NYTimes.com: "When the Guy Making Your Sandwich Has a Noncompete Clause"
Way to go, Jimmy Johns. I guess hunting endangered & threatened wildlife is getting boring, so The Most Dangerous Game with ex-employees is next?
myFOXDetroit.com: "Woman looking for work after Subway enforces non-compete contract"
Woman takes off time for needed surgery, Subway fires her for it, then enforces its non-compete clause to sue her when she gets another crappy fast food job.
She could definitely get out if the contract as it could reasonably be argued there was no meeting of the minds. I also find it very difficult to believe the contract is legal in the first place as it allows enforcement after an involuntary termination.
She could also look at collecting damages as Subway delivered legal documents to her new place of business which caused her to lose that job. All subway would have been eligible to sue for would have been lost business due to her competition. They would have to prove that their business suffered from her absence. As plaintiffs they would also have the obligation to mitigate damages; which they would be unable to do because the termination was involuntary. Basically, Subway has no legal ground to stand on beyond their gigantic pocket book. Someone should take her case on contingency and slap subway with a multimillion dollar suit seeking punitive damages for flagrant violation of contract law and disrupting private business practices of a competitor.
Repel Islamic State and imperialism! For democratic workers’ defence and Kurdish self-determination!
** spoiler omitted **
Vive le Galt!!!
I agree, but they got one thing wrong - the Yazidis aren't Christian...
Have the Socialist Party split, then, or is that a new group? Or a new name for the old one?
Excellent catch, Comrade Longears.
I was talking to Omar the Former Arab Terrorist about the Yazidis back when they were in the news and, you know, I heard about them for the first time.
"You don't know the Yazidis?" asked Omar, who spends a lot of time looking up obscure shiznit on wikipedia. "They're one of those syncretic religions who also happen to be one of the few peoples who still publicly stone people to death." Man, the Middle East is awesome.
Anyway, as far as I know, that's still the Britishiznoid CWI. Haven't heard of any splits over on this side of the pond.
Half a million UK health workers in strike over pay
Vive le Galt!
NYTimes.com: "When the Guy Making Your Sandwich Has a Noncompete Clause"
Way to go, Jimmy Johns. I guess hunting endangered & threatened wildlife is getting boring, so The Most Dangerous Game with ex-employees is next?myFOXDetroit.com: "Woman looking for work after Subway enforces non-compete contract"
Woman takes off time for needed surgery, Subway fires her for it, then enforces its non-compete clause to sue her when she gets another crappy fast food job.
I don't know who Jimmy Johns is but he sounds like a plutocratic piece of shiznit.
I don't know who Jimmy Johns is but he sounds like a plutocratic piece of shiznit.NYTimes.com: "When the Guy Making Your Sandwich Has a Noncompete Clause"
Way to go, Jimmy Johns. I guess hunting endangered & threatened wildlife is getting boring, so The Most Dangerous Game with ex-employees is next?myFOXDetroit.com: "Woman looking for work after Subway enforces non-compete contract"
Woman takes off time for needed surgery, Subway fires her for it, then enforces its non-compete clause to sue her when she gets another crappy fast food job.
I don't know about plutocratic but they are pieces of shiznit that won't put a frakking pickle on my sandwich and make me buy a damn pickle on the side. Bastards.
Is that a kosher dill pickle or a sweet pickle?
Is that a kosher dill pickle or a sweet pickle?
Want me to tell you where the pickle/goblin connection comes from? - minor runelords spoiler...
It's a dill pickle, I doubt it's kosher.
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Is that a kosher dill pickle or a sweet pickle?Want me to tell you where the pickle/goblin connection comes from? - minor runelords spoiler...
Is it the pickle thieves from Thistletop? Because those were some righteous goblins. In fact, when I ran Rise of the Runeplutocrats we had a TPK at Thistletop and that was the end of that campaign.
Or is it something else?
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Bomber Bernie has never told me to "shut up," alas (3:30).
Bernie Sanders speaks on wealthy interest groups at UNH
So, me, Mr. Comrade, and the Commandant of the Scottish Republican Army drove out to UNH to meet with the Commandant's grade school chum who is also interested in international proletarian socialist revolution. We set up on a sidewalk and after half an hour a UNH cop kicked us out. Freedom of speech, my ass.
Anyway, we went to Bomber Bernie's thing, I can't tell you how crappy the video we had to watch was (apparently, all we need to do is mobilize the power of the mythic American people to make some "Few Small Changes" about money in politics and then everything will be fine). Thankfully, Bomber Bernie's speech was nowhere near that terrible. In fact, Mr. Comrade quipped that it sounded like the first speech by a brand new Commonwealth Party of Galt (M-L) member, except, you know, with no mention of socialism.
Anyway, he didn't say a single thing about foreign policy. Also, after talking about how horrible the Republicrats are, he urged every one to become involved in the political process. During the Q&A, Mr. Comrade took the mic and repeated the party line (run independently, don't run as a Democrat) and asked him who we should all vote for if the Repubs and Dems are so bad. Bernie hemmed and hawed for thirty seconds and then basically said: "Lesser evil, yada, yada, yada, I don't wanna be Ralph Nader and run a useless third party campaign, I'd rather be Dennis Kucinich and run a useless Democratic campaign" [Comrade Anklebiter paraphrase]. The next kid up on the mic after Mr. Comrade gave a speech about "the rule of capital", "the racial caste system" and "direct action against the Keystone pipeline." "Oooh," I said, "Someone give him a paper!" but he turned out to be some kinda anarchist.
Anyway, after Mr. Comrade's turn at the mic, all the members of the NH Left popped out of the audience to shake his hand--Big Will from the Iraq Veterans Against the War (as opposed to Old Will from the Vietnam Veterans Agaist the War), Steve K. from the Carpenter's Union and a guy whose name I don't recall but is the head of the Nashua Library workers union and recently got booted off the Nashua Democratic City Council for refusing to support either Hillary or Israel. "He's gonna f&!#in' run as a Democrat" they all complained, congratulating Mr. Comrade.
Anyway, after the event we handed out Ferguson leaflets and back issues of our newspaper. As I like to say to the comrades, we are the best distributors of free back issues in New England.
Evening turned sour as Big Will told Mr. Comrade about another IVAW activist--I never met him, but Mr. Comrade did--who recently killed himself in despair after Obama relaunched the Iraq War with little-to-no-protest from the American people ("Strike Poverty, Not Syria!").
To lighten the mood, I'll link to the FB page of yet another schizophrenic that we ran into while peddling socialist newspapers.
"My name is Eugene Tillock. By fate alone I am part of a truly amazing coincidence that I discovered in my family tree. My sister married a Chinese man in the year 2000, the year of the new millennium mind you. Originally from the Yellow River region and XI'AN the cradle of civilization in China his family has 4 brothers named Eugene-Stephen-Paul-Michael in that exact order. I Gene am the first of 3 brothers also Eugene-Stephen-Paul and the very next son and first grandson of the next generation is Michael.
"Now what are the odds of this event ever occurring in the natural. correct me if I am wrong space scientists but Eugene(10,000 to 1) times Stephen(1000 to 1) times Paul(1000 to 1) times Michael(100 to 1) times the odds that any two people especially these two from polar opposite ends of the earth CHINA and AMERICLE would wed(1 BILLION to 1) equals a BILLION TRILLION TO 1 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1 LONG SHOT. The coincidences if you want to call them that only gein with this and are truly mind-boggling and enlightening to say the very least. What does it all mean? Who sent me? Why did this all happen? Where does it go from me? When will it all happen??? China (Syndrome) are you listening!!!!"
He was distributing this leaflet and even gave the last one to the Commandant's UNH schoolchum because "you're Asian," although, sadly, not Chinese.
Oh, I forgot, Bomber Bernie referred to the USA more than once as an "oligarchy." [Grumble grumble grumble "plutocracy"]
Changing the subject entirely, this essay by Comrade Leon has recently been added to the syllabus for the NH Commie Club reader's circle on Ten Days That Shook the World:
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Speaking of # Revolution #
Despite the pretty narrow focus of the title and accompanying article, Comrade Russell delivers a pretty good version of the Commonwealth Party of Galt (M-L) "Voting is for ninnies!" position.
While watching Comrade Russell, I was amused to see that among the videos on the right recommended by youtube, is The Kinks' Arthur; or The Decline and Fall of the Britishiznoid Empire
I've probably already linked this in this thread, but Comrade Kate said her first lead-off on the Russian Revolution will focus on the 1903 split in the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party, and, like all good teachers, she recommended the class watch a video:
Bolshevism on the Beeb; or Jean-Luc Picard as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Also, Great Lenin's Ghost!
Dear Comrade Anklebiter, is there a place online where I can learn about Socialism that explains it in a way someone of limited education can understand? I should like to be able to form my own opinions and contribute an at least semi-coherent spiel to my new SA friends. They are good teachers but their generous alcohol buying nature works against my education when I am with them.
Your fan and perhaps Comrade in waiting, Yuugasa.
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Today (or some point this month) is the 80th anniversary of the start of the Long March
Dear Comrade Anklebiter, is there a place online where I can learn about Socialism that explains it in a way someone of limited education can understand? I should like to be able to form my own opinions and contribute an at least semi-coherent spiel to my new SA friends. They are good teachers but their generous alcohol buying nature works against my education when I am with them.
Your fan and perhaps Comrade in waiting, Yuugasa.
Dear Comrade Yuugasa,
The best way to learn about socialism is to join a reader's circle of like-minded comrades, or, anyway, comrades-to-be. You should ask your wife if there is anything like that going on around you.
If not, there are various websites with pedagogical or historical articles that I could recommend, but I don't know about any that have self-tutorials.
Lemme go web-surf for a bit...after I yell at Comrade Longears....
Today (or some point this month) is the 80th anniversary of the start of the Long March
Maoist stooge!
Well, that was easy.
This is the Socialist Alternative Publications page that has a lot of online pamphlets. Man, I didn't even know this page was here!
Also, I'll re-plug Comrade John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World, a sympathetic American journalist's eye-witness account of the seizure of power by the Russian proletariat led by Lenin and Trotsky's Bolsheviks that was one of the first commie books that the comrades made me read when I was a wee goblin militant and I am now happy to turn around and make kids who are the same age I was when I first became a commie read it, too. It's great.
"With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reed’s book, Ten Days that Shook the World. Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the world. Here is a book which I should like to see published in millions of copies and translated into all languages. It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. These problems are widely discussed, but before one can accept or reject these ideas, he must understand the full significance of his decision. John Reed’s book will undoubtedly help to clear this question, which is the fundamental problem of the international labor movement.
N. LENIN.
End of 1919."
Awesome, thanks Anklebiter.
Anything for a comrade.
In other news, FairPoint Workers in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont On Strike
Vive le Galt!
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Today (or some point this month) is the 80th anniversary of the start of the Long MarchMaoist stooge!
{Ludo Martens pokes Reg Birch in both eyes}
{Reg Birch slaps Comrade Prachanda rapidly on alternate cheeks}
{Comrade Prachnada sticks two fingers up each of Ludo's nostrils and wiggles them about}
"AWOOWOOWOO!"
Couple of bits from Comrades Amy, et. al., that I felt like linking:
Iraq Veterans Against the War: Decade-Old Group Grapples with New War, PTSD Epidemic, VA Failures
Live From Death Row, Mumia Abu-Jamal's Goddard College Commencement Address
Ona move!
Free Mumia!
From the Headlines:
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Approve Prisoner Censorship After Speech by Mumia Abu-Jamal
In a new case of political retribution involving Mumia Abu-Jamal and constitutional rights, Pennsylvania lawmakers have approved a measure that critics say tramples free speech. The measure authorizes censoring the public addresses of prisoners or former offenders should judges agree that allowing them to speak would cause "mental anguish" to the victim. The measure was approved after Abu-Jamal delivered a pretaped commencement address for graduating students at Vermont’s Goddard College earlier this month. Abu-Jamal’s speech was opposed by Pennsylvania state officials as well as the widow of Daniel Faulkner, the police officer whom Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is expected to sign the measure into law. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has criticized the measure, calling it "overbroad and vague," and unable to "pass constitutional muster under the First Amendment."
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Oh dear Overlord of Socialism! I require thy aid! In the game of Civic mirror for civics I have the great honour of being the heroic Socialist.
But now everything is being screwed up because we have a Capitalist Fascist in charge of Government and he refuses to take important areas under the Government's control to ensure equality and prevent the overpricing of goods in our country. How can I convince my leader?
Why, hello!
I enjoy flattery as much as the next goblin, but Overlord of Socialism is a bit much. You can just call me Chairman Doodlebug.
Anyway, I am unfamiliar with the game you are playing, but I am afraid the only answer is international proletarian socialist revolution. If that doesn't work for game mechanic reasons, I suggest assassinating your Capitalist Fascist leader.
Yours for the revolution,
Doodlebug Anklebiter
Hadn't been over to Counterpunch in a while, got there and found a frightening picture of Chris Hedges extolling their virtues as "the most fearless, intellectually rigorous and important publication in the United States....Its honesty exposes, week after week, the hollow platitudes of our bankrupt liberal elite."
Hear, hear! although it'd be probably be more convincing if Hedges hadn't gotten into a plagiarism dispute earlier this year.
Anyway, a series of articles/vids I read/watched over the past couple of days had a certain synergistic weirdiose continuity, kinda like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon for pinko journalists, so I thought I'd share:
How Alexander Cockburn’s ancestor torched Washington and freed 6,000 slaves
A Smoking Gun That
Actually Smoked
The CIA and the Art of the “Un-Cover-Up”
James Risen Prepared to "Pay Any Price" to Report on War on Terror Amid Crackdown on Whistleblowers
Powerful Photos Capture the Student Protests Barely Anyone Is Talking About
La lucha continua!
Vive le Galt!
Oh dear Overlord of Socialism! I require thy aid! In the game of Civic mirror for civics I have the great honour of being the heroic Socialist.
But now everything is being screwed up because we have a Capitalist Fascist in charge of Government and he refuses to take important areas under the Government's control to ensure equality and prevent the overpricing of goods in our country. How can I convince my leader?
Arguments for nationalisation/state control could include:
2) Some things - major items of infrastructure like power grids, roads, sewerage and water - are natural monopolies. I can only speak about the UK, but here, at least one of the water companies is so overloaded with debt after leveraged buyouts that they cannot spend any money on doing their actual jobs and have had to turn to the taxpayer to fund much needed upgrades to the London sewer system. If Joanne Citizen is going to have to shell out for it, why shouldn't she profit from it as well?
3) Necessity for having certain strategic resources - fuel, arms, metals, etc. - not under the control of firms who can go bust or fall under the control of potentially unfriendly foreigners.
4) In the past, things like water and healthcare have been publicly owned because a healthy citizenry is both better for business (fewer sick breaks, etc.) and for the state (fit and alert soldiers). The private sector often isn't initially interested in providing such services if it promises to be more bothersome/expensive than other places where their money could be put, so the state has to step in.
5) Certain industries that require colossal amounts of initial investment (aerospace, for example, or telecommunications), if they're not state-owned, receive a huge amount of subsidy, for the reasons above . Private money floods in once everything's set up and things start to smell of easy money, as you might expect.
I dare say none of these are at all conclusive, but help yourself. These are not arguments for socialism either, of course :)
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Britain Needs A Pay Rise - national anti-austerity marches in London and Glasgow yesterday.
Powerful Photos Capture the Student Protests Barely Anyone Is Talking About
La lucha continua!
Vive le Galt!
Mexico scares me sometimes(occasionally even more than the rest of the world scares me!) not the protests; the random mass murder (perhaps) of student teachers, what's next? The ethnic cleansing of librarians!?
More Chairman Bob:
You Have a Chance to See “The Jimi Hendrix of Revolution.” Live.
Not commie per se, but interesting nonetheless:
The War Nerd: Nobody could have predicted Islamic State’s retreat from Kobane (except me)
Gough Whitlam has passed away.
Vale Gough.
I am sorry for your loss, Comrade Dwarf.
I don't know anything about Australian social-democracy, but a comrade was passing around Whitlam's obit on Facebook:
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This sums up his impact
"In a rapid program of reform it called “the program”, the Whitlam government created Australia’s national health insurance scheme, Medibank; abolished university fees; introduced state aid to independent schools and needs-based school funding; returned traditional lands in the Northern Territory to the Gurindji people; drafted (although did not enact) the first commonwealth lands right act; established diplomatic relations with China, withdrew the remaining Australian troops from Vietnam; introduced no-fault divorce laws; passed the Racial Discrimination Act; blocked moves to allow oil drilling on the Great Barrier Reef; introduced environmental protection legislation; and removed God Save the Queen as the national anthem."
He wasn't perfect but he was a visionary.
"Maintain your rage"
Gough Whitlam
[Clenched fist salute]
Speaking of Australians, I was skimming through the Marvel white privilege thread in the comic book forum, I have no idea why, when Comrade Dingo made me laugh very hard indeed.
Din-go! Din-go! Din-go!
Ding is always good for a laugh.
Margaret Whitlam handed me my degree she was an amazing person in her own right.
That made my dad's day, He took more pictures of Gough than me on graduation day. Gough was his hero.
Paul Keating is mine but he is from right faction of the Labor Party.
Note to friends: Facebook apparently doesn't like it when you post about the PKK.
The Commandant of the Scottish Republican Army was trolling his on-line Turkish acquaintances with quotes from the wisdom of Chairman Apo and has been banned for thirty days.
Mr. Comrade put up a post supporting the right of the Kurds to armed self-defense and FB said he had to change his profile name to his real name.
F~+% Mark Zuckerburg; for a united, socialist Kurdistan!
Vive le Galt!
A Smoking Gun That Actually Smoked
The CIA and the Art of the “Un-Cover-Up”
Synergistic weirdiosity!
Resurrecting a Disgraced Reporter: ‘Kill the Messenger’ Recalls a Reporter Wrongly Disgraced
Or probably not, actually. I'd imagine the editors of Counterpunch dusted that one off because of the movie.
Regardless, they've changed the celebrity leftist asking you to donate to CP from Hedges to Barbara Ehrenreich. "CounterPunch makes me think. It makes me laugh. Above all it tells me things I didn't know."