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California passes law to require paid sick leave as legislation lingers in DC | The Rundown | PBS
California in September joined a growing number of states and cities that require employers to provide paid sick time off for their workers.
The California law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, requires large and small employers to provide at least three days paid sick leave annually to employees who work 30 or more days a year.

....The problem hits women especially hard. Women make up two-thirds of low-wage workers and are more likely to be the family caregivers, says Liz Watson, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center and director of its Workplace Justice for Women.

“Their ability to take paid sick leave or paid medical leave is crucial to being able to hold onto their jobs,” Watson says.

Federal legislation that would require paid sick leave has been introduced several times but never passed. The Healthy Families Act, introduced by Rep. Rosa Delauro, D-Conn., in 2013, would allow workers at companies with at least 15 employees to accrue up to seven days paid sick leave annually.

Noting that it took many attempts to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act, which allows workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for their own or a family member’s medical needs, Watson says, “I think we will see this legislation pass, it’s just a matter of time.”

Biden apologizes to Turkey president in phone call

Biden apologizes to Turkey president in phone call - The Washington Post:

"ANKARA, Turkey — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden apologized Saturday to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was angry over comments in which Biden said Erdogan had admitted that Turkey had made mistakes by allowing foreign fighters to cross into Syria.
Erdogan denied ever saying that and told reporters in Istanbul before Biden’s apology that he “will be history for me if he has indeed used such expressions.”

Biden spoke with Erdogan by phone on Saturday, the White House said.
“The vice president apologized for any implication that Turkey or other allies and partners in the region had intentionally supplied or facilitated the growth of ISIL or other violent extremists in Syria,” the White House said, referring to an acronym for the Islamic State group."

Catholic Priest Exposes Islam For What It Truly Is

Catholic Priest Exposes Islam For What It Truly Is:

“Jihadism, as it were, is a religious movement before it is anything else. Allah does grant violence a significant place. It is over the truth of this position, or better the inability to disprove it, that the real controversy lies.”
Rev. Schall also writes that when Islam was founded, it was intended to be the “world religion.”
“It is to bring the whole world to worship Allah according to the canons of the Qur’an. It is a belief, based on a supposed revelation to Mohammed, of which there is little evidence."

The Fastest Manned Aircraft Flight Ever.

47 Years Ago Today: The Fastest Manned Aircraft Flight Ever. | ALERT 5:
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Ebola Survival Handbook: A Collection of Tips, Strategies, and Supply Lists From Some of the World's Best Preparedness Professionals:

Ebola Survival Handbook: A Collection of Tips, Strategies, and Supply Lists From Some of the World's Best Preparedness Professionals: Lost Arts Publishing

History for October 5

History for October 5 - On-This-Day.com
Chester A. Arthur (U.S.) 1830, Robert H. Goddard 1882 - Known as the "Father of the Space Age",
Ray Kroc 1902 - Businessman (McDonalds)

Larry Fine 1902, Steve Miller (The Steve Miller Band) 1943, Michael Andretti 1962

1813 - Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Indians was killed at the Battle of Thames when American forced defeated the British and the allied Indian warriors.

1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time. The game was between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.

1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.

1955 - The play "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened at the Cort Theatre in New York.

1969 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on BBC television.

1989 - The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent campaign to end the Chinese domination of Tibet. Gyatso was the 15th Dalai Lama.

1993 - China set off an underground nuclear explosion.

1998 - The U.S. paid $60 million for Russia's research time on the international space station to keep the cash-strapped Russian space agency afloat.

2006 - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. rolled out its $4 generic drug program to the entire state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area.

Saturday, October 04, 2014

ISIS Threatens to Kill Families of U.S. Military Members Talk 650 KSTE

ISIS Threatens to Kill Families of U.S. Military Members | Talk 650 KSTE:
"The U.S. military is warning servicemembers to be on guard because ISIS is threatening their families."

If Obama thinks Ebola is a 'national security priority,' why no travel ban? | Fox News

If Obama thinks Ebola is a 'national security priority,' why no travel ban? | Fox News:

"President Obama declared the Ebola outbreak a “national security priority.” That was three weeks ago. Yet, he has failed to treat it as such.

He could ban all travel into the U.S. of any person who has been in the affected West African countries. He has the legal power to do so.

Why hasn’t he?

The fundamental duty of the nation’s chief executive is to protect its citizens. Under Article II of the Constitution, he is duty-bound to respond to threats and to conduct the country’s foreign affairs."

Ebola Threat To The U.S. Could Be Linked To This One Thing Obama Did Four Years Ago

Ebola Threat To The U.S. Could Be Linked To This One Thing Obama Did Four Years Ago:

"In an exclusive post based on a secret government report that was leaked to Darby, we learn that, since the first of the year, more than 3,500 passengers from nations severely impacted by the Ebola outbreak have been allowed to enter the U.S. without any special screening."

White House Says Travel Ban Would ‘Impede’ Efforts to Fight Ebola in Africa | TheBlaze.com

White House Says Travel Ban Would ‘Impede’ Efforts to Fight Ebola in Africa | TheBlaze.com:

"A top White House official said Friday that imposing a travel ban on flights between the United States and Ebola-ravaged nations in West Africa would only impede efforts to fight the virus, the latest sign that the Obama administration is not taking the advice of some in Congress who are demanding travel restrictions.
Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, told reporters at the White House that officials don’t favor a travel ban, even though at least one person has traveled back to the U.S. with the virus."

Tax on sodas eyed in San Francisco, Berkeley

My Way News - Tax on sodas eyed in San Francisco, Berkeley:

A tax on sodas and other sugar-laden drinks that voters and courts in other parts of the country have rejected is on the November ballots in San Francisco and Berkeley, two cities that have been open to such social-engineering initiatives in the past.
Voters in San Francisco will decide whether to make distributors pay a tax of 2 cents an ounce on sugary drinks, with the revenue used to fund programs promoting healthy eating and physical activity.
Berkeley voters will decide on a proposed tax of 1 cent an ounce, with proceeds going to the city general fund.

VIDEO: Obama Brags About Hanging Out with Illegals

VIDEO: Obama Brags About Hanging Out with Illegals:

"Giving a clear indication that he has no intention on enforcing federal immigration laws, and leading to speculation whether he will once again illegally and unilaterally alter immigration policy, giving amnesty to illegals, Barack Obama bragged about riding with two illegal aliens to a Congressional Hispanic Caucus event at the convention center. "

Ebola Yes, Bagpipes No :

Ebola Yes, Bagpipes No :: SteynOnline:
"Thomas Eric Duncan has the distinction of being America's Patient Zero - the first but not the last person to develop Ebola symptoms in the United States.

Is he a US citizen?
No, he's Liberian.
Is he a resident of the United States?
No, he landed at Washington's Dulles Airport on September 20th, in order to visit his sister and having quit his job in Monrovia a few weeks earlier.
So he's a single unemployed man with relatives in the US and no compelling reason to return to his native land.
That alone is supposed to be cause for immigration scrutiny.

....Just to give you an example of how hard-assed the boneheads of America's immigration bureaucracy can be when they want to:
The legendary Gord Sinclair, longtime news director of CJAD in Montreal, had a ski place near Jay in northern Vermont, and he invited his engineer on the show to come down and visit him.
"What's the purpose of your visit?" asked the agent at the small rural border post.
"Oh, just a relaxing weekend at my boss' place," said Gord's colleague affably, and then chortled, "although I don't know if it'll be that relaxing.
He'll probably have me out in the yard chopping wood all day."
So the immigration agent refused him entry on the grounds that he would be working illegally in the United States."

.....But, of course, giving additional attention to West African visitors would be racist.
Not like terrorizing Scotsmen over their bagpipes.

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security expands its curious priorities from raiding Boston strip clubs for selling knock-off Red Sox T-shirts to raiding private homes to seize vintage cars that don't meet EPA standards.

And yet more emission creep:

Homeland Security Is Now Helping To Protect Communities From The Effects Of Climate Change

Big Government is, inevitably, stupid government.

The bigger it gets the more it will focus on trivia, and the less it will even be able to discern the few things it should be doing.

But something more pathological is going on here: "Homeland Security" is more interested in controlling law-abiding Americans than protecting them.

Ted Nugent: Liberalism is ‘a Scam,’ that Created Government Dependency and ‘A Plague of Black Violence’ in Inner Cities

Ted Nugent: Liberalism is ‘a Scam,’ that Created Government Dependency and ‘A Plague of Black Violence’ in Inner Cities:

"The ‘Nuge continues:

“It is deaf, dumb and blind liberalism that has shoveled over $20 trillion into Fedzilla’s welfare crack programs over the past 50 years. Their big lie is that this was all done to eliminate poverty. What it really has done is waste this gargantuan pile of money while doing nothing to eliminate poverty, but in fact, increase it.
The bullet-proof truth is that our hard-earned tax dollars were torched by Democrats to create a permanent voting block out of black Americans. Money is the bait, and they took it, hook, line and sinker. Now President Obama has proposed shoveling another $10 trillion over the next 10 years for more Fedzilla welfare crack.”

He then calls out President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and says, "

Assisted Suicide 'Out of Control' in Netherlands

Assisted Suicide 'Out of Control' in Netherlands:
"The number of mentally ill people who have been killed through euthanasia in the Netherlands has trebled in a single year, according to new figures.

The Daily Mail reports that in 2012, 14 people with "severe psychiatric problems" were killed by lethal injection, a figure that rose to 42 in 2013.
There had also been a 15 percent overall rise in assisted dying over the past year, with the number of cases increasing from 4,188 to 4,829.
Deaths from euthanasia have risen by a total of 151 percent in a period of just seven years, with most cases involving cancer sufferers.
However, there were also 97 people who were killed by their doctors because they had dementia.
The figures do not include "terminal sedation", where the patient is sedated and then has food and fluids withdrawn.
If they did, however, euthanasia would account for one in eight of all deaths in the Netherlands.
Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship told the Daily Mail that euthanasia in the Netherlands is "way out of control", saying that it proves that assisted dying is impossible to regulate.
"The House of Lords calculated in 2005 that with a Dutch-type law in Britain we would be seeing over 13,000 cases of euthanasia per year," he added."