Morning Docket 3.24.09
* United Airlines settled a suit filed by a former pilot, who resigned after repeatedly finding porn in hidden places in her cockpit, including underneath a cap on a safety device called a "stick shaker" (no pun intended). Click to see United's ridiculous effort to dismiss. [The Seattle Times]
* Attorney General Andrew Cuomo convinced 9 out of the top 10 bonus recipients at AIG to return their bonuses. Who is number 10? [The New York Times]
* Barney Frank called Antonin Scalia a "homophobe." [The Associated Press]
* It turns out that Madoff has more than $1 billion worth of assets and the french authorities plan to seize his chateau in Cap d'Antibe, France, so maybe his victims can get a time share? No? [The Associated Press]
* A court battle between billionaire Wilbur Ross and hedge fund manager Bruce Rose may be the key to understanding the housing crisis. [Bloomberg]
* A sex-discrimination suit against Wal-Mart reaches the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today. 200 female employees say women in comparable jobs don't get paid as much as men. [The Huffington Post]
* Preservationists think a landmark case in Chicago is cause for alarm. [The New York Times]



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Barney Frank is a douche.
Women make less than men at Walmart because men are better workers and smarter than women.
The "stick-shaker" provides immediate, tactile feedback to the pilot that the aircraft is in a stall. This permits the pilot to react quickly, before the aircraft enters a spin and strikes the ground in a nose-down attitude at about 700 MPH. Cf. that Continental Express flight near BUF a few months ago.
I'm glad to hear that UAL takes it seriously when their people screw around with that and other cockpit devices.
seriously, again? "victim's"??????????
seriously? "victim's"?????
2 - I don't think you understand the mechanics of heterosexual sex.
After last week's debacle with "attorney's," you'd think she would be trying extra hard to avoid these pluralization mistakes. If this is what you get when she's doing her absolute best, you have to can her. Or at least show us a picture so that we can decide whether she's hot enough to cause us to look the other way.
Barney Frank is a dumbass
PLZ FIRE ELIZA THX
I don't care if she is unpaid. FIRE FIRE FIRE!
I am offended at your use of the term "cockpit." The current accepted term is "flight deck."
Also, women are things.
In TX, Barney Frank wouldn't even get a job at WalMart (and if he did, he could only have a 2500 Sq ft house). Whereas, on the east coast, this little ass monkey gets elected to Congress.
The stars at night are big and bright....
Oh man, I'm salivating over the possibility of mal-wart going down in flames.
I've read a bit about the suit, and male supervisors were making blatantly sexist statements when they were promoting the men over the women.
I worked in some shit ass customer service jobs before college, and I can tell you that a lot of the male dumbs who occupy these positions are just openly and blatantly sexist. They'll just outright say women shouldn't be in positions of responsibility. If you think about it, these people probably don't even have average IQs, so they would think and say shit like this.
Just goes to show, we need some kind of curriculum in JH and HS that challenges bigoted views. Dumbs who don't make it to college don't have the critical thinking skills to discover that racist, sexist, anti-gay views are koolaid bullshit.
Would you give back your bonus if you were an AIG executive? * 2090 responses
Yes
46%
No
44%
Undecided
10%
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29839861/page/2/
Barney Frank did more to fuck up this country than AIG and Bush put together. Also, he is a big queer.
AIG execs should commit suicide in shame.
Barney Frank is fucking awesome. Scalia hates homosexuals and the "homosexualist" agenda more than he hated getting fingered by his priest as an altar boy.
I'm all for the plaintiff recovering against the thieves at United. And she shouldn't have to see porn at work or elsewhere. But her claim that this caused a mental condition is total bullshit. A mental condition? From porn??
breaking news - KE has a booked conference room with no client/matter number. Must be the 3rd round of layoffs.
ATL accurately reports 3 of the last 0 layoffs
I saw Barney Frank eat his own tongue and that of the man sitting next to him on CSPAN once.
13, I mean it's not dumb if they are right. This is why I don't let my wife have a job, or opinions. Her full time job is keeping my house and looking good at parties.
Why is a statement of the obvious news? It's well known that Scalia is a right wing Catholic Neaderthal. How does Barney Frank saying it, make it newsworthy?
"french authorities"?
22, because it is funny that Barney Frank thinks that his opinion counts for anything, ever.
22, in the forest that is our government Scalia is a redwood and Barney Frank is some kind of moss on the underside of a rock. There is no comparison of these two men. It is absolutely comical that Barney Frank is attacking Scalia, there is no comparison of the importance or intellect of these two men. If Barney Frank can be called a man. 24 was on the right track even if a little blunt.
Call Scalia a homophobe is gay...totally gay.
................crickets......................
25, what is the influence that Scalia has had on our lives? Seriously? He is almost never a swing vote, he doesn't work to persuade others to vote with him ... he's an entertaining writer, but that's about it. Thomas has a much stronger, consistent, principled conservatism (he also had a much smarter, shorter dissent in Lawrence v. Texas).
As for intellect, Scalia swings his around and Frank prostitutes his to populism, but I wouldn't argue that Frank's is significantly lesser than Scalia's unless you'd like to pull up some of Frank's publications on public affairs and explain why they indicate a poor intellect.
Heck, Frank probably knows that criminalizing sodomy isn't a "liberty," while judging by the first paragraph of his Lawrence dissent, Scalia hasn't figured that out.
28, neither is it a "liberty" to force banks to make loans they don't want to make, to poor people who shockingly enough turned out to be bad credit risks.
http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2009/03/16/story3.html?b=1237176000^1793570&page=1
Community Reinvestment Act: More Bad Loans We Can Believe In
18, while the normal viewing of porn is not going to cause a mental condition, I could see how it would traumatic if you were constantly finding these things without knowing who was leaving them there for you or why. Is it someone just being a dick? Or is it a stalker? Someone who may one day decide to take it to the next level, and assault you? It could definitely start to bug you out after the 10th, 12th, 20th time.
Go Wal-Mart!
Does Barney Frank sound like that because he has a cock tucked away in his cheek?
Will someone please start editing Eliza's work or just hire new help?
The Wal-Mart suit is two MILLION, not two HUNDRED female employees. Big difference. Just saying.
'28, neither is it a "liberty" to force banks to make loans they don't want to make, to poor people who shockingly enough turned out to be bad credit risks.'
I think 29 is today's winner in the "I can't defend X, so I'll say 'Look over there, it's Y!'" Non-Sequitur Sweepstakes.
Who the hell has ever cited Casey v. Planned Parenthood with regard to the Community Reinvestment Act? That is one weird planet you're living on.
As a student who got the very "Interesting" honor to study with Scalia last summer in Ireland (2008). He is only as homophobic as any other old Italian catholic man. He is married to an Irish Catholic woman and they had nine children, as devout Catholics (they attended church every week during my summer program) they believe the doctrines of the church. One of my classmates even specifically asked him what might happen if a same-sex marriage case got to the Supreme court. His answer was simply, i don't think it will happen, and the constitution speaks nothing of homosexuality, and I go by the constitution. Basically if its not in there, he won't support it. We had the same debate with him about abortion.
22 here...I still think it's not news. Everyone knows Scalia is both douche and "no redwood"...redneck maybe...and probably a better shot than Cheney...but no "redwood".
33 is right - and it's a notable detail, as this is by far the largest class action suit concerning sex discrimination (a point that can be gleaned for the HEADLINE of the HuffPo article linked above).
I don't think it will happen
I don't think it will happen
I don't think it will happen
United Airlines settled a suit filed by a former pilot, who resigned after repeatedly finding porn in hidden places in her cockpit, including...
This is why nobody wants to work with women. If you are equal, then you can equally eal wit the porn. I don't mind women pilots but if a bit of porn gives her a stress condition, I wonder what would happen if she lost both engines on takeoff.