Larry Whitten, Hotel Owner, Orders Hispanic Workers To Change Names

(below is in response to):
-EdCoughlin


At work you have no personal liberty other then the liberty to quit if you don't agree to the terms of employment.

Many stores restrict piercing, tattoos, strange hair colors and the like because it offends some customers. Some hotels require employees to go by easy to pronounce names. Both are fine, since it is the store owners choice what to require and the employees choice whether to abide by those restrictions. Those who want to tattoo their face and pierce their nose or go by the name Zualtecata are free to do so somewhere with less restrictions.

Those who can't look like they came from the circus can quit a conservative store like Safeway and go work at the Apple store where lack of alternative culture features are the exception not the rule. Those who want to be known as Zualtecata can go work at a local Mexican owned resturaunt where their culture is embraced.

I care a great deal about workers rights when it comes to what matters (IE a living wage, benefits, vacation ect) but as far as what uniforms they wear and other such minor things it should be the bosses rules period. Being asked to speak English in America and go by the English pronunciation of Spanish names like Mar-Tin don't seem like particularly onerous restrictions. Ever heard the term "fight the fights that need fighting?" This isn't one of them.

Sure enough Meester Coglin - idiot! The fact is, most places place restrictions as a term of employment BEFORE the employee is hired (and the candidate is usually aware that some places would not hire due to their appearance, e.g., tattoos, blue hair, etc.), not AFTER they have been working, i.e., the new boss comes in and decides that they needs to speak English because of his paranoia about people talking about him? Then he's the one that has a problem, he's the paranoid one. The plain and simple fact is many of us have the ability to be fluent in more than one language. You probably do not because of your narrow minded approach to English as an 'official' language. Well, here's a newsflash, it is NOT. Let me ask you the last time you chose to say 'children's garden' instead of kindergarten, or had a problem with a Nahuatl world like coyote and when was the last time you had to correct someone on the pronunciation of your own last name? The problem does not stem from the diversity of people being able to think, act and speak in a different language; the problem arises from people like you who can only be ignorant in one language.
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Feds close bank where Jesus closed deals

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/10/feds_close_bank_where_jesus_closed_deals.php?page=1#

This one is easy-conflict of interest:
'Don't store up treasures here on earth, where they can be eaten by moths and get rusty, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where they will never become moth-eaten or rusty and where they will be safe from thieves. Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be.’ Matthew 6:19-21.

Apparently the bankers weren't as well read on matters of investing as stipulated in the bible...typical christians, read the bible tell us how 'infallible' god's word is but then interpret it their own way....

2012: Mayan Year 2012 Stirs Apocalypse Predictions, Doomsayers

2012: Mayan Year 2012 Stirs Apocalypse Predictions, Doomsayers

Much has been and is being written concerning this date (you can hear the cash registers now). Hollywood is of course in lock step because it will help to sell tickets to movies. This is already the Y2K scare for the next several years. It should be no surprise as 'fear' always sells; (global warming, which occurs with some frequency, Y2K or the 'fear' of going to hell for having a lustful thought, etc.) The world's consciousness is changing and that may be the tell-tale sign, going from a Western mentality to an Eastern, more philosophical way of thinking. It may leave places like Europe and North America (specifically the US), in what may feel like a complete game changer but, as indicated in previous comments, there are dates that exist after the 2012 (Gregorian) date, so have we simply built up a ‘commercial’ fear?

In fact, 2012 is a Western concept, i.e., the Julian calendar that was adopted (in the Old World, not the New) was superseded by the Gregorian calendar in Europe with England and its colonies, (America included) adopting its usage in 1752 and causing our calendar to "lose" twelve days - so, from that aspect, is the 12/21/12 date correct? Additionally, there are many calendars in use today, so which one is ‘right?

We have also seen many incidents occurring wherein people (those with some influence or those that squawk the loudest), wish to utilize to extend the 'doomsday' claim. However, we see many of these same events (natural) have occurred throughout history. (As far as man’s inclusion in catastrophe, {which includes assisting in some of the ‘natural’ disasters}, unfortunately, that may not come to a grinding halt any time soon). It is through the benefit (?) of cable news the internet, etc., that these 'incidents' seem to be more prevalent. Years ago we were 'lucky' if there was an eyewitness to an incident and even rarer should they have had the means with which to record the event. Nowadays with cell phone cameras, the ubiquitous compact digital camera or security camera, the likelihood of something occurring with an eyewitness has increased ten-fold.
Personally, I think it will be refreshing to have a 'new' start (reboot) to the mind-set of this world. We will need it if we are to survive no matter what.

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