Police are looking for 55-year-old Barbara Kay Hartfield, who is wanted for premeditated first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon following the stabbing death of Felisha C. Johnson.
My comment will likely get deleted and possibly earn me a ban:
“Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon against one of the teenagers.” a quote from BLM cofounder Bree Newsome
EDITED TO ADD: Well, it did get “moderated” out of existence. They claim it violates their unpublished and ever changing community guidelines.
There was a time when humans believed that the Earth was flat, and anyone who approached the “ends of the Earth” would fall off. Then science proved it was round.
At that point, it was believed that everything in the Universe revolved around the Earth. The Earth, it was believed, was the center of all creation and anyone who believed differently was put to death for heresy.
And so on. Evolving science is a misnomer. Science evolves, facts do not. You see, all science is, is man’s attempt to describe and understand the natural world by observing phenomenon. If the description fits the observed conditions, it becomes a confirmed theory. As soon as a theory is observed to NOT fit the conditions, it is either modified or discarded. That is what we mean by “evolving science.”
So when Doctor Fauci tells you that you no longer need to wear a mask if you have been vaccinated because “science has evolved” what he is really telling you is that the proposed explanation of the facts that he and his colleagues came up with was incorrect. In other words, science hasn’t evolved, science was WRONG.
When Fauci and the CDC said that only medical professionals should wear masks, he was wrong.
When Fauci and the CDC said that everyone should wear masks, he was wrong.
When Fauci and the CDC said that everyone should wear two masks, he was wrong.
and on and on…
My question becomes: “When has Doctor Fauci ever been right?”
You know that your career is nearly over when even the leftists at SNL are making fun of you:
A Federal Judge says that the CDC doesn’t have the leagal authority to halt evictions, but since they have a good reason for doing so and landlords are minimally affected, the CDC can keep on doing it.
The Democrats are preparing to arrest President Trump. My guess is that it will happen while he is in New Jersey this summer, to avoid sticky extradition issues.
Amazon announced that they will increase their minimum wage to $15 an hour. The people pushing for such a wage are already using them as an example, saying if Amazon can do it, anyone can. Let me explain why that assumption is wrong, and how increased wages actually HELP Amazon.
First, the vast majority of the products sold by Amazon are produced by slaves, or people so close to being slaves that there is no real difference. Yep, most of the stuff sold by Amazon is made in China. Second, most of the things sold by Amazon that are NOT made in China are actually being sold by other companies and Amazon is the agent, not the seller. I know, I used to sell lots of stuff on there. Third, many Amazon warehouses are subcontracted out. A company owned by my brother provides services to some of those locations. Fourth, Amazon has more robots working in its facilities than it does employees. Lastly, Amazon doesn’t employ many workers for the amount of goods sold, compared to most retail sellers.
All of this adds up to $15 an hour hurting Amazon’s competitors more than it helps the workers at Amazon. In fact, Amazon’s purchase of robotics manufacturer Kiva Systems for $775 million is a bargain. When you divide that amount by the 200,000 robots they have, the cost works out to less than $4 thousand per robot.
Amazon sends about 7 billion packages a year with annual revenue of around $100 billion a year.
This warehouse near Orlando covers 59 football fields, has 800 human and several thousands of robotic workers. Every bit of it is controlled and optimized for efficiency by computers.
This is the future of the American worker. Just like Henry Ford’s invention of the assembly line made manufacturing more efficient, robotics will do the same for most other industries. Fifteen dollars an hour won’t matter when three quarters of the workforce has been replaced by machines.
“They don’t care about the associates [entry-level employees such as cashiers] at all. They just want more money for themselves,”
Of course, Amazon has half as many employees. Their physical locations are in rural areas with lower costs. They have less employee theft. All of this means that, in order to compete and keep prices low, costs (including wages) must also be kept low.
If, as an employee, a person wants to make more money, you have to produce more value than any potential employee who could replace you. Why should you expect a raise just because you have been working for an employer for 20 years, if you are still the same employee they hired 20 years ago? What skills have you picked up in the past two decades? Have you gone to school? Learned new skills? Made yourself more valuable? If not, they why would your employer want to pay you more, when they could hire someone with the same skills and education for less?
A cop is fired and arrested for falsifying evidence. This is why I am opposed to the death penalty. Anyone who has been arrested by this cop needs to demand a new trial, or demand that his charges be dropped.
Just a few bad apples, though. Don’t think Federal cops would do any better. This is why the founders wanted government small and weak.
My post of this afternoon centered around employees feeling like they are owed something, simply because they had been employees for a long time, even if those employees hadn’t done anything to improve themselves for (in some cases) decades. There is a reason for that post.
I was hired into a management position at a hospital. When I was hired, I got a lot of pushback. It seems that the employees of the department who had been there for a long time were upset that someone was brought in from the outside, and felt that the position should have gone to them, because they had been there for a long time. One employee told me that she felt like her 17 years there meant nothing and that I got that promotion simply because “I rode around in a truck for a few years.” I told her that it wasn’t just my time on an ambulance that mattered. It was my certifications, my four college degrees, my years of experience as a supervisor that landed me that position. I advised her that she should take advantage of our employer’s tuition reimbursement program, so she could be more qualified the next time a promotion became available. She quit a week later.
Other employees told me that they felt like our employer should pay more. I listened and went to management, who told me that they won’t pay more unless the employees gain a skill. I went back to my employees with a deal: I would help them learn the material to take an exam to earn a certification pertinent to our job, and if they passed the exam, our employer would give them a 20% raise. The cost of the exam is $200. I was willing to teach them on my own time.
The employees refused, saying that they would only take the class if they were on the clock, and refused to pay for the exam fees out of their own pocket. So to sum it up, they want a raise, more training, more certifications, and they want their employer to pay for it all. Why would any employer do all of that? It makes no economic sense. It would be cheaper to let you quit and hire more qualified employees.
If employees refuse to make themselves more valuable, how can they expect to make more money?
