The Obamessiah Has No Clothes – Dead Teleprompter – Dead Hussein

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Hussein Makes Oil The New Evil Enemy

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Tyson drops Labor Day holiday for Eid al-Fitr ===Copy this and email to everyone

Tyson drops Labor Day holiday for Eid al-Fitr

 

Boycott Tyson Poultry products in the stores and tell the store managers why

Friday, August 1, 2008
By Brian Mosely

 

Workers at Tyson Foods’ poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility “implements a new holiday to accommodate the … Muslim workers at the plant.”

The RWDSU stated that “the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan.”

Eid al-Fitr falls on Oct. 1 this year.

Tyson’s Director of Media Relations, Gary Mickelson, stated that while the new contract does not provide an additional holiday, as the union claimed, “the new contract includes eight paid holidays, which is the same number provided in the old contract.”

“However, the union leadership did request and receive Eid al-Fitr (which is apparently spelled various ways including Id al-Fitr and Eid ul-Fitr) as a paid holiday in place of Labor Day,” Mickelson confirmed in an e-mail to the T-G.

“Since all Team Members will still have eight paid holidays, the change will not affect production,” Mickelson said.

Eid al-Fitr means “Festival of the Breaking of the Fast” in Arabic, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.

The festival “is distinguished by the performance of communal prayer (salat) at daybreak on its first day. It is a time of official receptions and private visits, when friends greet one another, presents are given, new clothes are worn, and the graves of relatives are visited,” the encyclopedia said.

Mickelson said that “Eid al-Fitr is one of eight paid holidays for all Team Members covered by the contract, while Labor Day is not a paid holiday.”

“Based on the contract, the other paid holidays include: The Team Member’s birthday, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day,” Mickelson said.

“Implementing this holiday was a challenge, since it falls on a different day every year and is declared on fairly short notice,” RWDSU Representative Randy Hadley said in the press release. “But the negotiating committee felt this was extremely crucial, since this holiday is as important to Muslims as Christmas is to Christians.”

“The date for this holiday (Eid al-Fitr) is not the same each year,” Mickelson said. “however, it is in the early fall.”

The press release stated there are approximatly 700 Muslims working at Tyson, but Mickelson said that Somalis only represent approximately 250 of the 1,200 employed at the plant, a little over 20 percent of the workforce.

“All Team Members who have completed their probationary period are eligible for all eight paid holidays including Eid al-Fitr,” the Tyson spokeman said.

The union also claimed that in addition to the observance of the Muslim holiday, “two prayer rooms have been created to allow Muslim workers to pray twice a day and return to work without leaving the plant.”

Mickelson said that Shelbyville’s Tyson plant “does have a prayer room to accommodate the needs of Muslim Team Members.”

“In addition to regular, non-paid breaks, all Team Members are allotted a seven-minute paid break,” the Tyson spokesman said. “Some Team Members choose to pray during this time.”

However, Mickelson took issue with another claim made by RWDSU, which stated that another “improvement” in the contract is time-and-a-half pay for Team Members who work more than an eight hour shift.

“This statement is not accurate,” Mickelson said. “This overtime pay provision is not new nor is it unique. In fact, it was included in the previous contract.”

© Copyright 2008, Shelbyville Times-Gazette
Story URL: http://www.t-g.com/story/1449487.html

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Has the Obama fad peaked?

Thomas Lifson
Was Berlin the apogee of Obama’s ability to draw a crowd? Apparently lacking a top name rock band to draw bodies, an Obama Summer-fest in Central Park has drawn a very sparse crowd. Check out the pictures at Sweetness & Light.

Fads can be cruel in their fickleness. Ask President Willkie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Poll shows voters think Obama’s ‘dollar bill’ comment racist

Poll shows voters think Obama’s ‘dollar bill’

comment racist

Ethel C. Fenig

Barack Obama is constantly crying wolf, in this case it is the candidate putting words in John McCain’s mouth by stating that John McCain is a racist who

would make an issue of the fact that he (Obama, ed) doesn’t look like presidents who have been on the dollar bills.

After all, it is quite obvious that Barack Obama does not look like those presidents on the dollar bills–George Washington has longish white hair and is wearing a bandage around his neck held together with a frilly handkerchief.  The impeccably turned out Barack Obama, who is much younger, would never wear such an outfit in public.
 

So  Barack Obama, the post racial candidate of change, changed his mind once again on who is a racist.  The great communicator once again quickly changed the meaning of his  previous communication.   Describing himself, perhaps as a wanted criminal  from Hollywood, Obama now explained

 I don’t come out of central casting, when it comes to presidential races. For a whole range of reasons. I’m young, I’m new to the national scene, my name is Barack Obama, I am African American, I was born in Hawaii, I spent time in Indonesia. I do not have the typical biography of a presidential candidate. What that means is that I’m sort of unfamiliar and people are still trying to get a fix on who I am, where I come from, what my values are and so forth in a way that might not be true if I seemed more familiar.”

Senator Obama, after months of high profile campaigning and making the cover of so many magazines, including even US, John McCain and most of the public are not “sort of unfamiliar” with you; they definitely have a “fix on who” you are.  Familiar with your comments, over half of the voters’ fix on you is  that you, sir, make racist comments. 

According to the polling company Rasmussen Reports

Obama’s comment that his Republican opponent will try to scare people because Obama does not look like all the other presidents on dollar bills was seen as racist by 53%.  Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree.

Furthermore
 

53% of white voters saw it as racist, as did 44% of African-Americans and 61% of all other voters.

And by a

50% to 38% margin, unaffiliateds viewed Obama’s comment as racist.

The message is clear–the post racial candidate of change is viewed as a racist. And just how is the candidate of change going to change that?

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