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Re: The Girl & the Fig reopens after Black Lives Matter backlash

LisaPaul — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:30:52 -0000

Honestly, has anyone ever worked a job before? Every workplace you can think of, from Starbucks to Apple to the local Ford dealership to Girl Scouts selling cookies have some form of dress code. And most of those codes proscribe any sort of attire with political slogans, especially in public-facing jobs. Because then an individual's political preferences and beliefs become mistaken for or are imposed on the company Free Speech doesn't mean you get to dictate speech for your workplace. They may agree with your sentiments -- as Sondra does with BLM -- but politics can always alienate certain groups of customers and the workplace, after all, is usually about attracting and serving as many customers as it can to make a profit.

Re: 17 cultural clashes this European had in America

LisaPaul — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 21:27:11 -0000

Ha! Love how you claim brutal honesty is what you prize, but you delete my point by point response to your post. Hmmmm. Can dish it out, but can't take it?

Re: Safari West Welcomes Baby Tubbs, Born Amid California Wildfires on Friday the 13th

LisaPaul — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:24:17 -0000

My understanding is that he breeds a lot of the animals to either return to the wild or to send to zoos so wild animals aren't taken away from their homes. In the case of the antelope that Tubbs is, these animals were going extinct because they were in a war zone and combatants were using them for target practice and also eating them. Safari West rescue a bunch of breeding pairs, developed a herd and repopulated that area of Africa with the herd. Then war broke out again and they are attempting to preserve the animals again.

Re: Twitter Explodes after Trump Named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year

LisaPaul — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:17:42 -0000

And look what happened in 1929!

Re: Kids of Soldiers Reject PC Attempt to Change ‘Military Brats’ Nickname

LisaPaul — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:29:39 -0000

Thanks for covering this in a more balanced way than some bloggers have. But you still are only scratching the surface of the issue. If the Finks had just put out a book of questionable educational value advocating the rebranding of an entire subculture without any research into what we want and think, we probably would have just laughed at the attempt. The issue is that this "charity", which with only a little digging, we found to have very questionable business practices is just a thinly disguised attempt to take charity money and funnel it into book sales for a for-profit publishing company (owned by the Finks.) The second issue is that it attempts to fix things that aren't broken. There are dozens of national and worldwide charities, groups, initiatives and books -- written and developed by Brats for Brats of all ages -- that have quietly and, without big funding, been covering all these bases much more completely and with greater sensitivity to the Military community ethos than anything the Finks have done in the year or so they've been active in a severely restricted area (basically just the Bethesda area). There has never been a lot of charity money and attention to the kids who "serve" although they were never in the military. When groups like the USO, USAA, MCEC, the Red Cross and others put what few dollars they allocate to Brats into lavish jaunts around Europe and Asia for interlopers like the Finks, those are dollars that are NOT going to legitimate programs that help Brats. It is also disrespectful to their contributors, many of whom are Brats and many of whom give money thinking it will help Military families. It's a severe breach of due diligence by these organizations that they funded the Finks in the first place. But it speaks volumes about the integrity of the Finks' program that within a month of Brat groups exposing their questionable practices and value, that most of these sponsors have now backed off, disavowed or are pretending that they have had nothing to do with the Finks. If the Finks added any value, these organizations would have stuck by them.

Re: Bay Area college student rejected from England, sent back to America | abc7news.com

LisaPaul — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 02:33:54 -0000

Not to mention that in San Jose -- he is from San Jose? -- is a special branch of the US Consulate which, with one phone call, will tell you which visas, documents, vaccinations or whatever you need for any travel situation. Then they will expedite that process. It has loads of free parking, is accessible by bus or light rail, and has a passport photo place across the street. Nowhere in the US is it easier and more convenient to get the proper documentation for any travel. I would say it's almost the basic Darwinian test for almost any job. Can you do the (minimal) research to get the easily expedited travel documents you need? No? You fail the interview for your internship. Next!

Re: What's Missing from the Military's New Bin Laden Raid Denial - Global - The Atlantic Wire

LisaPaul — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:11:10 -0000

So the central "fact" that would have refuted Chuck's book -- that McRaven didn't speak to him -- was "cut for lack of space". Hmmmmm. Yet, Dozier had enough space to make a snide little jab that Pfarrer may not even have cancer? Something clearly doesn't smell right and Dozier certainly looks like she has an agenda or is someone's tool. Clearly accurate reporting was not her first concern.

Re: Screw You, Daylight Savings Time

LisaPaul — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:11:05 -0000

And I might add, Daylight Savings Time does not work for dogs either. Now they are getting up at all hours.

Re: Just checking in...........

LisaPaul — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:17:37 -0000

By the way, you've made more from NOT smoking than I have from blogging. There must be a lesson here...