Couldn’t Help But Notice (061407)
From the Empty Words Department:
China should not punish people for expressing their political views on the Internet, Yahoo! Inc. said Monday, a day after the mother of a Chinese reporter announced she was suing the U.S. company for helping officials imprison her son.
Yahoo! criticized China in a brief statement that didn’t specifically mention the case of jailed journalist Shi Tao, whose mother visited Hong Kong on Sunday. Shi was sentenced to 10 years in 2005 after sending an e-mail about Chinese media restrictions.
The company has acknowledged sharing information about Shi with Chinese authorities.
Memo to Yahoo!ers — Then don’t help people get found so they can be caught and imprisoned. That’s why you’re on BizzyBlog’s Internet Wall of Shame.
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Phyllis Schafly adds another great reason to the gazillion already on the table for preventing the shamnesty bill from passing:
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, please call your boss and urge him to read your May 9 speech to the National Summit on America’s Silent Epidemic in Washington, D.C. Your eloquence in describing the silent epidemic was exceeded only by our shock at the facts you described.
“The dropout rate for African-American, Hispanic, and Native American students approaches 50 percent. … Every year nearly a million kids fail to graduate high school …. The United States has the most severe income gap between high school graduates and dropouts in the world.”
….. Right on, Secretary Spellings. But your own boss must be one of those in a state of denial. At the same time you were delivering your call for action, President George W. Bush was demanding passage of the Senate immigration bill that would dump many more millions of high school dropouts in your lap.
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Ho-Hum Hiring Headline:
DirecTV to add 1,000 jobs in Colorado
June 7, 2007Satellite television company DirecTV Group Inc. plans to add as many as 1,000 Denver-area jobs at the company’s new, 256,000-square-foot operations hub it opened Thursday in Centennial, Colo.
El Segundo-based DirecTV’s (NYSE: DTV) call center management, information technology and data center, retail services support and other functions will be based at the center, which occupies a six-story Inverness Business Park building formerly home to defunct telecommunications company ICG.
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Planned Parenthood in California hoards taxpayer money. So much for being a “non-profit.”
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John Lennon was prolife. Sean Lennon should be glad that he was.
