[Tina Fey: Funniest line on yesterday's SNL removed by request of Page3Girls which it mirrored]
Of all the gin joints, in all the towns in all the world, Why do 'J.Lo and Ben want to' walk into Rick's?
J.Lo and Ben Affleck have already made two movies together - unreleased so far, but rumored to be stinkers. So naturally they've decided to remake the 1942 ultimate Bogart/Bergman classic "Casablanca".
Now they have to do damage to one of the worlds greatest love stories. There ought to be a law.
But there isn’t.
That why we have to step in with TBogg's petition.
We, the happy and loyal citizens of the world, who value good taste almost as much as a good backrub, call upon the Hollywood establishment to have a semblance of common decency, for once in their lives, and halt the ugly juggernaut called J-Lo/Ben as they attempt to satisfy their withered and atrophied souls with a remake of the Bogart/Bergman classic “Casablanca”.
"In the week after the second U.S. war began in Iraq, Bush unveiled his new corporate agenda for the American working class. Bush's proposal looks innocent. But its effect would profoundly alter the economic relationship of American employers and their workers. For one thing, the resident's regulations allow corporations to eliminate 'time-and-a-half' overtime pay, as a practical matter.
For another, the regulations encourage corporations to blend 'part-time' low-wage hourly staff with a 'full-time' low-salaried caste who, if paid above the $22,100 line, would have to work as many long hours over 40 per week as the company wants, for no extra pay."
The 40-hour workweek would become a thing of the past for "full-time" workers.In this way, the President's agenda would expand the American workweek, at the $22,100 annual salary level, to 60, 80, 90 or even more hours per week.
The effective hourly rate of pay for a 90-hour workweek at the $22,100 salary is $4.91. Before taxes and other withholding. Even before the President's 2003 war, some Americans already worked 90 hours a week, or even more, to pay their family's bills. Now it could become the norm.
What can you do to stop Bush's brave new wage world? There are time-honored ways of protesting and seeking change in government regulation, available to Americans as long as our constitution remains intact, without martial law or other means of stifling communication about what's not right.
You can let your elected representatives know how you feel.
In the wage-and-hour notice-and-comment period, before President Bush's regulations have come to pass, you can object by contacting:
Tammy D. McCutchen, Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, 200 Constitution Ave. N.W., FP Building Room S3502, Washington, D.C.; phone 202-693-0051; fax 202-693-1432.
