The Other Thursday Post

I don't know what happened to the post for Wednesday, it got lumped in with Thursday. Consider this a twofer, then. I am ready for spring. I know I have said that since the first frost, but I mean it now, I really do. I am ready for some global warming. The real kind, not that climate change, tax me until I cannot breathe kind that liberals like. I hate snow, again- I have said it before. Why people live where it gets this cold is beyond me. Maybe they just don't realize that scraping your car off every day isn't something that people like to do. I'm not sure, but I would give anything if global warming were real right now and I could look forward to some melting this week. Instead, I am sure that I will be standing in the middle of a field, like I did this week, freezing my feet off. Global warming? Hooey! But on to other matters: I got an email from a young man that works at the world's biggest retailer. He was told to clock out because he was over his scheduled hours, and the world's biggest company cannot afford to pay over time. He complied and clocked out, then was told to clock back in and just take a longer lunch hour tomorrow, they were getting hit hard up front. How is that legal? Even if it is legal, how is it fair for this company to expect their employees to be loyal to the company, when the company in question goes out of its way to screw its employees every chance that it can? Instead of hearing to find out if an athelete is using steroids, how about if congress got its collective thumb out of its collective butt and started looking into this? Or, just for fun, maybe it coud take a gander at the rising gasoline prices? I realize that the average elected official in Washington DC is much too busy trying to socialize twenty percent of our economy, but it would be great if they could do some of our business, also. Call and ask them, what it is that they're doing at the expense of what they're supposed to be doing. You'll thank me later.