Among the many crimes of Republican administrations has been the shifting of government jobs from civil service to appointed positions. If she had been civil service they wouldn’t have dared move without knowing exactly what happened, and they would have had to provide cause for the termination. Someone on civil service does have rights, but appointed positions are “at the pleasure of the President” and there are no guarantees of any kind.

The civil service system was implemented specifically to get politics out government functions at all but the highest level. The Republican Presidents have brought the “spoils” system of political patronage back.

Here, she could sue the Gov because she could prove she was unjustly fired (or, terminated without just cause). But I forget sometimes that the “little people” in the USA have no rights, even though there is apparently some worthless piece of paper that may vaguely allude to the people having some vague rights or something like that. But it’s all so vague to the point of meaningless, so can’t be enforced in any way, and the Justice system is there to protect the rights of the wealthy and the people in positions of power. Sorry. I’ll remember next time. 😛 😉

That was one of the best Daily Show episodes I’ve seen all year (so far!) 😀 I loved that bit with Wyatt Cenac, and John Oliver! 😀 Really well done! And Jon even managed to sum up the Obama stand on the BP disaster in about a minute! 😉 😀

The special guest, William Rosen, talking about his book was very interesting also! I love a dead-pan funny guy! 😀 He had Jon is high humor most of the time. 🙂

“Beard Bro’s”! 😆

(Is that enough ‘smilies’ for ya?) 😉 😆

Good luck h! Stay sane, and remember to have a laugh now and then. 😉

thanks for the daily show link, that i hate people and the environment was priceless. the rest of it is great too, actually.

She has an excellent case against Breitbart, especially since he has failed to apologize and make the proper noises. His subsequent appearances are going to give his attorney fits when the jury sees them. Juries are very forgiving if there is a prompt mea culpa and a quick trip to rehab, but tend to get nasty to people who don’t own up to their problems.

Her job was an appointed position, Kryten, so she can’t sue over that, and the government lawyers know about the quick apology thing.

I mentioned in comments in ‘The Endgame?’ thread about The Daily Show doing a sketch about that whole Sherrod debacle (July 26th episode). I hope she sues Obama et al also! But I doubt that will happen. *shrug*

thanks, and my apologies for not letting people know what was going on. the internet withdrawal symptoms were fierce, to the point that i even forgot a bunch of my passwords, so even if i could have borrowed a computer, how was i going to send emails to people to let them know we’re all still alive and kicking [and purring and barking] here at chez hipparchia? i should have figured out a way though, but even buying the replacement computer turned into a multi-week saga, involving many people, some of whom i was not especially polite to, so possibly it’s just as well that none of my friends had to put up with me at the time.

As for Mrs. Sherrod’s action, can I get an AMEN. He made the mistake of self-identifying as a journalist which makes the case much easier.

You probably wouldn’t be interested in the fraud investigation of the “gold scheme” he promotes. [FWIW: Gold is a hedge against inflation. Since the “austerians” are pushing things into a deflationary cycle, gold is a bad idea.]

Netanyahu supports settlements. The settlements are structures like kibbutzes, which are communes, i.e. communist by design. Communism is an economic system, not political, and fits most readily with pure democracy on a small setting.

Hamas was democratically elected to lead the Palestinian people, but that doesn’t seem to matter to you. They actually won a clear majority, as opposed to Netanyahu, who has cobbled together a coalition in a very undemocratic process.

ACORN has been investigated multiple times over the claims regarding registration fraud and was never found to have done anything illegal. Most of those investigations were actually instigated by ACORN monitoring its own process and reporting problems to elections officials.

OTOH, the Republican effort has resulted in convictions for fraud by Republicans in Florida and California. Those convictions were for actual violations in the election, not in registration. That doesn’t include the Republican convictions for violating election laws by their phone bank operations in New Hampshire, or the voter intimidation claims against Republicans in Florida.

I glad you find the ignorance and misinformation of Beck so blissful. Perhaps it will alleviate the pain of what is about to happen in the UK because of the Tory policies.