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Today in History
| 1660 | The first Shakespearian actress to appear on an English stage (she is believed to be a Ms. Norris) makes her debut as Desdemona. | |
| 1861 | The CSS Sumter captures the whaler Eben Dodge in the Atlantic. The American Civil War is now affecting the northern whaling industry. | |
| 1863 | Union General William Averell‘s cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia. | |
| 1914 | The German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Leipzig are sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands. | |
| 1920 | President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva. | |
| 1932 | Japan tells the League of Nations that it has no control over her designs on China. | |
| 1941 | Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army at Singapore. | |
| 1941 | The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States. | |
| 1943 | U.S. carrier-based planes sink two cruisers and down 72 planes in the Marshall Islands. | |
| 1944 | The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. | |
| 1948 | The United Nations approves the recognition of South Korea. | |
| 1967 | In the biggest battle yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Viet Cong are killed. | |
| 1968 | South Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky arrives in Paris for peace talks. | |
| 1980 | John Lennon is shot to death outside his Manhattan apartment building. | |
| 1982 | In Washington, D.C., police shoot and kill a man threatening to blow up the Washington Monument. | |
| 1987 | The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed. | |
| 1987 | An Israeli army tank transporter kills 4 Palestinian refugees and injures 7 others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, leading to the First Intifada. | |
| 1991 | The leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine sign an agreement that dissolves the Soviet Union and establishes the Commonwealth of Independent States. | |
| 2004 | The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations. | |
| 2010 | SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. | |
| 2010 | The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus. |
Russia banned from Pyeongchang Games
Russia has been banned from the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter
Olympics after evidence emerged of widespread doping but some of its
athletes will be allowed to compete under the tag of "Olympic Athlete of
Russia", the IOC said on Tuesday.…
Weed tech CEO accused of being a secret neo-Nazi steps down after admitting to ‘white pride’
OG Analytical CEO Bethany Sherman announced
her resignation and plans to sell the marijuana testing facility she
founded in 2013.
Irish town gets horny off of Viagra factory fumes
As The Times of London, reported, Ringaskiddy residents believe that Viagra wafts through the air thanks to the Pfizer factory in their town. According to the paper, the drug was produced in the area beginning in 1998. The drug was also approved by the Food and Drug Administration that year as the first pill providing relief to impotent men.
Local bartender Debbie O’Grady, who works at the Ferry Boat Inn, joked to the paper about the purported effects on residents, “One whiff and you’re stiff.” Grady’s mother, Sadie, explained that people who visit the town feel compelled to stay, thanks to the little blue pill.
Baltimore police officer stole $100,000 from citizens in years-long robbery spree
A fifth former Baltimore police officer
pleaded guilty Wednesday in the U.S. Department of Justice racketeering
case against the since-disbanded the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force.
Three-year-old toddler finds loaded gun and kills himself
An Ohio man has been indicted after his three-year-old son found the father’s loaded gun and fatally shot himself.
Miami man who hit 5-year-old wants abuse charge tossed under 'stand your ground' law
Fargo elementary teacher booted from school after cruelly bullying 10-year-old students
School teacher Andrea Deschamp at Lewis and Clark Elementary in Fargo,
North Dakota will not be returning to the classroom after Fargo Public
Schools investigated a formal complaint of bullying. Time ‘Person of the Year’
Time on Wednesday revealed its choice for its
annual “Person of the Year” award: The women whom it deemed the “Silence
Breakers” who founded the #MeToo movement to combat sexual harassment
in the workplace.
‘Women are going to pay for this’
Time on Wednesday announced that its “Person
of the Year” title for 2017 went to the “silence breakers” who risked
their careers to speak up about sexual harassment in the workplace.
Racists go bonkers after Beyoncé surprises Kaepernick with Ali Legacy Award
Beyoncé surprised free-agent quarterback Colin
Kaepernick with Sports Illustrated's Muhammad Ali Legacy Award — and
online racists lost their minds.
Dumbass Trump junta's proposed tipping rule raises fear of legal wage theft
by
Melody Hahm
It’s
illegal for employers to take tips from employees. But, the Department
of Labor (DOL) is proposing a new rule that would allow employers to
take their workers’ tips as long as they earn at least minimum wage.
Published on the Federal Register on Tuesday, the new rule
would rescind a regulation enacted during the Obama administration that
mandates employers distribute tips to their tipped employees. Under the
new rule, restaurants would be able to pool tips from servers and share
them with untipped employees like dishwashers.
Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy institute (EPI), points to research
that shows illegal wage theft exceeds $15 billion every year. “It seems
obvious that when employers can legally pocket the tips earned by their
employees, many will do so,” she said.
The
DOL argues that tip pooling helps reward those who don’t normally get
tips. Groups like the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association assert that this rule “would help decrease wage disparities between front-of-house and back-of-house employees.”
But labor advocates say the likely outcome would be employers pocketing those tips.
“If
companies have trouble retaining non-tipped workers because their pay
is so low, the solution is for the companies to raise the wages of those
workers—not for the labor department to rig the rules so employers can
essentially steal earnings from tipped workers to subsidize the
businesses’ low wage model,” said Christine Owens, the executive
director at the National Employment Law Project (NELP).
The public can submit comments within 30 days. While comment periods typically range from 30 to 60 days, agencies may also provide longer time periods (180+ days).
Shierholz
notes that this is an “outrageously short window for commentary,”
particularly because it was published during the holiday season.
While there’s the possibility of an extension, it’s a clear move to reduce public input, according to Shierholz.
“DOL
is trying hard to hide how much this change in existing protections
will cost workers as it tries to sneak this rule through an
extraordinarily short public comment period over the holidays,” added
Owens.
Lack of analysis
Another
glaring issue with the proposal is the complete absence of economic
analysis, according to Owens. She says that analysis would inevitably
show the transfer of money from workers to employers, particularly big
restaurant chains.
This analysis is “essential information the public needs to make informed comments about the proposal,” she said.
In
fact, Shierholz and her team at EPI are currently working on a way to
quantify the economic disadvantages the said rule would have on
employees. By using the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ current population
survey and IRS data, the EPI is deriving a way to examine how much money
would be transferred from employees to their bosses. With the caveat
that both sources tend to underreport tips, Shierholz asserts that the
DOL has a legal obligation to do a thorough analysis.
“Make
no mistake: as a result of this rule, workers will take home less, and
their loss will be employers’ gain,” she said. “And Trump’s DOL is
willing to break the requirements of the rulemaking process to attempt
to hide that fact.”
Dumbass Trump junta twists anti-discrimination law to claim the KKK is a protected class
In the circus surrounding the Masterpiece
Bakeshop case, in which a Colorado baker refused to serve gay customers,
lost a discrimination case and then appealed it all the way to the
Supreme Court, a strange tidbit emerged yesterday.
Colossal distant black hole holds surprises about early universe
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