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Ban on demanding Facebook
passwords among new 2013 state laws
Reuters, by James B. Kelleher
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 12/31/2012 2:23:52 PM
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Laws that effect US going into effect after midnight. A real win here for US when the GOP-controlled legislature stood up to a dRATS governor in New Hampshire. Hope & keep voting in GOP legislatures in states and Congress. It matters.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
4Justice, 12/31/2012 2:46:05 PM (No. 9091815)
I can´t believe that employers were demanding people´s personal passwords!! I am getting disgusted by some of the things employers are doing nowadays--especially in big companies. It is these giant corporations that often infringe on employees´ personal lives these days. I guess they think they are entitled...I think it is sick.
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shamrock, 12/31/2012 3:06:25 PM (No. 9091837)
Not being a facebook person, I don´t understand why an employer would need to look at someone´s personal pictures etc. What does someone´s grandkids at a birthday party have to do with employment? I really don´t get it, someone explain please.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/31/2012 3:09:33 PM (No. 9091846)
Yeah,I probably think that demanding someone´s facebook PW is going a little too far but they could have mine all they want.You can probably create quite a profile on a person by seeing what they do on FB.
Employers are getting tougher on who they hire because the new employee is getting more and more expensive and they don´t want to waste money on a dud.Also,employee theft is a huge problem in this country,probably moreso than shoplifters.
Guess I´m in between on this because I value privacy but also business being able to make good hiring decisions.
Think about it if you opened someone´s FB page and it´s first two favorite were the Kos and democratic underground,would you hire them? What if they friended Ed Schultz?
I was in a hiring position for a long time and I made the decision within 2 minutes of talking to someone and I rarely struck out.
A lot of businesses where I´m at now use employment agencies to do all the footwork on someone and then they get trial periods before they´re hired.They have to put up a bounty for a drug test which they get refunded if it´s clean.
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civilservant, 12/31/2012 3:28:23 PM (No. 9091870)
#´s 1 & 2,
How about pictures of the applicant wated out of their minds, doing something inimical to the best interests of the company? Like for instance screaming and giving the finger to the Arlington National Cemetary respect sign?
How about tags like........"I´ma wasted at the .......concert and the boss thinks I be sick!!"
Or, "I´ve stolen more supplies from my boss than I´ve ever used!!!"
All real entries.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Iraengneer, 12/31/2012 4:52:43 PM (No. 9091984)
Except ...
Look, HR departments are notorious pits of the PC Nazi types. So, say you´ve given a ´´´like´´ on FaceBook to a group supporting traditional marriage. Might be enough to knock your job app out of consideration. Or, say, you´re on record for pro-English. Or against illegal aliens. Or in favor of requiring I.D. before voting. Or any of a number of issues that the ´correct view´ opposes.
Think it can´t knock you out? It can. It has. Some of us have reason to know it.
Yes, an employer should be able to derail a member of the ´I Steal from the Company´ club. But there really should be limits on how intrusive the check can be.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chance_232, 12/31/2012 8:09:25 PM (No. 9092258)
Facebook...pfftttt......
If my employer had my password to this site and or read my posts, I might be in trouble.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 1/1/2013 12:10:25 PM (No. 9093154)
All good points on FB but now, on to the teachers being required to report a bully. Most of these teacher creachers aren´t capable of teaching math or history- and now they are the final arbiters of just who is a bully ? I find this concept beyond frightening.
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Watch: Bill Clinton ´joins´ Twitter -
with help from Stephen Colbert
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New York Post, by David K. Li
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Welcome to the 21st century President Clinton! The chief executive who guided America on to the Information Superhighway revealed he didn’t have a Twitter page — until comedian Stephen Colbert got a handle on this low-tech travesty. Amazingly, Clinton said he was too shy and insecure to start his own Twitter page. (Snip) A laughing and mildly embarrassed Clinton took the bait, and dictated his first tweet under the @PrezBillyJeff handle. “Just spent amazing time with Colbert! Is he sane? He is cool! #cgiu” Colbert told the president: “Sir welcome to the future.”
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Google, AT&T target Austin
for high-speed Internet
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Reuters, by Alexei Oreskovic & Sinead Carew
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San Francisco & New York - Google Inc said on Tuesday it plans to bring its ultra high-speed Internet and television service to Austin, Texas, next year, prompting AT&T Inc to reveal its own plans to follow suit - if it gets the same terms from local authorities. AT&T appeared to be making a political point to highlight the heavy regulations that encumber traditional phone companies, analysts said. Google promised to begin connecting homes in Austin by the middle of 2014 with a 1-gigabit-per-second Internet service, roughly 13 times faster than the speediest service AT&T had
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Louisiana lawmakers weigh
options on eliminating income tax
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Reuters, by Stephanie Grace
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/10/2013 1:08:01 AM
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New Orleans - Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday questioned the wisdom of eliminating the state´s income tax without raising sales taxes, one day after Governor Bobby Jindal said he would delay his plan to scrap the income tax. (Snip) Instead he called on lawmakers to pass their own plan and "send me a bill to get rid of these taxes." His plan would have eliminated all state personal and corporate income taxes. It also called for a 56 percent increase in the state sales tax, a much higher cigarette tax, and the elimination of some tax loopholes to make up the $3 billion shortfall from abolishing
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Bahrain Becomes First Arab
Country to Blacklist Hizbullah
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Bahrain on Tuesday became the first Arab country to blacklist Hizbullah as a terrorist organization, the Al Arabiya network reports. The move came a week after the Bahraini parliament voted to label the group a terrorist organization. Its alleged backing and training of radical Shiite groups against Bahrain was the main reason given for the decision, the report said. The Bahraini cabinet has tasked the interior and foreign ministries with implementing the decision. “The measure is to protect Bahrain’s security and stability from Hezbollah’s threats,” Bahraini MP Adil al-Asoumi told Al Arabiya.
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North Korea closes
China border to tourists
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The biggest border crossing between North Korea and China has been closed to tourist groups, a Chinese official says, as nuclear tensions mounted, but business travel was allowed to continue. "Travel agencies are not allowed to take tourist groups to go there, since the North Korean government is now asking foreign people to leave," the official at the Dandong Border Office said. "As far as I know, business people can enter and leave North Korea freely," added the official, who declined to give his name, without making clear which country had ordered the move.
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U.S. not to intercept DPRK missile
unless threatened: Commander
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Xinhua News Agency [China], by Staff
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Washington - The U.S. commander in charge of forces in the Asia Pacific region said Tuesday that if the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea (DPRK) launches a missile in the near future, he would recommend U.S. forces shoot it down when U.S. homeland, forward-deployed forces and allies were threatened. At a Senate hearing, Samuel Locklear, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, said if it was "in defense of the homeland... and if it was defense of our allies," he would recommend U.S. forces shoot down DPRK missile, if the country launches one. "I believe we have a credible ability
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Deadly quake in south-west
Iran´s Bushehr province
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A 6.3 magnitude earthquake has killed more than 30 people and injured 850 in south-west Iran, officials say. Rescue teams have been sent to the affected area, but darkness is hampering rescue operations. The quake struck 90km (60 miles) south of the country´s only nuclear power station in Bushehr, the US Geological Survey (USGS) says. However, the nuclear plant has not been affected and is working normally, officials have said. The quake was felt across the Gulf in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain. Bushehr´s governor Fereydun Hasanvand told Iranian television that of those wounded,
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Source: Liz Cheney seriously
considering running for Wyoming Senate
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Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas
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Wyoming Republican Sen. Mike Enzi may be gearing up to run for re-election in 2014, but that doesn’t mean Liz Cheney is ruling out a run for the Senate seat now. A source close to the politically active daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney tells The Daily Caller that she is still seriously considering running. Over the weekend, The Casper Star Tribune reported that Enzi told a meeting of the GOP state party committee that he is looking forward to running for re-election — something he has yet to formally announce. An Enzi spokesman confirmed the senator’s remarks.
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North Korea may be planning a
nuclear test and missile launch - reports
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/7/2013 10:32:47 PM
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North Korea appears to be preparing a fourth underground nuclear weapons test at Punggye-ri, the site of its previous test, a South Korean government source says. Pyongyang appeared to be making preparations for the test, according to a South Korean government source speaking to the country’s Joong Ang Daily newpaper. This comes on the heels of the South’s defence ministry reports that Pyongyang could perform a mid-range missile test-launch by Wednesday – also the deadline it has given to foreign diplomats to evacuate, as their safety would reportedly no longer be guaranteed
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New Jersey braces for
once-in-17-years cicada invasion
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/7/2013 10:10:12 PM
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Bridgewater, N.J. - Like clockwork, they´re coming back -- after 17 years. "They" would be cicadas, the big, noisy bugs that climb out of the earth about every decade and a half to make everyone´s life more exciting. Experts tell Gannett News Service that the bugs live underground and feed off fluid that gathers near the roots of plants, then emerge from the soil when its temperature reaches 64 degrees. They´re largely harmless, but their sheer numbers can cause headaches. Some areas could see as many as a billion of the cicadas per square mile. That can lead to a lot of dead bugs all over roadways
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Opposition holds big
rally in Venezuelan capital
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Reuters, by Diego Ore & Eyanir Chinea
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Caracas - Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan opposition supporters rallied in a staunchly pro-government part of the capital on Sunday, answering a call by their candidate Henrique Capriles and showing strength a week before the presidential election. "Today the streets of Caracas are full of happiness and hope, confirming what will happen next Sunday," Capriles, the 40-year-old governor of Miranda state, told the crowd. Capriles faces acting President Nicolas Maduro, who has vowed to continue the hard-line socialism of his late boss, Hugo Chavez, if he wins the April 14 election.
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Snoop Lion: Frank Ocean coming out
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Snoop Lion made bold comments about gay marriage and rap music, even addressing singer Frank Ocean´s coming out. Snoop, 41, who has spoken in favor of marriage equality before, was asked by The Guardian if he believed the R&B singer´s declaration of having loved a man meant gay relationships would soon be accepted in the rap community. "Frank Ocean ain´t no rapper," Snoop is quoted as saying. "He´s a singer. It´s acceptable in the singing world, but in the rap world I don´t know if it will ever be acceptable because rap is so masculine."
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Why They Won’t Talk
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Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel
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In 2011, the journalist Mara Hvistendahl published Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, detailing the societal effects of sex-selective abortions that target women the world over and resulted in the absence of perhaps more than 100 million girls who by now should have been born. But Hvistendahl soon learned the downside to uncovering what many believe to be a shocking trend in human rights offenses: people will want to do something about it. And so she lashed out, declaring that “anti-abortion activists
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Obamacare Architect: Affordable
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, said on Tuesday that the healthcare law, set to go into full effect in less than eight months, is “probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress” and “is just beyond comprehension.” Rockefeller said he is concerned that early missteps with implementing the healthcare overhaul may cascade into confusion and chaos. The law, said Rockefeller, is “so complicated and if it isn’t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse.” Rockefeller’s consternation echoes comments made earlier this
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From Dehumanizing Word
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In Philadelphia, at a human abattoir on Lancaster Avenue, is where it ends, not where it starts. It starts with the perversion of language. It starts when the icons of a dissipated culture reduce a baby to a “fetus.” From there, Yeats’s blood-dimmed tide rolls rapidly in. Before long, a baby is not a person but a punishment, as President Barack Obama framed the matter in his familiar off-the-cuff iciness. Of course, to describe newborn children in their boundless possibilities and wonder would be to acknowledge, foremost, their humanity. That is why, instead, abortion enthusiasts must grope for words
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The Golf World Is Outraged That
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Posted By: SoCalGal- 4/13/2013 1:56:27 PM
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Pro golfers, golf writers, and TV commentators are up in arms that Tiger Woods was only given a 2-stroke penalty for his illegal drop on the 15th hole yesterday. Tiger said last night that he dropped his ball two yards behind his previous spot, clearly violating the rule that you must drop "as nearly as possible" to your original spot. Golf people are not happy about it. They say that the new rule is B.S. (or it´s at least being misinterpreted), and Tiger should DQ himself to save the integrity of the game.
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Leaving Blue New York, Boo-Hoo
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Posted By: Drive- 4/12/2013 6:44:47 AM
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Only one of my six children has left New York for economic reasons but the strain of living in this expensive nanny state is weighing heavy on my other five and their families. As a native New Yorker, I´ve seen its middle class population decline over the years due to its neglect of blue collar families which is ironic since this is a Democrat city. With the recent arrests of several local politicians for corruption perhaps New Yorkers will pay more attention to those they put in office. Given their past indifference in local elections this is highly unlikely.
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Little Anthony Freemont´s
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Remember little Anthony Freemont, played by cute little Billy Mumy, in one of the "Twilight Zone´s" most famous episodes? In the opening sequence Rod Serling informs us: "A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines -- because they displeased him -- and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages -- just by using his mind. . . . and the people there have to smile. They have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield
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Philly Abortion Clinic
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They say they were just doing what the boss trained them to do. But eight former employees of a run-down West Philadelphia abortion clinic now face prison time for the work they did for Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Three have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. And Gosnell, 72, is on trial in the deaths of a patient and seven babies allegedly born alive. In testimony at the capital murder trial this past month, an unlicensed doctor and untrained aides described long, chaotic days at the clinic. They said they performed grueling, often gruesome work for little more than minimum wage,
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The Decline of Obama
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Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/13/2013 5:13:17 AM
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With President Obama, there’s always a catch. In the 2014 budget he announced last week, Obama proposed a more accurate way of calculating the inflation rate for annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security. It’s a technical change in pursuit of honesty and good government. And if adopted, it would cause benefits to grow more slowly, though almost imperceptibly so. Republican leaders in Congress ought to be delighted since they had “championed”—Obama’s word—the idea in the first place. Then came the catch. The president’s price for adopting this gentle reform was hundreds of billions in new tax increases.
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Boehner: I Don´t Need
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/12/2013 11:51:37 AM
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On Thursday, in the midst of ongoing national debate over prospective gun control and comprehensive immigration legislation, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said that he didn’t need the approval of a majority of his own party to move forward with legislation. Referring to the so-called Hastert Rule, named after former House Speaker Denny Hastert (R-IL), which dictated that House leadership not bring up any bill for a vote without the support of a majority of the majority party, Boehner said, “Listen: It was never a rule to begin with.” Then, realizing the gravity of admitting
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Jonathan Winters, groundbreaking
comic who influenced
generations, dead at 87
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Associated Press, by Staff
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LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died of natural causes and was surrounded by family and friends. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy.
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Thatcher thought Britain
was worth fighting for
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Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn
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A few hours after Margaret Thatcher´s death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London, scaling the marquee of the local fleapit and hanging a banner announcing, "THE B@&$! IS DEAD." Amazingly, they managed to spell all four words correctly. By Friday, "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead," from "The Wizard of Oz," was the No. 1 download at Amazon UK. Mrs. Thatcher would have enjoyed all this. Her former speechwriter John O´Sullivan recalls how, some years after leaving office, she
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