Kimberlee Ouwroulis has filed an interesting lawsuit in Canada alleging age discrimination. Owroulis is a stripper and claims that she was fired at 44 due to her age. The question is whether age is a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification for a stripper.
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This may have been a case where considerable time and money could have been saved with a brief conversation with some ten year olds in any school playground. My alma mater, The University of Chicago, has completed an exhaustive study and determined that bullies actually enjoy inflicting pain on others.
We have all complained about rubber chicken dinners. However, it was merely a metaphor until this week when Portland-based Barber Foods Co. was forced to recall chicken meals after pieces of rubber were found into the Stuffed Chicken Kiev. Rubber was supposed to be the texture, not one of the actual ingredients.
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Voters often complain that politicians do little but piddle on them. Well, New Jersey Councilman Steven Lipski is accused of taking this metaphor to a more literal extent by urinating on people at a concert. There was a time when simply a warm handshake would do.
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Reporters have faced every type of threat from imprisonment to, as noted in yesterday’s entry, defecating bovine. But few face the danger of burning alive in an effort to report the news. Well, here’s a video of a reporter who does not allow a mere raging fire to stop the presses.
Continue reading “Perils of the Press IV: Fire in the Fourth Estate”
As an addition to our running collection of the perils of the press, here is a video of what happens when you use the working end of a cow as a backdrop for your live television broadcast.
Continue reading “Perils of the Press III: When Cows are Cows on Live Television”
This could be a new Fox Special “When Monks Attack.” As Jews and Muslims fight of the location of the new Museum of Tolerance, Christian monks were having an actual brawl at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Sunday. Monks from the Greek Orthodox and Armenian denominations were preparing for a ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City when they went at each other like Templar Knights.
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In what could be an extremely important constitutional case, Laura Schubert (now Laura Schubert Pearson) has filed a petition for certiorari with the United States Supreme Court in Pleasant Glade Assembly of God v. Schubert. Schubert lawsuit alleging false imprisonment and assault by the pastor and the church was dismissed by the Texas Supreme Court, which held (6 to 3) that any trial would unconstitutionally entangle the court in church matters.
Much of the world is ignoring the plight of children in Nigeria who are being murdered or abandoned in that country’s continued belief in witches and black magic. A typical case is a young girl named Mary featured by the Telegraph. Her father threw her out after a local priest accused her of being a witch and responsible for causing her mother’s death due to her “evil powers.” Mary was lucky. Other Nigerian children are being poisoned, tortured, or murdered in other ways due to prehistoric prejudices of their parents. Some are being burned to “cleanse” the community and one little girl named Uma had a three-inch nail driven into her head.
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In Cleveland, both a home owner, Amanda Reece, and contractor, Bob Kitts, have been left with little to show for the finding of a lifetime: $182,000 stuffed in a wall in a home in Cleveland. Due to their inability to agree on a division of the money, they ultimately attracted the attention of descendants of the previous owner — relatives who claimed and received some of the money. There are now some raw allegations of theft and double dealing. The case, however, raises some interesting questions of ownership over Dunne’s money.
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An elementary teacher in Fayetteville, North Carolina is under attack after a video has surfaced where she appears to criticize John McCain and embarrass a student who supported her in her fifth-grade glass at Mary McArthur Elementary School. Diatha D. Harris also calls the Iraq war “senseless.”
There are two related stories this week of some scientific interest. It turns out that lemmings do not commit mass suicide by blindly following other lemmings over cliffs, as discussed in the article below. However, it also appears that 64 percent of Republicans want Gov. Sarah Palin to run for president in 2012 despite her disastrous impact on independent and moderate voters this election.
A Florida Appellate court has struck down an unconstitutional state law in Florida that made it unlawful to wear military uniforms if you are not in the military. The court ruled that the law violated the first amendment.
Israel’s Supreme Court have ruled that the government may destroy part of an ancient Muslim cemetery to build a new “Museum of Tolerance.” The cemetery contains the bones of past leading Muslim clerics and the warriors of famed Saladin who retook Jerusalem.
What is happening to journalists after the election? The world has been watching a British reporter give a drunken resignation on YouTube. Now, leading Austrian television personality Klaus Emmerich has given a deeply racist rant on European television stating “I wouldn’t want the Western world to be directed by a black man.”
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