Author: SinghCity

Hope everyone is enjoying/enjoyed/will enjoy their holidays and associated festivities. Here at the Rag, we’re still partying like it’s 1999.

Came across this story yesterday. What are the odds that you’ll hear about a scandal where a local Congressman hires his wife to raise money for him, both of whose last names happens to be “Doolittle”?

The coincidence is nice, but I don’t like having my sarcastic work done for me. But, you know what would really be funny? I would crack up to no end (really, I would) if, somehow, US senator Trent Lott was involved with the Doolittles in some sordid scandal. I’m not saying that he is, but the sarcastic humor would just be awesome.

Perhaps this stuff is happening about 21 years too late. But, about the time we hear that any of our phones could be wiretapped without any legal accountability, we hear about the interrogation of a 16-year-old by the FBI in Elk Grove, over the doodle of “PLO” on his notebook.

When I was in school, so many years ago, kids wrote all kinds of things on their books – be it “Corey Hart” in the middle of a heart, or a tribute to Satan. School officials dealt with stuff as they saw fit and didn’t need to call the FBI on them.

But, the implications of this situation are somewhat worrisome. I can understand if people consider the PLO as a terrorist organization. They are obviously controversial to many, though much is a matter of perspective. However, a kid of Palestinian descent shouldn’t get harrassed by the feds just because he expresses allegiance to the organization that is internationally recognized to represent the Palestinian people. Interesting that no school official sat him down to hear his views, or that no notification was made to his parents.

Just call the FBI on the kid. That’ll set him straight, right? The school administrators at Elk Grove High and Calvine High Schools need to answer some important questions about their roles and motivations in all of this.

Certain businesses around town are being threatened with boycotts because they are trying to take a more secular approach to the holiday season. Yesterday, a few people took it upon themselves to protest outside a local Walmart.

People, find a new game. Protesting outside Walmart? That’s just been done to death. Besides, Walmart is the most powerful organization in the world, don’t you know?

And really, shouldn’t you be spending Christmas, by you know, celebrating Christmas?

These guys are well qualified for a career in middle management at Carl’s Jr.

After they get out of prison, of course.

How’s this for poetic justice?

The parent company of Carl’s Jr. burger chains agreed to pay $255,000 to settle claims that a shift manager at an Elk Grove restaurant used racial epithets, told co-workers he had “white pride” and flashed white power signs while on the job, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Wednesday.

What led to this huge payout by the company to their former employee?

Two weeks after submitting the petition, Galloway was fired, allegedly for eating food without paying for it, Ehrlich said. She also received a death threat on her answering machine and, without a job, was left homeless, according to her attorney, Michael Nkosi.

I just love the sequence of events in this case, that results in Carl’s Jr. settling for $100,000 with the woman and another $155,000 with other employees. Was that alleged stolen six dollar burger worth it, Carl Jr.?