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Woman alleging firing over bumper sticker speaks out ( Air America update )
NCTimes.com ^ | 10 Mar, 2006 | TERI FIGUEROA

Posted on 03/11/2006 6:38:04 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult

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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Air America + KLSD.

Yup, I got it figured out now.

41 posted on 03/11/2006 8:31:05 AM PST by budman_2001
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42 posted on 03/11/2006 8:58:47 AM PST by devolve ( (refresh-updated-graphix - image hosting at Photobucket)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Is this Air America's new way to get revenue? Have their listeners sue their employers, then contribute some of their winnings to Air America?


43 posted on 03/11/2006 8:59:54 AM PST by syriacus (The stench of hypocrisy -- Beijing's smugglers can run our terminals, but Dubai can't get a hearing)
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To: cowboyway

"I did the same thing.

I had a cleaning lady down in south Florida that showed up one day with "Hillary 08" and "Buck Fush" bumper stickers on her car.

I told her that I would not be needing her cleaning services any longer. She asked why. I told her because of them damn bumper stickers. She left.

No lawsuit so far."

That is a good example of how freedom works. Her freedom of speech, your freedom of association. But that is not how it works anymore.

A private company should be able to fire anyone they choose, for any reason they choose, any time they choose. It's called freedom. No one has a RIGHT to work at MY company or business.

But freedom is really gone in America. All that remains are the memories of what it was to be free. I can't imagine why men would want to continue owning and running business in America. They are persecuted at every turn. Better to just make some money, invest it offshore, and move to another country. Where there is some semblance of freedom. Where a man with a few dollars can still be a man.

I keep reading that America is the freest of all. That seems to be more and more just a nostalgic view, rather than a current reality. I have to wonder, free to do what? Free to be a slave to the government. Free from what? Free from those who would impose their will on him. No, freedom is just an illusion. All we are free to do in American now is to choose our masters.

America is in a free-fall. The freedom that we have now is like that of a man who has jumped off a building, who feels free from the bonds of gravity, but has not hit the bottom yet.

The effects of America hitting bottom will be apocalyptic. Our enemies know we are weak. While we are so busy trying to infringe on each others God given fundamental Constitutional rights, our enemies are planing our destruction.

Emboldened by our weakness, our enemies will come for us, and kill us by the 10's of thousands, as they have already attempted to do. And it will be our just deserts for being weak and foolish little men. Men too busy with their petty tyrannies, that they don't notice the enemies coming over the wall.

God have mercy on us.


44 posted on 03/11/2006 9:09:00 AM PST by Search4Truth (Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson.)
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To: Search4Truth

North Carolina is a 'right to work' state. No one can force you to join a union, etc for a job.

It is also a 'right to fire' state. An employer can dismiss any employee without cause.

That just seems right to me.


45 posted on 03/11/2006 9:20:43 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

"If she was joking, I didn't take it that way," Laroca said.


More evidence that liberals lack a sense of humor.


46 posted on 03/11/2006 10:25:58 AM PST by proudpapa (of three.)
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To: JCEccles
I didn't say hire but in terms of grounds for discharging someone there is none. And, with harassment in the work place being what they are I don't see how they get away with a supervisor making jokes like this.

Hey, I don't like the BS that employers have to put up with today. I have to pay a matching 7.65% in the social security find for even taking the risk of employing someone, I have to pay 3% on top of that for Unemployment if business turns down and I have to lay them off hence making it harder for me to soldier on, I have to be careful in everything I do around an employee, etc., etc..

But, I still stand by my original point and that is that people seem to think it's okay to fire someone for being a liberal but they will have some level of outrage for someone being a conservative or owning a gun.
47 posted on 03/11/2006 10:59:13 AM PST by misterrob (Islam is a hate crime)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I'd certainly fire someone if I found out they were a rabid liberal.


48 posted on 03/11/2006 11:00:19 AM PST by riri (Bring back A+ Bert...(:)
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To: Postman
If that poor, poor woman is really without a job, perhaps she could join that peace activist group in Iraq.....now that there's an opening.... Welp. I must be bound for hell. I LOL at that one! :-D
49 posted on 03/11/2006 11:02:48 AM PST by Titan Magroyne (Suicide Bomb Instructor: "Now pay attention, I'm only gonna do this once...")
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To: Search4Truth
A private company should be able to fire anyone they choose, for any reason they choose, any time they choose. It's called freedom. No one has a RIGHT to work at MY company or business.

I totally agree. Unfortunately, most Americans mistakenly think that Freedom of Speech is a government guarantee that they can say what they want, when they want, where they want.

What they don't understand is that the First Amendment only guarantees that the government cannot deny the people the right to express themselves. The government. Not a private employer or homeowner or place of business. Freedom of speech is limited to my discretion on my property or in my home. If I don't like what you say or the way you express yourself on my property, you're leaving, and if you don't leave, I'll introduce you to the Second Amendment.

Two other things:

1) The Bill of Rights does not give rights/freedom to anyone. It merely documents rights and freedom in the same way that a birth certificate doesn't give life but only documents it.

2) It seems odd that the people that scream the loudest about not being denied freedom of speech are the most avid endorsers of politically correct speech.

50 posted on 03/11/2006 11:34:41 AM PST by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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To: Titan Magroyne

It would be nice to meet some kindred spirits down there.


51 posted on 03/11/2006 11:35:19 AM PST by Postman
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Al Franken confirmed that AA's NYC station WLIB is on solid ground,

Al means his next check will clear. The others are on their own.

52 posted on 03/11/2006 11:58:09 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: cowboyway

Well stated.


53 posted on 03/11/2006 12:19:07 PM PST by Search4Truth (Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson.)
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To: ncountylee
Here's the link to Franken's statement. The author doesn't care that Franken only has a passing acquaintance with truth.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060310/cm_thenation/1567592;_ylt=A86.I1LV9xFEpegArxD9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--
54 posted on 03/11/2006 12:21:30 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: devolve

Wow. The things that you have done with that picture are just awesome! I love that top segment! Very powerful!


55 posted on 03/11/2006 1:33:57 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)
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To: KosmicKitty
I'm not surprised. Most of the lefty's I know have NO sense of humor - they are truly humor-impaired.

In Madison, Wisconsin, it is illegal to tell a joke because you might offend someone who is miserable.

56 posted on 03/11/2006 3:38:05 PM PST by wi jd
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To: devolve

Snoopy's going to need some psychiatric care by the time you get done with him! Linus looks like he's already gone over the 'edge', lol!


57 posted on 03/11/2006 5:13:23 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: RandallFlagg
Agreed. Better to let AA die all on it's own.

I'm not sure that I agree... I have to admit that I agree with Nel Boortz, in that as long as AA's on the air, it blunts the call for reinstitution of the so called "fairness doctorine."

More importantly, as long as AA's acting as a money pit for leftists, I'd rather see them pump their dollars down that rat hole than try to do something more damaging to the country with it, like getting more leftists elected.

Mark

58 posted on 03/11/2006 7:04:01 PM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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59 posted on 03/11/2006 7:59:49 PM PST by devolve ( (refresh-updated-graphix - free image hosting at Photobucket)
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To: devolve

Looks good devolve. Just think of all the "subliminal" things you can insert with Bubba!!

The whole page [yours] is very neat looking.


60 posted on 03/11/2006 8:10:12 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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