WHILE YOU WERE AWAY ...
Nov. 20th, 2009 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogRight. The conferences are done, the deadlines met and my schedule is back to what passes for normal.
So ... what have I missed?
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ITEM: Top executives at United Airlines, US Airways, Polaroid and Reliance Insurance – all of which jettisoned their employee pension plans – received $49.5 million in retirement and severance benefits in the years before the companies filed for bankruptcy, while retirees saw their benefits cut by as much as two thirds, according to the Government Accountability Office.
The report says executives at those four companies and six others that abandoned their pension plans took in a total of $350 million in pay and perks in the years leading up to the bankruptcies.
"If the pension is getting deeper into trouble and the executives are getting richer, there's something wrong with that picture," said House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif.
ITEM: Two Lexington, KY librarians library workers are fired after getting caught deliberately withholding a copy of Alan Moore’s THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN: BLACK DOSSIER from an 11-year-old girl.
One of the library workers describes her own mortal danger when reading the book:
ITEM: An Ozark police officer uses a Taser on a 10-year-old girl who was combative when the officer tried to get the girl into a patrol car to be taken to a youth shelter.
The officer is suspended – not for tasing a kid but for not having a video camera attached when he did it.
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Jesus. I can’t leave you people alone for five minutes.
Back to action,
This is dF
So ... what have I missed?
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ITEM: Top executives at United Airlines, US Airways, Polaroid and Reliance Insurance – all of which jettisoned their employee pension plans – received $49.5 million in retirement and severance benefits in the years before the companies filed for bankruptcy, while retirees saw their benefits cut by as much as two thirds, according to the Government Accountability Office.
The report says executives at those four companies and six others that abandoned their pension plans took in a total of $350 million in pay and perks in the years leading up to the bankruptcies.
"If the pension is getting deeper into trouble and the executives are getting richer, there's something wrong with that picture," said House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif.
ITEM: Two Lexington, KY librarians library workers are fired after getting caught deliberately withholding a copy of Alan Moore’s THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN: BLACK DOSSIER from an 11-year-old girl.
One of the library workers describes her own mortal danger when reading the book:
“People prayed over me while I was reading it because I did not want those images in my head,” she says.
ITEM: An Ozark police officer uses a Taser on a 10-year-old girl who was combative when the officer tried to get the girl into a patrol car to be taken to a youth shelter.
According to a report filed by Bradshaw on Thursday, the officer found the girl on the floor of the house screaming and crying. She refused to follow her mother's instructions and the mother told Bradshaw to use his Taser.
The officer is suspended – not for tasing a kid but for not having a video camera attached when he did it.
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Jesus. I can’t leave you people alone for five minutes.
Back to action,
This is dF
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on 2009-11-19 05:45 pm (UTC)The library article is running a very close second in the WTF factor.
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on 2009-11-20 02:53 am (UTC)You like those, huh?
How about this one: An 12 year old aboriginal kid charged with receiving stolen goods. The goods in question? A chocoloate frog valued at under a dollar.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/aboriginal-boy-12-charged-with-receiving-stolen-property-after-getting-freddo-frog-chocolate/story-e6frf7jo-1225798044311