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Welcome to Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show (every Monday night from 9-10PM CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My engineer and discussion partner is Egberto Willies (@EgbertoWillies).
For the purposes of this show, I operate on two mottoes:
- You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts;
- An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.
GUESTS (If any): (More complete biographical info on my guests are below Source links.): OPEN FORUM
TOPICS: Local Runoff Elections Dec. 12; Planned Parenthood Shooting; Apologists for American Terrorists; No Holiday Pay for New or Seasonal Workers at Walmart (and others)
- HOUSTON RUNOFF ELECTIONS; DEC. 12
- Early Voting: Weds. Dec 2 thru TUESDAY. Dec 8 [NOTE: I said during the show that the last day for early voting is Dec. 7. That was incorrect. The last day of early voting is Dec. 8. – Mike]
- HarrisVotes.com
- Early Voting: Weds. Dec 2 thru TUESDAY. Dec 8 [NOTE: I said during the show that the last day for early voting is Dec. 7. That was incorrect. The last day of early voting is Dec. 8. – Mike]
- “PEARL HARBOR DAY”: A formative day in US military strategy and thinking ever since.
- One of 2 seminal military events that has shaped US Military Thinking since about 1865.
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHOOTER
- Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday. Ted Cruz is an apologist for, and denier of, anti-Choice terrorism. That makes him a de facto supporter of such terrorism.
- [READ THIS ARTICLE] Source: Suspect spoke of ‘baby parts’ after Planned Parenthood shooting, By Kevin Conlon, Greg Botelho and Pamela Brown, (CNN) Updated 1:23 PM ET, Sun November 29, 2015
- Suspect in Planned Parenthood shooting makes court appearance, by Trevor Hughes, (USA TODAY) 6:34 p.m. EST November 30, 2015
- Huckabee condemns the shooting as “terrorism” and then uses the event for an anti-Obama/Anti-Kerry segue.
- Huckabee: Planned Parenthood shooting is ‘domestic terrorism’, By Eric Bradner, (CNN) Updated 5:38 PM ET, Sun November 29, 2015
- No Holiday Pay for New or Seasonal Workers at Walmart (and others)
- Walmart Policy: Workers employed less than 6 months don’t qualify for double-time holiday pay
- Federal NLRB doesn’t require it.
- Would Holiday Pay for all discourage the practice of opening on National Holidays like Thanksgiving?
- How exploitative is ‘straight time’ on national holidays when stores expect especially large sales volumes?
- No Holiday Pay for New or Seasonal Workers at Walmart (and others)
- US Dept. Of Labor
- Holiday Pay:
- The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not require payment for time not worked, such as vacations or holidays (federal or otherwise). These benefits are generally a matter of agreement between an employer and an employee (or the employee’s representative).
- On a government contract to which the labor standards of the McNamara O’Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) apply, holiday and/or vacation fringe benefit requirements are stated in the SCA wage determinations in contracts that exceed $2,500.
- On a government contract to which the labor standards of the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts apply, holiday pay and/or vacation pay is required for specific classifications of workers only if the Davis-Bacon wage determination in the covered contract specifies such requirements for workers employed in those classifications.
- Walmart Policy: Workers employed less than 6 months don’t qualify for double-time holiday pay
- Federal NLRB doesn’t require it.
- Would Holiday Pay for all discourage the practice of opening on National Holidays like Thanksgiving?
- How exploitative is ‘straight time’ on national holidays when stores expect especially large sales volumes?
- Holiday Pay:
- Walmart Policy: Workers employed less than 6 months don’t qualify for double-time holiday pay
- Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday. Ted Cruz is an apologist for, and denier of, anti-Choice terrorism. That makes him a de facto supporter of such terrorism.
- Has the Republican Party, as represented by the candidates it runs and elects, and the spokespersons speaking for it, jumped the metaphorical shark and become just a large ‘crazy-fringe’ party like the Communists and National Socialists?
- Trump: Ban all Muslim travel to U.S.. By Jeremy Diamond, CNN (Updated 6:44 PM ET), Mon December 7, 2015
- Too Crazy even for Ted Cruz
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- What Qualifies As ‘Terrorism’?
- Is it like pornography: Hard to define but you know it when you see it?
- Is it simply in the eye of the beholder? Is today’s terrorist simply tomorrow’s freedom fighter (if their cause wins)?
- Is it any violent act if the choice of target is based on a political or philosophical ideology?
- Hillary Clinton targets corporate inversion with new ‘exit tax’ plan: Tax is part of Democratic presidential frontrunner’s strategy to ‘rein in Wall Street’ on the heels of Pfizer’s plan to merge with Allergan and move to Ireland. The proposals are part of Clinton’s larger economic agenda, which includes boosting infrastructure spending by $275bn. Photograph: Jose Luis Magana/AP
- Have the Justices Gone Gun-Shy?: Five years after its landmark gun-rights decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court is avoiding any cases about the Second Amendment.
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHOOTER
- Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday. Ted Cruz is an apologist for, and denier of, anti-Choice terrorism. That makes him a de facto supporter of such terrorism.
- [READ THIS ARTICLE] Source: Suspect spoke of ‘baby parts’ after Planned Parenthood shooting, By Kevin Conlon, Greg Botelho and Pamela Brown, (CNN) Updated 1:23 PM ET, Sun November 29, 2015
- Suspect in Planned Parenthood shooting makes court appearance, by Trevor Hughes, (USA TODAY) 6:34 p.m. EST November 30, 2015
- Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday. Ted Cruz is an apologist for, and denier of, anti-Choice terrorism. That makes him a de facto supporter of such terrorism.
- What Qualifies As ‘Terrorism’?
SOURCES WHICH MAY BE RELEVANT TO OTHER DISCUSSION:
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- Margaret Sanger: When researching controversial figures, always consider the source. – Mike
- The Mike Wallace Interview: Margaret Sanger (9/21/57): Margaret Sanger, the leader of the birth control movement in America, talks to Wallace about why she became an advocate for birth control, over-population, the Catholic Church, and morality. (From the
Harry Ransom Center/UT-Austin) - Margaret Sanger,From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Margaret Higgins Sanger,/H1> (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term “birth control”, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- The Mike Wallace Interview: Margaret Sanger (9/21/57): Margaret Sanger, the leader of the birth control movement in America, talks to Wallace about why she became an advocate for birth control, over-population, the Catholic Church, and morality. (From the
- Donald Trump:
- The best example of why highly successful business people should absolutely NOT be president?
- Authoritarian?
- Unable to tolerate – or even comprehend – limits on their power?
- Donald Trump Says He Supports Those Who ‘Roughed Up’ Protester at His Event By Nick Corasaniti (NY Times) : Trump described his supporters’ response as preferable to that of Senator Bernie Sanders, who yielded his microphone to Black Lives Matter protesters earlier this year.
- “Trump: ‘I Don’t Make Anything’ of Black Lives Matter Movement’”, by Derek Wallbank BLOOMBERG, Powered by Bloomberg First Word).
- Asked by GQ what he makes of Black Lives Matter movement, Donald Trump responds: “I don’t make anything of it.”
- He further says, “I saw them steal the microphone from Bernie Sanders and he just yielded, which surprised me”; ‘‘You know, when you say it’s a big movement, I don’t think it’s a big movement. You think it’s a big movement?”
- Trump: “To me, all lives matter. All lives matter”
- Is Donald Trump Serious About Registering Muslims?, by David A. Graham (Nov 20, 2015): Asked how ideas he has endorsed would be different from Nazi enrollment of Jews, the Republican frontrunner simply said, “You tell me.”
World leaders have taken to calling ISIS “Daesh,” a word the Islamic State hates, By Laura Reston (New Republic), 10 hours ago
- The best example of why highly successful business people should absolutely NOT be president?
- s France at War?: President Hollande asked lawmakers for more measures to tackle ISIS. What he didn’t ask for: authorization for a declaration of war, By Krishnadev Calamur (The Atlantic) 4:46 PM ET
- Rejecting Syrian Refugees: Republican governors are turning away those fleeing the civil war, while Jeb Bush suggests only welcoming Christians.
- The Empathy Gap Between Paris and Beirut: Why have attacks in France gotten so much more attention than bombings in Lebanon?, By David A. Graham, (Nov 2015, 1:58 PM ET) The Atlantic
- Hollande Calls for New Powers to ‘Eradicate’ ISIS After Paris Attacks, By AURELIEN BREEDEN, KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA and KATRIN BENNHOLD (The Atlantic) NOV. 16, 2015
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