After yesterday’s post had been up all day, my wife informed me last night that September didn’t start today, Wednesday, as I thought, but starts on Thursday. My glaring oversight was visible to one and all the entire day.
Crud!
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Just when you thought you’d heard the worse of governmental regulatory abuse, something new comes up.
August 30, 2011 at 3:39 pmThe federal government has sued a major trucking company for its firing of driver with an admitted alcohol abuse problem.Alcoholism is classified as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the suit maintains, and therefore employees cannot be prohibited even from driving 18 wheelers due to their histories of abuse.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which filed the suit against the Old Dominion Freight Line trucking company on August 16, noted that while “an employer’s concern regarding safety on our highways is a legitimate issue, an employer can both ensure safety and comply with the ADA.”…If the EEOC prevails, of course, it will mean that Old Dominion will still be liable both for any damage to life or property that results from a potential relapse by one of its recovering drivers – which in turn increases the risks involved in investment in the company – and for the cost of trying to ensure that such damage never occurs. All of these new burdens will raise Old Dominion’s cost of doing business, and hence the cost of everything they transport. And all of this can’t possibly ensure that a recovering driver does not relapse without the company’s knowledge.
That’s called screwed if you do and screwed if you don’t. I suppose they’d call a self-admitted thief as having property ownership disabilities.
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Economic news continues in a downward spiral. The last quarter’s Gross Domestic Product was again downgraded. The figure now is one percent growth for the year. It seems that everytime the Obama administration releases some figures, they are updated about a week later…downward.
This time it’s domestic private sector jobs. New jobs fell to 91,000 last week—a new low.
Published: Wednesday, 31 Aug 2011 | 9:26 AM ETThe private sector created 91,000 jobs from July to August, a shade below expectations, according to a report from ADP that sets the stage for a likely weak report on nonfarm jobs the government will release Friday.ADP and Macroeconomic Advisors said service-sector jobs rose 80,000, down from an average increase of 115,000 over the past two months, while the goods-producing sector saw a gain of just 11,000.Consensus estimates are that the government will show the economy created about 80,000 jobs overall in August—including the public sector—though some economists say the report actually could show a loss of jobs.
The ADP report showed that June’s estimate of 114,000 jobs created was revised down to 109,000.
Ever wonder why, when governmental figures are revised they are always revised downward? Of course, you rarely hear on the State Media the revised numbers, CNBC and FOX excepted.
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Old NFO bemoaned in a comment, rightly, the lack of anything positive in the news. He’s right. It’s tough finding something positive to report. With that thought in mind, I’ll list a few items that are, in my mind, positive.
WikiLeaks site comes under attack
LONDON (AP) – The WikiLeaks website crashed Tuesday in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of once-secret State Department cables by the anti-secrecy organization raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential U.S. embassy sources.
“WikiLeaks.org is presently under attack,” the group said on Twitter late Tuesday. One hour later, the site and the cables posted there were inaccessible.
Heh! Guess that goes around, comes around.
ATF HEAD SACKED… (Drudge headline.)
ATF Director Reassigned; U.S. Attorney Out Amid ‘Fast and Furious’ Uproar
Published August 30, 2011| FoxNews.com
