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McAuliffe says Penn should zip it By Klaus Marre Posted: 03/04/08 11:39 AM [ET] Terry McAuliffe, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) presidential campaign chairman, said Tuesday that top pollster Mark Penn should stop talking to the press after remarks from Penn indicated that he is distancing himself from the campaign. “People ought to quit talking to the press and focus on helping Hillary win,” McAuliffe said on MSNBC in response to a question about Penn’s remarks. According to the Los Angeles Times, Penn said in an e-mail that he had “no direct authority in the campaign,” and called himself an...

"A man is holding hostages in the Hillary Clinton for President Headquarters in Rochester NH"--just reported by Susan Wornick on WCVB TV in Boston

The job market took a serious and unexpected turn for the worse last month, raising the risk of a recession and putting added pressure on the Federal Reserve to move more aggressively to keep the ailing housing industry from infecting the rest of the economy. The Labor Department reported yesterday that 4,000 jobs were lost from July to August, and the deepest cuts were in industries that are connected to the housing market, like construction and manufacturing. It was the first employment decline since 2003, when the job market was still struggling to emerge from the slump after the 2001...

I hope I'm putting this in the correct place. I need information. I was just terminated (love the use of that word) for what could be considered "gross misconduct" (I "hurt the feelings" and spoke "in a mean way" to my boss). I had been working at a church. Although I have not been notified, I do not believe I am eligible for COBRA because I was working at a church and because I was terminated for "gross misconduct."

A few days ago, I suggested that misfits (meaning clever, unfocussed people who don't find a secure place in society) often develop into pretend entrepreneurs in the U.S., and cited a few examples of people I know in this "line of work." Now to the European version, the unemployed intellectual. Where do they come from? Here's my theory. You're a young Frenchman, somewhat like Mr. Dhelft, who we met a few days ago. You dawdle leisurely through university, studying whatever catches your fancy: art history, Chinese calligraphy, recorder, or (as Mr. Dhelft, and thousands like him, did) sociology. There's no...

SUPPOSE SOMEONE offered to import 350 foreign workers to New Bedford to work for less than the minimum wage. Since the unemployment rate is over 8 percent, we would expect public outrage. The city needs jobs, not more unskilled laborers. So it is no surprise that citizens seeking jobs started lining up at the Michael Bianco plant after Immigration and Customs Enforcement uncovered 350 illegal immigrants.

Rita Cosby is leaving MSNBC at the end of the month. Her contract was due to expire April 1 and was not going to be renewed, according to sources familiar with the matter. MSNBC cancelled Cosby's 10 p.m. show, Rita Cosby Live and Direct, in June. The network dumped Tucker Carlson's 11 p.m. show then too to make way for documentary programming. At the time, Cosby was named head of a new specials unit, but she has been featured sparingly since. The former Fox News personality gained notoriety for her celebrity pieces, most recently a story on Anna Nicole Smith's...

Students constantly hear the conservative outcry against liberal professors in universities. “Why don’t they just teach the subject? Why are they trying to indoctrinate students with their ideological beliefs?” These are questions routinely asked by conservatives, who are concerned with what students are facing in college. However, after 3 years at Florida State University I had never encountered the typical liberal professor—not the ones you read about or see on television. I knew they existed; Ward Churchill and Jay Bennish were evidence to that fact. Sure, I had professors that were obviously liberal, and would make comments such as, “Jimmy...

Veteran U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, walks past an anti-U.S. banner placed among the rubble of a building that was destroyed following Israeli bombardment during the 34-day long Hezbollah-Israel war, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006. Jackson, who said Tuesday that an Israeli soldier seized by Palestinian militants and two others held captive by Hezbollah are alive, also said Syria, a main backer of both Hamas and Hezbollah, wanted to be involved in a prisoner swap that included the three Israelis and Syrian nationals detained by Israel in the Golan Heights....

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney is controversial and outspoken, independent and unrepentant, all of which have endeared her to a dedicated corps of loyal supporters in her metro Atlanta district -- but not to a majority of her fellow Democrats who turned out in Tuesday's primary runoff. For the second time in three election cycles, McKinney was defeated in a Democratic primary in Georgia's 4th District, this time by Hank Johnson, a former DeKalb County commissioner who thumped her by a margin of 59-41 percent. Despite her defeat, McKinney was unbowed, unleashing a stemwinder of a concession speech...

Excerpt - Martin Taylor, a key adviser to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, has left the software maker. Taylor, a 13-year company veteran who led Microsoft's "Get the Facts" anti-Linux crusade for several years, was named in March as a corporate vice president overseeing the marketing push for Windows Live services. ~ snip ~ "We've made the difficult decision to part ways with Martin, but we don't comment on personnel matters," Microsoft said in a statement. "We appreciate Martin's contributions at Microsoft over the past 13 years." ~ snip ~

EUROPE'S largest legal annual migration is under way with university professors joining roadsweepers and the jobless to pour into Germany from eastern Europe to pick asparagus.People come in their tens of thousands from Poland and the Czech Republic for two-months of plucking that which Germans love to see on their dinner tables, but of whose harvest they want no part. Once again the German government is throwing money at the nation's five million jobless, trying to persuade and cajole them into working for a change. But asparagus-picking is one job they refuse to do. The asparagus spring harvest is again...

Union leaders in France say they expect more than half a million people to take part in nationwide protests against a new youth employment plan. Demonstrations are expected in 160 towns and cities, and air and rail services are threatened with delays. At least 200,000 people turned out for a day of protests a month ago. The government wants to let firms offer flexible job contracts to people under 26 which allow them to be sacked at short notice for the first two years. Critics warn taht the new legislation, which currently only applies to small firms, could be misused...

German unemployment has unexpectedly risen above the five million mark again ... equivalent to 12.1% of the working age population. the data was skewed by the unusually cold winter ... data also released on Tuesday showed a 1.4% fall in retail sales in December. The figures reinforced recent concerns that Germany's fledgling economic recovery could be held back by weak domestic demand. The headline rise in unemployment came as a surprise with most commentators expecting a modest rise. up to 30,000 people registered as unemployed this month ahead of the introduction of new benefit rules.

Computer maker Dell Inc. said Monday it planned to add 5,000 jobs in India over the next two years, bringing its work force in the country to 15,000."Dell is also looking to set up a manufacturing center in India, a move that could help boost the sale of Dell computers here, President and CEO Kevin Rollins told reporters after a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Round Rock, Texas-based company will hire 700 to 1,000 workers for a new call center in Gurgaon, a satellite town of the capital, New Delhi, Rollins said. The new call center, the...

Catholic Teacher Single, Pregnant -- and Now Unemployed Diocese Disputes Lawsuit Charging It With 'Pregnancy Discrimination' By Jim Brown and Jody Brown December 7, 2005 (AgapePress) - A Catholic school teacher in New York who was fired for becoming pregnant while unmarried is contesting her termination. St. Rose of Lima School in Queens recently fired pre-kindergarten teacher Michelle McCusker upon learning she had engaged in non-marital sex. With help from the New York Civil Liberties Union, McCusker has filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She informed the school of her condition one month after this school...

My wife was laid off after being on maternity leave. She was never given any hint of problems with employment, but got the call last week that she did not fit the position. This after working over and above the required hours and job responsibilities of her position. I would just like some opinions on this seemingly unfair layoff.

MIDI - MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB - click on the site and scroll down for the MIDI file Mary Mapes is going to, going to, going to Mary Mapes is going to the unemployment line She had tried to get George Bush, get George Bush, get George Bush She had tried to get George Bush but things have turned out fine

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WASHINGTON - A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine. A husband-and-wife team of fossil sleuths unearthed an animal with a body like an ape, fingers like a chimp and the upright posture of humans. The ancient ape bridges the gap between earlier, primitive animals and later, modern creatures. This newest ape species, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, is so significant that it adds a new page to ancient human history....

Bright light of Elmwood darkens with parting shot at government About 8:45 a.m. Monday, just moments before he officially closed Jimmy Mac's, owner Richard E. Naylon Jr. turned to his wife, Michele, and said, "I feel like I'm about to euthanize an old friend." Fifteen minutes later, Naylon pulled the plug and began calling his 35 full-time employees, thus ending the 23-year run of Jimmy Mac's, a popular watering hole at Elmwood Avenue and Anderson Place. During its lifetime, Jimmy Mac's became a symbol of Elmwood prosperity, stretching the reach of the trendy strip farther south, below West Delavan Avenue...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A man who heckled President Bush at a political rally was fired from his job at an advertising and design company. The graphic designer said he was told he'd embarrassed and offended a client who provided tickets to the event. ``I was told that my actions reflected badly on the company and that a client was upset,'' Glen Hiller of Berkeley Springs said. Hiller was escorted from Hedgesville High School on Tuesday after shouting comments about the Iraq war and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction there. The crowd had easily drowned out Hiller with...

BANGALORE, India — On the main road outside the Electronics City industrial park, the scene is classic Third World chaos. Motor scooters, auto rickshaws, people and animals throng the street beneath a midmorning sun. As drivers hammer their horns, a wayward cow noses through a pile of roadside garbage. This is familiar, impoverished, old India. But leave the main road and you enter a new India, one where the lawns are manicured and the only noise is the chirp of a cell phone or the soft whir of a laptop computer. This is the home of Infosys, a fast-growing technology...

<p>March 2, 2004 -- THE experts claim they are surprised at how low the nation's unemployment rate has remained. But if you look at the generous definition of employment used by Washington, the real surprise is that anyone is technically jobless.</p>

American businessmen and farmers are finally waking up to how they were sold a bill of goods by those who promised that China would be a profitable billion-mouth market if we just gave that developing country Most Favored Nation trade privileges and assisted its admission into the World Trade Organization (WTO). Like Claude Rains in Casablanca, the Bush Administration is "shocked, shocked" to discover that Communists don't play by the rules or keep their promises. Chinese behavior is so blatant that U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans just went to Beijing for a week's visit to complain about China's trade...

With Gray Davis soon to be unemployed, who is going to hire him? What skills does he posses, other than shaking down for donations, that a private enterprise company would want? Will he somehow find a state job? What is he going to do for a job now? Will the DNC or California RAT party be stupid enough to employ him in a position of responsibility?

Here we are in August already. Some of you are probably thinking "So what?!" and you could be right. I have been somewhat of a calendar watcher the past 8 months since I am on a 1-year contract job. At the end of my one year, I can no longer contract for that company for a minimum of six months. So either I get hired on permanently between now and then someplace else in the company, or I am off to seek other ventures. So perhaps you can see why I am paying closer attention to the calendar. I am...

I am writing this to make this Legal Tragedy better known and also in hope that someone could help the thousands of us in this tragic situation. Like many Americans at this time, I have been laid off. This in itself is bad enough for most Americans, but those of us that have been divorced face a Legal Tragedy that is against The Constitution and all moral concepts. Men are almost exclusively affected by what I am about to tell you. This shows the discrimination of the courts and the laws in this country. Since I have been laid off,...

Poor and homeless whites, blacks and Latinos will join activists on a march through Knoxville on Tuesday to bring awareness of poverty and economic injustice in the United States. The event, called the "Poor People's March for Economic Human Rights," was organized by the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a Philadelphia-based multiracial movement that focuses on helping the poor. "We have a country that has the ability to provide the basic necessities of life and we don't," said Cheri Honkala, director of the organization and spokeswoman for the national campaign. Honkala said both Democrats and Republicans have done a terrible job...

Some 200 people are without jobs in Canton, and most of them are illegal immigrants. Peco Foods, Inc. fired the employees after the Social Security Administration informed the company the workers' names didn't match their social security numbers. Another agency plans to a probe into what Peco actually knew about their illegal status. Mexican Immigrant Felipe Hernando Rodriguez says he had no idea his employer, Peco Foods, had planned on laying him off. "We had to sign these papers," said Rodriguez. "There were two pages we had to sign. We didn't know why, but a few hours later, we were...

By Grant Barrett @ World New York This is the first article concerning why and how technically oriented but unemployed individuals should consider offering freelance technical support. The second part is here. ... This article by the New York Times suggests that people are becoming technically adept by necessity, and that, as happened with radios and automobiles, eventually all technology will take care of itself and be as mindless to operate as toasters are today. I see that day as decades off. Computers are still complex to make, complex to learn, complex to integrate with other gadgets. More importantly, they...

"A Fearful Journey Begins" Posted by Doc Farmer Wednesday, August 06, 2003 Just before I sat down to write this article, I was fired from my job. No, I’m not joking. My hands are shaking as I write these words, so you’ll excuse the occasional spelling mistake, but it’s a frightening thing to be fired. As many Americans already know. You’ve got a house, a mortgage, kids in school, etc., and out of the blue you’re gone. Add being eight time zones away from home, and it gets to the point of becoming a terrifying experience. I now have less...

One-Time Lawyer Finds Job Hopes Riding on E-Mail By David Finkel Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 29, 2003; Page A01 First in a series of occasional articles NEWARK, Ohio Monday begins with good news, exactly the opposite of what Stuart Adkins has come to expect. "Congratulations," the e-mail Adkins is reading starts off, and that first word alone is enough to flood him with an emotion he hasn't felt in nearly two years. Later, he will describe it. "Jubilation," he will say. But for now, he reads what comes next -- "on successfully advancing to Level 2 of the...

The number of German unemployed is expected to surpass the five million mark this winter, German Union Federation chief Michael Sommer said in Sunday's edition of the newspaper Die Welt. "We have indications showing the official jobless figure will reach this level next winter if there is no economic or financial change," he said. The number of German unemployed and seeking work went down by 98,300 last month compared to February, to a figure of 4.607 million, or 11.1 percent of the active population in gross figures. According to seasonally adjusted figures, it stands at 10.6 percent compared to 10.5...

April 16, 2003 Slump in Plane Travel Grounds Wichita By PETER T. KILBORN [W] ICHITA, Kan., April 14 ? Their income from the aircraft industry has evaporated. Their split-level home of six years, in a neighborhood sliced from farmland, has a Coldwell Banker "For Sale" sign in front. Deborah Salter has sold her jewelry. Her husband, Jim, has sold his truck, guns, tools and lawn mower. The Salters are moving on, to what they do not know. Stunned by how their life has unraveled, Mrs. Salter looks to her husband for some solution. "I'm trying to get answers out of...

I have determined my conclusions based upon my own job search and contact with companies either hiring or waiting to hire for open positions. I did not just contact companies that were advertising in the help wanted ads. I conducted a company by company search, contacting through the phone, mail, email, and fax. #1 The Pending Crisis with IRAQ - Companies are just wanting closure before they start hiring and spending money. Also, their investors are sitting on the fence too. I blame Bush for this because he allowed himself to be cowed into consulting with the UN too much....

LMAO. I just got out of an emergency meeting with the sales manager here at work. He told us that he just fired 9 people in his department because he caught them participating in that farce today using company time and equipment. That is considered theft and thus leads to immediate termination at my company. He is able to monitor all of their keystrokes, pageviews, faxes, and phonecalls and they know it yet the dummies still did it. Here are some of the highlights he gave us for just todays traffic. -There were a total of around 1200 phone calls...

February 6, 2003 U.S. Economy in Worst Hiring Slump in 20 Years By DAVID LEONHARDT The economy has fallen into its worst hiring slump in almost 20 years, and many business executives say they remain unsure when it will end. The employment decline has become even worse than it was at a comparable point in the so-called jobless recovery of the early 1990's, according to recently revised statistics from the Labor Department. The economy has lost more than two million jobs, a drop of 1.5 percent, since the most recent recession began in March 2001, as layoffs have continued despite...

Bush to Seek Job Search Money for People 6 minutes ago Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo! By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) will ask Congress to give unemployed Americans up to $3,000 to pay for their job searches as part of a economic revival package that will cut taxes to 92 million Americans, officials said Monday. AP Photo (AP Video) Democrats offered a rival plan and accused Bush of favoring the rich. "The president really is investing $600 billion on an old, old Republican theory of trickle...

<p>Marsha Adams says the unemployment checks are paying her rent. The rest of her money comes from selling off pieces of her extensive Alice in Wonderland collection, including this snow globe, on eBay.</p> <p>For thousands of unemployed workers, the end of the federal extension of unemployment benefits last week is a political issue made intensely personal. For some, it creates an almost immediate financial crisis. Others find themselves one step closer to life-changing decisions, such as selling the house and leaving Silicon Valley.</p>

Last week House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, a Democrat from Missouri, delivered what appeared to be a 30 minute campaign speech on the floor of the House: "We now have an economy that is in some real difficulty" he said "Since January 2001, our economy has deteriorated dramatically." Using charts in his speech, and on his website, he says: "From January 2001 when we had 5.9 million people unemployed, we now have, as of last month, 8.1 million people unemployed – a 2.2 million increase in unemployment. This is as a result in large part of the Bush economic plan...

Click on: www.operationpaycheck.com ------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press Bush program trains unemployed By Harriet Daniels OCALA - The hope of a new job is on the horizon for Kurt Spears, who completed the training to become a commercial truck driver last week. Spears is making a career change after 12 years as a welder. He was laid off last year. Welding jobs were tough to come by, and Spears sought help from Ocala's One Stop Career Center, where he learned about Operation Paycheck, an initiative through the governor's office designed to assist workers affected by the terrorist attacks. "I started looking...

A King County sheriff's deputy has lost his job because a restraining order filed against him prohibited him from carrying a gun. "It was determined that he was not able to do the essential functions of his job," said Sgt. Greg Dymerski, spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Office. "There was no other option at this point." Deputy David Hick, 33, a 10-year veteran who lives in Woodinville, had worked at the Kenmore precinct as a patrol officer. A 34-year-old attorney was granted a permanent restraining order against Hick on June 5 after she said Hick had made death threats...