IBM's 15% Downward Adjustment

So by now many people outside of IBM have heard about the recent developments. It's true that IBM settled a lawsuit having to do with how they had classified workers who should have been eligible for overtime pay.

As reported, IBM is issuing 15% base pay cuts to around 7600 employees. Spokesmen from IBM say this is a cost neutral move since they found that most employees work at least 5 hours over time currently and this would make up for the 15% decrease. Of course they didn't use the words decrease or pay cut. This is a re-mix of the pay structure to remain competitive and is a downward adjustment. You can read more about it here. You can rest assured that as we speak they have a team of people working on plans to 'build efficiencies' into workflows and redistribute workload so that overtime pay will become extremely difficult to approve.
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Mike Huckabee on amending the Constitution

Jesus Christ on a crutch... I knew Huckabee was a evangelical, bible beating, fuckwit but this statement takes the cake. At the Michigan primaries he made a speech declaring:

"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."

Honestly, what do you say to that? I think the scariest part is knowing how many atavistic douche bags in this country would agree with his declaration. Discussed on MSNBC's Morning Joe

Geist further noted of Huckabee that if "someone without his charm," said that, "he'd be dismissed as a crackpot, but he's Mike Huckabee and he's bascially the front-runner."

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Revisionist History 101

Did you know we live in a christian nation? No? You thought we had a secular constitution and most of the founding fathers were deists, not theists? Well apparently we're not christian enough for Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA). He introduced H. Res 888 in an attempt to build some revisionist christian history into the Congressional record.

It's a very lengthy resolution but Chris Rodda does a great job stripping it down and setting the record straight.

Check out the Daily Kos for the details and if you're concerned about issue please send a letter to your representative.

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