Day: October 28, 2014

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Honoring Families, Costco Will Be Closed on Thanksgiving Day

It’s not always about the money.

Costco is among the companies that will choose to remain closed on Thanksgiving Day, a spokesperson confirmed to ThinkProgress. None of the nearly 127,000 people who work for the company will have to come in on the holiday.

In explaining why it decided to stay closed, the spokesperson said, “Our employees work especially hard during the holiday season and we simply believe that they deserve the opportunity to spend Thanksgiving with their families. Nothing more complicated than that.”

That makes at least five chain stores that have decided to resist the new trend of beginning Black Friday sales a day early, thus ensuring that a large number of employees will have to come to work. Dillard’s, Burlington, REI, and American Girl all told ThinkProgress they will remain closed on the holiday, and Dillard’s explained that its decision was part of its “longstanding tradition of honoring of our customers’ and associates’ time with family.”

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Ebola

Jon Stewart Asks – Why Is Chris Christie Such “A Dick About Everything?” – Video

Jon Stewart said it, not me? But as usual, Stewart hits the nail directly on the head!

In his latest broadcast, Stewart began by giving Texas its props. “You did a great job handling your Ebola,” Stewart said about Texas. He then took on the so-called “Ebola-outbreak” and spoke more specifically about the utter panic the governors of New York and New Jersey put in place to deal with the “outbreak,” – a 21 days lock-down of anyone who went to Africa to help fight the disease!

In his segment, Stewart spoke about a nurse who just returned home and was immediately placed in this lockdown. She was placed in a tent with no heat, now hot water and no functioning toilet. Essentially being held captive in New Jersey, payback for her good deeds overseas.

In one of the clips Stewart showed, the nurse expressed her frustrations with the situation, saying that Chris Christie is no doctor and did not even see her personally, so the basis for him keeping her captive was uncalled for. Stewart then played a clip showing Christie’s response with him saying that the woman will understand once she settles down and reflect on the situation. Stewart agreed with the woman, then added “why does Chris Christie have to be a dick about everything?”

The segment went on with Stewart questioning if this nation is still the Home of the Brave, considering all the fear Americans are expressing over a couple of cases of Ebola! He then implied that we are probably still a brave nation, “unless you have a fever.”

Watch.

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Elections Georgia Politics

Republicans Stealing Georgia’s Elections – 40,000 Votes Disappear

Brian Kemp

Welcome to ‘Republican Democracy,’ where the right to vote is only awarded to the chosen few and ‘winning’ an election means suppressing the most votes possible.

In Georgia, Republican Democracy is in full view for all to see. Over 40,000 votes have vanished from the voters rolls and surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of these names are people who historically vote for Democrats.

The mastermind behind this mysterious disappearance of 40,000 registered voters’ names is the Secretary of State, Brian Kemp. Kemp is singlehandedly selecting the people he wants to vote and ones from certain democratic areas, those voters disappear.

Trying to bring the spotlight to the issue, demonstrators from the Moral Mondays movement marched and held protests inside Kemp’s office, refusing to leave until Kemp met with them to discuss the missing 40,000. Kemp stayed away from his office and 8 protesters were arrested.

“Nobody here wants to go to jail,” said Tim Franzen, from the American Friends Service Committee. “We’d rather just go home. But we have to do something to answer this egregious act of voter suppression. When 40,000 Georgians show up to vote, they’re going to find their names missing from their polling places. It’s unacceptable.”

“What the Secretary of State is doing is nothing new for Georgia,” said Dr. Francys Johnson, the president of the Georgia NAACP. “It goes back through a long line of efforts to deny some people access to the ballot. Today, the people have had enough. We have caught the Secretary of State with his hands in the cookie jar. Georgia deserves better.”

Meanwhile, with just days to go before the midterm elections, tens of thousands of Americans trying to exercise their constitutional right to vote in Georgia, will not even be allowed to, because Republican Democracy says their votes have no meaning.

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Ebola

Ebola Free Nurse Amber Vinson to Make First Public Statement Today

The Texas nurse got the deadly disease when she treated Thomas Eric Duncan, who has since died. Amber Vinson was cleared of the disease last week and will make a public statement today.

Vinson, 29, was admitted to the hospital’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit on Oct. 15 and was declared free of the deadly virus last week.

She is expected to make her first public statement during a national news conference at 1 p.m. E.T., according to the hospital.

Vinson was diagnosed with the virus on Oct. 14. A day later, the Dallas resident was flown by air ambulance to Atlanta for treatment at Emory, which has a specialized unit trained in treating Ebola.

“Amber is steadily regaining her strength and her spirits are high,” her family said in a statement last week. “We appreciate everyone for keeping Amber in your thoughts and prayers.”

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