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Too Sexy For My Job

July 17th, 2013 1 comment

link Iowa Top Court: Firing of Attractive Aide Is Legal – ABC News.

“They know not what they do.”  This is probably the best way to sum up this Iowa court ruling’s consequences in the years to come. The fact that this ruling was made by an all male panel of judges is particularly quizzical, unless of course, they are all married.  In that case, we can assume there was some outside ‘influence.’

What this ruling does however is set a precedent for an entire generation of lawyers to live off the avails of more stupid lawsuits.  Corporations that are in the beauty business had better start taking note.  If people who are ‘attractive’ can be summarily fired just for their attractive appearance, there will be no incentive for people, women in particular, to doll up for their jobs.  Who is Bill Clinton going to get to work for him?

As  in most policies or laws that are enacted which run counter to common sense, the consequent results are often the opposite of what was desired.  Think about minimum wage legislation as an example.  Ostensibly implemented to protect lower rung  entry level workers, what this actually does is to discourage employers from hiring a worker with no experience, instead opting to hire the more qualified person for the higher wage.   This results in more unemployment for the lower rung workers, not more.  Think about the recent implementation of the so called Obamacare act.  All of sudden, employers are cutting back on full time workers and making part timers a larger part of their workforce.  So now, fewer people get medical coverage, not more.

In the case of being able to use appearance as a reason to dismiss someone, we can see HR departments all across the country getting ready to ax people for having greasy hair, tattoos, nose rings, shaved or Mohawk heads or being just plain ugly.  So what will happen is that attractive people will get jobs to the exclusion of uglies, fatsos and other visual undesireables.  Hmm, in that case, the daytime television show, The View may be on its last legs.

Some Victims Are More Equal Than Others

July 11th, 2013 No comments

George‘Free Jahar’ Chant As Boston Bombing Suspect Heads To Court « CBS Boston.

If you believe the hysterical media ( and there are those that still do ), the nation is riveted to the on-going trial of George Zimmerman for his role in the killing of Trayvon Martin in February of last year.

In the year 2012, there were 1009 murders in the State of Florida according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which was actually a rise of 2.4 percent from the year previous.  If we assume that this statistic is a general indication of what to expect for 2013, that would imply that there have been about 500 murders thus far this year in that state.   I’ll bet anyone a steak dinner that they can’t name even one case apart from the Travyon Martin killing.  While the jury is still out, the circumstances are not in question.   A suspicious person is seen in the gated community where lots of burglaries have recently occurred.  He (Martin) is confronted by a neighborhood watch man ( Zimmerman) and then assaults him.  Fearing for his life, Zimmerman shoots Martin dead.   Hardly a noteworthy crime in the naked city.

That is until it was framed as a murder of a defenseless black youth by a bullying white man.  Oh and it involved guns.  Then all of the requisite ingredients are there for sensationalism and grandstanding by the political and media vermin that appear like cockroaches after the lights go out.

Meanwhile, as they saying goes, a few months ago, while thousands of people  in Boston were participating in their annual marathon,  some intentionally planted explosives killed and maimed dozens of those involved.  To this day, the assailant, not the accused assailant, but the actual assailant Tsarnaev Dzokhar, only rarely comes up in the news and when he does, is the subject of sympathetic sentiments as if he were a modern day Che Guevara.   This crime had elements much wider than someone being shot during a robbery.  The Boston case has implications involving immigration, fanatical religious groups, international intelligence and general public security.  And by the way, dozens of innocents were injured.

Instead, the national media is transfixed by a story which by comparison, is essentially dog bites man.  Poor George Zimmerman looks like he’s going to have to be convicted of something in order to calm the beasts.  If not murder, then maybe manslaughter.  If not manslaughter, maybe child abuse since Martin was a teen.  If not child abuse, maybe for being overweight.  If he’s overweight, then maybe he’s eaten at one of Paula Deen’s restaurants.  If he’s eaten there, maybe he’s uttered a racial slur sometime in his past.  Something.   On the other hand, Dzokhar gets a fan club and nary a mention in the media for terrorizing an entire population.     Just goes to show you, in today’s America, you have to choose your victims wisely.

update: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/07/16/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-featured-on-cover-of-rolling-stone/