"As Perdue borrowed Martin Luther King's famous oratory -- 'Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty I'm free at last!' -- to underscore the end of Democratic Party dominance in Georgia, one of Perdue's supporters, standing in the background, waved a Confederate battle flag. The clash of symbols was both startling and unsettling, and served as a grim reminder of Perdue's unfortunate decision to include no small amount of race-baiting demagoguery in his campaign arsenal."

How does a decent human being stand such times as these? One can only hope that Georgians finally wise up to the fact that the Perdues' rather noxious private and public conduct really has no place in civilized American politics, and do the right thing for both themselves and the rest of the country.

In 2006, three years into Perdue's four-plus years as Dollar General's CEO, federal investigators at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that female store managers who worked for the company he ran "were discriminated against," and "generally were paid less than similarly situated male managers performing duties requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility." A year later, separate from that investigation, thousands of female managers who were paid less than their male counterparts joined a class action suit against the company--which Dollar General eventually settled, paying the women more than $15 million.

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The case began on March 7, 2006, when Janet Calvert, the former manager of a Dollar General in Alabama, sued the company for paying her less than male managers. Dollar General, which was still under Perdue's leadership, tried and failed to prevent other female employees from joining Calvert and suing as a class. By 2008, more than 2,100 current and former employees had joined a certified a class open to women who worked as store managers for Dollar General between November 30, 2004 and November 30, 2007. (Perdue was CEO from April 2003 to summer 2007.)

The women claimed that Dollar General was violating not only the Equal Pay Act, a federal law that prohibits pay discrimination on the basis of gender, but also Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, by using compensation practices that disproportionately hurt women. For example, the company considered employees' past salary at Dollar General or other jobs when determining pay--which hurt women because they are paid less in the job market generally, and at Dollar General specifically, than men.

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Dollar General faced another significant lawsuit under Perdue, brought by some 2,000 current and former employees who in 2006 claimed that the company had made them managers in name only so it could deny them overtime they would have earned as store clerks. In 2013, Dollar General agreed in mediation to pay the ex-employees up to $8.5 million. That settlement awaits court approval.

In another case, a district court forced Dollar General to pay nearly $74,000 to Martha Bryant, a diabetic employee it fired in 2004 for taking time off under the Family Medical Leave Act. Dollar General argued that the law does not prohibit retaliation against employees who take FMLA leave. Dollar General appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which upheld the district court's judgment against Dollar General.

My favorite part is the bolded section, above.

And then their is , Nathan Deal, the incumbent slug governor or Jason Carter, his opponent who was the only Democrat in the state senate to vote for the "guns everywhere" law.

However, a reality-based comparison reveals that Nunn and Carter may disappoint on certain issues, but their counterparts inflict  real harm--not only to Georgians, but to national interests.

My decision will not be the final word on this subject, but on this issue of marriage I am struck more by our similarities than our differences. I believe that if we can look for a moment past gender and sexuality, we can see in these plaintiffs nothing more or less than our own families. Families who we would expect our Constitution to protect, if not exalt, in equal measure. With discernment we see not shadows lurking in closets or the stereotypes of what was once believed; rather, we see families committed to the common purpose of love, devotion, and
service to the greater community.
     Where will this all lead? I know that many suggest we are going down a slippery slope that will have no moral boundaries. To those who truly harbor such fears, I can only say this: Let us look less to the sky to see what might fall; rather, let us look to each other ... and rise.

"That same sex marriage causes discomfort in some does not make it constitutional."

He said "your ego should always play little, but your soul should play big". Then he went onto creating "yes we code" teaching low opportunity kids to code and get jobs. And finally his fate vs destiny will be with those kids forever. As an older person this idea is so simply true.

Maybe museums like this are more for people who didn't live through whatever it is the museum or memorial is all about, or during the time in which it happened, and who want to understand or be educated in a way that's more visceral than just reading about it or watching a film.  My husband's never had any desire to see the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial - he spent 13 months there, and didn't feel like he needed to see the wall to feel or appreciate the sacrifices (which is not to say that others who served felt the same way).

Some people say FL is not really 'the south' because of all of the non-natives, but I would beg to differ. Close enough! Also I have siblings in both GA and TN, so I have had some exposure there.

People here are not direct speaking, particularly women.  My family on my fathers side were settlers in Colorado though.  My grandmother plowed fields one year when my grandfather was ill.  It was fine in my family to wear a dress and heels, but not fine to be soft spoken or passive aggressive, say what you mean and mean what you say.

At first how I spoke about things or spoke out shocked people, I think I have softened it some, but I found that I could not do away with it completely because I got depressed trying to do that.  I don't know how women around here do it.  But it helps a lot in getting Josh's needs met at school to just own my get stuff done approach.

Alabama is kind to my son though, they are very inclusive of him.  I'll just say it, they are better at including Josh than purple Colorado was.  I don't run with an IEP for him in school that is 3 inches thick here because I don't have to here.  He has a special needs designation and is under 504 and all the teachers are helpful, some more than others sure, but all good teachers other than that one crazy racist science teacher preaching in class last year :)

Those are just a few distinctions here I notice.  And lots of Jesus while not remembering exactly who Jesus was and what he said.

I mean, aren't we all familiar with the scenario where you arrive on time for your appointment, sit and wait in the waiting room, finally get called back to sit in an examining room and wait there for the doctor?

My daughter arrived 10 minutes early for her scheduled OB appointment, and waited for an hour and a half past her appointment time to see the doctor for less than 15 minutes.

And that's in a private care setting, not a single-payer one.

Private insurance has made it so that doctors need to work off quantity of patients, which means good doctors who spend time they feel the patient needs in spite of the insurance company dictates for how long a routine visit is supposed to take end up with backed-up waiting rooms. So please - don't try to make the case that single payer is going to introduce elements that aren't already present in and endemic to our current system.

I did get 2nd episode of Penny Dreadful in before crashing.  I'm having a hard time.   I can't have sex with horror unless those having sex get butchered slightly before, during, or after.  You just can't run around in horror having sex and surviving.

Or is it possible that the only one being held to non-disparagement is the employee?