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Archive for February 9th, 2005
Three new hosts, well, two new hosts and one battle-scarred veteran, signed up for Carnival hosting duties today. Assuming the dates agree with them, we’re booked through the beginning of May.
Thanks to;
Conservative Dialysis, our returning vet, who hosted # 108. He’s currently got a post up on America’s favorite wanna-be red man, Ward Churchill.
In fact, what Mr. Churchill did in his essay is first make the outrageous assertion that every single worker in the Word Trade Center Towers was a fair target because “They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire.” Then, having removed their innocence to his satisfaction, he now claims that “Nowhere in there did I justify the killing of innocent people.”
Transplanted Tar Heel Cynical Nation dives into the monetary tar baby that is Social Security.
Referring to an enormous unfunded mandate as a “trust fund” is disingenuous in the extreme. It encourages us to believe it’s an asset when it’s really an obligation. It also masks the true size of the federal budget deficit, by moving the Social Security surplus into general revenues, where it doesn’t belong.
Fresh Politics is a blog with a setup that seems eerily familiar, somehow; multiple authors, but only one that posts regularly. Taylor has my sympathies, and the Latino Foreign Legion has his.
President Bush has also passed new legislation helping to allow the naturalization for undocumented immigrants who serve in active duty during the War on Terror. Currently, there are currently more than 37,000 undocumented soldiers in our military forces. The effects have been positive for the military. The effect? Puerto Rican enlistees now disproportionately contribute more military personnel than New York, California, Connecticut, Florida, Texas, Illinois and New Jersey.
Update: Yet another scion appears. The Carnival of Education.
There are HR policies for everything else, so why aren’t there any that deal with breast-feeding?
Recently, I sent a pumping-practices survey to more than 1,000 human resources leaders who belong to two e-mail discussion groups, HRColorado and HRIllinois. I asked them for copies or descriptions of their company’s policies regarding milk-pumping at work.
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Here’s what I got back: zilch. My queries on issues such as Internet usage policies, dress codes, and the like have yielded dozens or scores of responses. Milk, however, is a far more challenging problem, judging by the silence of my loyal pen pals.
Nothing like discussion of naked breasts in the workplace when in comes to strained silences. Many members of management are probably too petrified to address the subject at all, figuring that any conversation on the subject of mammaries is just a hop, skip and a jump away from a sexual harassment case at best, and a SEC lawsuit at worst.
“Jenkins, where’s Delaney from accounting?”
“She’s on the 9th floor, Sir. She’s performing a pump and dump.”
“And you didn’t bother to stop her? Damnit, didn’t we have trouble enough with the Securities Commission last year over that pump and dump thing last year?”
“But sir…”
“Don’t ‘But’ me, Jenkins. You march right up there and tell her she’s fired. I’m not going to jail for some crazy broad.”
“But sir…”
“Jenkins! Goddammit! Do what I say or it’s your ass too!”
“Sir! She’s expressing milk from her breasts!”
“That’s it, Jenkins. I don’t care what a man does on his own time, but I’m not going to stand for this kind of perversion in the workplace. And you a married man, too.”
“But, sir!”
“Security!”
Now, overweening breast hysteria aside, setting aside a room for use as a lactation area is almost certainly a good idea in terms of productivity. Breast-fed kids are healthier kids, which means that on the whole, mothers who breast feed will spend less time away from work dealing with illnesses and doctor visits, enhancing their productivity relative to the mothers who give their infants formula.
“Jenkins, where’s Delaney from accounting?”
“She’s on the 9th floor, sir, in the lactation room.”
“Good, good. I like a woman who thinks of the company. Where’s Johnson?”
“Home with her son, sir. He’s got an ear infection.”
“Ear infection, eh? Johnson’s a formula feeder, isn’t she?”
“Yes sir.”
“Typical. Woman never was any good at looking at the big picture. Well, that’s one decision made easier. Put Delaney in charge of the new division. Let her know as soon as she finishes her business in there.”
“Yes, sir.”
“You don’t suppose we could ask a woman about her stance on breastfeeding during the interview process, do you, Jenkins? These damn formula feeders are killing our bottom line.”
“I’ll run it by Legal, sir.”
“Good man, Johnson. Good man. You’re married, aren’t you?”
“Yes sir.”
“The little woman. She a breast feeder?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Good, Jenkins, excellent!. Listen, we’re having a little get together at the club Saturday. I’d like you to come out, if you can. Let Delaney know too, if you would.”
“Of course, sir. Have a good day, sir.”
“Good man, Johnson. You’ll go far in this company. See you then.”
The 125th edition of the Carnival of the Vanities is hosted by Coyote Blog this week.
There’s also a new Legal carnival, Belly up to the Bar, at Naked Ownership.
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The Carnival of the Cats
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The Tangled Bank
The Carnival of The Liberated
The Christian Carnival
The Philosopher’s Carnival
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Carnival of The Recipes
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Carnival Of the Bush Bloggers
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Grand Rounds
Carnival Of The Pajamas
Carnival of Poetry
The Carnival Of The Rugrats
Haveil Havalim
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Carnival of the Families
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Carnival of Sin
The History Carnival
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