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Question:
What do the United States, Lesotho, Liberia, Swaziland, and Papua New Guinea have in common?
Answer:
They were the only countries out of 173 studied that didn't guarantee any paid leave for mothers. Among the 168 countries that do, 98 offer 14 or more weeks of paid leave.
(source: http://www.inc.com/criticalnews/articles/200702/family.html )
What do the United States, Lesotho, Liberia, Swaziland, and Papua New Guinea have in common?
Answer:
They were the only countries out of 173 studied that didn't guarantee any paid leave for mothers. Among the 168 countries that do, 98 offer 14 or more weeks of paid leave.
(source: http://www.inc.com/criticalnews/articles/200702/family.html )
[...] The IRS has warned a prominent liberal church that it could lose its tax-exempt status because of an anti-war sermon a guest preacher gave on the eve of the 2004 presidential election.
The Rev. George F. Regas did not urge parishioners at All Saints Episcopal Church to support either President Bush or John Kerry, but he was critical of the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts. [...]
(full article from which I quoted is here)
It just blows my mind. As my office-mate said (after I started sputtering when reading the article), if the sermon had been pro-war, there would not have been any problem.
The Rev. George F. Regas did not urge parishioners at All Saints Episcopal Church to support either President Bush or John Kerry, but he was critical of the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts. [...]
(full article from which I quoted is here)
It just blows my mind. As my office-mate said (after I started sputtering when reading the article), if the sermon had been pro-war, there would not have been any problem.
I keep forgetting to post this - I'm trying to keep up putting pictures on Flickr. It's a temptingly easy interface, and while our machine at home is still down... Sigh. Too much to do, and too little time. We need about 6 months of to get through the backlog at this point.
Anyway, link to pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29551441@N00/tags/
Anyway, link to pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29551441@N00/tags/
