Labor Day has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in the United States since the 1880’s. But this year, some employees of Tyson don’t see much to celebrate for. The Tyson Food processing plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee has decided to nix giving Labor Day as a paid holiday and replace it instead with “Eid al-Fitr” which falls on October 1 this year. Eid al-Fitr is a Muslim holiday which marks the end of Ramadan. This decision was made to accommodate the large numbers of Muslim... Read Full Story
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." In The News: President Bush slips out of town and lands at the largest airbase in Iraq (over 100 square miles), with the highest security along with Condi Rice, Stephen Hadley and Robert Gates to meet with the paid-off tribal leaders of al-Anbar. Prime Minister al-Maliki is expected later in the day because no civilian planes leave Baghdad during daylight. From CNN: "Al Asad Air Base dates to the 1970s, when it was used by... Read Full Story
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Well, today is Labor Day. I'm driving in the car yesterday and I hear this commercial on the radio: "(BOOM) Do you know what that is? That is the sound of the cell door being slammed on you after you get arrested and booked for DUI." Uh, okay. But I didn't do anything...? Fear-mongering tactics annoy me. It's one thing to keep the population safe, and entirely another to try and make the fear of law enforcement / government greater than the fear of God, for goodness sake. Read Full Story
