Pakistan earlier Saturday that his group was responsible. “I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to U.S. drone attacks,” Mehsud said by telephone from an undisclosed location.

So, now, a Vietnamese immigrant is a sleeper? BWAHAHAHAHAHA.. sux to lose credibilty.